Originally posted by Jimmi431
hey, jleraan i was jokin! i enjoy writin crap like that seriously! keeps me from the borin task of history essays or business definitions!
have to say although jimmy page was sloppy i actually think this is a good thing. i've always thought that if you've spent ages and ages learing to play the most technical things in the most perfect way your kinda missing the point of guitar. although i spent ages trying and learning loads of technical stuff i always see myself coming straight back to a more pagey type approach to playin and being messy but not caring cos its how i like it to sound and feel cos i dont like the strain of thinkin "right i got to get this sweep in to impress an show how good i am". also i think a messy kind of improvised style shows more soul and feeling than someone who just blasts up and down an arpeggio pattern they've learnt. e.g. yngwie.
But page is the best guitarist ever!

Oh, okay. I thought you were dead serious about the little comment there. Heh. It could look like I just read a few lines of what you read, but never mind.

Well, I have to say I agree with you on the thing about the Page style. Think about Iron Maiden. You know, they had Adrian Smith/Dave Murray as guitarists from 1981-1988. Then on the 1990 album, No Prayer For The Dying album, another guitarist featured with Murray instead of Smith. This man's name is Janick Gers, he is in Maiden still today, You might know him as a guitarist? Well, anyway, at least on the Internet, MANY critizise the way Janick plays, especially his solo style. He is quite a contrast to Adrian Smith, who always structured the solo's perfectly and played them with perfection and made them sound melodic all the time - focusing less on speed.

While mr. Gers on the other hand, has a more 'dirty' style, if you understand. Not in a bad way, if you ask me. His style is just not as clean as Smith's all the time. And I like that! Makes it sound interesting. Now, Gers has got speed, but not neccessarily in the Yngwie Malmsteen way. Not that technical. Now, that's maybe not so strange, as Gers is influenced by Page, amongst others.

Wonder if you've heard anything by Janick Gers, or Iron Maiden at all.