From our BEST Music of the decade feature:
This is an opinion shared by Patrick Singer and myself, so we are going to go with it. Fact is, there are tons of great pickers and shredders in this community, and plenty of them are technically more proficient and perhaps more accomplished in various ways than Teddy Lerch.
But they aren’t better than him writing and performing original music, because for our money, between ZXO, LLYN, Shazu, Hank., and others, he’s got licks for days, and they are the best fucking licks, and they span genres from deep metal to emo to shogaze. They are never boring. They are always super sweet, and frankly, I hear the best parts of David Gilmour, Adam Jones, Jerry Cantrell, and Jimi Hendrix within, each time.
So, we’re being a little generous here, but that’s what this is all about. By our standards, Lerch has been the best guitarist playing original music in this city over the past decade. (Seth Fein)
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