Guitarists you just don't get!

[darkbluemurder]

Jimmie Vaughan (that guy must be at least half deaf or why does he always dial in such icepick sounds)
The Edge (Brian May did the delay work much earlier and then some)
Peter Buck (or whatever the guy's name in REM is)
Steve Vai (there is still a lot of potential for a guy with these technical abilities and with that musical and theoretical background)
Albert Lee when playing with Hogan's Heroes
Kirk Hammet
Jimmy Page (sloppy playing on some songs but great riffage, just a bit overrated)
Jimi Hendrix (some of)
Billy Gibbons (a bit overrated)
Derek Trucks (technically fantastic player but he always appears to me as if he isn't involved in the music at all)

I am a bit puzzled to see Joe Bonamassa in here. While I agree his tone has softened too much when he switched to the Les Paul there is nothing wrong with his playing.

[Frank]

Yeah, 10p from the sale of every Greggs pasty goes to The Church of Scientolgy. TRUE!

Hey, if eating steak slices helps battle the forces of Xenu then I'll be battling Thetans with low-quality meat products.

[Tellboy]

I think that's pretty much how it was. In addition to drugs, alcohol was a big problem. My (first) wife's best friend used to work in a bar in London and EC used to frequent it and get paralytic and very abusive. She got so fed up she refused to serve him and he turned around to her and slurred "Don't you know who I am?". She said "Yes , you're a pathetic drunken w***er, now p*ss off"  :)

Ever mindful of Fernando's 'pictures or it didn't happen' I managed to resurrect a picture from my wedding reception:-



Shame on you Eric ...... How could you be abusive to her? .... Answers please on a SAE c/o BKP Falmouth....

[dave_mc]

EDIT: I'm not even going to post that rant here, read it yourself.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton

But apparently he was drunk and can't remember saying it. So that's ok.

wow

from that link, there was a link to a guardian article about right wing rockers.

In it was this:

"9. Phil Collins

The drummer famously promised to leave the UK if Labour were elected in 1997, and did indeed move to Switzerland. Prior to the 2005 election, Noel Gallagher urged: 'Vote Labour. If you don't and the Tories get in, Phil is threatening to come back.' "

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[FernandoDuarte]

Agreed, she is a cute one :)
I'd punched him if that would have give me some points with her :lol:

And totally idiot of him with that anti-immigrant rant. I've some bad views for some kind of immigration, specially when they're not even trying to learn to speak the country's language... But saying "england is white" is pure cr@p...

[Philly Q]

I believed those about as much as I believed the Marc Almond stomach pump rumour. Meaning I believed it at the time but now it sounds very much like urban legend.

Which, bizarrely, in America is the Rod Stewart stomach pump rumour.  I never have understood that.  :?

[Frank]

Stomach Pump Rumour would be a great band name

[Afghan Dave]

Stomach Pump Rumour would be a great band name

 :lol: :lol:

[gordiji]

what happened to 'plant your love and let it flow' eric ?

[Muttley]

The reason I've never really got EVH is that by the time I discovered Van Halen (probably around '87-'88) they were already well into the full blown Sammy Hagar MOR dreary bullshitee phase.  I guess that tainted my opinion of him, as there were plenty of other guitarists around at that time playing far more interesting stuff (both song and technique-wise). 

Maybe if I'd discovered him 10 years earlier...

[MDV]

EDIT: I'm not even going to post that rant here, read it yourself.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton

But apparently he was drunk and can't remember saying it. So that's ok.

wow

from that link, there was a link to a guardian article about right wing rockers.

In it was this:

"9. Phil Collins

The drummer famously promised to leave the UK if Labour were elected in 1997, and did indeed move to Switzerland. Prior to the 2005 election, Noel Gallagher urged: 'Vote Labour. If you don't and the Tories get in, Phil is threatening to come back.' "

:lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol::lol:

[Frank]

Just saw this bloke on stratoblogster and immediately thought of this thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JRZS6XGd8KI

[dave_mc]

EDIT: I'm not even going to post that rant here, read it yourself.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton

But apparently he was drunk and can't remember saying it. So that's ok.

wow

from that link, there was a link to a guardian article about right wing rockers.

In it was this:

"9. Phil Collins

The drummer famously promised to leave the UK if Labour were elected in 1997, and did indeed move to Switzerland. Prior to the 2005 election, Noel Gallagher urged: 'Vote Labour. If you don't and the Tories get in, Phil is threatening to come back.' "

:lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol::lol:

I lulled anyway :lol:

[MDV]

Much as I have no love for oasis (anymore at least), noel can be a funny $%&#er.

Clapton can be a ####!! as well - I forgot about that racism lark. Double $%&# him then, especially as my dads from india (I'm practically vampirically white to look at, but genetically am not; I'm like a stealth imigrant/minority, fun to unleash on people that get a little bit secure in what they think to be all-white company that start mouthing off about britain being british/white/whatever).

[HTH AMPS]

^ +1 (assuming by eddie you mean evh). That's a bit like saying you like football but don't like pele or george best.

Well, except that musical taste is subjective and success at a sporting activity is objective.

I find that the faster a guitarist plays, the less I like him/her. That's kind of objective isn't it?

New favourite band for you!
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtnG6EHh1N4

I've been whistling that tune ever since you posted this, can't get it out of my head  :roll:

Must say, I draw the line at Sunn - THAT I don't get, certainly not in the recorded form.  At a live show, it would likely make more sense as the dramatic aspect of the band would come into play.

Give me Britney videos any day  :lol: