Topic: Neigbor has skills (Guitar that is)

[Burke]

I was cleaning my bike today and all of a sudden I heard my neigbor girl crank up her amp and jam out. I was impressed

She is younger than me and I have not kept up on my chops, but she was playing stuff I used to practice with back in the day. I even walked over and ask who did a piece she played, Vai or Satriani. Satch it was.
Anyway I forgot how much I have forgot. (From age 17-27 all I did waspractice, play in bands and tried to "make it".)

To those that play guitar....how come the new guys are still playing, and looking towards thing I looked at in the early 90's?  I stood in over the summer for a guitar instructor at a local music store (I gave lessons there in the mid 90's) and kids still want to lean Ozzy, Hendrix, and Zepplin.

Has no band tried to claim that level of musicianship?
Or has time have yet to weight judgement on the bands of the 90's-today?

[kslrr]

Most of the music that my 13 year old step son listens to is the same when it comes to guitar.  All they do is "shred", they don't make unique sounds, riffs and tonal quality like Ozzy, Hendrix, Clapton, Phill Keagy, Mark Nopfler (I can never remember how to spell his name), Boston, Supertramp, Foreigner (the list goes on).

[martino1972]

kids these days dont even wanne hear a good guitar solo any more,they think its boring....

[azuredesign]

So maybe this neighbor will take sweep picking and arpeggios to some new place. I don't think new stuff comes out of nowhere. Somebody picks up on somebody else's stuff and makes it personal and fresh. Same way Satriani and Steve Vai took from Eddie Van Halen, and doubled the tempo.

[tramp]

classics will always be classics
older son loved the 80's bands when he was growing up
now it's the beatles and zepplin
go figure

[dusterdude]

rap doesnt use guitars

[TwoTired]

rap doesnt use guitars

or melody, or vocal skill, and only rudimentary drum and bass skill.

Rap is about marketing people with little skill and making lots of money for recording executives.  Real artists with training and/or investment in practice and skill, are too difficult to work with or rely upon, from a management perspective.  You can take anyone off the street that has a certain look you can brand, market, and sell.  All you have to do is appeal to the baser instincts of people who are willing to relinquish cash for a place in a clique distinct from what was popular for the prior generation.

Lot's of good stuff coming out of Europe.  Little distribution on the USA, as the American companies can make a far larger amount of money with Rap, Hip Hop, and other "throw away" entertainments, with little promotion cost.

Lamentable and sad.

[rbmgf7]

it's too much work trying to keep up with the newer stuff so i listen to the classic rock 

plus it's a lot better sounding

when it comes to the guitar i love listening to the vaghan

[Burke]

I started playing right at the tail end of the 80's. G'n R' hit the seen and once I heard Slash play I knew that I had to.

I went through the whole Classic Rock thing to, which I seem to fall back on now. But when the mid 90's rolled around and the "Alternative" thing happend it did open my playing to more styles.
A huge influence for me during this time was The Edge from U2. how the guitar could not only be used has a lead or driving force in the song, it could also be used to create a soundscape and accent everything including itself. Once I got into making a guitar sound like an emotion of the song, I never really looked back. Of course at the time I was in a band that allowed room for this as well as good ol'e distorted power chords.  With out those you just sound like a college hippie jam band

I love Vaughn  as well. speaking of SRV, did you know that when he was recording his version of Little Wing, he recorded that straight through as a take, and there were other takes of that were recorded but were not kept
Man'o'man........crazy.

[martino1972]

rap doesnt use guitars

there are a few exceptions...

and srv took the little wing in one shot......
last sunday evening i was in our local pub "the vat",where they have open jam session every sunday...so i'm always there sunday evenings...
there was this little chubby dude,could'nt have been older then 20 years,calling himself stevie,his guitar looked the same as srv,his carrying belt had those big music notes on em like srv etc....
well,he played 3 srv songs....voodoochild(the srv way),mary had a little lamb...and little wing the srv way..
man i tell ya,when he did little wing,i got goosebumbs from the start till the end of the song,witch was around 15 minutes later...i closed my eyes,and i swear it was srv playing it....so unreall good that kid,it blew me away....
and i've never seen it before in that pub,but when the kid was done...he had the pub upside down,and....
HE GOT A STANDING OVATION!!!!!!!!!...........

i hope he's there again next sunday....i also want to talk to the owner of the pub if we cant orginize a srv evening with that kid...