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Originally Posted by Chauncy
Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion
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Oh come on. I am a HUGE Bad Religion fan, and have seen them play live twenty times going back to 1989 on the No Control tour. But to call Brett a great guitarist is just silly. I think even he would laugh if he was reading this. Call him a great songwriter yes, a great businessman, sure. But he was merely a competent guitarist. I did love the fact that on the older BR albums one could easily distinguish his sloppier playing style from Hetson's, something that is kind of lost when Brain Baker plays live with Hetson and you almost can't distinguish their two guitar sounds. But that being said, I wouldn't call Brett a great guitar playing by any other more objective standard. Since he re-joined BR a few years ago his playing actually got worse from lack of practice. Looks like he was just barely getting through the songs on his last few tv appearances. So yeah, I love the guy but let's not go overboard with praise!