Seeing the bit about Chris Whitley's death and someone on this board calling him a genius made me wonder again what exactly constitutes genius in the musical realm. I don't know much about Whitley, but what I've heard wouldn't qualify as genius in my book. But who is/was a genius? John Lennon? John Fahey? John Lydon? Jilted John? Surely the opinionated bastards here will have something to say about the matter. https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3151#msg-3151 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:29:07 -0500 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3173#msg-3173 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3173#msg-3173
> 1. he'll dedicate a wreckless eric song to you at brooklyn's
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"you're gonna screw my head off"?]]> satchmykels Trouser Press Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:05:18 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3171#msg-3171 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3171#msg-3171 ira Trouser Press Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:18:32 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3169#msg-3169 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3169#msg-3169
2. he won't have your family murdered in their petit bourgeois sleep by trotskyite chums]]> michael baker Trouser Press Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:53:07 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3168#msg-3168 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3168#msg-3168 willie Trouser Press Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:10:01 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3166#msg-3166 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3166#msg-3166 Floyd Eberhard Trouser Press Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:57:22 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3161#msg-3161 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3161#msg-3161 Ira Robbins]]> erikalbany Trouser Press Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:59:14 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3157#msg-3157 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3157#msg-3157
Prince. Don't like the music but acknowledge the geniusness.

Al DiMeola. Structural and technical genius.

Greg Graffin. Probably literally.

Jerry Garcia. Technical genius but he also desgined the electronics of his hand-built guitars and the loop-back effects-break system.

Tom Scholz. Muisc-wise? Feh. But, again.....

John Lennon. Listen closely to Sgt. Peppers to see how Lennon tempered McCartney in the studio. The space that's there, and the manipulation of the sound; Lennon did the inventing, the engineering, electronic construction and tape manipulation. Digital does it today but based on this.

]]> Paganizer Trouser Press Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:53:01 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3156#msg-3156 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3156#msg-3156 there are moments of genius and there is genius.
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Ditto for Hedy Lamarr - an unbelievably hot actress who was doing nude scenes in movies in the 1930s and THEN invented a torpedo guidance system? Screw Albert Einstein!!!!!

Not to be confused with Hedley Lamarr, who was of course an evil genius.]]> breno Trouser Press Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:58:52 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3153#msg-3153 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3153#msg-3153 ziggy freud
james brown
bob dylan
ron asheton
bob feller]]> michael baker Trouser Press Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:02:50 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3152#msg-3152 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,3151,3152#msg-3152


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But who is/was a genius? John Lennon? John Fahey? John Lydon? Jilted John?

Surely the opinionated bastards here will have something to say about the matter.]]> rhettlawrence Trouser Press Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:39:15 -0600