What happened to guitar solos?

[Mr. Shadow]

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And here's one more excellent blues solos I just discovered tonight. Enjoy!

 

[troggy]

Re: What happended to the guitr solos

MP3's are a good example, Taha. kids dont want super long songs to fill their ipods up. So is this what is killing the guitar solo, too

As if that's a bad thing. Do you really think that songs from the 70's or 80's are inherently better, just because they were longer and had more guitar solos than songs from the 50's and 60's?

 

[Mr. Shadow]

Re: What happended to the guitr solos

As if that's a bad thing. Do you really think that songs from the 70's or 80's are inherently better, just because they were longer and had more guitar solos than songs from the 50's and 60's?

I think that there were more musicians interested in making music than in making money in the 60's. Today too many bands get lazy and sample other people's creativity. Faster, wilder, and louder doesn't make a song better. I think the earlier musicians also had more of a foundation in classical music and understood structure and form better. Artists may have mentored under a previous artist, and then went on to evolve their sound into a personal signature sound of their own. Recording gear was more primitive. You learned to do more with less. I didn't take a load of overdubs and the sound was more honest.

That's how I hear it anyway.

I think the majority of newer music to be pure garbage. I have no use for it.

 

[0000]

Re: What happended to the guitr solos

As if that's a bad thing. Do you really think that songs from the 70's or 80's are inherently better, just because they were longer and had more guitar solos than songs from the 50's and 60's?

some of the songs, yes... the guitar solo is very appealing to me, not only because I play.. it just sounds awesome, and in response to the "guitar solos today" discussion, kids my age do not want to wait through them, also, you kind of have the two branches of the impatience and lack of appretiation for skill... The first branch does not care about skill or feeling, just that it is catchy and other people like it, not only them, Two, they have a bit of a punk attitude towards music, the kind of "don't bore us, get to the chorus" thing where they don't want to wait, and they don't have the attention span, they just want something they can sing along with and that will hold their attention, as Magic and someone else said a lot of kids are very, very spoiled and they want what they want when they want it and will not sacrifice anything to get what they want, their way or the highway basically

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

Got enough metaphors bergy?

And nothing has happened to guitar solos, they're just no longer popular in mainstream music, but are found in indie. Listen to Dinsaur Jr.'s I Don't Wanna Go There for a long and tasty 2009 solo.

 

[Soot and Stars]

I honestly don't miss them. Once and a while I'll hear a good one but I really get bored with guitar theatrics especially when they are jamming.

 

[LG]

I like a good guitar solo myself, I don't know enough about many of the newer bands to offer a sapient comment. I like simple short songs, enormous long complex songs, and everything in between.

I do agree with Shadow about the old musicians doing more with less, and the kids today as EB pointed out want everything instantly, patience is becoming a lost art I would say.

 

[Foxhound]

I honestly don't miss them. Once and a while I'll hear a good one but I really get bored with guitar theatrics especially when they are jamming.

I enjoy a good guitar, or any other instrument, solo during the instrumental break of a song - but like you I can't abide instrumental noodling/prolonged jamming or guitar "theatrics" of any sort. Enough already! I paid to hear more than one of your songs. Play the next song or haven't you practiced any of the others for this concert?

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

Nothing wrong with jamming, the JBT have made a great career out of it

 

[Foxhound]

The John Butler Trio I presume? That may explain why they've never caught my attention.

What's wrong with jamming is that when I pay the ticket price bands ask for concerts these days, I expect them to play more than five or six numbers. I expect a good representative sample of their discography/hits.