In your opinion who's the most over-rated guitar player?

MAS
MAS Posts: 630
edited March 2012 in Other Music
I feel its Slash, I mean he's good but he ain't that good....
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  • pjfan021
    pjfan021 Posts: 684
    Slash would definitely be in my top 5. I personally think jack white is given way too much credit for his guitar playing
  • awilkins
    awilkins Posts: 984
    The Edge.
  • MAS
    MAS Posts: 630
    awilkins wrote:
    The Edge.

    good one
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Tom Morello
    Jimmy Page
    Neil Young

    (ducks for backlash)
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    awilkins wrote:
    The Edge.

    He's rated? Wow! Did not know dinka, Dinka, Dinka rates. Isn't rate part of overrated?
    Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.
  • JTH
    JTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    Living? The Edge.
    Dead? Kurt Cobain.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Jimmy Page

    nope
  • Empty Glass
    Empty Glass In Rob's shed Posts: 12,329
    awilkins wrote:
    The Edge.

    How this dude is in It Might Get Loud is beyond me
    I've met Rob

    DEGENERATE FUK

    This place is dead

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  • Dirty Frank Z
    Dirty Frank Z Posts: 2,878
    Joe Perry
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    DewieCox wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Jimmy Page

    nope
    Usually we're in line when it comes to music Dewie. Agree to disagree on this one. He's great, but not that great in my mind.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • pjfan021
    pjfan021 Posts: 684
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Tom Morello
    Jimmy Page
    Neil Young

    (ducks for backlash)

    WHAT! (flips desk over.) can I ask what u don't like bout uncle Neil's playing? I can see jimmy to a degree, ESP live he could get sloppy
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,238
    Trey Anastasio.

    And Fenway, you cant really mean that. You can dislike Page, but to say he is not that great is blasphemy.
    Speaking of it might get loud, you can tell that neither Jack White or the Edge have any business being in the same room as Page.
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    pjfan021 wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Tom Morello
    Jimmy Page
    Neil Young

    (ducks for backlash)

    WHAT! (flips desk over.) can I ask what u don't like bout uncle Neil's playing? I can see jimmy to a degree, ESP live he could get sloppy
    Everybody here thinks he's some god. The thread is about over-rated right? I'm not saying I dont like it, just think he's wildly overrated. He's pretty average as far as Im concerned. Above average songwriter, average guitarist. But if you read all the stuff on this board, you'd think he's untouchable.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Get_Right wrote:
    Trey Anastasio.

    And Fenway, you cant really mean that. You can dislike Page, but to say he is not that great is blasphemy.
    Speaking of it might get loud, you can tell that neither Jack White or the Edge have any business being in the same room as Page.
    Again, don't dislike. We are talking "over-rated".
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Jimmy Page

    nope
    Usually we're in line when it comes to music Dewie. Agree to disagree on this one. He's great, but not that great in my mind.

    That's cool...I think he's usually pretty fairly rated when you're talkin about lists and general comments about him. I'd personally say he's usually underrated by a notch b/c I think he should be put above Hendrix in all those lists where he is #2. When you're talkin about technical guitar ability, he probably is overrated, but when you look at his creativity, influence, range, and overall impact with how the instrument is played I don't think there's anybody that can match him. I literally can't think of any rock band worth a crap that doesn't have a distinct Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin moment.
  • PKTrekGirl
    PKTrekGirl Posts: 747
    Easy question: Kurt Cobain.

    The thing about being part of that '27 Club' is that everyone in it is somehow remembered as being the absolute BEST at everything they ever did. And it just ain't so.

    Kurt Cobain should be on any list related to innovators that changed the face of rock music...and he should be on any list related to songwriting ability.

    But whenever I read one of those top 50 lists of best guitarists of all time and he's on it, I immediately call the entire thing suspect. Because such a list is not based on assessment of real skill - it's based on what the author thinks he 'should say' in order to appear cool.

    Kurt Cobain was a lot of things, many of them very good...but an awesome guitarist was NOT one of them.
  • JTH
    JTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Neil Young
    This selection intrigues me. I don't think he qualifies because I can't think of one time I've ever seen him included on a "best guitarist" list or seen/heard him mentioned as a guitar hero or any such.

    But then again, maybe I've just been missing these mentions because I haven't paid attention to such things ever since I saw Mick Mars win the readers' poll in Circus Magazine back in 1986 or so.
  • awilkins
    awilkins Posts: 984
    I didn't think Trey was rated that high to be overrated. I think he's pretty damn good though. I wouldn't say Neil Young is overrated either as I don't think he's held to mythical heights. I'd say Mike McCready is overrated on here/by PJ fans and I love him.

    Kurt is overrated with respect to everything.
    Jimmy Page probably is overrated.
    Tom Morello is overrated.
    Joe Perry is even rated?
    Slash is overrated.
  • Lifted
    Lifted Posts: 1,836
    it's gotta be kurt cobain. and i really like nirvana. i'm always amazed to see him mentioned virtually every time there is a greatest guitar players of all time type of list. and he always seems to get mentioned in the top ten. great artist/musician. guitar legend? not so much.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    awilkins wrote:
    I didn't think Trey was rated that high to be overrated. I think he's pretty damn good though. I wouldn't say Neil Young is overrated either as I don't think he's held to mythical heights. I'd say Mike McCready is overrated on here/by PJ fans and I love him.

    Kurt is overrated with respect to everything.
    Jimmy Page probably is overrated.
    Tom Morello is overrated.
    Joe Perry is even rated?
    Slash is overrated.

    Right on with Mike McC
    Don't agree w/Morello...Like others, is he really rated? If he is, then yeah he's probably overrated. At least he has some original ideas
    Joe Perry is definitely overrated...Not even the best guitarist in his band by alot of accounts
    Slash has been overrated since that Guitar Hero came out, but I'd say aside from that the credit he gets is pretty fair

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