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I know by now someone's said this but I can't restrain - what does making it
big have to do with how "rocking" something is?

As to guitar being more intrinsically rocking than keyboards - I think that
depends on your definiton of what rocking means.  In the more conventional
rock genre definition, I think by that very definition it will be.  But on
the other hand I would personally find something like a Chemical Brothers
piece or specifically Schooly D's "PSK - What Does it Mean?" or many Public
Enemy songs as rocking as anything by the Who or Kinks or Sex Pistols.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Gunn" <mightyjohn@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [L-OT] guitar gods


> At 12:19 AM +0100 6/24/01, John Matthews wrote:
> >
> >that to me is what is so magical about the guitar- the personal
expression
> >that is possible. The favourite players I mentioned all definitely have
> >that. The guitar to me is probably the closest  instrument in terms of
> >expression you can get to the human voice, and, incidentally, most of my
> >favourite guitar players are also good singers as well. The rest maybe
are
> >frustrated/not confident singers??????
>
> It is the defining instrument of the rock ensemble and is very
> flexible for the kind of rhythm and soloing expression required in
> that context, but as far as simple free expressiveness goes I think a
> violin or sax could eat it alive.  Problem is its not very easy to
> make a Rock power trio with violin bass and drums or sax bass and
> drums that could do convincing Zepplin covers.
>
> Somebody (a rather insecure individual actually) took issue with my
> saying that a guitar is a more rocking instrument than a keyboard
> once but a simple look at the last 45 years of Rock history should
> make the statement about as controversial as the likelyhood of a
> sunrise tomorrow.  Count and compare the number of guitar-drum-bass
> trios that made it big as compared to the number of key-drum-bass
> trios that made it big and then tell me otherwise.
>
> This is not a slam on keyboardists who are IMHO as a group more
> proficient musicians than guitarists on the average.  It is more like
> simply physics and the requirements of the genre.
> --
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