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didn't Gary Marx write music for Heartland :?:
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Correct, he did, so it must be him on guitar then. :D
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mh wrote: Dunno about Heartland, I meant the song ToL itself ( :von: confirmed in an interview that the intro is him) rather than all the tracks on the single.
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Has anyone actually seen Von play guitar?

I don't understand why some of you rate BenJovi as a good guitarist for the Sisters, he adds nothing to the sound and his own band are utter crap. I would hate to think he may be involved in writing any new Sisters material.
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moses wrote:I don't understand why some of you rate BenJovi as a good guitarist for the Sisters, he adds nothing to the sound and his own band are utter crap.
I'm not a huge fan either.
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moses wrote:Has anyone actually seen Von play guitar?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHlUE6kLBng

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Yes, though I seem to recall he has commented that he has difficulty playing guitar and standing up (let alone playing and singing at the same time).
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sultan2075 wrote:Yes, though I seem to recall he has commented that he has difficulty playing guitar and standing up (let alone playing and singing at the same time).
I remember that as well
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moses wrote:Has anyone actually seen Von play guitar?
Yes, and bass (St Pauli Benefit with Justin Sullivan and friends)
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paul wrote:
moses wrote:Has anyone actually seen Von play guitar?
Yes, and bass (St Pauli Benefit with Justin Sullivan and friends)
Where and when did you see him playing guitar (not the bass)?
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Marx/Gunn (which seems to also include :von: by default!)

Having said that, I've seen the current line up a few times & always found them a top nite out...! (except the astoria stop over on the silver bullet express :lol: )
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However Ben & Chris are great but the Sisters need a Bass player !
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antvic wrote: However Ben & Chris are great but the Sisters need a Bass player !
Could not agree more. All the guitar players have been good and added their personality to the songs, but the big thing has ALWAYS been the bass and since the bass got dropped, something died in Sisters.

But all in all, Chris is the best!
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Thanks my friend.

The Sisters are a bass driven machine and always
will be like ''The Fall'' I guess?

When I hear C Adams & T James playing in the Sisters it really added something and it got me into playing Bass also.

Nuff said.
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Quiff Boy wrote:surprised people are crediting von with doing that much guitar on VT. its not something i'd ever considered (and still don't).

why do we think bruhn "didn't do as much as one might think"? i'd always thought most of the VT guitar sound/playing was down to him :?:
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mh wrote: Presumably however a good proportion of the studio guitar was actually done by Eldritch. We already know that Reptile House and ToL were Eldritch playing

:von: confirmed in an interview that the intro is him
So just that riff then. Presumably Gary did the rest. (Can't remember whether Ben was still around at that stage.)
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il duce wrote:
antvic wrote: However Ben & Chris are great but the Sisters need a Bass player !
Could not agree more. All the guitar players have been good and added their personality to the songs, but the big thing has ALWAYS been the bass and since the bass got dropped, something died in Sisters.
Agreed. The guitar/bass interplay is a huge part of what I think of as The Sisters' Sound. Big riffs, for sure, but the grinding bass guitar underneath makes it so much more.
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8) to all the Sisters "elite" (if there really is one) I'm sorry? That Guitarist (notice no caps?)
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8) Sorry bout the off topic. obviously I did not read. I'm falling off the wagon......you see? Bye!!!!!
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On topic: JoeBar5th :innocent:
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Purple Light wrote:Me. 8)

Aisde from that unlikely situation, its Adam Pearson any day for me.
Poor guy doesn't even have his own Wiki page!
Thanks for the link. :notworthy:

Not too sure he'd appreciate being called Adam Pearsom though. :wink:

Quick thumbs up for Starling. Didn't mention it earlier. Damn fine. Astoria 2003 both nights were great. He looked the part and he did the part.

Stop fishing or whatever your doing Chris and rock.
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Purple Light wrote:
Purple Light wrote:Me. 8)

Aisde from that unlikely situation, its Adam Pearson any day for me.
Poor guy doesn't even have his own Wiki page!
Thanks for the link. :notworthy:

Not too sure he'd appreciate being called Adam Pearsom though. :wink:
:eek: ... good heavens, never noticed that ... :urff: ...

However, corrected by now ... ;D ...
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i mentioned this to chris catalyst, as i recall him saying he had been to the studio on more than one occaission, and he was kind enough to enlighten me with the following factoids:
That nice Mr Catalyst wrote:Adam's studio is no longer Adam's studio.

The house was bought by (superstar DJ, Leeds legend and former Sisters roadie) Dave Beer about four or five years ago. The studio bit is now known as Cottage Road Studios and it's where Eureka Machines recorded the drums for the Do Or Die album, as well as the new album which I'm finishing now. It's run by Andy Hawkins (who used to play bass for Midget, and The Damned, for a bit) and Matt Peel (who used to work at Joseph's Well with me). Both fine gentlemen and fine artists in their own right.

In fact the first time I met Andrew was there when it was still Pravda studios. I was doing some session singing for a project with Adam and Dave Creffield (who has, over the years, been Nurse to the Doktor, soundman, and guitar tech for the Sisters, along with being producer to the stars - Embrace, Kaiser Chiefs etc) in about 2003 and Andrew and Chris Starling were knocking about, pre-Smoke And Mirrors tour.

(And my favourite Sisters guitarist? Now that would be telling.)
so there you go.

thanks for the info, chris 8) :notworthy:
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In 2021 the Sisters guitar duties will be handled by Doktor Avalanche, when he gets updated to a new, mobile, robotic form. Ben is kept to attract female audience. In 2031 Doktor takes over the band, releases a new album, and goes on a tour to end all tours.
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Adam Pearson is the man,he definitely got that Sisters sound.
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damagedone wrote:Adam Pearson is the man,he definitely got that Sisters sound.
I could agree as I did chose him together with Gary, too. However thinking about it now, I wonder if it's only the sound - or - the spirit that made the memorable (early/80ies) Sisters sound? The music/sound at that time wasn't always brilliant but the spirit was :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
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