Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!sjuvax!lp102911 From: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (palena) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Some better guitarists than Fripp and Frith... Message-ID: <2468@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 11:41:31 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2468 Posted: Mon Oct 28 11:41:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 00:15:56 EST References: <1185@druri.UUCP> <175@rdlvax.UUCP> <2440@sjuvax.UUCP> <2457@sjuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (Larry Palena) Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA. Lines: 72 Keywords: guitar Summary: In article <2457@sjuvax.UUCP> kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) writes: >In article <2440@sjuvax.UUCP> lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (Larry Palena) writes: >>> >> ...I'd like to hear you construct some phrases as well as he did >> and then execute them perfectly.I bet you'd be far sloppier.And >> the way I understand it,he consistently received standing ovations >> at the ARMS benefits shows.In fact it got so bad that he was embar- >> rassed by the adulation he was receiving far and above the other two... > >a good way to measure Page's ability. Doe's the author of this article ...Doe's the author of that article?? I thought it was some guy named Isaac.Wait a minute!!! Are we talking about the same article!??.. >Page can't reconstruct his own solos is a bad mark on Page--it proves that >he was better than he is now. Of course he's going to recieve adulation at >the ARMS concert--he was able to stand without anyone's help--when any old ...now this just goes to show the kind of people I'm dealing with here.The dude is in poor health and just kicks a drug habit and we all make jokes about it-ha,ha,ha!!.Then Roger Waters cries all over an album which is really just abject bullshit and I'm supposed to acknowledge that the album is good.You know what they say about ethics;Apply them like paint... >"superstar" plays live he's going to be applauded--whether he performs >well or not. > > >> ...you know it's a shame Page didn't play with "The Firm" at Live-Aid, >> doing material that he's freshly rehearsed.I'm sick to death of hearing >> how "he's not as good as he used to be" when he still plays rock axe >> with plenty of heart in his new band... >> >> >> ...*I do say* that he was the best British bluesman of them all. >> Today,when I hear "The Firm" I recognize the sound of Page's guitar. >> He has always been distinctive and always will be.Is this true of >> Lifeson? The fact remains that in the field of rock guitarists,Life- >> son was never in Page's league,and this can be said for most rock >> axemen. > > Of course you can notice Page's guitar--it's because he plays that double Gibson with the paper thin body--the distinctive part of his guitar is the >tone and the effects he uses not, his ability. Lifeson's tone is also distinct >and I could recognize one of his solos right away also. Granted, I think Page >WAS an excellent guitarist but I would have trouble changing that statement >to the present tense. > ...so join the crowd,but I do believe you're a tad mistaken about the Cherry Gibson.That guitar is for all intents and purposes an SG.The addition of the twelve-string neck doesn't change it's tone that much.Now lots of rock guitarists use the SG,never heard any sound like him.And as far as I know they all use Marshall amps like him,still don't sound like him.When the man played a Strat,I could pick it out a mile away... >> >> And you thought I never posted nothin' >> serious, >> >> Larry Palena >> lp102911@sjuvax > >(I guess that knife in the back's getting deeper huh Larry? :-)) > ...by now Doug Alan must be getting jealous,you're about to replace him as my net.music.favoriteperson :-) >> N.B. Any association with the Eclectic Electric Music Critic >> (or whatever he's calling himself today),is purely imagined.