Name Guitarist with the Least Chops and Hot Licks

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As a counter to the boring muso shit, how about nominating the guitarist who has the least "chops" and technique, who can barely fucking hold a guitar the right way up and yet STILL produces great sounds. I think there can only be one winner:

Lou Reed

― d, Friday, 4 April 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon. Fuckin. Spencer.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 April 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Slash

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Friday, 4 April 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Duuuuuuuuude! Slash has more chops than Bruce Lee!

― Mark M, Friday, 4 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Lydia Lunch.

Also Kid Congo Powers. Except he can really play now. Bryan Gregory was great, too.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 4 April 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Arto Lindsay mauls his fretboard in a harsh, tropical style, while remaining blissfully ignorant of chops n' licks.

― EC, Friday, 4 April 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone at guitar center has the same chops?! and he didn't invent them. hes a caricature of someone with chops IMHO

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Friday, 4 April 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Bo Diddley

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 4 April 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of reggae guitarists drop their muted chunka-chunks into exactly the right spots again and again, and never feel the need to bust out a bunch of blazing hot tweedle-dee-dees.

― EC, Friday, 4 April 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but lou reed can actually play the guitar. Same with neil young. I would go for Johnny Thunders cuz he would forget how to play all the time live, but he always managed to sound really cool. Oh, and Harry Pussy too. They win, actually.

― Scott Seward, Friday, 4 April 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't the dolls give Thunders the les paul jr because it had two less knobs?

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Johnny Ramone owns this thread.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oh Mr. t/'/'t, I respectfully ask you to reconsider your Bo Diddley wisecrack/judgment. Bo Diddley belongs on the other thread, not this one. Dude INVENTED hot licks.

― Neudonym, Friday, 4 April 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, most of the hot licks on lou reed songs are either Robt. Quine or Mike Rathke.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

...can barely fucking hold a guitar the right way up and yet STILL produces great sounds.

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― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

*cause he doesn't hold the guitar the right way up*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Thunders would "forget" because of all the heroin the guy was on. He was an amazing guitar player otherwise.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Mick Collins

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 April 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

he had big thumbs

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Friday, 4 April 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Jandek

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 4 April 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim and William Reid circa Upside Down/Never Understand/You Trip Me Up

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Wayne Coyne, Ronald Jones, and Mizutani Takashi

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Jad Fair.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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