Best Ever Albums

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

RockyRaccoon — Tue, 7 Oct 2014 23:17:02 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 10/08/2014 03:17

Dave Pajo wins

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Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

WindowAbove — Mon, 6 Oct 2014 07:43:02 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 10/06/2014 11:43

Dave

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

Anonymous — Sun, 5 Oct 2014 20:11:10 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/06/2014 00:11

HazeyTwilight wrote:

Follow our Breadcrumb Trail, benpaco. :twisted:

😁

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

Anonymous — Sun, 5 Oct 2014 17:54:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/05/2014 21:54

David Pajo started out with Maurice (with Walford) and then went on to cofound Slint with McMahon (vocals, 2nd guitar) and Walford (drums, vocals), playing lead guitar. Like Walford, his early playing demonstrated his technical ability (see Tweez), but as McMahon's and Walford's vision for Slint became starker, darker, and... hmmm... spiderlike, so did Pajo's style. On Spiderland, you can recognize Pajo's guitar as the often more technical one with a colder tone than McMahon's, except on "Don, Aman" on which Walford plays lead and Pajo is 2nd guitar. the attention to detail on Spiderland is to the point that McMahon would stroke up while Pajo would stroke down to create fuller chords as well as a kind of reverb effect and a sound of separation (for example). Slint split after McMahon left and Pajo joined Tortoise, recording for the Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT sessions; he shared guitar duties with the newly-joined Jeff Parker during the TNT sessions, and I'm not positive whose riffs are whose, but the main riff on the title track, "The Equator", "The Suspension Bridge at Iguazu Falls", "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven," and "Everglade" are all obviously his style. At this point, Pajo adopted a warmer tone for his guitar but usually retained his machine-like playing style from Slint, usually repeating riffs with minor variations. His work with Slint and Tortoise alone, two of the most influential, if not among the best (mine and many's favorite) musicians of the '90s, is enough credentials to pay his style consideration. Having left Tortoise before touring for TNT, Pajo continued to work for his various solo projects (Aerial M, Papa M, and Pajo), as well as record on Fight Songs for The For Carnation, Royal Trux's 3-song EP, and Zwan's Mary Star of the Sea. Pajo's style is characterized as stark, technical, extreme (either delicate picking or heavy riffs), and, most of all, machine-like repetition with minor variation, kind of like a living version of Eno's Discreet Music.

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Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

HazeyTwilight — Sun, 5 Oct 2014 16:40:18 GMT

Author: HazeyTwilight

Posted: 10/05/2014 20:40

benpaco wrote:

I was surprised Pajo was winning, then remembered what website this is

Follow our Breadcrumb Trail, benpaco. 😈

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

benpaco — Sun, 5 Oct 2014 16:37:48 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 10/05/2014 20:37

I was surprised Pajo was winning, then remembered what website this is ... Levene for me though

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

Anonymous — Sat, 4 Oct 2014 16:51:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/04/2014 20:51

Kiki wrote:

Hang on... these are the two losers who knocked my entries out :|

rekt

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

Anonymous — Sat, 4 Oct 2014 16:40:23 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/04/2014 20:40

Hang on... these are the two losers who knocked my entries out 😐

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

Skinny — Sat, 4 Oct 2014 09:46:52 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 10/04/2014 13:46

Levene, for me. Not a lot in it though.

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

denmarkman — Sat, 4 Oct 2014 09:40:27 GMT

Author: denmarkman

Posted: 10/04/2014 13:40

This is pretty rough. I think I'm gonna go with Keith, but Pajo's no slacker. It'll be sad to see either of them go.

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

Anonymous — Fri, 3 Oct 2014 20:08:26 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/04/2014 00:08

Levene is fantastic but Pajo is among my favorites ever.

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

RockyRaccoon — Fri, 3 Oct 2014 19:52:34 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 10/03/2014 23:52

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

Levene never recorded for the Clash...

Eh he co-founded the group, but yea, I'll take it out

Re: [Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

Anonymous — Fri, 3 Oct 2014 19:49:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/03/2014 23:49

Levene never recorded for the Clash...

[Closed] Best Ever Guitarist: Keith Levene vs. Dave Pajo

RockyRaccoon — Fri, 3 Oct 2014 19:31:17 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 10/03/2014 23:31

Keith Levene (of Public Image Ltd.)

Nominated by denmarkman

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vs.

Dave Pajo (of Slint and Tortoise)

Nominated by Kool Keith Sweat