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Ajeje, you really didn't understand the essence of what I was saying. I didn't say "if you don't play, shut up!" I said that if someone can't distinguish a great guitarist - artistically valid - like the G3 from a "little axeman of the prog group," they shouldn't go around making judgments trying to look cool. I'm the first to hate ultra-technical guitarists (read my comments on Rusty Cooley), but I can recognize when ultra technique is paired with that something extra that makes a guitarist great. I know that being able to play doesn't hurt when judging guitarists, but my discussion was general. When music doesn't resonate with you (and it can be rap, dance, indie) for one reason or another, refrain from acting like a self-styled connoisseur. I would love to see a metalhead judging a Sex Pistols album, saying it sucks because there are no solos and the drums are out of time! He would be treated like the idiot he is! But he would have done the same thing Zion did; he would have judged music he doesn't understand!

Indeed, Zion's comment wasn't that apocalyptic, but it hinted at a certain smugness that I didn't appreciate. Anyway, I wanted to take the opportunity to express my opinion on the attitude of certain critics who pretend to judge music genres they don't understand while wearing the hat of true connoisseurs. I can't stand these prejudiced and pompous attitudes at all...

I know I'm being a bit harsh, but opinions delivered like a verdict really piss me off. It's like if I were to comment on a rap album and say: it's not music of value! Because music is the meeting of harmony and melody, and rap has no melody, and by applying this axiom, I would label all rap albums with a 1: from TUPAC to Vanilla Ice.

Hans, if ZIon had simply said "it doesn't transmit anything to me," I wouldn’t have gotten upset at all. But when he starts firing off the usual sentences like "Making music is, in my opinion, a way to communicate to listeners and enthusiasts a message of which one should be a bearer: not pointless self-celebration or exaltation of one's technical abilities." blah blah blah, we really stray from the point. Who the hell cares about these morals spewed by someone who thinks they hold the essence of music and feels entitled to criticize genres they don’t even understand? I’m the first to trash albums; I don't comment just to give 5, but I only slam albums that I know how to judge. In my opinion, ZIon doesn’t have the tools to evaluate the records of guitar heroes. Why? He says it himself, they are all the same to him; ERGO he does not perceive the subtle difference between a flashy show-off and a great guitarist. Better for him to stay silent, in my view.

Well, this G3 is a bit kitschy, I admit, but let's not extend the judgment to the entire production of the 3.

ZIon, if these so-called guitar heroes don't affect you at all, honestly, what does it matter to us? As is evident from the generations of fans that follow the three greats, they manage to "communicate to listeners and enthusiasts a message they should carry: making 'music for others.'” We're not talking about the latest rusty Cooley or Michael Angelo; we’re talking about people who have truly said something in the world of music and guitar. And this comes from a "non-guitarist." It’s undeniable that they play with a passion and a visceral symbiosis with their instruments that is genuinely authentic. It’s not just about technique. If you don't perceive this because you lack the tools, that’s your business, but I don’t see the need for your comment unless it’s just to vent your ego. If an album by Joy Division doesn’t convey anything to me, before I start acting all cool with a comment as a pseudo-intellectual of music that says nothing new, I ask myself, "Am I the one who doesn’t get it?" However, this reasoning is easily bypassed when it comes to criticizing people like the three legendary figures mentioned above, especially by supposed critical heroes like you! No offense, but when you talk about music you understand, it’s actually interesting to read you. :-)

Keep it in the family by Joe Jackson? And then... and then... and then! Eh EH EH EH! They are guyyyyyyyyys!

I'll be superficial, but it has always bored me; reaching the end of the album without doing "track skipping" has always been a challenge for me... maybe one of these days I'll throw it in the car and give it another go, but I can't guarantee anything :-D! 3 political (today I'm feeling generous) on recession and record.

it happens!

Thank you for the compliments, although they are somewhat undeserved because I've been playing the bass since I was 11 years old :-) and I strum the guitar at an amateur level. In my early years of playing, I also tended to overemphasize the importance of technique and speed for their own sake, but experience has taught me that often, by doing so, one makes a mistake and risks becoming a limited musician and— in some cases—having bad experiences or disillusionments in the recording studio.