Okay.
Fact: Alexi can nail his solos in the studio but not live, which is clearly the only place his wrist affects him. Pull his dick out of your mouth, he's not even that good of a guitarist. Yes, really.
dude first of all, why the fuck are you here? you sound like a COB hater by reading all your posts here in the thread. if i hated one band, the last thing i would do would be in their fan forum, just saying
and i dont know about you, but being "good guitarrist" is far beyond being sloppy or not. yes he is sloppy, too much for my taste as well, but as a guitarwise composer, he is absolutely incredible and one of the most interesting guitars players i´ve ever heard. alexi has some magic in his solos and vision others lack. he is just only the reason i play guitar
if i wanted to hear some perfect playing without a mistake, i´d listen to guitar pro or chris broderick. music isnt about being perfect, at least for me, although i agree alexi should be less sloppy live, and although all his physical injuries he is playing complex fast playing (not some random thrash stuff) while he sings and has his guitar almost on his knees (for style so this is his fault, but anyway..)
i really think the problem with metal this days is exactly the fact guitarrists are too perfect playing guitar and are only too focus in that and when it comes to compose, they lack. their priorities are all mixed up. i just ran a bit on youtube and theres SO MANY technical players so much better than alexi, but the truth is i never listened to one creating anything so interesting like alexi (not complex, its different. complex is just a way of sounding good, gilmour can play one note and sound amazing and guys like alexi take that into account...).
for some its about impressing technically (look how amazing i am and what im capable of playing) for others its about how good of a composer (in this case translated on guitar) you are and bringing something. we all dont like/hear/play music for the same reasons.
id rather be an amazing composer translated on guitar like alexi, capable of doing nevertheless technical highly developed and interesting solos and songs in studio but being sloppy sometimes live than being a machine player doing cliche and boring music i heard before somewhere somehow (if it could be called music)
best example of this is mustaine saying broderick is better guitar player than marty friedman. i respect a lot mustaine but that makes me laugh.
but thats just me
