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

whoa, that pure food and drug act records looks sweet

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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

Vinnie in the Invasion era had a super wild style, almost atonal

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.

guitar solos are fun to listen to

What song evidences this wild style?

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

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.

Ha wrong thread 🧵

Well Bob was not averse to semi atonal shredding at times

Right, exactly

Calstars - the solos on Boyz Are Gonna Rock are apeshit

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 )

The singer used be in Journey, btw (Robert Fleischman).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hxZyD9VGI

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.

Man, there's a Country song on here, kind of a Buckaroos hoedown.

Guitar for the Shredding Musician

Surely the king of cheesy shredding is the bewigged double neck playing Michael Angelo Batio

https://youtu.be/uJ6oABxbSaM

Ugh. Clicked but then I didn’t click. Image was enough for me.

https://youtube.com/uJ6oABxbSaM

Aggh. Can't embed from this tablet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ6oABxbSaM

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

How does his version of “Freight Train” stack up next to Elizabeth Cotten’s?

Haha

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

Otm