Quote Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P
i once got into this loooooooooong debate with this white dude who said metallicas guitar player is way better than carlos santana and jimi hendrix combined.

this dude was one of them ignorant/racist guys who seriously thought white people are just plain better end of story.

so he seriously thought metallica kicks santana and hendrixs asssssss in guitar or shall we say metal up their asses
I think IGNORANT is the most appropriate adjective. To play devils advocate, Kirk Hammett is playing in a completely different idiom. This guy was apparently a metal-head, but Darrell Abbott or Alex Skolnik blows Hammett out of the water in the metal-scene.
I love metal, and an abundance of other forms of music, but Hammett, IMHO, can't hold a candle to the creative maverick of James Marshall Hendrix. In terms of the Santana, and the Hendrix for that matter, it's like comparing apples to oranges. They are coming from very different disciplines and styles.
It's like comparing Picasso's cubist period to Jackson Pollak - it just doesn't make any sense.