Divinity: Original Sin Pre-Release Thread

[Davaris]

No, they want to hire a female violinist. Celebrity or not.

 

[HiddenX]

Need a new girlfriend(s) fiddler(s).

-Swen

If they want a female violin player and have enough money to burn:

Lucia Micarelli - Aurora-Kashmir


If Swen just needs a few new girlfriends - the average female guitar players look better

When The Levee Breaks by Zepparella
The Iron Maidens at Namm 2012 - The trooper

 

[evdk]

If they want a female violin player and have enough money to burn:

Lucia Micarelli - Aurora-Kashmir


If Swen just needs a few new girlfriends - the average female guitar players look better

When The Levee Breaks by Zepparella
The Iron Maidens at Namm 2012 - The trooper

Was there even a point to this post or are you just blogging here?

 

[Data4]

When The Levee Breaks by Zepparella

Pfft. Look for their version of Dazed & Confused. Unfortunately, the audio quality is kinda crappy, but the guitar work is great. She's fucking channeling Page, and he ain't even dead yet.

The lead singer's no longer with them, btw. New girl sucks.

EDIT-- Saw there were two videos on YT, one with the new and one with the old singer. This is the one you want.



The other is... a really bad decision on the part of the band. Ugh!

 

[Darth Roxor]

Was there even a point to this post or are you just blogging here?

It's part of the superior megathread posting culture.

 

[General Maxson]

Why a female violinist? What does it matter if it's female or male if it's good and cheap?

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Why a female violinist? What does it matter if it's female or male if it's good and cheap?

Tits, ass, and equality.

 

[MicoSelva]

What does it matter if it's female or male if it's good and cheap?

Think about this question for a moment and You'll see it answers itself.

 

[Sensuki]

Lucia Micarelli - Aurora-Kashmir
If Swen just needs a few new girlfriends - the average female guitar players look better

Been watching Treme?

 

[SCO]

Pfft. Look for their version of Dazed & Confused. Unfortunately, the audio quality is kinda crappy, but the guitar work is great. She's fucking channeling Page, and he ain't even dead yet.

The lead singer's no longer with them, btw. New girl sucks.

EDIT-- Saw there were two videos on YT, one with the new and one with the old singer. This is the one you want.



The other is... a really bad decision on the part of the band. Ugh!

Pretty amazing guitarist.

 

[Sensuki]

Pretty good, but Jav chicks do it better

 

[SCO]

 

[DalekFlay]

Felicia Day DLC confirmed for Divinity: Original Sin. Quest all around the world with your new companion. Features exclusive romance options. Every gamer's dream, only $9.99.

You actually can't fuck Felecia Day in that Dragon Age 2 DLC. What a rip-off!

 

[sea]

Pretty amazing guitarist.

From someone who knows how to play guitar... she's not that good. All those fast licks are the most basic classic rock bits you'll ever hear and that any guitarist worth his/her salt can do sleeping. Her timing needs work. Weak technique, especially on bends. Playing with a bow is a cool gimmick but it's not that hard.

 

[Davaris]

Pretty amazing guitarist.

From someone who knows how to play guitar... she's not that good. All those fast licks are the most basic classic rock bits you'll ever hear and that any guitarist worth his/her salt can do sleeping. Her timing needs work. Weak technique, especially on bends. Playing with a bow is a cool gimmick but it's not that hard.

Not being a guitar player, I wasn't sure about that video either. So after many years I looked up Steve Vai. When I was a kid, the only thing I saw of him was an album or two. Now he has a Youtube channel and gives guitar/life lessons, like some kind of eastern guru. lol



Some young people get caught up in the competitive aspects of music, but they are wasting their time. IMO originality/style/soul, is what really sets you apart as an artist. If you haven't developed that, all the technical tricks in the world won't make a difference. You'll just be another face in the crowd.

 

[Zed]

composing music will get you attention, not just playing.
unless, of course, you have a pair of cans and a cute face.

 

[HiddenX]

Orianthi plays often with Steve Vai, Carlos Santana and others - pretty good:

Orianthi Live!

new album:

Orianthi - Heaven In This Hell


some more from Gretchen Menn:

"Tri-Tip" — Lapdance Armageddon
Gretchen Menn Dejavu

 

[circ]

I can't tell if Gretchen Menn even knows what a guitar is because that tone was so horrible it raped my ears.

 

[sea]

Some young people get caught up in the competitive aspects of music, but they are wasting their time. IMO originality/style/soul, is what really sets you apart as an artist. If you haven't developed that, all the technical tricks in the world won't make a difference. You'll just be another face in the crowd.

Although you're somewhat correct, usually being a highly advanced player with lots of technical skill means you will have decent grasp of theory and composition; you don't put in the tens of thousands of hours of practice required to get good at the instrument without picking that stuff up - people who don't have the passion or interest in it don't get that far.

Technical skill also lets you stand out in a crowd. A phenomenal player who has mastery of advanced techniques will turn heads far more than one who is solid but unremarkable. The success happens, usually in a band - but getting into the company of other good musicians often requires the technical talent. It sure doesn't hurt.

Success in broader terms usually depends on a lot of things: luck, physical attractiveness, exposure, marketing, and most importantly, genre. You won't become a huge star if your passion is for a style of music which isn't huge already. Furthermore, competition matters. We all know the classic musicians of the last 60 years, even if we've never heard of them, because they were innovators in an industry that was fertile; their successes, not to diminish them, were easier because there was more room for new ideas

But now that genres and styles are so well established and there are more musicians out there than ever before all using the available media to promote themselves, the idea of a "legendary" musician may no longer exist. Every time a new one rises, the possibility to innovate gets smaller and smaller. There is never going to be another Steve Vai again because Steve Vai has already been done, and the same goes for Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Malmsteen, etc.

 

[Sensuki]

Wasn't the last guitar innovation Jimmy Hendrix's use of distortion and feedback ? (other things aside), I read there's been nothing new since then.

The same goes for Biscuits, there hasn't been an innovation in a biscuit since about 1940.

 

[Davaris]

sea
I look at guys like BB King. He can play, he can jam, but isn't that good technically. He is uneducated, he can't read a note of music, yet you recognize him anywhere. No one ever gave him anything and he certainly isn't good looking. So IMO you can't go to school and learn that kind of thing. You are either born with it, or you cultivate it somehow. I wouldn't know, perhaps it really is just talent.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

sea
I look at guys like BB King. He can play, he can jam, but isn't that good technically. He is uneducated, he can't read a note of music, yet you recognize him anywhere. No one ever gave him anything and he certainly isn't good looking. So IMO you can't go to school and learn that kind of thing. You are either born with it, or you cultivate it somehow. I wouldn't know, perhaps it really is just talent.

Excellent observation. I tend to agree.


One thing I've been wondering about is exactly how turn order is going to be determined in this game. Obviously a speed or agility stat will probably determine the order in which people take their actions in a given turn, but if you're fast enough will you be able to make two actions per a slow enemy's one?

 

[markec]

sea
I look at guys like BB King. He can play, he can jam, but isn't that good technically. He is uneducated, he can't read a note of music, yet you recognize him anywhere. No one ever gave him anything and he certainly isn't good looking. So IMO you can't go to school and learn that kind of thing. You are either born with it, or you cultivate it somehow. I wouldn't know, perhaps it really is just talent.

Here is one interesting read http://www.answers.com/topic/hasil-adkins

 

[Mangoose]

I'm getting sheet music withdrawal shakes

 

[Ulminati]

Came for divinity original sin. Got faggots talking about guitarists. Take that shit to general discussion along with the feminist crap in the project eternity thread.