Are Electric Guitars Dying A Slow Death?

[treyhaislip]

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...Oh he talks as well.....mindboggeling...
Haha nah he is just not my cup of tea!

To each his/her own...I don't care for his music but I appreciate his amazing guitar playing.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Loads of other who plays fantastic(and far more interesting stuff), dunno why this guitarplaying world suffers from so much tunnel vision?

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

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I don't know...Wham! never used electric guitar as far as I can remember. Neither did Whitney Houston, ABBA, Janet Jackson, Elton John, or Milli Vanilli (the real as well the fake one)...so...no, electric guitar isn't dying. Did Bee Gees play guitar?

 

[BriGuy1968]

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I don't know...Wham! never used electric guitar as far as I can remember. Neither did Whitney Houston, ABBA, Janet Jackson, Elton John, or Milli Vanilli (the real as well the fake one)...so...no, electric guitar isn't dying. Did Bee Gees play guitar?

Yes, The Bee Gees played guitar... or at least one of them did!

Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson are strictly vocalists, usually backed up live by a large band that nobody notices, but you can bet there's an electric guitar in there somewhere. ABBA was more of a folk/pop thing and I'm sure was probably more prone to use acoustic guitar.

Elton John... Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting comes immediately to mind, and I can hear some others in my memory that I can't quite identify yet (and I'm not really in the mood to dig into identifying them at the moment). Despite being a piano guy, Elton didn't mind using electric guitar one iota.

As for Wham! and Milli Vanilli... who f***ing cares?

Of course you can find bands that didn't utilize electric guitar, but there were also plenty of 70s and 80s pop bands that did... in fact I'd go as far as to say MOST of them. Today's rock is pretty much limited to metal, and that's sort of what people think of when considering how a guitar might be used for modern music, but at that time electric guitars were common in every popular genre. The electric guitar is actually an extremely versatile instrument that is good for sooooo much more than just metal! [emoji12]

 

[beaubrummels]

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Not being popular is not the same as dying. It just means now we can get all the fakes, phonies and wannabes out of the picture while the true lifelong guitar players continue on.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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ABBA, Elton, Whitney did not have electric guitars....right....
ABBA had plenty of electric guitar....so did Elton, and Whitney also had guitar, Dann Huff played on her records.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

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Let me clarify: Those artists I mentioned might or might not use electric guitar in their music but it's not really fundamental/ prominent to the song.

Even the main riff of MJ's "Black or White" can be replaced with electric piano or synth, and it will still be itself.

 

[Sirion]

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Well, that can be said about a lot of things: Van Halen's And the Cradle Will Rock was, after all, played on a Wurlitzer!

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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+1....yeah most anything can be substituted, rearranged and so on...it is music after all.

 

[AlexR]

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What, guitar music is not guitar music if another instrument can play the same notes.........and I thought we couldn't get any more brainless reasoning than we'd already seen.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Notes are notes....but yeah he is talking to keep himself awake!

 

[AlexR]

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Or digging deeper to try and get out of a self created hole......not for the first time of late either.

 

[GoldenVulture]

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I don't know...Wham! never used electric guitar as far as I can remember. Neither did Whitney Houston, ABBA, Janet Jackson, Elton John, or Milli Vanilli (the real as well the fake one)...so...no, electric guitar isn't dying. Did Bee Gees play guitar?

Yep, probably before you were born.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Are Electric Guitars Dying A Slow Death?

I don't know...Wham! never used electric guitar as far as I can remember. Neither did Whitney Houston, ABBA, Janet Jackson, Elton John, or Milli Vanilli (the real as well the fake one)...so...no, electric guitar isn't dying. Did Bee Gees play guitar?

 

[greekdude]

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It's quite possible that all the notes & chord progressions have been played to death and all the great tones have been found.

There's only so many to go around, after all.

you may be up to smth here. I believe that music is well like "constant", all the good melodies existed long ago in some form or another in the music of some culture. When someone finds/hears/plays or even (re)invents those, the feeling is great.
My home land in the mountainous regions of northwest Greece to the border with Albania is known for its use of the pentatonic scale. When as a kid I was playing Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd some friend of my sis/mom would pass by and say, nice folk clarinet we have here!!!

 

[treyhaislip]

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Loads of other who plays fantastic(and far more interesting stuff), dunno why this guitar playing world suffers from so much tunnel vision?

I don't see it as being tunnel vision...I found out about him mainly because of his awesome Charvel

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Ah most are pretty narrow with their music taste...
Metal more metal...blues blues...more blues....

Other kind of music??
What is that?

 

[treyhaislip]

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Ah most are pretty narrow with their music taste...
Metal more metal...blues blues...more blues....

Other kind of music??
What is that?

Hmm, my music library has 78 Genres...granted there are definitely overlaps BUT I don't buy a song for the genre, I buy a song that I like (have only purchased a handful of MP3 "Albums"...mainly have one or two MP3 songs per artist.)

 

[Mincer]

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Is this the first forum appearance of a Janet Jackson video?

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Music library...ehehe
I have LP's, CD's, and more boxes full of CD's and stuff, even tape cassettes...
And there is the extra drives of music....
Got everything from Mozart to Astral Projection here

It is good to have wide array of music.