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- From: rblander@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Robyn Landers)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Latest Triumph album/guitarist
- Message-ID: <C1FBC1.2Du@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:57:36 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.201754.12878@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan22.201754.12878@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> kevin@sherman.pas.rochester.edu (kevin mcfadden) writes:
- >
- >Well, supposedly Triumph has found a new guitarist and have released
- >a new album.
- > [...]
- >Anyway, I don't think Triumph is ever going to attain any measure
- >of respectability for two reasons:
- >
- >1) This new guitarist will never match up to Rik Emmett, and
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- I wouldn't be so hasty to discredit Phil X, the new guitar player.
- I've known of him for years now, from when he was a kid in local
- metal bands here in Kitchener/Waterloo up through being invited to
- tour and record with Frozen Ghost, and various other freelance efforts.
- He is very hot. I don't know if he has the classical and blues
- depth of Emmett, but as far as modern metal chops is concerned
- (which is all that matters for Triumph, really) Phil has got it together.
- Another concern of a band such as Triumph is, of course, image.
- Phil has it here too. He has great stage presence.
-
- Rik comes across as a very down-to-earth nice guy (not that
- I've ever met him). It has been a few years since I last spoke
- with Phil X, so I don't know if his ego has exploded since then,
- but at the time he seemed like a pretty nice guy.
-
- Oh, check out Phil's guitars. They're made by Brad Freiheit,
- a local guitar builder. Nice work. (Mine's waiting for a paint job :-)
- Look for a feature story in _Canadian_Musician_ magazine's next issue.
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- Robyn Landers
- rblanders@math.uwaterloo.ca
- "I'm just doing my rock'n'roll duty." -- Dubois
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