Post #280716 by tiki mick on Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:41 PM

That swedish cowboy rocked. He was sick, just sick! But I wish I could give him some wardrobe ideas. The whole heavy metal thing with the long hair is soooooo 1991, and does not fit the style he was playing, which was pure Vince Gill style country shredding.

Yngwie, where do I begin? Just this massive amount of "weeeedle-eeeee-deeeedle-eeee-deeeedle-eee" for absolutly no reason at all. Just pointless!! The crowd was eating it up, though!! Interesting to note he is a big fan of Paganini. I believe it. Paganini was a blowheart too. But this kind of playing was only cool when ELP did it. It has no place in rock and roll, in my opinion. I can understand playing with little or no soul. RUSH does it really good, but they are an exeption. I think good rock always has a healthy dose of color in it. You could put BB king and Brian Setzer on the same stage together (for example) and thier styles would not clash. Pure rock and roll equally influenced by both country and blues, which is basically what rock is.

Stevie Wonder. Often, when you meet a celebrity in real life they appear to be totally smaller then they appear on the screen or stage. Dio, very short, Steve Bailey, tiny..Stevie Wonder? A huge massive solidly built man who you just would not want to mess with, blind or not. He looks like he could just kick your ass!!!!

Most of the celebs at NAMM have bodyguards, but they are not keeping you away, just protecting the celeb in case something happens. But you generally can get pretty darn closed to them anyway!

Stevie Wonder looks LIKE a bodyguard. The man is huge. Huge talent, huge man!

Spike, you are all over that Danelecto. The olive green one!!

PS, I still want to adopt that cute little asian guitarist-keyboardist. I bet her parents are really proud of her!! Those little boots she was wearing were priceless!!