I just came across this thread and I found it very interesting and full of useful technical information, at least for an ignorant like me. Seriously, I know nothing about guitar playing and what's more, I am not that much into rock music apart from FM and I admit that the solo part on "I'm so afraid' is the only solo in rock music history I could listen to the whole day. On another note, just to add my 2 cents on "best guitar players", after I made clear I don't have a favorite, I 'd like to say that I like Blixa Bargeld (for those who don't know him, he's Nick Cave's ex guitarist), who claims that he is not even a guitar player. He's trully innovative and he is amazing with slide and I 'm positive that Nick Cave would be nothing without his contribution to the Bad Seeds (not that he 's the highest selling artist anyway, but anyway..).
On the initial subject, I think I may have a couple of unpopular Lindsey opinions
1) I don't *hate* Not That Funny. I don't listen to it all the time, but I think I get the point and I think it is sort of smart.
2) I think that even if he hadn't written anything apart from "Big Love" I would still consider him a genious. Any artist who can reinvent his own song that way (the acoustic version that is) can be nothing less than a genious.
3) I think he was never very much into drugs.
4) He was way hotter during the Rumours era, with the beard and afro.
5) I don't think he 's still in love with Stevie. I think he was still crazy about her during the Tusk era (or maybe a bit later even- and who wouldn't be??) but I don't buy the "they had a thing going during the Dance or Say You Will etc" thing. It's been 30 years since they broke up for crying out loud and they both had numerous other relationships -and long lasting for that matter- since then. And I sometimes think that they use -in a good way- this special bond of theirs to please the fans who dream about them as a couple (I don't go as far as saying that they do it for commercial reasons, don't flame me!)
6) I don't believe he 's as experimental or innovative as he thinks, or (since I'm in no position of knowing what he 's thinking) as other people think.Maybe in terms of mainstream pop/rock he is, but not in general. I have heard groups and artists that really "deserve" more to be referred to as such.
7) I love his guitar playing without giving a dime whether he will ever be named in the top 10 all time greatest and I never felt like defending that he is the best or comparing him to others (but then again, as I said, I 'm totally clueless when it come to that).
That's all, sorry for the long post!
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