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Michael Angelo Battio versus Steve Vai
- Thread starter Nickthebassist
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I have heard that Batio is fastest as far as picked notes per second, but both sound boringly stereotypical, and have little to no emotion for their respective genre.
I'll take Frank Zappa, Alex Lifeson, and Leslie West over anybody on the list so far.
I'll take Frank Zappa, Alex Lifeson, and Leslie West over anybody on the list so far.
They should do a bass remake of Crossroads. An angry young man makes a satanic pact and is pitted against the devil's own uberbassist (on a sulphur-yellow quadruple-necked 57-stringer) and after a long quest to find The Perfect Tone, wins the day with a 4/4 root note line on a P-bass through an SVT.
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wingnutkj said:
If that werre the case, then I've seen about a thousand bassists playing in blues bands in bars that could triumph over the lord of darkness. He'd have to be a real puss.
Bryan R. Tyler said:
Well, he did make Jimmy Swaggart addicted to porn and $35 hookers, I guess he's not what he used to be.
souless wanker. I'm sorry, but in what possible world is this guy not a clown?
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I look at that picture, and I wonder if Michael Angelo's machine slices and dices fascists (and comes with a free set of kitchen knifes if you order today!).
(OK, so my mind works in strange ways, here's why I said that:
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Heh! 
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Okay, it's rather big.
Otway holds down a G chord with both hands and, using the hinge between the two "guitars", bangs the two "guitars" together instead of strumming.
He has absolutely no talent whatsoever. I have paid to see him play a number of times. Genius.
The difference between this...
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is only slight.
Okay, it's rather big.
Otway holds down a G chord with both hands and, using the hinge between the two "guitars", bangs the two "guitars" together instead of strumming.
He has absolutely no talent whatsoever. I have paid to see him play a number of times. Genius.
I don't under stand what you have against them or their music. I hear lots of emotion in their music, aswell as stunning musicianship.dlloyd said:Well, uh, yes. I certainly feel emotional when I hear Runrig.
Nickthebassist said:
Nothing against their music at all.
It's the twee sentimentality and the inevitable link to nationalism that I find distasteful. That and the gaelic.
(I suffered having to endure the news in gaelic for many years... thank you satellite tv for delivering me from my pain)
Satch is a beast, he's one of my favourite guitarists. He's also the biggest influence on our guitarist.Tyler Hole said:
What's wrong with the Gaelic?! Runrig have played a huge part in keeping Gaelic alive. It is the native language of the scots and you should be proud of it. They are not nationalistic at all. and so what if they're sentimental? They hold on to their heritage, the world they were brought up in. They've kept it alive. What they have achieved is truely incredible.dlloyd said:
Nickthebassist said:
It's irritating to have a proportion of terrestrial TV devoted to a language that nobody speaks.
Nope, gaelic is the language of 5th century Irish invaders and was never spoken in the part of scotland where I live.
National pride is in no short supply in Scotland. I'd have no problem with that if it wasn't tainted by historical revisionists seeking to cash in on political feeling and romanticism.
The thing about Gaelic is that the vast majority of Scots don't speak it or have any reason to speak it. It's completely irrelevant to us. It was the dialect of the Highland Scots, and for those of us of lowland descent, pretty irrelevant (we used to speak like Burns poetry, apparently). These days it's mostly only spoken in the Western Isles for a variety of geopolitical reasons I won't bother getting into because it's a massive, massive can of worms with a wee tartan ribbon on top. In the Western Isles, it's spoken by about 65% of the population, but in the other, more heavily populated regions of Scotland, it's much less - less than 1% in the central belt.
I can sort of see the point of promoting it as part of the heritage of the Highland Scots, but it's not really relevant to the majority of people in Scotland, and like I said, there's a whole can of worms there just waiting to be opened as far as anti-English sentiment goes.
The dynamics of language is a strange beastie, so, um, Steve Vai. Definitely.
I can sort of see the point of promoting it as part of the heritage of the Highland Scots, but it's not really relevant to the majority of people in Scotland, and like I said, there's a whole can of worms there just waiting to be opened as far as anti-English sentiment goes.
The dynamics of language is a strange beastie, so, um, Steve Vai. Definitely.
John Elway plays two guitars at once? Is there anything that guy can't do?dlloyd said:
On a more serious note- the reason why 50's double cut Les Paul Juniors are edging up to $5,000 is because this guy is chopping them all to make these guitars.
Just because you didn't speak it doesn't mean it isn't important to the people who did! And as for nobody speaking Gaelic, if that is the case, why can my dad speak it, eh?dlloyd said:
Nickthebassist said:
At the risk of offending an unknown number of people:
I think the general consesus is that Gaelic is being over-exposed to people that have no history of speaking it. It would be like your English teacher lecturing in Klingon. Sure, people can speak it, but who cares?
Mike
