From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 23 Jan 1999 to 24 Jan 1999 Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 1:57 AM There are 6 messages totalling 158 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Nah (2) 2. Thayil is a hero. (2) 3. more about Kim 4. Fwd: (fwd to somms) sg + the next one... To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:11:18 PST From: Devil King of Children Subject: Nah Kim is better than SRV, becasue SRV is not here anymore. Thayil kills everyone. Ever. Cameron is the best drummer in the world, then in 2nd place comes Chris Cornell, and then Ben Shepherd, then Kim Thayil. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 03:11:14 EST From: Kevin Chang Subject: Re: Thayil is a hero. Dave Mustaine is cool, but Marty Friedman (their lead guitarist) is a lot better, IMO. Listen to his solos on "Rust In Peace," they are incredible. I just recently bought the tab book, and I'm barely able to play the regular parts on that CD. Every song (except for Dawn Patrol) on that CD has great guitar work, especially Tornado of Souls and Hangar 18. This is Megadeth by the way, in case there were some people that didn't know. I've always liked Thayil's guitar work, but I could never really get into it because on their records it always seems like the lead solo is lower in volume than the rest of the song! Fell On Black Days comes to mind as an example, as Chris sings over the solo and I can barely hear it. A song that has a good solo I'm able to hear fine is the Pretty Noose solo; I was actually able to play that one fine and hear it, too. Kevin > > melodic quality to it. It was just sloppy. Since I've gotten into metal > > a lot recently, I'd have to go with James Hetfield as my guitar hero. > > Sure, Hetfield is great. But better than Dave Mustaine? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:53:38 +0100 From: Paolo Toschi Subject: more about Kim One interesting thing about the way Kim plays , particularly since Superunknown, is that, as he said, he tried to invert the usual relationship between the speed and the attitude of a track and its solos. So he put slow, mellow notes on burning tracks and viceversa. Conceptually very simple, but many times in music the best ideas have a very simple basis. Paolo Toschi stu4824@student.unife.it ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:53:07 EST From: Evan Frees Subject: Re: Thayil is a hero. << Sure, Hetfield is great. But better than Dave Mustaine? >> Infinately ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 15:55:32 -0500 From: Kim Subject: Re: Nah On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Devil King of Children wrote: > Kim is better than SRV, becasue SRV is not here anymore. Thayil kills > everyone. Ever. Cameron is the best drummer in the world, then in 2nd > place comes Chris Cornell, and then Ben Shepherd, then Kim Thayil. Okay, I agree with the Chris and Matt thing. Chris Cornell is the epitome of rock god and I think he goes unparalleled in terms of vocals and music/lyric writing. Matt Cameron's drum playing is beyond words. I mean, he's considered a god among his peers. The stuff he does with offbeats is simply amazing. Ben is my current favorite bassist, although I'd have to go with Cliff Burton as my all time. -Elliott http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/7915 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:53:46 PST From: Rachel Reisman Subject: Fwd: (fwd to somms) sg + the next one... >From ctmc4@aol.com Sat Jan 23 16:43:42 1999 >Received: from CTMc4@aol.com > by imo21.mx.aol.com (IMOv18.1) id ANXCa07784 > for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 19:42:15 +1900 (EST) >From: CTMc4@aol.com >Message-ID: >Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 19:42:15 EST >To: janesez@hotmail.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Subject: (fwd to somms) sg + the next one... >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 49 > >howdy, i'm wondering where this "chris did most of the solo's on dotu" rumor >came from. as for kim, i don't think he is the best guitarist, ever. but he >was the best guitarist for sg. i mean, i can think of very few guitarists >alive today that could fit sg. >until i can think of something else to say that's, it. > >or is it?!? > > > >warning: shameless self promotion below. > > > > > > > > >i've got another album on the way! i'm 3/4 the way done with part 3: >CTM...rides again. for those of you who remember my first one (i'm sorry!), >gimme another chance! for more info, reply w/ "3" in the subject. > >thanks >charlie > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 23 Jan 1999 to 24 Jan 1999 ************************************************