Finally, my "ancient guitar player" threads always seem to get shot
doon by some idiot saying:
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Golly gosh, the unknown guitars players toiling anonymously in unheard of bands are soooo much better than Chuck, than Keith, than Les Paul, than Chet - better than Jimi, even!
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And I cry.
There is not one fucking guitar player alive today who can carry a stadium tour on his own. There is not one single rock guitar player who can do the talkshow tour and sell a half million units based on his guitar playing.
Not one. Not Eddie. Not Slash. Not Jack White. There are no real rock guitar players left. Rock guitar is dead.
I'm going to quit with a little seminar from the Reverand Billy G, and the brother of the greatest white guitar player who ever graced this planet, Jimmy Vaughn.
These lessons will continue intermittently as time passes. For now, realize that no matter how fast your favourite guitar player shreds - including Yngwie, Steve Vai, and Satchmo, (all dudes I listened to in the eighties - try to get a bit more relevant if you want to argue) - What they do is irrelevant when it boils down to rock and roll. They do not sell out stadiums, and no-one gives a shit whether they live or die.
When Jimi released an album, a half million people would flock to watch jim play. Today? Not so much.
Rock guitar is dead. Flailing wankers will not save it. Actually, they killed it.