Originally Posted by Supersonic

Aloha !



I think he's full of shit when it comes to that and he knows it too. "getting the correct emotion across..." We're not talking about Clapton or Knopfler who put down a specific feel to these guitar solo's. First you've got to learn the right notes, then you've got to learn how to play the right notes. He's doing neither. He's picked up a few licks and has build his own solo with it.

Most guitar players will all agree that whatever came after 1992 hasn't been that difficult, no. But whatever came after 1992 isn't making up most of the setlist either. Even the basic riffs are wrong by a small margin. Raise Your Hands? Timing is off every single time. Bad Name? Riff is played the wrong way. Bad Medicine? Takes the tempo out of the guitar solo every time. And whenever you compare his way with Richie's way it's always Richie who did more bends, more fills, more licks, more scales whereas Phil X often follows up a scale with a huge bend.

If this stuff wasn't technically difficult for him he'd do it. Its the subtle nuances Richie added which makes him standout compared to his peers from that time. The right emotion? Meh... All this adoration, night after night, and yet the guys who do know what they're talking about says he's doing it wrong. I think he knows by now he's not able to replicate whatever Richie came up with and the fanboys on Twitter are getting to him.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan