Not a single bluegrass picker on anyone's guitar list. Forshame. Gimme some Tony Rice or Billy Strings
I think the argument could be made that current times are the most innovative. There are more genres than ever before and it’s far easier for anyone who wants to create music to do so and distribute it to the masses without 1) a lot of money or 2) with the blessing/endorsement of someone with a lot of money ie a record company. Having said that, popular music has never been worse than it is currently.
I was really just sticking to Rock guitarists. But yeah Billy Strings is an absolute freak. Seen him 8 times now and he never disappoints.
I thought we were doing rock n’ roll, blues, pop. But yeah, if you start throwing Django in there then all rules are out. Of course if we go full spectrum, you have to start adding classical and flamenco guitarists in there.
My friend has a 2 year old daughter and her favorite song is Dust in a Baggie. She jams out to it all the time. Could be my favorite thing ever. Nothing like a 2 year old rocking to a drug song
The problem with now is that decades don't exist anymore. The 90s (and maybe the 00s) were the last decade - where you could just say a decade and a certain style or feel comes to mind, and people immediately know what you are talking about, even if its through the haze of nostalgia. There is a lot of sameness to things now, and I cant tell you the difference between music from 2013 and 2023 in a way that makes sense, even though I enjoy it. I don't think people will be nostalgic for our current times, at least in a way that's familiar to the kind of people who would watch those VH1 "remember the 90s" type shows.
Yeah I very much doubt Mills and Buck sit around listening to VH in their free time. REM was a hugely influential band in the 80s. Many of my friends in Gainesville were obsessed with them (me, less so, though I very much liked them) and every college indy band started trying to sound like them. With their early records on IRS, they pretty much invented the southern gothic American thing that so many bands have since done. I'm not as much of a fan of their major label WB records, but those early IRS records take me back to a time and a place and a feel. Miss those days.
Yeah, I was obsessed with the IRS era records in college, though I had to go back and discover most of those. They were probably at their height of popularity when I was in HS when Monster came out, which was totally different from what they had done previously. They were a band I liked, but discovering the older stuff made me more of a fan and I helped me enjoy the newer stuff more.
I come back to the notion of how much music is ingrained in our sense of identity. It's important enough that some will argue vociferously about this band or that band; this guitarist or that. Everyone comes to the table with different perspectives, experiences, knowledge, and skills. And while some would claim to be or not to be musicians, everyone on here has sung a song, tapped a beat, and been otherwise musical. I used to think that having an informed perspective made one's opinion more valid or valuable than another's, but I'm departing from that notion these days. Having knowledge/experience is of value to the person who possesses it and potentially to those they share it with in meaningful ways (eg. teaching). Informed perspectives best present value when the collective comes together to make music. Everyone ready to start a band? One last philosophical take here and it's another feeling I've come around to later in life. There is very little music that should be played in a proper dinner setting. All too often, dining establishments screw it all up with shitty music.
Whitesnake really isn't a hair metal band. They were and are a blues band with a hair metal phase. But even this album is much more bluesy and technically sound than the hair metal bands that were flashes in the pan. Remember, their big commercial breakthrough happened on their 6th album. They had been doing some good stuff back in the 70's and pre glam 80's. Coverdale's stuff with Page is great. Current Snake stuff is just pure rock and roll. They really dont belong in the hair metal genre any more than Aerosmith of Van Halen.
That was my first thought. Malcolm is very underrated….really good rhythm guitar players that don’t solo tend to be
Many of those bands are actually solid rock bands if you take the visual out. Winger had Berkeley trained musicians. Bon Jovi are RnRHOF'ers Extreme had Nuno Bettencourt. Poison is actually a good rock band (also a bluesy influence) Warrant. Jani Lane had amazing pipes. Skid Row. Sebastian Bach has one of the greatest rock voices of the generation. The radio stuff was often the worst stuff from these bands.
Their opinion is valid to them. The neurology of processing music (in this case, while trying to enjoy a fine meal) is scientific. When I say "shitty," I'm mostly referring to fast/loud and inappropriate for the setting. Think they're gonna play VanHalen at Bern's?
there is a Vietnamese rest here that plays church hymns & for that reason I have not been in 10 years. I am having homemade Bun Cha tonight made be a Hanoian!
I was just giving you a hard time. For a nice dinner, my preference is something like Pavarotti or Edith Piaf (though I get the argument for instrumental music only, too). Something akin to Sinatra is about as crazy as I wanna get for a really nice meal. I wouldn't want to listen to Van Halen eating at Arbys. Sorry Tilly!!
There is a great place down at Ocean Isle that my wife and I love. One of those true beach dives. Sand on the wood plank floor types. Great seafood. Great beer selection. Playing top 40 pop all day long. :/ It's a southern beach dive on the Carolina coast. Should be Buffett and Chesney...maybe Rucker.....not Gaga and Kelce's girlfriend.
