Fair enough.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 May 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
In Bloom solo reminds me of Limelight
― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 25 May 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
I like that guitar thing at the end of "Let's Go Crazy"
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 May 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
I was about to call out ILM for picking Hazel over Hendrix, but then I realized it was Spin itself who challopsed here.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Friday, 25 May 2012 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
Exactly. They gave us challops, we made challopini
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 May 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
lol otm. Picked Hazel of course.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Friday, 25 May 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
Prince? I like his playing, although it's mostly just blues runs and nothing to write home about
otm
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Friday, 25 May 2012 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
i voted for tom verlaine & richard lloyd
― flopson, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
i like neil young fine but come the fuck on
― call all destroyer, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
if you factor in what a great acoustic player he is i don't think it's a stretch
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
Its a massive stretch
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
you're a massive stretch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyuE6SCRIxg
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
who the fuck voted for Greg Ginn
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
i think his later lead playing is p innovative
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
(i didn't vote in the poll)
greg ginn is fucking awesome wtf!
― flopson, Friday, 25 May 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't vote in this poll either, but i could've voted for many of these dudes. a lot of this music is my favorite music.
― tylerw, Friday, 25 May 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
greg ginn as decent guitarist is one of the great historical snow jobs, that guy sucks
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
I love opinions, I could watch people have them all day.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Just FP'd myself for that.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
i probably would have voted for robert quine
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
I love opinions, I could watch people have them all day.― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Friday, May 25, 2012 1:00 PM (32 minutes ago)
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Friday, May 25, 2012 1:00 PM (32 minutes ago)
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 12:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what the fuck is this shit! he wrote black flag songs!
― flopson, Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
flopson, aerosmith is from boston so you know he's all "slapshot this...ten yard fight that..."
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
sst stuff is for hippies and cambridge pussies
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
as a teenager i had some older punker dude lecture me on what a fraud greg ginn was too! does it have to do w/ a deep-seated anti-Hermosa Beach bias? i just remember the guy was from Reseda and had issues about "beach bands". it was a long time ago, can't remember exactly what his argument was. but he kept telling me "ginn sucks, man!"
― tylerw, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
there are a lot of popular arguments against ginn but i'd never heard any that had much to do with whether he was sufficiently skilled at his instrument relative to his contemporaries
― some dude, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTe5CIiiQTI
6 BLACK FLAG“Thirsty and Miserable”Damaged (1981)GUITARIST: Greg Ginn
Well, at least Black Flag got the last half of the song title right. Punk rockers should never attempt shredding, even if they’re trying to be ironic. Greg Ginn performs his solo like a sloppy drunk having sex, and, mercifully, he gets his act over quickly before his flaccid notes have the chance to penetrate deep enough to do damage. Even worse, Ginn tries to mimic Jimi Hendrix with his overextended bent-note screams but ends up sounding like someone trying to bend Jimmy Kimmel. The guitarist claims Black Flag practiced about six hours every night. Apparently, that didn’t involve playing any musical instruments (though it certainly involved a ton of wanking).
― flopson, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
man black flag are so cool
― flopson, Saturday, 26 May 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
my real vote is a write-in for roger troutman
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Saturday, 26 May 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
punk rock sucks
― max, Saturday, 26 May 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
max can we collab on a '100 greatest dadrock guitarists of all time' list
― some dude, Sunday, 27 May 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
#1 - #10 tony levin
― max, Sunday, 27 May 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
was elvis costello on the spin list?
― how's life, Sunday, 27 May 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, it was just me and aero for McLaughlin.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 27 May 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
as a teenager i had some older punker dude lecture me on what a fraud greg ginn was too! does it have to do w/ a deep-seated anti-Hermosa Beach bias?
no, it has to do with him being a truly terrible guitarist. HB's ok by me
The guitarist claims Black Flag practiced about six hours every night.
Yeah a friend has stories about hearing Ginn practice for hours every day and the dude never getting any better.
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 27 May 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
Ginn is really a ham handed fucker.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Sunday, 27 May 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
The poll results in this were even worse than the original list-which I shocking since that list sucked so bad
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Sunday, 27 May 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
Really? Greg Ginn's technical skill is taken as a given?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 27 May 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
no, i just mean he was part of a scene/era in which chops were not a must
― some dude, Sunday, 27 May 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, well, yeah.
Examples?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 27 May 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
All the later albums tortured atonal strangling the guitar to death solos, figured he must have been a big influence on kerry king
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 27 May 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
What are some good tracks to check out? I don't know the album tracks.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 27 May 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
(I did listen to the track that Spin singled out and wasn't really blown away. I can believe that it might not be the best example, however, considering their choices in other cases.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 27 May 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
(The sound on the video wasn't that great, admittedly. I'll look for a better-sounding version on Grooveshark.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 27 May 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
Nels Cline 0
rip ksh
― buzza, Sunday, 27 May 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
love ginn's guitar playing, though he's obviously not the most fleet-fingered guy out there. the appeal is mostly in the riffs, tone, violence and roughness of his sound. he's a "great guitar player" in the same sense that henry rollins is a "great singer". they're both extremely limited, but in a way that suits the band's attack, makes them sound all the more brutal, anti and fucked-up. at least that's how i related to ginn & black flag when i was young. i liked the cro-mag quality. whether or not it was intentional, it sounded cool to me.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Sunday, 27 May 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah word. also a lot of his stuff is kind of bluesy in a way most hardcore ended up not being (see: nervous breakdown)
― flopson, Sunday, 27 May 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
Nels Cline was my #2 choice (but not primarily for Wilco).
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 27 May 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
anyway, i voted for john fahey based on quantity and overall quality of output.
just as easily could have gone for eddie hazel or robert fripp. hazel's responsible for my favorite single piece of guitar music ("maggot brain"), and fripp's played on a bunch of recordings i like almost as much (king crimson stuff, no pussyfooting and here come the warm jets (esp "baby's on fire"), heroes, "i zimbra", etc.)
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Sunday, 27 May 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link