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Sin_City_Superhero [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 6:26:29 PM  
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flappy_penguin [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 6:27:07 PM  
So what happens if I duct tape my 7-string guitar, 3/4 scale fretless bass and a 12-string plus my 6-string  acoustic midi Martin prototype to a farfisa pianorgan? Can I sell an nft?
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 6:33:34 PM  
He's a great guitarist and he explains that to you any chances he gets but he has the Yngwie Malmsteen thing where he's very talented but doesn't play anything you really want to listen to.
 
rummonkey
2022-01-19 6:39:59 PM  
Steve is talented enough that there is no difference between could and should
 
Back2Good
2022-01-19 6:40:32 PM  

Mugato: He's a great guitarist and he explains that to you any chances he gets but he has the Yngwie Malmsteen thing where he's very talented but doesn't play anything you really want to listen to.


Great explanation.
Beats my, he's a great guitarist, in a pedantic wankry- sort of way.
Tho, For the Love of God is, imo, jaw droppingly amazing.
 
Summoner101
2022-01-19 6:48:19 PM  

flappy_penguin: So what happens if I duct tape my 7-string guitar, 3/4 scale fretless bass and a 12-string plus my 6-string  acoustic midi Martin prototype to a farfisa pianorgan? Can I sell an nft?


Depends.  Do you do CrossFit?
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 6:55:22 PM  

Mugato: He's a great guitarist and he explains that to you any chances he gets but he has the Yngwie Malmsteen thing where he's very talented but doesn't play anything you really want to listen to.


He's pretty good on Album by Public Image Limited.
 
Spartapuss
2022-01-19 6:55:45 PM  
Suffering with Aeolian
 
IDisME
2022-01-19 6:59:09 PM  
Like, heavy man.  I mean, it looks like it's about 60-80 pounds.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 7:01:16 PM  

Spartapuss: Suffering with Aeolian


Is that the scale he created?
 
Incorrigible Astronaut
2022-01-19 7:01:31 PM  

Back2Good: Mugato: He's a great guitarist and he explains that to you any chances he gets but he has the Yngwie Malmsteen thing where he's very talented but doesn't play anything you really want to listen to.

Great explanation.
Beats my, he's a great guitarist, in a pedantic wankry- sort of way.
Tho, For the Love of God is, imo, jaw droppingly amazing.


Reminds me of the best Dream Theater description I ever heard: All chops, no soul.
 
sokalel
2022-01-19 7:04:46 PM  

Incorrigible Astronaut: Back2Good: Mugato: He's a great guitarist and he explains that to you any chances he gets but he has the Yngwie Malmsteen thing where he's very talented but doesn't play anything you really want to listen to.

Great explanation.
Beats my, he's a great guitarist, in a pedantic wankry- sort of way.
Tho, For the Love of God is, imo, jaw droppingly amazing.

Reminds me of the best Dream Theater description I ever heard: All chops, no soul.


I love DT, my ex-wife on the other hand did not, her description for them was musical masturbation.
 
IDisME
2022-01-19 7:08:56 PM  

sokalel: Incorrigible Astronaut: Back2Good: Mugato: He's a great guitarist and he explains that to you any chances he gets but he has the Yngwie Malmsteen thing where he's very talented but doesn't play anything you really want to listen to.

Great explanation.
Beats my, he's a great guitarist, in a pedantic wankry- sort of way.
Tho, For the Love of God is, imo, jaw droppingly amazing.

Reminds me of the best Dream Theater description I ever heard: All chops, no soul.

I love DT, my ex-wife on the other hand did not, her description for them was musical masturbation.


Animals as Leaders is really really like that.  Chops? Yep.  Personality?  Nope.  I saw a live video of them at some festival, and I couldn't find one woman in the audience.  At all. There were camera pans and everything :D
 
Ant
2022-01-19 7:20:06 PM  
No denying that he's extremely talented. I just hate all of his music is all.
 
flappy_penguin [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 7:20:07 PM  

Summoner101: flappy_penguin: So what happens if I duct tape my 7-string guitar, 3/4 scale fretless bass and a 12-string plus my 6-string  acoustic midi Martin prototype to a farfisa pianorgan? Can I sell an nft?

Depends.  Do you do CrossFit?


No. I can cook you a tasty vegan meal though. One of the guitars.is gonna be 100% Brazilian bootleg rosewood tho
 
dittybopper
2022-01-19 7:24:11 PM  

Summoner101: flappy_penguin: So what happens if I duct tape my 7-string guitar, 3/4 scale fretless bass and a 12-string plus my 6-string  acoustic midi Martin prototype to a farfisa pianorgan? Can I sell an nft?

Depends.  Do you do CrossFit?


Vegan CrossFit Fighter Pilot.
 
KC Dutchman [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 7:25:04 PM  
Michael Angelo Batio would like to have a word...
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Golden Brown Delicious
2022-01-19 7:34:46 PM  
FTFA:

The reveal also marks the announcement of Steve Vai's first NFT release. On January 28, the day of the Inviolate album's release, the Hydra reveal video will be auctioned.  The winning bidder will also get unlockable bonus content that will be revealed to them upon purchase. Additional assets will be added over time for the winner to access.

Aaand the circle of jerk is complete.

/agree that his music is technically brilliant but sterile
//was a much bigger fan of Eric Johnson as a kid growing up in TX
///slashies
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 7:39:15 PM  

KC Dutchman: Michael Angelo Batio would like to have a word...
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The epitome of musical masturbation. It's so bad...

*how bad is it?*

It's so bad, the first 3 rows of his show are labeled as a "Splash Zone".
 
nigeman
2022-01-19 7:41:46 PM  
This is for the collector, and I know a few who would buy this in a heartbeat. The tackiness just builds the enthusiasm

- but they always come back to the telecaster. Go figure
 
Thank You Black Jesus! [BareFark]
2022-01-19 7:44:46 PM  

ZMugg: KC Dutchman: Michael Angelo Batio would like to have a word...
[Fark user image 443x332]

The epitome of musical masturbation. It's so bad...

*how bad is it?*

It's so bad, the first 3 rows of his show are labeled as a "Splash Zone".


you can't spell masturbation without batio
 
EdgeRunner [OhFark]
2022-01-19 7:50:47 PM  
It's like he swiped one of Joel Hodgson's unused ideas for an Invention Exchange on MST3K.

"And watch what happens when I smash it, Frank. For every neck you snap off, two more grow in its place!"
 
InfoFreako
2022-01-19 8:04:39 PM  
fark everything, we're doing seven necks.
 
Pointy Tail of Satan
2022-01-19 8:18:26 PM  
Next up, a full 30 stop pipe organ you can hang around your neck.

And no, neither bagpipes nor accordions are "pipe organs".
 
meera's frog spear
2022-01-19 8:21:41 PM  
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AuralArgument
2022-01-19 8:23:26 PM  
Back2Good:

He's the type that those who play want to learn new techniques
 
rummonkey
2022-01-19 8:26:33 PM  

Golden Brown Delicious: FTFA:

The reveal also marks the announcement of Steve Vai's first NFT release. On January 28, the day of the Inviolate album's release, the Hydra reveal video will be auctioned.  The winning bidder will also get unlockable bonus content that will be revealed to them upon purchase. Additional assets will be added over time for the winner to access.

Aaand the circle of jerk is complete.

/agree that his music is technically brilliant but sterile
//was a much bigger fan of Eric Johnson as a kid growing up in TX
///slashies


Ah, one of the two arguments I always heard when somebody tried to tell me that musicians I like aren't very good.

Either they are technically proficient but sterile or they are just called guitar wankers. Both descriptions tell me more about the person making the claim than the musician.

It's okay to not like something without feeling the urge to shiat on it to make yourself feel better. I expect that out of high schoolers.
 
AuralArgument
2022-01-19 8:31:19 PM  
Toy Dolls - Dig That Groove Baby - Live 16 1 2020
Youtube sptu1ndu3RY

Sometimes simple is best
 
drewogatory
2022-01-19 8:34:35 PM  

rummonkey: Golden Brown Delicious: FTFA:

The reveal also marks the announcement of Steve Vai's first NFT release. On January 28, the day of the Inviolate album's release, the Hydra reveal video will be auctioned.  The winning bidder will also get unlockable bonus content that will be revealed to them upon purchase. Additional assets will be added over time for the winner to access.

Aaand the circle of jerk is complete.

/agree that his music is technically brilliant but sterile
//was a much bigger fan of Eric Johnson as a kid growing up in TX
///slashies

Ah, one of the two arguments I always heard when somebody tried to tell me that musicians I like aren't very good.

Either they are technically proficient but sterile or they are just called guitar wankers. Both descriptions tell me more about the person making the claim than the musician.

It's okay to not like something without feeling the urge to shiat on it to make yourself feel better. I expect that out of high schoolers.


Shredders are and always will be a divisive subject amongst guitar heads. Shawn Lane was the only one I ever really had much time for, unless Holdsworth counts. And feel is farking hard , which is why 90 something % of metal guitar players worship Peter Green. Dudes like Johnny Winter with both feel and speed are basically freaks.
 
waffledonkey
2022-01-19 8:50:37 PM  
He's a crazy guy, maybe needs a spanking?

/ Guy with light blue hair
 
puckrock2000
2022-01-19 8:52:29 PM  
Only 36 strings? Pat Metheny says, "Meh."
Pat Metheny Pikasso 42-string guitar
Youtube Wp1wHZfZz9s
 
lurkey [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 8:59:27 PM  
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Spice Must Flow
2022-01-19 9:10:35 PM  

waffledonkey: He's a crazy guy, maybe needs a spanking?

/ Guy with light blue hair


It's not that he requires grooming.
 
JohnBigBootay
2022-01-19 9:13:15 PM  

Mugato: He's a great guitarist and he explains that to you any chances he gets but he has the Yngwie Malmsteen thing where he's very talented but doesn't play anything you really want to listen to.


This. I've never been a notes per second kind of guy.
 
JohnBigBootay
2022-01-19 9:21:34 PM  

rummonkey: Golden Brown Delicious: FTFA:

The reveal also marks the announcement of Steve Vai's first NFT release. On January 28, the day of the Inviolate album's release, the Hydra reveal video will be auctioned.  The winning bidder will also get unlockable bonus content that will be revealed to them upon purchase. Additional assets will be added over time for the winner to access.

Aaand the circle of jerk is complete.

/agree that his music is technically brilliant but sterile
//was a much bigger fan of Eric Johnson as a kid growing up in TX
///slashies

Ah, one of the two arguments I always heard when somebody tried to tell me that musicians I like aren't very good.

Either they are technically proficient but sterile or they are just called guitar wankers. Both descriptions tell me more about the person making the claim than the musician.

It's okay to not like something without feeling the urge to shiat on it to make yourself feel better. I expect that out of high schoolers.


Naw. It's more than that. Dude is amazing. But eventually music is about the song. He doesn't have any good ones.  Which is weird. Because everyone knows who the guy is. Everyone knows he's good. Yet there's only like 16 people that know the names of any of his songs and they all have nine guitars. I know the names of a million songs I don't even like.
 
realmolo
2022-01-19 9:24:49 PM  
I have yet to listen to a Vai song that wasn't boring-as-hell.
 
New Age Redneck
2022-01-19 9:34:02 PM  
I hear Linda Ronstadt is looking for a new guitar player.
 
johnny queso
2022-01-19 9:38:09 PM  

IDisME: sokalel: Incorrigible Astronaut: Back2Good: Mugato: He's a great guitarist and he explains that to you any chances he gets but he has the Yngwie Malmsteen thing where he's very talented but doesn't play anything you really want to listen to.

Great explanation.
Beats my, he's a great guitarist, in a pedantic wankry- sort of way.
Tho, For the Love of God is, imo, jaw droppingly amazing.

Reminds me of the best Dream Theater description I ever heard: All chops, no soul.

I love DT, my ex-wife on the other hand did not, her description for them was musical masturbation.

Animals as Leaders is really really like that.  Chops? Yep.  Personality?  Nope.  I saw a live video of them at some festival, and I couldn't find one woman in the audience.  At all. There were camera pans and everything :D


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nice one, fark.
 
H31N0US
2022-01-19 9:46:23 PM  
Cool now I can suck in parallel.
 
johnny queso
2022-01-19 9:55:27 PM  

Thank You Black Jesus!: ZMugg: KC Dutchman: Michael Angelo Batio would like to have a word...
[Fark user image 443x332]

The epitome of musical masturbation. It's so bad...

*how bad is it?*

It's so bad, the first 3 rows of his show are labeled as a "Splash Zone".

you can't spell masturbation without batio


guitar master batio
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 10:03:26 PM  
If you hate/love Steve, you can credit/blame this guy:
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Other students include: Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, and Alex Skolnick.
 
red5ish
2022-01-19 10:05:00 PM  
Truckasaurus. Same idea.
 
10Speed
2022-01-19 10:06:54 PM  
I used to dislike Steve Vai but then he proved he's all about the music by joining the most unlikely lineup ever when he signed up for Public Image Limited along with Ginger Baker.
 
10Speed
2022-01-19 10:08:58 PM  

lurkey: [novaxguitars.com image 550x413]


Much respect to Charlie! Once as a greenish music journo I intervewed him, and was not worthy of his intellect and ability.
 
Telephone Sanitizer Second Class
2022-01-19 10:16:07 PM  
I've been thinking about building something like this out of cigar boxes for a while, just for laughs. Been a luthier for about 20 years, and have built guitars and ukuleles out of everything from lunch boxes to bedpans to tin cans, so it shouldn't be a problem to build a multi neck electric cigar box guitar with sympathetic strings. Maybe I'll even stick a kalimba on it. Hmm...off to the shop.
 
The_Philosopher_King
2022-01-19 10:19:16 PM  
Skip to 2:28 for the guitar.
Bill, Charles & The Purple
Youtube gjuFS6qWRW4
 
Stud Gerbil
2022-01-19 10:35:47 PM  
Does he have enough blood left in him to make a bunch of these?

Steve started out at the very top, with Frank's band.   It was always gonna be downhill from there.
 
bud jones
2022-01-19 11:25:58 PM  
this is obviously some sick prank on the schlub roadie who has to tune his guitars for shows
 
yelmrog
2022-01-20 3:48:40 AM  

rummonkey: Ah, one of the two arguments I always heard when somebody tried to tell me that musicians I like aren't very good.

Either they are technically proficient but sterile or they are just called guitar wankers. Both descriptions tell me more about the person making the claim than the musician.

It's okay to not like something without feeling the urge to shiat on it to make yourself feel better. I expect that out of high schoolers.


It goes both ways.  I've also heard uber-guitar elitists shiat on other people's taste in music as well for the opposite reason, i.e. "It can't be good because those players aren't even close the same level as the guitarists I listen to".
 
Dansker
2022-01-20 4:49:57 AM  
Terrific! It's like the Homer Car of guitars.
 
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