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Hmmm, I think that the whole virtuoso machismo "I'm-better-than-you"
mentality is what has turned me off to a lot of mainstream guitarists,
particularly the flashy ones.  Since I don't intend to reproduce, maybe
that's why given this line of thought...

How about Johnny Ramone!?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Gunn" <mightyjohn@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [L-OT] guitar gods


> At 5:24 PM -0400 6/24/01, GAmoore@... wrote:
> >  >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.
>
> >Its a male thing - chicks don't care about solos - they care about
> >emotional content. Why do you think the singer gets all the best babes?
>
> Yes and no.  It is the reality that the chicks don't care as much for
> the long screaming wank but really musical stuff does have the
> desired effect.   Also for humans just like any other animal the
> mating competition is intended to impress the other males as much as
> it is the females.
>
> Its like with mountain goats.  I doubt if the ewes give a shit which
> ram smashes in the other ones skull and earns the right to get laid.
> The ewe just wants to get laid and is going to regardless of the
> outcome, so it's more of a vital interest between the rams which one
> gets the big payoff and which just gets the big head ache.
>
> I get the feeling he goal of the kid practicing starts out to be to
> develop the ability to make decent music so he can get the chick,
> then it becomes the ability beat out all the other guitar players
> vying for a spot in the band, then after he does, it's the wish to
> shout to the world including the chick "hey look at me, I blew away
> all those other guys and I'm the best that's why I'm here".  That the
> guitar wank becomes longer and longer is just an extension "look at
> me, look at me and not the singer, look at me and keep looking at me
> a long time".
>
> And even if it does work better to be as a singer it works to be a
> guitar player pretty damn well too hence Jimmy page and his whips,
> which I doubt if he would get away with if he was simply a grocery
> checker.
>
> Me, I'm the singer *and* the guitar player.  :-)
>
> And BTW, really, why do you insist on bottom quoting and leave me to
> clean up the mess when doing it right to begin with is so fucking
> easy?
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