Internet comment of the week

[Big Poppa]

Ok on Lukes Facebook there is a live shot of Vai, Satriani, and Luke from the current G3 tour in Australia....They look like they are having a blast and it is obviously the jam at the end of the show..Some genius decides that at that time this is horrible because in the pic the three guitarists are all near the 12th fret and because of that it obviously sounds boring. Then he goes on to slam G3 concerts. How in the split second of a shutter from your keyboard can you decide that these three gifted musicians sound terrible and boring? Do you expect tender love ballads and sambas at G3? Jeez thank dog that there are concerts that give guitarsists and their fans a stage to rip. Facebook genius.

 

[Norrin Radd]

Anonymous Internet keyboard warriors............

 

[fbecir]

I never use my 12th fret just to be on the safe side ...

 

[ScoobySteve]

I actually saw that comment. It stinks no doubt. The Internet and social media allows People to dismiss confrontation and accountability.

Part that stinks is that there are gonna be impressionable kids or unfamiliar passerbys that will assume that it holds some validity because it used the relevant jargon rhetorically.

Take the good with the bad but my brother as a sociologist and myself as an educator and counselor has had to deal with these issues regularly. The damage isn't as trivial as it seems and it sucks.

But I wish I could've checked out those shows!

 

[bkrumme]

<sarcasm>

Didn't you know you can hear everything from a live show just by seeing a picture? It obvisously sounded like crap, especially considering Vai, Satch, and Luke are all terrible guitar players. I mean, really. How did they get famous anyway?

</sarcasm>

 

[ozzyrules]

I guess I'll have to put a road block on the 12th fret of all of my guitars.....

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

I'd hate to read his comments on that awesome photo of Morse and Vai playing Led Zep at the EB 50th.

Keyboard warrior.

 

[Roubster]

That's just moronic and pure stupidity! I wonder what that person would sound like around the 12th fret?

 

[mikeller]

Some people just have way too much time on their hands....

 

[fbecir]

This guy is right ! The 12th fret sucks !
Big Poppa, you and your design team should design a guitar that goes directly from the 11th fret to the 13th fret ! Or perhaps, for the superstitious people, a guitar that goes directly from the 11th fret to the 14th fret !!!

 

[edhalen]

12th fret??? <yawn>

 

[tonelover]

Yeah, and Jimmy Page was too sloppy, Randy Rhoads had crappy tone, even Kirk Hammett just plain sucks. Those are all comments that come up frequently from people who have never even taken their amp out of their bedroom, much less been pivotal parts of rock and roll history. Got to just take it with a grain of salt I guess.

 

[DrKev]

And of course the Japanese words for 4 and 9 can sound like death and suffering. We could try an alphabetical fingerboard but the French will want Do Re Mi... and the Germans will want A B H C instead of A Bb B C...

Anyone can be anything at a keyboard. Look at me - at a keyboard I'm tall and handsome. The reality is different.

As long as people can type in the comfort and security of their own homes, some of them will be mean and nasty and wannabe experts on all manner of things that they know nothing about. Some are well meaning but just plain wrong. Some people are biased, some are bigoted, some are experts at holding a grudge. And some are just trolling for a reaction.

In this day and age, if you put yourself out there in a position to be judged, you require thick skin. Sad, that we don't teach people more humility and respect. Some people just don't understand those concepts.

"Wisest are they who know they know nothing".

 

[mikeller]

This guy is right ! The 12th fret sucks !
Big Poppa, you and your design team should design a guitar that goes directly from the 11th fret to the 13th fret ! Or perhaps, for the superstitious people, a guitar that goes directly from the 11th fret to the 14th fret !!!

No need to skip the 13th - just go from 11 to X3, X4 etc....software developers do it all the time

 

[Astrofreq]

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I haven't been into instrumental guitar in decades, but if other people like it, so be it.

 

[Jamie M]

I have just filed my 12th fret away so all is good!!

 

[edhalen]

Yeah, and Jimmy Page was too sloppy, Randy Rhoads had crappy tone, even Kirk Hammett just plain sucks. Those are all comments that come up frequently from people who have never even taken their amp out of their bedroom, much less been pivotal parts of rock and roll history. Got to just take it with a grain of salt I guess.

Hey now - my amp doesn't leave my bedroom! We're not all bad!

 

[BartB]

I guess this is one of the reason's Luke is no longer around on his facebook
anymore.. Tired of people having comments without thinking..

 

[dibart77]

The funny thing is, I wonder what that idiot has done in his life. You have three of the best guitar players to ever live, and you're sh!tting on them? Nonsense.

Luke has recorded on like 600 records. How many has this guy recorded?

Vai is an absolute original and total master of his instrument. What has this guy mastered?

Satriani created a whole new genre. What has this guy created?

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[73h Nils]

People like that are idiots. It's best to just ignore them because at the end of the day they don't matter in the slightest.