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A Flea Rant...


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[quote name='Doddy' post='617992' date='Oct 5 2009, 09:34 PM']I can totally understand why people will gravitate to Flea's playing,but it is very easy to look beyond it if they so wish,and are
willing to leave their comfort zone and try to embrace a new genre without prejudice.[/quote]

This works both ways, and can be equally true of fusion-heads (for example) who would dismiss Flea's playing as not being "sophisticated" enough. I love the Chilis, but I appreciate that Victor is far superior technically (as I'm sure Flea would happily admit). Do I think Victor is a better player? No, because really there is no such thing. Do I prefer Flea's playing? Absolutely, and not just because I prefer the Chilis to anything Victor has been involved with. Flea just communicates to me, whereas Victor doesn't ( on a very basic level, I can't stand his tone for a start). I also prefer Jean Jacques Burnel, Lemmy, Rutger Gunnarson, Bernard Edwards and John McVie to Victor. However that isn't because I don't like more technically accomplished players; I also vastly prefer Tal, Matt Garrison, Mark King, Stanley Clarke and Richard Bona (amongst others) to Victor. I don't personally think much of Marcus Miller either, simply because his playing doesn't speak to me in any way, shape or form, and [i]that[/i] is what matters; whether the player speaks to you as an individual.

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Bits of that video are on Youtube, if anyone's interested in seeing [i]just how wasted they actually are![/i] :)

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZILSRswCNdE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZILSRswCNdE[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ImKQ53C-I"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ImKQ53C-I[/url]

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