Yes, I hate it. Funnily enough, there is one guitarist who can do that, but he's actually a very good all-round guitarist too, and that's Phil X. It helps that he's quite a likeable cheeky chap too, I suppose. Likes his distortion a little too much for me, but he can play it clean extremely well too.
A perfect example of how Gilmour can do more in one note than some in twenty (or fifty in this case!)
Maybe, but when I hear guitar played like that, I get this big stupid grin on my face. That's how I wanted to play when I was 14
Haha, yes, when I first started playing at about 13 years of age, I thought Complicated=Good. Hence listening to Rush a lot back in the day! I learnt fairly quickly on that front though (except Rush are still an occasional guilty pleasure!)
Awful. And to think Mozart was once accused of writing an opera with too many notes [according to Peter Shaffer]. I think if they wiped out about 4/5ths of those it would be better. But only slightly.
Just called Sky to have a moan about them losing CL football etc - they lopped £30 p/m off my bill. So worth doing if you haven't done so already....!
In my view, PL, you've got completely the right attitude. I don't share your taste in music at all, by the looks of things, but I do know that with music, you can never let anyone tell you what should be listened to in order to fine tune or 'fix' your own taste. Music means something completely different to every listener, and I would go as far as to say that you are actually anti-fashion (rather than all fashion, as I think a poster mentioned, although I know what they meant) - particularly if you are a grown man. Coming on here and trying to get a predominantly male audience to listen to songs from Glee takes a certain amount of chutzpah, particularly in a Saints forum from a Pompey fan! But seriously, there is no point in sitting down to listen to, say, a Pink Floyd album in full because you apparently should do according to the majority of men of a certain age group. That's just a waste of time really if you know what you like and what you like is modern pop music. Once a man is in his 20s, it becomes a rite of passage to slate the state of current music (and that's me, my dad, him, his dad, and I bet even you do it! And each era is apparently worse than the one before it, which actually doesn't sound so bad anymore in comparison!) but really, that's a complete myth. It's only with hindsight that anyone appreciates in full any era's musical output. There's no coincidence in the fact that you can look back at any era since the 1950s (that's as far back as I go, though I'm only in my late-30s, so not from that era) and actually make an argument for any decade being the best decade for music. It's all to do with the memories associated with the point when you are a young man with fully open ears and your own free will. The '90s can seem a bit iffy, but most of my favourite bands come from that decade (and they're not the Seattle bands either). Likewise, this decade now is actually an insanely great decade for music - and that will be acknowledged: it's just that that music is so diffuse now in terms of the demographics it gets out to. iTunes and Spotify etc. seem to have perfected the segregation of music, and so the only bit that everyone gets the same is constant X Factor, soundtracks for popular TV, and repetitive radio playlisting run by those paying for ads; we don't have the shared experience of a handful of unanimously popular acts like previously, with which we were able to define a decade's musical worth. X Factor and all that also helps pull the wool over people's eyes, but the fact is, I doubt I've enjoyed a decade for music as much since the '90s, when I came of age in terms of being able to see live music myself etc. I've gone off track, though, but the point I'm making is I say good for you for listening to what you like, rather than what you think you should like. And this is definitely not a dig at any of the posters who've contributed between your original mail and now, as I am exactly the same: I would lock you in a room with the full Tangerine Dream back catalogue as starters, and segue you into The Fall if you survive that; and that alone really would last you until you popped your clogs. Speaking of, by the way, and in regard to the Beach Boys - PL, I really think you would, as a Pompey fan, appreciate the sentiments in Until I Die. Contradicting myself by making a recommendation here, but Brian Wilson never again nailed quite so accurately the futility and neverending daily melancholy of being a Pompey fan.
Couldn't agree more Pelletron, though I think the nudges that have been made toward other bands and tracks (certainly from my part) have been more along the lines of "I think you might appreciate this" as opposed to "here's what you should like" (at least I hope, as that's the spirit in which they're intended). You like what you like. As I think I said in an earlier post, don't ever let anyone tell you that what you like is "wrong".
please log in to view this image This is the one I've got. Magic. Saves having to have a transformer for the 33,482 items in our house that need charging. Only 'leccy through the USB port, though, no data connection. Vin
Brilliant. I could free up practically a whole drawer currently taken up by various chargers with those! On the data thing, remember those baby alarms which connected through the mains? Couldn't a similar principle apply to data transmission?
Bloody hell a 40ft deep hole appeared on a main road in Manchester. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-33929490
Ex ref Uriah Rennie on a really **** TV show on ITV called Freeze Out as a ice ref or some ****. He looks like he will just break down and cry any min.
