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pan pipes, fucking pan pipes....


noticed someone said the accordion up there - I have to disagree with this as they are awesome...

 
what was the point of that?

I think it was meant to highlight the point that some of the world's great guitarists (as opposed to guitarists who think they're great, which is most of them, no matter how terrible they sound) aren't quite as great as they think they are.

A virtual cookie goes to anyone who can spot the (rather obvious) Jimmy Page reference in that scene.
 
no, what's the point of shredding spinal tap?

Well, they are maestro's of their chosen art form, 'tis true. Especially for a spoof film that seems to have gone further than it was ever meant to.

I shall turn my fire on those second-rate guitarists so common in the 'pub rock' scene, instead. For they are often crappier than crap, yet seem to think that they are artistic gods in human form.
 
isn't a shred an overdub played deliberately badly? so it's not really tufnel/guest playing

I think so, but I've never handled an electric guitar. I do think that Guest is playing his own instruments as he's quite a good musician off screen, apparently. He's also a member of the House of Lords and is married to actress Jamie Lee Curtis (on an unrelated and entirely irrelevent note).
 
Bagpipes. As a musical instrument, epic fail. As weapons of war, surely against the Geneva Convention.

As a musical instrument it depends on how they're played. Played well, as by the Scottish regimental pipers, they can be lovely. Played badly, they sound like someone strangling a cat.

And, IIRC, there's still a military tradition that the Scottish regiments always expect to have a piper with them when they go into battle.
 
yeah, you know what i mean tho :mad:

I'd go with those things that Australian aborigines blow into; chinese stringed instruments. There might be more.

I like those pipes that south americans blow into. I like bagpipes: used to play them. I like indian drums and rattles. I like Japanese stringed instruments.
 
do wind chimes count? To my neighbours: how about I install a ship's foghorn that tells you when it's cloudy?
Ooh, I agree, I hate wind chimes, they're so annoying. A neighbour had some on a balcony and I could hear them at night when I was trying to get to sleep. His bedroom was on the other side of the building.
 
I hate any fusion of folk and reggae, both in their pure forms can be great or massively crap but together they suck
 
i like accordions. they are great fun to play and same as violins they are one of those instruments that make the best/worst sound in the world
 
I've had a mild phobia of harps since a couple of ridiculously long welsh harp solos at my graduation. The first few strums are fine, but the thing just drones on with precious little variety. Wibbly wobbly airy fairy boredom in a big poncy frame.
 
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