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Old 09-21-2014, 01:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
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for Velvet Revolver has that great 70s-90s commercial rock sound behind it, & Axl seems to think he's Elton John.
Fixed the first part for you and I'd sooner eat my dinner listening to Elton John than Axl Rose.

Or do you mean Scott Weiland? If you do then I'd take him everyday over both Axl and Elton.
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Fixed the first part for you and I'd sooner eat my dinner listening to Elton John than Axl Rose.

Or do you mean Scott Weiland? If you do then I'd take him everyday over both Axl and Elton.
Depending on the song I might actually agree with you in the case of Axl. I'm not the biggest Elton John fan, but he's generally fun. Of course I haven't dug into his non-single songs.
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Of course I haven't dug into his non-single songs.
I didn't think he did anything other than hit single songs.

Now that I've mentioned that, I sure some smart ass will mention all the sophisticated prog rock and art rock songs that I never knew about.
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I didn't think he did anything other than hit single songs.

Now that I've mentioned that, I sure some smart ass will mention all the sophisticated prog rock and art rock songs that I never knew about.
No, I won't.
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One of the best songs with Axl Rose was "Welcome to the Jungle". That was a good song.
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Fixed the first part for you and I'd sooner eat my dinner listening to Elton John than Axl Rose.

Or do you mean Scott Weiland? If you do then I'd take him everyday over both Axl and Elton.
lol, well I guess it depends upon your personal music taste. I came from the school of punk and in terms of a hard rock sound I love AC/DC Van Halen Motley Crue extra, but I loathed that Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam sound from day one. So no I'm not particularly into Scott Weiland or Slash's change in guitar style.

Henry Rollins says it best in this video years ago, forward to around 3:05
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I get what you're saying but think Paco de Lucia, Eddie Van Halen and Joe Satriani all have a bit more variety than Slash.
Well yaaaaw, they're a whole other ball park, miles above Slash. BUT, I've never heard Paco play rock, Van Halen play a beautiful melody, or Joe Satch play some gritty blues...

What Slash does though, the power-ballad rock-hero wah-wah wailing solo, I think he does better than anyone else out there. In my limited experience, anyway, as more of a classical, jazz, flamenco, avant kind of guy...

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I'm not familiar with Sabicas, but thank you for mentioning him. ...not really a fan of flamenco vocals...
ANYTHING by Sabicas is top notch. He's, quite likely, the most famous and revered tocaor in Flamenco history. Very refined, almost classical, very technical but expressive, and with an AMAZING right hand. Holy Moly WOW.

I get what you're saying about the Flamenco vocals. I grew up around a lot of Andalusian and Middle Eastern dance music, my mother having a large collection from her belly dancer days, but it took me years to get used to the husky, wailey, non-equal-temperament singing.

But yeah, CHECK OUT ALL OF SABICAS. Start with "Arabian Dance." There are a bunch of version (He was very pro-improv) and NONE of them are less than fantastic.

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Holy crap. What the **** was that. I have listened to all his albums and I completely forgot that track because of how awful it is.
I wish I could forget it. But, I do like to pull it out every couple years and challenge someone to find me a worse piece of music...

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...I loathed that Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam...
Awwww, I LOVE Eddie vedder and Pearl Jam! They go down in my book of Rock Greats...

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Henry Rollins says it best in this video years ago...
I agree with nearly every joke he cracked, but I have to say this. There is some truly phenomenal, high-art DJ-ing out there, from the guys who've really started it. It's not all just Wiki-wiki-wooooow.

Man, I love Eric B...

Aaaand, many apologies for getting so off topic. i shall cease and desist. =D
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