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| | Ok, so I was listening to guys like Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen and IMHO, it sucks!!! Am I the only one that can't stand this. It has no emotion, no soul, no heart. It's friggin noise. The bands behind them especially suck. I don't care how fast your hand and fingers move, or how hard it might be to play the way you do. In my book, you gotta have soul first. The brain can't connect emotion to the hands at 64th note speed. In fact, when they play slowly, they still have no soul. SRV is the only guy I know of who can play fast with soul, and he doesn't "shred" I've listened to all the famous ones and none of them do it for me. End rant. |
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| | I prefer a guitarist who pumps out quality original licks, either fast or slow. Guys like Jimmy Page and even Keith Richards are my guitar inspirationalists. As for bass players { which I am } I look up to Paul McCartney who was a minimalist when it came to playing but melodic at the same time and put the notes where they belonged. That is a great talent he has for being able to play so little notes, but making them mean so much. On the other hand is Jaco Pastorius. He played many notes. At times it sounded as if he had 20 fingers but he had soul and swagger, not exactly what I call a shredder compared to lets say Billy Sheehan who blazes the fretboard but really isin't playing anything. Jaco on the other hand played a song within a song with super chops. Geddy Lee lies somewhere in between Jaco and McCartney and is very musical indeed. They all have talent but some apply it better than others.
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| | Somebody asked me at a rehearsal a while back, how long have I been playing for and if I could shred, My reply was I've been shredding paper now for 12 years. |
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| LOL! I like to shred cheese...  For guitar shredding, I agree that it does get old after a short while. If a band's doing a set, and shredding for a solo in a song or two would fit; then it can be okay. Doing it in a "tacked on" sort of way in nearly every song gets boring, though. I should figure out how to shred on my electric dulcimer, just to do it as a joke sometime...
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| Billy Shears (8/18/2007)
I prefer a guitarist who pumps out quality original licks, either fast or slow. .... On the other hand is Jaco Pastorius. He played many notes. At times it sounded as if he had 20 fingers but he had soul and swagger...I agree with both your points, billy. Shredding's certailnly impressive, I'd rather hear a slow phrase played well than hundreds of notes on an unstructured or badly-placed shred - quality beats quantity - maybe it's an age thing!  I saw Jaco Pastorius with Weather Report when I was about 17 - complete with an amazing solo where he played agains his own echo... now that's a class act!  
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| It's because he's a bass player! His typing has to be thick like the phat beats he cranks out.
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| I never thought of it that way Dulch, but now that you mentioned it I guess it makes sense. I often questioned myself on why I like bold writing. It actually isin't bold, it's arial black on #2 setting. Being of Italian decent I talk with my hands to express myself and on the computer I can't use my hands so the thick writing kind of makes up for it. 
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