thread for discussion of guitarists i have only heard of because i read guitar magazines in the late 90s

i laughed, but then, i really wish they would zoom in on the fretting hand

I agree. Watching these guys play is half the enjoyment.

as a man tainted by guitar store life, there is no enjoyment to be found here

which song do you hear most?

i think the audience for Player Rock and for jam bands overlaps pretty heavily? at least i had friends in high school who were into both

music-as-technical-performance etc etc

kids in high school = the primary audience for both

i have enjoyed some robin trower

I'd like to see YOU GUYS play Allan Holdsworth.

I wouldn't

New ILX compilation?

first takes only

ILX Shreds

My roommate (and one of my best friends) bought this in college and we would watch it regularly

http://i.imgur.com/1rtzXKx.jpg
― 龜, Friday, May 16, 2014 12:35 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

superiorist post itt

Monster Picking and Speed Licks

frank gambale's outfit is pretty on-trend imo

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090514085837/ibanez/images/b/bb/Frank_Gambale.jpg

I've never read any guitar mags but presume that Fredrik Thordendal might fit the bill here?

No wai

poor joe stump up there all by himself

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

someone sold me a huge stack of classic rock magazines at the store (a magazine i love by the way because every other issue features an interview with nick mason) and i kept staring at this cover cuz how do you get to be on the cover of a magazine called CLASSIC rock and i have no idea who the hell you are:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EONW7Jn0zyA/TwTgEKMe8nI/AAAAAAAATAM/_hcUF1CgXSs/s1600/mainbanner_red_2.jpg

twice even...

http://jbonamassa.com/features/2013/classic_rock_magazine_joe_bonamassa_featured/images/share_joe.jpg

well it costs 500 quid to see him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh08Dum_HLw

can't read the year on the issue with the nu metal article.

July 2009?

or 2000?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CLASSIC-ROCK-July-2013-JOE-BONAMASSA-BAG-OF-BONES-CD-The-Who-DIO-Megadeth-NEW-/171059254247?pt=UK_Magazines&hash=item27d3ed13e7

2013!

lol i thought it might be 2013 but i was like that makes no sense.

all those brit mags are endlessly readable/entertaining if you are me.

plus, Classic Rock's sister magazine AOR is like the greatest magazine on earth.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/72/51/1a/72511a2bf16181209ef97f21eb080c01.jpg

AOR! Wow

i really need a venn diagram for classic rock and aor

a john bonnamasa show was on public tv like a year ago and it was so awful. the most boring torturous achey electric bluesy folk crap imaginable, seriously headache inducing. every song seemed at least 10 minutes long. i just wanted to tell him "alright, i get it, you're really good at acting all rootsy and bluesy, can you stop now?". at least satriani and vai dudes rock out and throw in some jazz flavor and stuff. This was just like an audience endurance test, totally "feel bad" music. Like grinding your teeth for 2 hours.

My wife has an Ayn Randian nut friend that was recently Bonnamasa, and I had never heard him. When I did hear it, I concur with the grinding teeth for 2 hours comment and I totally thought 'of course she likes this devil.'

recently = really into

Joe Bonamassa has been able to build up a pretty good sized live show audience, I think at this point quite a bit bigger than the shredder guitarists like Vai etc. At least going by some interviews I have read with the guy, he's a bit more aware of where he stands in the music biz. His audience is the first generation Humble Pie and classic rock bluze audience with some jam band crossovers. Bonamassa is a better guitarist and live singer than some of the SRV clones that came out in the 90s, he's got his niche. The dude has been working it like a day job since he was a teenager, so give the devil a bit of due. I don't think Bonmassa's as good as someone like Warren Hayes, who is a similar guitarist and has been live member with a bunch of the classic 60s/70s groups. Haynes is a pretty good songwriter and plays with a bit more restraint, which is saying something considering they like to play songs for 10-12 minutes a pop.

I like how these dudes all have songs where they do a very little interpretation of what the song title sounds like, e.g. Vai's 'bad horsie' and Bonamassa's 'slow train'.

I will see Mark Knopfler when he comes 'round, but I am definitely passing on the $135 ticket to see this dude.

dudes like Bonamossa are the worst -- the "tasteful" guitar mag showoffs -- because they fall short of anything, they are such jackoffs and terrible songwriters they can't actually convey anything real but they don't even provide the laser-gun ridiculous pyro of the more metal oriented dudes from the shrapnel records school, or vai, etc

http://www.americanbluesscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Joe-Bonamassa-and-his-Guitars.jpg

disgusting

file under: punchable faces

Lmao each one of those 12 Les Pauls sound completely different

just desperately want to see someone do a chris farley pratfall into all that

As already said, a lot of these guys deserve flak given everything at their disposal and choice of instrument, there's no reason why thry can't be at least serviceable in the songwriting dept

yeah, exactly, at least shrapnel-type dudes are trying to break the laws of physics via impossibly fast sweep picking and stuff.. they're going for a "whoa holy shit did you hear that, fucking awesome" response rather than dudes like bongmaster trying to earn an oscar for acting all bluesy. And I know there's plenty of quality rootsy stuff made these days that succeeds on musical terms rather than on this fake realness bs.

xp to upper mississipi

yeah, like this type of shit it too funny & awesome IMO

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJx4IyZgWtY