Comments on: The 10 Most Underrated Rhythm Guitarists #4: Izzy Stradlin

By: Kevin Woerner

Kevin Woerner — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 19:50:30 +0000

I hate to say I have to disagree about Izzy Stradlin only because he is not a rythem guitarist a rythem guitarist only plays rythem Izzy also plays some lead and solos but for being underrated most definitely but as a all round guitarist

By: joseph anetz

joseph anetz — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 21:23:58 +0000

how do you find the tempo of a song if not shown?

By: hendarto

hendarto — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 08:24:21 +0000

In reply to Kev. You're correct, brother.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 01 May 2016 20:28:21 +0000

In reply to Tom.

Izzy was on the right on the first 4 tracks on Lies, because those 4 tracks came from an EP (Live Like A Suicide) they did before AFD. In their early demos, and on Live Like A Suicide, Izzy was on the right, and from AFD onwards he was always on the left channel. Not sure why they switched sides, I guess it just sounded better that way.

Also kudos for pointing out the mistake in this article. Izzy is indeed the one who plays the lead guitar part in the main riff of Brownstone. Almost everyone assumes that Slash played every single lead guitar part on every single Gn’R song ever made. That’s not true. Izzy played a lot of lead guitar. The part mentioned in Brownstone, he plays the melody in the intro to Jungle, he plays the first part of the main solo in Nightrain, he plays all lead in Think About You, he plays the lead during the verses in Rocket Queen and Move To The City, he plays the intro lead guitar on Back Off Bitch etc. That’s why Slash was always credited as “lead and rhythm guitar” and Izzy was credited as “rhythm and lead guitar”.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 01:42:56 +0000

Agree with Kev. I was digging the article, until I realized you had it wrong on Brownstone. Actually Izzy is always on the left, except for the first four tracks of ‘GNR Lies’, where he is on the right for some reason. Nice points in the article though. I always thought Izzy was the much cooler rhythm player than Slash. Not a knock on Slash though, as I think Izzy is the coolest rhythm player ever.

By: Kev

Kev — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 01:39:12 +0000

100% wrong on Brownstone, Izzy plays the other part in the main riff. Wear headphones, lisyen to AFD, Izzy is always on the left. Great article otherwise.