Nothing to Say is a dark horse favorite of mine.  A guilty pleasure because I don't own much of that kind of music, but that does rock.

polluxlm wrote:

RaZor wrote:

A guy I used to work with was a classically trained drummer, really into jazz, fusion, and prog rock. He hated Slash with a passion. In his words, ”that guy is terrible. Terrible!”. He then he went into a monologue about how he plays off key.

Now I don't know dick about music, other than I know that some I like and some I don't. I really like what Slash does. In fact I have almost 200 songs by him on my iPod, in a playlist I've since named ”terrible, TERRIBLE”.

But I wonder, is what my ex coworker said true? And if it is, why does it sound so good?

It's fact folks:

He complimented the guitar riff, but questioned the construction of the solo. "It just seems like Slash decided to play in A-minor or whatever key he wanted instead of doing what might be best for the song." - Dizzy Reed on Slither

So what do you think about that? Do you like what he did on Slither? Do you think it sounds good and goes well with the sound despite the key?

My response to my coworker was, ”who cares if it sounds good?”  To which he responded that bring off key never sounds good.

I thought this was odd because Slash sounds great to me, and it's weird that a jazz guy would not like it just because Slash broke a musical rule since jazz is all about braking musical rules.