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Posted: May 28 2010 at 20:30
The Quiet One wrote:
Obscured by Clouds is my favorite Floyd album, and that song is superb!
I used to love it too. But I'm 51 now, and for me it has a lot less to offer than it used to. On hindsight, I think I may have been kidding myself because my roommate had Meddle, and I was jealous and didn't want him to have a better album than me. I truly did not mean to offend anyone. I really thought it was a good example of what I was saying. I am glad you are loving it! When you are 51, if you don't love it anymore, then put flowers on my grave. But if you do, well then, I guess you'll just have to piss on it!
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Posted: May 28 2010 at 19:56
Hi,
Terrible survey ... and one that really distorts things a lot.
Jimmy deserves a lot more credit for his work than a lot of guitarists out there, specially when you consider that he is a TRUE musician and does KNOW music very well ... and you can see this in the film "It's Gonna Get Loud" ... and in case you didn't see it ... check this out ... you know who the man up on him was? And guess who brought this guitarist into the Yardbirds?
G Gomelsky ... who went on to do Aphrodite's Child, Gentle Giant and so many others and is one of the massive fathers of Progressive Music and we should start a ... Hall of Fame for it!
David Gilmour, in creativity and expression is not in my book as important as Jimmy is to the history of rock music with Led Zeppelin. Pink Floyd deserves its name in there, of course, but as a band, not as any single member.
It was Jimmy that helped open the way with a few other folks, and David is second generation by comparison and to me not even as good as Mr. Gurley in Big Brother and the Holding Company, who pretty much is the father of the blowout guitar bomb! And if you dont sit through Ball and Chain ... you don't like a guitar having a duet with a voice!
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com
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Posted: May 28 2010 at 17:35
rogerthat wrote:
Captain Clutch wrote:
Each of them was the best man for the job they did, but let's face it guys: Led Zep is a band that is far more based on the guitar, and therefore Page plays a more significant role in his band
Not really, it's based far more on distorted guitar, is what I would say. Yes, keyboards have very little role to play in Led Zep compared to Floyd, but Gilmour was still the most important link in Floyd and Floyd were mainly a guitar based band too. Anyway, my vote goes to Gilmour. I like Page the arranger but Page the guitarist, both riffs and solos wise, doesn't do much for me, would rather Iommi and Blackmore respectively. I am not nearly as fond of the Comfortably Numb solo as many Floyd fans seem to be. I prefer his output from Meddle through to Dark Side.
a) you're incorrect about Floyd being mainly a guitar-based band. This was only true on Their first 2 albums and on The Wall (to a lesser extent)
b) David Gilmore did barely any song writing for Floyd, and Jimmy Page wrote EVERYTHING for Zep
Gilmore's role is more subtle and minimalist. Nobody could possibly replace what Page did for LZ
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Posted: May 28 2010 at 10:27
Ronnie Pilgrim wrote:
JLocke wrote:
Plus, this is a prog site. We tend to like Gilmour more by default.
Precisely. Throw all objectivity out with the bath water. Did Gilmour ever compose anything as moving as "The Rain Song?" WalterDigsTunes has the best take on this thread. Proggies are biased toward musicians in their genre, but Gilmore plays like he's on autopilot. And "Comfortably Numb" is the same long boring solo broken into two parts. Puhleeeeeze.
You call that a long solo?
I dont think CN is his best work but I do love those solos and the huge contrast in mood between the two. I remember some stupid list from Pitchfork (indie elitists unite) included CN as one of the worst guitar solos of all time and cited Gilmour's use of studio splicing as the reason. How stupid is that?
So what if Gilmour wasnt a wild improviser? From Meddle and onwards Floyd had always been about what they could do in the studio, not what they could do live. They were a studio band. And seriously, Gilmour made CN from a bunch of random licks he recorded, but it's not like he had any trouble reproducing it live, not at all. Talk about a ridiculous reason to call such a great solo one of the worst. But Pitchfork has always been a bunch of pretentious t**ts.
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Posted: May 27 2010 at 11:32
Captain Clutch wrote:
Each of them was the best man for the job they did, but let's face it guys: Led Zep is a band that is far more based on the guitar, and therefore Page plays a more significant role in his band
Not really, it's based far more on distorted guitar, is what I would say. Yes, keyboards have very little role to play in Led Zep compared to Floyd, but Gilmour was still the most important link in Floyd and Floyd were mainly a guitar based band too. Anyway, my vote goes to Gilmour. I like Page the arranger but Page the guitarist, both riffs and solos wise, doesn't do much for me, would rather Iommi and Blackmore respectively. I am not nearly as fond of the Comfortably Numb solo as many Floyd fans seem to be. I prefer his output from Meddle through to Dark Side.
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Posted: May 26 2010 at 22:44
Even though I do like Gilmour better, I do think Page can be an awsome emotional player, a great example for me would be Since I've Been Loving You. Also, it's been mentioned about Gilmour reproducing note for note his solos while playing live, and from what I've heard on live album, he usually adds to the song, both in time and in emotion. I usually like his songs (or Pink Floyd's) better live because of the way he plays them.
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Posted: May 26 2010 at 21:54
CinemaZebra wrote:
Atavachron wrote:
CinemaZebra wrote:
The one who didn't steal any riffs.
As for Page's "stealing", he and Zeppelin contributed to the blues more than they stole from it.
I don't see how that justifies it. If it weren't for Page's stealing, Led Zeppelin wouldn't even get the opportunity to "contribute" to the blues in the first place.
They have nothing to justify: the very basis of all bluesrock is the
black artists in the US of the 40s and 50s, and all the important
bluesrock/heavy blues artists took from that legacy - Cream, Blue
Cheer, Santana, the Stones, Johnny Winter, the Doors, Sabbath, you name
it, and most of the riffs, phrasing and lyrical relation are directly
traceable to the electric Blues of the 20th century. I'm not just
talking influence either, but direct usage of material that was often unknown
to most or was no longer available. Further, Zeppelin weren't the only
ones to not properly credit artists, they just were too
blatant and successful for it to slip by.
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Posted: May 26 2010 at 21:49
JLocke wrote:
Plus, this is a prog site. We tend to like Gilmour more by default.
Precisely. Throw all objectivity out with the bath water. Did Gilmour ever compose anything as moving as "The Rain Song?" WalterDigsTunes has the best take on this thread. Proggies are biased toward musicians in their genre, but Gilmore plays like he's on autopilot. And "Comfortably Numb" is the same long boring solo broken into two parts. Puhleeeeeze.
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Posted: May 26 2010 at 21:28
Atavachron wrote:
CinemaZebra wrote:
The one who didn't steal any riffs.
As for Page's "stealing", he and Zeppelin contributed to the blues more than they stole from it.
I don't see how that justifies it. If it weren't for Page's stealing, Led Zeppelin wouldn't even get the opportunity to "contribute" to the blues in the first place.
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Posted: May 26 2010 at 19:12
Each of them was the best man for the job they did, but let's face it guys: Led Zep is a band that is far more based on the guitar, and therefore Page plays a more significant role in his band
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Posted: May 26 2010 at 14:14
yanch wrote:
Gilmour. Neither is a great technician
Maybe not as technical performers but they are as composers and arrangers. Page's greatest talent is his producing. And Gilmour's is his abillity to make every note work.
Page is the sloppy one but that's part of his appeal.
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The Quiet One wrote:
Obscured by Clouds is my favorite Floyd album, and that song is superb!
I truly did not mean to offend anyone. I really thought it was a good example of what I was saying. I am glad you are loving it! When you are 51, if you don't love it anymore, then put flowers on my grave. But if you do, well then, I guess you'll just have to piss on it! 
