Re: class

At 14:51 02/07/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>Mark (senior?) L wrote:
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>Jen:
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>I may be 40 but I ain't no senior (hey, that could be a song...).
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>>>I would say that Pete was a more innovative guitarist, too,
>>>even if he wasn't a better lead player (of course, and you can tell your Dad
>>>this, he's a better lead player NOW).
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>>        No good.  Dad wouldn't believe me.  I agree, and Pete probably never
>>stole a solo from an old blues man (well, only a few times), where Page was
>>RARELY original.  He won't watch any footage or listen to any of Pete's solo
>>work for me to rectify the situation.
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>Best way to do it is to tell him to attempt to play songs by each (how about
>Stairway and WGFA, which came out the same year), and see which is easier.
>It's no coincidence that Stairway is taught to fledgling guitarists. 
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>                   Cheers                   ML
>
>"I think you should keep on playing Rock as long as you have an axe to grind
>and then if you haven't got an axe to grind you should go into cabaret."
>                                                                 Pete Townshend
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>                   Cheers                   ML
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>"I think you should keep on playing Rock as long as you have an axe to grind
>and then if you haven't got an axe to grind you should go into cabaret."
>                                                                 Pete Townshend
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>But this is mostly a question of "feel". PT was a guitarist who played (or
rather perfected) a style that was exciting almost in an ATHLETIC sense - he
played to and for young people who wanted not just to dance the night away
but almost to work out in the modern aerobics sense.  The way he played
guitar expressed all the energy, nerve and innocent presumption of guileless
youth. To compare Jimmy Page's objectives to this approach is to compare,
well, night and day.  I don't think you can rate the two against each other
in any real sense. Thus, someone either "gets" PT, or instinctively relates
to his style, or doesn't (and the same applies I suppose to Pagey but I'll
plump any day for PT, especially live from '69 to '82 - of course, I'm parti
pris...Gary M.