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What Style of Guitar Playing Is Best?

Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
edited July 2008 in Other Music
Tuneless shredding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6XzzDDWOs
Or soulful beauty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MI-_jWAmlE

Well? :D
Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
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  • manipulatedlivingmanipulatedliving Posts: 508
    I can't stand people who just drop their guitars to drop d and thrash about like a schitzo. That takes no talent. It's almost like playing guitar hero.
    "I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, 1977
  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    That guy in the first video looked like the biggest douchebag in the world.
    The guy in the second video is the biggest douchebag in the world:D
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Trailer wrote:
    That guy in the first video looked like the biggest douchebag in the world.
    The guy in the second video is the biggest douchebag in the world:D

    The two videos are enough to turn me off guitar music forever. :p
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    The weird thing is, if you play your guitar too fast, it ends up sounding like Fred Durst anyway.
  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Tuneless shredding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6XzzDDWOs
    Or soulful beauty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MI-_jWAmlE

    Well? :D
    Those clips have ruined my day. Who the fuck is Fred Durst? No, I don't want to know.
  • Joe2TheRevengeJoe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    Buckethead and John 5 can both do both.
    You can't spell "dumb" without DMB
  • mbangel10mbangel10 Posts: 548
    I'm going to add a third choice...

    http://www.theguitarzeros.com/

    :P
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  • Fender_ManFender_Man Posts: 408
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    Buckethead and John 5 can both do both.


    I do like Buckethead, not sure about the whole image thing? But i enjoy listening to him play.
  • manipulatedlivingmanipulatedliving Posts: 508
    If you can play guitar that fucking fast, obviously your a virgin with no life.
    "I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, 1977
  • Cropduster84Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    Speed has never really impressed me, it sounds flash but I always associate with washed up guitarits from the 80's....


    A few guitarists I like are Johnny Marr, Jose Gonzalez, Nick Drake and John Frusciante.....they really inspire me.....
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  • CobCob Posts: 858
    I like it when there's a duel........


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  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    Cob wrote:
    I like it when there's a duel........


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW53fiwyskA&feature=related

    That's a cool fucking video!!

    Now that I go back and watch that first video that the original poster posted... I'm even less impressed (considering I was never impressed to begin with). I'd like to hear that guy play without any distortion.. it would sound like complete shit!! I'm sure that guy spends all his time at guitar center showing off his "chops" to all the other speed freaks.
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • Fender_ManFender_Man Posts: 408
    Cob wrote:
    I like it when there's a duel........


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW53fiwyskA&feature=related

    Thanks for posting this, brings back some great memories. I've got this on video up in the atttic somewhere? Haven't seen it for years.
  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    The weird thing is, if you play your guitar too fast, it ends up sounding like Fred Durst anyway.

    Speaking of Durst, what the HELL happened to him? I saw this today and there was a point in the interview where he completely went blank and acted like he didn't know they just talked about a tattoo of his... straaaaaaange. I am not a fan but I couldn't stop watching this train wreck of an interview:

    http://www.tomgreen.com/blog/?post=548
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • Jack_C_GregoryJack_C_Gregory Posts: 540
    The guy in the first video is lightning fast, but it's been done. If you go to any guitar store chain on a Saturday there is usually a kid doing that kind of crap and they are A). alone... or B). With their Ride the Lightning shirt wearing, Big Gulp drinking friend who idolizes them. And, they usually look like the guy in the video, no emotion. Just a blank face. I'll take Lee Ranaldo or Thurston Moore any day of the week over a "shredder."
  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    manipulatedliving wrote:
    I can't stand people who just drop their guitars to drop d and thrash about like a schitzo. That takes no talent. It's almost like playing guitar hero.
    I double drop d, when I tire thrashing about like a schitzo I play a gentle eastern sounding arpeggio.


    I'd say at least the shredder (wasn't he the ninja turtles adversary?) can play, albeit annoyingly. But this Durst gets paid to do that?
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