Re: And your bird can't play lead as well as Pete, nor drum as well as Keith

["Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>]

> It would be very easy if the guitarist played one note
> at a time (someone posted that John did the other
> voice, but as far as I know George play both.

Lucas:

If he did, he double tracked it. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking
about the lead, played on one guitar. That's it, that's all. And it's about
half the speed and complexity of the second half of the studio version of
the ICE lead. I mean, I can't even follow what Pete's doing!

> That's a very erroneous notion.

As the risk of starting a Monty Python routine here: No it's not. I say
again that no one could do what Keith did. You say none have tried. I say
many have tried, none have succeeded. Peart tried, as he has admitted. He
failed. That would, by definition, mean it was impossible for him to play,
would it not? On the other hand, I'd say that Carl Palmer (at least in his
heyday) could have played anything any of the drummers you cited could play.
He was, as far as I know, the greatest technical drummer in Rock (not RnR,
Jeff). Amazing, really.

> Some guys say that
> study and technique makes the musician be less
> creative. No musician will lose creativity if he, say,
> study rhythmcs.

I would say that playing a set of riffs which are predetermined is not as
creative as coming up with incredible (and uncopiable) fills on the spot.
When I worked as a roadie with Palmer, he was incredible BUT he also played
the same thing every night. Exactly the same.


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