^ if anything, a lot of pantera is verging on "too heavy" for me, so bear with me :lol:
But I like pantera, and i think dime is (was :( ) an awesome player. this is also teh second time I've seen someone complain about someone only playing pentatonic stuff (the other time it wasn't dime, can't remember who, zakk maybe?), and it really begs teh question... have you ever actually tried to play any dime stuff? there's a lot more stuff than pentatonic in there (with zakk, too).
Plus I would argue that playing simple scales isn't necessarily a bad thing if you're a kickass player who makes it sound good. Is a dish with 20 different ingredients which tastes like cr@p better than one with 3 which tastes good? Sometimes it takes a good chef to make something simple taste awesome (and to have the confidence to attempt it), same thing with music. and just because you choose to play a simple scale doesn't mean it's the only one you know.
ugh the quote system's not working, so bear with me
"My classical music favourites are Bartok, Cage, Penderecki, Satie and Arvo Part. Much more satisfying to the soul than Paganini."
I'm not a gigantic fan of paganini either, but he was an awesome player. I tend to like stuff like beethoven, mozart and vivaldi- baroque, classical and romantic. Not to say i don't like more modern classical, too, but my favourites are those genres of classical.
"No. I'm not being dishonest. It is a case of not "getting" someone's music.
I could sit here for hours and list music I don't like. N-Dubz. Rihanna. The Black Eyed Peas. Michael $%&#ing Buble.
But that's not the point of the discussion. It's not as simple as just not liking it.
To use an example I've already mentioned - The Mahavishnu Orchestra. John McLaughlin is an amazing musician, I want to appreciate the music, but no matter how many times I listen to it, it doesn't move me. I just don't get it."
agreed. Yeah, ok, maybe at its simplest there's only "music i like" and "music i don't like", but dig even a little deeper and there's music which you think you should like because it's worthy but you don't, and music which just plain has no artistic merit at all.
Now, maybe you feel that way about vai and co, and that's alright, but when there are people like britney spears and cheryl cole making records, I'm not sure even his most ardent detractor could really honestly put steve vai in that same category.
fwiw, some rihanna stuff is actually alright (IMO) :oops:
