I can’t stand his playing. He is an abomination to the instrument. I don’t mind a little noisemaking and outside playing here and there, but when it is your principal sound, it says to me that you do not love the instrument. The stupid bravado man show off stuff is also pretty bad as nothing he does is particularly challenging. Yes I absolutely no sense of rhythm or tempo; he just plays whatever his hands will do without any sense of proportion, balance, etc. There’s nothing wrong with the shredder, if you can play your notes in tempo. There is simply an amalgam of un-unified noise that you could patch together by sampling bits and pieces of novices in GUITAR CENTER. I don’t believe the sounds are coming from his head; I think they are coming from his hands and an inflated ego that says “hey look at me, aren’t I cool?“ I also despise the fake revolutionary man he tries to be by wearing communist garb, which to me is like wearing Nazi paraphernalia, given the millions that died under the hand of the red banner.
Not a Morello fan , but he approaches in a different way to his instrument, probably he uses his whammy pedal the same way Hammett uses his wah, but has his own audience and is well respected among other guitarists, sometimes I get annoyed of this kids shredding like there is no tomorrow and I want to see something different
I'll go with Frusciante or Rory Gallagher, but still definitely appreciate Tom Morello. Between RATM and Audioslave you could not possibly ask for a better jam sesh...
