<html><div style='background-color:'><P dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif">A great performance for sure, but I saw them the year before in Moers and the first time is mostly the best...</FONT></P>
<P>Andreas</P>
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<P>may i ask what you found lacking in The Ex's performance at Saalfelden? :)<BR>seriously, i would top-ten that one, too.<BR>my hair stood on end for the whole duration : phenomenal : the big-band <BR>version of "State of Shock" alone was worth the entire price of the <BR>festival ticket, imo.<BR><BR><BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE></div><br clear=all><hr>Mit MSN Fotos k÷nnen Sie problemlos Ihre Fotos ausdrucken und anderen Benutzern zur Verfⁿgung stellen: <a href='http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag3_etl_DE.asp'>Klicken Sie hier</a><br></html>
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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:38:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Ryan Novak <ryan_novak@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Guitar Player
>From: "William York" <william_york@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Guitar Player>
>
>No need for exclamation or surprise on my part- I've
thought that, up
> >until a few years ago, Guitar Player was a great
>magazine
>
>Actually that is a good point. I guess I was mainly
>surprised at exactly how
>in-depth that article was. Actually the Sharrock
>article, as well as the 30
>Most Radical Guitarists issue you mentioned, had a
>big
>impact on my tastes
>as a late teenager (eventually leading to Zorn,
>actually, I think).
You're right about the length of the article- they
weren't often very in-depth like that, but at least
they covered it. Another influential one for me was
the avant-metal issue that had Blind Idiot God, Caspar
Brotzmann, and others among more commercial metal
bands.
But sometimes the experimenters are hard to ignore- I
just saw Fred Frith's Clearing mentioned in the "jazz"