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International people: distribution outside of the US is different, the last Eagles CD was available in HMV, on amazon, and plenty of other places.

na Black Label Society are. Muse pushes no boundaries, its very safe music

Hey everyone, this is my first log in here for about a year, I didn't think I could let this go unpunished.

BLS have never pushed a boundary, it's the same mushy nonsense that Zakk Wylde has been consistently putting out for over 10 years. The last thing he did that was any good was Pride and Glory. Muse on the other hand, are constantly innovating, nobody out there today sounds like them, the sound they make with three members is absolutely huge, and the songs are epic, artistic, credible wonders that are still accessible to the mainstream. Calling them safe music shows a lack of knowledge of Muse, or the word safe, or both.

I don't see how anyone could vote anything other than the beatles. Either you don't understand the question or you're completely clueless in pop history.

Abbey Road, definately. That album is just perfect.

It's not really Motley Crue without Tommy. They're one of those bands where every member is a superstar.

They're just a rock band that happen to dress a certain way and have a certain fanbase.

I think it is the most unappealing thing I could fathom right now.

Oh boy! Let's read a fake diary from a fake rock star from a fake glam metal band (err, sorry, grunge band; I mean, hard rock band; I mean, nu metal band; I mean, retro glam band). He does coke and heroin and stuff he's so cool. Oh man I wish I could be a rock star and live life with sex drugs and booze and have lots of tattoos and spike my hair all wild and shit because that's A ROCK STAR THING TO DO!!!110ONE

Motley Crue is the most image-driven band ever. They think they are true rock n' roll, and that's what they market themselves as. They're a complete product - more so than any other rock band I can think of; every little aspect of their band is completely cliched and stereotypical of a hard rock/sleaze band. They may have helped cater that into the mainstream, but look at how they jump on every new image that comes out. Nikki started out as a KISS rip-off and now he looks like he's trying to copy these retro-sleaze rockers like Hinder and Nickelback. Does he spend enough time on his hair or brag enough about how many drugs he's taken? What a rock star. He looks like a retired porn star. It's sickening.

Oh, and by the way? "A year in the life of a shattered rock star"? Sorry, Nikki; you aren't a rock star. You may have been one for a fleeting second in 1988, but you aren't relevant anymore, and no one knows who you are except for metal heads and Crue fans. Crue may still be able to attract crowds as sort of a nostalgia act (and a pretty sad one at that), but these people don't know who you are; they rely on name brand. A "rock star" has to be a star - the rock part is an adjective, not just part of one word - and you aren't a star. You aren't even really rock. A more appropriate title:

OUT OF MONEY, BUY MY BOOK AND/OR SOUNDTRACK; A FAKE YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A SAD, EXPIRED, DESPERATE WANNABE ROCKER WHO IS PAST HIS PRIME AND WILL SUCK CORPORATE COCK FOR THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. BY NIKKI SIX.

You seem to know an awful lot about this Sixx fellow for someone who claims not to care.

I think the Pretender is one of the best rock songs of the decade. If their new album is anything like that then they get a big thumbs up from me. The colour and the shape was fantastic, I haven't really liked anything they've done from then, up til now.

He's a much better businessman than a musician.

Randy Rhoads era

Jake E. Lee era

Zakk Wylde era

Jake E Lee - Bark at the Moon

The pretender. You can hear it on their myspace.

One of the best rock songs this decade in my opinion.

Bet the buggers won't book a Scottish gig.

But if they did....I'll be first in line.

Any dates outside of North America are pretty doubtful I imagine.

That said, if they play in the UK I'll be first in line, even if the tickets are £150 and all the tour reviews are awful. Eddie is one of my biggest influences as guitar playing goes.

But Mozart lived 200 years before Zepp.

I fail to see how that makes a difference. Even if it does, there were plenty of people around in the 70s that thought that Zeppelin were just noise. These people would be called close-minded or elitist by someone like you nowadays. To dismiss something as 'just noise' completely misses the idea of these bands.

I can't see how music like that can appeal to anyone - it's just pure noise.

Mozart would have said the same thing about Zeppelin.

Scabbia is the hottest, so she gets my vote.

I don't see the attraction of that Paramore girl, she's OK looking but guys seem to drool over her, which I just don't get.

The mark of a good guitarist is if they can write good riffs and solos, right?

What, Hendrix didn't write good riffs and solos? What about Voodo Chile (Slight Return), Machine Gun, Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, Little Wing, Red House? They've got all the ingredients of good riffs and solos.

I've never said Hendrix wasn't great, just that I prefer others.

The mark of a good guitarist is if they can write good riffs and solos, right? Personally, I prefer the work of Rhoads, Gilmour etc. to Hendrix. I'm sorry for disagreeing with you.

Being a good guitarist doesn't have shit to do with writing, that's another department entirely. If you think Hendrix or even Gilmour wrote out all of their solos, you'd be playing the fool.

Perhaps write wasn't the correct word. Create would probably be more apt. But it's not true that being a good guitarist has nothing to do with writing. It's naive to believe that Gilmour's and Hendrix's solos were completely improvised. Usually what happens is they figure out a basic pattern and a couple of licks, and improvise over that structure.

Yeah, no doubt the most influential guitarist of all time, and no-one was doing what he was at the time, but meh, listening to him doesn't do that much for me nowadays. There have been much better guitarists in the 36(?) years since his death. He has been put on a pedestal due to his death.

Better guitarists? Who? In terms of technique, perhaps some virtuosos, but no way as groundbreaking and passionate as Hendrix. That guy was so way ahead of his time.

Well better is subjective of course, there's no point getting into an argument about that. Although if you want my opinion, Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, David Gilmour, Brian May and several others are/were better than Hendrix.

Better in what terms? Technique? Some of them, perhaps. Influence? Passion? No.

Not technique, everyone knows that judging a guitarist on technique is stupid. Influence doesn't mean someone is a good guitarist, Ace Frehley probably influenced a lot more people than Kevin Shields, doesn't make him better does it? As for passion, that's a very ambiguous term. Different pieces evoke different passions with different people, how does one song have more passion than another? And how is passion a criterion for assessing how good a guitarist is? Eddie Van Halen's work isn't particularly moving or soulful but that doesn't mean he's not a great guitarist.

The mark of a good guitarist is if they can write good riffs and solos, right? Personally, I prefer the work of Rhoads, Gilmour etc. to Hendrix. I'm sorry for disagreeing with you.

Yeah, no doubt the most influential guitarist of all time, and no-one was doing what he was at the time, but meh, listening to him doesn't do that much for me nowadays. There have been much better guitarists in the 36(?) years since his death. He has been put on a pedestal due to his death.

Better guitarists? Who? In terms of technique, perhaps some virtuosos, but no way as groundbreaking and passionate as Hendrix. That guy was so way ahead of his time.

Well better is subjective of course, there's no point getting into an argument about that. Although if you want my opinion, Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, David Gilmour, Brian May and several others are/were better than Hendrix.

Yeah, no doubt the most influential guitarist of all time, and no-one was doing what he was at the time, but meh, listening to him doesn't do that much for me nowadays. There have been much better guitarists in the 36(?) years since his death. He has been put on a pedestal due to his death.

not really dude, however long he'd've lived, even if he'd gone totally downhill after his achievements prior to that would still have been as good as groundbreaking as cool as they are/were. i do agree that "better" (whatever that word means) guitarists have come since. i mean certainly in terms of range, bucket has proved he's better.

Oh, I don't mean that his death makes his contributions to music any less important. Whether he'd have died or not, he'd still be a groundbreaking musician. I just think that his talents and achievements are sometimes blown out of proportion because of his death. It happens with every musician; Cobain, Sid Vicious, etc.

Yeah, no doubt the most influential guitarist of all time, and no-one was doing what he was at the time, but meh, listening to him doesn't do that much for me nowadays. There have been much better guitarists in the 36(?) years since his death. He has been put on a pedestal due to his death.

It'll be shit. Metallica aren't young angry alcoholics anymore, and so they don't have the same fire they had when they were writing Master of Puppets etc.

Axl Rose.... He almost had the best band in the world... but lost his head and is now just a dust cloud living of the past.

QFT

Amy Lee is a babe.

I watched them at download, they were

Miles Davis-Bitches Brew

Outkast-Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band-An Anthology: The Elektra Years

Neil Young-Decade

Jimi Hendrix-First Rays of the New Rising Sun

That is an excellent list. I applaud you sir.