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Who plays the guitar here, and how good are you ?

Sammy G said:
Felt - The Optimist & The Poet

Guitars aren't just for blues-based rock. It's a European instrument. People forget.
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I used to listen to Segovia a lot when I was younger.

Me, I started doing classic guitar when I was 6, but I hated it back then, my parents were forcing me to take those classes. Abandoned after a couple of years. Didn't touch a guitar again until I was a long-haired spotty teenager who had just discovered Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and the like. Bought an electric guitar one summer while on a language study holiday in the UK, formed a punk rock band in high school. We used to play Clash covers, badly and wrote a few songs too.

Stopped playing when I discovered E and electronic music
 
Same. sorta, i listened to stuff like the prodigy and classic trance etc for years whilst i carried on playing but lost interest, then i got properly into hip hop, guitar music is sorta dead now
 
ColtDan said:
Same. sorta, i listened to stuff like the prodigy and classic trance etc for years whilst i carried on playing but lost interest, then i got properly into hip hop, guitar music is sorta dead now
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No music is 'dead'. Go to the Rif valley and tell 'em what they're playing is 'irrelevant'.

Beisedes, electronic dance music has been around since disco. It is disco in many cases.

Music lives - it's transcendental, cathartic and glorious. Celebrate its diversity. Not that necessarily do so myself, but there's a world of sound out there.

Hip-hop is just overlaying samples and talking over the top. Where do these samples come from?
 
ok not dead but out of the limelight or whatever. dead was deff the wrong word. fuck the limelight mainstream shit anyway
 
John Peel said "Madonna is not the enemy", he would have played her tracks if no one else was giving her any air time, but she didnt need his support. She was good back then. Singing great songs such as "like a prayer". Most mainstream stuff is fuckin pap, but just cos something is popular it doesnt mean you should turn away from it IMO. Popular and good are not mutually exclusive. You dont have to drop things once they become popular, just incase thats not "cool" any more.
 
Pagey said:
...Fuck I hope all those years of reading Zep biography after Zep biography are paying off in making this post at least somewhat convincing :D
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You found any decent zep biogs lately pagey? I think the Mick Wall one and the book of interviews with Jimmy were the last 2 I read. I think the most insightful one is the Richard Cole biog - they don't come out of as very charming guys (especially Bonzo!) but I think that's probably the best idea of what they were like.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
You dont have to drop things once they become popular, just incase thats not "cool" any more.
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Depends tho - especially when you're young you don't particularly want to get into a band that everyone you hate at school loves. You want something you can call your own.
 
Ismene said:
You found any decent zep biogs lately pagey? I think the Mick Wall one and the book of interviews with Jimmy were the last 2 I read. I think the most insightful one is the Richard Cole biog - they don't come out of as very charming guys (especially Bonzo!) but I think that's probably the best idea of what they were like.
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Yeah, I was gonna say I really loved that Mick Wall one & the recent Jimmy interviews, which I'm currently rereading =D I haven't read the Richard Cole biography as I've heard a lot of it is complete bullshit (think he had a massive fallout with the band towards the end of their career with Zep) but who knows with these things. Is it any good? I've also got a Peter Grant biography somewhere called 'The man who led zeppelin' which I'm probably gonna try out soon, I'll let you know if it's any good if you'd like.
 
Ismene said:
You found any decent zep biogs lately pagey? I think the Mick Wall one and the book of interviews with Jimmy were the last 2 I read. I think the most insightful one is the Richard Cole biog - they don't come out of as very charming guys (especially Bonzo!) but I think that's probably the best idea of what they were like.
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ive not read any led zep biographies, but it seems that some biographies set out with an agenda to attack and destroy the legends, for example Albert Goldman's book The Lives of Jonh Lennon; it skipped the positive things his like his sheer genius and talent and just concentrated on all his flaws.
 
its not dead its just repeating itself with all these reforming bands doing it for the money i keep ask where the next guns and roses iron maidens or nirvanas are answer not out there and i wonder why because the industry has got lazy with its made to order plastic pop and the likes

as for mick wall this sums up what i think of the guy

And that goes for all you punks in the press
That want to start shit by printing' lies instead of the things we said
That means you
Andy Secher at Hit Parader
Circus Magazine
Mick Wall at Kerrang
Bob Guccione Jr. at Spin,
What you pissed off cuz your dad gets more pussy than you?
Fuck you
Suck my fuckin' dick
 
mydrugbuddy said:
ive not read any led zep biographies, but it seems that some biographies set out with an agenda to attack and destroy the legends, for example Albert Goldman's book The Lives of Jonh Lennon; it skipped the positive things his like his sheer genius and talent and just concentrated on all his flaws.
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Yeah they definitely like to do that...if you're ever interested in reading a good Led Zep biography that focuses (seemingly) honestly on both the goods & the bads I'd recommend Mick Wall's When Giants Walked the Earth. Some really cool stuff in there.
 
Pagey said:
Yeah, I was gonna say I really loved that Mick Wall one & the recent Jimmy interviews, which I'm currently rereading =D I haven't read the Richard Cole biography as I've heard a lot of it is complete bullshit (think he had a massive fallout with the band towards the end of their career with Zep) but who knows with these things. Is it any good? I've also got a Peter Grant biography somewhere called 'The man who led zeppelin' which I'm probably gonna try out soon, I'll let you know if it's any good if you'd like.
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The Cole one sounds pretty accurate - you get more of an insight into the heroin/groupies and everyday life than most biogs. I think you'd enjoy it, gives you more of the inside story. Apparantly even Plant was on the heroin but it took over Jimmy from about 77 on. Cole, Grant and Bonzo were all on it too. There's a good story in the Albert Goldman Lennon biog where Bonzo and Lennon are both kneeling over the toilet snorting heroin and looking at each other vomiting and laughing.

mydrugbuddy said:
ive not read any led zep biographies, but it seems that some biographies set out with an agenda to attack and destroy the legends, for example Albert Goldman's book The Lives of Jonh Lennon; it skipped the positive things his like his sheer genius and talent and just concentrated on all his flaws.
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No-one did research like Albert Goldman tho. Every "controversial" fact that he found out about Lennon - like he was stoned most of the time while he was supposed to be a "house-husband" turned out to be true. Albert was a class above most rock writers too - his book on Lenny Goldman is incredible and of course "Elvis" and "Elvis the last 24 hours" are the definitive books on the king..."each night before retiring Elvis took enough pills to stun a horse" :)
 
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Ismene said:
The Cole one sounds pretty accurate - you get more of an insight into the heroin/groupies and everyday life than most biogs. I think you'd enjoy it, gives you more of the inside story. Apparantly even Plant was on the heroin but it took over Jimmy from about 77 on. Cole, Grant and Bonzo were all on it too. There's a good story in the Albert Goldman Lennon biog where Bonzo and Lennon are both kneeling over the toilet snorting heroin and looking at each other vomiting and laughing.
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Plant, really?! I'd never heard he was on heroin as well. I did read a few times that he swore off all drugs after his son's death in 77 though.
But yeah it's pretty obvious Jimmy was a massive smackhead (think Wall says they got into it during their 75 tour), just look at his appearance in 77 and 79 - that and all the passing out on stage etc :\
 
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