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Jebediah, RBG7/01/2020 3:33:36 pm PDT

re: #186 makeitstop

Fun fact: Morello can shred with the best of them if he feels like it.

He certainly can, whenever he wants and wherever he thinks it will serve the song.

For some reason, I find myself looking at Quora way too often. Whatever algorithm they use has me seeing a lot of questions like that - who’s the best/worst guitarist, is Ron Wood better than Keith Richards, why does everybody like player X even though he is bad at guitar, etc. It is all such nonsense. Music is an art form. If a player effectively communicates the intended emotion, etc. then they are, by definition, a good player.* If you like listening to them, they are a good player.
Unfortunately I sometimes see it from people who should know better. I recently read a column at, I think, Premier Guitar and in it there was mention of Jeff Beck’s “errors.” Dude said something along the lines of “Beck will sometimes bend a note a little sharp or a little flat to increase tension.” Dude, you just explained why it was never an error in the first place! You even said it was deliberate! DOY!!!

Sorry for the rant - had to vent, cuz it has been getting under my skin for weeks now.

* I am not claiming that proficiency is not required or is not a good thing. I just hate this dumb idea that there is a single metric by which every player, in every genre, can be ranked in one big list.