A little rant

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A little rant

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Santana. I can't stand it. "He's so great!" Crap!

Ok, he's a world-class guitar player, agreed. Not that I know anything about guitar playing and could really tell, but I'll take it for granted. But I can't stand people proclaiming 'his songs' are that great.

I loved Smooth. Some others from the Supernatural album were very good, too. The game of love is great. But he didn't write them, he just plays one instrument, goddamnit! Rob Thomas (Smooth), Michelle Branch (The game of love), Wycleaf Jean (Maria Maria) and so on - they deserve the praise, these are their songs. Hail Santana for being a kickas guitar player, but stop giving him credit for other people's work!

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I agree with you, Sev. I enjoyed listening to Santana in my mom's 8-track player, and the stuff he's put out is alright, but dammit Jim, he's only human.

Santana gets public cred for the following reasons:
1. he's good
2. he's been around for a long time
3. he's hispanic, y "flava" latina es mucho grande tiempo. mierde. maybe in ten years we'll see Yo-Yo Ma accepting his grammy with Coldplay.

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Rob Thomas...mmmmmmmm....there's a guy....who can sing....
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Yes, Santana is human, but Eric Clapton, though . . .
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