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| Poll: Which guitarist? |
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| Jad Fair |
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39% |
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| Elliot Smith |
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60% |
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| Total Votes : 28 |
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Mercury
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Kiki
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- #12
- Posted: 08/29/2014 22:53
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Can't let the hipsters win Mercury  I'll vote both if I could
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mickilennial
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Age: 35
Location: Detroit
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- Posted: 08/30/2014 08:10
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Even with Smith's career (and boy do I enjoy that), I love that Fair "literally, in the early days at least, played an out of tune guitar with no pretense that he could even make basic chord shapes. He plugged his guitar into an amp and just made rhythmic noise" because it's the exact same thing I aspired to do when I first picked up the instrument and began to record "rhythmic noise". Of course I was at the time more influenced by the folks in Steve Alibini, Lee Ranaldo, and Duane Denison. Love Fair's work as well, because this isn't just guitar envy.
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benpaco
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Age: 27
Location: California
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- Posted: 08/30/2014 17:34
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| Gowienczyk wrote: | | I love that Fair "literally, in the early days at least, played an out of tune guitar with no pretense that he could even make basic chord shapes. He plugged his guitar into an amp and just made rhythmic noise" because it's the exact same thing I aspired to do when I first picked up the instrument and began to record "rhythmic noise". |
I mean, that's basicall what I did on Soundtrack to an Anxiety Attack, so if that's really what he did, props for making it sound better.
In the meantime, I only know Fair's work with Johnston, is there a particular album I should check out of his? Listening to Live In Baltimore off Half Japanese's debut and it just sounds like a live and drunk rendition of No Tears for the most part now.
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sp4cetiger
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- #16
- Posted: 08/31/2014 21:56
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Weirdly enough, Smith's guitar playing may be my favorite part of his music. Some of the advocates for Fair seem to be voting more for primitivism in general rather than Fair's particular style. I can definitely see the appeal of Half Japanese, but it seems to me that Fair's talent is more in expressing his inner child than playing guitar.
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Patman360
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Age: 31
Location: Cork, Ireland
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- #17
- Posted: 08/31/2014 22:22
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Smith by quite some distance for me.
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Hayden
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- Posted: 09/01/2014 15:45
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Jad Fair.
I don't think either will get very much further though.
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RockyRaccoon
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Age: 33
Location: Maryland
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benpaco
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Age: 27
Location: California
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- Posted: 09/02/2014 08:00
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| satiemaniac wrote: | 
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Half Gentlemen / Not Beasts by Half Japanese
obviously my vote is going to Fair; not only because i nommed him, but because his opponent is (along with Nick Drake, The Tallest Man on Earth, and a couple others) someone whose playing bores me beyond belief |
Ended up only checking out this one and not voting, didn't feel like i had a feel for Fair yet. That said, I personally find Smith's guitar work more interesting than Drake's and that would be why I prefer Smith to Drake, so it's interesting you've lumped them together. Tallest Man I just don't know very well, tbh.
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