[kj] Geordie's guitar (was Re: another studio clip - endgames)

[J Casavola]

YEAH, WELL PUT! That is what turned me on to Killing Joke. 
 

> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:04:22 -0600

> From: bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: [kj] Geordie's guitar (was Re: another studio clip - endgames)

> 

> Well, I might disagree with you, esp. when you say "Geordie’s comfort 

> zone is chug chug chords and lazy power riffs, all heavy music guitar 

> players lacking creative inspiration revert to this form of delivery" - 

> about lazy players reverting to power chords and chug chords. The genius 

> of some bands, like the Ramones, is their simplicity, and how it is used 

> in a novel way. But I don't think Geordie is like this. Geordie is 

> unusual to me in tahat he can play bone headed dugga dugga metal ("Total 

> Invasion," which I love) but also do cool Middle eastern influenced 

> stuff ("Tabazan"), plus the post-punk chiming type suff you hear a lot 

> of on _Revelations_.

> 

> There is a lot of hardcore punk, etc., that is basically power chords 

> sliding up and down the fret board, but that isn't necessarily a sign of 

> weakness to me. And skilled musicians' ears listen to things differently 

> than the average rank and file listener. When I heard "Blitzkrieg Bop" 

> the first time as a ten I imagined these were the most burly and coolest 

> guitarists around. When I learned to play guitar myself, the mystique 

> went away, and in a sense it became less "powerful" to me. But to your 

> average listener, those surly, basic power chords are like sounds from 

> heaven (or hell), dependent upon the melody and how they are used inc 

> ombination with other aspects of the song, of course.

> 

> Geordie seems to have a good sense of all this, even if only 

> intuitively, which is why he's one of my fave guitar players - he can 

> maneuver so easily and deftly, nonchalantly, through so many different 

> styles. Jaz is lucky he ran into him. :)

> 

> 

> -Oliver

> 

> fluw wrote:

> >

> > Geordie’s comfort zone is chug chug chords and lazy power riffs, all 

> > heavy music guitar players lacking creative inspiration revert to this 

> > form of delivery. So if youth were to be forcing Geordie out of his 

> > comfort zone, then it would behoove him to force Geordie into those 

> > places where he was

> >

> > before 2003.

> >

> > But I would prefer geordie just find his inspired spots on his own, 

> > maybe he needs to go fly fishing?

> >

> >

> 

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