See I find them to be halfway players, all technique, no soul. Their skill in musical tricks, like YM unreal ability to do the almost endless arpeggio - something I bet he learned from Bach BTW.... SO, after that killer arpeggio, what's next YM? Oh yeah, another arpeggio, followed by another arpeggio, and yes, you guessed it, another arpeggio.
I've seen a lot of people, myself included, moved to tears watching people make music, but the only way you get tears in anyone's eyes when these two guys start wanking is to stand on their foot.
What they are, is more or less novelty acts, like Dread Zepplin - OK, so you do Zep songs, in a reggie tempo with a fake Elvis singing. OK, first song, not bad, second song, is this all? third song out the door. They have their joke, and its all they really have.
As one of my friends says, most bands have one song, and they just write it again, and again, and again - but great bands, they have two. In both these cases JS and YM, they have one lick, and its over and over, without so much as like a song structure to break it up a bit. Just wank, wank, wank, like a porno movie with a guitar.
I can remember when Joe played with a real band - called The Squares - and they would do like, real songs, he would solo for a few bars, then back to the song. They were pretty good. But the 90 minute solo? I'll pass.
And I've been working with JS for a decade now, even worked his DVD shoot, we just did him a couple of months ago, sat there a few feet from him and read my book. Didn't do much for me.
