Mr_Iko

A FAKE? A JOKE? WHAT'S THAT?

ENOUGH WITH ANONYMOUS REVIEWS! LET'S FOLLOW A COMMON EDITORIAL LINE THAT PREVENTS THE PUBLICATION OF REVIEWS THAT CANNOT BE ATTRIBUTED TO A UNIQUE AUTHOR. PLEZ!

WOW! Great layout and formatting in record time! Thx a lot pager-dwarf!

The story is that I've probably listened to Sonic a hundred times more than you, and I've formed an opinion not a priori but after years of listening. This opinion is debatable (kurz has already overturned it in his own way), but within it, I see important truths that you, anonymous squirming one, may or may not share. I'm open to dialogue. And don't paraphrase my concepts; in a communication without feedback, it's the most unbearably petty thing you can do. Stick to the writings and contest those. Otherwise, it's you who looks like the fool.

uff... if you were to declare who you are, maybe we could actually discuss it seriously. But you crawl in anonymity... And where did you read the statement about Moore and Lee Renaldo (or whatever the other one is called) that I supposedly wrote?

Sonic Youth themselves have stated several times that they use open tunings because "it's easier to play with those." The kid knows this (and thanks for the compliment). And it was confirmed to me by Folle, Italy's no. 1 fan of Sonic and guitarist of a noise band (living mountain 96) with an LP and an EP to their name: playing with open tunings is a way to bypass the technical obstacle.

Don't get down... and anyway, APCs are not based (based?) ONLY on open tunings.

Cliff, I give you a piece of advice, please listen carefully to me: shut the fuck up about Nirvana, don’t make a laughing stock of yourself...

Open tunings after ten minutes will tear your eardrums apart... the "canonical" tunings are sufficient to make music; the ostentatious search for the "different" is not necessary: often "different" (understood as "alternative") is not synonymous with "beautiful." Diversity for its own sake is not a step forward but a step back. Why abandon standard tuning, so harmonious, so enticing, to seek dissonances that could easily be found even with it? Why transform the consciousness that guides you on the strings of your guitar into a habit of playing in certain positions because you remember that in "that" position, "that" (and only that, because the others have different tunings) guitar makes "that" sound? Why let yourself be guided by the habit of playing in certain spots on the neck rather than by the awareness that certain chords sound a certain way? Open tunings: 1. are a manifestation of extremely limited knowledge of the instrument 2. fix unchangingly the sound of a certain group of songs, preventing rearrangement 3. transform the creative capacity of the rational brain into a quirky attempt at composition "by successive approximations," that is, you move your little finger on the neck until you hear a sound that you might like 4. are the anti-spirit of music as a fruit of passion and application 5. compel the artist to have a hundred guitars with a hundred different tunings for a hundred different songs: in theory, with the same positions on the neck, modifying only the tuning and rhythm, infinite songs can be written, leading to the conclusion that music is not creativity but numerical combinatorial calculation.

ehehehehheee! That's cool! I'm laughing my ass off! Caz, you're a born comedian...