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I recommend...
The Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show
I can't believe they haven't been recommended yet.
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so, you know Chinese language?!
ni hau!
Ah... as for speaking chinese, I only know what I learned from my college foreign language classes, haha.
I'm a bit... uh... white washed (one of the reasons my parents insisted I came back to China this summer, I was going to stay and do an internship...)
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ooops It looks like Shenian!
I was in China many times too
like it!
Thats awesome, this is my third time in China (but the last time I went was 10 years ago), I like it too! Its so different from the states, yet even being chinese, I still stick out like a sore thumb here.
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what is this place??
Is it Shenian? =))
Its Tiananmen, I'm on vacation in China right now
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That always made me wonder. Because the show on May 31th (well known as Bonzos birthday party) is pretty good for Page. His Stairway solo is one of his best. Really great playing.
But another thing: In an interview in 1986 Page said that he can't even play bar chords and scales. I can't believe that. In many songs there are bar chords (Stairway, ten years gone, Thank you) and not just power chords. And of course there are great scales in many songs. You can't play such solos without knowing scales. Was he just confused? I think so. I'm also a guitar player.
Learn the major/minor pentatonic scales in all positions on the fret board and you can play 95% of Page's solos.
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Hey guys!
As I was watching the Earls Court gig I realized how Jimmy´s playing approach had changed since ´73.
He rarely uses his left ring finger and if he does so it´s used in a very strange way. Through the entire gig he´s not able to stretch the fingers of his left hand to full extend (which makes fast runs easier to play).
Referring to this observation...
I don´t know why so many people are so enthusiastic about his guitar work during the EC-shows (on the official DVD, that is). It´s hardly average compared to ´73 and the beloved Stairway-solo just sucks! Jimmy´s struggling in trying to play all the fluid, fast runs from 1973. Trampled Underfoot´s not much better.
His playing in IMTOD is superb, BUT he uses a bottleneck on his left ring finger!!!
Now, I know that Jimmy hurt his finger(s) several times in the 70ies.
My questions:
When did Jimmy actually injure his finger in the 70ies?
Which performances were done 3-finger-style hence below par?
MOST IMPORTANT:
Which performances were actually as great or better as the ones in ´73?
Have those accidents in the 70ies affected his playing/dexterity ever since?
Did Jimmy actually develop a form of (chronical) arthritis which is common under such circumstances?
Erm, just to let you know: this is not JP bashing. He´s one of the most gifted and interesting guitar players out there!
Page broke his ring finger in 1975 right before the US tour started, and his playing suffered the first stretch of the tour, and they had to redo the set list to adjust (thus Dazed and Confused was replaced with How Many More Times and they added When the Levee Breaks as well).
That being said, his playing in general was not as fluid as it was in 1973 (the Europe tour prior the US tour probably had some of Page's best playing imo) but near the end of the 1975 tour, it wasn't bad at all. Remember that the DVD only shows a few songs from the 5 night stand at Earl's Court. I'm particularly fond of the Earl's Court concerts, TSRTS, D+C, and Stairway to Heaven from May 24th are the best live versions I've personally heard. Over the Hills and Far Away also featured some great guitar work.
As for whats actually on the DVD, the acoustic set is played fabulously imo, and Trampled Underfoot is as well. As for Stairway, I was actually really surprised when the DVD was released that Page chose the version from May 25th, the solo was cut short because Page broke his B-string mid solo, and the performance was a bit uninspired as well. The version from the previous night was far superior. I suggest you try and find a copy of "Evoluzione" and "When we Were Kings"/"Conquistador" (shouldn't be too hard, there are pretty common in trading communities) to really hear what the Earl's Court concerts were like. Remember, these were 3 hour long concerts, you can't just characterize them based on a few songs.
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Looking cool
Haha, I was in the Bahamas, those are my boating glasses!
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It looks like Shenian!
what is this place?? 
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