Why Slash is one of the most Overrrated Guitarists
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The other day when flicking through the channels I came across Slash: Made In Stoke which intrigued me to a certain extent because of my fondness of Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction album which in itself was an accomplished work of genius among the teased hair and over indulgence of the late eighties that culminating in kicking the shit out of Hair Metal, but unfortunately I was thoroughly disappointed with what I saw most of all down to Slash’s new lead singer Myles Kennedy. Kennedy having made his fame from been the lead singer for pop rock band Alter Bridge pranced and posed embarrassingly and his voice seemed as though it had been dipped in apot of Axle Rose falsetto and Scott Weiland enthusiasm altogether he sounded like a cheap m imitation of those famous two lead singers with too much enthusiasm to sound like them rather than have his own voice, I was infinitely annoyed with this been that he sounds like every other lesser known lead singer that has been in a band with Slash. And then another epiphany struck me one that had been lurking in my mind for a very long time and that is that Slash has to be one of the most overrated guitarists in the history of rock n roll, now his playing has never been finer, his technique is still powerful and endearing but seeing him run through all of his own hits and ignoring half of his first solo album on stage I found him borish and irritating been that his last album was exactly what rock music needed even if half of the songs from what I have been told I simply reruns of old songs he had written in his days while in Roses, surely it would have been easier to reform his poorly underrated and barely mentioned group Slash’s Snakepit a band who released only two albums full of swampy, hard hitting blues rock and an outfit that chose only to tour club dates then arena shows With there first album It’s 5 o Clock Somewhere I was very impressed that he had managed to get over his leaving of one of the biggest bands of the early nineties and carry on doing what he does best. Yet Slash with Myles Kennedy is simply a rehash of all of the bands that made him famous and he hasn’t very much grown as a musician. Take Velvet Revolver this was a band of promise and security for devoted rock fans who simply needed a new lease of life in the market that stuck to the same ideals of Classic Rock, the age old sex, drugs and rock N roll mind frame with wailing solos and lyrics about fucking, but what we had instead was just a mediocre ’supergroup’ and one that had less powers then Batman, in fact in all honesty I think they are without a doubt one of the most overrated outfits that my ears have had the distaste to listen to now Scott Weiland from listening to Contraband surely had the vocal chops to be along side Slash but to be honest I never really took an interest in his former band Stone Temple Pilots. Maybe it’s just my overly cynical mind frame that when an artiste moves on from a famous band of unlimited success that they will not be able to match what they had done before and instead should just wait until the original band that made them famous reunites rather than seeking the same success in something beyond themselves and differs from what the fans really want. If you look in the history of famous bands who had a lucrative career then disbanded things changed dramatically and so they sought out new ventures that may or may have not made them as famous as they had been in there previous band.
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