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From: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (palena)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Some better guitarists than Fripp and Frith...
Message-ID: <2440@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 11:28:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 11:28:59 1985
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References: <1185@druri.UUCP> <175@rdlvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (Larry Palena)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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Keywords: guitar
Summary: 

In article <175@rdlvax.UUCP> salzman@rdlvax.UUCP (Gumby) writes:
>
>I can't leave out my personal main influence on the guitar, because I
>think that when it comes to guitar, this guy knows how to fit a solo to
>a song like no one else can. I'm referring to Alex Lifeson of Rush.

       ...his solos don't make any sense!!...
>
>How did this start anyway? With Jimi Page? Give me a break. The guy is

         ...Why?? Is Jimmy Page grody to the max!? Are you sherr!?...

>sloppy as hell. I saw him on the same stage as Clapton and Beck (ARMS

       ...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...

>benefit at LA Forum), and I was not very impressed. I think Clapton
>totally blew page away. And what he did at Live AID was discusting. The

       ...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...

>solo he did on Stairway to Heaven stunk! I think Jimi's getting old. I
>do say that he used to be quite a decent bluesman back in the early Zep
>days, but he is totally out of date.....

       ...*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.


                                   And you thought I never posted nothin'
                                       serious,

                                    Larry Palena
                                    lp102911@sjuvax

     N.B.     Any association with the Eclectic Electric Music Critic
            (or whatever he's calling himself today),is purely imagined.