Sweet Sacrilege

26 Replies to “Sweet Sacrilege”

1. Neither one looked very sweaty

   1. LOL! My mistake. I’ll fix it. Darn sausage fingers.

2. May is wonderful guitarist. I have never been that impressed with Iommi. Black Sabbath is bone head music.

   1. Brian May just jumped into Paranoid and put flesh on the bones. What an ear … what a technically proficient player. Yeah, I’m a big Brian May fan … but there’s a point to be made that simple riffs that resonate are high musical achievements too.

      1. There is. I just never liked B.S. LOL

         And, of course, I tend to be self deprecating but if I can play it, how good can it be. Again LOL.

         1. Fair enough. BTW … I’m only recently rediscovering how amazing a guitarist Peter Frampton was/is. The sound of this simple, Blues/Soul tune blows me away. Frampton’s simple but oh so vibrato blues scales and slide guitar sounds so rich and full.

            https://youtu.be/2tNoSmlnxwQ?si=srh6ggwQ9muosdac

            Simple enough that I could play it … but it would take me years to develop that kind of timing and feel let alone vibrato. Simple can be amazing … done right.

            1. Well, almost 60 years for me. As they say, KISS, keep it simple stupid. I never gave up my day job, however. I would never have survived that life. If the drinking didn’t kill me, the women surely would. Now I occasionally play in little bars for very little and tips. Fun though. For some reason, I just never liked Black Sabbath. Maybe it’s the Catholic schooling.

3. Yuk! I think when I was 14 I could get into such cacophony. It’s just manic bam-bam noise now. Those two will reminisce about the old days having been a big part of it, but for me I’ve grown up. I cringe when I see 60+ earringed men bobbing their noggins up and down to the beat. Frighteningly silly.

4. If instead of featuring bone headed Black Sabbath riffs, they were playing some of May’s solos, it would be a vastly different story. They may be friends but they are hardly equals when it comes to playing and the hair and ear rings have nothing to do with it. You might as well criticize their shoes.

5. You have a point there, except I wasn’t able to see there shoes.

6. I love Black Sabbath.
   Iommi was severely underated.

   1. and missing the tips of two fingers on the fret board hand . did okay

7. That riff can be best described as “Less is More”. I’ve always loved it.

   1. Yup.
      Like “Smoke on the Water” or “Into the Void.”

8. Lesley West was the master of simple, and tone.

   1. West was a much better player than Iommi. But compared to Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix … what can I say?

      1. Whatever. I like Iommi more than Clapton, and about as much as I like Page and Hendrix.
         I like Ritchie Blackmore, Randy Rhodes and Jake Lee, and Vivian Campbell too.
         Malmsteen and Satriani are “better guitarists” than Page, Beck or Hendrix ever were, so what?
         Going around crapping on people who don’t share your taste as “boneheads” is pretty damned petty.
         Grow up.

         1. Robin Trower and Buck Dharma suit my ear. But, then I prefer Mussorgsky to Mozart too, so each to his own.

            1. Never heard of Buck Dharma, but I do like Robin Trower, from way back when he was with Procul Harum. I’m got a .flac of his album “Bridge of Sighs” A friend had his B.L.T album, I may have to seek that out on the interwebz.
               I like Beethoven more than I like Bach.
               I’ll have to look up Dharma, any suggestions on a nice track to start out with?

         2. No. You first. I never crapped on anyone or said he couldn’t play. He just never impressed me. I called it bonehead music not that it was for boneheads. Sorry I didn’t mean to say people who like it are boneheads. Heck, I like The Ramones and that’s ultimate bonehead music. Anyway, I take it back if that’s how you took it. As far as what you just said, Iommi is the least capable of all those you mentioned and you’re just wrong about Clapton. Very few can touch his tone. As far as Malmsteen and Satriani go, you seem much more impressed with lots of notes than I am. Do you play?

            Dharma is the lead guitarist for Blue Oyster Cult.

            1. George Harrison gave the ultimate compliment to Clapton. According to GH Clapton never muddied a note, like so many players do, his fingers were always exactly on the right string at the right time with the correct pressure, (paraphrasing, expanding). George said, essentially, that was the thing EC did (does) better than anyone.

9. Knopfler

   1. Another of the greats. So many. I’d add Richard Thompson.

10. Let’s face it, these are two of the greats, whether you prefer Queen or Back Sabbath (or none of them) is irrelevant.

    1. Agreed.

11. De gustibus non est disputandum. In matters of taste, there can be no disputes. Good night.