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Who is the worst guitarist you've seen live?

WHO IS IT? Does that lass out of the ting tings even play guitar?



  • And they use backing tapes on stage!!!!!111

    • Really?

      And I thought their studio production was bad enough..

    • Paul Kossoff from Free

      I saw the late Paul Kossoff jamming with John Martyn - he was so drunk he couldn't stand, let alone play.

      • Poor old John

        he can't stand at all anymore :(

        He was great on some youtube vids I was browsing through though. May You Never: waht a song!

      • I'm sorry but

        Paul Kossoff is one of Britain's greatest ever guitarists. Though you probably saw him in 75' which means he was on his way out.

        • Not disputing he was a great guitarist

          I love his work with Free.
          But the question was, who was the worst guitarist you've seen live - and it was Kossoff. As you say, it was 1975 and he was just terrible. Apparently, John Martyn had fights with him during the tour because of his behaviour.

          • John Martyn did an interview

            on this very subject recently.

            He clearly has a great affection for Kossoff but I think he battered fuck oot him a few times when they were pissed.

            Which was often.

          • ahh sorry

            that's a true shame, he really did end up fucked. Being one of my favourite guitarists its terrible to hear stories like this. He's quite overlooked and under appreciated as well, but I'm 99% certain that at the end of Kasabian's video for Processed Beats his face appears momentairly. Could be wrong though..

  • ...

    Theoretical Girl.

    After finding out they got paid £50 for a gig, I offered to try and get the promoter his money back. Probably using shame and violence.

    • oh god

      they were SHITE.

      • hahaha

        But they're CAMDEN COOL.

  • omar from the mars volta

    he's part awesome, part terrible.
    some of his improv lines are awful.

    • Anyone

      Who's haircut costs more than their guitar usually winds me up.... I've seen some really good guitarists, so the bad ones tend to get edged out of the memory. But the funniest thing I saw was 4 years ago.I stumbled into a soundcheck whilst waiting for a mate in a bar the guitar player out of a certain British indie band was playing a Fender Jaguar reissue through a really hi gain modern metal style amp and it was making a terrible noise & he wondered why it was feeding back and screaming and rather than work out that his single coil pickups were not reacting well to loads of fizzy metal distortion he complained to the soundman and told him off & said that it was his fault. That was the most entertaining part of the evening. I did try to explain to him why it was happening, but he was having non of it.

      • do you work in a guitar shop?

        muso.

        • knowing about stuff sux!!!111111

          yeheh1h11!!

  • ...

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=aiXR9ggRdFI

    Please note, I've never actually seen him live.

    • I hate Vai

      Although the PIL album he did is really good, but I hate his other stuff.

      Thats what I think this will turn into though and indieboys bashing people who play solo's trip. I'm off

      • I don't have a problem with solos

        I fucking love Ron Ashton, Tom Verlaine, Wata to name but three, all of whom play pretty extended guitar solos. But it's never just fret runs, scales and jacking off their whammy bar, which is what I have a problem with. Someone like Vai seems so absorbed with this muso wanking that he's completely incapable of actually getting a good sound out of his guitar.

    • Anybody Else

      Watched this and was instantly reminded of the "my solo's are my trademark" bit from Spinal Tap

  • that scarey

    looking guy out of Babyshambles.

    He was REALLY straining with his barr chords

  • that bird out

    the long blondes or the bass player from CSS

  • The girl from Those Dancing Days

    seriously awful. Like the most untalented guitarist I've ever seen.

  • It almost pains me to say it...

    ...given the reputation he's acquired for his sixties stuff, but Davey Graham is an absolute shambles these days. I saw him at the Spitz a couple of years ago and people were basically applauding him for turning up, but he was just all over the place. Sad really.

    Oh, and John Squire the one time I saw the Stone Roses (1995 tour) - awful sub-Jimmy Page fretwank. I'm sure that's not technically the "worst", but probably the most self-indulgent.

    • fred durst

      anyone seen that fuckin terrible solo from the finsbury park gig?!

      • Kerry King

        love Slayer but the bloke's a pain in the ears

      • lol

        that 'shredding' is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

  • Probably me

    it's a shock I'm allowed to play it in front of people!

  • First thing I thought of when I saw the title was

    TING TINGS! I think the fact that 'indie' now has mime performers means its the lowest form of music.

  • your mum

  • Ben Kweller

    supporting Travis. That was a grim evening...

  • The guy in

    Prinzhorn Dance School. He plays nothing tricky yet still he fails even then.

    • he's got a very deadpan face though

    • Madonna

      Playing a black Les Paul during some nu metal workout of one of her tracks on TV recently...
      Oh, and I hate to say it, but Cobain's use of that ridiculous flanger effect during 'Aneurysm' when they're playing that mega-gig in Argentina on 'live tonight sold out' is piss funny.

  • calvin harris

    i still have no idea what he does in his songs, and by his songs i mean covers, and by covers i mean other peoples work in which he's told some guys to play some trumpets and get's someone to sing the song.

    seriously, what does he actuallly do?

    • the Indieverse just imploded

    • You mean Mark Ronson.

      Not Calvin Harris, he's the one that want's to bone yourgirlfriend whilst dizzee rascal watches yank him self to high heaven

      • im a lil drunk

        and harris was on the telly doin nothing in the dizzeeee song. live performance, harris miming. shit.

        but i did mean ronson. thank you. now please explain to me what he does. please

        • the rest of you post was

          accurate fuck all is the answer

        • Mark Ronson's...

          basically an arranger. Nothing wrong with that in itself, there's plenty of songwriters who made their names doing arrangements for other people's songs. He's a bit shit, though.

          And regarding Calvin Harris, I guess he's not really solved the conundrum of how to perform electronic music live and make it a compelling performance.

  • Emma Chaplin

    From The Long Blondes... can she play guitar.. at all? I like the band... but she is just... worreing.

    • God, I remember being at the front with them supporting

      She looked at some diagrams on the floor, played maybe three chords for approximately 30 seconds per song, it was awful. The band were good but I feel bad for Dorian who must have to hold everything together.

  • me

    • 80s B Line Matchbox Thingy

      I quite liked them on record but at a festival years back the guitarist thought he was Johnny Rotten, even played like him.

      • He always seems to be

        utterly wasted on substances or booze. When he plays without being too overcooked on shit then he is not too bad.

  • fast forward to 2.10

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbRR5Ce46Q
    sounds like someone at a party who doesn't really know what to play.

  • that guy from the enemy;

    is it tom? so simple and terrible riffs

  • about 2:35 in to this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzBjatkVtzY

    Yes I was actually there!
    I wasn't really.

    • that's the worst thing ever

      like a school band.
      worse than crazytown doing 'new noise'.
      and what's with the guitar wank face?!

    • that

      is totally unbelievable!!!

    • yeah!!!!

      ROCK ON.

  • richey james

    was by all accounts (including his) a completely inept guitarist. but boy did he look the part

    • ^^^^

      Saw Richie in the Manics loads of time - he really just looked all nilistic and wasted no guitaring whatsoever

      • Dan you got there before me

        I was going to say me!

    • there's some reading footage

      where richy's guitar is mixed really loud and james' guitar is dead guitar.
      mtv sometimes uses it.

      you can see james busting out a solo but all you can hear is richy playing one chord very, very badly.

      • Richey from Manics

        The worst and also the best, the gig at Rock City ended when he jumped into the audience. Proper rock and roll.

  • Jay-Z

    At Glastonbury lol

  • The worst

    • Someone beat me to it

      Damn

    • i still think

      alot of people dont actually understand the 'shreds' videos?

      you actually think thats steve vai playing dont you?

  • mike watt

    playing bass with j mascis and the fog

    • Pete Doherty

      arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.