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as long as Gwar is around rock will live forever! :)
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The point isn't how fast you play - that's why I made this post. Speed is irrelevant - it has nothing to do with music. Too many kids today think their nonsensial wanking id actual music. Har de har you fucking pussy. |
Guys, you're missing the point. Name one guitar player who can capture the imagination of today's music audience.
There are none. Jack White is as close as you'll get - and he's niche. Twenty years ago, everyone and their mother knew about Jimmy Page. Ted Nugent. Brian Setser. George Thorogood. Stevie Ray Vaughn. Eddie Van Halen. The Fucking Reverend Bill G. Even Slash. Name me one guitar player who has a hit record (mp3 - whatever) right now. Today. List a song that is a hit today, that is made famous because of the man playing guitar. -OR- Post a band that is huge, who's guitar player gets all the press and glory. You'll be going back twenty yers. |
This thread is frustrating. I think people should stop complaining about the old days and accept that life changes without them.
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I also learned to play form Joe Walsh, Joe Perry, and Ace Frehley. That is all irrlevant and off topic. There are no new bands who create popular music where the guitar player is the star. Get it? The guitar player is no longer the star of the show. That was the point. You missed it. |
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I'm talking about straight ahead rock and roll music. Music that was created by real men who would pound your little "Jersey Shore" asslicking pussy face into the ground. Your opinion is useless to this post. Name a guitar player who's had a hit record in the last twenty years. Rock and Roll is guitar oriented nusic. There have been no rock guitar plsyers for almost thirty years. Rock and Roll = Guitar. Beside Jack White, name one oerson who is keeping Rock and Roll alive. |
Go ahead and link me a riff. Link me a guitar riff.
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John Frusciante Edge (U2) Tom Morello Synyster Gates Tariqh Akoni |
There was a time when big band and jazz was the pop music of the day. I used to wonder when the basic rock format of bass, drums, guitar, singer (and sometimes keys) would give way to a new format. I suppose it has, to some extent. I'm not sure it bothers me or not. I enjoy what I enjoy and there is still plenty of it to be had. Others enjoy what they like (be it rap - hip.hop or whatever) and they get to have fun too. What I do miss as a fan of rock, though, is bands taking chances with it. It's not popular enough to be formulaic so why not stretch out and do some things with the arrangements?
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This powerful statement TO THE TOP...
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not only is rock guitar not dead its being learned rather well by the youngins:)
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/sto...age-with-ozzy/ 10 year old shredder jams live with Ozzy...holy shit! |
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Dave Matthews? Yeah I know I'm talking singer/songwriters here, but these are two guys that have distinguished themselves based on their guitar-playing abilities. |
After Slash I can only think of Tom Morello. I know what he does ain't exactly rock n' roll but it's the closest one that comes to mind. There's John Frusciante too but he's too much of a Hendrix imitator IMHO. Jack White is also an option, I totally agree that Rock N' Roll is dead or dying. Today's music sucks, I find myself listening all the time to bands like AC/DC, Iron Maiden or guys who've been around for 20 or 30 years already. :2 cents:
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Check out shintake14's youtube channel. Hey, at least you can listen to a few covers done well and with style.
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Garce is right. I've always listed to the classic stuff but have also always had my ear to rail for good new stuff, standout stuff, "future classic" stuff as it were. The train slowed to a trickle 10-15 years ago and has now all but stopped. I've been waiting to see what today's music has in store that is worthy of what came before it but sadly, it just doesn't seem to be there. I like the odd song here or there but I couldn't tell you the name of the band in many cases much less the guitarists' name. Few stand out today. Not like the late 70's - early 80's when everyone knew who Brian May was, who Eddie was, who Angus was, Page, Clapton, Frampton, and on and on. Music industry's fault? No doubt about it but perhaps it's a shared fault between it and this new young generation of kids who'd rather dis the older and wiser than go out and create something that stands out from the rest and is worthy of what came before it. Where are today's gods of rock? Gardening you say? How sad. |
100 hairy fat fucks in spandex jerking off to van halen
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If these old farts would put on their hearing aids they could appreciate lots of great rock guitar from the last 20 years that would suit their reactionary tastes, like how could this thread exist without even a mention of J Mascis?
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Yeah, make fun of old people. That solves every problem. Whats old to you anyway? 30?
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I'm old too, 34, but I don't advertise it by glorifying the great days of MOTR music, lol. There's a difference between being old and being stuck in a time warp, the former is irrelevant, the latter is ripe for jokes.
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What difference does it make? People like what they like and how can anyone say one kind of music is better than another or one musician is better than another? It's subjective. It's not a sport with specific scoring and goals. If you like it then it's good for you. I never understood people taking "sides" in a debate about music. There are no sides. The funniest part is that the bands/artists that people get so combative about are often not so myopic in their own musical tastes. I don't know too many "rock gods" that think all modern music is just wank. Great musicians get that way by loving music in general. |
Agreed, we where all lucky to be apart of it. I just wish I was little older to experience Led Zepplin and Rush in their prime.
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Fall Out Boy, junkyard dog, seriously have you been buried under a rock for the last half a decade?
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electro bitches!
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I saw the Moving Pictures tour (tickets were like 20 bucks back then haha). Just amazingly precise playing and great sound. Saw lots of concerts from about 1976 on up to mid 80's or so. Hell of a time to be at that age. I stopped concert going when concerts started looking like it was a rent-a-cop parade instead of a big room full of cool people.
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