as being a guitarist who always engages in excessive "noodling". RS has seldom gotten things right in my book. I get that some people believe a guitarist should be in the background and almost just playing rhythm and just come in for one or two quick solos but they are the same people who don't understand a guitar player that carries an entire song from beginning to end and is the focus of the music. They never liked the playing of Beck, Gary Moore, Alvin Lee, Carlos Santana and several others. I remember one person in particular asking "how come Alvin Lee is playing so much during the song."
I know some people think Frank Marino and company are repetitive in song style and tempo but I chose this song/performance in particular because it is a slower tempo and shows that Marino has written and performed a beautiful song that is not just a "rocker" etc.
Back to RS for a final thought. When speaking about musicians, guitar players especially, they never seem to get that there are musicians who craft and play beautifully in the studio for whatever the song construction process requires of them and there are also musicians who are masterful at stage performance. RS never gets that each kind of player can be a masterful genius and a joy to listen to at what they do best and that these things are not the same.
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