RE: rock 'n roll

From: Mark Turner (nugroove@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 08:26:55 MET DST

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    Leslie Shill replied:

    > Mark,
    >
    > Elvis Costello is, quite frankly, unable to play a real guitar
    > solo, even he
    > is able to warble a note or three.

    Maybe, but he uses difficult chord structures. Anyway, I never meant to
    imply he WAS a particularly good guitarist, only that I prefer rock music
    that doesn't place as much emphasis on the guitar work.

    > The guitar players I chose for
    > that list
    > were the guitar monsters and listed them for that reason. Now, having said
    > that, were I to list all my fave gutiar players period, the list
    > would look
    > quite different, then I would have to include Wes Montgomery,
    > Sonny Sharrock
    > and a host of others. I was looking for waht people perceived as
    > being rock.
    > The idea was not to insist that who I thought were best were just so, but
    > instead to try and elicit some opinions, remember this all started with
    > Corgie and his hiccupy Pumpkin friends.

    Agreed, and I wasn't trying to criticize your list but rather using it as a
    jumping off point to try and characterize MY personal taste.

    > Now, having said that
    > Mark, I would
    > hardly call Hendrix a guitar wanker,

    Maybe not, but he's certainly been the inspiration for many a guitar wank
    since then. ;-)

    > I could make cogent arguments for
    > all of these musicians, the beauty of lists however is to see the
    > differences in people's tastes. I play the guitar so I am inclined toward
    > guitar players. Still, Elvis Costello is an equally acquired taste and
    > personally, rather twee and faint for me. As I said I want to hear what
    > other people consider rock, to me Costello is a songwriter who uses some
    > rock elements but does he really rock?

    He rocks as much as The Beatles ever did.

    > I am more inclined toward the
    > headbanging when I think of rock.

    I always considered headbanging to be a pejorative description.

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