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

can't forget michael angelo batio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOjHhJd70f4

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

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

i know extreme had hits, but, nuno bettencourt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioBy875IEwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd02bE6o2Rs

This dude totally not widely known/mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq2GqlFmNUk#t=15

(Except where he;s mentioned upthread, sorry)

beautiful shredding

Not 90s, but Guthrie Govan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPEewaalik

that's pretty great!

guthrie is awesome

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.

hhaha

yeah that was good! never heard of that guy.

that al dimeola video is everything the mars volta wished they could be.

jazz fusion sounded so much better in the '70s.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Kissmyaxe.jpg

beautiful shredding sorta nails what i enjoy about this stuff, it's like gorgeous patterns of melodic gleaming shrapnel flying around

i mean, the phrase "beautiful shredding"

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

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

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.

http://melodic-hardrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ZAZA_01.jpg

He should start an effects box company.

Zaza's Pedals.

jjjusten will buy

btw. That dude is truly living the life. Buys all those pedals and it's his job.

Mixin' business with lesrher

Leather ahem

I got these stonewashed tight jeans...this black t-shirt

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

Posts very much in character yes I know

O_O

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 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_.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Magazine-February-Improvisation-Painted/dp/B00I14TBWK

Zaza's Pedals.
― overwhelmed with sweat (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, May 17, 2014 7:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol

Hmm, I guess the tuning and tab for Teenage Riot would be cool to know.

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".

Hmm, I guess the tuning and tab for Teenage Riot would be cool to know.

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

http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/tab/teenage_riot.txt

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.

Those pretentious blues slide guitarists and their "open E"

would jump all over a pdf of that issue myself xpost

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.

he also took up tom waits gtr duties after ribot iirc

what kind of music is this even?

i've been thinking about this question a lot. i think the answer is "demonstration music"

if you think of art in terms of how much athleticism is required you probably like this music

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

i mean i was listening to hella today so i guess i can't be one to talk

hella is almost certainly the best candidate for indie analogue to this kind of music

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.

And that Al DiMeola "Kiss My Axe" album cover up there is the greatest thing ever