Great musicians, lousy band

[Sleek]

It happens to an extent in metal too, even though musicianship is generally more important at the start. Who would seriously take the last 3 Maiden albums over the first 3? Or Generation Swine + Saints over Too Fast + SATD.

With a lot of bands, there is a point where they stop just doing whatever comes out naturally and start TRYING to sound like themselves. That's usually when they become intolerable. Iron Maiden TRYING to sound like Iron Maiden is not Iron Maiden.

That's also when they start saying dumb shit like: "It's going to be like Destroyer" or "It's going to be like SATD."

Nobody TRYING to make any of those albums would have made those albums, and nobody who is trying to can. The self-conscious return to form never happens.

[Dyslexicheart]

All the bands that had a "shredder" from Mike Varney's Guitar Player Magazine column. Your Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine, Greg Howe - all that shit. None of them had a clue how to write a good song.

[Metal Sludge]

Poison

Oh no! They all sucked as musicians, and performers, on Look What The Cat Dragged In. Now we all loved it and it was cool for what it was. There's no explaining that, it was just awesome.
But they got progressively better, pretty quick.
This was the opposite. Great band, lousy musicians!

[Rocker4Real]

Poison loses their identity when good musicians like Kotzen join the band.

[FreddyFender]

Winger at least had a male-stripper front man to appeal to the girls who went to Chippendales (and closet guys on Metal Sludge).

The only thing Mr. Big had going for them was the tapping. Lots of tapping. Songs that were entirely tapping. The Japanese lost their minds.