Originally Posted by
NYRexall
It's true though.
Navarro is a far more skilled guitar player than Frusciante. Even when Navarro was as fucked up on heroin as Frusiciante, he was still killing him technically. Listen to Navarro's playing on OHM and its b-sides from that era and compare them with John's solo stuff from that same time period. The difference is striking: one guy (Navarro) is playing some of his best licks to date at that point, while the other guy (burnout John) is writing albums of meandering guitar noodlings.
Every RHCP album John has played on just sounds like a variant of BSSM. The same 'ping-ping-ping' guitar tone across every album. He has never played on an RHCP song as alive and as varied as 'Warped', 'Deep Kick' or 'Transcending'