"crap" guitarists

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Inspired by people calling Barney S. from New Order a "crap" guitarist. He wrote some beautiful songs, though. I'm sure there are more examples of this phenomenon.

― paul b, Friday, 13 September 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's some.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 13 September 2002 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Kurt Cobain

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 September 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Dylan's not a particularly talented guitar player.

― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Friday, 13 September 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Redundant thread. Thanks, Dave.

― paul b, Friday, 13 September 2002 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Do it again anyway.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 13 September 2002 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Dylan is a tremendous guitar player, silly.

― dan (dan), Friday, 13 September 2002 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Dylan made the guitar sound like a harmonica

― Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Saturday, 14 September 2002 04:10 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

ERIC CRAP TON ?

― ron kavanagh, Friday, 12 May 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Clap-ton,
Clap-toff,
Clap-ton, Clap-toff, the Clapper.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Cobain OTM. Dylan NOTM

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Who cares -- has any band with a really talented guitarist ever done anything interesting? If this guitarist had his head on straight, he'd stop learning novelty guitar tricks and start writing better songs.

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

has any band with a really talented guitarist ever done anything interesting?

I dunno, Led Zeppelin? Jimi Hendrix Experience? Yes? King Crimson? Guns n Roses? Metallica?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Page, Hendrix, Slash, Izzy, Kirk are pretty good, but technically they aren't virtuosos or particularly amazing. Someone like Malmsteen plays much more complex stuff than they do...the problem is that obviously, he sucks.

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Technically they aren't virtuosos? Are you kidding me?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I'd say they were *virtuosos* (besides Fripp), but they were pretty damned good technically. I know Page gets flack from guitar nerds for being "sloppy," but damnit some things are better sloppy.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

johnny marr is the obvious counterexample to pessimist's pessimism ... also lindsey buckingham

― ghjd, Friday, 12 May 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Arto Lindsay!

― Zzzot, Friday, 12 May 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Joe Strummer was a crappy guitarist but he up for it with his lyrics
Tom Delonge from blink wasn't very gifted at guitar
and Bob Dylan was a good guitarist thank you very much, folk music uses
alot of different strumming styles and finger picking which is not easy to do

― nathan gibson, Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Page and Hendrix were both sloppy, by some standards. Those guys were good musicians, but they weren't shredders like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, etc.

And I don't think Malmsteen sucks. He's just cheesy. He's good at what he does, though.

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

Noel Gallagher. Excellent songwriter, awful guitarist.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

has any band with a really talented guitarist ever done anything interesting?

Yes

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone who's ever actually listened to Yngwie knows he only knows one scale.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Out of Satriani, Malmsteen and Vai, Satriani is the original, and also the one most worth paying attention to.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

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