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Date Posted: 16:55:01 10/12/02 Sat
Author: Happy Jack
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 63.119.217.5
Subject: Personae

I just got ' Personae ' and love it. Although I am a non-musician, I have always had a love of marvellous and powerful music of all - all - genres, finding it inspiring and evocative. I can not say with any certainty what Shawn is doing technically or guitaristically, mind you, but I can feel it and visuallize the pictures that he sounds, if you will, from his notes. In fact, as I listen to people like him and select other virtuosi, I find myself becoming spoiled on a level of musical craft seldom, if ever, found in mainstream music.

Along those lines, what irks me is how the major guitar magazines have obviously sold the soul of modern guitar playing to the recording industry, as you almost never hear about people like Lane. The guys in Korn, for example, are supposed to be the ' new 'and exclusively noteworthy guitar players of our day. Farther up in Guitardom, people like Vai and Satriani, as good as they are and as musch as they seem to have given to the guitar-virtuo genre, seem to be the only mentionable guitar-gods at the moment. Even as a music novice I find that scenario rather boring and limited, and I therefore thoroguhly appreciate masters like Shawn ad wish him the best of health and success: remember that you never know who your music may touch, even folks who are as musically illiterate as I am. Sorry for the windy post.

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