| The other way to make it look easy is to
be painfully good at what you do, and to be image-conscious enough
to not want people to know how hard you worked to get there. Why do
people laugh at Yngwie Malmsteen? Well, one, there was that business
on the airplane back in December,
but besides all that, he has no concept of cool. Technical proficiency
becomes proportionally less interesting as the amount of attention
called toward it increases, and so Yngwie gets no cookies. Opeth, on
the other hand, are all musicians of the first stripe, but each player
seems more interested in listening to what the others are doing than
in waiting for his own chance to show off, and the result is that when
they play together they sound like one of the most efficient machines
ever created. |
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