Mr_Iko

It takes guts to review this album. It requires knowledge, caution, and fervor. You had the courage to do it, to take on the challenge of commenting on the cornerstone of the nineties, but you weren't quite prepared to glorify this record. You reviewed it halfway; it deserved more for the historical echo it has generated, for the fact that some passages are present 10 years later in thousands and then thousands of other albums. A score for courage and your innate bravado: 5, but a score for the review: 2. I want more.

EXAGGERATED! great album, but 5/5... A fight against vote inflation!

And then the review doesn't end with "a good engaging job"? Please, what should it have ended with to please Muse fans? With "the greatest group on the musical stage since the Beatles" or with "an incredible album on par with Sgt. Pepper"? All Muse fans are the same. Two nights ago on raisatextra they showed their live performance. Reading these comments, I thought it was an unrepeatable event, and even though I was busy, I did everything I could to free myself in time. And afterwards... DISAPPOINTMENT!!! A great energy, it’s true (they're still in their twenties and if they’re not energetic now...), but nothing more. THEY'RE COPYING FROM OTHER BANDS!!!! Do you realize that?

So all painting critics should know how to paint like Raphael or Michelangelo in order to judge them? So all sports journalists should have the same athletic abilities as the athletes they comment on? So all literary critics should have the artistic ability of Paulo Coelho or Michael Crichton before reviewing a book? Come on...

Bad record rightly supported by mediocre review. Sorry, that is.

Hi, thanks for the suggestions. Anyway, grab something by Greg Howe, since you're in spending mode. You'll see how it'll blow your mind....

well, actually I don't really care that much... but if you want to reveal the mystery (the annoyed nameless one), then I'm all for it. Right now I don't feel like mortifying these pages by turning them into a battlefield. For now.

ARRRGGHHHH!!! Verovero, I didn’t reply to you about Lukather, sorry :-)! Well, what can I say, he has an incredible career! I don’t know him with Toto (never took them seriously), but I know him through his collaborations. In particular, I have the pseudo-live album by Paul McCartney "Give my regards to Broad Street" where besides him there’s David Gilmour, then I have Lotus Gem, a double live CD with Santana and Jeff Beck, and the album by Frank Zappa's son whose name honestly I don’t remember. I have many issues of magazines both Italian and English like Guitar Club, Axe, Guitarist etc. that talk about him and explain his preferred techniques. In short, I can't express a solid and rational judgment, since I realize that I don't know him fully, but I’m trying to get LOS LOBOTOMYS (I think it’s his best, right?) and then I’ll let you know. Bye, beautiful!

For Steve Hackett, I recommend listening to what he did with Genesis first. He was the one who created the first tapping piece in guitar history, but he uses it for rhythmic accompaniment, which is a rather strange way to interpret that technique. As for Greg Howe, I have no words strong enough; he plays incredibly intense jazz with heavy and fusion influences, a mix of stuff that only he can pull off. He has made a couple of albums with his great friend and another incredible guitarist, Ritchie Kotzen (who I also really like), famous for his brief past with Poison. If you find anything by Kotzen and Howe, don’t miss the opportunity: they are monstrous and have both feeling and groove. Absolutely amazing.

One must not forget the ever-quoted GREG HOWE!!! Then STEVE HOWE and STEVE HACKETT....