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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:57 pm
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im 12 hahahahahahahahaha

my dad is ur guy's age

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Some folks might flame me, but that's okay. I place shredding right up along side rap. IMO rap isn't music, its just bad poetry. Very, very bad poetry. Likewise, shredding is just playing scales and riffs very, very fast.
After awhile the speed of a passage totally takes away any hint of melody. And if it doesn't have melody it isn't music.

Listen to B.B. King. The man can say more with one note than Malmsteen can say with 74, or ever how many he can stuff into a measure.

This is just my opinion.

BTW, I'm 54.


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I`m 60. Malmsteen may be fast but I don`t care for his style.


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I'm old but I still don't connect with the greats like Santana that can hold a note until it makes you cry. I 've come to realize I can't really do that. Too nervous and not a performer. So I'm stuck in the 80's flash and speed. Mainly EVH. I record my riffs and only hope that one day I might make that one hit wonder with all the flash and glam that everyone eventually starts to hate on the radio.

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52 here and right with you. might not have grown up in the computer and game age but wouldn't trade it for anything since I had the music that really meant something to me. was nothing like coming home and playing a new lp from start to finish. still miss those days. (Beatles,Cream,Zep,GFR,T-REX etc)


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The most guitarists in the 60's was autodidacs or from classic back ground (classic guit. lessons) , hearing all notes out of their faves music. There wasn't much literatur out there as today.
Yep, I wish my ears were so good, I start to learn songs from the paper.
And ja, I have seen some guys and music school wich shred like a god but there was to much notes and no feel and rythm.

I have read a nice commentar from Abi von Reininghaus in outro of the german guitar mag 12/08.: throw all your (music) books away and start from the beginning. Only the stomach feel. Nothing calculates. Only what feels good in yourself. Without looking to antoher ones. Without fancy someone.

Could be a way, or?

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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:54 am
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Nice to know I won't have to use my AARP card quite yet. Here's another question for you. If you had to pick one, and only one, guitar solo from your favorite guitarist, what would it be? As I said in my original post, Hendrix is far and away my favorite, and the choice for me is easy despite all of the great solo's he did; the lead run in Machine Gun from the original release of Band Of Gypsies. That recording was done 40 YEARS AGO this last New Years Eve and nothing has ever reached into my soul like it does. It just makes you want to scrunch up your face and twist your body in every different direction at once (you all know what I mean as guitarists). Who does that for you?

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Back in your day people at the age you are now hated the music you like.

I am only 28, and I still agree with you though.

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Back in your day people at the age you are now hated the music you like.


That's so true. I had a poster of Hendrix hanging in my bedroom in 1968 and it was torn down by my grandparents and my stereo was destroyed at the same time. Funny thing though. I listened to all of the music from the 40's when I was young, not just rock and Motown. Go figure...

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It all makes perfect sense, mate. Maybe many of us are all older and slower and have more insurance. I never judge someone else's musical taste. I just know what feel's right for me. Thank God for free will, eh?

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Much of modern music does not make rational-translational sense to this mind. Namely, velocity-shred, death metal and rap.

It personally feels (and is borne out daily in playing, a Bach piece can be performed on the Jazzmaster and '65 Reissue Twin Reverb...

...and convey the same general musical 'continuity' as a 60s folk-rock, modern surf piece, show tune, lounge standard, Paris cafe' tune, timeless piece of jazz...

...successfully and tonefully, without ever touching the guitar or amp's controls.


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In answer to your second question, which is an extremely difficult one, so much so it's probabley impossible to come up with a favourite solo.
From the guys I mentioned, Clapton's solo in ' Badge ' always hit the spot for me.
We've talked about soul,feeling,heart,emotion and that solo, to me displays all of those qualities, there are dozens of others I could mention but that is one I will mention.
Cheers. :D


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Clapton's solo in ' Badge ' always hit the spot for me.


Did you happen to hear the version on the Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2005 during the reunion tour? Very sweet!

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Clapton's solo in ' Badge ' always hit the spot for me.


Did you happen to hear the version on the Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2005 during the reunion tour? Very sweet!



I probably did, I can't imagine missing that but I honestly don't remember. :roll:


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Greetings Everyone,
I usually hang out over in the Strat forum and this is my first visit here. Seems like there is a wide range of topics discussed here so I thought I would throw something out just to gauge the response.
I admittedly am in my 50's and cut my teeth on the musicians of the 60's, with Hendrix being my eternal favorite. As I have listened to the music of the last 10 years or so, it seems to me those who are considered latter-day "guitar gods" seem to concentrate more on how fast they can shred versus getting the maximum amount of emotion from every note. Don't get me wrong, I fully respect and admire all of the years of training and hard work that goes into accomplishing such a technique. But when I listen to all of my favorite guitarist (Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, Beck), who in their own way could all play incredibly fast, it is much more enjoyable to me to actually hear every note than to recover from audio whiplash trying to keep up with the likes of Yngwee and others. Should I just go ahead and make my reservation for the old folks home or are there others who feel like this?


I'm 16 and I totally agree with you. I wouldn't have a few years ago though. Then I saw SRV (on TV, of course) and from there I've realized that there's way more to playing guitar then just how fast you can go and how much you can impress your guitar playing friends, which was basically what I was doing at the time. It seems to me that lots of people today (I won't mention any names) play with just their heads. There's no heart in it, so it sounds stale. Also, kids my age tend to listen to music to be cool. So they go for the newest and/or the heaviest and/or the fastest thing they can find and bash "what my parents listen to". Once I got out of listening to certain music to be cool and listened to other styles, like blues and jazz (my new favorites) more openly I found that I could appreciate them just as much as metal or rock. You know what's funny? I enjoy being on here talking about music with people my parents age more then I enjoy talking about music with people my age. When I talk to people my age they usually just say, "I don't like old music" or "Who's Albert King?". :lol:

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