mr dave

well... you make one liners throughout this thread, then call a clearly melodic piece 'noise'. what else am i supposed to think? gee, good thing i went out of my way to put together a half decent reply so it can be written off with more one liners?


anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, on a personal level it's all about flea in this competition, the chili peppers moved me far more than any other band i've ever heard. the who is just another really good classic rock act to my ears.

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Violent & Funky

I listened to the videos you put together and gave you an honest opinion?

For the record, I did in fact say I enjoyed the third video. I wish said musician would stick to that style, but hey, different strokes.

I feel exactly the same way, obviously. Flea is one of my favorite musicians. I just like his style and the genre of music he has played in much more than Entwisle, who I have much respect for...

mr dave

sorry i guess it's just misinterpretation. the use of the term 'noise' threw me off i guess. a melodic solo piece might be boring or cheesy or wank-tastic but so long as there's still some harmony and melody present i can't call it 'noise'. especially compared to some of the actual noise tracks out there.

on the plus side, it seems we can both definitely agree on flea (although i prefer freaky styley over the self titled )

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Oh I def do too, but I much prefer the album art from the first. Freaky Styley and Uplift Mofo are two of my all-time favorite albums. Although I prefer Les Claypool over "the squarepusher"...

mr dave

have to agree on that album cover as well hehe. with the exception of blood sugar sex magic their album cover art never did much for me.

as for claypool, as you said earlier different strokes heheh. it's not that i don't like him or admire his talents i just don't find his output to really stretch out that much. he plays rock songs with freak out bass and that's about it. he has tons of ability but i find him almost lacking in diversity. it's like he created his own style and now he's stuck playing it forever.

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Ha! Broke the tie! Entwistle takes it for me.

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mr dave

i've heard some of claypool's more recent output (not sure if anything was totally 'solo') but unless he stops 'singing' and just focuses on playing cool instrumentals i'm pretty sure i'd just as soon go back to my old primus discs.

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I don't think he lacks diversity, guy has like a hundred different side projects and they all do something a little different.

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mr dave

this is what i'm getting at though. take a handful of his tracks from various projects and play them for someone who never really paid attention to claypool or primus besides when 'wynonna's big brown beaver' was all over tv? ultimately how different are those groups to a casual listener? that's what i mean by diversity, not that he's not prolific, but that it's just more of his stuff, you need to be well versed in his material to be able to see the subtleties that divide the other groups.

if the side projects are just a little different than i don't think they really need new names. from what i heard of oysterhead and frog brigade it sounded like more primus with a slight twist, i suppose they needed to use new names due to legalities involved with prior groups but still.

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