Slash

DaveJames

I can't decide if Slash is overated....

Jason

it depends on what criteria...

Entertainer - No

Most important 80s guitar hero - No

Rejuvenating the Les Paul - No

Looking cool in a top hat - No

Songwriter - Yes

hollywoodrox

I’m a huge slash fanboy , well I’m actually 5’10 but you know what I mean 
  

joeyowen

I've never understood the overrated argument.
1 person likes him, cool
10 people? cool
100k? cool


Underrated is a bit different, because more people could like something if the exposure was better/increased.


Overrated? Meh, just an excuse for internet discussions 

theatreanchor

DaveJames said:

I can't decide if Slash is overated....

He’s not. 

Bye!

DaveJames

Fair enough.

DefaultM

He is in fact underrated.

axisus

I am not a huge fanboy, but the answer is still no

darthed1981

The guitarist from popular beat combo "guns and roses"?

I guess it depends if you like their entries on the hit parade!

DefaultM

I've had 5 years at music college/uni and 17 years in bands, and I've only ever met 1 person who really liked Slash. He was really obsessed with him, but I've never known anyone else even mention him really.

merlin

I think he has really helped to define U2's sound. 

Philly_Q

I've never been a huge fan of Slash himself - in the sense that I've never seen him as a "guitar hero" to me personally - but I might have felt very differently if I was just a few years younger.

I find the permanent shades and top hat kind of silly, but again if I'd been 16 rather than 23 when the band first appeared, I'd have probably thought he was super cool.

I think his solo material is OK but very run-of-the-mill.  I did love Appetite for Destruction though, played it every day for months when it came out.  And I absolutely recognise Slash's position as an iconic figure in 1980s/90s rock guitar.  

EricTheWeary

He’s done a lot to raise the profile of Stoke. 

Kilgore

I think he's over hatted.

Neilybob

hollywoodrox said:

I’m a huge slash fanboy , well I’m actually 5’10 but you know what I mean 
  

Ditto! 

darthed1981

Neilybob said:

hollywoodrox said:

I’m a huge slash fanboy , well I’m actually 5’10 but you know what I mean 
  

Ditto! 

You both clearly need hats...

LPManic

Genuinely don't think he's overrated or underrated. He is just Slash. Gibson better be paying him the big bucks.

And he clearly has a secret stash of Fenders at home. Don't lie to us Slash!

My only hot take is that his best playing is on Michael Jackson's Give in to Me.

Open_G

There is an unmistakable style and tone to both his rhythm and lead playing.He was probably the first "guitar hero" I became aware of at age 13.. He's about as Rock & Roll as they come, although that appearance was slightly dented by his appalling driving when he was on Top Gear.

LastMantra

Philly_Q said:

I've never been a huge fan of Slash himself - in the sense that I've never seen him as a "guitar hero" to me personally - but I might have felt very differently if I was just a few years younger.

I find the permanent shades and top hat kind of silly, but again if I'd been 16 rather than 23 when the band first appeared, I'd have probably thought he was super cool.

I think his solo material is OK but very run-of-the-mill.  I did love Appetite for Destruction though, played it every day for months when it came out.  And I absolutely recognise Slash's position as an iconic figure in 1980s/90s rock guitar.  

Well I would have been under 16 when I first heard appetite and I did get right into gnr for a while (just the music, not the leather trousers), but now I feel pretty much exactly how you do. 
I still like gnr but have never really got into Slash's post gnr stuff. 
He's an amazing player but it just doesn't quite have the same swagger that the original band had.

GoFish

There was a time about 15 or 20ish years ago that he looked totally past it, to me.But since then he seems to have turned  corner, shed some pounds and started actually playing again, so well done to him.

His best playing was shreddy enough for the 80s, no mean feat, but also had a melodic aspect that was capable of adding to the music. He is probably "overrated" by younger people or the generally clueless as he forms a go-to cartoony image of what a rock guitarist is and is claimed by them to be the best at this, that or the other. He's not any of that, imo, but he is a bloody good and capable guitar-playing person with his recognisable individual style.

If nothing else, he saved the top hat industry in the 80s and revitalised the playing-a-solo-on-a-mountain genre. He's the perfect, ridiculous coda to a perfectly ridiculous era of guitar gods and I love that.

digitalkettle

Open_G said:

...He's about as Rock & Roll as they come, although that appearance was slightly dented by his appalling driving when he was on Top Gear.

The aerodynamics were all wrong because they had to have the sunroof open ;-/