Thread: Oh My God, how good are AC/DC..

Originally Posted by tekbow

great vids tony!

I like 'pauls too, but i like the punch of strats thru an old cranked marshall. This is my personal pref obviously as there have been many many (x 1000) great songs played with pauls thru marshalls, but for me when playing, i always find that tone a little flubby.. thats down to me as a player though and my lack of ability.

Nonsense... I'm a drummer... My leanings toward the Pauls are only based on what was being blasted into my head from the floor monitors nestled under my snare and toms. I survived many guitarists. My personal favorites were those that played Gibsons into Marshalls. Fenders into Peavees where recipies for nosebleeds. My floor monitors, and my ears, favored the deeper tones. I'm afraid I can still pick out those tones - those only tones my ears still receive over the tinitus - to this day.

I have played with 'talented' Fender owners who upon listening to my pleas, made slight adjustments to the front controls and the 'foot stack'... and made those vintage Fenders growl like lions.

The vai/satriani/malmsteen cover is good, but i think malmsteen always over plays.. There was something vicseral about hendrix that noone has replicated since, that guitar was screaming like it was alive. hmm, actually, don't flame but prince comes close. everyone always overlooks him. I can play those note progressions but it just doesn't and won't ever sound like jimi

Drop a hit of microdot, turn the pre-amp up to 11 the master to 9 and use the rear pickup.

On the subject of the virtuosos.. here's a tune that doesn't suck. It's steve vai doing the unusual thing of playing for the tune instead of being a technical wizard, and you know what..? he's very very very good



his inner hendrix is coming out

Yes... he's very good.

Here's something that's not been mentioned and like Belushi... Freddy could have given us so much more... I'd have survived his feathers and such so long as he kept belting them out... but... Noooooo!

As we honor the technician's... the mechanics... the tool makers...

Let's not forget the vocalists... the leaders... the visionarys... the little people that pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and kicked us all in our butts.

Queen was indeed a great band and Freddie Mercury was a beast of a lead singer. Perhaps one of the most profoundly idiotic thoughts that ever ran through my mind was when I first heard he had died of aids. Voice in my head says, "AIDS!!?? How did that happen, Freddie's not even gay....well, wait a minute...that would explain a number of things (i.e. feather boas, name of his band, etc.)" From that day to this, I still marvel at how stupid that thought was and the fact that it never occurred to me he was gay. But hey, I was young at the time.

But alas, I do digress, I find it utterly amazing that 32 posts in, these guys have still not appeared:
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