Which Guitarist squandered their talent the most?
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Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Danny Gatton
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
Being murdered didn’t help.
But yeah. LA and addiction has always been an especially nasty combo.
Machinegunner
fancy sound-measuring doodad
Danny Kirwan is up there.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Pete Willis
High and Dry is my favorite Def Leppard album... and they were on a rising rocket ship... but Pete's struggle with the bottle left him on planet Earth and he got replaced by Phil Collen who is realistically the superior guitar player. When you're in a Gold->Platinum selling band, that's a shit time to become a foot note.
High and Dry is my favorite Def Leppard album... and they were on a rising rocket ship... but Pete's struggle with the bottle left him on planet Earth and he got replaced by Phil Collen who is realistically the superior guitar player. When you're in a Gold->Platinum selling band, that's a shit time to become a foot note.
DinoMikeSr
I have the box
Cobain.
GusChiggins
Worried about coyotes
Vito Bratta could have made/sold a ton of instrumental albums.
MonkeyZero
Mexican Mayonnaise Weiner Sandwich
John Denver
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Both of their original guitar players could not get past the bottle. At least Willis is still alive.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
I suppose they're two different case studies of alcohol abuse.... one crashed and burned early, and is no longer famous, but alive.... and the other took the ride all the way to the top and then died after their peak.
Steve's story is tragic while Pete's is more relevant to the OP.
Pine Apple Slim
Armchair Expert
I have to go with a kid I knew back in high school in the mid 70s
Could burn up a 335, played on the Grand Ol Opry when he was 12.
By the time he was out of high school he was wasting his life away on booze and playing shtty country at the VFW 5 nights a week.
Thats as far as he went.
Could burn up a 335, played on the Grand Ol Opry when he was 12.
By the time he was out of high school he was wasting his life away on booze and playing shtty country at the VFW 5 nights a week.
Thats as far as he went.
Motorik
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Recorded 2 great albums , and then wasted his thirties on pathological substance abuse and letting down a succession of friendly people trying to help him (often losing them a lot of money) and no music to show for it.
Jimmy Bryant is another one who squandered tremendous talent.