Here's Your Big Chance To TOTALLY Diss A Famous Guitarist

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Clapton.

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He wouldn't even strap on a Gibson for the Cream reunion concerts at Albert Hall.

Thank god for that. If they had simply tried to recreate exactly what they had done in the sixties, it would have been the most pathetic excuse for a reunion since the last Eagles reunion. Or maybe the last Fleetwood Mac reunion. At that point, they may as well just bring out the Eric Clapton Big Band, and just play all the hits. Blech! The fact that they were being who they are NOW may it really good.

In my opinion, of course.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[stevieb]

Okay, ENOUGH with ALL the damn respect and politeness! I wanna see some FIST FIGHTS!

 

[Purge]

Okay, ENOUGH with ALL the damn respect and politeness! I wanna see some FIST FIGHTS!

I tried to drop on anvil on acidrock's fucking head, for god's sake!!! What the hell do you need me to do, disembowel him with his own face?!?!?

(Hmmm....actually, that's not a bad idea. The bastard certainly has it coming.)

Really, when it comes down to it...you know who would win in a battle between acidrock and Clapton?

ME.

 

[Mike_J]

The Edge is a tosser

Yes yes yes!!!
Another one trying for the top spot.
What a turd. Spends more time on his effects than the guitar. Total wanker.

Shame on you posters not slagging someone. This is a golden opportunity!
Lock and load and get to it!!

 

[Nobster]

Mark Knobfler!

... arghhh! I just can't stand the dreadful sight or the sickly sound of that bloke. His limp style, that nasty quacky tone, his mumbling drone voice. Songs that sound like themes from bad tv shows. I could never understand why people liked his band. dire alright.

Unfortunately their video'd live concerts get repeated all the bloody time on the music tv channel that I get.

 

[mikemorgan]

Lame guitarist with an even lamer name..............WADDY WACHTEL!!!!!!!

New York session man my ass!

 

[VomitHatSteve]

The Edge is a tosser

Can we nominate bassists? They're kind of like guitarists.

As the bassist in a church band, I nominate the bassist from U2. (There are chord progressions than D A Bm G and rhythm patterns other than straight 1/8th notes!)

 

[Farview]

He wouldn't even strap on a Gibson for the Cream reunion concerts at Albert Hall.

If Fender makes you your own signature model, you are contractually obligated to play it when on camera. It's the same with anyone else with an endorsement deal.

 

[Farview]

Can we nominate bassists? They're kind of like guitarists.

As the bassist in a church band, I nominate the bassist from U2. (There are chord progressions than D A Bm G and rhythm patterns other than straight 1/8th notes!)

If we are doing bass players, the guy from Judas Priest takes the Cake. He plays straight 1/8 notes and doesn't even change with half the chord changes. The bass line to "heading out to the Highway" is, for the most part, two notes...A and E.

 

[Terry Wetzel]

Where is your porofessionality,(I guess that's a word)? The only reason to disrespect,(sorry for not using the current, hip abbreviation), any guitarist who has paid his dues and made it in this cut throat business would be out of pure jealosy? Artististic people should help one another! Not bad mouth their peers! Anyone who is that bad on their instrument should have long ago faced the facts and decided to use their axe for a door stop! Well, on second thought, maybe Frank Zappa!

 

[Zaphod B]

Thank god for that. If they had simply tried to recreate exactly what they had done in the sixties, it would have been the most pathetic excuse for a reunion since the last Eagles reunion. Or maybe the last Fleetwood Mac reunion. At that point, they may as well just bring out the Eric Clapton Big Band, and just play all the hits. Blech! The fact that they were being who they are NOW may it really good.

In my opinion, of course.

I was jonesing for some "woman tone" and got none.

 

[Light]

If Fender makes you your own signature model, you are contractually obligated to play it when on camera. It's the same with anyone else with an endorsement deal.

Unless your name is Clapton - he has done many things with Gibsons over the years, even after the Fender deal. He MAY be required to use it most of the time, but for the most part he uses them most of the time because he likes them. Trust me, he has the power to negotiate any damn deal he wants. All Fender is going to say is, "yes, sir." They know which side their bread is buttered on.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[Light]

I was jonesing for some "woman tone" and got none.

So listen to the old albums. I want new creativity, not a rehash of the same old same old. That is, after all, why God created recordings.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[Zaphod B]

So listen to the old albums. I want new creativity, not a rehash of the same old same old. That is, after all, why God created recordings.

There wasn't much "new creativity" on hand for those nights at Albert hall.

Whatever. I just never have cared for Clapton's tone with a Strat, and it particularly rankled when used on by-the-book Cream tunes.

 

[famous beagle]

There wasn't much "new creativity" on hand for those nights at Albert hall.

Whatever. I just never have cared for Clapton's tone with a Strat, and it particularly rankled when used on by-the-book Cream tunes.

I gotta agree with you Zaph. I think the worst thing Clapton ever did was put down the Gibson.

 

[Purge]

I gotta agree with you Zaph. I think the worst thing Clapton ever did was put down the Gibson.

I dunno...I think the worst thing he ever did was pick one up...

 

[mcmetal]

Can we nominate bassists? They're kind of like guitarists

like the saying goes... most bass players are failed guitarists.

 

[Zaphod B]

I dunno...I think the worst thing he ever did was pick one up...

No, when he was at his peak he was incredible. Just so happens that during most of it he was playing Gibsons, and so I associate that tone with his best work.

 

[RejectionNinja]

I want to say Eddie Van Halen is the most overrated guitar player in the universe, which is unquestionably true, but then I thought about the implications.

Is that the same thing as saying that cocaine is the most overrated guitar player in the universe? Probably.

If you take any half wit 14 year old, provide him with a steady supply of cocaine and a guitar, in a few short years you will have a brand new Eddie Van Halen. Without even a shade of musical creativity, he'll make all kinds of really fast blippy boop boop wooooo DIVE BOMB blippy blippy blooop DIVE BOMB noises. All you need is an autoerotic narcissist to sing, a metronome, and a Casio keyboard for "bass" accompaniment. PRESTO! The whole band is recreated! And with the Casio keyboard, the music will be even more creative than before.

OOoh, I don't like Eddie Van Halen? Maybe I should listen to song "_____". The guitar solo goes EXACTLY LIKE THIS: "blippy blippy doodley doodley doodley DIVE BOMB doodley doodley diddley bloop bloop wooooOOOOOoooOOOOOoooo DIVE BOMB horsey noise horsey noise DIVE BOMB wooooOOooo blippy doodley WOOOOWOOOOOO".

If Hendrix made me pick up a guitar, Eddie Van Halen made me burn down the concert hall.

 

[famous beagle]

I want to say Eddie Van Halen is the most overrated guitar player in the universe, which is unquestionably true, but then I thought about the implications.

Is that the same thing as saying that cocaine is the most overrated guitar player in the universe? Probably.

If you take any half wit 14 year old, provide him with a steady supply of cocaine and a guitar, in a few short years you will have a brand new Eddie Van Halen. Without even a shade of musical creativity, he'll make all kinds of really fast blippy boop boop wooooo DIVE BOMB blippy blippy blooop DIVE BOMB noises. All you need is an autoerotic narcissist to sing, a metronome, and a Casio keyboard for "bass" accompaniment. PRESTO! The whole band is recreated! And with the Casio keyboard, the music will be even more creative than before.

OOoh, I don't like Eddie Van Halen? Maybe I should listen to song "_____". The guitar solo goes EXACTLY LIKE THIS: "blippy blippy doodley doodley doodley DIVE BOMB doodley doodley diddley bloop bloop wooooOOOOOoooOOOOOoooo DIVE BOMB horsey noise horsey noise DIVE BOMB wooooOOooo blippy doodley WOOOOWOOOOOO".

If Hendrix made me pick up a guitar, Eddie Van Halen made me burn down the concert hall.

Hendrix was dive-bombing long before Van Halen was!