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Anonymous Fri Oct 15 10:24:12 2010 No.1207860 [Reply] [Original]

I have an interest in how people would react to things.

For instance. I'll just take some random godtiers in their field.

Literature: Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe
Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson
Actor: Cary Grant
Singer: Frank Sinatra
Guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
Rapper: Tupac Shakur
Video Game Developer: Gabe Newell

Now all these people get a god tier status in their respective fields. But what if, there was a guy that looked like Cary Grant, who did all these things. He wrote Hamlet, is a good director, rapper, etc.

Would this guy have a godtier status in society for being so versatile. Like if people were only interested in rap music, they'd find out about him and others would have only heard of him. But there is so many ways to get to Cary Grant this way.

But my question is...would he be the most famous person ever?

or even if he was so multi-talented and versatile he'd still have the fame of Cary Grant or Alfred Hitchock and not beyond that?

>>	sage sage Fri Oct 15 10:32:12 2010 No.1207868 everyone on that list sucks, fuck your god if that's god tier

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 11:13:12 2010 No.1207908 You have my approval, OP.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 11:20:12 2010 No.1207916 I want to slap Gabe Newell in his tits and scream "HALF LIFE, MUTHAFUCKA! FINSH HALF LIFE!"

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 11:24:12 2010 No.1207925 > Guitarist: Jimi Hendrix Hahahahahahahahahahahahaah! Oh wow.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 11:38:12 2010 No.1207942 >>1207925 Name a better one

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:07:12 2010 No.1207972 >>1207942 Brandon Cox, Lee Ranaldo, Kevin Shields... I can go on.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:15:12 2010 No.1207979 >>1207942 Keith Richards and Wes Montgomery, IMO.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:15:12 2010 No.1207981 >>1207972 how so?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:17:12 2010 No.1207986 >>1207942 Subjective, but Vinnie Moore, Steve Vai, Steve Hackett, Buckethead, Petrucci and so on...

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:20:12 2010 No.1207989 While I agree that Hendrix is overated I don't see how any of those guitarist can be considered better than him from what I have heard of them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:30:12 2010 No.1208000 File: 20 KB, 400x312, 2nurjvt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1207942 Rory Gallagher. AS STATED BY HENDRIX HIMSELF http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/rorygallagher.php

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:33:12 2010 No.1208003 >Guitarist: Jimi Hendrix >Rapper: Tupac Shakur Haha oh wow, lrn2music

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:41:12 2010 No.1208010 >>1207972 please do.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:43:12 2010 No.1208014 Rory Gallagher really is a helluva guitar player.

>>	None !WvWWh.l.CE Fri Oct 15 12:45:12 2010 No.1208016 File: 46 KB, 500x333, TyBrax8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >better rock guitarist than Hendrix >Hendrix better than every classical & jazz guitarist ever sure is musical plebs ITT

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Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:50:12 2010 No.1208024

Jimi Hendrix was a decent rock/blues guitarist who became famous because he used a shitload of distortion and lit his guitar on fire. There are a ton of better guitarists out there both in terms of technique and feel, especially outside of rock music. My personal favourites are the American Primitivist guitarists such as Leo Kottke, John Fahey, and Robbie Basho. All brilliant musicans and guitarists, especially Kottke in terms of technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aXszaBtGso&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aXszaBtGso&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBdQdJqMjSw&feature=related

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:50:12 2010 No.1208025 >>1208016 I look at your pic and disregard everything you just said

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 12:57:12 2010 No.1208034 >>1208024 In terms of Kottke, I meant to post this one first. It shows off his lightening fast fingers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gh-U9T7T4Q&feature=related

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None !WvWWh.l.CE Fri Oct 15 13:01:12 2010 No.1208043
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>>1208025
Can't comprehend one member from one of the greatest live acts of the 21st century?

shame on you.
>>1208025
Can't comprehend one member from one of the greatest live acts of the 21st century?

shame on you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvJS-Tm9Bm8

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Anonymous Fri Oct 15 13:01:12 2010 No.1208044

>>1208024

Jimi was by far the most creative though. The guy played the guitar like no one else during his time; most people still can't sound like him.

I will agree with saying that he wasn't the most technical guitarist but that doesn't matter as much as being creative.

>>	None !WvWWh.l.CE Fri Oct 15 13:03:12 2010 No.1208046 >>1208044 *within Rock FTFY

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 13:04:12 2010 No.1208051 >director: hitchcock, peter jackson >peter jackson Oh wow >peter jackson better than godard, mizoguchi, varda, rohmer, teshigahara, antonioni, tarkovsky, von sternberg, lang, ozu, oshima, dreyer, fellini, dovzhenko, eisenstein, herzog

>>	None !WvWWh.l.CE Fri Oct 15 13:05:12 2010 No.1208053 >>1208043 >dat post srsly need to sort through my extensions now.

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Anonymous Fri Oct 15 13:16:12 2010 No.1208073

Broasting in a prole thread.

I'd argue that, even if a person with the hypothetical genius required to be god-tier in all 6 categories were born, he would be unable to achieve such status in more than a few of them.
God-tier status requires not only ability or talent, but development of that talent by practice, and exposure of their work to the world. Let's say Cary Grant is a genius at all of these things. He still has a limited time in which to perform. Even if he does somehow supernaturally learn the particulars of guitar playing, designing, coding, writing, managing and acting, theres going to come a point when he's unable to make his musical gigs where he raps and plays guitar, because the shooting schedules of the films he's writing, directing and starring in get in the way. If he doesn't fully commit his time to one or two pursuits, he either never reaches his full potential, or never gets noticed as a god-tier.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 13:19:12 2010 No.1208077 isnt that bogart

>>	Mogwai !!YOt9Y28V773 Fri Oct 15 13:29:12 2010 No.1208082 OP Please pick which method you would like. A) Shotgun to the face B) Sniper to the eye

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 13:40:12 2010 No.1208089 >>1208051 He is you faggot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 13:44:12 2010 No.1208094 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._B._Fry Stephen Fry's grandfather was quite a gifted fellow, perhaps not multi god tier but if people can get close then its simply a matter of time and actually finding the person.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 13:53:12 2010 No.1208105 >Too edgy to like popular figures. >Has obscure taste. >Lampoons everything popular and scoffs pretentiously at those with "common taste" (even though Hendrix isn't common taste any more). lol, it's internet teenagers.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 14:14:12 2010 No.1208139 >Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe You forgot Ayn Rand OP!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 15 23:40:12 2010 No.1209341 Ranking things in tiers is bullshit.