Landau??

[mirth]

I've read a lot of good words about this guy, but I've had a really hard time getting into him. Is it me? Or am I looking in the wrong places?

Anyone here a fan? I have "Tales from the Bulge" and "live 2000".

The comments I read are how great his tone is, especially on Tales, but I can't really stomach it after a song or two. It's so so saturated in delay, like Shawn Lane on steroids delay. The "live" one is better, but it's really just OK for me. Neither would lead me to believe he's the "tonemaster".

Obviously I can tell he's a good player, but I haven't found anything really very special about what he's doing. The sort of roadhouse blues thing is so overdone too. What am I missing? Of the sort of studio guys who have made a name for themselves, Verheyan and Carlton are more interesting players to me, and better tone for that matter.

Any recommendations? Am I alone?

[aliensporebomb]

I get what you're saying on the over-effected panned burn sound thing. That particular recording "Tales" is bathing in it. He goes farther than I do! I've gotten into a more uneffected tone of late so I see what you're saying.

Yeah, he's not as technical as Verheyen but I'd wager he's doing a sort of melodic thing that is very subtle and maybe seems obvious to someone who already plays.

I think he's musical and melodic but I wish sometimes he'd frenzy out a little. There was a live recording IE talked about recently, or maybe it was a new live in the studio thing. What was that one? There were some free tracks on the web you could grab from it.

[Infinite Ego]

I have his Organic Instrumentals and it is very nice.

[mirth]

I think lots of delay can be nice, but not really the way he was using it. Kind of sounded like a teenage shredder with super loud delays on his new $100 zoom pedal, haha. I'm sure the boutiqueness of the gear he had cost well over 100 bucks.

I'll check out Organic Instrumentals disc. He does have a nice enough feel, I'm sure he can play, and I'm sure I'm the one missing it, but I just never heard anything that was all that great (and I'm not talking technical) the melodies sound kind of noodlely.

Verheyen is just alright with me too, but he does do that more intervallic playing that no one else really does as well, so that's kind of nice to hear. He definitely does the bar band blues thing too though. Haha. Apparently that's where I'm going wrong. It's time for me to make a bar band blues trio and through my "sophisticated" licks in there with the prototypical pentatonic licks. I won't get really notorious, but I might get my name on some elitist guitar forum as a tone god!