JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:41:02 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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The technique relies on muscle memory, but I've never quite seen
anybody do it with just plain old freakin' skill...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Sl8sZuT-U


Hopefully, he will eventually learn how to play music. This kind of
technical gimmickry quickly grows boring.


You're not supposed to watch it for hours and hours!

John


If you add up all the others just like him from the past, the minutes
you've
listened add up quickly to hours.

Then, there's this guy:
http://www.toddwolfe.com/
Check his schedule. Go see him. Amazing.

And, of course......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI5CC...elated&search=


http://www.robbenford.com/


Pass the barf bag! My guitarist thinks Robben Ford is a god. He dresses
like
him, and owns a Baker guitar, which can't cut it on stage. All this to
emulate a guy who was goofy enough to think he could cover a song like
"Peace Love & Understanding", and ended up castrating it instead. Same
with
his version of Homework, which can't hold a candle to the J. Geils
version.

I'm starting to get it now. You don't like any guitarist who's
innovative. I love to see a good guitarist take someone else's song and
make it their own, as opposed to playing at the Ramada Inn covering pop
songs.


Being innovative is one thing. Knowing when you're taking a cover song down
12 notches is an entirely different skill. "Peace Love & Understanding" is a
fiery, passionate song. I'm sure you don't actually think Ford retained that
in his version. If he chose to take that away, then why? Would you like to
hear Harry Connick Jr. do a sappy orchestral version of Led Zeppelin's
"Whole Lotta Love"? :-) Hang on...maybe we're onto something. You know how,
mainly in summer, symphony orchestras like to do pops concerts, where they
rape Beatles songs?

No, I don't think he retained that, nor do I think he wanted to. I've
heard a lot of songs done alot of different ways, I like art for art's
sake. I even liked hearing Snoop Dog doing a Metallica song the other
day on TV.

All I know is that when our guitarist suggested we do PL&U Ford's way,
everyone else in the band asked "Why? It's....nothing."

Again, the point of a true artist is to NOT simply mimic someone else,
that's what the guys playing down at the Ramada Inn by the interstate
are doing, and will always do.