10 Rock Musicians That Get Way Too Much Hate

Sometimes some of the greatest musicians tend to get called trash just by association. Even if Mark Tremonti stands as one of the greatest guitarists living today, it was a much different story when he was pumping out riffs for Creed, with Scott Stapp dumping his trademark cheese on top of everything. On the other side of the rock scene though, Limp Bizkit was actually hiding something a lot more eccentric underneath that backwards baseball hat.

Getting past the obnoxious sounds of Fred Durst on songs like Break Stuff and Nookie, Wes Borland had far more talent that anyone else in the nu metal scene, turning his guitar parts inside out and almost acting like a guitar equivalent to someone like Les Claypool from Primus, looking to explore different parts of the fretboard that hadn't been looked at yet. Once you actually try to play a song like Nookie, chances are you won't have much luck coming close, with Wes flying up and down the fretboard and toying with the different effects to create something that would have never gotten on the radio were it not for some truly cringy lyrics.

There are a few songs where Wes' guitar is able to outmatch the rest of the band, with Fred taking a backseat on the theme to Mission Impossible and turning that detuned version of the theme song into something iconic. Limp Bizkit might fall to the very bottom of many rock fans' favorite bands list, but if we were talking solely on technical prowess, Wes Borland might be just a few notches below Tom Morello for what he brought to guitar in the '90s.