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I listen to While My guitar..., Here Comes...., Something, and I hear someone doing, at best, an OK job.

i don't even know what to say. these songs (particularly the first two) have changed my musical life, and i love them so much that it hurts.

i'm a guitarist, and i see this all the time. unless you can play something that only an elite few can play, you are 'ok' and nothing more. its some kind of crazy sport-ethic hegemony that is creeping into music and i hate it. of course there is something to be said for having some chops, (i'm striving after it myself). but taking some simple variations on a d-chord and making something as beautiful as HCTS... i'd rather have that kind of ability than any other.

and his voice! it's so beautiful to me  but, alas, this is all subjective... and no single artist can do it for everyone, i suppose.... but no, i don't think he is underrated.

~ missy

LOL Kev....You got things stirring.....What about Metheney, Jansch and Zappa??? They too are great in their styles Good ol Django aswell. lol
I would not call Harrison over-rated. He is where he is. That's it. Vocally I like  your point about Macca singing Something hehe! But Harrison's wavering voice is perfect for it.
What about Lennon singing Savoy Truffle?

I've heard a version of Paul doing "Something". Very nice.

But George...singing "Something" is great. He may not have the greatest voice in rock 'n' roll, but on that song...the wavery-ishness, it's perfect to me.

I don't believe he's overrated at all. Slightly [emphasis here] underrated.

George is underrated, more then half the world probably didn't know he existed untill he died.



He truly was a Dark Horse, he would make Papa Polk proud.

Comparing George, Clapton, Hendrix, Eddie, Townshend, Yngwie, whoever, is comparing apples to chainsaws.  Different styles, different equipment, different times.  George had a great sense of melody and timing. Listen to the subtle 'painting' he does on songs like 'Strawberry Fields' or 'Baby You're a Rich Man', or on "Pepper", he provided great fills, even from the beginning, the solo on 'Till There Was You' is intricate and excellent. Also, the Beatles weren't a band that focused on one particular member and their chops. Every band Clapton was in focused on his guitar playing for the most part. Hendrix-goes without saying. George did a wonderful job. I think 'Let It Down' from ATMP is one of the greatest underrated songs ever.

Harrison is very Underrated..and thats because of people like kevin who say he's overrated

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I think 'All Things Must Pass' is pretty close to a masterpiece and easily the greatest Beatle solo effort out there.

Yep.

Also, don't forget the influence he had with introducing the sitar, the 12-string Rickenbacker--there wouldn't have been a Byrds if it weren't for this one guitar alone. The backwards solos-he would play a solo that he wanted to record backwards, listen to it backwards, and then memorize it and play it forward so the backward recording turned out just so. No easy feat (if any of that made sense). He took a dive into electronic music. He was 'cutting edge' (there's that phrase again) all the way, even if he didn't get 1/2 the credit he deserved/deserves.

yes he is alittle bit overated,

johns solo work is better

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yes he is alittle bit overated,

johns solo work is better

I agree with the second line

George is NOT overrated. He had been very underrated both in the Beatles, and in his solo carreer as well. He had a great talent that was not really esteemed.