HamiltonBlack

HamiltonBlack t1_j60m20f wrote

Is Maggot Brain a solo though? It's the entire song. It's a composition.

I agree it's phenomenal and Maggot Brain the album is one of my favorites, but when discussing guitar solos I think people mean the 20-30 second tear in the middle of a song.

Maggot Brain is a piece as much as Bach or Beethoven

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HamiltonBlack t1_j5jrxdt wrote

Here's a thought. Can you look at the book objectively and not as the work of a friend? If his choices are bad for everyone who doesn't know him, then he made a book for a limited group of people, and maybe no one but himself. So what would be the point of publishing independently instead of saying, making 10 copies and handing them out? Anyone can do it "their way" that doesn't make it good or right or appealing to anyone but the writer. Sounds like he made personal journal.

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HamiltonBlack t1_j3nptsg wrote

I'm a reader of memoirs, biographies and autobiographies as I fell out of love with novels. Truth can be stranger, and sometimes more fascinating than fiction.

If you're a person who like info delivered to you, you should pick up some autobiographies of people you like or people involved in the subjects you like. Could be what you're missing.

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