What are you listening to, right now................
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MiketheSnow that’s why Knofpler is one of the kings.
Never overplays.
It may sound completely contradictory but I love Knopflers playing despite being completely sick of Dire Straits if that makes sense.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MiketheSnow that’s why Knofpler is one of the kings.
Never overplays.
It may sound completely contradictory but I love Knopflers playing despite being completely sick of Dire Straits if that makes sense.
Makes perfect sense to me. I'm at best a 2/10 Guitarist but I've learned enough to understand why people like Knopfler are universally lauded whilst other guitarists who would appear to be "better", are not.
The odd thing is that I'll never be able to play like Hammett, Van Halen, Wylde etc, yet I can cover a lot of Floyd / Knopfler songs but I still know that the latter are better musically.
2 posts in a row where I'm not really making sense. Might be time to hit the politics forum ...
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MiketheSnow that’s why Knofpler is one of the kings.
Never overplays.
It may sound completely contradictory but I love Knopflers playing despite being completely sick of Dire Straits if that makes sense.
Makes perfect sense to me. I'm at best a 2/10 Guitarist but I've learned enough to understand why people like Knopfler are universally lauded whilst other guitarists who would appear to be "better", are not.
The odd thing is that I'll never be able to play like Hammett, Van Halen, Wylde etc, yet I can cover a lot of Floyd / Knopfler songs but I still know that the latter are better musically.
2 posts in a row where I'm not really making sense. Might be time to hit the politics forum ...
Way more than 2 fella
I agree 100%. Some guitarists/bassists have that intangible “touch”. Dave Gilmour ( as you allude to ) is of that ilk too.
Then there’s Jeff Beck who was levels above all except Hendrix and only a notch above Ritchie Blackmore.
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@MN5 a good way of looking at it, with further thought, is that if I play AC/DC, Bon Jovi and what I can of even Metallica (fuck all) is that if I miss a note it doesn’t really matter.
If you miss a note on Gilmour / Knopfler stuff it’s completely broken.
Same applies, perhaps even more so, when i get the timing wrong.
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 a good way of looking at it, with further thought, is that if I play AC/DC, Bon Jovi and what I can of even Metallica (fuck all) is that if I miss a note it doesn’t really matter.
If you miss a note on Gilmour / Knopfler stuff it’s completely broken.
Even more so when i get the timing wrong.
Good point.
I love Zep more than any band, but I think Jeff Beck was a superior guitarist to Jimmy Page.
Apparently JP improvised heaps on stage but JB never did, he always played it exactly as he wanted.
Possibly a similar analogy but then again Beck was absolutely unique whereas loads have imitated Page to some extent.
I’d rate Joe Walsh in a similar vein to Knopfler/ Gilmour. Some beautiful licks and instantly recognisable sound.
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Knopfler's technique (fingerstyle) also gives him a unique sound.
Absolutely.
Beck was like that too, very noticeable here.
Nice bass solo too, I absolutely did not notice that the head fits in snugly between her boobs either. Not once.
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@Tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I guess that this is supposed to be the new Oz rock band, but it's all been done so many times before. They're okay, and they've been around for a while, but I'll forget it immediately. Nothing new.
That is by FAR one of her/their worst songs. Would recommend checking out some of the other stuff.
When you're invited to guest in a Sleaford Mods song - you're not exactly 'boring'.
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@Kruse said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I guess that this is supposed to be the new Oz rock band, but it's all been done so many times before. They're okay, and they've been around for a while, but I'll forget it immediately. Nothing new.
That is by FAR one of her/their worst songs. Would recommend checking out some of the other stuff.
When you're invited to guest in a Sleaford Mods song - you're doing something right.
Still baffled how this lot made it
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Kruse said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I guess that this is supposed to be the new Oz rock band, but it's all been done so many times before. They're okay, and they've been around for a while, but I'll forget it immediately. Nothing new.
That is by FAR one of her/their worst songs. Would recommend checking out some of the other stuff.
When you're invited to guest in a Sleaford Mods song - you're doing something right.
Still baffled how this lot made it
What a pair of absolutely talentless piston wristed gibbons
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@Tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Kruse I'm quite familiar with them, and thought they were ... okay. That release had a "bigger" sound and a budget for a video. It was ... okay.
Fair enough. I quite like some of their other stuff. That "more mainsteam" song/video... not so much. Just bland nothingness.
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i fucking love fuzzy desert metal (even if one is British and one is Scandinavian)
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Haven't listened to this for a couple of decades. Great songs and performances (as band they were tight) but it's the production that is stunning. Clarity, balance and arrangement is simply sublime and so fresh.
George Martin really was a genius.
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@Victor-Meldrew I also like this version
