Could have written this in the 00s about computer synths, the 90s about rap, tha 80s about hardware synths, the 70s, well, the 70s were goid to guitars, but the 60s the organ was king, in the 50s, the electric guitar was new. Its always been an ebb and flow of popular music.
The slow death of the electric guitar
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#13rock n' roll will never die as Neil Young put it. Its just taking a break and going to hell to reorganize. Rock is here to stay and is out of fashion now but the cycle will come back and just like clothing fashion 20-30 years from now a new wave will happen.
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#14Completely broken on Safari because of scroll jacking. Had to actually drag the scroll bar until the text starts.
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#15Previous discussion yesterday:
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#16Slash was the last famous guitarist. There's your proof that guitarists used to be a big deal, but are no more.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitari...
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#17It's ironic that young people are losing interest in the guitar at a time when there is an amazingly enormous amount of resources freely available for learning it.
When I started to learn guitar several decades ago, I would learn guitar solos off of records by slowing them down to 16 rpm (old turntables could do that) and moving the needle back repeatedly to listen to tricky phrases over and over again. It was frustrating, time consuming, and hell on on the records.
Today, for just about any popular and many obscure guitar-oriented songs, you can find a Youtube video where someone breaks it down note by note and chord by chord. There are all kinds of resources online for learning scales and theory and online communities where an aspiring guitarist can connect with thousands of other like-minded people.
I would like to see guitar-oriented rock and roll make a comeback. The heavy metal subculture is thriving without any mainstream radio airplay to speak of, but aside from that, there's just not that much going on.
If I see a local rock band play in a bar these days, about 80% of the time it will be all middle-aged men who have been playing for decades. Some of them are even retirement age.
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#18rock n' roll will never die as Neil Young put it. Its just taking a break and going to hell to reorganize. Rock is here to stay and is out of fashion now but the cycle will come back and just like clothing fashion 20-30 years from now a new wave will happen.
We've now had over 30 years of house music. They won.
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#19Learning an instrument requires commitment and a lot of practice. And more practice. And more practice. And a lifetime of learning.
How many people have the patience for that? Particularly in Generation Internet Points Right Now?
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#20Slash was the last famous guitarist. There's your proof that guitarists used to be a big deal, but are no more. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitari...
That has more to do with the propaganda apparatus of producers and promoters cherry-picking virtuosos and taking them on a fame ride to demonstrate the miracle unicorn lotteries of capitalism's permissive pop culture, when contrasted against the typical realities of the meritocracy-oriented communist worker.