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Best guitarists in punk

gabi said:
Ahh, the music forum is soooooo much more chilled now the 'big man' has left, innit? Infinitely so...

Anyway, i agree mick jones as far as a composer for the g - however, i stand by prev choice of billie joe armstrong for pure technique. from all the players ive seen live hes unrivalled. Technically.
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Gabi please take over and be the Daddie, B Smith of music you've got much better taste and a more winning nature than the "old daddy" God bless him.:)
 
brianx said:
Gabi please take over and be the Daddie, B Smith of music you've got much better taste and a more winning nature than the "old daddy" God bless him.:)
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Keep lickin son, he'll be back soon.. ;)
 
SpookyFrank said:
I think he's still vaguely on tour with the dammed, saw them on one of the random stages at glastonbury in 2003 when all the chumps were watching radiohead twiddle with their laptops.
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that was a good gig.
i was slightly terrified by all the overweight balding punks throwing each other about but I piled on in there when they played 'looking at you'
i saw them a few weeks ago and they were worse than shite im afraid.

for me the best punk rock guitarist is sid vicious.
i know he was a bassist and couldn't play for toffee but no one 'did' punk rock better than sid for me ;)
 
Pavlik said:
for me the best punk rock guitarist is sid vicious.
i know he was a bassist and couldn't play for toffee but no one 'did' punk rock better than sid for me ;)
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Um yeh, he was a bassist.

Best punk maybe, but er. he was a bassist... :p
 
John McGeoch - In later PIL he had to play Steve Vai parts as well as Keith Levines.

Captain Sensible is good

Billy Duffy, most underrated guitarist ever IMHO
 
more punk rock than the rest of them put together
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D.Boon never used a pick did he?

Dunno if he still does it but apparently Jad Fair would just buy or borrow a cheapo guitar in whatever town he was playing in and use it without tuning it or anything like that. There were probably some decidedly iffy sounding shows but it's a proper punk rock thing to do.
 
copliker said:
D.Boon never used a pick did he?

Dunno if he still does it but apparently Jad Fair would just buy or borrow a cheapo guitar in whatever town he was playing in and use it without tuning it or anything like that. There were probably some decidedly iffy sounding shows but it's a proper punk rock thing to do.
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Pity he's got a singing voice that sounds like ocelots are chewing his scrotum, then. :)
 
Pavlik said:
I never miss the point. I just make my own point.
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In which case your point is rendered irrelevant by the fact that Iggy did the whole "punk as fuck" self-abuse schtick years before John Ritchie of Tonbridge Wells. :p
 
James Taylor.




















:mad: :D you :eek: pious twats should be ashamed to mention quality anything around a punk band. It was about being casually fantastic and never 'look at me' except in irony.
 
teahead said:
James Taylor.




















:mad: :D you :eek: pious twats should be ashamed to mention quality anything around a punk band. It was about being casually fantastic and never 'look at me' except in irony.
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So the rules of "punk" are carved in stone, are they, with definitions about what you have to be?
Piss off, you saddo smurf-felching purist art-wank goat-fondler! :D
 
northernhord said:
He was shite, a one string wonder to be sure:)
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Perhaps Pavlik is one of the "live fast, die young" school that idolise the supposed "performance art" inherent in his fucked up life?

Then again, given that Sid was a smackhead, "live fast" is just about the least likely thing he'd do as he nodded out. ;)
 
A thread like this is always going to get bogged down in 'what counts and what doesn't count' as evinced by the very early Husker Du exchange.

There was some interesting stuff going on with Fugazi and NOFX deserve an honourable mention, I'd say.

Assuming that counts.
 
8ball said:
A thread like this is always going to get bogged down in 'what counts and what doesn't count' as evinced by the very early Husker Du exchange.
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Wouldn't be so bad if teahead's definition wasn't so easily provable to be nonsense.
I mean, hello, most of the 1st-wave of (Southern) punk bands weren't "casually fantastic", they were (anti)-style obsessed and shaped their lyrics to shock. Nothing casual about it.
There was some interesting stuff going on with Fugazi and NOFX deserve an honourable mention, I'd say.

Assuming that counts.
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It does in my book. As I've said in this thread and every other that raises this hoary question, in my opinion "punk" is an attitude, not a sound. Punk is as punk does.
 
ViolentPanda said:
Perhaps Pavlik is one of the "live fast, die young" school that idolise the supposed "performance art" inherent in his fucked up life?

Then again, given that Sid was a smackhead, "live fast" is just about the least likely thing he'd do as he nodded out. ;)
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Living life in the crawler Lane:D
 
I've always though that arguing about what's punk and what isn't, isn't really very punk. ;)

It always just reminds be of people who ask you what music you like, you say punk and they say oh I used to be a punk/in to punk and start taking crap.:D
 
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