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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
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 11:41:31 1985
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Reply-To: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (Larry Palena)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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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.