Carl-Richard

I think "greatest band" is not equal to "best band". The latter has too many elitist connotations, things like technical ability, music theory, etc. I think "greatest band" includes various "best" things, but also various other more shallow things, like fame, image or catchiness. It also is more receptive to the hard-to-quantify aspects of music, like "soul" or "chemistry", which can also apply to the band as a whole, not just say a guitarist's playing style. I think Led Zeppelin and Tool are both great examples of those things. If I were to take the elitist route, I would say Frank Zappa without a doubt. His musical ability and creativity was unmatched. He wrote and performed all styles of music: jazz, hard rock, fusion, prog rock, pop, punk, blues, R&B, doo-wop, rap, orchestral music, avant-garde. He also released more albums than anyone before him, improvised all his guitar solos, utilized polyrhythms and nested tuplets (dafuq?), treated his band as if he were an orchestral conductor, basically invented the idea of a concept album (or the rock opera).

Nah, I worship the keyboard 7:27 If you're trying to make an objective list of "the greatest bands on earth", you should at least try to stretch beyond your limited knowledge, at least tastes.

Ah yes, the groupie blues He probably has like 10 songs fully dedicated to groupies, and they're all hilarious The solos in this song at 4:07, along with the solos from The Mammy Anthem and I'm The Slime from the same album, are definitely my favorites: It's all live as well, and everything sounds so good. He probably had the tightest rock band in the world from the mid 70s to the early 80s. So nostalgic too. I remember listening to this in the car when I was around 7 years old, just floating away into a different universe.

Really?

It is.

Tbh, I'm just repeating things I've heard Mr. Girl say. His channel probably has around 20 hours of him interviewing pedophilia experts.

Will you have a romantic relationship with someone who is not at all sexually attractive to you?

Weird point to make then.

What you're doing is a word game. Pedophilia is about sexual attraction, not being power hungry or lack of empathy.

It has to do with sexual attraction. If there is a pathological need for power or lack of empathy, that qualifies for a different diagnosis.

If I'm sexually attracted to someone, is it not to be expected that I would want a normal romantic relationship with them?

I have a feeling that your belief in the latter is affecting your belief in the former. None of what I said is false. It's what the research says.

Zappa was a genius and great improviser, but we have to do a little history. The virtuosos I listed belong to a later generation of guitarists. There was the 60-70s era of great guitarists that influenced the next generation and essentially layed the groundwork for virtuosic playing: Hendrix, Page, Blackmore, etc., which parallells how Hard Rock gave birth to Heavy Metal. Zappa belonged to that 60-70s generation, while the ones I listed belonged to the 80-90s generation (except Holdsworth which is an absolute alien). It's funny how much of it is interconnected though: Steve Vai was trained by Joe Satriani (Joe also trained Kirk Hammett from Metallica and other great players). Steve Vai got hired as a transcriptionist by Zappa in 1978 at only 18 years old and then played with his band for some years. Zappa's favorite guitarist was Allan Holdsworth. Adrian Belew from Zappa's band joined King Crimson in the 80s and developed prog rock which influenced many of these virtuosos as well as Tool. So Zappa is in many ways a main node in rock music history and was definitely one of the great influences on modern virtuosos.

Zappa is dear to my heart because my dad used to listen to him all the time around me when I was little. His style is so unique and out there. His rhythmic and melodic complexity flies way above the head of most people. Anyways, this a fun video if you want to understand the possible depths of virtuosity:

When I think "greatest bands of all time", it's no longer so much about my own tastes as just knowing about a band and their general praise.

What is?

Yeah in that case, my list would probably be the same but swapping Tool for Metallica, even though I love Tool. It would be fun to derive the definition of "greatest".

I could probably make a list of top 5 virtuosic guitar players (they have the technical ability to instantly play basically anything you tell them): Allan Holdsworth Guthrie Govan Steve Vai Joe Satriani John Petrucci

The absolute perspective is that everything is Love. But additional to that, you can also say that pedophiles generally want to have a genuine loving personal relationship with a child, as if they were their husband/wife, not just sexually rape them and leave them on the street. You have to distinguish between pedophile and child molester. Most child molesters aren't actually pedophiles (and vice versa). They just want to exert power and find molesting children as one outlet for that if the opportunity arises. The thing though is that pedophilic relationships are probably not healthy for the child, hence it should be against the law.

I can't make such a list ? Too many genres, too many bands, too many differences.

Everything is a coping mechanism.

All of life, plants and animals, run on roughly the same chemicals. Due to the diversity of life, somewhere down the line, you'll eventually find psychedelic substances, which are just sister chemicals of those inside our brain.

Stop it. Go all the way! Today! Hey hey!

The person he is debating (I assume) is not an expert on the history of science. A discussion about how virology came to be is a discussion about the history of science.

@Leo Gura How do you think it affected you?