Alright, he wanted to push my buttons, so let's review:
He started with this asinine statement:
JokerNick said:
Tony Iommi... enough said... there isn;t one riff that he didn't already play... if you play the electric guitar... you are basically copying from this guy because he's done it all....
if it wasn't for him, there would be no pink floyd, there would be no led zepplin, there wold be no metallica... there would be nothing....
Then he insulted actual musicians who know what they're talking about when he got debunked and called on it:
JokerNick said:
why don't you ask actuall gurarists on that.... I saw a doc on black sabbath, they had judas priest, rob zombie, metallica, slipknot, led zepplin, van hallen, anyone you can think of, saying that tony is the godfather,... if it wasn't for him there would be nothing....
seriously, you guys have NO IDEA then.. and any further coment by you guys can be taken with a jar of salt..... love how people where putting carlos santana on the top... do some research....
After getting mauled some more by people who know what they're talking about, he then conceded defeat but not without insulting anyone who might have knowledge who isn't actually a musician themselves:
JokerNick said:
I was wrong, okay, get over yourself... **** sake, you make fun of what I said, but minus the ones of you that are in bands, you sure have alot of useless trivia knowledge, kind of sad actually, idolizing people you will never meet, its nothing more then sounds, and words.......I'd like to know what you do for a living, probably a blockbuster clerk, dicussing how kids don't know what good music is....
This bolded part above also implies that he is a guitarist playing in an active band, since he's apparently free to state what he believes is useless trivia knowledge on the topic.
Then he insulted someone's college job and pretended he was an expert on the demand for psychologists:
JokerNick said:
wal-mart huh....?? I could say some stuff, but I will hold back
psychology huh??? not much of a demand for psychologist today... being the smart man you are, you should have realized that and actually went the hole 9 yards and became a psychatrist.... but again I won't go there...
He was subsequently proven wrong.
Then he said that idolizing an actor was okay, but people who idolized musicians were basically pathetic and had no life:
if you read what I wrote, if you play, idolize away.. if it wasn't for them idolizing and learning from them, we wouldn't have anything today.... but for some guy, who doesn't, to sit on his computer studying some musicain because he has no life is sad... I find people who idolize celebrities sad... unless ofcourse they are an actor...
it's called having a life... led zepplin didn't get where they are by arguing on a superhero internet forum....
Then he waxed poetic about how he's sooooo busy and doesn't have time for useless knowledge (even though he had just tried to convince everyone that he had the lock on Tommy Iommi's status in the music world just a few posts earlier and apparently has a lot of time to post on this message board:
JokerNick said:
imo, if your interests are not going to forward yourself as a person and a proffesional, why bother.... right now I'm a engineer desginer, so I study, and read up on alot of art, archutecture, etc... becuase I'm proffesionaly interested in that... plus, entering my 2nd year of law school right now, I don't have time to indulge myself with useless knowledge... i dould care less about who played this, or who is the greast whatever, it's not going to help me out in the long run, unless of course VH1 brings back rock and roll jepordy....
Then he showed us that he works 60+ hours a week, goes to school full time, apparently plays guitar in a band since he's qualified to make the statements he did when non-musicians really aren't, and from his previous posts in other threads I know he also likes to restore old cars in his spare time, so when does the poor boy sleep?:
JokerNick said:
rehab for my injuries from a car accident....not drugs....
and my mommy and daddie pay for squat,.. I have earned everything in my life... I'm sorry I work 60 hours a week, plus go to school full time, sorry I got a scholorship for school, sorry I'm getting over 8 figures in my lawsuite....
JokerNick said:
I know it's good for me... exaclty why I will be succesful... like I learned some stuff from you guys today, but I won't take it any farther then that... I only concentrate on what will benefit me financialy and as a overall person... rock knowledge isnt on the top of that list. I know what I like and that's it
Again, all I can say is.....Good for you.
jag