easycure

Hello everyone! "Unfortunately," I was quite rightly on vacation and missed a good part of what seems to be an interesting discussion. Anyway, I got a shock when I saw 765 new messages in my inbox (I’m not joking!). I imagined they were about this review, but I thought it would be the usual idiotic stream of offensive comments. Instead... I will be away again tomorrow, so I won’t dive into what has been recently said, I just want to say two things: To Orion: as usual, your criticisms aren't very targeted at the content. I said my comparison, besides being impeccable, was an example of a similarity that can easily be applied to the entire solo structure of the piece "spirit... etc." and IN THIS it makes sense, if you really want to desperately "excuse" the fact that those two passages are essentially the same. But you dodged this discussion, practically repeating your previous post in which you claimed my comparison was forced. Too bad your judgment in this case is quite evasive, I wonder why... ;-)

Ah, so let's resize our perspective; it's not that "there's nothing to do with each other," rather, it's that the comparison, in your opinion, is rather insignificant. I'm already noticing quite a noticeable change of course :-D ... you would love for me to abandon it, wouldn't you? Moreover, the fact that you still need to emphasize these clarifications is the clearest demonstration that this comparison is not as sterile and insignificant as you claim... you talk about differences in substance: to me, it seems quite the opposite; the communicative intent appears to be terribly similar. If you listen to the first 20 seconds of Petrucci's solo, just to cite the most obvious part, it could easily be confused with the solo from "Shine..." They remind each other terribly closely. My example was to point out a CLEARLY identical passage; however, I don't think the rest deviates particularly. I wouldn't have even noticed it, had it not been that one evokes the other very naturally...

Incredible! After I even pointed out the exact seconds, you come up with the fact that they don’t have anything to do with it.. ahahahah! And yet you didn’t seem to have the same opinion when I pointed them out to you, what’s up with that? :-D ..well, it’s obvious: they are two literally identical passages. Orion, Orion, little rascal, who are you trying to fool? Just because you try to deny reality doesn’t mean the facts change, just listen heheheheh ;-)

"In my opinion, you've only listened to the first track of this album... why? How did you figure that out? What are you basing it on? Actually, if you read the comments from a few months ago, you'll find VERY detailed notes about the DT songs on this album and their "references," which also address your second point about the "forced" comparisons. Oh, by the way, listen to "Spirit Carries On" at minute 3:12 (or something like that; I might be mistaken about the seconds) and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" at minute 9:57, you'll have fun eheheheh :-) My view on La Brie is obviously not a technical one, which seems to be the only approach you rely on overall... for me, his ability doesn't matter much; I just observe that with his plastic, measured, cautious vocal style, he conveys fewer emotions to me than a singer from Gerry Scotti's Corrida or the late Corrado. Then again, of course, it's a matter of taste, as you've said... you don’t need to justify your criticism; to me, you can be the best critic in the world; I don’t expect any justifications for listening to DT :-)”

mmmm, I’m really drawn to it.. Beautiful review

But the point is: while adopting a "cultured" approach, someone like Dave Pajo plays the guitar with a purpose clearly aimed at seeking a precise form of expression, whereas the musicians mentioned by Gonzo approach it with a purely sensationalistic, empty, hedonistic aim. In fact, they do nothing but exaggerate stylistic templates that have been well-known for two decades, expecting that this in itself constitutes a novelty worthy of applause, but it all reduces to speed records reminiscent of car racing (or if not speed, then other purely formal criteria). Thus, we have the worst and most obtuse musical conservatism, a total denial of the concept of divergence, of creativity itself. It is not a comparison in musical terms; it is a comparison in terms of the very approach to music... regardless of merit judgments about the band in question (in this case). However, I can also understand Gonzo's "outrage." Perhaps, sometimes, it would truly take very little mental effort to avoid gaping and rolling one's eyes in front of the latest grandiose solo... certainly, "technique" is ALSO (and above all, in my opinion) something else.

I think Gonzo wasn't simply referring to the technical aspect, but to how certain musicians approach the instrument and the technique itself. And he has all my admiration :-)

Good pedigree, you've got it all! :-D Especially your reference to the lyrics is simply genius: "if he translated the lyrics especially of 'the spirit carries on', he would notice that it evokes emotions in the listener" ahahahahihih this sentence is amazing: what does it mean? What does it say? ..wait a moment, I'm going to translate the lyrics of Lee Ryan, I've been told they evoke emotions eheheh ..how much nonsense one has to read, so much :-D

We could be here making the classic speeches of hardcore punks, but even more pathetic and pointless are those made by fifteen-year-olds who idolize Green Day and Blink-182. In reality, if you listen to Hüsker Dü (which even the worst purist wouldn't dare NOT call punk), you can realize that the “trend” of Green Day, Blink, etc., makes sense precisely because it is punk. And after all, “hardcore and pure” bands like Agnostic Front, H2O, or Earth Crisis aren't musically any weaker; they are just rougher and angrier. I repeat: with a critic like him, I wouldn't refer to a single rating to give an overall judgment; I think it's rather misleading. It's better to first read what he has to say about so many unknown yet outstanding bands. Check out the best albums by decade on this topic. You'll see how many great discoveries await you.. ;-)

I mean that one album with the Floyd, of course.