I remember hearing a guy once play spanish guitar at a party. I was like what is this shit. Went searching, quickly found de Lucia. Listened for alike a good minute and was like "I see the skill but… Fuck, is this what spanish guitar is? There’s no… It’s not… It doesn’t elicit anything, it’s like a super elaborate soap opera. Then I dug deeper and found the real shit, and understood. So Paco did get me into Spanish Guitar.
Yeah, Vai and Satirani I know, and I have some respect for them. But it is also the case that I can’t get past 30 secs with them. It’s too… Too indulgent. Where’s the meat?
you got these guys all wrong, man. if all they wanted to do was show off and get rich/laid doing it, they’da started a rock band. no, these dudes are highly skilled musicians who’ve spent their life studying and perfecting the guitar and are therefore able to surpass the more mundane aspects of playing. all that simple feel-good shit is easy for them… they’re not playing it not because they don’t understand it or have any sentimental appreciation for the simper stuff… but because it simply isn’t enough for them. they go beyond that because they have to. it’s like you’re expecting a racing horse to trot when he’d prefer to gallop.
it’s not a matter of ‘look how good i am on guitar’, but rather ‘look at what a guitar is capable of if you put the right guy on it.’ you’re looking for the wrong things… and this is because the music industry is so full of posturing cornballs, it’s ruined it for everyone. no you think; if this guys shreds, he must be trying to intimidate and show off. and sure, when you’re that good you’ll be a bit cocky, but that’s not arrogance, because these dudes really are that good. and when they play these machine gun solos the purpose is to push the limits of what the guitar can do for the love of the instrument itself. and godammit, when it takes you twenty years to be able to play that well, you deserve more than ‘oh you’re just trying to show off’. these guys aren’t rappers, man. they’re artists. they’re into the art, and couldn’t care less how cool you think they are or aren’t.
Coming from a Vai and Satirani and Paco de Lucia fan, I think I know the kind of thing you listen for.
Which in your case is forgivable, as you are able to actually translate that into art. But, alas, like so many of the world’s gifted, you prefer to waste your time bitching and ranting. Using all your energy up in the “struggle.”
It’s a shame. It’s such a flawless mechanism, I am convinced it has been done on purpose. To keep the talented people down.
Holy christ make it stop! It’s like lady gaga on crystal meth or something. I haven’t heard anything this bad since that obnoxious freak yoko ono was jumping around on stage with lennon.
You owe me 1.4 mbs of mobile data for clicking on that garbage, dude.
Paco de Lucia has a lot of talent. But aesthetically, he is like a mandala of flowers within flowers.
This girl has massive talent, probably more talent with her vocal chords than de Lucia has with his gueetar. But the asthetics… Are a little more complicated.
You seem to like polished surfaces. de Lucia. Crimson King. Grateful Dead. Vai. Things that transmit nice things. Being a snob, because I believe you too are a snob, you require there to be massive skill behind it. But your soul likes sort of non offensive, pleasant things.
Fortunately for you, or furtunately for you if you weren’t allergic to means, this is an era that rewards your asthetic inclinations.
Polished. Accomplished. Doesn’t matter if Primus is going on about some non-sensical story, they are telling it with clean, vastly complex funk riffs.
This is the present man. You could cash that in. Don’t you find that a similar cleanliness of portions is also present in trap compared to the dirtier 90’s rap?
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huh
rather than
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