trouserrat

Stupidest comment ever. Training opens up creative doors, it doesn't close them. Technically, Eddie is clearly better than Jimi although some may prefer Jimi for innovation and pure emotion. Not that Eddie doesn't have a hell of a lot of innovation in his own right. Anyone who thinks Kirk Hammett is even in the running here has no idea what they're talking about. He had some good leads in the beginning of Metallica's career, but their strength has always rested on Hetfield's songwriting and riffs. Hammett is sloppy as hell live, uses the pentatonic scale like it's going out of style (especially most recently), and appears to have a wah pedal surgically grafted to his foot. Any argument on his behalf is purely delusional. Although discussions on guitarists on this board bring out the amateur musicians much like discussions on politics bring out the amateur politicians so it doesn't surprise me. Btw, John Petrucci and Steve Vai beat any of the guitarists mentioned anyway.