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I don't understand it.
If you read my profile, you know I live in a state that is basically the musical void of the world. We have nay an original band that has ever made it big, unless you include Spill Canvas. Not exactly legendary stuff.
So day after day, I get to inform people of good music. People who like Metallica, I introduce them to Dream Theater. Everybody wins: I get to talk good music with a few people, they get to have their ears raped by Petrucci. Although by saying "Metallica fans", 99% have heard Enter Sandman and thats it... but whatever.
But I always have this opinion that people tend to just shut me out for.
Slash is a big pile of shit.
OMFGZ U CANNOT B SRS GNR R BEST BAND EVAR N U R RETART THEY SELL 3987239827398 COPIES AND R GOOD
Even on UG here.
"Slash never had it?.....I don't know where this guy has been for the last 20 some odd years in which Slash has been a rock guitarist juggernaut having sold over 100,000,000 albums with his name on them...."
*facepalm* I don't even want to go there with this comment.
"Come back when you sell as many albums as this guy, He basically defined rock and roll for a generation of kids and Guns N Roses were probably the last "great rock band" IMO. You have no right to say the man is talentless when its your opinion...."
I love that last sentence. I love it. That is humor at its finest. Not only is that second sentence just as ridiculous of an opinion... I wish I had a right to an opinion.
And then there's all this talk that he "was the first to fuse blues and rock". I mean... yes. If you take all rock music from the 60's to the 80's, and forget about all of it, along with wiping Led Zeppelin and every other blues-based rock band out of history.
He's not innovative. He never introduced anything to music that even had a shred of influence. Anyone who says they are profoundly influenced by Slash, are just influenced by whatever Slash was, because Slash has not introduced any breathtaking, innovative idealology into the guitar world at all, as far as i've seen, other than making my mafucking ears bleed everytime I go into guitar center and hear Sweet Child o' Mine coming out of some Line 6 Spider. He's a very talented player, and a very good guitarist. He wrote some great riffs, and GnR are a good band. But THEY DID NOT DO ANYTHING NEW! They made good, standard, rock music. And all Slash did was play the guitar. In a very skilled, but very NORMAL way. He is NOT a legend. He is NOT an icon. He is NOT even REMOTELY close to the best guitarist on the planet. I mean, I will take him any day of the week over a lot of new music. He's not as big of a sellout as say, Nickelback, or the JoBros... who have also sold "100,000,000 albums".
Want a guitar hero? Go listen to Petrucci. Listen to what David Gilmour can craft. If you want a rock God, go listen to some of what Randy Rhoads came up with. Not. Fucking. Slash.
Thank you. /rant
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