Quote Originally Posted by suhl
first of all, not even top ten isnt saying much when millions of people have picked up the instrument. he is the best playing today. saying he is fairly good undermines everyone to have picked up the instrument. if he is fairly good then all but about 5 people playing today are fairly bad or worse. you are a musician. because if by your standards bonamassa is "fairly good" nothing special, i would love to hear what you have to say about yourself. because if i am calling bonamassa fairly good, you are some of the worst dogshit i have ever heard. note that by my standards bonamassa is great, you are decent, definitely above dogshit(well not the singing) but dont deserve a record contract or to make it outside of local bars.

really, i have no problem with people not liking bonamassa, it is an opinion, but to say he isnt great is just ludicrous. like i have no problem with people not like srv, blues isnt for everyone, but saying he is anything less than great is fucking ridiculous.


dont pretend like rock music started declining in the fifties. belive me i like some old tunes but no one under the age of 90 believes that pal the beatles werent even around yet. so i know you want to seem all cool saying that rock music was better in the fifties, but it is a joke. you are literally, and yes i mean literally literally the only man on earth who thinks that. my guess is it is some sort of an attempt to act like you are the ultimate authority of music and it gives you an excuse to talk down to people who talk about great music. "oh man you like led zeppelin well fuck that aint nothin compared to that balls to the wall 20s rock" something along those lines.

talk to me again when you come down off the high 1950s horse.
First thing, I didn't mean to come across saying that only music from the '50s or before was any good. How I meant to be read was that the business started declining in the '50s, when it started to be taken over by cooperate fat-cats who wanted to push merchandise, and using sex to sell products. There has been great music before, during and since that period, and a lot of it. I also would say Led Zeppelin were one of the bands to break that mold, for most of their early career they made it clear they wanted to stay away from that kind of bullshit.

Thing with J.B. though, it's not that he's not good, some (you), might even call him great, and that's fair, but you shamelessly plug him into every music thread you post in, as if he is the end all to guitar playing. John Mclaughlin, Brad Rabuschin, Frank Gambale, and countless others that you ignore are far better, (in my opinion), and offer similar listening experiences.