Face it, Steve Howe is the greatest stringed intrument musician to ever have lived. It's an objective fact, not an opinion. Relayer has always been my favorite album (obviously lol). You know their on tour this year right?
36 Crazyfists have an amazing edge and uniqueness to them that I've not heard in other music. They are one of my favourite bands, as are Tool. Never liked Metallica, never will.
you know, when I think of metallica, I could see where they probably wouldn't be that bad, but for some reason I just have this deep burning hatred for them.. ok not hatred but I really just can't get into them. it just sounds really cheesy and their songs repeat the same things over and over again and last forever. a song that last a long time is ok if that song is interesting but damn. repeating a riff 5000 times doesn't make it any better than the first time. also i've never really heard anything that amazing from the techinically. maybe Im listening to the wrong songs? oh and btw im going to piss a lot of ppl off when I say this but trivium's master of puppets cover was far superior than the original by metallica.
Steve Howe, thats amazing many years ago I used to be the memember of a fan club devoted to Steve Howe.. I should try and dig it up, I think it had Howes personal po box in it.
Most of the metal i've heard I can't stand. but i've noticed that a lot of the metal bands playing their stuff acoustic are actually really good, i think its because when you take out all the "shred as many notes as loudly as i can in 5 seconds" approach and focus on the actual song its usually pretty good. My 2 cents on metal bands.
^^^ yea...... like a band like this.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRNrFCXHD0k&feature=related yet... doing a grateful dead cover... http://youtube.com/watch?v=aLC3sQB2aeU