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Poll Question: Which is better DT or TFTO??
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2006 at 23:08
Barry Bonds is a bad example IMO, but I understand what you are saying anyways and won't get into it.

However, not everyone equivilates Steve Howe to guitar genius, in fact, very few do as not many people know his name. Most people understand the name Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, not Steve Howe, if you get my drift.

I know exactly what you are talking about about the kid who plays a mean guitar, cause that was me about 3 years ago. I'm sure I'll learn more and think I am an idiot again 5 years from now, who knows, I might be even stronger about certain aspects of my opinions.

I didn't write much for CTTE because well, it has about 500 reviews, mine is a small part of the picture. For an album by a band like 65 days of static I was more careful about my review becuase it was the 2nd one for the band, and I realized it would have a bigger impact than a review for CTTE. However, in the future, I will probably be ensuring that my reviews have more substance to them, as I was approached earlier about my DT review, basically because I didn't give the album 5 stars.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2006 at 00:50
Originally posted by OpethGuitarist OpethGuitarist wrote:

However, not everyone equivilates Steve Howe to guitar genius, in fact, very few do as not many people know his name. Most people understand the name Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, not Steve Howe, if you get my drift.
 
I like Howe's style and that is subjective but he was voted "best" guitarist five times in a row by Guitar Magazine and he is also the only "Rock" guitarist to be voted into the guitar gallery of greats.
 
Anyway, these forums are a good place to sound opinions and I enjoy that. Smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2006 at 01:11
Those guitar magazines are usually horrible and have no idea what they are rating on.

If you were to take a serious look into the guitar world, half the people they list wouldn't be in those magazines and you'd have a diverse display of guitarists.

Ill take Bumblefoot as an example of a criminally underrated guitarist who will never get his praise because he isn't in a famous band.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2006 at 18:11
Originally posted by OpethGuitarist OpethGuitarist wrote:

Those guitar magazines are usually horrible and have no idea what they are rating on.

If you were to take a serious look into the guitar world, half the people they list wouldn't be in those magazines and you'd have a diverse display of guitarists.

Ill take Bumblefoot as an example of a criminally underrated guitarist who will never get his praise because he isn't in a famous band.
 
We can agree to disagree and of course there are undiscovered musicians by the boat load everywhere. Jon Anderson once said that there are some really good bands and even some better than we are (Yes) that will never see the light of day.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2006 at 16:29
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as always the results fall short of the hype.. especially since my reviewing skills are not as good as I would like.  I'm fair but not as good as I'd like.. especally compared to reviewers I admire like Ghost Rider and CertIfied. I haven't picked a style I like yet.  I have 20 odd reviews with about as many different styles in reviewing them.  I tried to just briefly give a synopsis, and a vibe for the 'Oxygene' and 'Voyage 34' and then went the track by track route for De De Lind's  'Io Non So Da Dove Vengo e Non So Dove Mai Andrò, Uomo e' il Nome Che Mi han Dato'.  I'm not sure which I prefer yet.. don't get your hopes up for anything earthshattering LOL


*blushes at the compliment towards her reviewing skills (which are, of course, exceptional as everybody else knows)*EmbarrassedWink

BTW, what was the thread about? DT again? Ah, can't say I missed that while stranded in the mountains above Bergamo.... LOL

DT fans, beware: I'm back with a vengeance, and I'm going to review a) Once in a LIvetime Evil Smile; b) Train of Thought; c) A Change of Seasons....LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2006 at 20:45
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:


as always the results fall short of the hype.. especially since my reviewing skills are not as good as I would like.  I'm fair but not as good as I'd like.. especally compared to reviewers I admire like Ghost Rider and CertIfied. I haven't picked a style I like yet.  I have 20 odd reviews with about as many different styles in reviewing them.  I tried to just briefly give a synopsis, and a vibe for the 'Oxygene' and 'Voyage 34' and then went the track by track route for De De Lind's  'Io Non So Da Dove Vengo e Non So Dove Mai Andrò, Uomo e' il Nome Che Mi han Dato'.  I'm not sure which I prefer yet.. don't get your hopes up for anything earthshattering LOL


*blushes at the compliment towards her reviewing skills (which are, of course, exceptional as everybody else knows)*EmbarrassedWink

BTW, what was the thread about? DT again? Ah, can't say I missed that while stranded in the mountains above Bergamo.... LOL

DT fans, beware: I'm back with a vengeance, and I'm going to review a) Once in a LIvetime Evil Smile; b) Train of Thought; c) A Change of Seasons....LOL



hahahha you go girl...  well I would hope that you missed all of us while playing ski bunny and running with the European jet-set hahahhahaWink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 15:13
The threatened ToT review is online... Enjoy it to the fullest, my dear DT fans! Next in line - the dreaded "Once in a Livetime"...Tongue

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 16:07
When are you doing Six Degrees?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 16:10
When I buy it, which is highly unlikely for the time being... I'm already spending oodles of money on records, but at least I listen to them. With DT, I have to force myself to listen to them, and I only manage to get to the end with great effort.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 16:15
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

When I buy it, which is highly unlikely for the time being... I'm already spending oodles of money on records, but at least I listen to them. With DT, I have to force myself to listen to them, and I only manage to get to the end with great effort.
 
I suggest not to bother wasting money for music you don't expect yourself to enjoy.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:47
Dream Theater reviews by micky annd Ghost Rider: a "fair and balanced" look on DT. Who can "outfox" the other?!?Dead
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:49
Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Dream Theater reviews by micky annd Ghost Rider: a "fair and balanced" look on DT. Who can "outfox" the other?!?Dead



hmm....  I don't like your attitude boy....LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:50
Originally posted by ivansfr0st ivansfr0st wrote:

Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

When I buy it, which is highly unlikely for the time being... I'm already spending oodles of money on records, but at least I listen to them. With DT, I have to force myself to listen to them, and I only manage to get to the end with great effort.
 
I suggest not to bother wasting money for music you don't expect yourself to enjoy.
 
 -- Ivan


trust me... I won't make that mistake again hahahha..Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:58
TfTO wins this easily, considering all the mediocre stuff DT has turned out. However, if it would have been TfTO vs. Images and Words only, I would have voted for the latter. Tongue

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 19:00
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Dream Theater reviews by micky annd Ghost Rider: a "fair and balanced" look on DT. Who can "outfox" the other?!?Dead



hmm....  I don't like your attitude boy....LOL


I couldn't help but notice the similarities.Evil Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 19:05
Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Dream Theater reviews by micky annd Ghost Rider: a "fair and balanced" look on DT. Who can "outfox" the other?!?Dead



hmm....  I don't like your attitude boy....LOL


I couldn't help but notice the similarities.Evil Smile


between Raffaella and I?  hahha   it's like we are siblings seperated after birth... though I attribute her love of Rush to being a slightly off center euro-type hahahaha Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 19:13
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Dream Theater reviews by micky annd Ghost Rider: a "fair and balanced" look on DT. Who can "outfox" the other?!?Dead



hmm....  I don't like your attitude boy....LOL


I couldn't help but notice the similarities.Evil Smile


between Raffaella and I?  hahha   it's like we are siblings seperated after birth... though I attribute her love of Rush to being a slightly off center euro-type hahahaha Wink


Well, I wasn't thinking of that particular comparison...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 19:16
Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

Dream Theater reviews by micky annd Ghost Rider: a "fair and balanced" look on DT. Who can "outfox" the other?!?Dead



hmm....  I don't like your attitude boy....LOL


I couldn't help but notice the similarities.Evil Smile


between Raffaella and I?  hahha   it's like we are siblings seperated after birth... though I attribute her love of Rush to being a slightly off center euro-type hahahaha Wink


Well, I wasn't thinking of that particular comparison...



oh welll.... I'm a bit slow on the uptake at times...  you sometimes have to just come right out and insult us old folks... otherwise it sails right over our heads...  what particular comparison were you thinking of then? Shocked
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 19:25
^ never mind. Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2006 at 19:32
Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:

^ never mind. Wink



hahah... damn.. you have my curiousity aroused now...  btw.. what poll are we in anyway.. a bad sign of straying off topic isn't it..
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