Are Electric Guitars Dying A Slow Death?
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Little Pigbacon
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I guess it doesn't bother me that much if the young people of today aren't listening to oldies bands like Firehouse and Dangerous Toys. I don't really want more competition for old records, or old Japanese shred machines for that matter.
I guess it doesn't bother me that much if the young people of today aren't listening to oldies bands like Firehouse and Dangerous Toys. I don't really want more competition for old records, or old Japanese shred machines for that matter.
Chris Pile
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How can they be oldies bands when I don't even know WTH they are?
How can they be oldies bands when I don't even know WTH they are?
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Little Pigbacon
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Oldies isn't a time period or a genre. Just about all music is going to be considered oldies by someone, eventually. And a lot of it will go through one or more nostalgia cycles. Right now there are people on the Internet (I guess that's where they live?) going through nostalgia for crap from the 90's that I've never heard of or didn't pay any attention to. Spin Doctors and Soul Coughing are somebody's classic rock.
Oldies isn't a time period or a genre. Just about all music is going to be considered oldies by someone, eventually. And a lot of it will go through one or more nostalgia cycles. Right now there are people on the Internet (I guess that's where they live?) going through nostalgia for crap from the 90's that I've never heard of or didn't pay any attention to. Spin Doctors and Soul Coughing are somebody's classic rock.
GoldenVulture
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There's more choice and range out there in the big wide world than ever before for guitars , guitar components, peripheral devices and amplifiers.
There's Custom and Boutique Luthiers and many more guitar companies than thirty or forty years ago. I think it's still growing, isn't it ?
I think they may be well alive and kicking...:wizard:
There's more choice and range out there in the big wide world than ever before for guitars , guitar components, peripheral devices and amplifiers.
There's Custom and Boutique Luthiers and many more guitar companies than thirty or forty years ago. I think it's still growing, isn't it ?
I think they may be well alive and kicking...:wizard:
RandomToneGuy
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I only briefly skimmed this article, but essentially my Gen, 90s kids, couldn't give a rip about music, I know some who do, some who only care to listen to it, but by playing it, most people just want popular stuff, I don't end to hear a song that is poorly thought out smut, I tend to like real music about real emotional struggles and feeling, I like to hear instruments not synthesizers, unless there's an instrument plugged in. I don't know popular stuff today is basically the same 4 songs in a different key, I want music to be played not fabricated, it's music not wood that were cutting to play music on, but music.
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I only briefly skimmed this article, but essentially my Gen, 90s kids, couldn't give a rip about music, I know some who do, some who only care to listen to it, but by playing it, most people just want popular stuff, I don't end to hear a song that is poorly thought out smut, I tend to like real music about real emotional struggles and feeling, I like to hear instruments not synthesizers, unless there's an instrument plugged in. I don't know popular stuff today is basically the same 4 songs in a different key, I want music to be played not fabricated, it's music not wood that were cutting to play music on, but music.
Edited do to my poor typing, and quick typing.
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Sirion
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I am astonished that people are only noticing this now. I had this feeling when I started playing back in 2002! Even then it was obvious to me that nothing truly new was being done on the instrument, at least not in mainstream contexts. I really hate to say this, because people are going to take it the wrong way, but it seems to me this has been coming since alternative replaced metal in the mainstream in the early 90s. There might be resurgences yet, but by now it seems to me at least that the days of the instrument are obviously numbered.
And that is of course fine: the instrument will find its niche and survive as an eccentric pastime and in books on music history. Should anybody 50 years from now be interested in it, there will be an enormous repertoire to choose from, and there will probably be a ton of cheap instruments out there. But yes, in the larger scheme of things it is going the same road the gamba, the ophicleide, the concertina and any number of other instruments.
I am astonished that people are only noticing this now. I had this feeling when I started playing back in 2002! Even then it was obvious to me that nothing truly new was being done on the instrument, at least not in mainstream contexts. I really hate to say this, because people are going to take it the wrong way, but it seems to me this has been coming since alternative replaced metal in the mainstream in the early 90s. There might be resurgences yet, but by now it seems to me at least that the days of the instrument are obviously numbered.
And that is of course fine: the instrument will find its niche and survive as an eccentric pastime and in books on music history. Should anybody 50 years from now be interested in it, there will be an enormous repertoire to choose from, and there will probably be a ton of cheap instruments out there. But yes, in the larger scheme of things it is going the same road the gamba, the ophicleide, the concertina and any number of other instruments.
Demanic
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Every generation that grew up listening to hip hop has had their ability to appreciate any other type of music truncated. Their brains never developed the ability to hear things like harmony or counterpoint. It's sort of like color blindness. Lacking exposure to more complex musical forms has left them incapable of appreciating them now that those parts of their brains have stopped developing.
Not that it would be impossible for individuals to work to developed an appreciation for more complex forms of music. But it's unlikely that most of them would undertake the effort.
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Every generation that grew up listening to hip hop has had their ability to appreciate any other type of music truncated. Their brains never developed the ability to hear things like harmony or counterpoint. It's sort of like color blindness. Lacking exposure to more complex musical forms has left them incapable of appreciating them now that those parts of their brains have stopped developing.
Not that it would be impossible for individuals to work to developed an appreciation for more complex forms of music. But it's unlikely that most of them would undertake the effort.
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RandomToneGuy
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Yup, your personal righting back then and I would have been 6 or 7 years old, around their I firsthand a tiny desire to learn to play guitar. But I yeah most people I know aren't interested in playing as more than a hobby, I'll be waiting until I'm 30 tomorrow a Band this rate, but I blame my gen for that.ithappened before 90s kidsgrew up, but 90s kids dropped the ball almost completely.
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RandomToneGuy
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Why do I feel like this describes half the people I know, but more with pop music? I have no problem with music that is so soft it's considered pop, but when polis all there is, the same thing described with hip hop takes place.
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RandomToneGuy
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I wish it wasn't,it's cool it stuck so long, but I wish it could continue,oh well I probably will continue.
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Demanic
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In case you haven't noticed, "pop" music became synonymous with hip hop about 20 or so years ago. It's certainly nothing like what it was from the 50's through the 70's. The 80's were when the change started to occur with the British synth pop.
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In case you haven't noticed, "pop" music became synonymous with hip hop about 20 or so years ago. It's certainly nothing like what it was from the 50's through the 70's. The 80's were when the change started to occur with the British synth pop.
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RandomToneGuy
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I knew it was heavily influenced, but your right, they've watered down both into some synthesized mixture.
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RandomToneGuy
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I need to double check my typos.
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