[kj] Advice on picking up guitar

[Stephen Robinson]

Verily he is the boss of the Guitar sound.
Chiffty-Chaff
Amen


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> Hail Geordie,

> full of awesomeness,

> the Lord is with you,

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> Blessed are you among musicians

> and awesome is the fruit of your awesomeness

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> Holy Geordie, cousin of God,

> pray for us sinners

> now and at the hour of our death and resurrection

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> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]  

> On

> Behalf Of Brian Whitehead

> Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2007 8:09 p.m.

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] Advice on picking up guitar

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> Brendan,

>

> Is there somebody missing from that list of favourite guitarists?

>

> Brian.

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> On 25/09/2007, Brendan < bq at soundgardener.co.nz

> <mailto:bq at soundgardener.co.nz> > wrote:

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> Cheers all for your advice, appreciate it.

>

> I'll ask for some advice from two of my sisters' boyfriends (different

> sisters, both boyfriends called John, both musicians, go figure), one is  

> a

> drummer and fellow Soundgarden freak, the other was lead guitarist in a

> moderately popular NZ band from back in the day (The Warners, remember

> them Bongo?) and he's a bit of a demon on the guitar, to my ear. Both owe

> me favours for computer and gym help but would help me anyways.

>

> My favourite guitarist is Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, other favourites

> are Hendrix, Page, Frank Zappa, Brian May, Pepper Keenan, Jerry Cantrell,

> Dimebag, Steve Morse, Slash, Joe Satch, Petrucci, Steve Vai,  Josh Homme,

> Jack White,  Angus Young, Adam Jones, Kirk Hammet, SRV, David Gilmour...a

> lot of whom would be regarded as sounding great but not technically the

> greatest.

>

> PS: (Not my words):

>

> My favorite Kim Thayil quote:

> "I can play guitar better than 95% of the guitarists out there.

> Unfortunately, the top 5% are in the music business, so that puts me at

> the bottom!"

>

> My favorite quote about Kim:

> "I learned a lot from Kim- like how to win an argument without being  

> right

> (laughs)."- Chris Cornell.

>

>> On 25 Sep 2007, at 15:20, powens wrote:

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>>> Chuck Prophet has played the same Squire Telecaster all his life so

>>> nothing wrong with (the right one of) those

>>

>> someone was telling me that apparently early Squires are quite sought

>> after.

>> mark burgess played a Squire Precision when I saw the Chamelons a

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