If Prince isn’t on the short list for “greatest multi-instrumentalist in pop history” along with Stevie Wonder … well, I mean, who else is even on that list?penningtron wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:02 amAnthony Flack wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:38 amYeah, that same solo could have conceivably been played by any blueshammer rando and no one would give a shit. But Prince was a 'good entertainer', no doubt.But the number of people who seem to think that Prince playing some reheated Hendrix A minor pentatonic bullshit over My Guitar Gently Weeps is the greatest feat of musicianship ever witnessed, and calling him the greatest multi-instrumentalist in pop history while guys like Stevie Wonder are still kicking, I find it quite baffling.
Far too easy, to the point of being untrue. How many people do you know actually love The Doors? Among record nerds they're as universally panned as Nickelback (play one and then the other if you want some contrast for insufferable). Granted, Morrison was an irredeemably pretentious ass hat, but musically they were pretty cool. Also a major influence on bands like Joy Division. It is very in style to hate the Doors.The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:37 pm
Since the too-easy answer to the question of “things has The Collective decided are cultural touchstones but are actually bullshit” is The Doors,
Man...ErikG wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:46 pm OVERRATED:
Reeves Gabrels.
David Lynch.
Most actors.
Roundwound bass strings.
The Smile.
losthighway wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:56 pm Granted, Morrison was an irredeemably pretentious ass hat, but musically they were pretty cool.
It's fun watching him plod through four note riffs as the second guitar in The Cure tho. Not a fan of his shred-wank, but I do enjoy that Bowie track where he had to play the solo on one string at a time - DB giving him the nod to move from the E to A, D, G, etc.numberthirty wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:24 pmMan...
You are lucky if folks can even successfully tell you who the guy is.
Can you actually be overrated under those circumstances?
I love The Doors! Why does everyone here hate them? I genuinely do not understand. Morrison’s lyrics are fabulous. You are all nuts : /losthighway wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:56 pmFar too easy, to the point of being untrue. How many people do you know actually love The Doors? Among record nerds they're as universally panned as Nickelback (play one and then the other if you want some contrast for insufferable). Granted, Morrison was an irredeemably pretentious ass hat, but musically they were pretty cool. Also a major influence on bands like Joy Division. It is very in style to hate the Doors.The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:37 pm
Since the too-easy answer to the question of “things has The Collective decided are cultural touchstones but are actually bullshit” is The Doors,
etch wrote: yeah the poetry is dumb, and Morrison sounds like he was an obnoxious human being, but he was in his early twenties when he wrote most of that stuff, so I cut him some slack.
jimmy spako wrote:ripping off rimbaud, who had renounced poetry by that age. no need for slack-cutting. his lyrics just suck.
reminds me of being in high school & partying at a good friend's older brother's shack. the doors were the shack soundtrack. said friend's older brother had taken to writing morrison inspired poetry. i remember one that was so epiphanic that it had to be tacked to the wall. the last lines read:
i have lived before:
encore
CRAP
& now i have to go. the blue bus is calling me.
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