bryn

If I was a rich greedy yet ultimately successful man-of-business I would probably chop your spine off.

She's a stinker..

A bad-ass computer set-up, a quality electric piano with Midi out, Ableton Live5, a pair of bitchin' monitors and a shagload of time on my hands. What I have now is essentially sub-standard versions of that.

I assume that.

www.myspace.com/tracktitional Old songs..

I don't think its a defined as you can say 'any' fool can shred, but undoubtedly, 'many' can, and many do. Watching that Rusty Cooley video gives me a headache, its old and its boring.

ah, sorry..

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9168901605550047950&q=bass+solo

This is true, guys like Rusty, Becker etc have reached ridiculous levels of technical playing. Its awesome to watch, I just feel aspiring to this kind of thing is worthless as you will never be as good. With jazz there is a much more prominent element of individuality, in that, you can be leagues below the pros but generally still offer something creative and original.

Yeah, Rusty is impressive, but you have to be a moron to aspire to that.

I liked the way Jodie Marsh jumped on the morale high-ground by condemning (trying to) fur coats only to be slated by the others then claiming to be 'picked on.'

Ridiculously fast guitar playing was around in jazz for practically a century before the 80s came along.

Theres been few times I've been more impressed than this, the musicianship here succeeds any 'shredder,' I think thats undeniable.

God thats profound.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7090390871482877555&q=jazz

Maybe not scary, but pretty depressing.

I think all music is technically over-rated, though the actual meaning of that phrase becomes pretty hazy. Every musician's music will always be marketed by people trying to make money off the back of him, subsequently trying to hype him in an effort to 'sell' him. Not a true picture really. Even in the case of a purer, untouched form of music, possibly a local act or even bedroom guitarist. Word-of-mouth only consists of opinion of Mr A influencing a the more critical opinion of Mr B who bad mouths Mr A's judgement to angsty teenage Mr C who happens to love aforementioned group etc etc.. It is impossible to say whether something is musically over-rated or not. Due to the nature of music being subjective, all people can ever offer is opinion. Basically, this thread was destined to turn into a 'who do you dislike thread,' especially with the lack of thought anyone here can apply. However I propose for the time being that, regardless of how impossible it is to say, a band who's recent success is largely based around media hype as opposed to actual musical virtue would be, as previously mentioned (I know theres some contradiction in this) a group like Oasis or U2. Oh, and Chick Corea is awesome

How exactly did you 'locate' it?

Ditto. Must say though, never had a good 'un..

I saw a piece in the P+j about religious types requesting your mate to be crucified! Firm but fair I think

Its not the kind of thing you can simply label 'bad'. It performs every film convention in the book - same old romances, battles, emotions etc. Essentially its perfectly tailored for a standard crowd looking for a good story with some spectacular effects. But in all honesty, it was proper retard stuff. Bored outta my face for three and half hours.

Think about this: -Benjamin Franklin