Who is you r least favourite guitarist

Tokai-SA

MIKA the better one wrote Who is your least favourite Guitarist or band. And why. Local and international.

International
Nickleback, Chad Kroeger
3 Doors Down guitarist
Zack Wylde
(I really dont think these guys are great but thats just me) Nickleback are predictable and the same every song.
I wont bring up another guitarist as in an old thread of mine risked death..... ?
Local
Walt
Prime Circle
Crash Car burn

A very negative thread filled with bad Karma...IMO

Jack-Flash-Jr

Tokai SA wrote
MIKA the better one wrote Who is your least favourite Guitarist or band. And why. Local and international.

International
Nickleback, Chad Kroeger
3 Doors Down guitarist
Zack Wylde
(I really dont think these guys are great but thats just me) Nickleback are predictable and the same every song.
I wont bring up another guitarist as in an old thread of mine risked death..... ?
Local
Walt
Prime Circle
Crash Car burn
Does it make you feel good criticizing other guitarists and bands...you tend to use the word "hate" a lot?

It just seems so negative, such bad Karma...and it cant have any positive affect on your growth as a guitarist or musician.

The saloon doors bang open... the ~~piano~~ guitar player stops mid-song and raises an eyebrow. Bartender reaches for shotgun under the counter...

MIKA-the-better-one

wow I missed that comment, yeh straight up, this whole hateful thread has absolutley no point whatso ever, much like most threads, or further more nothing constructive,
Consider Schpoenhaur and his view that EVERYTHING in this world is either to spread you sead or destroy. I dont plan to have children with any of these guitarists i mentioned so I guesse its destructive.
If you could remove karma points I would be winnng on the minus points

Tokai-SA

I'm interested in your opinion of lets say...
David Gilmour
Paul Koseff
Jeff Beck
Clapton
Hendrix
Van Halen
Andy Timmons...plays Ibanez as well.
Steve Vai ( you said you don't like G3, so I guess you don't think much of Vai and Satriani...and they play Ibanez, so that rules them out.

MIKA-the-better-one

I like hendrix, alot, but who doesn't, Dave Gilmour, well Pink floyd, never did it for me.... I have tried, but guitarwise I cant fault him on anything i dislike, Jeff beck, well again no real opinion, which means to me he is just fine.
Van Halen........ I have lttle respect for, other than his home made strat which sounded pretty nice, I find him to be far to, "yeh bitches look at me, I am F****** Van F*******ing Halen, who follows evry power chorus with a solo, and by the thrd one its like "yes dude we see you can play great, but you keep showing us whic hmakes you gay" I saw a live dvd of theirs and it was "like that"
Paul Kossof (dont know him) I will look him up
Andy timmons rings a bell, but nothing yet
STEVE VAI, and any of those G3 Crones, well we all know what I think of them, which i still stand by, I dont like ibanez guitars, I wouldnt use one, but I have never cussed any for it, personally to me its not my thing.

I am intersted to know what guitarists are your least favourite now?

Tokai-SA

MIKA the better one wrote I like hendrix, alot, but who doesn't, Dave Gilmour, well Pink floyd, never did it for me.... I have tried, but guitarwise I cant fault him on anything i dislike, Jeff beck, well again no real opinion, which means to me he is just fine.
Van Halen........ I have lttle respect for, other than his home made strat which sounded pretty nice, I find him to be far to, "yeh bitches look at me, I am F****** Van F*******ing Halen, who follows evry power chorus with a solo, and by the thrd one its like "yes dude we see you can play great, but you keep showing us whic hmakes you gay" I saw a live dvd of theirs and it was "like that"
Paul Kossof (dont know him) I will look him up
Andy timmons rings a bell, but nothing yet
STEVE VAI, and any of those G3 Crones, well we all know what I think of them, which i still stand by, I dont like ibanez guitars, I wouldnt use one, but I have never cussed any for it, personally to me its not my thing.

I am intersted to know what guitarists are your least favourite now?

You answered exactly like I thought you would...as strange as it may be, I admire your honesty. ?

For example...
Jeff Beck is "just fine". ?
Van Halen, "I have little respect for".
Paul Kossoff, you don't know him...how about Paul Rodgers?.....please, proceed to Youtube and listen to Paul's vibrato...and how about Andy Fraser's bass playing...incredible.

To be honest I can't think of a least favourite guitarist...almost every guitarist I listen to plays something that I can learn from...it might just be one lick/riff, or one magical piece of rhythm, there's always a little something that just sounds like magic.

Renesongs

To be honest I can't think of a least favourite guitarist...almost every guitarist I listen to plays something that I can learn from...it might just be one lick/riff, or one magical piece of rhythm, there's always a little something that just sounds like magic.

+1

BTW Thanks for the clip - Real blast from the past but still as musically relevant as ever.

AlanRatcliffe

Tokai SA wrote every guitarist I listen to plays something that I can learn from...it might just be one lick/riff, or one magical piece of rhythm, there's always a little something that just sounds like magic.

That sir, wins you a hearty round of applause/thanks...

Sometimes I see/hear the most technically challenged guitarist or the rankest beginner do things I would never have thought of. Hell... sometimes I do things I hadn't thought of.

MIKA-the-better-one

But hhats no the point of this thread, the real point to which it was intended other than no point at all, is........... to find the guitaists, you as a guitarist struggle to enjoy, admire or respect for their playing. What you have said is very nice to imagine, that everone everywhere is inspiring and the good can be extracted from it, but as humans that is impossible. Its like me saying whats your least favourite food? and you say "hmmm well they all taste amazing I cant say because they al have their place"
you aree a human i expect and thus have preferance, plus if you answered the "who is you favourite guitarist" you have to have a counterpoint for that.
Thank you for the post,

MIKA-the-better-one

I must say the part of the video posted i like the most was not the solo, but the drum and bass groove....... I have seen live things of these guys on vh1 and always thought they were cool, obviously I never really took it past that. He is obviously a good guitarist, I wold never say oh I hate him, but I woud say that to say nicklebacks 3 doors down possibly I suspect.

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Tokai SA wrote every guitarist I listen to plays something that I can learn from...it might just be one lick/riff, or one magical piece of rhythm, there's always a little something that just sounds like magic.
That sir, wins you a hearty round of applause/thanks...

Sometimes I see/hear the most technically challenged guitarist or the rankest beginner do things I would never have thought of. Hell... sometimes I do things I hadn't thought of.

Thats not really the point though it is to state whether you a guitarist, like so many already have been underwhelmed by the hype or simply a guitar players playing or stance

Renesongs

The way I read this topic of this thread is "Who is you r least favourite guitarist" as in my favourite guitarists are a, b, c, d, and eventually q who I still like but don't listen much to much any more. In my case Jimi Hendrix would be my least favourite guitarist because although I respect and admire him like a god his been dead for quite a while so naturally It is quite hard for me to find new inspiration in his music.

If you had titled you thread "which guitarist do you hate the most" as a moderator I would have killed your thread immediately.

Jack-Flash-Jr

Renesongs wrote The way I read this topic of this thread is "Who is you r least favourite guitarist" as in my favourite guitarists are a, b, c, d, and eventually q who I still like but don't listen much to much any more. In my case Jimi Hendrix would be my least favourite guitarist because although I respect and admire him like a god his been dead for quite a while so naturally It is quite hard for me to find new inspiration in his music.

If you had titled you thread "which guitarist do you hate the most" as a moderator I would have killed your thread immediately.

>☹

Ok, let me take a deep breath, sip some tea and assume that you are talking about current favourites, but that if you had to look back on your life, a player like Jimi would rank slightly higher than last under all-time favourites ?

Renesongs

Ok, let me take a deep breath, sip some tea and assume that you are talking about current favourites, but that if you had to look back on your life, a player like Jimi would rank slightly higher than last under all-time favourites Smiley

If you had to ask me who I think who the guitarist who has influenced me the most in my life Hendrix would be no. 1 followed by Johnny Winter, Lightnin Hopkins David Gilmour, Eric Clapton and so on but if you had to look at my portable media player you would find many Hendrix numbers mabey a few obscure ones like Cherokee mist or Traveling down South. All the Hendrix hits like Hey Joe, Purple Haze, Watchtower et al I have played to death I mean for real on a guitar with cover bands same goes for things like Comfortably Numb or The wall. As I said in one of my earlier posts in this thread My least favourite is no reflection on the esteem in which I hold the guitarist but more to do with whether I am currently drawing inspiration from them. At the moment Pete Green and Dan Patlansky are on the top of my list because I haven't got enough of them yet. 8)

MIKA-the-better-one

Renesongs wrote The way I read this topic of this thread is "Who is you r least favourite guitarist" as in my favourite guitarists are a, b, c, d, and eventually q who I still like but don't listen much to much any more. In my case Jimi Hendrix would be my least favourite guitarist because although I respect and admire him like a god his been dead for quite a while so naturally It is quite hard for me to find new inspiration in his music.

If you had titled you thread "which guitarist do you hate the most" as a moderator I would have killed your thread immediately.

Ah then its smart that I didnt use such a hateful tone.... Or the sherrif of online etiquette would have got me ?
I dont hate guitarists, that would be stupid, I hate say, theives, but I may find some guitarists, one tric ponies, or underwhelming, or full of theselves espite the fact that they may be average. This could be based on their songs or playing... I like lasagne I hate fish pie, you may love fish pie, but I dont, I am not gonna say to appease the rest of you who do like it "fish pie is great I understand its complexity's"

Jack-Flash-Jr

Renesongs wrote
Ok, let me take a deep breath, sip some tea and assume that you are talking about current favourites, but that if you had to look back on your life, a player like Jimi would rank slightly higher than last under all-time favourites Smiley
If you had to ask me who I think who the guitarist who has influenced me the most in my life Hendrix would be no. 1 followed by Johnny Winter, Lightnin Hopkins David Gilmour, Eric Clapton and so on but if you had to look at my portable media player you would find many Hendrix numbers mabey a few obscure ones like Cherokee mist or Traveling down South. All the Hendrix hits like Hey Joe, Purple Haze, Watchtower et al I have played to death I mean for real on a guitar with cover bands same goes for things like Comfortably Numb or The wall. As I said in one of my earlier posts in this thread My least favourite is no reflection on the esteem in which I hold the guitarist but more to do with whether I am currently drawing inspiration from them. At the moment Pete Green and Dan Patlansky are on the top of my list because I haven't got enough of them yet. 8)

I with you on this one... except for Jimi's BBC sessions (Drivin' South is KILLER) I don't listen to him that much either, same with Zep. I haven't killed them certainly not drawing most inspiration from them right now...

peters

I manage 10 minutes of Malmsteen, but then I have to switch to Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter etc

Conrad

I'm confused, are we talking about our favourites now? If so then I'll just name a couple by genre:

Flamenco: Paco de Lucia (ridiculous, inhuman talent), Vicente Amigo (Great compositions & accuracy)
Rock: Malmsteen (Still nuts about his neo classical work)
Classical: Per Olov Kindgren (Most awesome interpretations of Bach), Ana Vidovic (Scary virtuoso)
Jazz: Whomever that guitarist of Zaiti is. Awesome technique and quite sensitive.

and my least favourite guitarist is ME!

singemonkey

As stated before, our feelings about guitar players who are not members of this forum are not political or religious convictions. As such, I think it's quite legitimate to state our feelings about them and expect that other members who disagree be mature enough not to lose their marbles and feel as if it's a personal attack. Am I wrong?

If someone says here that Clapton is in their opinion, the most over-rated guitar player in history, that, furthermore, he's ugly and smells bad, and that in their opinion, he's probably a communist, I would laugh. What do I care? It has no bearing on the way we get to live our lives. I'm not going to be denied a job because I like Clapton. Or have my daughter stoned to death because I like Clapton. Or be gunned down outside the Jazz Workshop because I support the abomination of Claptonism. So why should I care? It's just idle conversation.

Some players I don't just like a bit less than other players. I think they suck. ?

Conrad

Oh.... now I follow.... Sorry!

Uhm....gimme a moment.

singemonkey

Chill ?

I wasn't referring to your post. Just to the recent direction this discussion has taken. I think MIKA meant, "Which guitar players that you hear a lot about do really not enjoy." Not, "Who do listen to less because you're not quite so hot for them." If you genuinely don't dislike anyone's playing, that's fine. But there's no good reason, imo, to suggest that those who feel differently shouldn't mention it. Obviously to criticise the playing of forum members would really cross a line. But I don't think that Jimmy Page's wife is going to come popping into the forum writing, "I just want you to know that Jimi has lost the will to go on because of the mean things that have been said about him on the forum. Thanks very much for breaking an old man's heart!"

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