I never understood the Vernon Reid worship in the LC days. Solid rhythm player but his leads were (
imho) musical gibberish. I've always heard he's really a jazz guy at heart (he was big on the NY avante-garde jazz scene as well), but what I heard on that first LC album wasn't jazz, it was just garbage. A guy I used to know back in the day was Glover's guitar player in his followup project and that guy (Mike Ciro) put Reid to shame. If we're gonna talk black metal/rock players from that era, no one could stand up against Tony MacAlpine, not only was/is he an absolutely sick guitar player, he was also a classically-trained pianist (from the age of like.. 3 or something)... (only watch/listen to these if you have a guitar shred fetish. lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoggYcLGEG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0PQCw1dcAM
yup. same guy.
Greg Howe (another one of my favorite players of that era) could really kick it too, unfortunately he never really got the recognition he deserved. look how easy he makes this shit look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8AId2ltAfY
as for best all-black rock metal group... No love for Fishbone? The best punk-rock/funk/metal/ska/soul band ever!
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