The Logic Off Topic list

At 12:00 PM +0200 6/24/01, Sascha Franck wrote:
>Btw, I once say Yngwie Malmsteen live (no, I didn't pay a penny
>for it! Was at Frankfurt/Musikmesse) and he was like one of the most
>disgusting persons I ever "met" (I've been hanging out backstage so I had an
>even better impression) and his music was just the same.

He always comes off like a creep in interviews as well.


>What I wonder about is that almost all of the mentioned "gods/heroes" are
>like wellknown for mostly their soloing. What you hear on records 95% of all
>the time is rhythm playing though - or let me better say accompanying.

Seems to me like most of the ones mentioned were in trios so that 
does not seem like a very logical conclusion.

>Robert Fripp ("Discipline" of King
>Crimson with him, Belew, Levin, Bruford has got to be one of my alltime
>favourites),

They all solo and play rhythm in about equal proportions in that 
band.  That line up of King Crimson is probably tied for 1st place 
with The Who in my personal list as well.  I saw both bands twice 
back when I was a twerp and was moved to tears by both.


>
>I find it somewhat amazing how guitarists are allways practising licks and
>speed patterns without ever taking care about the basics of accompaning a
>tune. Almost all of the jobs I am asked for are dealing with ryhthm guitars,
>knowing some tunes and chords. Additional soloing allways only happens to be
>the icing on the cake.

Music is the mating call of the Human.  That's why we are always 
reflexively trying to outdo each other in the flashiest possible way.
-- 


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