All people who dislike Slash are fanboys? I don't like Slash or his playing. Overrated, Someone said? Definitely. I think brad is a pretty decent player. LP's music doesn't fit with 5 minute long solo parts or whatever metalheads seem to expect from every guitar player in the world, So brad doesn't play it. We don't really know how good he is because he plays whatever WORKS with the rest of the band, Not whatever he wants to do.
Brad isn't as good as everyone thinks he is. Listen to Krik Hammett, Zak k Wylde, Alexi Laiho and Slash There you got a lot of good guitar players . Still no solo yet....damn.... can't he play fast solos???
You forgot Daron Malakian. Hes so underrated! And IMO Slash is overrated. Kirk hammet kicks ass though.
daron malakian isn't underrated in no way...the guy plays 5 chords in one manner through several albums and people still call him inovative...i was on a guitar fest on friday in Rijeka...Hal's all star guitar festival...acoustic guitar virtuosos...Hal,Don Ross,Beppe Gambetta and Clive Carroll...that's playing...that's skill...
OK the best of the best guitar playes in the world by me! Alexi Laiho - Children of Bodom Angus Young - AC/DC Carlos Santana - Dunno Darian Malakian - System Of A Down (underrated) Dave 'Brownsound' Bakish - Sum 41 (hell underated) James Hetfield - Metallica (underrated) James Root - Slipknot Jeff Hanneman - Slayer Justin Hawkins - The Darkness Kirk Hammett - Metallica Mark Tremonti - Creed Mick Thomson - Slipknot Richard Zven Kruspe - Rammstein Saul Hudson (Slash) - Ex. Guns N' Roses now Velvet Revolver (overrated like hell) Zakk Wylde - Ozzy Osbourne etc...
i never said that...look at mark knopfler...he's fckng simple but still one of the best guitarists out there... alexi-ok...incorporates technicque and melody very good angus youg-a legend santana(he's a solo artist by the way)-very good malakian-overrated brownsound-dunno hetfield-he's very good,but not underrated...he gets credit for his work james root-dunno hanneman-ok hawkins-rippoff hammett-very good tremonti-dunno rzk-dunno slash-from the gnr era he stands as one of the finest guitarists out there,in velvet revolver he's not so good...except the "slither" solo... zakk wylde-a legend
brad is good at what he does; he's good at playing the LP sh*t and he plays it like no one else does. therefore, he's a good guitarist for LP and, frankly, that's all he needs to be. it's really no good comparing him to supposed "guitar legends" ... because it's not like he's trying to be like them.
of these three only forgotten deserves thumbs up...a place for my head has a decent into and that's it...
I still say the 2 best examples of Brad's best guitar playing are And One and Part of Me. And One (the studio version anyway) has a cool melodic picking part in the middle of the song that's pretty intricate, it's probably the only part of an LP song I have any real difficulty playing accurately. Part of Me has a couple cool things, first of all the picking parts in the verses are done at a rather rapid pace, secondly, I bet I'm the only person that noticed this, but Brad actually plays a major 7th chord in the chorus of this song (Bmaj7 to be precise). I can't say I've heard any other nu-metal songs that use this type of chord.
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Gotta disagree with both of these. Alexi is a god, and he's got both unique style and technical ability out the wazzoo. Hanneman's probably not the most noteworthy of thrash guitarists, but he's at least better than Hetfield.