Re: ANOTHER list that'll have everyone up in arms!!! Jimmy/Robert content!!!!

[TheCosmicEnergy <thecosmicenergy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a plausible and reasonable explanation to me. Is this a
case of "Hate the game, not the PLAYER" pun intended!   ;-p
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On 8/5/07, Tim Druck <tcdruck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gonna chime in here because I think this was probably an intentional
> oversight on the part of a Gibson-contracted writer.  Gibson has often given
> respect to Page as one of the greatest credits to their product - how many
> guitarists have their signature instrument recreated for the super-premium
> market all the way down to the Marlboro burns?
>        But this sort of thing goes on all the time - I own a book called
> "The Guitar Handbook" that includes a chord dictionary, some playing method,
> detailed information on the construction of acoustic and electric guitars,
> and (the whole point) a chapter of one-page articles about the very best
> guitar players ever.  The usual suspects are listed (Hendrix, Clapton, Beck,
> etc) along with some ones who could be left out (Andy Summers, Pete
> Townshend, the great bassist Stanley Clarke) because someone needs to be
> bumped off the list.  Why?  Not a mention of Jimmy Page in the entire book.
> And this book was co-written by the guitar tech for Eric Clapton.
>        There seems to be a certain mindset amongst a subset of fans that
> considers Led Zeppelin to be (surprise, surprise) lowbrow, common no-skill
> cock-rock with no redeeming social value.  People who lump Zeppelin into a
> group with Grand Funk Railroad come to mind.  And those people sometimes get
> assigned to write things like this.  IMHO anyone who's ever listened to the
> radio for any length of time will know who Jimmy Page is.  And there are
> people who will think "Oh, he's a hack playing lowbrow garbage for the
> masses, or he wouldn't have sold 300 million records" and leave him off the
> list in favor of (as I've seen) Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani,
> etc.
>        Oh, BTW, for anyone at Gibson who might see this - Slash himself
> HATES Sweet Child O' Mine as a song, never intended to compose it (he was
> noodling during a rehearsal and Axl loved it) and hates it to this day and
> refuses to practice or play the song live.  If you left Jimmy Page off the
> list for the above reasons while including SCOM, you're a hypocrite and you
> suck.
>
> TimD


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