If you read my profile, you know I live in a state that is basically the musical void of the world. We have nay an original band that has ever made it big, unless you include Spill Canvas. Not exactly legendary stuff.
So day after day, I get to inform people of good music. People who like Metallica, I introduce them to Dream Theater. Everybody wins: I get to talk good music with a few people, they get to have their ears raped by Petrucci. Although by saying "Metallica fans", 99% have heard Enter Sandman and thats it... but whatever.
But I always have this opinion that people tend to just shut me out for.
Slash is a big pile of shit.
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Even on UG here.
"Slash never had it?.....I don't know where this guy has been for the last 20 some odd years in which Slash has been a rock guitarist juggernaut having sold over 100,000,000 albums with his name on them...."
*facepalm* I don't even want to go there with this comment.
"Come back when you sell as many albums as this guy, He basically defined rock and roll for a generation of kids and Guns N Roses were probably the last "great rock band" IMO. You have no right to say the man is talentless when its your opinion...."
I love that last sentence. I love it. That is humor at its finest. Not only is that second sentence just as ridiculous of an opinion... I wish I had a right to an opinion.
And then there's all this talk that he "was the first to fuse blues and rock". I mean... yes. If you take all rock music from the 60's to the 80's, and forget about all of it, along with wiping Led Zeppelin and every other blues-based rock band out of history.
He's not innovative. He never introduced anything to music that even had a shred of influence. Anyone who says they are profoundly influenced by Slash, are just influenced by whatever Slash was, because Slash has not introduced any breathtaking, innovative idealology into the guitar world at all, as far as i've seen, other than making my mafucking ears bleed everytime I go into guitar center and hear Sweet Child o' Mine coming out of some Line 6 Spider.
He's a very talented player, and a very good guitarist. He wrote some great riffs, and GnR are a good band. But THEY DID NOT DO ANYTHING NEW! They made good, standard, rock music. And all Slash did was play the guitar. In a very skilled, but very NORMAL way.
He is NOT a legend. He is NOT an icon. He is NOT even REMOTELY close to the best guitarist on the planet.
I mean, I will take him any day of the week over a lot of new music. He's not as big of a sellout as say, Nickelback, or the JoBros... who have also sold "100,000,000 albums".
Want a guitar hero? Go listen to Petrucci. Listen to what David Gilmour can craft. If you want a rock God, go listen to some of what Randy Rhoads came up with. Not. Fucking. Slash.
I went there as an advisor/counselor person on this Lutheran Church Trip thingy, which... doesn't really make a lot of sense. I won't go into why, but yeah.
Either way, I was there, along with 38,000 other people, and had a pretty damn good time. I didn't expect much, but alas, I again was managed to be proven wrong. My faith in humanity has been slightly restored. Either way, while there, I became obsessed with the song "Anywhere But Here" by Rise Against. So, I got back, realized i'm in South Dakota, which is just terrible news everytime I think about it, so I recorded this.
AGAIN! I'm not a good singer. I try to make this abundantly clear. I just don't think the song would be the same without words, considering its an acoustic cover, and not my own song, so I don't want to go through the ruckus of trying to find anyone in this fucking state who can sound like Tim.
Also, my toneport hates my new $100 vocal mic, so this was recorded on my worthless pile of shit wal-mart mic again. Hence, the voice sounds even thinner and weaker than usual.
And even though this says its an Acoustic cover, I actually just used my new Strat, and tried to acoustic-ize it as much as possible. Its not perfect, but it got the job done pretty well. I love that thing.
Either way, enjoy. I remembered I said I need to upload my Crazy Train thingy still. I'll be doing that soon, although i still don't have the solo perfected....
Before my break at college began, I decided that I would finally try to tackle Randy Rhoads' "Crazy Train". I know its technically an Ozzy song, but.. meh.
This is a bit of an undertaking for me, and almost a religious journey. I have a Rhoads guitar, but have always been a bit intimidated to start learning that song. If i'm going to play it, I dont want to just "play" it - it needs to be mastered. I can't bring shame to Randy.
As you will see, or see soon, there's a "Work-in-Progress" mp3 up. It'll probably be updated often, as soon as I master a different part. I haven't started on the solo yet, but I should be about good on the rest of it, so far.
Any comments or suggestions, regarded the mp3, would be greatly appreciated. I only have a couple more weeks.
(I'll probably be uploaded a youtube video soon too, comparing my Mesa and my Orange, for people that want to listen, or people that want to help me decide which setup to keep.)
First off, i'm a college kid. I managed a 32 on my ACT, but I still have to pay for room and board and food, and my guitar isn't paying the bills yet. However, I continue to eat Ramen, and buy Oranges, Fender Jazz Basses, fricken Carvins... then choke down Mickey D's.
I mean, I love guitar center. I got my Gibson SG, barely used, for 375 bucks. A Jackson RR5 for 750. And my Orange for 600. But still.
Im thinking about burning my house down. Maybe someone will throw a benefit for my family, then I can take the money and get myself a couple Marshall full stacks or something, and live in a box. It'd be a box, but it'd be a box filled with sweet guitar shit, until the random hobo steals my shit (literally and figuratively), or I die in this wonderful, shitty ass South Dakota weather.
Thats right, South Dakota. I graduated in a class of 13 boneheads that sometimes drove tractors to school, where I wore a Led Zeppelin shirt and people wondered what kind of band they were. Where I can bust out Crazy Train, and then be asked if I can play any Toby Keith or "Back in Black". Where when I say I like to listen to Meat Loaf, people ask me why I listen to my supper, or if I like ketchup on it, then laugh and flash their yellow chompers with a big gap in the front of their teeth. Where Aeropostle and Hollister is the height of fashion, and Versace is a JCPenney brand, along with "dumb shirts of bands no one listens to", like my huge collection of Iron Maiden shirts.
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