BEN SCHOLTE- Instrumental Let me just say, I dont want to be discouraging.
But. Having said that, Instrumental could well be exactly
what youve all been waiting for your whole lives. Six four-to-five-minute-long
bursts of guitar wanking heaven, I couldnt tell you what any
of them are called because Mr Scholte is obviously too busy performing
said wanking over How about: Ben Scholte is a guitarist from Cheshire,
England. After being in a number of local bands, every musician in
the area got fed up with his incessant soloing over every minute of
each song they came up with, hence the fact that, And my plus one says that the guitar is sometimes not
in tune. I personally think that Instrumental sounds like
the best montage sequence ever, a montage where the guitarists
fingers get bloodier and bloodier, night turning into day as he widdles
away to himself, posting tracks on guitar forums and getting replies
back such as What key are you playing that in? and Oh
yes, I can do that in E minor, the ending scene his hands finally
exploding in a blaze of light. I mean, I totally get it, to an extent-
the liberation of musos trapped in their bedrooms, creative freedom
in its finest sense, freedom that can change lives and minds and produce
some amazing music that we all wouldnt get to hear otherwise.
And its fantastic that Ben has a But this just isnt for me. No, for me, each song
is (and can I be blunt?) a self-indulgent waste of time with little
dynamic and even littler point. From one different kind of music Nazi
to another, all I can say is: Track 2 sounds like the Lost Prophets
(which Im not sure is a good thing in the present climate),
Track 5 sounds a bit Anna C |