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rapidsurfer6 said:McAfee is actually a solid choice for the average user.

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gentlepuma20 said:😍
Slayer has the best solos 👋

Man, seeing Slayer live at the arena back in '98... if I didn't die of pure boredom then, I never will.
Let's put together a list of the most overrated metal bands of all time:

1-Metallica
2-Slayer
3-Mayhem
4-Cannibal Corpse
5-Deicide (Legion is decent, but the rest... ugh!)

dustycanyon6 said:Norton Personal Firewall

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Karen Sanchez19 said:LOL... Chrome hasn't even existed for three years:

Did Mozilla just switch over to Chrome?

Give me a break,
this guy was using Internet Explorer until just recently.😁

Woe said:Anyway, I used to watch MTV Unplugged back when it wasn't as trashy as it is today. They had Satriani and Stevie Ray Vaughan on in one episode. I honestly think right after that session, SRV passed away. He basically ate Sach alive. Look, Sach is great—he pushes technical boundaries, he’s come up with tons of cool licks, and he’s musical—but he doesn't know how to actually *create* something real. During that set, he played "May This Be Love" and you just can't compare him to Hendrix, especially since he messed up while trying to sing. You really feel that difference in pressure on an acoustic, and in that moment, Vaughan came as close to Hendrix as he ever did.
Man, Sach once said his main cultural activity is watching cartoons. Meanwhile, Jimi was out there jumping out of planes and had a massive dick, immortalized in plaster.
You think there's no connection? Oh, there's definitely a connection...

Hmm, I've got a massive dick and I watch cartoons. Maybe I should switch to being a guitarist; my future would be totally secured. ☕

That looks terrible on you. Sach made a massive mistake thinking he could actually sing and churn out those little tunes of his 🤣

It’s just pure misery. Especially when Vai joins in 🤣

Nicholas Perez33 said:Man, you're acting like part psychologist, part sociologist here.🙏 🙏 🙏

Look, I'm just an avatar—you finally realized where you stand, didn't you? Just bow down, listen, keep your mouth shut, and stop overthinking things, because honestly, it’s not getting you anywhere. It’s not even about how many idiots are out there; it’s the fact that everyone thinks their opinion actually matters.☕

Nicholas Perez33 said:Honestly, unlike some of these guys, Hendrix actually has real talent. ☕

The media has been hyping him up for ages, and now, suddenly, everyone’s acting like he's some kind of saint. If the press put half as much effort into inflating Mecalipine as they do now, they’d probably be swearing by his name instead of Hendrix.

Temptations ☕

Hendriks has zero talent; he’s just high on LSD and has a fried brain. 👍

Nicholas Perez33 said:You’re comparing music to sports? Honestly, that’s such a weak argument. 🙂

I’ve tried comparing apples to oranges before, but this is something else entirely. Sure, art is a unique beast, but at the end of the day, every single discipline relies on the same fundamental pillars: raw talent and hard work.

Technique alone just makes you a decent craftsman, not an artist. But honestly, if you have all the talent and ideas in the world but don't back them up with the best possible technology and knowledge available today, you’re only hitting half your potential. You really need both to make something great. 👍

Look at science the same way you look at art. You’ve got those visionary geniuses who can push boundaries and pull ideas out of thin air that nobody else has ever even dreamed of—it's pure creative inspiration. Then, on the flip side, you’ve got the "reproducers"—people who have mastered everything currently known to man, but haven't contributed a single original thought to the field.

Look, even if someone has a killer idea, they still need to actually know their stuff. Knowledge is everything.

I mean... look, not every physicist is going to be an Einstein, but even a genius needs to master their basic multiplication and division tables before they start running around chasing wild fantasies. 🤣

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Amanda Fowler64 said:Satriani basically swears by Hendrix. Miles Davis was a huge fan. Even Prince has been studying him to this day...

So who can actually be an inspiration for Sach? It’s not just Hendrix; there are plenty of other names cited who are objectively much worse than him (though comparing artists is always a bit of a gray area).

The guitar is a relatively young instrument, so you can only really draw from what was available when you started playing. While Sach brought his own unique flavor to the table and pushed boundaries himself, maybe Hendrix did that first on a larger scale—so in a broad historical sense, sure, Hendrix might be "bigger." But if you ignore all that context and just hand a recording of both players to someone who is already a world-class guitarist—someone who doesn't know their history, their era, or their personal style—I honestly think they’d walk away concluding that Satriani is leagues ahead of H-a. 😎

rustymaker60 said:I’ll give myself a pass since I’m a woman—I actually really loved Malmsteen.😍

Nobody is saying he's bad, just that he's a total goofball.🤣

Man, I was listening to this recording from a flight once... I think someone spilled something on him, or maybe it was a flight attendant or a reporter who provoked him... I mean, the reactions were wild... 😂

Just like, "F***ing hell, I will unleash the fucking fury..." something along those lines.🤣

Nicholas Perez33 said:Yeah, technically he's the most shreddy, but creatively he just butchers everything. Anyone who spends ten hours a day obsessing over etudes just to try and become the next Malmsteen actually will become him. Thank God, because besides those heavy metal guys worshipping Malmsteen, nobody takes him seriously.

Malmsteen has raw talent, but for some reason, he’s stuck in this one specific era. You can't say the same for Satriani, Mecalipine, and the rest.

As for Vaia, you could argue that—strictly based on my taste, obviously—his music lacks soul and I'm not a fan of his style, but you can't really claim he's some stylistically limited metalhead. They've evolved way beyond their roots, even if you can still hear where they came from.

Or, like stefanofski so eloquently told a journalist during an interview about guitarists: you have to realize that the best guitar players should be sought out in metal.👍

To me, these arguments are incredibly shallow.
Whether we're talking about guitar, any other instrument, sports, or science: you get out exactly what you put in.

Of course, someone practicing ten hours a day isn't going to be on the same level as someone just jamming occasionally with friends, just like Filipovic isn't going to be on the same level as a hobbyist.

And that has absolutely nothing to do with melodic sensibility or having good ideas. A person can have great ideas without being technical, or vice versa. One doesn't automatically imply the other. It's just like how people who want to be musicians but refuse to practice love to philosophize just to justify their own laziness under the guise of "creativity."

If you're a professional musician, you have to put in the work and refine your craft. You can't just strum three chords, act cool, and go through that adolescent phase of acting like you're too deep for the grind.

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Mcnuggetdistorzion said:Metalheads—especially those 80s hair metal guitarists—are totally gay. Just give us some punk instead. 🙂 🙂

Maybe they are, but man, they can actually shred. 🤣

Drito Konj said:I’m honestly stunned by this comment. It’s coming from someone who clearly thinks they know everything about music. 🤣

I really want to believe you're smarter than the replies you're posting here...🙄
Honestly, I couldn't care less what you think. For you, this forum is just a stage to prove how great you are. For me, it isn't!

Merry Christmas!☕

Nicholas Perez33 said:😂 😂 😂

And what's supposed to be funny about that? 😛

Back then, guitars were just "it." They were everywhere—massive popularity, music where the guitar was front and center—so you had these fanatics who would spend entire days just practicing.

Like Sach said, today's guitarists are lazy; people don't really put in that kind of effort anymore. 😉

It's simply not the vibe anymore. Guitarist virtuosity isn't the trend it used to be, and it's unlikely we'll see those kinds of players popping up again...
On top of that, kids spend way too much time in front of a computer to think watching fingers scramble over some piece of wood is the greatest thrill in life. 😂

It's also true that, generally speaking, some of the best bassists came out of the jazz and funk scenes. Of course, those aren't hard rules and there are plenty of exceptions, but that's the broad reality. 😛

darkjackal70 said:it keeps crashing on me here and there...

if Safari crashes,
when you restart it, it asks if you want to restore all the pages you had open.
having that feature when I've got over 20 tabs open means everything to me.😁

Congress said:It's pretty wild that one of the top fusion guitarists out there right now, Nguyen Le, dropped an album called "Purple" back in 2002 featuring his takes on Hendrix classics. In one interview, he actually mentioned that Hendrix's playing style is still a massive mystery to him, and this album was just his first attempt at cracking the code: "Music Has its Gods, and Jimi Hendrix is One of them". It’s funny how a jazz musician who grinds on the guitar for 12 hours a day still struggles to pin down Hendrix's technique, yet here in the States, we've got every kid who's been playing for five years acting like they're twice as good as Hendrix.

Can't blame him for not being a Metalhead🤣

rustymaker60 said:yeah, this whole thing about Hendrix is definitely a bit much
🤔A bit?

Honestly, I think all this hype surrounding Hendrix is basically just a musical urban legend. In my humble opinion—which might be totally wrong—there were better guitarists both before and after him. But maybe none of them were quite as influential.

You have to look at things in the context of the era. The electric guitar was still evolving during Hendrix's time, and I feel like it really hit its peak in the eighties with guys like Satriani, Vai, and that whole crew, with all that heavy metal shredding and whatnot...

So, you'll see someone like Satriani cite Hendrix as one of his idols, even though he completely outplayed him, just like everyone else did to his own heroes. But then again, without those legends, we wouldn't have Sacha or many others. Who else would they have had to learn from?

The real question isn't whether someone can be (technically) better than Hendrix. That’s not even a real concern for a serious guitarist—you know, a pro who spends their days in the studio practicing, rather than some guy getting wasted with his band for days on end, dreaming of fame after a two-hour rehearsal 😁 ). That doesn't take away from Hendrix's greatness, his originality, or whatever else he brought to the table.

Maybe, in the end, 😳 🤣 😛

ari peka nikkola said:😂 🙂

and all that stuff, I'm not gonna sit here and listen to it.

Well, not everyone does, but there are definitely some people out there who actually pull it off. 😁

Yeah, I know a few guys who could probably outplay 95% of the local scene and 80% of the global stage, yet nobody has ever heard their names.

Why? Let me try to be objective here... though this is just my take, and I'm certainly no expert on how the industry works...

First off, there's the law of the market. They don't play mainstream stuff, and they aren't looking to sell out. Plus, we're just too small of a market for anyone to make a decent living from music unless they're a massive superstar.

Then there's "market control."
A few big players—think the major labels or those huge industry cliques—basically get together and decide which trends, genres, and artists are going to be pushed during any given era. It makes it tough to go independent, though not impossible.

Third, there's a genuine shortage of musicians. There might be a couple of geniuses out there, but you need more than two people to actually build something. There's either a total lack of professional studio musicians, or you have to pay them a fortune. As for finding bandmates at a high enough level—considering some of these fanatics would practice twelve hours a day without even noticing—people usually end up quitting every project, even if it's music they personally love.

Okay, that's the objective side of things, but there's also the subjective part...

First—they aren't hungry enough for success. They’d rather sacrifice fame to play what they want for their own pleasure instead of pivoting to fit the market. On top of that, they don't really have that drive to put themselves out there or prove themselves to the world.

Second—musical skill is one thing, but stage presence and connecting with an audience is another. That communication is just as vital, and often even more important, especially for musicians who live for the live show.

Et cetera, et cetera. It's getting late and I'm tired of overthinking it. 😁