Local Commentary About Rock Guitar

[cbass]

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.

Ha I shouldn't have said perfect time.I should have said just like JP when he wasn't on smack

[cbass]

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.

Yup smart phone culture has ruined any kind of learning .Seems like no kids have enough attention span to learn an instrument.
They can beat a vidya game in a couple of hours and feel like they've accomplished something.You practice guitar for a couple of hours and youre really not any better than you were before.

I really wished we could have homeschooled or had our kids tutored.I don't agree with anything this school here does.All they fucking care about is how high our test scores are so they can get more money from the feds.
Basically there plan is to just expel or runoff students that are troubled or just plain not very smart so it doesn't bring their scores down.
My boy really pisses them off with his long hair and skater clothes but makes straight A's.Ive gone down there and straightned there shit out a couple of times for singleing him and his buddies out.They're good kids they just don't look like what hey want in their school.


Our kids missed 28 days this year due to weather they aren't making up any of them.I think that says it all right there.

[cbass]

OK I really shouldn't post before I get first cup o coffee down.I sound like a lunatic

[NickC]

OK I really shouldn't post before I get first cup o coffee down.I sound like a lunatic

No you don't (sound like a lunatic).

My youngest graduates in a month. I'm so glad to have all my kids out of the clutches of the public school system. I don't blame the (mostly) well meaning teachers; they are also pawns in the game. It's the uppity-ups in (mostly) federal Dept. of Education (i.e. indoctrination) that deserve (mostly) the blame.

But coffee is always good; and there's no cup as good as the first cup-o-the-day.

[Leo_Gnardo]

OK I really shouldn't post before I get first cup o coffee down.I sound like a lunatic

Join the club. And your post is right on the mark.

Ran out of coffee 3 days ago. Lots of tea - but it ain't the same. Must restock before I go bazerko.

[boots]

You're right on, cbass. New Mexico has the dumbest kids in the country according to the test scores. The teachers are pissed cuz it makes them look bad, and they don't get good raises. They never flunk kids in NM, just move them on through.

When we moved to Colorado, the schools seem much more concerned with educating the kids than about the test scores. My kid got good grades in NM, but didn't really learn much. Here in CO, he has been really challenged and has to work hard to keep his grades up. That's the way it oughta be.

BTW, high school bands are alive here, even on the Navajo reservation. Those Navajos really dig their heavy metal. But still, all that high speed heavy metal riffing doesn't make me think "guitar virtuoso" as much as someone who can play the blues with feeling.

[TNblueshawk]

BTW, high school bands are alive here, even on the Navajo reservation. Those Navajos really dig their heavy metal. But still, all that high speed heavy metal riffing doesn't make me think "guitar virtuoso" as much as someone who can play the blues with feeling.

Hopefully they might at least emulate/look up to Mato for some hard driving blue rock? He can play a million notes per minute but he can also get slow and nasty with plenty of feeling.