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Originally Posted by Tomacco
All the Tim hate on this board is baffling to me. I loved his #41 solo last night and his (surprising) Two Step solo. They were mellow, different, and interesting, IMO. Both created a spacey trippy mood. It’s not all about energy and going apeshit. Most people around me were talking during Tim’s solo, it feels like nobody has an attention span for anything slower and methodical anymore.
And I maintain, Deer Creek this year sucked because he wasn’t there.
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Tim is one heck of a talented guitar player. Finally saw my first TR3 show and enjoyed it beyond belief. I liked his #41 solo and liked him in Two Step as well.
Being at Deer Creek and MSG N2 I have to say while I usually hate cornbread I loved the more bluesy solos by Lawlor and Whitfield as opposed to the slide guitar solo by Tim on Cornbread. Those blues rock based solos both made that part more interesting and was the better fit in my opinion.
Pig with no electric guitar was better at Deer Creek. This is a band that blew up with an acoustic percussive sound and it's not as much of a knock on Tim as it is about the band in this era or previous eras being better with no electric guitar or scaled back electric guitar like tim on RR95 and the 1998 winter tour. The Big 3 albums saw Lillywhite ensure tim didn't play any distorted electric guitar at all and it created the best albums from the band. I don't want tim playing the chords to busted stuff like 2000 I want to hear dave's guitar if it ever comes back. I don't need tim on DDTW having loud harmonics over what used to be a more acoustic driven song.
Also of note places like the #41 solo there should be a sax not an electric guitar. I was actually disappointed at Deer Creek when Jeff didn't have a solo there given that Tim was out.