I didn't listen to it for years, but I remember Lou Reed live in Italy as a great album. I'd file this one as the best Lou Reed album of the 80s with "New York", mostly thanks to the band, which has more edge as on the Blue Mask. The Velvet classics versions are quite painfull to listen to, but Quine and Fernando Saunders on bass (if I remember correctly) make this an excellent rock album. Renaud
Message du 15/01/04 10:32 De : Efrén del Valle A : skip heller , Peter Gannushkin , SELC - Andrew Mortensen Copie à : Objet : Re: James Blood Ulmer --- skip heller escribió: >
As for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, they definitely came up with a sound that was theirs. I have to respect that, even if I'm not a fan. Few people ever do that.
I really dug "Mother's Milk" and "Blood, Sugar, Sex Magik" but after that I think the general impression is they've gone down the hill. I think worst of all was the avalanche of imitators (quite similar to FNM's case), but "B,S,S,M" was a great album and on top of that, popular and accessible, which doesn't seem a regular combination of terms nowadays, as we discussed here several weeks ago.
I never got the sense that Ribot owed that much to Quine, whose playing I also know quite well (or rather I did up to about that time -- I can only listen to so much Lou Reed).
I don't know Quine's playing from the purely technical point of view (my knowledge of the guitar must be limited to seven or eight chords, I must admit) but I see lots of similarities between them. Besides the 60's twangy/surf guitar sound-influence, there's always this "skeletical" approach to soloing, for instance- there are lots of exceptions in Ribot's playing, though, specially when he's in a jamming context like Bar Kokhba, Emergency, etc... But even in those recordings with Waits, I get the feeling that he's got a taste for the "lowest common denominator"-approach. By the way, how's Reed's "Live in Italy" with the "blue mask" band?
Best,
Efrén del Valle
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