who plays guitar?

[megamania500]

Guitar is dead these days. The music scene will never see another guitar god as big as Hendrix, Page, or Van Halen. It seems like Slash was the last big super-famous guitarist; everyone knew who he was whether they were rock fans or not.

That still doesn't stop me from playing, though. I've been playing for 19 years now, with Tony Iommi and all his moans, crunches, roars, and groans he created on his guitar for Black Sabbath my biggest influence.

 

[RADAR]

I've played since i was 12, i have been in the bands crossroads(chistian) lightfoot (hard rock),Skeleton Crew (heavy metal)the nightlite band(show/dance 60's 60's music) Junior and the southen boys (country)THen Prism after that i retired, I play mainly Lead guitar,however i played various instruments for what the song called for, my fav guitar is my custom made left handed Les Paul Gibson,Sax, Trumpet,Bass,Drums,flute,clarinet...etc.
I have a knack for music!

RADAR

 

[Mr. dB]

Left handed? Lefties should have all been taken out and drowned at birth.





Just kidding, of course. My brother was left handed, so I have a lifetime of experience abusing southpaws. HE should have been taken out and drowned at birth though. A pulmonary imbolism took care of that, but it was 47 years too late. Just kidding again, of course, but I wish I had the opportunity to say that to his face.

 

[TheOak84]

Guitar is dead these days. The music scene will never see another guitar god as big as Hendrix, Page, or Van Halen. It seems like Slash was the last big super-famous guitarist; everyone knew who he was whether they were rock fans or not.

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thats a lame/ignorant reply

 

[megamania500]

Guitar is dead these days. The music scene will never see another guitar god as big as Hendrix, Page, or Van Halen. It seems like Slash was the last big super-famous guitarist; everyone knew who he was whether they were rock fans or not.

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thats a lame/ignorant reply

Sorry you see it that way. Its just my reaction to the crap that the music business has been force-feeding the general public these last several years. People these days actually see lame/mediocre bands as high quality simply because they sound that way in comparison to the other crap thats out there.
I work with many college students, and many, many of them include older rock in their music collections. I think older rock is still listened to for one of two reasons: 1. its just more enjoyable to listen to than the newer rock stuff. or 2. older rock has already used the more listenable riffs, melodies, chord progressions to the extent that trying to use them these days would just make a newer band sound like its re-hashing the old stuff. Because of that, the newer bands have to try and come up with different material using the same music format.They have to go a different way in an effort to sound new. But this different way just isn't as likeable to the listener as what has been done in the past. I don't know if that makes any sense to anyone.
Put another way, many rock bands have put songs out based on the common 12 bar blues progression, while soloing in pentatonic scale over that. A band today could come out with a same type of song, but since its been overdone so many times already, it would sound re-hashed. So they need to do something different. But how can you beat 12 bar with pentatonic over it for an overall rock feel? Its been done, of course, many times. But overall, many bands these days will just get a limited following because their material wont appeal to the masses because the mass-appealing material has been used over and over for many years already.
I don't think I'm doing a good job trying to explain whats in my head regarding this.

 

[bignate73]

made sense to me.

to be honest, i was never much into classic rock until lately. i started playing about 6 months ago, and have beefed up my music collection considerably. alot of the songs are interesting, playable and recognizable. if i were to try to play trashed and scattered by A7x most people would look and go "what are you doing?" not that I do it for other people, but I like to have a variety of songs to play. plus learning alot of the earlier licks are the foundation for what is played today, so why not go to the source?

 

[TheOak84]

made sense to me.

to be honest, i was never much into classic rock until lately. i started playing about 6 months ago, and have beefed up my music collection considerably. alot of the songs are interesting, playable and recognizable. if i were to try to play trashed and scattered by A7x most people would look and go "what are you doing?" not that I do it for other people, but I like to have a variety of songs to play. plus learning alot of the earlier licks are the foundation for what is played today, so why not go to the source?

it depends on who your playing it for... id jump in and start shredding with ya!

of course most older people, depending on how much they like music/metal wont know who A7X is. is say around mid 20's and younger would know, they didnt just come out, they have 2 cds before City Of Evil. Bat Country made them famous.

i think hes one of the top guitarists of the new decade

 

[Mr. dB]

it depends on who your playing it for... id jump in and start shredding with ya!

Do you ever play, or listen to, any musical styles that don't involve shredding?

 

[pintoca]

How does Daron Malakian rate? I like them a lot, probably because they are very creative (and a bit crazy as well).

They alos hate Bush, so that helps as well

 

[TheOak84]

Do you ever play, or listen to, any musical styles that don't involve shredding?

I did say stevie ray vaughan, didnt I?

i also play jazz guitar, and classical piano, well, on my Midi controller.

is there anything wrong with shred guitar?

while it does take alot of practice, its really simple. you can make it sound amazing, but shredding through a simple major scale will blow someones mind away to an unexperienced musician