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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:59 pm
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Okay, I respect Slash. He can play. Greatest rock guitar player? Just think about Layla, Tears In Heaven, Cocaine, Badge, and most of all Crossroads Blues.

Clapton's solos are like a Keats poem. That's also true of Page and Buckingham, but they are studio guys (playing a Strat, incidentally, not that Turner he plays on stage). Clapton, imho, is the only white boy who honestly can play with BB King, Buddy Guy, Cray, Albert King, like SRV also could do and he was great, but Clapton also was able to take it to another level. Clapton is the greatest guitar player of all time.

Consider "Crossroads Blues" in comparison to this poem and you'll see the movement and rhythm is the same:

Ode to a Nightingale

MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5
But being too happy in thine happiness,
That thou, light-wingèd Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 10

O for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delvèd earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country-green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South! 15
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stainèd mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim: 20

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, 25
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs;
Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. 30

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night, 35
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. 40

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmèd darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; 45
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die, 55
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
To thy high requiem become a sod. 60

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path 65
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that ofttimes hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 70

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades 75
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?


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harmonicchaos wrote:
No! don't ditch the lp! it really is a part of his... well everything. just like john frusciante wouldn't sound the same with anything but a fender same goes for gilmour, cobain, mayer, guy etc... certain guitars work for certain people.



Cobain - theres someone known for tone

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@Telenelly

Wat denk je!! :-)
De LP hangt keurig naast mijn Tele en mag elk optreden nog mee als backup-rig..!!

The good'ole LP is enjoying it's "old" days as my second in command!


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I think there's no "best guitarist" ever...not in the past and nor in the future.
A guitar player is as good as much as his audience or fans enjoy the music he makes...If Satriani plays some million notes a minute in a song I absolutely don't like, well, then to bad for the afford but thanks, I'll go for the 67 notes-a-song the guitarist plays who really touches me when I hear his music..

Good and best are in a very grey area as far as I'm concerned...


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Look- Slash rock. I SOO dig his stuff.

But best EVER??

Wow. I don't know about that!


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As far as my LP comment...Slash is a good enough guitar player to be able to get away with playing an LP and sounding good, and oft times great.


As far as Cobain goes... Lucky that boy had a Fender...it was the only thing he had going for him.


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I really like Slash. He was on the late show recently, and really inspired me by saying that he started playing guitar at fifteen. That's when I started, and I was afraid that I started too late.


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Slash is a one of a kind guy I think. I like his style a lot. I don't know about how I'd compare him to some other players. I know he's done some pretty crazy stuff. I listen to some of the solo's he's recorded and I go nuts trying to figure out how he makes the strings on his guitar sing like that. I have one of his picks too. I got it from my friend though, I've never met Slash. Its purple and it has the skull with the top hat and his signature on it.


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