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A simple line can have great emotional resonance as part of a piece of music. Whether it hits you right? That just comes down to your own taste.
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I like lots of "crap" music because it moves me in some way or another, but I'm not going to defend the first Ramones album on the same terms I would Stravinsky or Bach.
I like fairly jagged music, with obvious, sometimes crass punctuation and dynamics, and Pink Floyd never gave me that, it always sounded smooth and safe to me.
I'd say the songs inspired by Barrett are far better than anything with Barrett.
I'm old enough to remember a time when he didn't get the recognition of contemporaries such as Clapton, Page, Beck and Blackmore. Which I thought was odd as I've always really liked his playing. At least he gets decent recognition now.
A player with exceptional taste and feel? Yes
To me a genius would be someone like Allan Holdsworth, who's thinking was on a different plane of existence to everyone else. I would also include Steve Vai as someone with exceptional ability plus a mind that wants to create outside the box.
All my favourite players have a recognisable character in their playing - two or three notes and you know who they are. Gilmour is definitely in that camp. One of the greats in my book - but not a genius.
That doesn’t mean he’s vastly over-rated....
You could say that anyone could "create outside the box". But if most people consider it to be crap is it still genius?
Not saying those guys are crap BTW.
I don't really understand why you'd venerate Gilmour as a guitarist when there were much better players in other 70s prog bands -- Fripp, Howe etc.
Because music is measure subjectively, not objectively.
The only way you can measure objectively is by how many albums sold and how many guitarists he inspired to play/influenced or play his licks, and on both of those measurements, he's miles ahead of Fripp and Howe.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
But that's the beauty of music isn't it, we all like what we like
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
No- Manzanera....
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.