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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
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Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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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 :-))
  
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Another wunnerful letter from the semi-intelligent rotting brain of:

                              Paul Kirsch
                              St. Joseph's University
                              Philadelphia, Pa

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