Red Mosquito

Cool thread.

The lead tones in this song are great. Skip to 2:35 for the solo.

Loved Clapton before he ditched Gibson. Great tone all over the Beano record.

Spoiler: show

Full album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcwcg6SvhfM

I'm thinking about selling my Marshall Bluesbreaker, Justin.

(That reminds me, we need to resurrect the gearhead thread.)

Birds in Hell wrote:I'm thinking about selling my Marshall Bluesbreaker, Justin.

Yeah? Not your thing? I wish I played enough to justify having more awesome gear, but I don't.

Birds in Hell wrote:(That reminds me, we need to resurrect the gearhead thread.)

Resurrect it, Spenno.

Your mom can resurrect my gearhead.

Self wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:I'm thinking about selling my Marshall Bluesbreaker, Justin.

Yeah? Not your thing? I wish I played enough to justify having more awesome gear, but I don't.

It sounds great, but it's both very heavy and very loud. I'm playing gigs infrequently at the moment (and I doubt that will change much) so I want something smaller - and lighter, in the event that I do need to haul it anywhere.

I'm really interested in getting two Fender Pro Juniors and running them in stereo.

Young Neil is the winner of this thread - pretty much at any point in his career.

Self wrote:Cool thread.

The lead tones in this song are great. Skip to 2:35 for the solo.

Hell yeah. Homme's tone rules.

What are people's thoughts on Tom Morello?

I remember being utterly enthralled by him as a teenager, 15 years later his parlor tricks seem like just that. I recently saw a video of him playing with Bruce Springsteen in 2009 or so (on "The Ghost of Tom Joad"), doing all the standby Rage tricks--the guitar-as-turntable thing, the guitar-as-police siren thing, etc. It felt...sad.

I love him at times. I think in Rage's biggest hits, though, he's often more boring, even though otherwise those songs kick ass. In Audioslave solos, he never strays from the formula of his most boring Rage solos.

Kevin Davis wrote:What are people's thoughts on Tom Morello?

I remember being utterly enthralled by him as a teenager, 15 years later his parlor tricks seem like just that. I recently saw a video of him playing with Bruce Springsteen in 2009 or so (on "The Ghost of Tom Joad"), doing all the standby Rage tricks--the guitar-as-turntable thing, the guitar-as-police siren thing, etc. It felt...sad.

I kind of feel the same way.

his riff tone, in Rage at least, I think is spot on. And I think his solos sound so good in Rage because they complement the rest of the music well (ie Bombtrack).

dkfan9 wrote:his riff tone, in Rage at least, I think is spot on. And I think his solos sound so good in Rage because they complement the rest of the music well (ie Bombtrack).

Yeah, when what he's doing is providing high-end pyrotechnics for music whose sole focus is groove and impact, he's in his comfort zone, but it's a small zone. It's evident in some of the Audioslave tunes but it was really obvious when he was playing with Springsteen--he's either completely oblivious to or completely bored by the simplest tenets of melody and harmony, to the point where he doesn't have any filter for what is and isn't appropriate.

He's like a basketball player who can't dribble, pass, or make layups but has an anomalous, savant-like talent for sinking blindfolded skyhooks from half court.

Springsteen is about to tour down here and it was announced last week that Morello will be replacing Van Zandt for the tour. From what I gather from another board, people are pretty pissed off.

Kevin Davis wrote:

dkfan9 wrote:his riff tone, in Rage at least, I think is spot on. And I think his solos sound so good in Rage because they complement the rest of the music well (ie Bombtrack).

Yeah, when what he's doing is providing high-end pyrotechnics for music whose sole focus is groove and impact, he's in his comfort zone, but it's a small zone. It's evident in some of the Audioslave tunes but it was really obvious when he was playing with Springsteen--he's either completely oblivious to or completely bored by the simplest tenets of melody and harmony, to the point where he doesn't have any filter for what is and isn't appropriate.

He's like a basketball player who can't dribble, pass, or make layups but has an anomalous, savant-like talent for sinking blindfolded skyhooks from half court.

i like that analogy (did you just make it up or has it been brewing for a little while?), and the high-end pyro comment is spot on. and i love groove, impact, force, intensity, which might be why i'm so eager to forgive morello in other venues (though generally more eager to forgive than to listen, as far as the solos go)

Kevin Davis wrote:What are people's thoughts on Tom Morello?

Did you know that he's black?

Because I sure as hell didn't. Until a recent interview.

He's been on the front cover of Jet four times, man.

Fucking love the sound of Pete's guitar on the "solos" here:

I like how happy he gets when Keith calls for another solo near the end of the song.

Yes - love watching a huge band that's been around a while taking pure joy in playing a cover.