Wazzup?? I'll Open Up With Something Controversial: What Guitarist Don't You "Get"?

Achilles said:
The first chord stabs of this:



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I'm looking at that fingering thinking, "There is simply no way Lifeson was the first guitarist to play that chord." It's pretty much the sort of thing you do accidentally when you let a couple of open strings drone sympathetically, a la every sus chord known to man.
 
mbenigni said:
I'm looking at that fingering thinking, "There is simply no way Lifeson was the first guitarist to play that chord." It's pretty much the sort of thing you do accidentally when you let a couple of open strings drone sympathetically, a la every sus chord known to man.
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But he made it famous and his hallmark. Leaving the open E and B strings to ring is all over Rush's 70s albums.
 
JiveTurkey said:
A master of what? Inciting naps in the listener? Other than the best song he ever released obviously
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Clapton is up there on my list of "guitarists I don't get". But that's probably on account of my not having a clear sense of history and context. By the time I was paying attention, I couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting 4 or 5 guitarists that sounded exactly like him.

Also on my list: Jimmy Page and (running for cover) Frank Zappa.
 
Byrdman said:
I'll add one more to this pile, Joe Bonamassa. I can only listen to him for about 30 seconds before my attention span starts to run...

Although I wish I could play that well!
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I dislike most of his albums and live performances of his band that I’ve seen/heard - it’s like the worst of “blues rock”. I like rock-n-roll. I love that rock-n-roll wouldn’t exist without the blues. I love blues music. But the music that brought us $20k Murphy lab Les Paul’s…I have as much patience for as I do a $20k Murphy Lab LP.

HOWEVER - there are also loads of clips of Joe B. playing all sorts of stuff, from real blues, to funk, to freaking Judas Priest that have opened my eyes up to him maybe being a LOT more as a musician than what we he puts forth as his Entertainer self. The solo in this clip, the “of course he brought an SG for it” guitar choice…I don’t just respect it, I also really enjoy it:

 
mbenigni said:
Clapton is up there on my list of "guitarists I don't get". But that's probably on account of my not having a clear sense of history and context. By the time I was paying attention, I couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting 4 or 5 guitarists that sounded exactly like him.

Also on my list: Jimmy Page and (running for cover) Frank Zappa.
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You probably should ran on Jimmy, not Frank :ROFLMAO:
 
mbenigni said:
Clapton is up there on my list of "guitarists I don't get". But that's probably on account of my not having a clear sense of history and context. By the time I was paying attention, I couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting 4 or 5 guitarists that sounded exactly like him.

Also on my list: Jimmy Page and (running for cover) Frank Zappa.
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Show me two guitarists who have his exact vibrato. Especially someone who's not as famous... I'm waiting...
 
mbenigni said:
Jimmy Page
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Achilles said:
But he made it famous and his hallmark. Leaving the open E and B strings to ring is all over Rush's 70s albums.
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I guess I'm just being a stickler about the word "invented". ;)

One thing's for sure per the song you posted: Alex really wanted people to know it was his chord. :D
 
JiveTurkey said:
You probably should ran on Jimmy, not Frank :ROFLMAO:
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I mean, Jimmy is actually very accessible: his rhythm parts are lovely, and his songwriting is aces (even if it is a bit "folky" for my personal tastes.) His execution during leads - especially live - is just too sloppy, and sometimes maybe arbitrary? We have to account for the drugs, of course...

Zappa on the other hand... between the "humor" and the "note selection", I'm just lost. I'm willing to assume the latter is simply over my head, but that doesn't make me enjoy it any better. The former is pretty consistently under my head. (Is that a thing?)
 
SKU said:
Show me two guitarists who have his exact vibrato. Especially someone who's not as famous... I'm waiting...
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I admit, you'll wait forever. Clapton is obviously a seasoned performer - a master of what he does. The zillion dudes I knew who played Clapton licks and nothing else... obviously, none of them could do it with Clapton's panache or reliability in front of big crowds night after night. All I'm saying is there was a ubiquity there that became very dull to me, personally. (And somehow I never grew tired of hearing e.g. all of the Malmsteen-alikes that emerged a decade later in the same way.)
 
mbenigni said:
I admit, you'll wait forever. Clapton is obviously a seasoned performer - a master of what he does. The zillion dudes I knew who played Clapton licks and nothing else... obviously, none of them could do it with Clapton's panache or reliability in front of big crowds night after night. All I'm saying is there was a ubiquity there that became very dull to me, personally. (And somehow I never grew tired of hearing e.g. all of the Malmsteen-alikes that emerged a decade later in the same way.)
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Start dull; end dull.
 
Stone said:
True but everyone started somewhere, its who they became and were/are known for that counts in my book
Take for Example does anyone remember Pantera in their Glam Hair band days ?

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I remember in the mid ‘90s I found a copy of I Am The Night at a local used record store.

I was so confused, I thought there must have been another band called Pantera back in the ‘80s!

But I thought it was pretty cool

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Achilles said:
I put Zappa in the same bucket as Queen and the Beatles.

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE SUPER DUPER MUSICALLY DIVERSE DOESN'T ME TO HAVE TO PROVE IT ON EVERY ALBUM.

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This is a "we already have all the money; let's just have fun" song. :D

It took me decades to realize that I no longer even have the patience for the level of self-indulgence in (runs for cover) Bohemian Rhapsody. And that's just one song! A radio hit, even!
 
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