From: reh@wam.umd.edu (Huddleston)
Subject: Re: RE SLASH FLAMES
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:27:19 GMT

u2119390@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au (Whoever That Is) writes:
 
       Well Mr? Huddleston,
       looks like you scored a big zero on your last posting dude,
       "years of american public school" ????? Where the heck am I
       gonna find an 'american public school' near Maroubra Beach
       AUSTRALIA??????? Hmmm........
 
Do you know what a .sig file is, mon ami?  My .sig file refers to
MY posting, which means it refers to MY education and years of TV.
If you have any more questions about .sig files, check into some of
the news groups that explain things to new news users -- even if you
aren't one, there's always a tidbit or two to round out the ol'
knowledge base a bit.
 
BTW: It's no mystery around USENET that .au means Australia.  Dude.
 
And, since we all need a clue now and then, here's one for you:
 
When you see a
 
--
and then some text like this
 
at the bottom of a posting, that is where the .sig file is appended
on.  Please accept my apologies for your misunderstanding.
 
Clue #2 (Free Bonus): my gender is male, which you wouldn't have had to
guess at if you'd understood the .sig.  My name is on the last line.
 
       Well anyway dude, maybe you didn't quite get what I was driving
       at before, what pissed me off was the good-effort wanna-be
       axe heroes who instead of seeing someone elses style and going
       "hey, well like, its different to what I might've played
       for that solo" They can't open their minds enough to realise
       that their own style is neither better nor worse, its
       DIFFERENT and that is the key to having your own guitar style.
 
Well, I disagree, obviously.  Nothing personal; Slash is much, much
richer than I am now, but I know lots of folks that can play circles
around him.  I think it's ironic.  Edward Van Halen is an example of
someone who is also much, much richer than I am now -- but I don't
know anybody (personally) who can play circles around him.  I don't
think that's so ironic.
 
I like to think that there are certain things a guitarist should be
able to play, whether or not they are inspired to play those things
during a performance.  This is purely personal opinion, and I do
completely understand that a personal opinion is a finite thing of
limited scope.
 
Now, maybe Slash will release an album with, say, Julian Bream sometime
later this year.  I'll happily eat my words.  Until then, it is my
personal opinion that Slash isn't much of a player, technique-wise.
 
       Maybe if the narrow minded smegs devoted more time to improving
       their own guitar they could one day be good enough that people
       might listen to them and say "whoaa, thats different, but I like it."
       The best thing about guitarists like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani
       is that they're not just pouring out the same top 40 stuff
       (whether you like that or not..) that a lot of other guys are doing
       nowadays and maybe some people are not musically mature enough to accept
       what they're doing...Who knows?
 
The Shadow knows, of course.
 
I can't help but get the feeling that some group of record execs is sitting
around laughing at how the formula that GnR follows has made big bucks again.
 
And, here's the beginning of my .sig file, just so you know that it's my
posting I refer to:

-- 
This posting is the result of years of American public school and television.
Scary thought, isn't it?
 
Richard Huddleston, reh@wam.umd.edu   NeXTSTEP is better: Boycott Microsoft.