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#8911 Re: Guns N' Roses » Dave Mustaine: "Buckethead is better than me and Slash combined" » 930 weeks ago
It's actually the epitome of songcraft. He doesn't need words to say what he wants to say. Lyrics actually take away from his music, if you listen to his shit with guest vocalists. He's better solo than Mustaine or Slash (as Dave said) could ever hope to be.
I see what you mean...but I see that more as amazing musician ship. Like I think the outro to Nottingham lace is one of the most beautiful guitar solo's i've ever heard in my life. I'm in awe of the technically ability, and also the beauty of the melody. But as a full *song* it doesn't work to me - like the first half has totally different riffs that are also cool - but in that bucket arcade game kinda way - and they don't speak to me the same way. I can't help but think if you took that solo outro and put it around something that was already beautiful buy itself - like one of Axl's songs - you'd push things above and beyond. It would destroy!
Like TWAT got better with bucket added...and the twat solo if just an instrumental would be cool but loose something to me with out its context of the "I would do anything for you". I feel that lyrics (when done by someone good like axl) anchor a song kind of. They can combine with the music to channel extra emotions.
But it might just be personal prefrence. that;s my prefered form of music is all. I like some insturmental guitar work too.
But i guess what I was trying to say is its dumb to compare them in a way. We all agree that on a technical level of finger movments bucket is better. There is always someone better. There's other people with similar skills to bucket. Paul Gilbert for instance. It comes down then to technique vs the song writing and the styles that the fan likes. Anyway...all i am saying is that Slash and Mustaine are awesome players and riff writers....and comparing them to bucket is like comparing the best swimmer in the world to the best hockyplayer and asking who is the best sportsman - its a different field.
Bottom line is that Slash and Mustaine can't play bucket's songs at tempo - but that doesn't impy they are inferor in terms of what they give to music - bucket writes his own good music but would never have written so much great stuff that we love from GNR and Megadeth etc. I just don't get the need to make things into a contest when they are so different.
#8912 Re: Guns N' Roses » POLL: BH Returning? » 930 weeks ago
Vai is incredible, a true master craftsman.
#8913 Re: Guns N' Roses » Dave Mustaine: "Buckethead is better than me and Slash combined" » 930 weeks ago
Great Interview.
In technical ability I think Bucket is pretty much better than almost anyone on the planet, but Mustaine shouldn't sell himself short, as he is an amazing all rounder, master riff craftster and songwriter. I agree with what he went on to say:
"I don't get it. It's not something that I find myself wanting to play on the beach to or have as some soundtrack to my life."
Although I know many fans here would see Bucket as a soundtrack to life guy, (I think James was planning on using him at his funeral in a post the other day), i'm similar, i'm in awe of his talents and abilities, but I feel to some extent he is wasted as a solo artist. I'm the same with most instrumental guitarists, I love the abilities but without normal song structures and vocals, its not songcraft to me. Great music yes, but when you can add great words you can push things to another level.
I guess i'm old school that way. Which is why I think there will be some great tracks on CD with any luck.
Anyway i'm not knocking Bucket at all...hell I wish I could play like that. I'm just saying Mustaine has written some beautiful songs as has Slash so he shouldn't talk himself down 
#8914 Re: Guns N' Roses » New song lyrics » 930 weeks ago
In this version i mean: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4M0W0GBZ not sure where the hell it was recorded cos i got it ages ago. I think its not the NYC version though?
#8915 Re: Guns N' Roses » New song lyrics » 930 weeks ago
I think it's "On a pedestal or bed"
And there's no doubt he's saying "Cocaine in the hall."
I used to think it was 'hall' but now I have doubt Listen to the live version *really* sounds like arm....
#8916 Re: The Garden » Exercise/Gym/Working out! » 930 weeks ago
Awesome dude!
Congratulations...getting yourself in shape can be a real life changing experience. I'm a true life story, I went from being one of the fattest people you'd meet to being reasonably skinny.
My advice would be to be careful with the weights. I know we all want to be buff, and weight training does have some medical benifits (denser bones etc), there is a culture of taking things too far at a lot of gyms I think. While I have a ton of respect for bodybuilding guys due to the work involved, I feel that at an extreme of anything is bad for your body, and some bodybuilding ideas are taking something that should be healthy to a place where it becomes unhealty. It's also very easy to fuck up your joints or back - even with a personal trainer, I know because it happened to me. Anyway - i'm just saying know your limits - like we can't all be in WWE 
I don't mean to discourage you - maybe you can get ripped to all hell - just make sure you do it profesionally and keep a balanced and relalistic view of what your asking fom yourself.
Cardio wise sounds like you are onto the right track. It's basicly just getting into routenes with it so that its part of your lifestyle. I used to go to the gym a lot, but after I messed up my back most machines made it worse - so now I just do a fast walk daily. Well almost...I set my tredmill for 6.8 Km/h and go for 46 mins, which equates to about 5.2km, and I do it 6 days a Week.
The other thing is food. Eating properly is really the key, this sounds like a silly thing to say, but don't be ashamed to get some lessons on how to eat right. So much of the food in our culture is unhealthy -and not just junk foods - lots of things seem logically healthy - like processed soups but turn out to be way full of salt and shit like that. I went and saw a dietian (from the yellow pages) - cost me like $50 but gave me a lot of great advice on how I could balance my diet to get optimum health and also loose weight etc.
Most imortant thing is to stick with it I think. My rule is I don't make exceptions based on moods and stuff like that. Its easy to go - i had a bad day so i'll go eat crap - or somehing - but doing that is actually hurting yourself more. For me anyway - i realised a lot of my eating was habitual, or related to other desires (such as sexual frustration, anger, disapointment etc) and when I couldn't resolve those things In life i'd go eat instead. So for me the cure was to be disciplined - I worked out a regime of what I eat each day - and I stick to it - hungry or not - happy or sad etc. It takes the enjoyment out of it I guess, but if you had a problem like i did - it was a way to get in control.
Anyway most of my advice is prob specific to my situation and not all that relevant to you...but anyway - keep it up and as I say congratulations - its a really good thing
#8917 Re: The Sunset Strip » The BATMAN Thread » 930 weeks ago
Yeah it's so so crappy that he died so young. He is pretty good in every film i've seen him in too.
I'm not sure how to phrase this so as not to sound insensitive, but like appart from the obvious reasons why it sucks he died (his family, his age etc), it's extra annoying that it happened right before this performance became public, as it now it will be forever linked with his death in people's minds. Which kind of sucks given the peformance is so good in its own right. You know what I mean, like if Heath had lived to be 99 this would have been an astounding characterisation and regarded as such, of course it will be anyway, but now there will also be people who feel the praise is partially due to his death. I don't think it is...but it does muddy the issue in a sad way. Like this movie would have destroyed records and won awards standing on its own feet, but now there is always going to be an element of the trageitya round it too.
#8918 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Elimination- Round 7 » 930 weeks ago
You can leave CD, Rhiad, and Maddy up there. Those aren't about her. IRS could be argued that it's not either. I feel Maddy is about his former band members. Rhiad isn't a heartbreak song over Stephanie, and CD has multiple subjects.
Yeah i was kidding around. I actually feel most of them have multiple subjects...except for maybe like "The Blues" and TWAT. But i think theres passing references to her in most of them, but it's not always the focus. But then the great thing about lyrics is they mean different things to different people
#8919 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Elimination- Round 7 » 930 weeks ago
Get the bitch out.
Who stephanie?? ok (Monkeychow..deletes his entire Chinese Democracy folder from the hardrive...has immediate withrawal and redownloads them quickly)
#8920 Re: The Sunset Strip » New Cornell Song Online » 930 weeks ago
A collaraibaton with Timberland was always going to be poppy.
I don't subscribe to the "sell out" concept - the reality is all music that you can buy comercially is sold out to some extent, otherwise it'd be dudes playing at home in their basements.
Personally I struggle with Cornell - he was amazing in Soundgarden and sometimes we writes beautiful songs - like in Audioslave...but there's also stuff of his that I can't get into - like his recent solo album i found unlistenable to my tastes.
I love how they have listed him as Christ Cornell
