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Afterwards I was getting food at Taco Bell and some guy comes in and asks if we want to meet the bass player from Nirvana and tells us the room number of a hotel down the street. We figured what hte hell and went and knock on the door and sure enough, there he was listening to the Doors and chilling with some other fans. Talk to him for a while and then there is a knock on the door from the adjoining room and in comes Pat Smear, the #2 guitarist that had recently joined the group. Kind of a surreal experience. |
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10-25-2007, 09:55 PM | #42 | |
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I would be WAY more interested in meeting pat smear that krist novoselic. I'd love to hear his Germs stories. Of course, I would rather meet the Deal sisters more than Pat Smear, but that was before they gained all that weight.
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10-25-2007, 10:22 PM | #43 | |
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I saw that same show at the Berkeley Greek Theater. GLJ were ran off the stage by a steady pelting of pennies and lighters. No one was there to see them. ENB played several Doors' covers that night and opened with “I Left My Heart in SFO”. Top notch. |
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10-25-2007, 11:13 PM | #44 | |
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My favorite bands would include Dream Theater and Storyhill, among others, and I defy anyone to opine that those aren't immensely talented bands. I specifically listed Evanescence and Metallica as guilty pleasures, as they are indeed quite mediocre. Music used to be my life. I used to be quite an accomplished guitar player, in a band, and constantly listening to all sorts of diverse music. That's all over now, and I admit to being much more lazy in my efforts to find decent music. Last edited by woot; 10-25-2007 at 11:15 PM. |
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Your admission to being lazy about music is exactly the point I am making...and it is likely what led you to bands like evanescence. When you were more serious about music, it is probably less likely that you would have invested time in them, but perhaps no. We all have our guilty pleasures, myself included. Rock on for playing the guitar. That is a wonderful talent. I am a mediocre guitar player, at best, but enjoy it tremendously. I will play for my kids and we sing songs or primary tunes together. It is a lot of fun. I wish I had your skills, though. I am not being falsely modest, either. I suck. I would make an average rhythm guitarist. Noodling is not in my basket of tricks. Muddy Waters once said that he found it difficult to strum, so I take solace knowing that.
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I'm more of a fingerstyle guy myself, and despite his metro-pop image, I find that John Mayer's stuff is among the most fun to play. The kid knows chord structure. You're right that there's no way I ever would have given Evanescence the time of day before, but I listen to music so rarely anymore that they serve my modest purposes well enough now. |
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As to guitar playing, I have strummed abit here and there, but I wouldnt' want to embarrass myself in the presence of someone who is willing to proclainm publicly that they are an 'accomplished' guitarist. So I won't. Btw, I wish I couldn't strum like Muddy Waters, if you know what I mean.
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10-26-2007, 12:19 AM | #48 | |
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My lament is that it does not seem that there are others here who enjoy music as an active hobby (be it good music or bad music). By active hobby, I mean, are you going to shows, are you out record shopping (or disc shopping), do you read about new bands or follow them, etc....OR, do you listen to the radio and determine what you like based off a playlist that some old stuffed suit at ClearChannel decided he wants you to hear and purchase? It isnt that big of a deal, though. I love talking about sports and politics, too. Good music is like pornography. I know it when I see it....er, hear it. Your guitar skills sound comparable to mine. I play for my children now, until they can get to an age where they can detect that I suck. Once that happens and they no longer appreciate my musings, I get revenge by putting them under tremendous pressure to excel athletically and academically.
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Shame on creekster for being a charlatan. unless he was actually in the Charlatans UK, in which case, that would be cool and interesting.
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