-Joe Bonamossa's unwarranted "sunglasses indoors policy". Also his PR team telling me he's the greatest guitar player on the planet on facebook ads. Jeff Beck ain't dead, mother fucker.
-Billy Gibbons gets a pass on everything; he's the court jester that's been there since the kingdom began and he knows how the kingdom works WAY better than you do. He's hasn't given a fuck for 50 years and it seems to suit him just fine.
-Lars' black drumsticks; there is really no need.
-Noel Gallagher is the funniest man in Rock and Roll.
-"Jack White looks like Zorro on donuts." -Noel Gallagher
-The Beatles are insanely overrated. They were the first worldwide pop band and their success has lot to do with their time and place. I get it-they ARE great; but there is so much more music out there to listen to in YOUR lifetime than the fucking Beatles. Get a Badfinger or Big Star record. If I hear someone say "We're influenced by the Beatles," chances are pretty large that they aren't very original. Unless they are Jaco.
-Eric Clapton quit The Yardbirds, a Blues band that played Howling Wolf covers, because he wanted to play more 'traditional' blues. Five years later he's writing Layla and Lay Down Sally. How the fuck does that compute as more traditional?!?! Overrated as can be, and dumber than a stump.
-Fugazi is about as perfect a rock band as you can get. Creatively, they are in class of their own in terms of the sounds they elicited from their instruments and the well of music they created was much deeper than anyone gives them credit for.
-Depeche Mode is heavier than any Meshuggah down tuned computer metal horseshit.
-Little Richard, John Lee Hooker, The MC5, Robin Trower, Refused, Television, Botch, Booker T and the MG's, The Staples Singers, Sarah Vaughan and Jeff Buckley aren't talked about and studied by musicians enough.
-If you wear a wallet chain on stage, you are admitting that it would be more entertaining as an audience member to watch someone try to mug you, than for them to actually watch you play your set. Are you gonna buy a sandwich in the middle of your set? Do you really need a wallet? Think about it.
-If you aren't having fun when you play music, you're totally missing the point of "playing".
-I don't give a fuck what your guitar looks like. What kind of sound does it make? That's what it was made for.
Love,
Travis.
don't like HK stuff! Probably just was put off by the Tubemeister... had some killer features, but the tone was meh
some very valid points in here.