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I work with a guy who 'plays' in a band - except, he doesn't - lemme explain. This guy spends a lot of time on the phone trying to get the bass player to come to rehearsals, which the bass player is reluctant to do because many times these rehearsals are cancelled at the last minute, and they...

My Final Word (hooray) Chris N The music press/media in england have always had a very pretensious ,pseudo-intellectual attitude towards rock, and were always trying to outdo each other in hyping the most avant-garde or 'politically aware' music. If 'the masses' enjoyed something then it was...

Al Chuck Of course that's a fair point. There's no reason that musicians should be confined into a narrow area that doesn't let them express themselves in whichever way they want. I react to music in an emotional way, it either feels good or it doesn't,and I always found the...

Chris N, I guess I just never understood what the prog rock guys were trying to do, but what really got my goat was the fact that all those weird time signatures,off-beat accentsand 'interesting'progressions was seen as a sign of intellectual superiority, and if you didn't like it you must be a...

Sorry Alchuck, but names like Gong,Soft Machineand Bruford conjur up horrible images of bearded, kaftan- swathed acolytes, joss-sticks in hand, studiously noting amp settings , nodding and murmuring 'great karma' as another twenty minute opus (seven minutes of which is an obligatory drum solo)...

Wide Awake, I admit that the only Allan Holdsworth stuff I know is a song called Three Sheets to the Wind and some tunes from Atavachron, but I couldn't get into it at all. I recognise that there is some astonishing musicianship on display, but IMO it's the kind of stuff that guitarists play for...

As I type this I'm listening to the King Biscuit Flour Hour Robin Trower live cd - and drooling. Ok, I got a strat, a cry baby and a bunch of flanger and amp modelling effects from a stomp box, and tweak as I might, I can't get close to that beautiful,warm,crunchy,dreamy tone. Any ideas...

Onelouder, if Sabbath reform then they better make a 'Sabotage' and not an 'Into the Void'<g>

Chucko, Elliot Easton was the lead player in the Cars, I agree he did some great stuff, he's currently with Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Alchuck, the solo on Livin' for the Future is a pretty simple pentatonic scales, no effects affair, so I'm guessing that Travers DID play it. After all...

Boy , I thought I knew rock music till I came here - effedupstrat: POPA CHUBBY????? who he? First thing I thought of when I saw this thread was Comfortably Numb - that's three mentions already so it has to be great. Some not so great players have pulled off good stuff in their time - people...

Hey Tom, add 'Behind The wall of Sleep' and 'A girl Like you' by the Smithereens to your repertoire and I might even fly over to see your band <g>. Over here it is VERY tough to find any small venues (pubs/clubs) where a classic rock band could play and draw a crowd - how are things where you are?

No Offence Mr Hicks Tom, I just heard some Linkin Park stuff and I think that's pretty cool - and recent <g>. We all want our favourite bands to be recognised for the greatness we percieve in them, even if they sell ten copies of each cd. Frankly, I am amazed that The Smithereens are not...

This is really just a pick-up from the overrated guitarists and songwriting threads in other forums, so feel free to ignore. I am 39 years old and grew up listening to Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Robin Trower,Thin Lizzy,Wishbone Ash,Lynryd Skynryd etc. From that list you can tell that I played...

I'm ashamed to say I don't know who Michael Hedges was - can anyone enlighten me?

ah tull! When the guy I work with first told me about this thing called Napster and that he would download some stuff for me, the first song I asked for was Minstrel in The Gallery - oh, man that is a SONG. Of course he didn't realise it would take fifty minutes to download - he almost...