Vainamoinen

Top-secret government stuff.

If I told you, I'd have to vomit on your shoes, sleep with your girlfriend and pass out in your bathtub.

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Oizen

/sig

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Vainamoinen

/thumbsup

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I was raised on TV,
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Arangor

All I'm saying is, go try to have a conversation with someone about whether or not Jason Becker is more talented than Michael Angelo Batio, or Yngwie Malmsteen, or fucking Steve Vai even. While it's true that you can play more difficult music, that doesn't necessarily mean it sounds better and is more creative, does it? Some people would say a musician is more talented than another because they create good feel and tone in their music, rather than lighting fast scales. Really, it all becomes opinion at the end of the day at how people define "talent" in music.

Shaky (btw) perhaps...Unconvential I guess but all in all it worked so w/e.

Yes, yes I am.

Vainamoinen

Again, adding quotes around talent only shows that any subjective arguments about it have nothing to do with real talent, they have to do with perceived talent (eg. she is really talented because her music makes me want to dance). Real talent has nothing to do with subjective things like "feeling" and "tone", it has to do with a demonstrated ability that is superior to another.

Arguing about talent subjectively, would be like saying "The sun is better than quarks because it makes me feel happy".

The extra "e" in shaky comes from b"e"er.

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icKx

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do."

-Elvis Costello

Vainamoinen

Elvis Costello was obviously wrong and, perhaps, a little stupid himself.

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mojophreaky

"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." - Frank Zappa

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff." - Frank Zappa

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Vainamoinen

While we're at it:

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."

-Francois Marie Arouet (aka Voltaire)

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I was raised on TV,
Like so many of you I see around me.
Nothing to live or die for;
No religion too.