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Vertu
- Thread starter DWBass
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Didya see the faces she was making while playing? You could tell she was really into it! Yeah, she is a bad@$$! I have the vid of her with Yanni and she smoked! Bass player wasn't bad either!!
Vertu are amazing, but then, isn't anything with Stan going to be awesome?
However, it's sad to see how far Richie Kotzen has fallen these days, he used to be the young darling of Shrapnel records! Now he's looking older, and his playing is so different from what made him so amazing in the first place!
However, it's sad to see how far Richie Kotzen has fallen these days, he used to be the young darling of Shrapnel records! Now he's looking older, and his playing is so different from what made him so amazing in the first place!
I must admit that Kotzen's playing was the one thing that put me off this band - I bought the first album and I loved Stanley's melodic solos, but found I couldn't listen to it, because of the horrible guitar tone and unimaginative solos!! 
Agreed! I too bought this cd years ago based on Stanley Clarke's name but have not played it since! A bit too out there for me!Bruce Lindfield said:I must admit that Kotzen's playing was the one thing that put me off this band - I bought the first album and I loved Stanley's melodic solos, but found I couldn't listen to it, because of the horrible guitar tone and unimaginative solos!!
DWBass said:
+1.... this music is a pale shadow of the great fusion music that Stanley had a hand in creating. Seems like a total 'retro' looking back sort of thing to me, and I too gave the CD 'one listen' and then it went on the shelf.
Here's what I like about Kotzen--he replaced C.C. DeVille in Poison, then got kicked out a few months after sleeping with Bret Michaels' wife!jerry said:
Ha ha-take that Poison! ZING!
Seriously, though, ain't nothing cool about sleeping with another man's wife...especially a bandmates!:scowl:
Bruce Lindfield said:I must admit that Kotzen's playing was the one thing that put me off this band - I bought the first album and I loved Stanley's melodic solos, but found I couldn't listen to it, because of the horrible guitar tone and unimaginative solos!!
The guitar tone was pretty naff-it's been a lot more "down the pan" since he stopped using Ibanez and went to a Fender+Marshall combo. Not that there is anything wrong with Fender, but his Ibanez tone was miles better. Much better for his shreddy playing, although I find his playing these days to be a slight unimaginative, and his phrasing lacking. Back in the day though, at the tail end of the 80's, he was amazing.
jeff_bass28 said:
Not often, but thats probably a good thing. Give me a Jem any day. I really think, that had his writing had a little individuality in the early days he could have been the next Jason Becker/John Petrucci or whatever. Unfortunatley, when he debuted shred was just about to go out of fashion in the mainstream, and he never seemed to reach exit velocity, as it were.
