List Your Unpopular Musical Opinions

[Purpleibby]

You guys lost the war. Just a reminder.

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[lll]

I know this is a judgement-free zone ( ) so I'm not judging, but can one of you go into a little more detail on this opinion? I mean, I understand not liking veneer, but what's so gaudy about a pretty piece of real wood on a wooden instrument? I love figuring because I find it beautiful and relatively rare (the really good pieces that is), not because it's flashy. It's a love of wood thing, not a love of bling thing for many, I think?

It's just my personal preference. I just don't dig the look of figured or wood grain on a guitar body... clearcoats included.

I think it has to do with this: I expect to see natural grain, figuring etc on furniture. Alternatively, I dig old cars, and many guitar colors (solid/metallic) were actual automotive colors (especially in the early days).

So, when I see grain, figuring, flame, quilt, natural or colored - I expect the item to be furniture or a piece of art you hang on the wall, not a guitar. And visually, it breaks up the solidity of the guitar body and the curves (too busy looking).

Some flames / quilt are extremely over-the-top as well. Waaaaaaay too busy looking.

And cliched because 999 times out of 1000, guitarists get a guitar boner over some super-busy deep flame/quilt guitar that looks like it belongs sealed away in an art museum... or in their grandma's curio cabinet.

 

[sg guy]

-cymbals suck, and should be sharpens and made into ninja death disk's of fury to cut the heads off any drummer even thinking about using them-

-''BLOWN OFF THE STAGE"a long painful death, due to prolonged cymbal bashing to the next ingrate who mutters that lame,worthless comment-

-RIG TALK sucks because we have to use photo bucket to post pics!!! WTF!!!-

 

[sg guy]

-was it something I said????-

 

[Racerxrated]

You guys lost the war. Just a reminder.

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Eyes of the South....get it?

Sorry I'm old enough to remember the Civil War.

 

[flatheads_4ever]

-Metallica has not made a good original song since Cliff Burton died
-Jerry Cantrell is the best player of notoriety in the last 25 years
-Tool sucks
-Keith Urban is a talented musician
-I don't get Stevie Ray Vaughn

 

[Purpleibby]

You guys lost the war. Just a reminder.

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Eyes of the South....get it?

Sorry I'm old enough to remember the Civil War.

Yeah I got that after I already posted it lol, I figured oh well lol. Wasn't being snarky

 

[Mr. Willy]

-was it something I said????-

-Probably not. It just takes everyone awhile to decipher exactly what it is you're attempting to say through your "writing."

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[ElectricVoodoo]

-Metallica has not made a good original song since Cliff Burton died
-Jerry Cantrell is the best player of notoriety in the last 25 years
-Tool sucks
-Keith Urban is a talented musician
-I don't get Stevie Ray Vaughn

Agree on the Metallica with the exception that A.J.F.A. was pretty good imo and the last good album they ever did. Not M.O.P. good, but pretty good and their last stand so to speak.

Yes, Tool does suck.

Fuck country music period, never liked, never will.

 

[longfxukxnhair]

Randy Rhodes tone reminds me of a chop saw on a metal stud

I don't like anything Fender

Michael Jackson sucks

The Eagles bore me

John Sykes is underrated.

Tom Petty???? How did this guy get a label?

 

[Vede]

I know this is a judgement-free zone ( ) so I'm not judging, but can one of you go into a little more detail on this opinion? I mean, I understand not liking veneer, but what's so gaudy about a pretty piece of real wood on a wooden instrument? I love figuring because I find it beautiful and relatively rare (the really good pieces that is), not because it's flashy. It's a love of wood thing, not a love of bling thing for many, I think?

It's just my personal preference. I just don't dig the look of figured or wood grain on a guitar body... clearcoats included.

I think it has to do with this: I expect to see natural grain, figuring etc on furniture. Alternatively, I dig old cars, and many guitar colors (solid/metallic) were actual automotive colors (especially in the early days).

So, when I see grain, figuring, flame, quilt, natural or colored - I expect the item to be furniture or a piece of art you hang on the wall, not a guitar. And visually, it breaks up the solidity of the guitar body and the curves (too busy looking).

Some flames / quilt are extremely over-the-top as well. Waaaaaaay too busy looking.

And cliched because 999 times out of 1000, guitarists get a guitar boner over some super-busy deep flame/quilt guitar that looks like it belongs sealed away in an art museum... or in their grandma's curio cabinet.

Thanks! That makes sense. I see an awesomely figured top and think "beautiful piece of wood", you see it and think "furniture", possibly because you saw figured furniture growing up before you saw figured guitars. Moreover, you love old cars, so metallic paint on a guitar recalls hotrods for you, and for me, without that history with cars, I tend to see paint as something that's covering up the wood I want to see. I also tend to think trans finishes keep guitar builders a little more honest because flaws in the wood can't be as easily hidden.

Long story short, and in the spirit of this thread, my unpopular opinion is that you're wrong and I'm right!

 

[phil b]

Just because you fuckin read something on the internet does NOT mean its true!!!

There is no amp ever made that is worth 10K and up.

If you do spend over 10k for an amp then you are a fuckin idiot..

Make that 5k.

Madison Square basement with 20k posts in every forum.. turn off the pc and go pickup your guitar.

Your opinions matter much less if you cant play.

A metronome WILL improve your playing.

Slash is overrated.

 

[ElectricVoodoo]

Just because you fuckin read something on the internet does NOT mean its true!!!

There is no amp ever made that is worth 10K and up.

If you do spend over 10k for an amp then you are a fuckin idiot..

Make that 5k.

Madison Square basement with 20k posts in every forum.. turn off the pc and go pickup your guitar.

Your opinions matter much less if you cant play.

A metronome WILL improve your playing.

Slash is overrated.

Yes indeed!

 

[ElectricVoodoo]

YEP

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

Have you heard King's X live in person?

The singer from Nickelback said you can't say his band sucks if you haven't seen them live.

 

[mchn13]

Fuck fucking kiss, and the 80's hair bands were gross as fuck with a few exceptions being iron maiden, priest, and Dio. All the guys sang like chicks and you make fun of death metal now. Stupid. $4000 amps are stupid. If you can't rip on a Marshall/fender/Mesa with an overdrive and sound like you. It's you. Go get a physical trainer and guitar lessons, you'll be better off.

 

[Racerxrated]

Have you heard King's X live in person?

The singer from Nickelback said you can't say his band sucks if you haven't seen them live.

Love KingsX. Acquired taste for sure, but how many 3 piece bands with 3 part harmonies?

And, they're fucking killer live. Dogman tour '93 .....best I ever heard a recto sound. Monstrous.

 

[SpiderWars]

John Paul Jones was Zeppelin's most talented member
Peter Frampton was a decent guitar player
Tone is in your head

 

[Gitfiddler]

- flame/figured tops are way over-rated and incredibly cliche'. Many times a solid/metalflake color looks better than gaudy flame/figured on guitars (Les Pauls, SGs etc) because it shows the curves better. Plus, you're not playing a fancy piece of furniture, FFS.

nailed it.

I know this is a judgement-free zone ( ) so I'm not judging, but can one of you go into a little more detail on this opinion? I mean, I understand not liking veneer, but what's so gaudy about a pretty piece of real wood on a wooden instrument? I love figuring because I find it beautiful and relatively rare (the really good pieces that is), not because it's flashy. It's a love of wood thing, not a love of bling thing for many, I think?

I'll tell you what I do fucking hate, though, and that's bullshit mismatched/unmatched tops. Strong figuring on both sides? Great. Plain wood on both sides? Wonderful. But mismatched? Fuck. You.

I'd probably have to kill myself if someone gave me this guitar. Actually, I probably wouldn't even get the chance to kill myself because my head would have already exploded when I opened the case.

Love the top on the prs in your avatar!!

 

[controlled_voltage]

-george lynch's balls are now hung down to his ankle's from all of the guys in this forum swinging on them
-george lynch's solo's were almost above mediocre and almost up to the state of the art guitar playing for a little while in the mid 80's
-dokken is/was just ass sucking poser music for metal whores/sluts with too much aqua net ,high heels,high hair and STD's.
Those same metal sluts also liked cinderella and poison,warrant,firehouse and skid row etc etc and all of those bands are homosex garbage as well.
-Warren Dimartini should do a solo album and might be a better player than lynch but so far we don't really know that as a fact.[crazy enough to sing for you and surf's up do not count]
-Nuno is a poser and highly over rated.
-Jake E Lee shits on all of the above players with sheer force of attitude and anti rock star sentiment.
[and that first badlands album]
_yngwie is a one trick pony and that one is still incredible.
_yngwie has not written a good album since marching out.
-yngwie needs an outside producer with an objective opinion to make a great album again and that will never happen.
yngwie blew steve vai off the stage this year at guitar wank fest-just with his tone alone.
-chris poland owns and is god,but works as the manager of a huge rehearsal studio to pay the bills-FUCK the MUSIC INDUSTRY
-Allan Holdsworth is well beyond most people's comprehension and is an alien from another planet/the future and has in essence created his own school.

-95% of the public doesn't give 0.00000000001% about your chops/solo's/or your tone /gear
_the remaining 5% are guitar players and they hate you too -tee hee
-this forum is over run with guys that own way too much high end gear and suck dead dog balls
-there are waaaay to many gear choices[pedals/effects/boutique amps/plug in's axe efx/kemper etc] and not enough innovation in most guitar oriented music being released.
-TOO MANY SHEEP NOT ENOUGH SHEPARDS
-almost everyone making music in any genre or style is trying to manipulate a system that has existed for a long time and is totally un-original and has been done a zillion times before by a billion other wankers
-the whole boutique amp craze and amp flipping is a distraction from song craft.production and song writing-ie real world musical accomplishments
-greg howe is totally under rated and is the nicest most humble guy you will ever meet
-mike varney and shrapnel records set a standard and pushed the envelope of guitar forever forward
-one look at the blabbermoth news section and i realize there are too many bands making shit music
-ADKOT was a great "come back" album
-most retro acts still out there flogging it on the tour circuit should retire already
-vintage prog/european jazz/fusion/ambient/drum and bass/electronica/glitch/IDM/reggae/dub/"ethnic"/world music/psych-new and old/soul and funk from the 60's and 70's is much more interesting to me than a lot of the stuff that gets talked about here.
-uli jon roth is god