John Sykes, Yngwie Malmsteen, Gary Moore and a few others

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Echoes":e7579 said:
Digital Jams":e7579 said:
Where GG has gone career wise is very odd, the man has so much talent it is not funny but his cd sales are in the dirt and I have no idea why.
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because the average joe/josephine-Q CD buyer is not impressed with 'licks' ...they want something they can put into their CD/mp3 player and connect with emotionally or spiritually... on a basis that transcends sheer musical ability or even brilliance. That's why the Kurt Cobains will always outsell the Guthrie Govans...if your 'goal' as a musician is to sell a bunch of 'product' and play the poparazzi game then becoming an outstanding musician is not the quickest or smartest route.
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I have to disagree with licks thing, GG has some very good songs on that disk and it is not a shredfest.

I am not saying that he needs to go gold but the numbers are really small and I feel bad for him about that.
 
Echoes":ec9cd said:
Digital Jams":ec9cd said:
Where GG has gone career wise is very odd, the man has so much talent it is not funny but his cd sales are in the dirt and I have no idea why.
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because the average joe/josephine-Q CD buyer is not impressed with 'licks' ...they want something they can put into their CD/mp3 player and connect with emotionally or spiritually... on a basis that transcends sheer musical ability or even brilliance. That's why the Kurt Cobains will always outsell the Guthrie Govans...if your 'goal' as a musician is to sell a bunch of 'product' and play the poparazzi game then becoming an outstanding musician is not the quickest or smartest route.
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I agree with this and I'll also throw in that another reason why Guthrie Didn't sell a lot of cd's is because of pirating. His cd was on the net not more then 10 minutes after it was released. people can justify dl'ing stuff all they want but it definitely hurts the artist especially the indy artist.
 
Digital Jams":685a9 said:
Echoes":685a9 said:
Digital Jams":685a9 said:
Where GG has gone career wise is very odd, the man has so much talent it is not funny but his cd sales are in the dirt and I have no idea why.
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because the average joe/josephine-Q CD buyer is not impressed with 'licks' ...they want something they can put into their CD/mp3 player and connect with emotionally or spiritually... on a basis that transcends sheer musical ability or even brilliance. That's why the Kurt Cobains will always outsell the Guthrie Govans...if your 'goal' as a musician is to sell a bunch of 'product' and play the poparazzi game then becoming an outstanding musician is not the quickest or smartest route.
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I have to disagree with licks thing, GG has some very good songs on that disk and it is not a shredfest.

I am not saying that he needs to go gold but the numbers are really small and I feel bad for him about that.
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I agree with you Scott but the normal Joe Schmo wont hear what you are saying and even moreso because they will never get to hear it on the radio.
 
Back to the topic! :doh:

Other players with nice vibrato: John Norum, Kee Marcello, Demartini...
 
Jakem":604a3 said:
Back to the topic! :doh:

Other players with nice vibrato: John Norum, Kee Marcello, Demartini...
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EVH, Lynch..................
 
Jakem":1c039 said:
Back to the topic! :doh:

Other players with nice vibrato: John Norum, Kee Marcello, Demartini...
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Blackmore, Uli Jon Roth, Warren Haynes, Duanne Allman, Leslie West, Randy Bachman, Montrose, etc...etc...
 
I have belived that vibrato is the most inportent thing in a players sound for a very long time. Much more than gear or anything else for that matter. { who is this mister Hampster :scared: }
 
Rafael Moreira has a killer vibrato, as does Andy Timmons. Those are probably my favourites.
 
I whish somebody would give GM a good beating with his LP, what a dumbfuck he is.

I saw him a couple of weeks ago at a festival in Holland. His own concert was rather meh, he had a bunch of fuckups and all I heard from him was weeedly-weedly-weeh.

Top of the bill on the smaller tent-stage was John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. They had an extra Marshall and 4x12 so I was hoping he'd invite Joe Bonamassa on stage (he played before Mayall) but sadly (no kidding) it was Moore he joined them. He played 3 songs with them and if I was Mayall, I'd kicked him off the stage after the first. Not only did he manage to ruin another song with his weedly-wee, he also was wanking throughout Mayall's harmonica solo. Then to top it off, in the last song, Mayall gave Moore and Buddy Withington (his own guitarist) the signal to do a trade-off lead. This was a standard 12-bar blues, so Gary starts and does not play 4 bars (as you would normally do), he plays the entire 12-bars in this most outrageous wank, Withington cames in a killed him with 10 well placed notes, then when he was only 4 bars into his lead, Moore came in and started to wank again. The look on Mayall's and Withington's faces was priceless. GM was just an obnoxious prick, great player or not, showing some courtesy is the least he could have done.
 
I love Gary Moore but I'm not into his blues stuff...I like the Cooridors of Power and Victims of the Future era better. I don't care how kick-ass blues can be, I just get bored with it after about 2 minutes
 
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