Post subject: McCready is the most underrated guitarist in a long time
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:27 am
Johnny Guitar
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:21 am Posts: 176 Location: The Great Northwest
He is a God, could out-solo anyone playing right now. Rolling Stone lost me forever when they left him off their 100 Greatest Guitarists list. Give this man some love!!
Post subject: Re: McCready is the most underrated guitarist in a long time
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:40 am
Spaceman
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
backseatlover wrote:
could out-solo anyone playing right now.
Please. I love Mike as much as the next person, but Clapton would wipe the floor with Mike 'til you could see your reflection in it.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
Mike plays too many notes in concert and sometimes it sounds pretty terrible, all movement in the fingers and no going anywhere at all....but on the flipside, his studio stuff is absolutely amazing, among the best leads ever - mostly pre-Binaural.
I'd like to hear some more Stone leads actually.
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kilman wrote:
Mike and Stone need to start taking acid and eating peyote.
Yeah, I'd be up for that. But I don't think eating peyote would be very good for Mike, dude!
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Mike plays fast and, as pointed out earlier, plays way too many notes. Which is OK sometimes. But on songs like Black and All or None, sometimes he runs out of notes in key, and tries to do his famous out of key bends, and they sound awful.
But he is a god of mine, if only because he covers the lead section so well in Pearl Jam.
Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:01 pm Posts: 492 Location: Utrecht, Holland
As for his technical abilities, I am not able to judge him. But he has his own style and plays with vigour and emotion and that is what I appreciate most in a musician.
I love his playing.
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Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:10 pm Posts: 128 Location: London, UK
Well he ain't no Clapton or Hendrix but when he nails a solo he is funf*ckingtastic
He is a little sloppy sometimes with bum notes, I lose count of the number of times he flubs the Given to Fly intro. And the All or None solo on Benoroya is very bad.
BUT
When this guy is on fire....I'm thinking Black (S.College 03 ) or All or None (studio) he is spellbinding....
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:40 am Posts: 2114 Location: Coventry
It's scary how good guitarists are. I started playing when I was 11, I'm 22 on the 20th and would be lucky just to be as good as eddie or stone!
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It's scary how good guitarists are. I started playing when I was 11, I'm 22 on the 20th and would be lucky just to be as good as eddie or stone!
hehe, i feel like sometimes too. I get that feeling more when I goto bars and I am like THESE people are better than me, what the heck is wrong with me!?
Anyway. My feelings on Mike's playing is that he is super quick and super good. However, there are times when his playing is not so impressive stylistically. For instance the solo in Don't Believe in Xmas (Showbox DVD especially) I don't feel he nails that also sometimes he goes a little two fast for some songs.
The early days when his solos were powerful and hard..that was awesome, but I certainly like his present day style, plus I think he should write more music. GTF, Brain of J and Save You are some of my favs
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:40 am Posts: 2114 Location: Coventry
Blimy, save you was by him, always wondered if it was about his previous addiction.
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Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:10 pm Posts: 2154 Location: Rio
Hallucination wrote:
It's scary how good guitarists are. I started playing when I was 11, I'm 22 on the 20th and would be lucky just to be as good as eddie or stone!
i stopped studying classic guitar after five years because i just couldn't be good enough to wipe the floor where Jimmy Page walked... i regret having stopped, not that i'd play solos any better, but because i completely forgot everything i had learned through those five years. what a waste...
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