OFF: CMJ/Tour dates (long)

[Tom Clark]

Style over substance....must be...Yngwe Malsteem, for example, has the
style...very fast and consice... pretty jammy at times,...but not much soul, ey?
Brock's playing seems to be made to be listended to whilst stoned, and it
fits...even while not listenting to it stoned.....

> On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 01:26:31AM -0400, DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:
>  [...]
> > hear the floyd boys as much of a factor in brock's playing. i hear a stoned
> > guy in front of a big amp going "chug-chug", as lemmy put it. and, as
> > epitomized on "space ritual", that
> > pentatonic-lead-through-the-wah-pedal-in-every-song routine portrayed him as
> > singularly constricted as alvin lee, or even john lee hooker.
> > dont get me wrong, i love that sound, always have, am displeased whenever
> > he's cut back on guitar.
>
> Ain't it amazing?  I'm exactly the same way.  Intellectually, I know
> thet he's no leading light among guitar players.  And yet I love that
> sound, and am always disappointed when he's going through one of
> those phases when he cuts it back in favor of playing more synths.
>
> What *is* it about that Brock guitar sound...?  Few things in all of
> rock music make me so happy.  :-)
>
> Steve
> swann at plutonia.com