hey laddys, during the early new order days
whent they recorded i was told just recentley that gillian played the opening riff to dreams never end, and everythings gone green... but did she create those riffs? or just played what barney wrote... well either way my friend told me hes sick of people telling him that barney was a guitar god... and that actually barney always sucked at guitar.... im a guitarist myself and i do know deep in my heart barney doesnt stand out too much to someone like vini rielly or reg from Chameleons . but barney held some sort of quantum connection to the songs that his guitar would be only the one that could connect and while another outstanding guitarist wouldnt have tickled the clit too much where she would tell you to stop
what do you Peeps think>?
or do i even make sense?
That was precisely why I was so disappointed with "Get Ready". I'm a big fan of the stuff he did in Joy Division and think he's generally massively underrated. Just because he's not a fret-wanking technically perfect player like Mark "Knobler" or other twats doesn't mean a thing. Despite sloppy (strumming) playing on Get Ready, I'd like to see a modern band come out with the riff from Crystal out of pure originality rather than copycatting their late 70s post-punk idols. Of course Johnny Marr's a much better player, but I'd rather listen to Barney over much more pretentious "I know I'm a great guitarist" players like Dire Straits man, or even Sprinsteen. Fuck 'em, let them have their place in the Guiness Book Of Record's "quickest fret-wanking session", proper music fans know there's much more to communicating emotion in song.
