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Extremely well said

I felt the same about telephone blues 🤣

I loved sachets irony on telephone blues as I felt he took it too seriously and was the goto guitarist for none guitarists......whilst age has humbled this old blues picker and I may be more open minded I guess I held onto that chuckle...

The great strength of Hendrix wasn’t his playing; it was his musicality. Voodoo Chile alone should be on everyone’s top 5 greatest rock compositions all time.

Not a terrible analogy

That’s funny but nice way to put it

Er, no one says Hendrix was not great..I think the issue is that he likely wasn't as good as many make him out to be.

Overrated does not mean not great. Overrated means they're not as great as people are rating them. Most of the guitarists who wind up in the top 10 lists are overrated. They're just popular because of their music.

@@castleanthrax1833 okay there professor

I’ll take it

I do not get the obsession with Hendrix. His guitar writing is average. He was incredibly innovative, producing amazing sounds. Technically he was great. But his songs were average.

I don't get Picasso nor Rembrandt either but a lot of people do! This is the thing with Hendrix; you either get it or you don't. I don't get shredders (not to say that they're not technically incredible), but I listen to Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner, which basically sound like a plane crash, and it never fails to give me goosebumps. @@billjones4159

For me Hendrix was pretty awesome the loud distortion the feedback the crybaby, like a mad tiger trying to get out of a trap , but he could rein it in on songs like hey Joe, the wind cried Mary but on the song voodoo child live in Maui his guitar playing on that day was amazing and some people hear it like dam there’s a lot of distortion and then there’s people like me that turn it up louder and my wife will say it’s really loud but my girlfriend will start dancing and grooving to it peace

@@jamiemcbride4226 Machine Gun, Voodoo child and back from storm at the Isle of White. Machine Gun, Power of soul and Who knows at the Fillmore East.

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If you call soul repeating the same licks over and over again, perhaps it was just the heroin got them stuck on a continuous loop lol

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YES , Hendrix was full in his texture , Page could play anything , and so forth ...

Jeff Healey was totally blind and could lay the guitar across his lap and play "All along the watch Tower" better than Jimi Hendrix. Watch it on KZfaq..

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@@GearGasms omg i so agree with clapton :D

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Yes, conjecture is rife on here but the comments are all pretty good

Santana doesn't play guitar he makes it sing one of the greatest ever

@@stevengolden1154 i didn't know he sung??...sorry bad last day of work joke!. Greetings from New Zealand!

Santana hasn’t been relevant in like 20 years, and for the 5 years before that he was living off his just before doing shit with Rob Thomas era. Honely I thought he was dead. Also Slash is only relevant to boomers who buy up anything with his name on it. Here’s a shitty les Paul that weighs 75 lbs with slashes name on it Boom sold.. Here’s an acoustic guitar made out of ply wood paint it all black but put slash on the truss Rod cover Boom sold. I fucking love G-n-R as much as the next 80’s kid but fuck, if it wasn’t for the boomers no one would know who he is.

Genius comment

I thought same. The entire band sucked (IMO)

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Agreed! He was very good for his time and that’s really it

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But guitar solo's are boring, real boring!

@@adrianbaker9451 Which solos do you mean? Give an example ?

@@markusolma337 mate any solo, it's just self indulgent bullshit on behalf of the guitarist, give me a cracking riff anytime

Absolutely I don't think Paul McCartney was kidding when he said every great guitar God of the time would pack the London clubs to see Jimi play. He might have been kidding when he said Jimi asked if Eric Clapton was here tonight. I need my guitar tuned.

17primemover dude has always been garbage ( I say that to someone who doesn’t hate KISS )

C'mon guys. At least give him/them credit for Alive 1 & 2. (When they were fresh). These are good albums and Paul Stanley does more than a few lead runs on these).

Anthony Brock I like Kiss ok, I just don’t think Ace is anything special on guitar.

@@bezzarguy Fair enough Laddie.

That's why he wore a disguise!

*emotion

@AleisterCrowleyMagus. This is the best comment that describes this list and idea. I totally agree!!!

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Spot on, bro!

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You don’t get out much then. He’s a primary influence of an entire generation

​​​​​@@GearGasms So many here don't get the gist of the difference between "overrated as a guitar player" and "this guy sucks". To think someone is overrated and to dislike someone are of course two different things. I say this loud: Edge is an outstanding musician and guitar player! His sound and his playing are unique, always absolutely song oriented. U2 consist of a singer, a rhythm section and The Edge. This guy's like a perfect "filler". Ultimately, it's ridiculous that anyone should feel the need to defend The Edge. Utterly ridiculous. This man is so big and so important for so many of my generation. Of course he himself would stand above all the ramblings here, he wouldn't even smile tiredly, he wouldn't bother with that crap at all. Sorry, but there is so much bullshit written here. As I said, so many didn't understand the actual subject of the video. But, Alan, you provoked this. It was to be expected that this would sometimes degenerate into stupid bashing. Too many are simple minded and intolerant. And maybe frustrated because they can't get anything done themselves. (Too bad I can't write here in my mother tongue to express myself more eloquently)

No this is really good. Thank you

@@GearGasms Doesn’t mean he is good though!

I’m underrated. People say my playing stinks but I’m really not that good.

But he had some funny lines.

He was meming a little

Hendrix was a tone deaf hack with a cool name. If his name was Fred Smith, you would have never heard him.

That's not a "Kiss" shirt. That's an Ace Frehley shirt, fool.

Lol

You sir are absolutely a stillbirth survivor. Kudos

@@GearGasms Says the dumbass that was inspired and still loves a bunch of cross dressing clowns in makeup! Clapton and Hendrix overrated? Whatever fuckstick. You have zero cred!

Agreed

He ain’t Tom Emmanuel that’s for sure!

Or Paco de Lucia

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Albert Einstein was a genius. Jimi Hendrix was a musician. Al could also play the Violin.

@@TheGuitarReb Alfred Einstein was a fraud.

Great comment!

Beautifully put!

Good points made here. Most people understand the tuning ‘issue’. The Wind Cries Mary solo is sublime; where he takes it and how he resolves it shows his skill and musicality

You have never heard "All along the Watch Tower " until you have seen Jeff Healey play it on You tube. He went blind at one year old and started playing guitar at four. Jeff died at the age of 41 due to his rare cancer disease. He is undoubtedly the most amazing guitarist that has EVER lived.

Greatest of all time. All the techniques and skills in the universe can’t do what he did with that guitar.

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@Vincent Mileto Great point Vincent. Here's a guy wearing an Ace Frehley t-shirt talking shit about Hendrix(??) Santana and Eric Clapton. Sure, Since the Cream years he's been kind of in the pop music mode. However, he advertises himself as a master of the Blues. 461 Ocean Blvd, covers I Shot the Sherriff, covers of Cocaine, After Midnight, both originally written and performed by J J Cale, Living on Tulsa Time, written and performed by Danny Flowers, my preferred version was by Don Williams. Although, a few of.the aforementioned songs were pretty good in EC's hands. As far (the legendary) Kiss goes, saw them when I was 14 years old, very entertaining. A friend gave me a copy of Kiss (1974), prior to that particular show. Then came Hotter than Hell and Dressed to Kill. Anyway, after that, moving on to age 15, I personally had enough of Kiss. Repetitious and boring........

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You missed the intentional literary device: irony.

@@GearGasms At first I was like... who is this guy. As you wound down your list I found myself 100% in agreement. Each artist on your list has earned their wings but, yes, over-rated. Haters gonna hate (Fanboys).

Because it’s a joke video

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Blackmore is THE most overrated guitarist on any list. DP was a keyboard driven band. Rainbow was about which ever singer he had

This is an awesome comment - i don't know how I missed it - lol. You got me!

Don’t forget and in context

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Alan Patterson m

Lol

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I saw Eric C in concert and he was awesome. Nothing wrong with taking it slow. He's made his mark and influenced many of today's players.

This hits the nail on the head. He’s so good because he serves the vibe of the song every time, be it spacious and big sounding or purely chaotic. Unpredictable, genuinely amazing to watch too

Jack is a great artist, Jack is a guitar artist, therefore Jack is a great guitarist. The same is true for the Edge. Jack was described as a blow torch, and that's true for as far as it goes. But that is not what makes him great, that's like saying van Gogh was a dull knife compared to a fine paint brush. Pay attention to the value of the art. The rest is superfluous babble. A guitarist, just like a writer, needs a minimum vocabulary. Great guitarists, like great writers produce great works. It does not matter how many words they know or how many notes they can play.

@@Alic3IiWL I can't stand the edge. I think he's a much better player than Jack White (he's probably a better player than me too) but I've never enjoyed anything about his playing. He's not all about effects pedals and nothing else like a lot of people say, but the effects are certainly the only interesting thing in his playing, IMO. U2 is just not for me at all; I don't "get" their music, or why people like it.

@@calvinlee8103 Good for you, keep trying, the universe of art is larger than one perspective can comprehend. I finally appreciated Tool today, I've been told for years, I heard nothing special- till now.... think of the notes of the Edge as though they echo with increasing resonance through time. Pride (In The Name of Love) connects the drama of Christ through history to MLK- Quite a feat.

@@Alic3IiWL I don't think you're doing it on purpose, and I'm sure you mean well, but you're coming across as extremely pretentious. You know those guys who call themselves writers, and try to make sure everyone knows they're super eloquent and deep, but in reality they're actually just terrible and embarrassing? That's how you're coming across at the moment. I'm sure it's not on purpose, but still; maybe try to tone it down a bit. Just some friendly advice. I hope I don't sound like an asshole.

Yep 👍

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YES! LISTEN!

When I was younger I thought the Experience was IT. But I think the direction Hendrix was heading post-Experience was much more interesting. He was getting tired of the gimmicks.

Hendrix took so many risks with his music and performances; that is what a trailblazer does. Beck and Gibbons (and I will mention SRV as well) all traced their success back to Jimi for being the trailblazer. Many of the late 60s British guitarists saw his early live performances and knew they were witnessing the future. 40+ years later rock guitar is still working on perfecting what Jimi started.

He hasn't experienced Jimi. Without Hendrix this guy wouldn't even be making this video.

LOL White men can't jump

True

Well said

@@harrycrabb4357 He also does great work on some of the early Peter Gabriel albums.

Unique: Willie Nelson is unique. Dosen't make him great but he is unique. Admit it!

@@TheGuitarReb A tidbit.... back in the day when Wille played electric guitar, he was really good on the instrument.

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Thank you. Jack white not only is a fantastic guitarist that anyone could instantly tell it's him playing. But he's always super tight and created a sound I don't think you could compare to any other guitarist. Everyone else on this list (and 95 percent of the ones who aren't) just sound like a million other guitarists. Hendrix sounded pretty unique. I also love that the clip the dude included above shows jack white absolutely shredding and sounding amazing. LOL.

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Up yours David

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You owe the GC kids an apology. 🤪

​@@deormanrobey892....... Your right, they're way better !!

Yup

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An hour of Page's improvisations puts every guitarist in the world in his pocket. His carelessness, in fact, is part of his charm, and serves each song ideally.

Yah. EC & SRV also do great versions of Little Wing.

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Clapton is way better as a lead guitarist than the other two. He is way cleaner and at least as soulful.

Most of the guys on the list are better songwriters than guitar players I agree. Most of them have a unique sound/voice on the instrument and that's the reason they're great. Megadeth comes to my mind when I think about this. Chris Poland, Marty Friedman, Chris Broderick and Kiko Loureiro are better players than Dave Mustaine.. (And Mustaine is a very talented player IMO)...but Mustaine is better at songwriting..

And David Gilmour.

Thank you sir, you took the words right out of my mouth

Some of the best players do get boring to listen to

Fair enough

Its not a worst guitar player list. No guitar player ever got as much hype as Jimi. Even God himself couldn't live up to Jimi's hype. So for this reason he's clearly the only rightful candidate for first place, love em or hate em. In a big way its actually a compliment when you think of it

Absolutely!

Jimi was never that good. It was the time and the emotion. Look up Akkerman, he destroyed all these fools, many ripped him off in the 60s and 70s. You will not find a guitarplayer of a higher calibre, emotion, skill, mood, timelessness etc.

@@sonykroket it was Hendrix' presence, his confidence, he was playing in a tradition of blues guitarists. All that behind the back and playing with his teeth and stuff were old tricks. He pulled it off with so much style. For my money Robert Johnson and Elmore James and Lonnie Johnson were the real s***, but I love Hendrix for the freedom and the rawness. He was a perfect blues man for his time. And Castles Made of Sand is one of my all time favorite songs. I really think the bass player and drummer, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, I think? Were a big part of his sound. I think he named his band what he intended it to be. And there's no denying it was an experience.

Kurt Cobain never promoted himself as a gifted solo guitar player. Not at all. And yes Neil Young is very overrated and has a massive ego as well.

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Ain’t that the truth! 🤘🏻

Or half of all people who meet me hate me. 😜

I was trolling a little. We all have our heroes! 😜

HENDRIX HAD 3 GOOD TUNES MABY 1 WAS A COVER

@@briannotafan3368 The greatest gift Bob Dylan gave us was Jimi Hendrix😹

thrystero. Jimi Hendrix is talented but he is extremely overrated. Just like he mentioned in the beginning overrated doesn’t mean bad it just means that people blow their skill as a guitarist way over their actual skill. Jimi Hendrix should definitely not be viewed as the greatest Guitarist of all time. Maybe one of the greatest but to call him better than Van Halen hell no. Jimi Hendrix influence as a guitarist player blows every other guitar player out of the water. If a different guitar player influenced you to play guitar no doubt they were inspired by Hendrix. He also played the guitar in many unique and impressive ways. But when it comes to actually playing? He was pretty basic and some people who aren’t blind fanboys considered him sloppy.

@@jesterinadeck_2980 I agree, I'm from the 60s- 70s, Hendricks just made noise.

Let it go. Seek help

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Indeed

I think I'd put "the Edge" a little higher on the list.

I love the edge- War U2 the album was a big influence on me

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You do have a point I must admit. Also its kind of unfair to compare 70s guitarists to todays standards. Kind of like saying todays computers are better than the old IBM computers. New computers would not be here if it wernt for the groundbreaking predecessors and the same can be said for musicians.

You damn skraight

Well Clapton and Page were the prime and often uncredited session guitarists (the latter also ghostwriter, arranger and producer) in Britain in the 60's so I guess they were pretty skilled, versatile, quick and precise (maximum 5 takes to get a track laid down)

I think that sums up my feeling about criticisms of Hendrix. Yes, he could be sloppy at times. But he was doing things no one had even tried on a guitar to that point.

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On the viewer’s choice list

No chance. Clapton would just be a dead guitarist who wrote the riff to Sunshine.

The drumming on “Hey Joe” is a masterpiece.

😂😂😂. Truth!

Lol he’s on the viewer’s choice list

I completely agree !!!!!!!!

Absolutely 💯 😂

I’m probably the most overrated guitarist and even I don’t think I’m any good

@lynby6231 I bet you’re pretty good!

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Hey Ron, so are you.

@@GearGasms so you can criticize but can't take it. LOL

Yeah. What's his deal?

Lol

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@user-ov1nv8dt6y you are mostly correct. However, you have to factor in the LSD. (Didn't he put it in his headband?) He was accessing the aether, for lack of a better term. I started on Blues. It got boring. Now I'm grateful for that basis. It's apparently difficult if you didn't start from there. I don't know how to measure that, but "The wind cries Mary" was super easy to learn.

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@@GearGasmsif Hendrix is not your favorite guitarist, he is your favorite guitarist’s favorite guitarist. I don’t usually believe in the sacred cow concept but Clapton and Hendrix is where I draw the line lol All the others, I couldn’t give a hoot for being called overrated. Hendrix is God. Say it, my man 😀 And thou shall not take the God’s name in vain ( I don’t believe in God but I do believe in Jimi Hendrix )

Oh, he definitely crossed the line when he mentioned Hendrix. No excuses 😀

@@Abraracourix 😅

When I started playing guitar, I played right handed guitars, upside down because I am left handed. It doesn't feel balanced standing or sitting and I think it affects the tunning.

Guffaw guffaw. You’re a hoot four years later. Tar

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Yeah, well...about this vid: opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one. And this asshole's opinions aren't worth shit.

Yeah- EC not good

As a professional musician for many years and a professor of music I love heavy metal and rock and roll however I find that if one can find some self to that paradigm you're missing out on the amazing world of jazz and classical music from all time periods. Jazz and classical are so underrated by many dyed-in-the-wool Rock players, however serious metal players have a huge collection of classical music and they're listening archives. Also it's good to have a master instrument but it's also good to be able to at least play piano and sing. Learning how to play saxophone and trumpet can help your phrasing. I think most Rock and metal guitarists are highly overrated.

Well put!! Other players have mentioned the whammy bar as the cause of detuning.

Kiss remark = yawn

Breathe!

You cannot be the greatest guitar players of all time if you need to be only considered in the context of the time you were in. That little proviso disqualifies them from the title of "All time best" Hendrix & Clapton & Gilmour weren't "better" than Vai & Yngwie & Govan....they were only relatively great...FOR THE TIME.

@@lueysixty-six7300 good point

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Very well said

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I think that's a lot of it. I don't care all that much for Satrioni's or Vai's style of music, just like Hendrix's, but I can recognize that they are incredibly talented guitarists who could play to perfection any genre they choose. Heavy metal probably has the best players ever, but it doesn't speak to my soul. I'm much more moved by B.B. King's one pure note, hanging and evolving, than by Joe's four dozen perfectly played notes over the same interval. We just have to recognize that our preferences are just that, and not indicative of relative talent.

Facts

@@mikewhitfield2994 ever listen to Rory Gallagher? Just curious.

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Yes, that used to the point of music - to move people. Now it's just another consumer product. As for out of tune guitars, I love to listen to r l Burnside, but his guitar is clearly out of tune on some of the recordings. It's part of the overall experience and is enjoyable to listen to nonetheless. Now everything has to be perfect as just another consumer product.

"Feeling no pain / High on cocaine / Casey Jones you'd better watch your step." Jerry Garcia? Give me a break!

Clapton got really boring once he ditched Gibsons.

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This is great insight! Thank you!

I get so tired of hearing the same old excuses why fast players are sub par or a different kind of musician. You guys say speed doesn't mean anything and at the same time make a preposterous distinction like that. Another guy wrote its better to know where your going than running around in circles. Really??? Another ridiculous analogy. Yes you can get a 13 year old that just started playing and just moves his fingers really fast all over the place not knowing what they are doing. That was me a long time ago. You cant say that about seasoned artists like Yngwie, Michael Romeo, Luca Turrili. These guys clearly know what they are doing. And because it isn't the same old unimaginative regurgitated boxed in playing. Pentatonics and cowboy chords, doesn't somehow make them out to be less musicians. Heres an obvious analogy. Anyone can play Berry, Lennon, Harris, Richards, Townsend and Gilmour. But lets see them play EVH, SRV or Yngwie. They couldn't do it if it depended on their lives. So yes there is definitely a difference but you guys got it backwards and its obviously only due to Sour grapes. Ive yet to hear a reasonable excuse to put down the more advanced players. It takes more skill to run than to walk. How can anyone argue that. Everyone knows when your learning any musical instrument you start off slow and build it. It won't work any other way. I don't need to make up irrelevant apples and orange analogies. I can just say it how it is. But you guys with your nostalgic attachments praise those who crawl. If you dont like fast paced more exciting music that's just personal preference. Personally slow music bores me to tears, and music is neither all about math like another kind of clueless critic would argue. So stop trying to think up excuses why what you prefer is somehow better. Look, I used to rag on Angus Young because he's an easy target right. 3 chords and a heart attack. But when all he did his whole life was play guitar, theres no way he's an amateur. Doesn't matter the style or speed. You just build an unimaginable control and intuition. Theres simply no way around it. Its like they say about B.B. King, that Fucker can play one note all night, but no one can do it like him. And thats a quote directly from Yngwie, who plays with way more feeling than people care to admit. Its the same old BS, just because you aren't bending and vibrating slow notes all night, suddenly you have no feeling. It may be a different kind of feeling and definitely harder to pull off than playing slow. Adding spaces to buy time and think of what to do next. But it takes a hella of a lot of feeling to shred up and down the fretboard at will and keep it sounding fresh. And evens seamlessly incorporating different techniques to boot. And feeling is the only thing that can do that. You guys assume they just memorize scales and play them backwards and forwards. Like I said, everyones a critic but most of them are clueless what they are talking about. Heres a stupid analogy you might be able to relate to. The weight lifter that can lift the most weight is clearly the winner. But you would argue, oh anyone can lift a lot of weight, those guys are just a bunch of flashy show offs. Its the guys who cant lift a lot that are the real heroes LOL Ridiculous. Like I said, the proofs in the pudding. Yngwie can play anything and anyone, but few can play Yngwie, even Joe Satriani admitted in great disappointment, I stood and watched exactly what he was doing. I couldn't possibly be closer and see everything. But yet Satriani still couldn't play it. Thats pure feel. When you ask Yngwie what picking technique he uses to play a certain passage he says I dont know, has to stop and analyze it for himself before giving an answer. Thats called being in the zone, he just internalizes everything and brings it to the surface, that's called playing from the heart not the mind, not being conscious of it. And it takes a lifetime to develop, in fact its always in a state of development. And you cant say the speed of a player can ever hinder that natural progression. Its sheer absurdity. Hers yet another way Debunk the whole Shred myth. Practice makes perfect, it doesn't matter the style or technique, saying someone is less a musician because they can play fast is the same as blaming any other aspect like bending or vibrato. But if I were to say that, ah man he sucks, all he does is bend and vibrato everything people would think Im crazy. Yet somehow if you say it about faster players somehow it makes sense. No, what happened is people like EVH, SRV and YJM came along and made everyone before them look stupid and the Idolaters were butthurt and angry and had to make something up to compensate for it. Sorry Charlie, thats just evolution, there will always be someone better that comes along, ALWAYS. And thank God for that or life would become really stale. and western adage states "Be never afraid of change, be only afraid of standing still." So true. But you numbskulls wont only hate instead of praise the innovators, you'll invent the absolute worst excuses for hating an artist. Its Art not a sport for Fucks sake. I can go on but what's the point. Its always been like this. When Hendrix first came out all the old Blues Players accused him of bastardizing the art. But long after humans built their emotional attachments Jimi's made out to be the greatest ever. That can never happen, there will always be someone that puts in more time to learn how to do it better. Jason Becker would even take his guitar with him to the dinner table. Today he is a vegetable but still composes music. And he was one of the original shredders. Whats Richards known for? Drugs and Orgies, fuck that guy and all the decedent Rock stars. They got the free ride and prove it by they're minimalistic approach to music. In the words of Yngwie, how can less be more, more is more. Duh! I couldn't say it better. And one last thing about Yngwie. He was gonna come out playing Blues, and does it exceptionally well, but thought everyones doing that, so he fucking invented an entirely new genre of music instead, and literally did everything himself. All the writing all the decisions. And youre gonna compare Townsend and Richards to that who couldnt even play a guitar solo if you payed them. OMFG where do they grow you people? They say repetition justifies, say something enough times and the parrots will start repeating it. "Speed isn't everything." Bunch of no talent lamos who refuse to change with the times. Thats ok, the times will change just the same without you

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Ok

IMHO, you make a great point.

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They were great at that time where was John McLaughlin and

And Phil Keaggy would have annihilated both of them

Shame that KZfaq made you watch a four year old video. Here’s a hug until you find a way to get your free will back

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Love his early Ozzy riffs

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Exactly. There’s legitimate mediocre recordings of Hendrix but he pulls a clip from one of his all time best sets.

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No he doesn't. What made him great was his willingness to do crazy shit. But that doesn't make you great

@@rogerledoux4741 yeah but if you listen to Hendrix now days its still sound inventive

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Edge did a career out of sound he.copied from guitarist Keith Levine that he played on a Public Image Ltd's song "Public image" (1978)

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Awe, that's a cold technical analysis even if true! But the guy did do some interesting stuff around live at red rocks....ya know, played his part in music history. Yeah bono has become a total cheese merchant

Check the date on this video sir

@@GearGasms so you made it four years ago. Doesn’t make it any less ridiculous. Not my fault I just happened to have it pop up in my feed now.

@josephpeccerillo1640 not my fault either. The algorithm decided to Indiana Jones it

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Pete Townsend was a top notch rhythm guitarist and song writer, but his lead guitar work was basic and scant.

richie is in no way overrated. nobody ever acknowledges him. Go listen to Dry County live Richies solo KILLS.

Explain to me how Sambora is over-rated?

Technically, Townshend might not be that great: but he had the ability to integrate the guitar into those rock-operas and concept albums. In that sense, he is great!

No one even rate Richie Sambora. How can someone be overrated when no one rate him the first place

This is one of my favorites. I have all the standing I need to say whatever I want wherever I want whenever I want. How many videos have you made? Let’s see your videos? See how I turned your entire short-bus argument back around on itself? Likely not or you wouldn’t have made the comment in the first place.

@@GearGasms Jerry got butthurt.

I’d totally watch and support his video when he makes it!

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Exactly. I agree with everything you wrote. Thank you.

I saw Carlos Santana in 1975 or 76 opening up for Eddie money in Portland Oregon and Carlos was amazing I’m not sure what his style is called but he is melodic while being very up beat tempo and didn’t know that Journeys guitarist Neal schon and Greg rolie keyboards came from santanas band

Stevie Ray once said that he was a black man born in a white body. If so, then he was better than Hendrix ever was because he could really sing and you could understand him whenever he spoke to you. Stevie Ray Vaughn played with other great artist's. Jimi Hendrix was fired from other bands.

@@TheGuitarReb If you ask me, if it wasn't for Jimi, there wouldn't have been a SRV. Sure, Stevie Ray was faster and cleaner, but they both had the same influences from other blues players and I'd say Stevie's main influence was Jimi. He covered several JH tunes and at times sounded a lot like like him. Sure, SRV was a better singer. In a letter to his dad, Jimi said something like "You and I both know that I can't sing but I'm going to anyway." He got that courage from the fact that Bob Dylan couldn't sing very well but he was getting very popular in spite of that. It used to bother me that people were so smitten with SRV... until I read an interview with him. He was very humble and said that he stole everything he plays from other guitar players. After that, I came to appreciate and dig SRV. But still, no Jimi, no SRV in my humble opinion.

Lol Ulf - we need more of your sense of humor around here! Would love to have you subscribe if not already!

So, are you saying Slash is overrated?

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How the f*ck did you leave Slash off the list?

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My man...if you turn the tables and put you or I on the stage to improvise anything close to Polyphia...we will be shi**ing our pants. Their compositions are objectively incredibly fresh in the sea of today's mediocrity.

@@derekwoods5553 as many other virtuosi, I can see the technicality of what they're doing, but it bores me to death. And as I said, they proved that their skill wasn't as universal as we could have imagined.

@@orpheus1340 that's fair...it's totally subjective. They are no Gilmour or Knopfler...but I find them very fresh and entertaining...

@@derekwoods5553 that's fair too. ;)

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And yet you found time and energy to comment after furiously wanking it for 14 solid minutes. Go wash your hands

That’s a great point about Edge.

I agree. Edge’s playing or “sound” is essential to U2. Remember, they’re a 3 piece band.

@@GearGasms Speaking of U2, will you ever do a video of the Top 10 most overrated bands in history?

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Glad to see you wasted more time by commenting, you child

Nice

Awesome if there’s one thing we all need right now it’s a laugh! Hope you’ll subscribe!

@@GearGasms yes we do! I did subscribe, good luck!

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Omg hilarious

It's true though, watch any Metallica live video and Kirk's mouth is open 90% of the time, it's bizarre.@@GearGasms

This is one of my favorites. I have all the standing I need to say whatever I want wherever I want whenever I want. How many videos have you made? Let’s see your videos? See how I turned your entire short-bus argument back around on itself? Likely not or you wouldn’t have made the comment in the first place. Dickhead

Yeah, "way more accomplished" at being overrated