Originally Posted by: SoulDistortionDon't you just love contradictions :rolleyes:

In the first portion of that statment you go on to say that the quaility of his mucic is all that matters and anything physical or in otherwords anything you can see such as stage tricks is meaningless. Then by the end of your statement you complain about his hair and his wardrobe as if that makes him a worse guitarist. And btw some of the greatests guitarists in the world like hendrix used stage tricks and it didn't remove anything from his playing quaility. If it doesen't affect the music thats fine with me. And as far as smashing the guitar goes hendrix called it "nothing more then a release i guess" It particularly makes me cringe seeing such a beatiful instrament get smashed to pieces but if thats how they release their energy and they have the money to do so i will not object to it. Hendrix said "If i feel like playing with my teeth or smashing my guitar I DO IT because i feel like it, if the crowd likes it great, if they dont, great, im doing what i feel like doing and expressing myself in ways that i know how. music is all about self expression and i take my self expression to new heights, i dont rely on these gimmicks to entertain the crowd even though they might like watching it."

I'll give you that one, but it was just a misinterpretation. His appearance is just icing on the cake, you could say. Have you seen what he looks like recently? He can play, but he's a goon. Moving on, All the stated above is fine by me, and I agree with it. I just happen to be agreeing from a different point of view. I don't feel like smashing any of my gear for any reason and I don't feel like seeing other people do it is all. If someone else does it for one reason or another, then that's fine by me. It's their gear, I just don't agree with what they're doing. Gear smashing is something that just should've never gone past Hendrix. I find it ironic, people inherit the gear smashing for any reason and no one thinks anything of it, but I guarantee that if others started sporting violin bows with guitars in their music they'd be getting Page comparisons out the ass.