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    Posted By: Meanstreak
    Posted By: Briany
    Posted By: MeanstreakI don't agree about Jimmy Page, he is one of the best songwriters in rock and especially among the very few great riffmasters. Both Page and May are great guitar players and musicians. But, when it comes to the riff Page has more of them to demonstrate.


    There are a lot of riff writers in rock music. In terms of riffs, I don't know what he's done that puts him above, say, Tony Iommi.


    He belongs to the group of the greatest riffmeisters, together with Iommi and Angus and Malcolm. Page wrote so many great riffs its mindblowing.


    And Keith Richards, of course.
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    Posted By: matirockerBrian May wipes the floor with Jimmy Page.


    ^He's right, you know.

    Page wrote some great riffs, but his playing sucks. Don't give me that "it's raw" or "sloppy in a good way" bullshit. The solo to Heartbreaker literally made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it, with those out of tune bends.
    • AC/DC rock music: Jedgell
    • Sep 1st 2022
     
    Could have sworn I clicked on the thread about Brian Johnson performing at the Taylor Memorial concert… who gives a shit whether or not you like Queen, don’t we all want to see Brian perform?
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    Posted By: JedgellCould have sworn I clicked on the thread about Brian Johnson performing at the Taylor Memorial concert… who gives a shit whether or not you like Queen, don’t we all want to see Brian perform?


    Just killing time before the concert happens.
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      AC/DC rock music: Thankass
    • Sep 1st 2022
     
    Brian May also appear.
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      AC/DC rock music: Meanstreak
    • Sep 1st 2022 edited
     
    Posted By: ToiletWallPoet
    Posted By: matirockerBrian May wipes the floor with Jimmy Page.


    ^He's right, you know.

    Page wrote some great riffs, but his playing sucks. Don't give me that "it's raw" or "sloppy in a good way" bullshit. The solo to Heartbreaker literally made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it, with those out of tune bends.


    Quite immature and asinine comments. Page is one of the greatest players in rock. If you subjectively think he sucks, that is another story. The Heartbreaker solo is a groundbreaking movement in rock, even Angus is heavily influenced by those licks. Does he execute it cleanly and with great technical accuracy? No, but he didn't need to. Other guitaritsts did that later, and many of them sounded plain boring. And those huge bends, I guess that you call out of tune bends, that is essentially psychedelic tonalities.
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      AC/DC rock music: Thankass
    • Sep 1st 2022 edited
     
    Many people, me included, love Page's "sloppy in a good way" playing. It sounds unique and recognizable.
    Just like his riffs, that are ominous and dangerous sounding, have the x factor that hits a spot in many music lovers.

    Brain May is technically a better player and i like his creations and playing just as much (or even more) than Page's, but they have adifferent style. The 2 can be enjoyed side by side.
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      AC/DC rock music: Rocco
    • Sep 1st 2022
     
    Posted By: ToiletWallPoet
    Posted By: matirockerBrian May wipes the floor with Jimmy Page.


    ^He's right, you know.

    The solo to Heartbreaker literally made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it, with those out of tune bends.



    I don't know if anybody ever told you: But you really must be great fun at parties.
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      AC/DC rock music: Rocco
    • Sep 1st 2022
     
    Now back on topic:

    "Okay here we go," says [Brian] Johnson in a statement. "Taylor was a lovely man, his smile was legend, his drumming intense and brilliant, and he could sing as well. When we gather to salute this man and his family, we do it as friends, we do it for him, and we do it with his band the Foo Fighters, who I know will do him proud. I'm honored to be part of it."

    https://www.louderso...
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      AC/DC rock music: Badlands66
    • Sep 1st 2022 edited
     
    How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….
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      AC/DC rock music: Rocco
    • Sep 1st 2022
     
    Posted By: Badlands66How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….


    You and Toilet together on a party … Now that would be something else.
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    Posted By: Rocco
    Posted By: Badlands66How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….


    You and Toilet together on a party … Now that would be something else.

    Yeah, cause you're a barrel of laughs yourself, right?
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      AC/DC rock music: Rocco
    • Sep 1st 2022 edited
     
    Posted By: Badlands66
    Posted By: Rocco
    Posted By: Badlands66How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….


    You and Toilet together on a party … Now that would be something else.

    Yeah, cause you're a barrel of laughs yourself, right?


    Well, going by all the ROTFLs and LOLs you replied with to my posts my answer is a definitive yes.
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      AC/DC rock music: Goulash
    • Sep 1st 2022
     
    Posted By: Badlands66How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….


    Brian got on really well with Taylor. You'd be surprised by who Brian is friends with.
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    How can you not love Brian. Legend
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    Any chance of Angus turning up to this ? I think he's also pals with Grohl.
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    Posted By: Rocco
    Posted By: Badlands66
    Posted By: Rocco
    Posted By: Badlands66How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….


    You and Toilet together on a party … Now that would be something else.

    Yeah, cause you're a barrel of laughs yourself, right?


    Well, going by all the ROTFLs and LOLs you replied with to my posts my answer is a definitive yes.

    Hard to argue with that.

    Posted By: Goulash
    Posted By: Badlands66How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….


    Brian got on really well with Taylor. You'd be surprised by who Brian is friends with.

    Brian gets on well with most people I assume, given his cheery disposition. Friends for me is someone you hang out with on a regular basis.
    Not someone you exchange a few words with when you bump into them at an event or such. I suspect Hawkins kinda falls into the latter,
    but hey...correct me if I'm wrong.
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    Is McCartney on the bill?
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    I always got the feeling that – quite rightly – there was a huge amount of good will directed at Dave and the Foo Fighters because of the shit show he endured/survived in Nirvana at a pretty young age. Not just Cobain’s suicde but the whole crazy Kurt ‘n Courtney circus that led up to it, the intense 24/7 media interest the dogged the ill-fated In Utero world tour. In Charles Cross’ book Heavier than Heaven he talks about how worried Geffen executives identified Dave as a mature presence and a potential tempering force in terms of steering the heroin-addicted Cobain away from the brink. I think they even encouraged them to share hotel rooms etc in the hope Dave would deter the more destructive hanger-ons. I thought that was very moving and impressive and said a lot about Dave’s character and decency – talk about growing up in public.
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    Posted By: MeanstreakThe Heartbreaker solo is a groundbreaking movement in rock


    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Yeah, Angus was totally moved by those out of tune bends. Moved to never embarrass himself like that!

    Calling that shitty playing "psychedelic" is an insult to psychedelic music. What lame excuses.

    And I don't care how much you strawman me, I'm not going to preface every opinion of mine with "this is just my opinion guys, please don't think I'm claiming to be the objective arbiter of all reality!!!" Hypocritically, you did not qualify your characterization of my comment as "asinine" to be an opinion, so I will now rake you over the coals for thinking your opinions are objective facts...

    Posted By: RoccoI don't know if anybody ever told you: But you really must be great fun at parties.


    More fun than out of tune bends.
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    RIP Meanstreak

    TWP
    He’s Dynamite
    TWP
    And he’ll win the fight
    TWP
    He’s gonna unload
    TWP
    Watch him expose!!!!!
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    Posted By: ToiletWallPoet
    Posted By: MeanstreakThe Heartbreaker solo is a groundbreaking movement in rock


    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Yeah, Angus was totally moved by those out of tune bends. Moved to never embarrass himself like that!

    Calling that shitty playing "psychedelic" is an insult to psychedelic music. What lame excuses.

    And I don't care how much you strawman me, I'm not going to preface every opinion of mine with "this is just my opinion guys, please don't think I'm claiming to be the objective arbiter of all reality!!!" Hypocritically, you did not qualify your characterization of my comment as "asinine" to be an opinion, so I will now rake you over the coals for thinking your opinions are objective facts...

    Posted By: RoccoI don't know if anybody ever told you: But you really must be great fun at parties.


    More fun than out of tune bends.


    You mean "haul over the coals" not ''rake over the coals".

    You must be aware the LZ II is one of the most beloved hard rock albums ever made - are all the people who own it and love it idiots because they don't hear the technical faults that you do? And talking of Angus, aren't there some famously out-of-tune moments on LTBR?
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      AC/DC rock music: Meanstreak
    • Sep 1st 2022 edited
     
    Posted By: ToiletWallPoet
    Posted By: MeanstreakThe Heartbreaker solo is a groundbreaking movement in rock


    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Yeah, Angus was totally moved by those out of tune bends. Moved to never embarrass himself like that!

    Calling that shitty playing "psychedelic" is an insult to psychedelic music. What lame excuses.

    And I don't care how much you strawman me, I'm not going to preface every opinion of mine with "this is just my opinion guys, please don't think I'm claiming to be the objective arbiter of all reality!!!" Hypocritically, you did not qualify your characterization of my comment as "asinine" to be an opinion, so I will now rake you over the coals for thinking your opinions are objective facts...

    Posted By: RoccoI don't know if anybody ever told you: But you really must be great fun at parties.


    More fun than out of tune bends.


    Let's put it this way. If you were a new guitar player on the block, got some recognition for some good playing and was interviewed for Guitar World magazine and was quoted there or elsewhere expressing yourself in that manner, you would likely lose respect very quickly, unless you weren't really able to back that up with better guitar playing and songwriting than that of Led Zeppelin.

    You can clearly hear that Angus was influenced by that solo, at least it would be strange if he wasnt:

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      AC/DC rock music: Janonen
    • Sep 2nd 2022
     
    I don't know about bends, but I got a general feel of sloppiness when I listened to Zep decades ago; that said, LZ II bothered me less than the first one.
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      AC/DC rock music: Janonen
    • Sep 2nd 2022
     
    Meanstreak, I'm unable to open the link you provided, but you do realize that LZ tend to be accused of ripping off the old blues greats... the stuff that Angus spent his youth listening to at libraries?
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    Posted By: Goulash
    Posted By: Badlands66How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….


    Brian got on really well with Taylor. You'd be surprised by who Brian is friends with.


    Ex posties, maths graduates, all kinds of loonies. ;-)
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      AC/DC rock music: Rocco
    • Sep 3rd 2022
     
    Posted By: tomscotland
    Posted By: Goulash
    Posted By: Badlands66How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….


    Brian got on really well with Taylor. You'd be surprised by who Brian is friends with.


    Ex posties, maths graduates, all kinds of loonies. ;-)


    … and school boys
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      AC/DC rock music: Goulash
    • Sep 3rd 2022
     
    Posted By: tomscotland
    Posted By: Goulash
    Posted By: Badlands66How much does Brian really care about the guy? Hardly
    think they knew each other on more than a superficial
    level. Probably done more as a favour since Dave
    mentioned it or such….


    Brian got on really well with Taylor. You'd be surprised by who Brian is friends with.


    Ex posties, maths graduates, all kinds of loonies. ;-)


    That made me smile. I can't decide how many categories I fall into. I always thought that it was because we've both sang on singles that made it into the UK top ten singles chart :-)
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    Well i always wondered what the Foo Fighters would sound like with Liam Gallagher singing
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      AC/DC rock music: Kamikaze
    • Sep 3rd 2022
     
    Posted By: GoulashI always thought that it was because we've both sang on singles that made it into the UK top ten singles chart :-)


    Now you're making me curious...
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    Is there an actual schedule for the lineup? I just saw the poster but didn't know if it was posted in actual order or anything.
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      AC/DC rock music: Treehorn
    • Sep 3rd 2022
     
    Posted By: NoisePollutionIs there an actual schedule for the lineup? I just saw the poster but didn't know if it was posted in actual order or anything.


    Doubtful, guess they want to keep viewers watching!
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    Figured as much. Oh well. Can't really blame them.
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      AC/DC rock music: Treehorn
    • Sep 3rd 2022
     
    Although my pal just texted to say Brian and Lard Ulrich on at 7pm. Assuming things are running a little late although I’ve got no idea where he got that from
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      AC/DC rock music: Treehorn
    • Sep 3rd 2022
     
    Reckon they’re running half an hour late:

    https://twitter.com/...

    (The above from my pal)
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    YEAH LFG!!!

    • AC/DC rock music: DGDC
    • Sep 3rd 2022 edited
     
    Brian's kicking ass. Maybe a little weaker on Let There Be Rock. But cue the 2023 tour!
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    Baack Maama!
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    He looks and sounds awesome! A little bit out of breathe, but fuckin ready for a tour!
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    Brian's back!

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