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Originally Posted by Bryan G
Lol so you have decided after one youtube vid? I'll post some more later when i get home. He is a talented mofo.
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I'm not denying he's talented. So are a million other guys. There are 12 year old kids on YouTube who are so proficient on guitar it makes Eddie Van Halen look like a beginner...
Being able to play proficiently (which all pro guitarists do, especially ones playing 4 sets a night 7 nights a week in clubs all over the world) is not the same as being on the level of Jimi Hendrix or Page or Van Halen, etc.
If you really think that this guy is on that level, that's cool. In my humble opinion, he's just another guitar player. The guy playing in the band "Yellow Brick Road" here in Vegas doing cover songs at The Texas Station Casino is a better player.
My thinking on it is...we aren't hearing any new guys like Hendrix, or Stevie Ray Vaughn, or Page (in terms of just pure creativity in the studio), etc.
And in today's music we hardly hear any guitar at all.
So when a guy like this one actually gets turned up in the mix and musically masturbates a solo that was just all over the place...then people take notice and think it's "great"?
Kind of like a guy dying from thirst will drink dirty water and think it tastes great.
I'm not attacking the guy in Muse. I think he sounds like a good guitar player. But I wasn't talking about "good". I was talking about otherworldy GREAT.