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: <2482@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 12:14:13 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2482 Posted: Tue Oct 29 12:14:13 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:43:43 EST References: <1185@druri.UUCP> <175@rdlvax.UUCP> <2440@sjuvax.UUCP> <2457@sjuvax.UUCP> <2468@sjuvax.UUCP> <2477@sjuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (Larry Palena) Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA. Lines: 74 Keywords: guitar Summary: In article <2477@sjuvax.UUCP> kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) writes: >In article <2468@sjuvax.UUCP> lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (Larry Palena) writes: >>In article <2457@sjuvax.UUCP> kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) writes: >>>In article <2440@sjuvax.UUCP> lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (Larry Palena) writes: >>>>> >high on anyone's list (read "In the Lap of the Gods" if you don't believe me. ...see now this is what I mean!!! You probably bought that book when the ink was still wet,read it from cover to cover six times,and now that you're a star on oh-so-sophisticated net.music you deride it.Every- body loves the Big Blimp in the closet,but when they've got nothing better to do they post pieces making fun of it's creator!!!... >I never asked you to acknowledge that the Wall is good--I'm just asking you to >wake up from your blind hero worship and realize that Jimmy Page is not what >he used to be. All musicians either get better or worse--they don't stay the >same--Page's problem is that he got a little lazy and stagnant and now he's >not what he used to be. ...your problem is that you won't let the dude take a new turn in his career!!! He's not gonna plug the Les Paul into 300,000 watts and flatten a stadium full of people anymore,and you can't deal with this!!! Say it like it is;you don't like what Page has done since the demise of Bonham... > >>> 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 >>>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 > >In my opinion it does change the tone--and I know several people who agree >with me... ...that's the axe he made famous by performing "Stairway to Heaven" on live.(In fact Gibson custom-made it for that reason.)I've heard live versions of STH and it didn't sound the same.He can get two different sounds out of the same axe!!!... >>>(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 :-) >> > >For all who are wondering, No, Larry and I don't have daily swordfights >between us here on campus. (Grenades are more effective :-)) > >-- > ...you see,I read net.bizarre,and frankly Paul,I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU!! Your missin' an important piece!!! Folks,we're talkin' about a guy who tried to cheese his hunger away by cooking "Combos" in a 7-11 micro-wave,and then got pissed when they exploded!!I rest my case... > >Warning: Objects in Terminal Room are Closer than they Appear... > > Larry Palena { astrovax | allegra | bpa | burdvax } !sjuvax!lp102911