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: <2484@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 13:17:31 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2484 Posted: Tue Oct 29 13:17:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:44:51 EST References: <1185@druri.UUCP> <175@rdlvax.UUCP> <2440@sjuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA. Lines: 116 Keywords: guitar Summary: In article <2482@sjuvax.UUCP> lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (Larry Palena) writes: >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!!!... Actually Larry, I never bought the book--a friend of mine owns it. Are you going to deny some of the stories in the book?--Like the time Page and Bonham tied a woman down spread eagle on a bed and stuck raw fish in her you-know-what. I still like Led Zeppelin and I will even though I think that as a person, Page is a consumate asshole. I also think Roger Waters is a consumate asshole but I don't listen to his music for the type of person he is either. I attacked Page because you decided that to judge Pink Floyd on Roger Water's personal life. Oh Larry, by the way--David Gilmour from Pink Floyd is a pretty damn good guitarist too. (Even you- the consumate Wall hater-must have heard the searing solo to the end of "Comfortably Numb" on the radio.) >>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... You're quite correct, I don't like it. I guess he did take a new turn in his career but it was a turn downward. For an example of a turn upward, try Jeff Beck. >> >>>> 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!!!... Wow! *TWO* different sounds out of the same "axe" (God I hate that term--it's not used to chop down trees so why call it an axe??)--it's amazing what a flick of the pickup switch can do! >>>>(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... Actually, I didn't get pissed when they exploded--I found it quite funny. It was the girl working in there that got pissed. >> >>Warning: Objects in Terminal Room are Closer than they Appear... >> >> > > > Larry Palena > >{ astrovax | allegra | bpa | burdvax } !sjuvax!lp102911 > -- 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...