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With all the "Guitar Hero" video games becoming so popular, it seems that playing lead guitar has become "cool" again. I'm so glad. The other day while walking our dogs, I heard loud music coming from inside a minivan at a stop sign. The windows were all rolled up, and were ready to burst from the SPL. What was playing? Uncle Ted f'n Nugent's STRANGLEHOLD!!! All is well in the good ol' USA. :D :D :D
 
A minivan? Then the music selection was the driver's choice. And the driver was most likely a 40-something mom or dad, shlepping the kids to the mall.

Nice try, but the kids today still don't get it. Look at the acts at the top of the charts. They're not known for their guitar heroics.
 
Joey, Guitar Hero is what is killing guitar today. Kids play it, and either try real guitar and find it too hard and go back to GH, or they think they're great at guitar when all they can play (badly) are some powerchords.
 
gotta love some nugent!

I hope history repeats itself and we get the lead guitar back in rock.

guitar hero is surely responsible for more kid guitarists. I think its a great thing. I have never once regretted picking up guitar. its a good clean hobby.

but I agree that new rock is boring for the most part. too much about image and not enough about talent anymore.
 
No doubt, there are some 10 year old kids that could whip my *** at "Guitar Hero" (never played it). But I have witnessed a sort of underground society of young kids digging the classic "lead guitar" playing of days gone by. I saw a kid at the amp summit wearing out a Tele and a 'Paul with some smokin' blues based lead work about a month ago. And if there were any kids in the previously mentioned minivan, they were getting a heavy DOSE. :twisted:
 
hmmm..black mini?/couldve been me :oops: :D
as a teacher, I have a bunch o' students who "play"....no doubt, it has improved the exposure to guitar oriented rock...they ask questions about songs from long ago all the time...hear it blasting in the parking lot...I have concluded that all of my students who are struggling with actually playing the guitar are also guitarhero players...one is feeding the other in many cases, which is a good thing...its my 40 something yr old friends who play 3 chords who have sold their souls to GH because they never figured out how to play a Bminor that frighten me!!
 
I think it's GH is helping, it gets young kids back into rock which is the first step. There will always be pop at the top of the charts, but mtv and pop culture is still ruled by Rap and reality shows. Bands like Coheed and Cambria and even some of the hardcore bands like Killswitch engage get new guitarists to learn to play well. all you need is a little more technique than playing dropped D bar chords and to start noodling. I notice it more and more. I think what we need is me being famous making kids wanna play guitar ...

(like eddie van halen once did, or ace frehley... im better than ace but not eddie of course hahahahahahahh)
 
cvansickle said:
A minivan? Then the music selection was the driver's choice. And the driver was most likely a 40-something mom or dad, shlepping the kids to the mall.

Nice try, but the kids today still don't get it. Look at the acts at the top of the charts. They're not known for their guitar heroics.
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I don't know if I still count as a kid or not (I'm 22), but I"m all about the guitar lead! My old band used to laugh at me cuz I'd put a solo in just about every song I wrote :mrgreen:

I really don't like guitar hero anymore--I had a brief stint with it but got tired of it when I noticed it was harder to play songs on the game than it is to play them for real-- but at least it is exposing more of mainstream culture to some great guitar rock that would otherwise be forgotten or overlooked.
 
Whoever said, "the kids dont get it" seems to not get it themselves. Also, making the assumption that all kids listen to is top 40 is absurd. The best music is defiantly not heard on top 40 or any other valuation device people use to rate music. Many younger people that I know are very educated and skilled in playing all kinds of music. I would say more so than those bland classic rock bands that play the variations of the same blues scale up and down the neck all day long. Now dont get me wrong, there were a lot of extremely skilled players who took a lot of leaps back then and set some major foundations for the "kids" today. All I am saying, is someone is being bias,and needs to open up their mind the same way they are suggesting that the kids should open theirs.
 
I'm wondering if we (the older REAL rockers) are kind of behind the 8 ball so to speak. True, there is a LOT of mindless music out there that people think is good (eehhhh!!!) ... there was when we were all younger too. I won't go into that, I don't want to become ill.

What made me want to reply here is a statement by my daughters friend the other day...."Have you heard of Peter Frampton? You should see him, he's only 17!!!"

Turns out they thought they had something "new". It was really funny when I played them my old LP of "Rockin the Fillmore" :mrgreen: :mrgreen: !! I haven't laughed this hard in years after I saw the look on their faces...PRICELESS!!

The best thing though...I caught my daughter going through my old albums the next day looking at Nugent, Triumph, Rush, Judas Priest, ZZ, etc. She said "These are really cool, Dad. How long have you had these?"......I'll probably stop laughing in a couple of days :lol:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_D4QhevNPw

Even with the shitty audio, you can hear those all too familiar "blues" scales up and down the neck :roll: . Don't get me wrong, I want there to be another Jimi, EVH, SRV within the new generation of players. And soon. :D
 
JOEY B. said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_D4QhevNPw

Even with the sh!t audio, you can hear those all too familiar "blues" scales up and down the neck :roll: . Don't get me wrong, I want there to be another Jimi, EVH, SRV within the new generation of players. And soon. :D
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HAHAHAHA what a crazy cover :lol: , who's actually playing guitar on that, it lists zappa in the credits but it sounds so Zach Wylde-esque?


Personally I think every kid should be introduced to Jason Becker when they decide they want to take guitar seriously. I wish I'd found out about him way earlier it was an instant horizon expander.
 
DaveBorn2Rock said:
HAHAHAHA what a crazy cover :lol: , who's actually playing guitar on that
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As far as I know, it's all Dweezil Zappa. One who could be considered an "old fart" in some circles. Not in mine! :lol: :lol: :lol:

He also did some "guest" lead playing on the Extreme "Pornograffitti" CD. :D
 
if anything GH is introducing kids to music that they may not normally be exposed to in the current "sheep parade" mainstream music scene. Bands like Foghat and Heart are jammed in this game and kids see what some really butt kicking guitar playing there was before they were born and Incubus became famous.
 
My little brother (22) is a GH nut. We were jamming one day and he did a great rendition of Iron Man. I hadn't played the song in like 10 years. I asked where that came from and he said..."Guitar Hero."

So like others said. I think one feeds the other.

Personally I suck at GH. My brother just laughs.
 
UPDATE:

I got my first dose of this gaming guitar experience at a New Years Eve party last Wednesday night. It was actually a game called Rock Band. As predicted, I sucked at cyber guitar :lol: . There were lots of good guitar rock songs to choose from, hence my point about the influence on today's youth. BUT, this game is about nothing more than hand-eye coordination, no musical skills or perfect pitch ear required, for sure. :roll:
 
JOEY B. said:
UPDATE:

I got my first dose of this gaming guitar experience at a New Years Eve party last Wednesday night. It was actually a game called Rock Band. As predicted, I sucked at cyber guitar :lol: . There were lots of good guitar rock songs to choose from, hence my point about the influence on today's youth. BUT, this game is about nothing more than hand-eye coordination, no musical skills or perfect pitch ear required, for sure. :roll:
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Exactly. i've tried both GH and Rock Band (and sucked, royally) and while i could see the entertainment value, i found myself wanting to actually play the songs the way i know how to play them instead of the stimulus/response method that these games use. I found i was actually better when i was playing songs i hadn't heard before or didn't know how to play.

In any case, i look at the GH phenomenon like this...there are bound to be a bunch of kids who think they can turn their GH skills into real guitar talent and i'm sure a lot of them do...but the nature of video games being what they are (entertainment for people with short attention spans) inevitably many of them will give up and sell their gear. At which point i will be there to buy it at bargain basement prices.

Thanks GH!!!!
 
MF said:
...but the nature of video games being what they are (entertainment for people with short attention spans) inevitably many of them will give up and sell their gear. At which point i will be there to buy it at bargain basement prices.

Thanks GH!!!!
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Why I won't take that....wait what was I talking about again?
 
rabies said:
i profess the lack of acid in the rain. no drugs, no go. thus the proliferation of the crap and ensuing followers of the crap.

the 90's had some sick sh!t. i was just listening to pearl jam's first record today. fantastic. soundgarden and AIC had some great leads too. went to hell post 2000. fall out boy? wtf is that? what a stupid name. the names of these bands are horrible now. dave matthew's granny's band?

btw, pink floyd and RHCP were most likely top 40 and they had some AMAZING leads...

and pantera debuted at #1 on the billboard with far beyond driven. don't even try to forget that...
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+1......these are all bands i love also especially AIC and Pantera, Fall out boy is crap, most stuff you have oushed down your throat anymore is crap
 

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