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A bit of a reverse on most of the topics in this section...
I was wondering if you guys had pet peeves - guitarists who really irk you for having either garnered a lot of (you think) unwarranted attention, or whose styles or playing just set you on edge? I don't want to start a fight where people bag each other's heroes...but I think it'd be interesting to hear what people DON'T like in a player.
For me, though I can appreciate showy stuff for its technical merit, I'm not big on people who don't play for the song. I find it hard to imagine pulling together a band whose sole purpose is to back me up while I stand there and wank tediously. Because I wouldn't want to be one of those other musicians. Partly for this reason, I find Carlos Santana incredibly annoying. So, who gets under your skin?
I was wondering if you guys had pet peeves - guitarists who really irk you for having either garnered a lot of (you think) unwarranted attention, or whose styles or playing just set you on edge? I don't want to start a fight where people bag each other's heroes...but I think it'd be interesting to hear what people DON'T like in a player.
For me, though I can appreciate showy stuff for its technical merit, I'm not big on people who don't play for the song. I find it hard to imagine pulling together a band whose sole purpose is to back me up while I stand there and wank tediously. Because I wouldn't want to be one of those other musicians. Partly for this reason, I find Carlos Santana incredibly annoying. So, who gets under your skin?