As for the ones who have been conquered by Alex's words, let me assure you. He's a nice guy in person. His playing is far from impressive, but he has good points. But once you fall into the bait of his contrabida acts, it's either you're narrow-minded or you have an ego to protect.
There's a third possibility - maybe some of the people who fall into that so-called bait just isn't the type to take crap so blindly. One can only take so much of that, as you yourself exhibit here (of which I am mildly surprised, dude).
Nevermind him not being above taking the first potshots, himself. My problem with him had always been his sweeping generalizations, many of which are grounded on rather shoddy logic. I don't care how much gear a person has owned or used. Granted that a lot of guitar secrets aren't exactly based on well-founded science, you still can't make definitive conclusions without first hand account on the actual thing you're criticizing.
But like you said, tutal, wala rin namang nagbabago. That's why I hardly bother looking into these threads anymore. Kaya laging huli na ako sa balita, hahaha. When I do, I try my best to sift whatever useful bits there are from his posts. I will acknowledge some of his knowledge and have chosen to avoid getting drawn to a senseless argument with him (it's no longer as amusing as it used to be for me). But I hope you will pardon me if I will never respect him in any online forum until the time comes when he stops pulling his usual unwarranted trash talk.
