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The Joker:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 20 May 2009, 11:29 ---Ooh yay, somebody doing what Mozart already did centuries before.
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If we're going to do that, then we may as well look at every rock and roll song since the 30s and say "Oh look, they're just doing what Robert Johnson did seventy years before."
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--- Quote from: Patrick on 23 May 2009, 13:34 ---Brent Mason and Albert Lee are crying themselves to sleep right now. Fortunately, Brent Mason's such a fucking badass that he's the most-recorded guitarist in the history of music, ever. Strat Boy can suck on that for a while.
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Nickelback has recorded more albums than Ted Leo
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Trivia: The Funk Brothers played on more number one records than the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, and the Beach Boys combined.
Also, Nickelback sucks.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 23 May 2009, 13:40 ---
--- Quote from: Patrick on 23 May 2009, 13:34 ---Brent Mason and Albert Lee are crying themselves to sleep right now. Fortunately, Brent Mason's such a fucking badass that he's the most-recorded guitarist in the history of music, ever. Strat Boy can suck on that for a while.
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Nickelback has recorded more albums than Ted Leo
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By request?
billiumbean:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 20 May 2009, 11:29 ---Ooh yay, somebody doing what Mozart already did centuries before.
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Putting it into perspective like that actually made it sound a lot more badass than I think you intended.
And I think anybody who can be considered the greatest rock guitarist of all time is automatically overrated. Since a title like that is so monumental, yet so vague, nobody can unanimously agree on one person as the best because the second somebody considers somebody else to be the greatest, the first guy is demoted to the status of contender. A cat in a box is dead, no it's not, you understand?
I, for one, found "May This Be Love" by Hendrix to be pretty impressive. He's all over the fretboard throughout the entire song, and that's just the rhythm guitar.
The Joker:
You know, since he was the only guitarist in the band, and because he was such a genius, he blurs the line between rhythm and lead guitar, and I think that's one of the main reasons he's held in such high regard.
Oh, and because of his keen fashion sense.
KeepACoolin:
--- Quote from: MadassAlex on 19 May 2009, 20:07 ---
--- Quote from: ledhendrix on 19 May 2009, 16:38 ---I'm glad people are saying Jimi Hendrix. Normally it's all "He's so overrated blah blah blah"
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He is overrated.
It doesn't stop him from being an awesome musician at all, but the sheer amount of worship that goes on is ludicrous. Especially when people worship his lead work when it was his rhythm work that was more innovative and interesting. I'd argue that contemporaries like Page, Blackmore and Iommi were better lead players.
Mmm. It was definitely Hendrix's rhythms that made him great.
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I think we can inject a little more clarity into this conversation: Hendrix, Page, et al, are generally a bit overrated by a particular segment of the music consuming population- the ones who are serious enough fans to recognize technical ability and have an awareness of rock history. Among the absolute bottom-level completely uninformed segment, they are not, because those people will just say that the best guitarist is the guitarist in their favorite band. However, the people in hipster or near-hipster segments of music fan-ship (i.e., most of the people here) tend to underrate those musicians, because they seem mundane and too popular. Thus, we enter the overrated-underrated paradox, whereby a musician (or athlete, actor, whatever) can become overrated because so many people say they are underrated (such as NBA big man Ben Wallace) or underrated because they are constantly called overrated (a la Hendrix, Page, Blackmore, etc.). I don't think someone like Hendrix can be flatly called over-or-underrated, because that varies with the circle you deal with.
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