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Originally Posted by Michael  This thread sucks. It looks to me like a bunch of sarcastic remarks and cheapshots at someone who will never visit this forum because of stuff like this. : / I'm not talking to anyone in particular here, I'm just tired of seeing people joking about Rusty's playing as if it's, well, a joke. 
Rusty's a damn talented musician and from what I've heard an awesome guy too, so he deserves better than to be treated like a joke, even if you don't like what he does. His music has a place in a lot of peoples hearts... mine being one of them.
Anyway, I'm not one to bitch, but I've wanted to say that on quite a few occasions. |
I think ripping on his shredding for sounding like a NES or Gameboy is fair, in the same way that I rip on Green Day or Nirvana for being simple infantile musical doodles...different strokes for different folks, and I certainly haven't managed to write a track that would sell like Smells Like Teen Spirit, nor have I managed to play that at half the speed or anywhere near as cleanly as Rusty does. Music is music. I think the personal comments on him are uncalled for, he seems like a decent bloke, and who here hasn't waxed lyrical about their new pride and joy, while inadvertently bashing whatever they were using previously? HE didn't overprice a superstrat 7 with a cheap trem, HE did decide the spec. for HIS custom, but HE didn't say "let's sell them publically", that was DEAN, it just happens to be his name on the headstock or wherever. If HE wants a cutaway on HIS custom, then that's what it should have. If you don't like it, that money will get you a UV, several Hellraisers, or Woden knows what from a smaller builder
Just my £0.02