Local Commentary About Rock Guitar

[ToobNoob]

Sorry, double post.

[Pacosipulami]

Bonamassa who?

[LeftyStrat]

I think great guitar has evolved beyond the comprehension of the average listener. If great lead guitar is dead, someone forgot to tell this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N65cP52NC8s

[Reeltarded]

It's not the playing. It's the cultural relevance or lack therof.

I think the article sounded a little like there might be a return. No. Not more probable than the return of mandolin orchestras or classical music.

Let's take a 10 second trip that isn't related to instrumentation. Mungo Jerry In The Summertime vs Avril Lavigne Hello Kitty. I used to swim with Mungo Jerry as a background. I would rather drown to the other.

Shit changes for the worst after the groundwork has been laid. Pave a path on unwalked ground then wait for skateboarders. Here comes a scooter.

[LeftyStrat]

Here comes a scooter.

Can't wait until I'm old enough for one of those scooters. I'll put an American flag on mine, and slip in 'Born to Be Wild' on the cassette player. Of course, I'll mod mine to be faster than anyone elses.

[cbass]

I gotta get a pic of the guy here that drives his scooter from the nursing home to the liquor store.He has to cross a big busy intersection he just drives it like its a car .Has a huge rebel flag flying from it and cup holder with a 40oz in it.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Mungo Jerry In The Summertime vs Avril Lavigne Hello Kitty. I used to swim with Mungo Jerry as a background. I would rather drown to the other.

I'd rather go swimming with Avril Lavigne while listening to Mungo Jerry.

Heck she might learn something about how to write hit songs. Ones that we could like.

[cbass]

Its kinda weird to me that guitar based music isn't popular anymore but it seems like there's no shortage of kids playing them

[Leo_Gnardo]

Its kinda weird to me that guitar based music isn't popular anymore but it seems like there's no shortage of kids playing them

Kids wanna copy the rock stars prancing around on videos. Nothing new about that. There was a wave of it when MTV first started, and before when Elvis, then the Beatles showed up on Ed Sullivan. Heck as a 4 year old you couldn't stop me singin' Hound Dog and strumming my plastic one-string guitar. The "whitewashed" Elvis version, of course. Now I've heard the real thing, I wanna sing one of the earlier versions, like Koko Taylor's.

[Reeltarded]

For every kid you see playing a guitar there are 10000 sitting in the dark with phones on blasting something you wouldn't recognize as music.. at all.. everything generated from convolutions of a binary theme.

[cbass]

I know my kids went from being influenced by music we listened to listening to terrible awful music. My oldest never plays guitar anymore and he has a ton of potential.He can play a ton of Zep songs note for note in perfect time.I was shocked the first time he played with a drummer he was about 12 and he never missed a beat.Hopefully he will pick it up again.I know I lost interst in guitars when I was about his age

[boots]

I'm not impressed with Avril, other than she's cute.

Long ago when she was cool she did a version of Knockin' on Heaven's Door that I thought was good though.

Somewhere along the line, she quit doing music because she loved it and started doing it for fame and fortune, and that ruined it all.
I guess the same could be said for many artists.

[RWood]

I took a "retirement" job as a custodian at a high school in a small conservative mostly white town a few years ago and have made several observations:
1.) 7 out 10 cars that leave every afternoon are playing hip hop/ rap.
2.) Any guitar music is usually new country.
3.) Zero students have formed a band. (At my High School in 1972 there were at least 10 bands, with the one I was in doing gigs at least once a month.)
4.) Not one guitar based song was played at Prom this year.

The School has a jazz ensemble which has a guitar and bass player, neither of which plays in a band outside of school other than church.

If you think that rock guitar is still doing ok then you are deluding yourself. I'm not saying it's dead... but it has at least one foot in the grave.

Edited to add line 4.

[vibratoking]

He can play a ton of Zep songs note for note in perfect time.

Hell Pagey can't do that...that was part of the charm. Different every time and lot's of slop in a good way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6uKpwCZnkk

Derek takes a solo that is pretty damn fine. Billy appears a little tired, fumble fingered, and seems to care less. Joe is parroting Jeff Beck. Seems Joe is always parroting someone.

[jestaudio]

I took a "retirement" job as a custodian at a high school in a small conservative mostly white town a few years ago and have made several observations:
1.) 7 out 10 cars that leave every afternoon are playing hip hop/ rap.
2.) Any guitar music is usually new country.
3.) Zero students have formed a band. (At my High School in 1972 there were at least 10 bands, with the one I was in doing gigs at least once a month.)
4.) Not one guitar based song was played at Prom this year.

The School has a jazz ensemble which has a guitar and bass player, neither of which plays in a band outside of school other than church.

If you think that rock guitar is still doing ok then you are deluding yourself. I'm not saying it's dead... but it has at least one foot in the grave.

Edited to add line 4.

Not in Birmingham UK, ive been on the gig circuit for26 years and some of the young guitarists coming through are stunning, not million note a seconds warriors but really decent blues/rock with a flair for originality, sure they may end up like me working with band after band and only doing it for beer and kicks but certainly in my city rock guitar is well and truly kicking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owPF_eqkYv0
Britains answer to Joe Satch and someone I had the privilege of getting a few lessons with