bayoubill
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I can play a Mozart piece on my guitar and I get yawned at but the sec I do some thing like eruption they say" what a player".
 
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Eruption? As in Focus 3? (The album with Hocus Pocus)

Moshkito

bayoubill
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I can play a Mozart piece on my guitar and I get yawned at but the sec I do some thing like eruption they say" what a player".
 
...

Eruption? As in Focus 3? (The album with Hocus Pocus)

 
I doubt it...
 

Jesse Screed
You old guys slay me.
 
This is about the nth "what's wrong with kids these days," thread in the last month.  I think I'll start a thread called "old people know everything except when to stfu."
 
You all need to search a bit more.  There are some fantastic musicians from my generation that can play well, and want to do more than shred. 
 
It gets kind of old hearing how stupid, lazy, spoiled, and lowbrow we kids are. 
 
Sorry for the rant, go ahead, ban me, or pillory me, or ignore me, or whatever else you old farts do when someone young calls out your BS.
 
The coffee house is all yours gramps.
 
Jesse Q. Screed

 
 
this

SteveStrummerUK

Moshkito

bayoubill
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I can play a Mozart piece on my guitar and I get yawned at but the sec I do some thing like eruption they say" what a player".
 
...

Eruption? As in Focus 3? (The album with Hocus Pocus)

 
I doubt it...
 

I much prefer Jan Akkerman's opus ... much more interesting. 

 
 
I quite like Glenn Tipton's approach where he once said that a solo shouldn't be there for its own sake, rather that it should actually add something to the song as a whole.
 
It's probably why the guy is so criminally underrated and under-appreciated by most with only a fleeting knowledge of the Priest back catalogue. It also goes someway to explaining why him (and KK to an extent) were never happy to allow the guitar aspect of the songs stagnate. They even gave synth guitars a try for the Turbo album.
 
Tipton is a master tapper, but he only uses it when he considers it works (e.g. Hell Bent for Leather, Electric Eye), instead of using it every solo, just because he can. Same with sweeping, it was obviously the 'in' thing for the Painkiller album but only appears occasionally in subsequent releases - my favourite being the passage at around 4:30 in Revelations:
 

Moshkito

SteveStrummerUK

Moshkito

bayoubill
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I can play a Mozart piece on my guitar and I get yawned at but the sec I do some thing like eruption they say" what a player".
 
...

Eruption? As in Focus 3? (The album with Hocus Pocus)

 
I doubt it...
 

I much prefer Jan Akkerman's opus ... much more interesting. 

You forgot to add... in your opinion

SteveStrummerUK
 
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You forgot to add... in your opinion

Are you illiterate? 
 
I did say ... "I much prefer" ... which amounts to the same thing you suggest!
 
 

 
Seriously Pedro, every once in a while you have to look past the four or five bands you obviously worship, and try to appreciate the bigger picture.
 
Whether you like Eruption or not (or the first Van Halen album for that matter), it's a matter of accepted music history that this track shook the whole of rock music to its very core. It doesn't matter what you think or what you say, rock and metal music changed forever after Eruption - for guitarists, for bands in general and for audiences alike.
 
If you cannot even acknowledge this, then you are ignorant of musical history, and your opinion on such matters in both inconsequential and unwarranted.

Moshkito
 
Are you illiterate? 
 

No, my parents were married when they had me.

Jesse Screed
You old guys slay me.
 
This is about the nth "what's wrong with kids these days," thread in the last month.  I think I'll start a thread called "old people know everything except when to stfu."
 
You all need to search a bit more.  There are some fantastic musicians from my generation that can play well, and want to do more than shred. 
 
It gets kind of old hearing how stupid, lazy, spoiled, and lowbrow we kids are. 
 
Sorry for the rant, go ahead, ban me, or pillory me, or ignore me, or whatever else you old farts do when someone young calls out your BS.
 
The coffee house is all yours gramps.
 
Jesse Q. Screed

 Harrumphh......
 
 
 
 
........ and get orf my lawn
 
 
 
 
Steve Q. Strummer Q. UK