(July 4, 2015 at 9:43 am)Dystopia Wrote: I don't know what you mean by "one's a serious artist", arguably I could say Kurt Cobain was bad because he was an average guitar player, songs were simplistic and lyrics sometimes didn't make sense
That's the point of grunge, though: to take it away from guitar-hero virtuosos and bring it back into kids' garages and warehouse parties. I'm pretty sure that's what Cobain meant when he said he couldn't surpass the Unplugged performance: that he could never achieve that musical connection to that degree again. The art isn't in clocking notes-per-minute like Yngwie (who I would love to rape with his own guitar), it's in relating musically to other humans beings-- cuz SOMEONE is supposed to be listening.
Why isn't Yngwie considered the greatest metal musician? It's because he fails to communicate feelings-- he lets his technical perfection get in the way of actually expressing anything. Cobain didn't, imo.
