Technical Skill etc.

[John Majka]

yeah I'd have to say that technical skill has very very little to do with
musical quality.  Thus we have examples like Yngwie, a technical master who
totally sucks, and a band like Guided By Voices (relatively unskilled during
"Alien Lanes" era) who are totally fucking ingenious.  It's not about the
skills... it's what you do with them...
John Majka


> At 21.49 +0000 9.1.2001, Jon Jarrett wrote:
> >but Paul's point was I think that
> >to dismiss technical skill in a musical appraisal is to do away with the
> >only fixed yardstick.
> >          And this is of course very well but it doesn't help us much
does
> >it? Because Malmsteen's still awful and Steven Wilson isn't :-)
>
> That's because it's a fairly useless yardstick :) So, well, I
> recommend doing away with it.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
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