Re: COURT JESTER SUIT ON!!!!
I like some shred - the GOOD stuff that fits the song, not the wank that only fits its own wanking.
Look, it's not hard to understand - a guitarist is NOT the core or the main focus of a song, the SONG is. If you write guitar-based instrumentals, then fine, shred and wank away. If you've got a singer out front and you're doing Rock music like Van Halen, then the spotlight stays on the band as a whole at all times, otherwise the song is going to suffer - crappy cliche lyrics and themes and the same old tired melodies and 3rd-grade rhymes just to serve as filler until the next geetar wank, which 9 times out of 10 cannot carry the song.
Pick your favorite song of all time with the best solo in it you've ever heard, then re-cut that song with crappy cliche lyrics and listen to it again. Yeah that solo kicks all ass but it's too bad you have to suffer through the crappy cliche lyrics before you get to it. What are you gonna do, skip to the solo?
Ok, fine. But now put out a 12-track disc with crappy cliche lyrics and ripping solos and try to get fans. You may as well put it on the front cover in big yellow letters "PLEASE SKIP ONLY TO THE SOLOS BECAUSE THE SONGS SUCK THAT BAD".
Damn Guvmint wanted labels on stuff for lyrical content, I wanted lyrical quality ratings [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Newc
I like some shred - the GOOD stuff that fits the song, not the wank that only fits its own wanking.
Look, it's not hard to understand - a guitarist is NOT the core or the main focus of a song, the SONG is. If you write guitar-based instrumentals, then fine, shred and wank away. If you've got a singer out front and you're doing Rock music like Van Halen, then the spotlight stays on the band as a whole at all times, otherwise the song is going to suffer - crappy cliche lyrics and themes and the same old tired melodies and 3rd-grade rhymes just to serve as filler until the next geetar wank, which 9 times out of 10 cannot carry the song.
Pick your favorite song of all time with the best solo in it you've ever heard, then re-cut that song with crappy cliche lyrics and listen to it again. Yeah that solo kicks all ass but it's too bad you have to suffer through the crappy cliche lyrics before you get to it. What are you gonna do, skip to the solo?
Ok, fine. But now put out a 12-track disc with crappy cliche lyrics and ripping solos and try to get fans. You may as well put it on the front cover in big yellow letters "PLEASE SKIP ONLY TO THE SOLOS BECAUSE THE SONGS SUCK THAT BAD".
Damn Guvmint wanted labels on stuff for lyrical content, I wanted lyrical quality ratings [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Newc
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