HOUSTON_M wrote:Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew on "Frame By Frame" - fancy, yes; crap, no.

goddamn right.

Rodabod wrote:Come on, Adam. You know that Michael Angelo has better technique, a way cooler "axe", and most importantly, he's faster!

Just wait 'til you get to around 1:40 - it gets better.

The funniest thing about this angelo video is the fact that this scrawny little beanpole of a dude is wearing a golds gym shirt with the sleeves cut off. I also like when he looks up & stares into the camera with that blank look on his face. Yep, you're a sexy shredder mike.

and his butt-ugly guitar has 30 frets. pure class.

interloper wrote:

HOUSTON_M wrote:Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew on "Frame By Frame" - fancy, yes; crap, no.

Adrian's solo records are always great. I recommend Op Zop To Wah the most. Unlike an awful lot of his guitar playing peers, he doesn't make music for other strictly guitar players.

And then him in the context of the Talking Heads is of course, nothing short of pure brilliance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK6_7N33S_8

Tina Weymouth looks like my avatar/self in this video.
Verlaine and Lloyd-rock musicians, also fancy but not the crap, no?
Also, isn't Adam CR big on Richard Thompson? The short solo in 'I'll Regret it all in the Morning' transcribes an entire lifetime of longing and regret into a few notes that make me want to cry like a baby. Sometimes when he's playing live he'll raz off a bit of jiz for the crowd, but by and large he's above the fancy, although he does have total mastery of it.

Isabelle Gall wrote:Also, isn't Adam CR big on Richard Thompson?

Yes.

Richard Thompson is very accomplished as a guitarist but it doesn't define him; he's a musician.

He's one of the few guitarists who has a "voice"; he has something to say and his playing is articulate.

Michael Angelo is a guitarist I can't watch or listen to without mild despair; all that dexterity and mastery of scales and he produces a constant attack filled with redundant notes, too many notes and you lose any tang the intervals can have.

I can respect the acoustic classical guitar style but it doesn't move me as music.

Someone please show us some more ELECTRIC guitar playing!

interloper wrote:

HOUSTON_M wrote:Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew on "Frame By Frame" - fancy, yes; crap, no.

Adrian's solo records are always great. I recommend Op Zop To Wah the most. Unlike an awful lot of his guitar playing peers, he doesn't make music for other strictly guitar players.

And then him in the context of the Talking Heads is of course, nothing short of pure brilliance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK6_7N33S_8

I prefer the old Talking Heads. They were a trio originally, for crying out loud. What's this business with 2 drummers, 2 bassists, 2 keyboardists?

Into the arena rock overdose.

The intro to Prince's "When Doves Cry".

How about the outro to "Let's Go Crazy"? Crazy.

I've heard that man do nothing but James Brown covers for 2 hours, and he did it far, far better than Eddie Murphy.

I like "Let's Go Crazy" just fine. I guess I'm just a sucker for the weird, sort-of fast, octaved orientalism of the "When Doves Cry" intro, especially how it so smoothly leads into the next part.