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Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

2 apr 06

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Hi Momo, it’s clear that you’re well-prepared as a guitarist; you often use very technical and scholarly language (I say this in a positive sense, of course). However, if everything boiled down to doing a bend of one tone or one and a half tones, we'd all be like Blackmore and we’d all know how to play like him, which doesn’t seem realistic to me. In the same way, the sound that Hendrix had, which I was talking to you about last night, is unique. He was able to play with big amplifiers, pushing the notes to the brink of dissonance while still maintaining control—something that for me, and also for Mr. Satriani (who I don’t think is a mere beginner), is far from trivial.

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

1 apr 06

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I mean Hendrix's vibrato; if you’ve seen his concerts, he had a unique sustain (also because he was one of the few who knew how to play with the big amplifiers). Even Satriani praised it in an interview, saying that his limitation was not being able to reproduce that sound extension present in many of his pieces.

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

1 apr 06

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Yes, of course, on paper it's like that, but the touch varies from guitarist to guitarist: I repeat, Blackmore's pieces may seem simple at times, but the way he plays them makes them, in my opinion, much more complex. The same goes for Hendrix; try to reproduce the sound range he had with his guitar, I think it's much more complex than many fast scales!

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

1 apr 06

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Note: my comment refers to your second-to-last statement; I agree with the last one!

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

1 apr 06

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I don't really agree with you; sometimes what seems simple can actually be quite complex and vice versa. Try, for example, to reproduce Blackmore's bends with his clarity and precision, and you'll see it's anything but straightforward. Yet many guitarists play his songs, some (and I emphasize SOME) seemingly simple, but in reality, no one can play them like he does!

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

1 apr 06

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Exactly, by the way Rusty Cooley never does them, maybe he knows how to do them, who knows, but I can even tell you yes, but the postulate is always the same, he makes music that makes you want to vomit and all those nice alternate picking techniques, where do they take him??

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

1 apr 06

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Are you referring to the track Warm Regards by Steve Vai from Fire Garden? Yes, I remember it well and it's one of the best on the album! Anyway, I think I understand what you mean, but you see, bending, like sweeping and all the techniques of this blessed world, if they're not at the service of the music, what the hell are they for?? Bending by Blackmore in Catch the Rainbow is extraordinary, but it's in the service of an extraordinary piece, just like Vai's (out of tune as you want) in For the Love of God is stunning, because it supports a stratospheric piece. Now, what does Cooley say to the world again?? Nothing, he does absolutely nothing except be as fast as lightning, but if there’s no music, speed doesn’t take you anywhere!

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

1 apr 06

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I understand, Momo, you're saying that a great guitarist, while perfectly knowing how to do a bending in the purest sense, can choose to "detune" deliberately to give a musical color to a particular piece... of course, this is undeniable!

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

1 apr 06

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But who told Momo that Vai has no ear, where did you read this statement??

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley

1 apr 06

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Indeed, that is what it means to play artistically, and it's anything but taken for granted. Cooley is just the latest in a now pathetic series of individuals who, frustrated at not being able to become like Malmsteen or Vai, have tried to turn the electric guitar into a kind of gym for exercises that serve no purpose, hyperbolizing lightning-fast sweeps to the point of exhaustion. But where does that lead???