The Slow Death of the Electric Guitar?

frankblade said:
Wait the fellow You mean George Gruhn and George is the VITO CORLEON of the guitar world cmon you know you pissed cuz he dissed Mayer .
Hey Mayer aint bad but the visa sleeve youngster gotta earn them bones bro sleepin on pool tables in every other dive bar down the gulf coast.
Like Stevie did and eventually it shows cuz anyone can play Stevie like Mayer or Kenny Wayne But they don't sound like him. Now
I'm with Sysco Page changed rock he stepped up the game just like Jeff Beck Clapton to me is 4 th Horseman . And my list is #1 Jimi Hendrix
#2 Jeff Beck # 3 Jimmy page #4 Clapton #5 SRV. Now lets Reveal some real truth this man had a profound influence on most of the above
especially SRV and Clapton and yep Beck .
Yes it was windy and cold I was about 14 years old when I first heard the Wolf man Howl .
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No, it is him. It is not that he does not think Mayer is noteworthy, he does not think there are any "guitar gods" anymore. Typical "they don't make 'em like they used to" dinosaur. Things were best when he was in his prime. Just like the fellas who think Page is an innovative genious - Wow, did you know he once played guitar with a violin bow...ooohhhhh, wild.

Vito Corleone is dead. So is Michael. Move on.
 
I might also add, as long as men and women get together and even part ways,,,,,, and the blues lives on, there will always be a guitar to paint the picture of just what's goin on. Last one I'll post from Robert Cray. Thanks for indulging me.


His tone is so sick on this one, Holy Friggin yeah,,,,,,, do yourselves a favor and take a listen with good headphones.
 
frankblade said:
Ha ha what the hell Ray Mayer can always be your guitar God he just wont never be one of mine.
hey I post this one just for you . Ya know I been sick as poop the past two days spent most of today in bed .
But at 730 this evening I went outside and started changing my front shocks and struts and after breaking loose
the bolts sweating it was still 94 degrees outside and getting everything done I couldn't even lift
the tire onto the lugs my Youngster buddy Blane had to get both tires on for me I was spent .
Zero power left LOL Its okay Ray its okay I don't get mad .Here ya go
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What's to get mad about. You are still Superblade to me. Page just didn't make the list.

Feel better. In a few years we can retire and play other people's songs from our rocking chair..we will tell the young kids that we wrote them. It will be like our very own stairway to heaven.
 
None of them inspired me though.
My blues playing is bad.
I play too many notes and my bends are inaccurate.
 
And just in case, anyone thinks actual Guitar Rock Gods really are headed the way of the dinosaur, this band still steps up to the plate to rock the world.



Listening to the Maiden and all this thread stirred up, all I can say is, F Peavey.

I mean" F the naysayers"
 
Hmmmmm....

Cray, yes, he is good...and Clapton too....SRV had energy, which I like, and I tolerated his single coil tone because of it...Gary Moore, to me, was the best.... Hendrix and Page were talented, but their work left me cold...except for 'Watchtower,' which was Jimi's best...IMHO....Led Zep was classic...no doubt...many a good guitar player around these days...Jason Hook is probably about the best overall...session man...hired gun...super versatile...and then Airbourne...again, high energy....
 
Rock....yes...it has to grab me...there are classic songs, 20 to 30 years old, that I have never heard all the way through, because if the music doesn't grab me, it won't hold my attention and I switch it to something else...
 
PErhaps GODZ and HEROES are different ????

The GODZ --- many and great are some still with us but mostly GONE. They laid the foundations they paved the road and built the temple......they are and always will be the GODS ---period end of story---

The new HEROES are still being built ---still "making their bones" still honing there craft.......this young man comes to mind== this entire group here.....all young all VERY good......all going places----perhaps the GODS for future generations???? OR just heroes???


Regardless......the Violin is not dead it became the FIDDLE and was known to an entirely new round of listeners.....

instruments that have been around since the cave (DRUMS) are still here..........cave writting on walls isnt----- bye bye newspapers the guitar will endure. ;)
 
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