somehow i knew there was gonna be tapping in that video
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
Saw Harvey Mandel live last weekend. Dude shredded. Tap master. Tremolo whiz
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
i heart rudy
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 August 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
sad all those youtubes are broken upthread :(
Vinnie Vincent - Metal Tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEyYGNX_TP4
― Ae$op Rocky (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 December 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
I love metal as much as the next cerebral middle aged hipster, but that shit is just so amusical I can’t understand what the devotees get from it apart from dexterity awe
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 28 December 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
Vinnie in the Invasion era had a super wild style, almost atonal
The shredder thing kind of fascinates me, just as a musical/culture thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 December 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
Yeah, if you got rid of the screeching vocals and whatnot you could pretty much draw a straight line between what he was doing and what Vernon Reid (post-Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, pre-Living Colour) was doing at the Knitting Factory or the Kitchen.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 29 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
guitar solos are fun to listen to
― brimstead, Saturday, 29 December 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
What song evidences this wild style?
― calstars, Saturday, 29 December 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link
aww, now i'm bummed that all the 'tubes are gone too. iirc, this one led to an absolutely baffling allan holdsworth "jazz" performance:
what kind of music is this even?
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:32 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 29 December 2018 04:26 (five years ago) link
Does anyone ever compare them with The Replacements? There is some overlap in acknowledged influences, in particular as seen in the mixing Kiss and Partridge Family covers, but to me the RK versions of this material seem to be more competent, inspired and affectionate. Of course maybe I just finally got sick and tired of The ‘Mats after reading that bio Ned recommended.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 December 2018 05:36 (five years ago) link
Ha wrong thread 🧵
Well Bob was not averse to semi atonal shredding at times
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 29 December 2018 06:03 (five years ago) link
Right, exactly
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 December 2018 06:04 (five years ago) link
Calstars - the solos on Boyz Are Gonna Rock are apeshit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 29 December 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
Oh shit! V V just shredded my eardrums. Awesome (Also appreciated the notes the vocalist was hitting, sounds a little like a castrated Steve Perry )
― calstars, Saturday, 29 December 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
The singer used be in Journey, btw (Robert Fleischman).
― brownie, Saturday, 29 December 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hxZyD9VGI
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
On a day trip w/the family. My sister's turn at the CD player, and it's this Eric Johnson album from ten years ago that sounds like it could be thirty or twenty years ago, or from tomorrow, or ten years in the future. Dude's like the Ramones or Motorhead, stylistic consistency-wise, of guitar mag shredders.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 June 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
Man, there's a Country song on here, kind of a Buckaroos hoedown.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 June 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
Guitar for the Shredding Musician
― calstars, Saturday, 22 June 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
Surely the king of cheesy shredding is the bewigged double neck playing Michael Angelo Batio
― Duke, Sunday, 23 June 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/uJ6oABxbSaM
― Duke, Sunday, 23 June 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
Ugh. Clicked but then I didn’t click. Image was enough for me.
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 June 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
https://youtube.com/uJ6oABxbSaM
― Duke, Sunday, 23 June 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Aggh. Can't embed from this tablet
― Duke, Sunday, 23 June 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ6oABxbSaM
― Duke, Sunday, 23 June 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOmoUXHgePs
― Duke, Sunday, 23 June 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
How does his version of “Freight Train” stack up next to Elizabeth Cotten’s?
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 June 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Haha
― Duke, Sunday, 23 June 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
elizabeth cotten's freight train has this prescient and very human sensitivity in lyric and performance that is all the more heartbreaking knowing she wrote it when she was 13. the videos of her performing it as an elderly woman with the crowd joining in to sing bring me close to tears just thinking about them. batio though has a four necked guitar that he spins and he taps out bitchin licks though. tie
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 23 June 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
Otm
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 June 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
B-b-but what about their respective versions of “Shake Sugaree”?
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 June 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
I get it too Eddie. But part of being a total musician is embracing all music and diving down the musical rabbit holes. I’ve listened to BB King to EVH to Frank Sinatra and back. I was 17 too but I knew Ron Wood played bass with the Jeff Beck Group. https://t.co/bSD1NshzWg— Joe Bonamassa (Official) (@JBONAMASSA) December 3, 2019
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
I bet he knew "I've Got My Own Album to Do" back-to-front at 17 too.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
pls to post on this, ilx's premier dedicated joe bonamassa fan thread
OFFICAL ILX JOE BONAMASSA CELEBRATION THREAD
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
Oh thanks, I forgot that that glorious tribute existed.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
Been listening to Plini a lot lately, who I gather is one of these guys for the 2010s. Just these epic proggy fusion shredfests with a basis in math-rock and post-rock and are really well-composed (i.e. I rarely feel like my interest is waning).
To be honest, I haven't actually listened to a lot of the guitarists listed in this thread, so maybe this is more my thing than I have previously thought. For example as a kid I know that I liked Steve Vai with David Lee Roth, but got bored pretty quickly when I listened to Passion & Warfare. I probably should go back and relisten so I can figure out if I need to buy a headless fanned-fret guitar or something pointy with a floyd rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvN7Af40Wi4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aquJicmrjJE
― peace, man, Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
Steve Vai — "Teeth of the Hydra" (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qjDJ0lLdE
Didn't know where else to post, but needs to be documented because that is some ridiculous nonsense. Just, what?!
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
:D
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:26 (two years ago) link
Lol that popped up on my YouTube feed the other day. Have you seen the bad deepfake Satriani cover?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13c0WULP1Ik
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link
Disappointed in the lack of flames shooting out from behind Vai in that video.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:32 (two years ago) link
I feel like Tosin Abasi is one of the contemporary equivalents of these guys - monstrous guitarist, but I cannot bring myself to listen to his music
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:39 (two years ago) link
Is it okay for me to laugh uncontrollably at, like, all of these guys?
I mean they're obviously really good, but c'mon.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:48 (two years ago) link
Oh man, in the Vai video, 4:33 in ( when there could be silence…) he does this little sitar fill on the fretless part of the top neck… actual LoL. Wonder if he can bang out the Third Man theme on the zither part?
― bendy, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 04:04 (two years ago) link
Hard to imagine a more Steve vai video
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 04:17 (two years ago) link
Yeah, shred v much alive and well. Guthrie Govan is my younger cousin's fave.
Sarah Longfield is by far my favourite artist connected to the contemporary YouTube shred scene. She's a multi-instrumentalist/composer from Wisconsin who integrates two-handed 8-string tapping into pretty electro-prog songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL5q_MEg3RQ
― And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 12:52 (two years ago) link
The Vai thing is cool tbh. More like Jeff Beck than Yngwie.
Austin is correct. You can kinda admire the craft but there is no fuckin way I will like sit down and LISTEN to this as if it were music.
Any more than I would, like, watch Olympic pole vaulting. Yes, you're skilled. Good for you.
But no, I don't care about this activity, so I won't spend my limited leisure time consuming recordings of it.
Would 100% prefer to hear the Eagles or Billy Joel or Phil Collins or whatever, for the thousandth time, than check out an allegedly "amazing" guitar player who is very skilled but who has yet to elicit emotions from someone other than guitar nerds, thxbye
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
I mean, call me back if Steve Vai puts on a cute little pair of shorts and starts flying through the air.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link