Members draelyc Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by shredhead666 Cult of Personality live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpsuwmAsDX8&search=cult%20of%20personality%20liveThey didn't call him Burnin' Vernon for nothing! The man positively smokes in a Shawn Lane kinda way. That's right, I said it. Yawp, gotta give it to ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gainfreak Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by shredhead666 And conversely all us Vernon fans think the same of those who don't "hear it" as well. Go Read the emperors new clothes. Is a great story. I would be willing to bet you are th etype of guy who would walk into a Jazz club and hear some hack bumbling over the fretboard and you would think he was the second comming. The real guys who could actually hear would be laughing at you.I can hear just fine!!BTW Pauly, I'm just {censored}ing with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members uliroth Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 If you think the guy is {censored}ting out random notes, Id think again. I read many interviews with the guy back in the day, when rection to his style is mirrored hear decades later. He knows what he's doing. He plays free....sheets of sound, and not many people do or can do these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danyeo Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 I like Living Color a lot, their first disc is killer. "You can tear a building down, but you can't erase a memory". I also like that tune Desperate People. But i had a couple of disc after that one and liked each one. I could deal with his leads. Cult Of Personality grew on me, it sounds like he really wanted it to sound that way. Even though he is all over the place his vibrato still sounds good to me and i don't hear sour notes, bot some of his faster runs sounds slurred together. From what i remember he used ESP guitars and Boogies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Strat^-Cat Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Saw LC at the HOB last year and they smoked. Vernon sounded killer and was defintely in command of his playing. He got a lot of crazy sound from his pedals and rack fx. I dig his playing but know his frenetic playing isn't for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members draelyc Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by danyeo I like Living Color a lot, their first disc is killer. "You can tear a building down, but you can't erase a memory". I also like that tune Desperate People. But i had a couple of disc after that one and liked each one. I could deal with his leads. Cult Of Personality grew on me, it sounds like he really wanted it to sound that way. Even though he is all over the place his vibrato still sounds good to me and i don't hear sour notes, bot some of his faster runs sounds slurred together. From what i remember he used ESP guitars and Boogies. He used Hamers, but I don't know when he started using them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ed DeGenaro Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by shredhead666 Cult of Personality live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpsuwmAsDX8&search=cult%20of%20personality%20liveThey didn't call him Burnin' Vernon for nothing! The man positively smokes in a Shawn Lane kinda way. That's right, I said it. Uhm...have you listen to much Shawn lately?!?!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Digital Jams Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by draelyc He used Hamers, but I don't know when he started using them. COP days were ESP guitars but has been with Hamer for well over 20 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gainfreak Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by Ed DeGenaro Uhm...have you listen to much Shawn lately?!?!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kevin Pelletier Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by draelyc He used Hamers, but I don't know when he started using them. I have some old Guitar for the Praciting Musician mags from the late eighties and I'm pretty sure i've seen him playing ESP's as well as Hamer's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frtbzz Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Whatever. I guess you like him or you don't. I like variety and things that are out of the standard box thing. I still think he had a lot of stuff to say on his instrument and got it across very well. Its a personal thing. People dissing him and saying he flails away like he doesn't know what hes doing don't have a clue. Its O.K. not to find his playing to your personal taste but show some respect:mad: Its like all this Eddie bashing going on lately. Everybody jump on the boat. Hes a little {censored}ed up. So what. Who here hasn't been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Randy Van Sykes Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by shredhead666 Cult of Personality live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpsuwmAsDX8&search=cult%20of%20personality%20liveThey didn't call him Burnin' Vernon for nothing! The man positively smokes in a Shawn Lane kinda way. That's right, I said it. Uhg! That solo is terrible IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitar_played Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Reid is one of a few players i've constantly heard mentionned but never listened to. I just checked out Cult of Personality. I like the lead, it has moments of melody and others that seem designed to create an impression of chaos. My kind of player, i think i'll have to buy the albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gainfreak Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by Randy Van Sykes Uhg! That solo is terrible IMO. Yeah not to mention when he went a half step up out of key and corrected himself which reafirms my beilief that he just wings his {censored}ing solos. To each their own I guess. I love the band but his solos blow donkey dick IMHO.I'll have to pick up his solo album that Ed mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ed DeGenaro Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by gainfreak Yeah not to mention when he went a half step up out of key and corrected himself which reafirms my beilief that he just wings his {censored}ing solos. To each their own I guess. I love the band but his solos blow donkey dick IMHO.I'll have to pick up his solo album that Ed mentioned. Winging anything isn't a bad thing though. As for his solo CD...be warned there's one Rock intrumental on it. The rest is an avantgarde, jazz, hip-hop melange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Randy Van Sykes Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by gainfreak Yeah not to mention when he went a half step up out of key and corrected himself which reafirms my beilief that he just wings his {censored}ing solos. To each their own I guess. I love the band but his solos blow donkey dick IMHO. I'll have to pick up his solo album that Ed mentioned. I noticed that too LOL...his fretting hand was in the wrong place for a second...but he just kept playing half a tone out ...his style of playing hurts...good thing there were no little babies near me while I watched that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fetishfrog Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Please...I wouldn't at all be surprise to find that every Vernon basher on here is whining in some other thread that all the good music is gone and where are the innovators and blah blah blah. Go study some theory, listen to Reid's incredible playing, hear the summation of Coltrane, Hendrix, and the funkiest {censored} y'all could never play and embrace the fact that you have witnessed grace. The guy's a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitar_played Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 To those who don't like the CoP solo, at least he doesn't play this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq1_5Lx1WE4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gitfiddler Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 wasn't vernon one of the ADA Mp-1 guys too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Randy Van Sykes Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by fetishfrog The guy's a genius. I'm Mary Poppins. The word genius is getting thrown around way to much in this thread IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members uliroth Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Yet, I've seen many use going up or down a half step as a legit soloing device. The 2nd CD, Time's Up is as good as it gets....and look for Bisquits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vlad Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by Randy Van Sykes I'm Mary Poppins. Mary Van Poppins... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loghead Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by Randy Van Sykes I'm Mary Poppins. If you're Mary Poppins, where's your umbrella? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vlad Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by Loghead If you're Mary Poppins, where's your umbrella? If it was up your ass, you'd know where it was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loghead Posted July 28, 2006 Members Share Posted July 28, 2006 Originally posted by vlad If it was up your ass, you'd know where it was! Ha! I haven't heard that line in a while. I used to love that line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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