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

The rehearsal space I go to practice at has DVDs of all these guys basically running on a loop in the rest area, so you can enjoy some blues noodlin' while you have a cup of tea between sessions.

I conclude from this that the audience for all this kind of stuff is primarily comprised of guitar teachers.

From the Huntington Beach B+N:
http://i.imgur.com/GfG1ky9.jpg

https://youtu.be/JGX5hTomOnw?t=3m48s

I'm afraid too, Steve.

STEVE VAI, RICHIE KOTZEN, NUNO BETTENCOURT, TOM MORELLO Voodoo Chile

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, Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:35 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All of this stuff is on youtube now. Went down a Guy Mann-Dude rabbit hole this morning and popped up here:

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

haha the beginning sounds like he's playing random notes over a Casio preset

A lot of these guys also fall into the category of "guitarists whose names I know solely because the sound of my guitar teacher's voice pronouncing them still rings in my head. "

I had never heard Gambale before last weekend - he was all over a Chick Corea box set I had to review. He still plays like that.

jesus god look at that effin outfit

the whole thing about how if you go in one direction across the strings you need an odd number of notes and if you are going up and then back across the strings on a "lick" you need an even number of notes was very #galaxybrain

lol.

i enjoy how useless this video is on youtube, can you imagine what it was like on vhs

Lol

Gambale is the Joe Pesci of guitar nerds

Watched this doc Inside Metal: The LA Metal Scene Explodes 2, and there were guys liked Marty Friedman and Bruce Bouillet from Racer X talking about the stir caused on the Strip shredding community when Ron Keel bright Yngwie Malmsteen over to the US to be in Steeler. One anecdote recalled Dokken's George Lynch seeing one of the first Steeler gigs with Yngwie and looking visibly shaken. Everyone was running in fear of the fury!

Harvey Mandel is one of these dudes, a pioneer of two-fingered tapping, does a lot of cool things with sustain. his 70s albums are all totally righteous, though, funky bluesy exotic electric guitar instrumentals..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDHD-jR3xU

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_IGj-dTDW8

"cristo redentor" (last vid i posted) is extremely lush

he's a british dude, played with john mayall, canned heat...

this is an example of him "going off" so to speak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24seZArkCUs

Cristo Redentor and Baby Batter were good early 2000s sample fodder. Was never into him for any other reasons.

From a press release for a guy named Angel Vivaldi, who claims to be "a guitarist, songwriter, producer, philanthropist and environmentalist."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIgzGU0XcAA-Jff.jpg

Cristo Redentor and Baby Batter were good early 2000s sample fodder.

Nice! Yeah that intro break on baby batter had to have been sampled somewhere

i looked up angel vivaldi on youtube and i was shocked to discover his music sucks real bad

Hey now, here you are all talking about Gambale missing that he featured on this legendary thread

John Petrucci brings you...ROCK DISCIPLINE (a picture thread if the pictures can fit)

Nice! Yeah that intro break on baby batter had to have been sampled somewhere

You are very astute: http://www.whosampled.com/sample/124623/J-Live-Probe.dms-Asheru-Kick-It-to-the-Beat-Harvey-Mandel-Baby-Batter/

Also: http://www.whosampled.com/sample/19767/Pharoahe-Monch-The-Truth-Harvey-Mandel-Cristo-Redentor/

Hey Frank: I'd rather modes remain a mystery than have you teach me them

harvey mandel came out with a new record last year! it RULES. i heard about him through his work with "sugarcane" harris in pure food and drug act.

whoa, that pure food and drug act records looks sweet

s

those other guys are all over his 70s albums

dying @ that vivaldi guy doing 4th-rate satriani impressions over nu-metal

by Jay Skyler- Nicknamed The White Jimi Hendrix by Anahiem, California's Metalhead Radio, Jay is one of the 21st century's most dynamic and innovative guitarists and educators and is currently the lead vocalist and guitarist for Rock 'n' Roll Villain Society.

finally, a white Jimi Hendrix

I find that hard to believe, but if it's THE Metalhead Radio of Anaheim, California...

finally, a white Jimi Hendrix

― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, April 9, 2018 6:01 AM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Robin Trower would like a word

He'll one-note you to the ground

You know all those "The Clash SAVED my LIFE, maaaan" pieces? Here's the chopsophiliac version

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/8zutxi/discussion_eric_johnson_saved_my_life/

https://popula.com/2018/08/01/a-style-of-music-played-on-the-guitar-that-pretty-much-no-one-listens-to-except-guitar-players/

Most shredding music is bad. Some bands that influenced shredding—Van Halen chief among them—are often very good. But when unaccompanied by a singer or other instrumentation, shredding usually sucks. Just think of Van Halen without David Lee Roth.

Guitar music exclusively for guitar players is probably prefigured by Jeff Beck’s mid-seventies albums Blow by Blow and Wired, which are legitimately good, and started in earnest a decade later by Joe Satriani and his student Steve Vai.

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38285397_10214939781842332_2840689127601471488_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=68bea23787d3d3693b693041333772e6&oe=5BD74474

Shot of Yngwie's current touring rig (via a Gear Page thread from yesterday).

lmao

Guessing/hoping all or most of those heads and cabs are dummies and there's actually a Kemper rack somewhere going direct.

also i think steve vai is in on the joke and pretty good sometimes

I AM intrigued by the idea of a guitar pre-placed in front of the cone for feedback on demand. I don't know what sort of switching regime would make it musically useful though.

Guessing/hoping all or most of those heads and cabs are dummies and there's actually a Kemper rack somewhere going direct.

― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, August 3, 2018 11:40 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hah same

i had these cassette tapes (not the vhs) of Rudy Sarzo bass master class

this stuff was so great to make a little kid who could barely play try all this fancy bullshit lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUCm6Ca4z0

somehow i knew there was gonna be tapping in that video

Saw Harvey Mandel live last weekend. Dude shredded. Tap master. Tremolo whiz

i heart rudy

sad all those youtubes are broken upthread :(

Vinnie Vincent - Metal Tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEyYGNX_TP4

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

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