Stoney

But WHY this relationship of HIGH and LOW, holy god! STOP talking about these musicians as MONSTERS that shouldn't be touched! You sound like Catholics when their saints are touched! This is not critical spirit, it's psychological submission. To think that nothing can be said to someone because they are INFERIOR. But based on what exactly?? I don’t understand these logics based solely on physical superiority like in a bodybuilding contest where the one with the most muscles wins and the others think that if they want to become like him, they'll have to work twice as hard as before. I don’t play guitar like Steve Vai, and I don't see that as a limitation. What matters to me is being able to EXPRESS what I want to say, and I try to do that day after day when I play. It's not that if I don’t learn to play like him I can’t play, or that I don’t have his technique because I don’t feel like studying or learning. Let’s stop with these clichés!

You don't realize that it's all too easy to think that a virtuoso is simply a good musician? It's a childish logic to believe that someone who does difficult things must be good at it. And enough with the nonsense "he also plays blues, he also plays jazz." Do you even know what blues is? Do you know what jazz is? Do you think that four notes of a pentatonic scale played with the icy expressiveness of Vai are enough to make a blues piece? Of course you do, because for you being a good musician only means being able to play all the right notes as per the sheet music, that's why. "Here we talk about Steve as someone who plays everything... not just blues, but jazz, fast pieces as well as slow ones, some taken from classical music, acoustic, etc." ... do you see the nonsense you're saying? Do you see how you get amazed by trivialities? Do you really think that knowing how to play "everything" guarantees skill? Sure, you don't care HOW it sounds, you just care that he can do it. Meanwhile, someone like Eric Clapton who plays only one genre is clearly inferior, right? Oh, and congratulations on the grand finale of your comment, the conclusion that every fanatic always flaunts, the only real argument that people like you can rely on: "I didn't know you were the best guitarist in the world... sorry..." Just like elementary school kids "look what I can do, you do it if you can." Congratulations, what an excellent critical spirit.

"gives the illusion to those who don't know shit about music that they understand something ..... what do you base your claim of understanding music on??" Based on the fact that I believe Steve Vai is a clown. If he’s really a genius as you think, prove it to me, give me an analysis of his music, one of his pieces, tell me what’s so brilliant in what he does, enlighten me. You can do that, right? Or do you just say he's a genius because everyone says so? Come on, impress me.

Never mind, Sterbus, you still said something stupid. With this whole technique thing, people like Steve Vai have really made me lose my patience. Music is something else, and don’t come telling me, "Oh, but he has also done slow pieces or blues or jazz," because it drives me crazy that these worthless guitarists think that blues is some easy and fun stuff to play as an interlude between one show-off and another. Listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan and compare it to this troubled saw, and maybe you'll realize the difference. Actually, no, you won't realize it because you judge all music from a technical perspective. Most of the music I listen to and that I think really matters has come from America, but this trend in the last 15 years to focus everything on appearance and exaggeration, disgustingly conforming to the bourgeois and conservative mentality of that entire nation, really annoys me more than just about anything else: it flattens critical thinking and fundamentally gives the illusion to those who know nothing about music that they understand something and can get up on their soapbox to share their opinion.

Ah, I almost forgot the rating: let’s say yes, this album objectively deserves a 2 (with a 1, I wouldn't be credible and someone would accuse me of ENVY haha...) BUT there are also other parameters to consider. For instance, atrocious episodes like The Silent Man, which with its melody directly stolen from Laura Pausini and a Labrie who seems to sing his joy of finally having come out as gay, would deserve a nice -5 (yes, there's the minus, it's not a typo); then there are POP pieces like Innocence Faded, meaning "Mr. Big forgets harmony and meets Poison but gets an even gayer singer," or 6:00 where hearing DT keep the groove is like watching an old man trying to get laid, which would at most merit a well-deserved 0.
Then I would give a 5 for effort, because we always need to stimulate the little idiots, so the average would be 0.5. Rounding down would make it 0, so I can't give any rating since deBaser starts from 1. Regards.

hHAHAHAHHahHAHHha congrats... the DT fans manage to give us increasingly pathetic shows every day. Who knows if there’s even a TECHNIQUE for this... hahahah ahah ahahahaha hhahah clearly SUPERIOR groups like Pain of Salvation... oh my god :D I’m dying here. And those who criticize DT are PRESUMPTUOUS... while those who believe DT are perfect and the only reason to criticize them is out of envy or being A NOVICE, no, that’s not true at all, in fact it’s OBJECTIVE :D ahahahahahahahah... I’m sorry but there are people who have a CRITICAL relationship with music, which isn’t resolved simply by finding the best clown band to psychologically submit to. Even though you make me feel sorry, sometimes you even manage to entertain me. Keep it up.

Oh god, the PJ are not sincere. Got it? They are NOT SINCERE. But should I laugh or cry? Why don’t you listen to music instead of getting all paranoid about the musicians’ purity of spirit? Who the hell are you, priests who need to grant absolution? Do you still believe in the fairy tale of the artist who must starve to have credibility?

Sterbus... It's a classic excuse from metalheads to think that anyone who doesn't obsessively flaunt technique for its own sake is just a jealous loser.

Personally, I couldn't care less if there's true pure rock behind the little arpeggio, nor if this goes against the system. I don't give a damn about going against the system. Unlike our friend NoiseNotMusic, I care about music, not about belonging to a group or an ideal while using music as an excuse. So when I listen to Pearl Jam, I don't think, "wow, how grunge they are, they are truly rebellious"; in fact, I never think that about anything I listen to. NoiseNotMusic, between you and those round-bellied office workers who are submissive to their wives and break the house apart with air guitar, there's no difference: you're just as pathetic.

Supersoul: who the hell cares if there are 1 billion comments on Albano's page and only 10 on Jethro Tull's? Who the hell gives a damn? It's not the number of comments that makes a difference, and that's not the media power I'm talking about! On Debaser, there are both Jethro Tull AND Albano, but on TV there's ONLY Albano!! This is media power! And for every comment I post here, I've posted another 10 elsewhere. Period.