Shawn Lane
http://i.imgur.com/exhhOoZ.png
― 龜, Friday, 16 May 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
jeff beck has good stuff
― Spottie, Friday, 16 May 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0d1HilfLxA
trower
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
Jason Becker (man, totally sucks about his ALS :( )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTx0ms0tfCE
― 龜, Friday, 16 May 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah beck's weird cuz he started out in real stuff and then kinda turned into this
he rules obv in yardbirds and jeff beck group and even though his early solo albums sort of birthed this whole genre they are good
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
pains me to say this as a good ilx brigade member but Leo Kottke
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
Ralph Macchio
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 May 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGWfDkx4zyY
al dimeola
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
yes!
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 May 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
who are you, al?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIFC0LOmJ_g
steve lukather
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
feel that this stuff would be easier to understand if it wasn't posing as music, it seems to work with an entirely different set of aesthetic criteria than anything i know and like as music.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 16 May 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
i am scanning through guitar player's features archive and in jan 2014 i found a page with lukather, satriani, holdsworth, and lukather again.
it's been 15 years since i read this magazine!
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
wow
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 May 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
tommy emmanuel
― missingNO, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
i ended up watching this whole thing on palladia HD once, so ridiculous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik0T9ivZVhk
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link
Joe Pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7mqDYTLGzI
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
Jennifer Batton - she was Michael Jackson's guitarist for awhile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxQqpXprNA
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 01:30 (nine years ago) link
Doug Mark's and his "Metal Method", I used to see those ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mpfFiYgaEs
did anyone notice the thing where every few months these magazines featured a sitarist no one had ever heard of who was working on some kind of sitar-blues fusion thing?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
eric gales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q-1KSW4BiM
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
All my knowledge of this stuff is secondhand but these types of instruments were a regular staple of guitar mags right
http://www.stick.com/instruments/
― 龜, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
the stick is forever tied to Mr. Tony Levin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgUDDxFgL7I
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
ex-Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncOA5GbU-ZI
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
though Dokken was pretty famous, George Lynch was always a big deal in guitar mags
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0QCR06v0vw
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
sonny landreth
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
who knows what kenny wayne shepherd has been up to since then but in the 90s he broke as a (weedly weedly rock tradition) blues guitarist who was a teenager (thus golly talent etc)
doesn't really fit in w/ these weirdos at least not in their dotage
i think i bought an album by one of them once but i forget which one and anyway it sucked
― j., Friday, 16 May 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
I remember these mags constantly talking about Eric Johnson's tone. His big thing was tone.
It was great when alternative rock got big and Guitar Player would still have tabs for Stevie Ray Vaughan sings but they'd also have to interview Grasshopper from Mercury Rec about recording the sound of cats trying to eat tuna from under guitar strings.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 16 May 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
michael schenker (you might've known him legitimately for other reasons, but his guitar magazine fame was something else altogether)
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:46 (nine 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, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
kenny wayne was on a g3 tour so he's in
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
i've always kinda dug "cliffs of dover"
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Friday, 16 May 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
Hey now, you're all missing a classic thread here that has a LOT of crossover with this:
John Petrucci brings you...ROCK DISCIPLINE (a picture thread if the pictures can fit)
The Petrucci and Gambale video reviews therein are astounding.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
You can always go straight to the Petrucci review here. And you should.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
good thread! how did i forget about zakk wylde
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S018IwrFd_4
^^^the best solo fyi
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
Left Hand Technique: Legato PlayingExercising the left hand with hammerons and pulloffs. Some of it kinda sounds like "Eruption".I forgot to mention that he is filmed with a purple lens filter for much of this. it really brings out his choadliness.He wants us to massage ourselves again cuz now it's time to put it all together and shred!.He makes like Steve Vai at the end of Crossroads for a few minutes, then plays some shit slow for a while, finally showing us again how fast A REAL ASSHOLE LIKE HIM can play it! Some VH tapping in there as well...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
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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), Friday, 16 May 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
guitar player was the only one of these mags that ever covered anything cool, much to their credit
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
I watched that Yngwie "Arpeggios from Hell" video last week. So rad.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 May 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
Jeez Holdsworth's guitars are some of the ugliest I've ever seen
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvouiDJSTUE
^Might be too old, but I know 90s guitar mags tabbed this song out all the time.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 May 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
Holdsworth is the man. I love a lot of this music. Jeff Beck rules all, obviously
― brimstead, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
Oh Holdsworth can really play. Like Gambale. Has his own thing going on.
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:10 (nine years ago) link
thread of badass guitarists
― brimstead, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:10 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXR9ggRdFI
― calstars, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:12 (nine years ago) link
did they talk about danny gatton in late 90s guitar mags? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGGE4CrPvjU
― brimstead, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
I think there's definitely a subset of players even in a technically minded field like this where you can go, yeah, maybe not my thing, but they've completely fucking mastered that. Be it the fluidity of the playing or not relying on speed or knowing exactly where to speed up. And so on.
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
xp fuck yes they did but he was dead so they couldn't interview him every other month
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
danny gatton was really good imo
and vai is 61 years old!!!! what's not to love lol.― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:17 PM
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:17 PM
HE DOES JAZZ HANDS MULTIPLE TIMES
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Friday, 8 April 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
Yeah if these guys are gonna do this stuff they might as well lean into the ridiculousness and make it fun, not that's it's gonna, y'know, sound any better
Occasionally if I go down a bit of a gearhead wormhole on youtube I start getting recommendations for this Ichika Nito/Tim Henson type shit which is I guess the millennial evolution of this stuff, lots of clever harmonics and insanely skilful jumping around the fretboard, but also completely joyless and pedantic
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 8 April 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
lean into the ridiculousness and make it fun
Unfortunately, for many technically-skilled musicians this translates as "ape Zappa".
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 8 April 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Animals as Leaders is totally Dream Theater for the youtube generation, I hate it
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
its unlistenable
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Friday, 8 April 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
Anyone else think Vai looks kinda like Corey Feldman in that clip?
― peace, man, Friday, 8 April 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
I tried listening to a bunch of these albums. Honestly I would like a lot of them if the drums sounded better. I really wanted this one to be good:https://i.discogs.com/u_oRG-VzAZvbBDLLAtnJaWbLazRtojbrG6odVYroUQ4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3MjEy/ODYtMTQ2NzEyMzIw/My05MzQxLmpwZWc.jpeg
― brimstead, Friday, 8 April 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
I remember that one, damn
― calstars, Friday, 8 April 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
They would have way more strings now
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
Yeah, my friend's family's record store stocked that one when I was in high school.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 8 April 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
Their second one sounds marginally better. I loved that all that Shrapnel records stuff in the nineties when I was fifteen and a young aspiring metal guitar player. Anyone remember Greg Howe? He went the fusion way and is still pretty active. His album Tilt, which he made with Ritchie Kotzen who by then was also trying to get away from just shredding, features some insane soloing if you're into the ten thousand notes per second thing - which I kind of still am.
One lesser talked about but also very revered in shred guitar circles is the album Truth in Shredding by Frank Gambale, Brett Garsed and Shawn Lane (the most shreddy of all shredders).
I know way too much about this stuff.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Saturday, 9 April 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
The "lean into it and make it fun" schtick can descend into bacon territory pretty quickly, although I have a soft spot for Batio.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
Speaking of Kotzen, I was just checking out The Winery Dogs, which is his trio with Billy Sheehan and Mike Portnoy. The downsides are the godawful band name, the trips into blues-rock territory. Kotzen's vocals - which waver between budget Chris Cornell and Sammy Hagar - could be better sometimes, could be worse. But I think their hard rock numbers are pretty fun, and use their combined virtuosities to complement the songs. Serviceable hard rock with pyrotechnics for flavor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SoTgZjokLU
― peace, man, Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
lol at the slow mo shred shot at 1:37.
honestly i enjoy that song more than anything on the last mastodon album lol
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Saturday, 9 April 2022 21:49 (one year ago) link
dat bass face @ 1:21
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 9 April 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
haha wow, you're not kidding re: cornell aping.
that is like, recognizable as a song though. it has parts and a melody and generally makes sense.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 10 April 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link