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Originally Posted by mr dave
while i obviously hurt your feelings by crapping on RATM and claiming they made their music for a specific adolescent demographic. i really do think they're a crap band (is having a view that differs from yours really trolling?).
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No but saying crap about a band on their own thread and insulting anyone that disagrees with you is.
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i also really think tom morello is a crap guitar player. take away his solos and what do you have? a pissed off version of the 80s era red hot chili peppers?
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The solo in Settle for Nothing, listen to it and tell me that.
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a funked up sabbath riff? his work with audioslave was equally boring and his solos usually sound forced and out of place within the context of the song. he said it himself in interviews that he should probably just have been playing a synth but it didn't look as cool.
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Oh I geert it, hez a bad geetarist cuz he dur makes sounds dat aint supposered to com out of a geetar, ughhhh
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admittedly the work he's accomplished with his effects is impressive but does it really make him a good guitarist? or just an innovative sound manipulator? could he really distinguish himself if you just gave him an acoustic guitar and said 'GO!' ?
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Funny, thats what I thought a good guitarist was. Not just some muso who wanks his f*cking ass off.
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as for being contrived their message always seemed too forced to me. it was like theused2Lguy's threads about 'educating' people about foxnews. their music always struck me as 'don't do what they want you to do, do what i'm telling you to do', which does strike me as contrived. screaming about disney while being signed to sony seemed a little off to me.
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I like them more for the music and the energy of their performances and the conviction of La Rochas vocals, I respect their political views but I don't always agree with them, particularly their leanings toward Marxism.
And I think Morello gave a pretty reasonable justification for them being signed to sony. I mean if you want people to hear your message then why not use the biggest platform you can find?
And even if its about money I don't really care, everyone wants money.