>>126879633
>>mediocre guitar player
>>never bothered putting any effort into his playing or his songwritting
>>came in the studio with the mothers with half assed ideas, and expected everyone else to collaborate
>>most of the stuff he made is absolute filler trash
>>only ever started getting good by the end of the mothers, but even then never applied himself at all
>>his best album is a handful of good songs among a sea of filler and terribly overproduced
>>pushed that lame steve vai bullshit, never even bothering to learn how to play it properly
>>his solos are awful
>>whiny bitch who threatened to quit whenever people didn't do what he wanted
>>would have been a complete nobody if he wasn't in the mothers to begin with

or you can be self-taught like this guy and have terrible mechanics and still play brilliant solos. but you have to be brilliant first.