[Algiman]

I always giggle when I see the "Cobain Killed the guitar, man ... " argument.
Complete BLX. Rock music had, in the word of Zappa "gotten far to preposterous".
It had become emotionless technical show pieces without any real feeling, and cheesy sentiments about how many women you could bone (go listen to Coverdale squawking about lurrrv). The listeners were crying out for something with real passion behind it. Cobain did kill off widdly guitar solos, and that was, IMHO, a good thing at the time. What he put back was music with passion behind it, rather than 10 hour per day wood shedding behind it. There is room for both, and they are certainly not mutually exclusive, but rock had gone far too far towards "stunt guitar". Cobain was just taking things to the other extreme, and as that probably helped rock survive, we all owe him our thanks, whether or not you like his music.

Punk did the same thing in the UK 20 years earlier.

We are, I believe, back at the beginning of exactly the same cycle.

To answer the first post, you are just experiencing the same thing, 15 years later.

ps, I'm 30 something too.

 

[shredmaster]

have you seen this site? pretty cool.

http://www.bnrmetal.com

metal is definately in, as usual in europe. not much good in the states. i guess it's progressive metal....everything has a name. have you heard that band edguy? a friend just turned me on to them. there are so many hundreds of bands out there! the garbage on the radio that you might kinda like is only the tip of the ice burg and can't compare as far as metal is concered. there is so much great metal out there! bands such as stratovarius and kamelot, damn, there are soooo many others with unknown guitarists just as good or better than gilbert and yngwie in their prime. avenged sevenfold is another good one.

 

[Texter]

As long as it's stylish, in tune and non-chromatic everyone's allowed to play as fast as I like....errr they like hehe.

 

[Rgt_Lover]

Shredding is relativly easy. I can "shred" i.e fast alt picking/sweeping/economy picking/string skiping all cleanly. So what? Years of practise to a metronome and anyone can do that.

What I'm A LOT more interested in these days is developing my OWN sound and not desperatly trying to emulate a guitar god. Shred is boring for me now. It's usfull to be able to do and occasionaly use when the moments right. Music can be highly technical without being mindless shred. Jazz is my new direction.

 

[Algiman]

That is what my guitar teacher taught me; I went for lessons on modern "stunt guitar" rock techniques, and his opening line was, "in that case, you need to learn jazz".

I'm a terrible jazz player, but he was right about the value of studying it.

 

[Davey]

Jazz schmaz, I WANNA RAWK!!!

 

[mi2tom]

Shredding is relativly easy. I can "shred" i.e fast alt picking/sweeping/economy picking/string skiping all cleanly. So what? Years of practise to a metronome and anyone can do that.

What I'm A LOT more interested in these days is developing my OWN sound and not desperatly trying to emulate a guitar god. Shred is boring for me now. It's usfull to be able to do and occasionaly use when the moments right. Music can be highly technical without being mindless shred. Jazz is my new direction.

+1!!!