cool forehead
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 May 2012 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 May 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
you'd think guy fieri wouldn't use an alias for his career as a guitarist, but i guess the world is just a weird place
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hah! And wow, an Ovation and 50 guitar picks on the mic stand. Can one possibly drop/shred through that many picks in one show, especially if someone is a professional?
― grandavis, Friday, 4 May 2012 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think there's a tendency for the older Gen X'er to adopt the fake-out punk attitude of "pink floyd sucks" which in its way is bleed-over from the boomer attitude against 50s music, but I think more and more people are seeing music as a cultural continuum and not some identity war. I live across the street from a high school and I see a wide spectrum of eras and styles represented on t-shirts when class lets out: Beatles, Misfits, Iron Maiden, Cure, Led Zep, The Who, etc.
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sounds just like the 60s and 70s to me.
― booblights and the eternal frustration (how's life), Friday, 4 May 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
there was one kid with a Nirvana shirt as well
― Number None, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
classic rock will always have a home with white kids who are slightly uncool
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
― grandavis, Friday, May 4, 2012 1:37 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
One can when one is constantly tossing them to the audience.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
BTW this high school is 99% mexican american.
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lukather really is a monster & I have him to thank for turning me on to Allan Holdsworth so he's cool w/me
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 5 May 2012 00:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol bernard sumner
i love JD but c'mon, dude was barely a step above sid vicious in terms of suckiness
― cock chirea, Saturday, 5 May 2012 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
he is a truly terrible guitarist who's made some life-changing records for sure
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 5 May 2012 00:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Friday, May 4, 2012 4:17 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
lol this is otm, and also explains this list made by older gen x'ers
― some dude, Saturday, 5 May 2012 00:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
to be fair, though, bernard sucks even worse at singing. hahaha!
but its all moot. dude played guitar on ceremony! he belongs on every greatest list ever written.
― scott seward, Saturday, 5 May 2012 01:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
wtf people his solos in "Shadowplay," "Ceremony," and "Age of Consent."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 May 2012 01:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
you don't have to tell me. he was in my 2nd fave band ever. i love him. even if he sucks.
― scott seward, Saturday, 5 May 2012 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
two of our students snuck backstage to see New Order when they played Ultra. He and the ugly Hooky replacement praised their ingenuity and the four of them had beers on the lawn for a good half hour. Barney even recorded a station ID.
Steve and Gillian didn't make an appearance.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 May 2012 02:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
the primary word in "SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitar Players of All Time" isn't "All-Time" but is, in fact "SPIN"
that caveat puts it on a par with Dr Morbius' 100 Greatest Comic-Book Movies
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
plus prince is a lame inclusion cuz he's such a classic rock showoff anyway, he's totally RS bait
if youre not gonna put son house or jimmy page on the list then for christ's sakes don't put jack white on it.
This is basically why the list seems so weird to me. It would actually be interesting to see a list of avant-garde guitarists (where you'd include some of the people MFB mentioned) or a list of postpunk guitarists but including Prince and Eddie Hazel in the top 10 (who are really obviously Hendrix-influenced) and then excluding Jimi Hendrix altogether just seems perverse. Like, Frank Zappa was egalitarian and humble? Really? He was not so far off from Jeff Beck's aesthetic, really, only with less taste and restraint.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Prince and Eddie Hazel in the top 10 (who are really obviously Hendrix-influenced) and then excluding Jimi Hendrix altogether just seems perverse
agreed
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah and zappa i really like high level guitar mag stuff, what you get into once you graduate from the entry level guitar mag jackoff stuff
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbrr I can barely make it through an entire Hendrix album, while Prince and Hazel are like all-time godz to me so eh I don't really see the problem
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
no randi? no zakk? no satch? no eric FRIGGIN clapton? this list is a joke. it is meaningless to me.
― booblights and the eternal frustration (how's life), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
these jokers at spin must be hipsters with no understanding of music.
― booblights and the eternal frustration (how's life), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
saw that comment a lot "they dont understand MUSIC"
― booblights and the eternal frustration (how's life), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
david t chastain was robbed
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
free paul gilbert
no alex skolnick, no peaceknow alex skolnick, know peace
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
really think Whiney should've put Chris Carraba on the list
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
when they came for the gary moore records......i said nothing
guitar chapter eleven, verse 55:
tony macapline wept
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
y'all forgot about GIT (Guitar Institute of Technology)http://www.mi.edu/guitar?gclid=CPa40OiI768CFQYKKgode3AX7g#program-overview
― tylerw, Monday, 7 May 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
its funny because i remember from my spin reading youth when they used to like to include public enemy or whoever under the heading of 'rock' and now look theyre still doing it, its a spin tradition
I think the definition of "rock" is much more ambiguous than the definition of "guitarist" though.
(Btw, J0hn, do you ever read music theory? There was an all-rock issue of Music Theory Online some time ago you might like.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
― tylerw, Monday, May 7, 2012 4:01 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dogg i never forgot about GIT! it was going to my ticket to a record deal with Shrapnel :(
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2012 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
rarely, but it's always something on my "more of this" list, which every year looks more and more like the "list of things you're going to rue not doing more of on your deathbed" list. given that about 70% of my listening is classical now & the other 30% is largely stuff by dudes whose work will be enriched by deeper grounding in theory, I kind of ought to get my theory chops in better shape
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 7 May 2012 23:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've always felt there was some interesting music writing to be done by the right person about the intersection of high-level music theory stuff and 80s metal guitar playing, like it was so odd in retrospect, all these dudes in what was perceived as sort disposable noise that were digging into (in strange sort of misguided or superficial way) into like modal scales and shit like that...like as a kid i couldn't really play for shit but somehow I knew all the modal scales like from guitar mags
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2012 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
who got hard rock guitar headed down that road, zappa? van halen?
― some dude, Monday, 7 May 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
definitely Van Halen
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 May 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah EVH is a pretty major touchstone. I feel like 70s post-Hendrix dudes like Robin Trower also sort of are important to those guys, like they're listening to that stuff & Black Sabbath & playing scales and it all comes together in a giant frenzy of awesome
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 7 May 2012 23:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
EVH has readily identifiable precedents but none of them had the similar "classically trained" + rock cred combo that spawned the industry as we know it
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 May 2012 23:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh you know what? I didnt end up reading all of it, but that whole E-Hazel-&-Prince-but-not-Hendrix would've been redeemed if SPIN had included Trower as well, but I'm guessing that didn't happen...?
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like that the "most heroic moment" listed for Zappa is a Beefheart showcase song with no guitar theatrics to speak of.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― some dude, Monday, May 7, 2012 6:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd guess Ritchie Blackmore, he was the first guy that made a big deal about being classically influenced, and I'd say that if Iommi was the prototype for metal riffing, Blackmore was just as much the prototype of metal soloing
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^yeah can totally get with that. Blackmore was def on some "check out at ye olde medievel melodies in yonder solo" schtick. somehow his appeal and range seem more, I dunno, restrained? limited? than EVH. Blackmore wasn't pop the way EVH was.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
You can throw Uli Jon Roth in the mix too. He's a logical precursor to EVH and that pop pyrotechnic style.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
FUCK YOUR BLUES-ROCK PARADIGM!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
iirc i'm waiting for the man was written in a 12 tone scale
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i remember buying my first Velvet Underground comp because they were so progressive and influential on alternative music and everything that wasn't a boring german ballad was pretty basic competant rock n roll.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:05 (1 year ago) Permalink