Originally Posted by: jiujitsu_jesusWhat about "In This River"? It was a nice, reflective little piano ballad - until Zakk came in with his ridiculously overdriven lead guitar and ruined it with some re-hashed, heavy metal-style pentatonic shredding. Dave Mustaine's focus is indeed fairly narrow, but Zakk's isn't all that much wider; and, IMHO, Dave plays better music within that focus, for want of a better phrase (it's five'o'clock AM over here! :o ). I prefer Dave's solos to Zakk's - and, hell, if Zakk could play rhythm guitar half as well as Dave, the Black Label Society would be a much better band!

Your definition of "nice, reflective" seems to match mine for "tacky, exploitive."


Not to say that I'm right and your wrong, but to illustrate the absolutely subjective nature of this topic or any similar one to it.