Whoah! I'm missing out on all the fun stuff!
Okay. I can't remember if Regor came along with us to see Sym X with Devin Townsend Band. But we went and saw him, and I stood there and forced myself to hear every note he played and listen to how he sung. Watched the whole setlist.
I don't get it, either.
First of all, lemme address a comment on the first page:
Now, I don't see why you should bother at this point because guitar-work is not the for front for his music, so i'm almost 100% sure you would not like it.
If you guys can make a comment like this, and in the same thread mention that Vai handpicked him for his amazing genius, how can he be a genius guitar player if his guitarwork is not his forefront???? That's the greatest hypocrisy of this whole DT defense! I'm sorry, folks! If you're playing alongside Steve muthafuckin Vai, you cannot be a mediocre, chord-strumming, fill-the-spaces-in guitar player! And from watching his DTB show, that's all it was! One, maybe two instances where he attacked his fretboard with any serious skill and virtuosity.
Now, let me get to another totally different topic: his stage behavior. This guy was either having a really really shitty night, or he's just the whiniest musician I've ever heard on a stage. Between every, and I mean EVERY, song, he was bitching about the keyboard levels in the monitors, or the vocal level, or his guitar, or the hihat, or whatever it was that was not absolutely flawless. Holy anal retention, Batman! I thought Regor was a picky bitch when it came to his guitar tone or sound levels when we play! DT is like a spoiled diva on stage! That immediately turned me off of him. Sorry, guys, but that's the experience I had when seeing him live. And you will not convince me otherwise by saying, "Oh, but that's not a good way to judge him, you gotta hear his solo stuff, and his SYL stuff, and his Ocean's Land stuff, and his Vai stuff, and and and..." So far, you've been saying he's a virtuoso. A genius. A shredder. A solo perfectionist. I didn't see it. At all.
It's happened when I've argued with others when they played some SYL for me. They'd say, "Well then you should hear some of his DTB stuff." And when someone else played me some DTB stuff, "Oh well then you should hear some of his SYL stuff." Sorry folks, you cannot bounce me back and forth and expect me to "finally" get him.
And stop bitching about who played guitar longer than the other. It ain't about how long you've been playing. It's about how well you can play. If you've played guitar for 30 years like Niel Young and still can't do more than five chords and bending one or two strings for a solo, then you aren't a true guitar player.
*waits for the Niel Young fans to come out of the woodworks*
