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!kirsch From: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Some better guitarists than Fripp and Frith... Message-ID: <2477@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 18:00:22 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2477 Posted: Mon Oct 28 18:00:22 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 00:18:33 EST References: <1185@druri.UUCP> <175@rdlvax.UUCP> <2440@sjuvax.UUCP> <2457@sjuvax.UUCP> <2468@sjuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA. Lines: 104 Keywords: guitar Summary: 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: >>>> >>> ...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 My goodness Larry! I didn't mean to make a joke about one of your gods-- I figured with your incredible wit in your other postings that you'd be able to decipher a joke when you saw one. > 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... Larry, I don't think very much about Roger Waters as a person so you can cheap shot at him all day--but if you compared lifestyles Page wouldn't be very high on anyone's list (read "In the Lap of the Gods" if you don't believe me. 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. >>"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 In my opinion it does change the tone--and I know several people who agree with me... > 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. For all who are wondering, No, Larry and I don't have daily swordfights between us here on campus. (Grenades are more effective :-)) -- Another wunnerful letter from the semi-intelligent rotting brain of: Paul Kirsch St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, Pa { astrovax | allegra | bpa | burdvax } !sjuvax!kirsch Warning: Objects in Terminal Room are Closer than they Appear...