This may be one of my favorite covers. Look at the transcriptions: YES! QUEENSRYCHE! THE WHO! JEFF BECK! The Beach Boys?
http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mCaPYrRogKGLLJe2aqK3zOA.jpg
― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Friday, 16 May 2014 12:26 (ten years ago) link
can't forget michael angelo batio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOjHhJd70f4
― how's life, Friday, 16 May 2014 12:32 (ten years ago) link
don't jazz ppl know joe pass? like, canonically? def a strange venn diagram between respected jazz musicians and guitar mag pillars
here's a full concert with ella fitzgerald (complete with inane+insane youtube commenters):
http://youtu.be/2olBE4C5_Gk
― goole, Friday, 16 May 2014 13:35 (ten years ago) link
If we're just talking guitar, and not even '90s guitar, I know we've mentioned Paul Gilbert, but Racer X is what made my friend invoke the conflation "guitarded:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6i6Pbpc0z4
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 May 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
i know extreme had hits, but, nuno bettencourt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioBy875IEwM
― goole, Friday, 16 May 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd02bE6o2Rs
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 May 2014 13:40 (ten years ago) link
This dude totally not widely known/mentioned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq2GqlFmNUk#t=15
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 May 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
(Except where he;s mentioned upthread, sorry)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 May 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
beautiful shredding
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
Not 90s, but Guthrie Govan:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPEewaalik
― 29 facepalms, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
that's pretty great!
― calstars, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
guthrie is awesome
― Spottie, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
I saw him at a club show recently, at the end he asked the audience for a show of hands of who was in a band. Everybody basically.
― 29 facepalms, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
hhaha
― Spottie, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was good! never heard of that guy.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
that al dimeola video is everything the mars volta wished they could be.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 16 May 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
jazz fusion sounded so much better in the '70s.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Kissmyaxe.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 May 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
beautiful shredding sorta nails what i enjoy about this stuff, it's like gorgeous patterns of melodic gleaming shrapnel flying around
― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
i mean, the phrase "beautiful shredding"
― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 02:12 (ten years ago) link
Shout out to Steve Kahn (is he too jazz for this thread?), far from a gimmicky guitar mag guy, but his solos tend to really bring that heavy euphoric escalator-to-heaven fusion guitar style
― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
Neil Zaza is p.big w/a few of the Guitar Center / South Korean Catholic CCM crossover ppl I know:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QadSVWXF_ks
― etc, Saturday, 17 May 2014 23:54 (ten years ago) link
Holy crap I had no idea anyone outside Cleveland knew who Neil Zaza was. ZAZA was one of the biggest hair metal bands on the scene in the 80s.
― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link
http://melodic-hardrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ZAZA_01.jpg
― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
He should start an effects box company.
Zaza's Pedals.
― overwhelmed with sweat (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
jjjusten will buy
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:41 (ten years ago) link
btw. That dude is truly living the life. Buys all those pedals and it's his job.
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:42 (ten years ago) link
Mixin' business with lesrher
― calstars, Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
Leather ahem
I got these stonewashed tight jeans...this black t-shirt
― calstars, Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
Haha I actually have a neil zaza signature pedal in stock no lie. Purchase had exactly zero to do with association with Neil zaza, it's a repro of a long lost great dod pedal (yeah I know, but srsly) called the juice box.
http://www.mooeraudio.com/EN/news_show.asp?MsgID=66
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Sunday, 18 May 2014 02:20 (ten years ago) link
Posts very much in character yes I know
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Sunday, 18 May 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
O_O
― how's life, Sunday, 18 May 2014 10:07 (ten years ago) link
for a while guitar player mag was the cool alternative to guitar mag. their johnny marr cover story was formative for me.― fact checking cuz, Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:48 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki found a ratty old copy of it somewhere when i was a kid, from the mid/late 80s and they actually did a story on the avant garde guitar scene! featured sonic youth, live skill, savage republic, rat at rar r, and bands like that - first exposure to any of that― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:04 PM (3 days ago)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:48 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i found a ratty old copy of it somewhere when i was a kid, from the mid/late 80s and they actually did a story on the avant garde guitar scene! featured sonic youth, live skill, savage republic, rat at rar r, and bands like that - first exposure to any of that
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:04 PM (3 days ago)
I might still have this issue. Big story on Sonic Youth, with tunings and tablature, and a big annotated fold-out poster of famous players' guitar picks.http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fJ6z6Zg2L._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpghttp://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Magazine-February-Improvisation-Painted/dp/B00I14TBWK
― Mike Dixn, Sunday, 18 May 2014 11:03 (ten years ago) link
Zaza's Pedals.― overwhelmed with sweat (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, May 17, 2014 7:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lol
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 18 May 2014 12:24 (ten years ago) link
Hmm, I guess the tuning and tab for Teenage Riot would be cool to know.
― calstars, Sunday, 18 May 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
Guitar (formerly 'For the Practicing Musician') in the 90s did jizz a lot over these dudes (and I remember being all 'uhhh ok' whenever I heard any of it), but tbf they always gave equal credit to up and coming bands that wrote interesting music and weren't really flashy. I remember them giving Crowbar's "Time Heals Nothing" a pretty glowing review.
but then they'd review the latest Toto and whine that in the midst of a glossy pop album that Lukather wasn't lighting up the fretboard more and you're like "...ohhhh welcome back, Guitar".
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 May 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
one of the first things i did after getting access to 90s Usenet was print out a table of known Sonic Youth guitar tunings. i showed it to a guy i knew who said that SY were "pretentious" for tuning their guitars differently - this guy was a huge Dylan fan as well haha
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 18 May 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/tab/teenage_riot.txt
― calstars, Sunday, 18 May 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
Hey, if anyone has copies of any of the Guitar Player issues (or other guitar mags for that matter) with features on Sonic Youth, could you please contact me? I've been searching for them for something I'm working on now.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 18 May 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
Those pretentious blues slide guitarists and their "open E"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 May 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
would jump all over a pdf of that issue myself xpost
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Monday, 19 May 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
When Joe Gore (later w/ PJ Harvey) was the Editor-in-Chief, Guitar Player had a lot of articles of interest for the Kool Kidz.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 19 May 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
he also took up tom waits gtr duties after ribot iirc
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Monday, 19 May 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
what kind of music is this even?
i've been thinking about this question a lot. i think the answer is "demonstration music"
― goole, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
if you think of art in terms of how much athleticism is required you probably like this music
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
you know a lot of the time the rococo blast of lots of bright textures at high speeds is really appealing to me but generally the melodic sense of these guys is so terrible
― goole, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
i mean i was listening to hella today so i guess i can't be one to talk
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 21 July 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
hella is almost certainly the best candidate for indie analogue to this kind of music
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
Athleticism is a good comparison, M@tt and I always talk about this stuff as being like a magic trick. It can be cool and fun to watch the first time, but it certainly doesn't sustain yr interest as art.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 21 July 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link