Most Unpopular Opinions About Lindsey

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Originally Posted by TomBanks147

He has said that his gibson was giving him problems with fingerpicking and that he wasn't going to give up and use a pick because playing with his fingers is his style.

I think it was more a case of the sound of the Les Paul wasn't defined enough to cut through the drums and bass as much as he needed. Les Paul's are great lead guitars but are very muddy sounding as rhythm instruments. Combine this with a fingerpicking style with multiple note strikes in a short amount of time and what you get is a sonic mess. Les Pauls are fine to fingerpick interms of hand position because you do get good clearance with the picking hand, unlike say a Strat.

Originally Posted by TomBanks147

It's totally generic and predictable. There are THOUSANDS of guitarists that strum chords out. Lindsey's style is a rarety.

Well that is your opinion. I wouldn't say David Gilmour or Hendrix or Clapton was generic and predictable. I would say the thousands of players that have copied the style are the generic ones. As Sheryl Crow wrote "You're an original baby, turn around and you're lookin at a hundred more."