Underrated / Underappreciated Artists

malachi305 said:
I really think Kirk Hammet is an overrated guitarist.

Some of his solos are just sick. Maybe overrated because people think he wrote the majority of the guitars, when Hetfield did that.
 
Come on and do the toxic waltz
friendly violent fun sure for all
get up and do the toxic waltz
if ya hit the floor
you can always crawl


-Exodus
 
oh hahaha my bad. it's a guitar scale. a series of notes that go together in which you build a solo from.
 
blashpemy, even an ignoramous like myself is metal enough to know what a pentatonic scale is!!!!!

two horns way, way, down...
 
THE WOOD said:
blashpemy, even an ignoramous like myself is metal enough to know what a pentatonic scale is!!!!!

two horns way, way, down...

hah. I hate trying to be a music know-it-all with no knowledge music theory, ect. Trying to describe music to an actual musician can be downright embarassing for me.

me: "You know that part where the guitars are like waaaah--waaahhh, chugg---waahhh? That's the shit."

I did take "intro to electronic music" in undergrad to fill a fine arts requirement, so suck on that. I learned how to get blazed and watch my ex-hippie prof bug out on some really weird midi percussion devices and old- skool synths from the 70's. =D
 
malachi305 said:
yea, but Wood... you play guitar, so cut the nigga some slack!

For real...the last thing I played was the recorder, circa grade 6.
 
me: "You know that part where the guitars are like waaaah--waaahhh, chugg---waahhh? That's the shit."

yeap thats me too.

and i wouldnt describe my racket as music.
 
lacey k said:
Ay-men



people go fawning over tthe been-said-before ''deep'' shit that everybody who ever went thru adolecense and had half a artistic wannabe poet mind already thought of
a singer for a band says and it aint like some of this shit aint deep
but peole post up their walls with posters and quotes of some dumb useless ''mysterious'' ''visionary'' garbage that jim morrison or somebody thought up while they was trippin face and prolly wouldnt even remember or put any weight on, and peeps act like its the fuckin gospel

all you gotta do is put some kind of buddhist-style attitude or say something political related about life like "The greatest visions are made by our own minds" or "america is governed by jesters wearing kings crowns" and they eat it up look i just made that shit up now and it could pass for some dumbass fucked-up singers

then somebody whose speakin from the heart and puttin it in un pretentious simple raw words they write it off cuz some ''ign'ant'' ''unedcuated'' "nigga'' 8( said it *spits*

*shakin my head*

it aint no different, why do people act like what one person says dont matter cuz of who they are? it aint how you say it its what you say

dont get it twisted i aint saying theres no weight to words cuz there is and i respect some of it

but people got no standards man

Firstly, and I mean no offence, but stop with the typed ghetto slang it's fucking hard to read sometimes. While I agree that Rap is sometimes looked down upon, but with people like 50cent out there writing lyrics like "I'll take you to the candy shop, I'll let you lick the lollypop" and then getting praised for it. Rap has got to stop focussing on objectying women, material welth and popping caps in peoples asses. If the credible artists weren't smothered by these wannabe thug morons rap would have a better image. Q-tip we need you.
Also Jim Morrison was a spiritual and visionary pioneer, the reason people idolize him so much is because he managed to infuse his music with meaning and emotion, unlike some bling bling rapper bullshit. If you can't appreciate the genius of the Lizard King there is no hope for you, try reading some Blake and some Ginsberg, and it might help. Mind you from your previous post's I get the feeling you don't listen to the doors and Jim morrison was just an example you used, but don't insult him even in ignorance, he was a genius the like of which we may never see again.
RIP Jim Morrison.
 
If i get blackout drunk and then go up on stage and scream about pussy then pass out, am i a genius? I give the guy credit where credit is due....but I think veneration of him as a saint is hardly appropriate. If anything, he was pretentious and self important. His poetry sounds like it was written by some brooding adolescent between algebra class and B lunch.
 
No way is Jim Morrison over-rated.....sure he may of been a drunk ass mutherfucker and i will admit he was no way near the best voice coming out of an era full of wicked singers, but that was not what Morisson was about...... he had style and more importantly he had fucken SOUL.......he was a prophet, i don't care what anyone else says, his lyrics were visionary, transending and revolutionary

I whole heartedly agree you Eltoro...... and i for one am fed up with all the pseduo-gangsta tryhard bitch ass hip hop rap shit that engulfs the airways........ i don't care what music people get into, if they have a passion for it i reckon thats great, but when people start putting LEGENDS like Jim Morrison down and say that some phat - ass loving black gangsta rapper are more important in the context of pathing the way for improvement in musical genres, it is a disgrace.
 
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