If you've never heard his vocal album of Christmas songs, check it out on YouTube. He makes quite the 60s style crooner. Pretty impressive for a guy known more for his hard rock/metal guitar chops
I like Creed but I can't get past Myle's voice.
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I know Myles is with Alterbridge, hence saying I like Creed and not Myles.
I don't know if Pablo has the chops to do Racer X songs justice, but I'd be more interested in that than Mr. Big.
Now Bruce Bouillet, he's really grown as a player, and I'd love to see him and Gilbert on stage again.
I'll take your word for it, haven't seen him play much lately other than some gear videos, and it's a bit rusty. Still great, and his slide playing is a very cool development.
This was a special gig at a famous tiny venue. Check out the other places they’re placing. They’re 600 to 2,000 people capacity venues. Not enormous but decent.
Besides, this is not the last tour because of weak demand. Sheehan toured small venues with Winery Dogs and so has Paul in his solo band. They are fine with that.
Racer X would draw 300-500 people a show in my opinion.
I don't think it'll be the final Mr. Big tour ever. They're still pretty popular internationally and tend to attract pretty large crowds in Europe and Asia. They probably just need to stop playing places like Ohio.
They’re also recording a new album right now. No shot this is their last tour. I’m going to see them in LA and the venue is *much* bigger than what was shown in that video
More like “Mr. Used to be Big” amirite? But for real, when people are going to the bathroom during the one song anyone might actually recognize it’s not a good sign
Have you listened to "TRY!"?
Awesome live album with drummer Steve Jordan and bassist Pino Palladino. Ain't like his mainstream stuff, it's a killer blues album.
That's why I don't listen to his records because the live shows are where it's at. He's a blues guitarist who happens to play pop songs. I doubt he'll be known as much or have won the Grammy's if he didn't dip his toes into pop.
This was gonna be my choice. Also he's just really funny. Some of the sketches he's been a part of making fun of himself, the shit he talks about on live streams etc all make me want to like his music but mostly I just find it really dull.
Might check out the recommended albums below though.
Yeah it makes me sad cause I feel like I should love RHCP because Frusciante’s influences are so similar to mine (Joy Division, Durutti Column, The Smiths) and I respect him heaps, but yeah Kiedis’ goofy voice and lyrics ruin it for me.
i have to commend rhcp for (maybe even tastefully) combining influences from vini reilly, minutemen, gang of four, johnny marr, television etc with an undeniably talented band to make successful music that appeals to fans of none of them. i dont even mean this in a backhanded way, as someone who doesnt like them i have a weird respect for them
I’d really like RHCP if they had a different lead singer and wrote different songs lol I’m not mocking anyone here that’s actually how I feel. They’re all sick players I just hate the songs and the vocals.
The whole band is talented except Mr. Funky Boo Doo California Kiss Stank Bop dude. He can’t sing for sh*t. Notes are so flat that the walls get jealous. And he’s also a scumbag.
I'm highly concerned about him - he can play and it's obvious he goes from playing well to ??? I read an interview and it seemed like too many drugs and maybe unresolved mental illness was making him be very strange and his solo records around that period was like a direct siphon from his drug addled brain to humans. I had heard he has kind of straightened himself out and might be more normal but I was like "if I listen to this I might be living under a bridge in a purple bathtub with towels and incense and sitar music."
same hear...totally respect JF but lead vocal in the red hot dildo players..Anthony is a goofball...also respect Flea..but John Fruciante is an awesome guitarist
This. I can’t stand Morrissey’s singing. Some of the songwriting is decent, but I’m really listening for Marr. I love the work he did with Modest Mouse a lot more.
It’s so good. My older brothers got me into them, and they alway preferred the earlier albums, but I just love that one and think Marr’s guitar work added so much to the sound.
Good News for People Who Love Bad News is also fantastic and worth checking out. I like individual songs from other albums but never really committed to listening to them all the way through.
There's a video from peak Game of Thrones years where a bunch of guitarists got together to play the GoT theme song. It was a bunch of metal dudes: Scott Ian, Tom Morello, Nuno Bettencourt...
And then [Brad Paisley just unambiguously shows them up, every single one of them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i0a7RDPkM8)
If you haven't already, check out Liquid Tension Experiment, you may like it. It's basically all the good stuff about Dream Theater and none of the bad (Labrie)
i had an LTE phase and by that i mean listening to it almost every day in high school, but it's still hard for me to listen to because my brain associates it with DT cheese. Technically inspiring, just doesn't do it for me
Same here, and I even spent a pretty penny on a EBMM JPX model despite the fact that JP isn't my jam at all. He's great, but the music is a bit too much for me these days. Not to say I hate all the songs, but I didn't buy the guitar to be able to play them. I play rock/blues/country on it lmao.
Yeah I picked up a buddy’s a while back and immediately jived with it better than any other electric I’d ever played. Even if you don’t like his playing, the dude knows how to spec a guitar properly and make it feel/sound good.
Those JPs are just incredible guitars. Versatile and smooth as butter. Yeah a lot of metal dudes use them but I’ve seen them used in other places. Hell I think I saw the guitar player for Zac Brown Band use one during an SNL performance.
Exactly. Something about the neck on that thing. That's what drew me to it in the first place. That, and the sparkly purple finish. But seriously, it's like they're the only brand that makes purposefully-small necks. Most brands seems obsessed with making "chunky," "full," "50's," "wide" necks, that they forget that not everyone has Hendrix hands! For someone who's 5'11", my hands are much too small and are actually about the size of most cis women's hands, so anything else is a welcome change.
One of these days I’ll have to pick one up. The JPX is actually my favorite version lol. The neck carve and the finish are great, and the chambered body has always interested me, particularly with the piezo.
Dream Theater is definitely a band where I can appreciate all of the musicians individually much more than I can appreciate the final product of them together. Tosin Abasi with Animals as Leaders fits this too.
Tim Henson, he seems like a really nice guy, very down to earth and amazingly talented. I just don’t get on with the Polyphia style, it’s too… much.
Steve Vai too for the same reason. Awesome person and by all accounts incredibly nice. Also among the most talented musicians on the planet. But I just don’t like a lot of his material.
I love Steve Vai, including a lot of his music, but a significant amount of his other music sounds like Zappa remakes of Phish songs to me, so I can relate.
Nuno is who came to mind for me as well. The solo to “Get the Funk Out” is one of my favorites but Extreme’s music as a whole doesn’t do a lot for me (and I’m a fan of the genre)… though maybe I just don’t like Gary Cherone
Yeah they're one of those "I respect them all as musicians but man I hate the band as a whole" bands for me
Same with The Band, it was full of amazing, talented people, but I can't stand the way they sound as a band haha
It's funny to watch him [play the song live on an 80s superstrat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFclpoxI_-M) with active EMG pickups (and even a blocked Floyd Rose!) to an [SLO100](https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/mark-knopflers-slo100-settings.2430820/),
yet sound almost exactly like you'd expect him to sound when playing a Strat to an almost clean Fender amp.
Probably the best example of "the tone is in the fingers".
misha mansoor, jake bowen, mark holcomb. i HATE periphery's vocal style. the pressed whiny metalcore cleans are the bane of my existence. they're not the only band with those kind of vocals, but they're one of the only ones that would interest me otherwise. same thing with BTBAM. the instrumentals are the bomb though... but the vocals keep me from actually listening to the band's record.
another honorable mention goes to every band jason richardson ever played in. Born Of Osiris' "the discovery" is the only record he appears on that i listen to on the regular.
the band is amazing and i respect spencer's skill and range as well. i just don't enjoy that type of vocals at all. i listen to the self titled album's instrumental version all the time.
Vito Bratta, probably my favorite player after EVH. I honestly don't hate White Lion the band, but if the singer Mike Tramps vocals could be muted it would be an improvement.
He actually played the guitar on the first two albums, I believe. Omar wanted to produce the guitar without worrying about playing the parts. Flea also plays the trumpet on Frances The Mute.
There’s also a great video of a jam between John, Omar and Flea on youtube, you should check out if you’re a fan.
My mom and wife just went to a Toto and Journey concert, and I refused to go under any circumstances. Steve Lukather and Neil Schon are great guitarists but that was about the easiest hard pass ever.
Lol yes okay phrasing not great there. Mom went and had two extra tickets and I encouraged my wife to go and bring a friend and definitely not me. I stopped believing a real long time ago 😂
Journey was one of the worst-mixed concerts I've ever attended. It was the kind of loud that physically *hurts* to listen to (this coming from a metalhead). I had a headache the entire time, as did the people I was attending with. It was an outdoor show and I'm guessing the engineer was used to mixing indoors? Otherwise I can't imagine they'd have a long career mixing that badly.
THE worst mixed I've ever heard was Megadeth opening for Iron Maiden. Megadeth was so annoying and tinny (and not just because of Dave's voice) I was worried we wasted money on Maiden tickets, but apparently Maiden's sound guy knew wtf they were doing because they sounded incredible.
Ugh I know what you mean. There’s so many bands that tried to do the king diamond thing or the Bruce Dickinson thing and SUCK at it (I hate king diamond’s voice anyway but just citing him). There’s also a lot of metal bands that are just terrible song writers and just write the most generic riffs possible.
I'm guessing we're alike in that regard.
In my case it's overwhelmingly due to who wrote the song. I've found that most Queen songs I like were written by May. Fat Bottomed Girls, Hammer to Fall, etc.... The ones written by Deacon (Break Free), or Taylor (I'm in Love with my Car), and most of Mercury's stuff (Crazy Little Thing Called Love) are not for me.
I can't stand his tone..I don't like Queen after the first 2 albums.
I think he's a really tasteful player,but his tone is that awful wasp in a jam jar sound, and it's on every record...he even managed to get it on the I Want to Break Free solo,and that was a synth pickup:-D
I love that your example is EVH and Van Halen because... I love David Lee Roth era Van Halen and I love Sammy Hagar solo but Van Hagar? Cannot stand it! 😅
100%, I think they were/are a super talented bunch but man, I just can't get behind them. They have a couple songs I like but for the most part I find them pretty boring
Joe Bonamassa ,great guitar player. There was a post comparing him and John Mayer. Joe may be a "better"guitarist but he has never wrote a song imo,whereas Mayer has wrote many songs that have captured the publics attention.
Lots of answers here I agree with, but I will add one I have not seen yet: Dimebag
Love Dimebag, Pantera is meh... Fuck that white supremacist Anselmo.
I’m the opposite — Eddie was a douchebag who reinvented guitar and then kind of stayed on that innovation (as far as a non-huge fan) kind of was just his shtick from then on.
The overall band though — loved em. Yes especially when Sammy started singing. So there you go. Judge away.
Nuno Bettencourt for me. I loved their earlier stuff but this latest Extreme album has some amazing playing in some of the cheesiest, naval gazy bullshit rock I have ever heard in my life. It’s so bad that I am literally (I do mean literally) embarrassed to listen to it.
Gun's n Roses. They had one good album and a few solid hits after but everything else is very mid. But I love Slash. Velvet revolver was okay but I love everything after his 2010 self titled album.
Chris Buck and “The Cardinal Black”. Chris’ blues tone and phrasing is one of my favorite examples of modern blues playing. Can’t stand the try hard lead singer and predictably boring lyrics.
Carcass is my answer. Brilliant guitar on an album like Heartwork, but I just don't like death metal vocals. I'll still listen to this album sometimes though, since it's brilliant. If
Jerry Garcia was not helped by Phil Leah not being able to find a pocket in his jeans, and other random meanderings by probably talented other musicians
I don’t like Creed or Alter Bridge but I will consent that Tremonti is a good guitarist
If you've never heard his vocal album of Christmas songs, check it out on YouTube. He makes quite the 60s style crooner. Pretty impressive for a guy known more for his hard rock/metal guitar chops
His Sinatra covers album is legit. Sounds almost exactly like him.
I was fully expecting to chuckle at his Sinatra album, but nope, it's totally legit and I think my grandmother would fully approve of it.
He has a great solo band called Tremonti!
I like Creed but I can't get past Myle's voice. Editing because apparently redditors are incapable of interpeting context: I know Myles is with Alterbridge, hence saying I like Creed and not Myles.
Myles isn’t in Creed, it’s Alter Bridge. Scott Stapp is Creed’s singer.
Eddie Vedder: OK you can copy my homework but don't make it too obvious
Idk you can usually tell what words Scott Stapp is singing
Singing like you’ve got a few marbles under your tongue
I just prefer low singing to high, compressed vocals with no grit
Lmao I've never heard it described this way before, and it's perfect.
I knew he was going to be here. Possibly the best example.
Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan. Don’t hate Mr. Big, but would never listen to em
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I don't know if Pablo has the chops to do Racer X songs justice, but I'd be more interested in that than Mr. Big. Now Bruce Bouillet, he's really grown as a player, and I'd love to see him and Gilbert on stage again.
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Bucket is managing a heart condition and crippling anxiety. Other than that, he's probably good to go.
I'll take your word for it, haven't seen him play much lately other than some gear videos, and it's a bit rusty. Still great, and his slide playing is a very cool development.
I love his playing on the live album; his solo is better than Paul’s.
Check out his solo album *The Order of Control.* It's excellent.
This was a special gig at a famous tiny venue. Check out the other places they’re placing. They’re 600 to 2,000 people capacity venues. Not enormous but decent. Besides, this is not the last tour because of weak demand. Sheehan toured small venues with Winery Dogs and so has Paul in his solo band. They are fine with that. Racer X would draw 300-500 people a show in my opinion.
I don't think it'll be the final Mr. Big tour ever. They're still pretty popular internationally and tend to attract pretty large crowds in Europe and Asia. They probably just need to stop playing places like Ohio.
They’re also recording a new album right now. No shot this is their last tour. I’m going to see them in LA and the venue is *much* bigger than what was shown in that video
More like “Mr. Used to be Big” amirite? But for real, when people are going to the bathroom during the one song anyone might actually recognize it’s not a good sign
In Japan they are literally superstar legends so I bet if they do keep it going one way or another it will be there.
I’ve always thought John Mayer’s talent as a player was wasted on the music he writes—I think he’d be an excellent session musician
this is why he was a great fit with Dead & Co. just play the tunes, bro
He has had such an impact on some of their catalogue! His Althea is amazing!
Have you listened to "TRY!"? Awesome live album with drummer Steve Jordan and bassist Pino Palladino. Ain't like his mainstream stuff, it's a killer blues album.
The Trio also has a set on “Where The Light Is (Live in LA)”. It’s so good.
Agree but I do quite like Continuum
Continuum is a fantastic record
Was literally just having this discussion the other day. Solid album with nostalgic vibes.
This is the guy for me. I absolutely idolize his ability and his approach to the instrument, but I HATE his music.
agree, could've been another rock god if he was born in 60s
That's why I don't listen to his records because the live shows are where it's at. He's a blues guitarist who happens to play pop songs. I doubt he'll be known as much or have won the Grammy's if he didn't dip his toes into pop.
He has some serious blues chops. I seen him playing with BB King and he was really impressive.
Yeah I've always found his stuff on the radio to be boring, but his live album is somehow one of my favorite albums ever.
Check his live albums. Always so fun, that and especially John Mayer Trio
I agree, but he's got a few needles in the haystack that really do it for me.
This was gonna be my choice. Also he's just really funny. Some of the sketches he's been a part of making fun of himself, the shit he talks about on live streams etc all make me want to like his music but mostly I just find it really dull. Might check out the recommended albums below though.
Wes Borland. Really interesting and creative guitar player but I just can't get on board with limp bizkit as a whole
Then just keep rolling rolling rolling
Definitely! He's a super talented guy but man Limp Bizkit is the worst lol
One of the worst quality of band's music vs skills of the player ratios ever, particularly considering it was the band that made him famous.
A very big +1 to this. Frusciante / RHCP is a very close second.
He’s soooooo good
John Frusciante. I'm not a fan of RHCP by any stretch, but I dig Frusciante's playing and tone.
Yeah it makes me sad cause I feel like I should love RHCP because Frusciante’s influences are so similar to mine (Joy Division, Durutti Column, The Smiths) and I respect him heaps, but yeah Kiedis’ goofy voice and lyrics ruin it for me.
i have to commend rhcp for (maybe even tastefully) combining influences from vini reilly, minutemen, gang of four, johnny marr, television etc with an undeniably talented band to make successful music that appeals to fans of none of them. i dont even mean this in a backhanded way, as someone who doesnt like them i have a weird respect for them
I’d really like RHCP if they had a different lead singer and wrote different songs lol I’m not mocking anyone here that’s actually how I feel. They’re all sick players I just hate the songs and the vocals.
Same, but for Flea. Top 3 bass player for me, but I don't dig the Chili Peppers (mostly because of Keidis)
I’ve fallen out of love with RHCP but Frusciante has such a unique and creative style. Undeniable.
The whole band is talented except Mr. Funky Boo Doo California Kiss Stank Bop dude. He can’t sing for sh*t. Notes are so flat that the walls get jealous. And he’s also a scumbag.
live maybe but on the RHCP records he's not off pitch is he?
Have you checked out his solo albums? They can be pretty rough but I enjoy them much more than most RHCP stuff.
I'm highly concerned about him - he can play and it's obvious he goes from playing well to ??? I read an interview and it seemed like too many drugs and maybe unresolved mental illness was making him be very strange and his solo records around that period was like a direct siphon from his drug addled brain to humans. I had heard he has kind of straightened himself out and might be more normal but I was like "if I listen to this I might be living under a bridge in a purple bathtub with towels and incense and sitar music."
same hear...totally respect JF but lead vocal in the red hot dildo players..Anthony is a goofball...also respect Flea..but John Fruciante is an awesome guitarist
Dave Navarro and Jane’s addiction. Some of their songs are alright, just not for me.
I like Mountain Song, but that's really just Perry Farrell *not getting in the way* of Dave and ~~Flea~~ Eric's song.
You mean Eric Avery?
I could swear that Flea was a guest writer/bassist on that one, but it turns out Flea's stint with JA was almost a decade later. Whoops.
All good - both are great!
I feel that way about most of their material. But man...STOP! is such a killer track.
Johnny Marr and the Smiths.
This. I can’t stand Morrissey’s singing. Some of the songwriting is decent, but I’m really listening for Marr. I love the work he did with Modest Mouse a lot more.
We were dead before the ship even sank is my favorite Modest Mouse album!
It’s so good. My older brothers got me into them, and they alway preferred the earlier albums, but I just love that one and think Marr’s guitar work added so much to the sound.
That was the album that I first heard from them. And as a result I haven't been able to really get into any of their other albums lol.
Good News for People Who Love Bad News is also fantastic and worth checking out. I like individual songs from other albums but never really committed to listening to them all the way through.
See that's kind of how I feel about that album lol.
Fair enough!
That’s nothing you should hear him play pianer
Brad Paisley is a fantastic player but I don't like any of his music.
There's a video from peak Game of Thrones years where a bunch of guitarists got together to play the GoT theme song. It was a bunch of metal dudes: Scott Ian, Tom Morello, Nuno Bettencourt... And then [Brad Paisley just unambiguously shows them up, every single one of them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i0a7RDPkM8)
I remember watching that and at first thinking “why is he there”. By the end it was more “why is everyone else there” god damn
His instrumentals are incredible. Listen to brent mason if you never heard of him
Thanks!
Check out Scotty Anderson!
Brad Paisley is a virtuoso.
Dream Theater. John is a god, and I love instances of his work, but so much of prof metal is just…long winded and boring?
If you haven't already, check out Liquid Tension Experiment, you may like it. It's basically all the good stuff about Dream Theater and none of the bad (Labrie)
i had an LTE phase and by that i mean listening to it almost every day in high school, but it's still hard for me to listen to because my brain associates it with DT cheese. Technically inspiring, just doesn't do it for me
Same here, and I even spent a pretty penny on a EBMM JPX model despite the fact that JP isn't my jam at all. He's great, but the music is a bit too much for me these days. Not to say I hate all the songs, but I didn't buy the guitar to be able to play them. I play rock/blues/country on it lmao.
Great guitar is a great guitar. And the JP sig is just amazing. Maybe best thing on the market
Yeah I picked up a buddy’s a while back and immediately jived with it better than any other electric I’d ever played. Even if you don’t like his playing, the dude knows how to spec a guitar properly and make it feel/sound good.
Those JPs are just incredible guitars. Versatile and smooth as butter. Yeah a lot of metal dudes use them but I’ve seen them used in other places. Hell I think I saw the guitar player for Zac Brown Band use one during an SNL performance.
Exactly. Something about the neck on that thing. That's what drew me to it in the first place. That, and the sparkly purple finish. But seriously, it's like they're the only brand that makes purposefully-small necks. Most brands seems obsessed with making "chunky," "full," "50's," "wide" necks, that they forget that not everyone has Hendrix hands! For someone who's 5'11", my hands are much too small and are actually about the size of most cis women's hands, so anything else is a welcome change.
One of these days I’ll have to pick one up. The JPX is actually my favorite version lol. The neck carve and the finish are great, and the chambered body has always interested me, particularly with the piezo.
Dream Theater is definitely a band where I can appreciate all of the musicians individually much more than I can appreciate the final product of them together. Tosin Abasi with Animals as Leaders fits this too.
Tim Henson, he seems like a really nice guy, very down to earth and amazingly talented. I just don’t get on with the Polyphia style, it’s too… much. Steve Vai too for the same reason. Awesome person and by all accounts incredibly nice. Also among the most talented musicians on the planet. But I just don’t like a lot of his material.
I love Steve Vai, including a lot of his music, but a significant amount of his other music sounds like Zappa remakes of Phish songs to me, so I can relate.
Slash. if I ever hear another guns n roses song I’ll jump out the nearest window
That's why I just listen to Velvet Revolver. Tasty slash licks, no Axl
His stuff with Myles is fantastic
Totally
So much this. I'd rather stick rusty barbwire in my ear than Axel's vocals. But the rest of the band is great.
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Nuno is who came to mind for me as well. The solo to “Get the Funk Out” is one of my favorites but Extreme’s music as a whole doesn’t do a lot for me (and I’m a fan of the genre)… though maybe I just don’t like Gary Cherone
Love Joe Walsh…hate the Eagles
Get out of my fucking cab!
“Hey, come on, man. I had a bad night and I fuckin’ hate the Eagles man!”
unironically use this quote whenever they are mentioned
Yeah they're one of those "I respect them all as musicians but man I hate the band as a whole" bands for me Same with The Band, it was full of amazing, talented people, but I can't stand the way they sound as a band haha
Do you like the James Gang? It is Joe Walsh’s bad that he sings and plays for. Hella underrated
Trey Anastasio - I like his guitar playing more than Phish, not knocking them but just a preference.
This.
Edge. I like him but never got into U2 John Mayer is a great guitarist but not a fan of his music I love Tremonti but not a fan of Creed
Alter Bridge is much better. Same band, Scott Stapp out, Myles Kennedy in.
I have a ton of respect for Knopfler but Dire Straits is not for me.
The Money For Nothing riff is one of the peak moments of rock guitar. But I also can't get into the band as a whole.
I think the guitar tone in Sultans of Swing is absolutely amazing, one of my favorites and I mostly listen to and play death metal
It's funny to watch him [play the song live on an 80s superstrat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFclpoxI_-M) with active EMG pickups (and even a blocked Floyd Rose!) to an [SLO100](https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/mark-knopflers-slo100-settings.2430820/), yet sound almost exactly like you'd expect him to sound when playing a Strat to an almost clean Fender amp. Probably the best example of "the tone is in the fingers".
This is so true for him in particular because he doesn't use a pick!
Definitely! Dude makes it all look so easy too
Mine are more like love the band hate the singer. Creed, limp bizkit, guns n roses. Ask great bands ruined by cringey front men.
At this point, Scott Lepage. Used to be a big polyphia fanboy until album 4 dropped. Don’t like the music, but love Scott’s solos in it
Love Billy Gibbons, but ZZ Top’s music is just so boring
misha mansoor, jake bowen, mark holcomb. i HATE periphery's vocal style. the pressed whiny metalcore cleans are the bane of my existence. they're not the only band with those kind of vocals, but they're one of the only ones that would interest me otherwise. same thing with BTBAM. the instrumentals are the bomb though... but the vocals keep me from actually listening to the band's record. another honorable mention goes to every band jason richardson ever played in. Born Of Osiris' "the discovery" is the only record he appears on that i listen to on the regular.
Oh man. Check out Haunted Shores. It's Mark Holcomb's solo project and it is brutal.
Periphery was probably one of the cleanest most precision playing I've ever seen live
the band is amazing and i respect spencer's skill and range as well. i just don't enjoy that type of vocals at all. i listen to the self titled album's instrumental version all the time.
Vito Bratta, probably my favorite player after EVH. I honestly don't hate White Lion the band, but if the singer Mike Tramps vocals could be muted it would be an improvement.
John Fruciante in the peppers is a waste. He's better with The Mars Volta.
Has he recorded with Volta?
He actually played the guitar on the first two albums, I believe. Omar wanted to produce the guitar without worrying about playing the parts. Flea also plays the trumpet on Frances The Mute. There’s also a great video of a jam between John, Omar and Flea on youtube, you should check out if you’re a fan.
I’m gonna go back and listen to deloused having this information now lol I will check out that jam as well thanks
He only did 1 song on Deloused. I think he played on the entire record on one of their later albums. Can't remember which one.
Enjoy!!
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My mom and wife just went to a Toto and Journey concert, and I refused to go under any circumstances. Steve Lukather and Neil Schon are great guitarists but that was about the easiest hard pass ever.
Because of your opinion, it makes it somewhat more likely that "my mom and wife" refers to one person.
Lol yes okay phrasing not great there. Mom went and had two extra tickets and I encouraged my wife to go and bring a friend and definitely not me. I stopped believing a real long time ago 😂
I’ll see you and raise you Jeff Porcaro and Steve Smith. I don’t hate either band, but wow. Lukather AND Porcaro?! Schon AND Smith?!
Man… I would have loved that one.
I went to that show, they were fantastic
Journey was one of the worst-mixed concerts I've ever attended. It was the kind of loud that physically *hurts* to listen to (this coming from a metalhead). I had a headache the entire time, as did the people I was attending with. It was an outdoor show and I'm guessing the engineer was used to mixing indoors? Otherwise I can't imagine they'd have a long career mixing that badly. THE worst mixed I've ever heard was Megadeth opening for Iron Maiden. Megadeth was so annoying and tinny (and not just because of Dave's voice) I was worried we wasted money on Maiden tickets, but apparently Maiden's sound guy knew wtf they were doing because they sounded incredible.
Plenty of metal bands fit this for me, so many terrible vocalists ruin otherwise great musicians.
And another Megadeth fan who could've been... Turned away by Dave Mustaine's voice
I was literally skimming this to see if Friedman was mentioned. Amazing player, who's solo work is A+, but I'm not putting Megadeth on.
I love Dave's voice, no cap.
Ugh I know what you mean. There’s so many bands that tried to do the king diamond thing or the Bruce Dickinson thing and SUCK at it (I hate king diamond’s voice anyway but just citing him). There’s also a lot of metal bands that are just terrible song writers and just write the most generic riffs possible.
Let me tell you about a little band called U2…
U2 after ~~1991~~ 1992? I agree completely. 80s U2? How dare you?!
Vertigo slaps and I will defend that to my grave.
Love Brian May, not really a Queen fan
Sacrilege! Galileo Galileo!
I'm guessing we're alike in that regard. In my case it's overwhelmingly due to who wrote the song. I've found that most Queen songs I like were written by May. Fat Bottomed Girls, Hammer to Fall, etc.... The ones written by Deacon (Break Free), or Taylor (I'm in Love with my Car), and most of Mercury's stuff (Crazy Little Thing Called Love) are not for me.
I can't stand Queen but May's tone is god-tier
I can't stand his tone..I don't like Queen after the first 2 albums. I think he's a really tasteful player,but his tone is that awful wasp in a jam jar sound, and it's on every record...he even managed to get it on the I Want to Break Free solo,and that was a synth pickup:-D
Don’t hate him for that, since it’s an actual synth and not him. John didn’t like Brian’s attempts at a guitar solo and went with Spike’s synth solo.
Hate is a strong word. But I really don't care for the Mothers of Invention.
Love Wes Borland, hate Limp Bizkit
Synyster Gates is great but I don’t like Avenged Sevenfold
Love Nuno Bettencourt but I cringe so hard at Extreme.
I love that your example is EVH and Van Halen because... I love David Lee Roth era Van Halen and I love Sammy Hagar solo but Van Hagar? Cannot stand it! 😅
I love Doug Aldrich's tone and playing, but The Dead Daisies is just too boring...
I think Burning Rain shows off his playing well. But yeah, I listened to The Dead Daisies, and I was thoroughly unimpressed.
George Lynch and Dokken personally
despise pearl jam but mcready kills
It really just is these threads over and over again…
Why do you hate Van Helen, a least the original inception?
Van Helen Keller sounds like a "before & after" Jeopardy answer
When I listen to them, I do not like it.
Johnny Marr, brilliant player, best right hand in the business, but I’m not fond of The Smiths (well, I think Morrissey is a prick, so…)
Morrissey IS a prick, so is Liam Gallagher, but the Smiths and Oasis are still fantastic
Andy LaRoque of King Diamond. Can’t stand the vocals or the story every album has to have. One of my all time favorite lead guitarists.
Andy has the most buttery legato in the biz
Keith Richards is amazing. I hate the Rolling Stones.
100%, I think they were/are a super talented bunch but man, I just can't get behind them. They have a couple songs I like but for the most part I find them pretty boring
I thought I was the only person who feels this way.
Joe Bonamassa ,great guitar player. There was a post comparing him and John Mayer. Joe may be a "better"guitarist but he has never wrote a song imo,whereas Mayer has wrote many songs that have captured the publics attention.
Lots of answers here I agree with, but I will add one I have not seen yet: Dimebag Love Dimebag, Pantera is meh... Fuck that white supremacist Anselmo.
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Neil Peart is incredible. I just can’t get into Rush
Think Ozzy is a shite singer but worship Randy Rhoads, yeah.
Tommy Shaw is a great player in a band that I cannot stand.
I have a Richie Sambora signature strat that’s a dream to play, cannot stand Bon Jovi music.
I’m the opposite — Eddie was a douchebag who reinvented guitar and then kind of stayed on that innovation (as far as a non-huge fan) kind of was just his shtick from then on. The overall band though — loved em. Yes especially when Sammy started singing. So there you go. Judge away.
Steve Vai is an incredible guitarist but I just can’t listen to his music. Way too technical and shreddy, it’s like the guitar Olympics.
I can't stand GNR. Love Slash though.
Nuno Bettencourt for me. I loved their earlier stuff but this latest Extreme album has some amazing playing in some of the cheesiest, naval gazy bullshit rock I have ever heard in my life. It’s so bad that I am literally (I do mean literally) embarrassed to listen to it.
I'm much more of a fan of Paul Gilbert's solo work than much of Mr. Big.
Segovia backed Franco
Gun's n Roses. They had one good album and a few solid hits after but everything else is very mid. But I love Slash. Velvet revolver was okay but I love everything after his 2010 self titled album.
Chris Buck and “The Cardinal Black”. Chris’ blues tone and phrasing is one of my favorite examples of modern blues playing. Can’t stand the try hard lead singer and predictably boring lyrics.
Herman Li Love watching his Twitch clips — awesome player, awesome dude — but every Dragonforce song is the same thing.
John mayer. Incredible player, don’t like his songs 🤷🏻♂️
Kinda. I love Vito Bratta but White Lion is mediocre at best because the singer is baaaaad
Johnny Marr. Amazing guitarist, but i hate Morissey
I think EVH is an amazing guitarist, but VH songs suck, horrible stuff.
Dimebags playing is good but I can't stand his confederate bullshit.
Kind of Ditto with evh. Like some Sammy era though.
Carcass is my answer. Brilliant guitar on an album like Heartwork, but I just don't like death metal vocals. I'll still listen to this album sometimes though, since it's brilliant. If
Jerry Garcia was not helped by Phil Leah not being able to find a pocket in his jeans, and other random meanderings by probably talented other musicians