Most overrated guitarists

jerryoc221 said:
:confused:Dime is overrated, how, maybe his music is not for everyone but go & see what some well known guitarist has to say about Dimebag.

Respect goes to all brothers & sisters in music.
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Dime's solo's are pretty devoid of musical content and seem to consist mainly of whammy bar histrionics, off key harmonics and other tricks. Aside from his so called "solo's", the rest of his playing consists of 2 note chords distorted beyond all recognition.

I would go a step further and say almost all rock guitarists are terribly overrated. Rock, as a form of music, is not at all musically demanding. Compared with most forms of music, Rock is harmonically and rhythmically simplistic to the point of being childish. Even the so called virtuoso's like Malmsteen appear to have missed many of the subtleties of performance and interpretation.

For a practical example, compare and contrast Malmsteen (a very highly rated rock guitar player) and a non-rock musician playing some Bach...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oL_TvwHjk8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTxdA4b8OLc


I'm just saying.
 
heh, one sounds like driving on an ultra straight highway with no speed limit under a clear blue sky while the other like swimming among meandering streams that form part of bigger river system in forested areas, sometime cloudy, at times sunny and unpreditable at times.

in the context of youtube videos above and nothing else or other recordings i mean, only, imho.
 
yeah well everyone knows classical musicians have no balls like the real rockstars do hell yheahz! how about that eh Bach?
 
Dime is good @ what he does & he died doing it. He may not be the best guitar player for everyone, but he is for me. If anyone thinks one is overrated, then prove yourself better than him.

Peace
 
hahaha, the chicken rice theory is an old one, but its so applicable.

doesnt need to know how to cook chicken rice, to comment on whose chicken rice from which stall tasted better.

Geetaring people or people listening to lotsa geetaring music are so cute at times.

and i really do mean cute!
 
widdly said:
Dime's solo's are pretty devoid of musical content and seem to consist mainly of whammy bar histrionics, off key harmonics and other tricks. Aside from his so called "solo's", the rest of his playing consists of 2 note chords distorted beyond all recognition.

I would go a step further and say almost all rock guitarists are terribly overrated. Rock, as a form of music, is not at all musically demanding. Compared with most forms of music, Rock is harmonically and rhythmically simplistic to the point of being childish. Even the so called virtuoso's like Malmsteen appear to have missed many of the subtleties of performance and interpretation.

For a practical example, compare and contrast Malmsteen (a very highly rated rock guitar player) and a non-rock musician playing some Bach...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oL_TvwHjk8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTxdA4b8OLc


I'm just saying.
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wa, can compare like that ah ?

so http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu players are all noob because they are using 2 strings compare to guitar who has 6 string ?? :P

k k just joking, no offense to anyone playing erhu
 
dir said:
yeah well everyone knows classical musicians have no balls like the real rockstars do hell yheahz! how about that eh Bach?
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Who says classical musicians have no balls! They've got more balls simply by daring to take up the challenge of writing a 40 minute long concerto!
 
widdly said:
Rock, as a form of music, is not at all musically demanding.
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Definitely man, rock is so musically simple, my childish primary sch neighbour next door knows everything about it and is able to play some rock numbers on an electric guitar!

Jazz pwns it. Prog metal pwns it. And not forgetting the most complex form of music, classical, pwns it, as well as every other genres because it was the root of it all...

But then again, if you took that particular Yngwie Malmsteen guy as an example of rock music, then I can't really comment further... :???:

Classical rocks! :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbZe45eicDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N7skE4d57c
 
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Erhu and Guzheng pawns!!!!

K on a serious note, I love classical but I love rock too man......I don't like to mix and compare Tony Iommi to Bach and Chopin......That's like comparing The Raven to Macbeth, or even Coke(which I think is the best damn drink in the world) to Vodka.......

Live and let live man.....Peace :)
 
widdly said:
Dime's solo's are pretty devoid of musical content and seem to consist mainly of whammy bar histrionics, off key harmonics and other tricks. Aside from his so called "solo's", the rest of his playing consists of 2 note chords distorted beyond all recognition.

I would go a step further and say almost all rock guitarists are terribly overrated. Rock, as a form of music, is not at all musically demanding. Compared with most forms of music, Rock is harmonically and rhythmically simplistic to the point of being childish. Even the so called virtuoso's like Malmsteen appear to have missed many of the subtleties of performance and interpretation.

For a practical example, compare and contrast Malmsteen (a very highly rated rock guitar player) and a non-rock musician playing some Bach...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oL_TvwHjk8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTxdA4b8OLc


I'm just saying.
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Rock can be anything,
anyways Malmsteen said it himself at the start its not Bach it is inspired by Bach.
A guitar is not a violin.

And instead of seeing most classical musicians play stuff that already exists,id like to hear more of their own compositions.

I would like to know a form of music which is musically demanding.
 
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heh, asking for musically demanding music from widdly, i really wont try...and iam serious bout it.

i have the chance to see him in action and talk kok a bit, i really wont try to ask about it. I thought i "read" a lot, but i was put to shame and humbled.
 
But again... complexity has nothing to do with how 'nice' a song is. I can relate better emotionally to a simple song by Bob Dylan than one by Vivaldi. :cool:
 
As much as I love and worship Slash, he is still overrated. He can play well, very well, and he is my guitar idol. But I agree that he is indeed overrated. Kids know him only cause he is like on Guitar Hero 3 or because of Sweet Child O' Mine and stuff like that.

Cheers,
Joe
 
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