Re: (TV) Must be a typo

[Fred Scholl <fscholl@gmail.com>]

Townsend was a virtuoso and certainly an innovator of electric guitar styles
and techniques (apart from the smashed guitars and windmills), to say the
least. His sense of chord structure and use of droning open strings was
unlike anything any other rock players were doing at that point in time.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:57 PM, BlackMonk <BlackMonk@msn.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Hartley" <jh@brainiac.com>
> To: <tv@obbard.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:27 PM
> Subject: Re: (TV) Must be a typo
>
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>
>  On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:17:39 -0700 (PDT)
>> Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  They added an extra "1" before "1":
>>>
>>> http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/top-50-guitar-albums-0729/
>>>
>>
>> Got to hand it to Gibson for putting MM so high on the list when TV and RL
>> are such ardent Fender admirers!
>>
>> Lists like this tend to cheese me off, and this is no exception - the
>> Sex Pistols on a guitar album list?  An influential album, yes.  An
>> album featuring some sort of guitar virtuosity?  Not so much.
>>
>>
> There aren't two Who albums on the list because Townsend was a virtuoso,
> they're on the list because he played those really cool crashing chords.
>
> Keep the "really cool" factor and you've got the Sex Pistols on the list.
> Take it away and you're replacing Black Sabbath on the list with Robbie
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