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

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

B-b-but what about their respective versions of “Shake Sugaree”?

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

I bet he knew "I've Got My Own Album to Do" back-to-front at 17 too.

pls to post on this, ilx's premier dedicated joe bonamassa fan thread

OFFICAL ILX JOE BONAMASSA CELEBRATION THREAD

Oh thanks, I forgot that that glorious tribute existed.

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

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?!

:D

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

Disappointed in the lack of flames shooting out from behind Vai in that video.

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

Is it okay for me to laugh uncontrollably at, like, all of these guys?

I mean they're obviously really good, but c'mon.

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?

Hard to imagine a more Steve vai video

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

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

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

Any more than I would, like, watch Olympic pole vaulting. Yes, you're skilled. Good for you.

I mean, call me back if Steve Vai puts on a cute little pair of shorts and starts flying through the air.

Oh cool Sund4r, I haven't watched any of her stuff but I think she lives in my town and is friends with some friends.

Re: Vai, he's not even triggering the drum parts with his feet, lame.

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), Tuesday, April 5, 2022 9:39 PM (two days ago)

A few years ago, I went to see Buke & Gase at a venue in Minneapolis called the Skyway, and one of the opening acts was Animals As Leaders (who I got really into after seeing live). After the show, my first thought was “This was a show totally curated for this very thread! Too bad we no longer have the music media landscape of the 90s.”

I’m imagining Guitar World giving us a 2-page photo essay featuring the Aron(e)’s titular buke and gase, with Wolf Marshall explaining how he had to invent the nomenclature to describe the transcription of the 'gase' part for “No Land”; then after a brief article by whomever would function as today's version of John Petrucci (I dont know, maybe HH Hendrix from Liturgy?), we’d find a double-interview feature where Deafheaven's Kerry McCoy and H.E.R. get all anarchic with Animals as Leaders’ string-savants* Tosin and Javier Reyes.

*Actual term used in a review of a Dream Theater album!

https://www.guitarworld.com/tag/tosin-abasi

https://www.guitarworld.com/author/tosin-abasi

The way you know a wanky shredder has made it these days is that they have their own NeuralDSP guitar modeling plugin

https://neuraldsp.com/plugins/archetype-abasi
https://neuraldsp.com/plugins/archetype-plini

https://www.guitarworld.com/tag/tosin-abasi

https://www.guitarworld.com/author/tosin-abasi

― And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:32 PM (one hour ago)

HOLY APEIROPHOBIA!

The Vai thing is cool tbh. More like Jeff Beck than Yngwie.

― And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Wednesday, April 6, 2022 1:52 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i legit enjoyed the vai video haha, it is pretty cool! i know nothing about guitarists or shred but i mean it's just so baroque in its dweebiness, and vai is 61 years old!!!! what's not to love lol.

i guess that guitar must miraculously not be that heavy because otherwise i'm not sure how his back could handle it

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

HE DOES JAZZ HANDS MULTIPLE TIMES

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