The Guitar Thread

[johnnydean1]

Quote:Quote:Can I play it??????Yes.Your word is your bond, right?I think you are quoting the Old Lady of Threadneedle St or is it Throgmorton St, matters not.My word is what I want it to be.Roger over and out 10-4

[jeffe]

I can play too. Just not very well

[horacejesse]

When your ears were young, that is when the thrill of music was at its greatest. You wanted it badly and it was still a mystery. In that ignorance was innocence and the notes clung to you like dewdrops.I wanted guitar solos in songs and was always disappointed when they were not there because I wanted to live in the mystery of the notes and de-mystify them. Back then the short solo in Dave Dudley's "Six Days On The Road" I considered killer and wondered how the guitar player was doing it. Of course I came up with my own way of doing it which sounded something like his. The playing in Marty Robbins' "El Paso" set a high bar to aspire to in those days.The first band I ever played in was a surf band. We didn't sing, and soloed through the whole of each and every piece. Then the Beatles hit and almost overnight all the bands converted and started singing. The conversion was so complete that it is humorous to look back on. We never played another instrumental for the entire two remaining years of highschool!! Instrumentals were out in a jiffy.That was okay, though. We loved all the new stuff too, and there were still mysteries in every song.

[horacejesse]

I heard some Hendrix today on the radio. I was never a foamy lipped Hendrix fan like so many others, but I realized something was going on there even if I was not paying too much attention.The thing is--has any rock guitarist ever aged as well as Jimmy? I can't think of one. His solos still sound like a modern player. He is the only rock player I can think of who does not seem to have aged at all. His solos never sound dated. Will they ever start to sound like something quaint from the past whose era you can pinpoint from the sound? I don't know. But they cannot be applied to their era now, so I don't see how that is going to change.

[jeffe]

Well. He didn't get past 27 so that might explain why he hasn't aged On a more serious note.I think that any performance that is executed with intense emotion, is a memorable one, and timeless.Our musical styles and instrumentation change with time, but expression doesn't. When it's done well. We remember it, because we can always identify with it.

[edteja]

Quote:The thing is--has any rock guitarist ever aged as well as Jimmy? I can't think of one. His solos still sound like a modern player. He is the only rock player I can think of who does not seem to have aged at all. His solos never sound dated. You've got two different & competing ideas here, so I'm not sure where you are taking this (and I played a late gig last night, so the brain is slow this morning). If Jimmy hasn't aged at all, then he is stuck in the past. Part of aging is pacing changes. Improving and growing. Do you mean he hasn't gotten any better over the years? Can a mainstream rocker truly be contemporary, when rock has changes? I can't even be sure what that would mean today. His leads cook, but his leads do sound dated in the sense that new groups don't have that sound. Santana hasn't aged at all. He sounds to me like a young kid trying to capture what Santana was (and very smoothly, if boringly). In terms of staying current, well it depends a lot on perspective. There are guitarists like Robert Cray who can rock out like nobody's business, but are more at home in more trad blues veins. Staying current there means something completely different than it does in other genres.

[horacejesse]

Ed,Listen to a solo from an Elvis Presley record to hear a dated solo. No matter how good the players were, the solos still sound dated. One of those solos would sound incredibly out of place on any song by groups like AMI, Avenge 7fold, et al. But a Hendrix solo would not sound out of place IMO. Even a Jimmy Page solo would sound somewhat dated. Just my opinion, of course.

[horacejesse]

Crs7string,Do any of your guitar synthesizers have a decent tom-tom sound? That is one thing I cannot seem to get out of the GR33. The tom sound really bugs me.

[crs7string]

I don't think I've ever checked out the drums on the GR33. I'll check them out to see what you are referring to.Chuck

[booker]

Any of you guitar gurus visit ed romans guitars on the web? There are some beauties on his site. Theres also quite a bit of knowledge about how to pick out a guitar. It's a fun site if ya wanna check it out.