Oh my goodness, this so much. No reason for him to be known by a nickname like that. He isn't Slash.
There is a great documentary, It Might Get Loud that I love to watch. It features two all time influential guitarists and...a borderline hack from U2. I guess they had trouble finding a third.
It can definitely get a little over the top, but worth remembering there are a fair number of people who actually talk like that.
I was actually going to post this in the Beatles/Stones thread but this is the perfect place for it...
I cannot, for the life of me, understand the love given to the Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds". I have tried over and over again to listen to it with an open mind. Still don't get it.
"That young man has an extra step on his ladder the rest of us just don't have."
Milk.
Why? Why do people drink milk that comes from a cow's teat?
I hate country music. Especially what they call country music today. Garbage.
~rthomas
Cell Phones!
Garbage is one of my favorite bands. They're the love child of techno and grunge. But I'm with you on country music*.
Musically, Bob Dylan is who I don't get. But I acknowledge that he is widely respected - especially among professional musicians (who know musicianship better than I do).
* may have posted this before - still looking for the source. I have a memory of a movie, 80s teen comedy not unlike Say Anything or Better Off Dead, but it's apparently not one of those. There's a HS graduation going on, and a student speaker gets up and tells the crowd something like this (keep in mind the cold war context of the time): "It is my hope ... that the peoples of the world ... will unite to stop the proliferation of ... country music." As a rocker from Detroit, it really resonated with me, but the irony is that country only became more and more popular from that time to today - even in Detroit. Anyone know where that came from, or did I dream it? Have tried to google it before with no luck.
I know what you mean about Dylan. For me, I don't really enjoy listening to him perform most of his songs. BUT. He was an incredible songwriter. Really excellent lyrics. Any time an artist I even moderately like does a Bob Dylan cover it is usually phenomenal. To me, Dylan's greatness has almost nothing to do with his musical performances and everything to do with his songwriting.
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