Are Electric Guitars Dying A Slow Death?

[treyhaislip]

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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.

I used to have tapes and cd albums (still have a ton in storage somewhere lol) but really like how MP3s can be played on multiple devices and no worries of scratching or tape coming apart/jamming. I still remember my first MP3 Player...stored lik 5 songs.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Hehe yeah it is easy...but I don't like the sound much.
My turntable is as busy as it ever where these days

 

[treyhaislip]

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Hehe yeah it is easy...but I don't like the sound much.
My turntable is as busy as it ever where these days

 

[CCG30]

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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.

How can they be oldies bands when I don't even know WTH they are?

That is exactly what I was thinking! was that music ever popular? I had to look them up on YouTube.

 

[CCG30]

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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.

How can they be oldies bands when I don't even know WTH they are?

Electric guitar didn't play a major role if any, in pop music, in the 70s (Donna Summers, Girogio Moroder, Kraftwerk), 80s (Madonna, Michael Jackson, Whitney, Duran Duran, A-ha, Rick Astley, Debbie Gibson), 90s (boy bands), but I don't see anyone complainin'.

not sure that's accurate
Most successful artists of 1970s Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Abba, and Led Zeppelin
Most successful artists of 1980s Prince, Madonna, U2, Michael Jackson

lots of guitar going on there
https://tsort.info/music/faq_decade_artists.htm

 

[dave74]

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Face it,,,,,,guitar is just too amazing to be going anywhere but up or sideways!

 

[Sirion]

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That is exactly what I was thinking! was that music ever popular? I had to look them up on YouTube.

Those bands had their time of day around 1990, but they came to late to much of a mark for themselves and pretty much disappeared when alternative took over for metal in the mainstream. FireHouse went double platinum with their debut album, so they did fairly well. (Same thing with Slaughter, another band nobody who wasn't there has heard of.)

 

[jalguitarman]

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And yet Every time I have gone into Guitar Center, I see teens that are drooling over guitars. I am thinking mostly Les Paul's. It might just be like has been mentioned that Reverb and Ebay are such great sources for finding cool used instruments that it has affected NEW sales. But the main thing is, I still see young kids who are into guitar. So I personally don't see it dying any time soon.

 

[Paully]

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Not according to these young guys!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aJg4OJxp-co

 

[Jacew]

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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.

But why it seems that a relative number of wannabes and phonies in rock seems to be going up rather than down? With dedicated guitarists going to deep end metal or some other widely popular genre. It seems that every guitarist likes classic rock and metal, but no one is playing it anymore!

 

[some_dude]

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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]

This topic reminded me of this;

 

[Godin15]

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I know it isn't for me just purchased my 4th Electric. All I have to say is ROCKNROLL Baby!!

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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[MetalManiac]

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That is so stupid. Firsts of all, they are doing a lame cover of Argent, next..any idiot who works with electricity on a wet floor deserves to be electrocuted to death, and finally, Kiss isn't Kiss w/o Ace or Peter.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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Jerry, nobody cares.

 

[MetalManiac]

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I wouldnt say that..you and me could both retire on the money they made on that , and live well..very very well. if thats an example of guitars dying , than fall guitar.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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Let's not lose sight of what's important here: The guitar is a manifestation of awesomeness in the world.

 

[BriGuy1968]

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That is so stupid. Firsts of all, they are doing a lame cover of Argent, next..any idiot who works with electricity on a wet floor deserves to be electrocuted to death, and finally, Kiss isn't Kiss w/o Ace or Peter.

It's actually a lame cover from a Christian band called Petra, but thanks for playing!

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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The Kiss version was on a Bill & Ted soundtrack, therefore Kiss wins.

 

[Mincer]

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It is a terrible song, with terrible lyrics, so the more important thing is that we all lose.