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rsm said:
...but having more can help a lot.

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To be fair, I think guitarists like Tim Henson, Ichika Nito and Yvette Young deserve the hype, these are Asian guitarists who started super young and likely had their fingers beaten to start playing professionally trained classical pieces before they even hit puberty....

These guitarists are frowned on by fans of the most technical guitarists of the 80's but yet these modern kid guitarists blow those hair metal guitar gods away in every inch.

I'm excited to see what guitarists play like 3 generations down the road... if I even live that long.

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Yes, I'm the man who's wife randomly bought him the Ibanez Tim Henson pink guitar 😆
 
john mayer is from my town, i missed him in high school by a year, he was in bands with my friends older brothers though and we used to go watch them play, dudes been great forever
 
SteveGlitch said:
To be fair, I think guitarists like Tim Henson, Ichika Nito and Yvette Young deserve the hype, these are Asian guitarists who started super young and likely had their fingers beaten to start playing professionally trained classical pieces before they even hit puberty....

These guitarists are frowned on by fans of the most technical guitarists of the 80's but yet these modern kid guitarists blow those hair metal guitar gods away in every inch.

I'm excited to see what guitarists play like 3 generations down the road... if I even live that long.

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Yes, I'm the man who's wife randomly bought him the Ibanez Tim Henson pink guitar 😆
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I like them all .
 
SteveGlitch said:
These guitarists are frowned on by fans of the most technical guitarists of the 80's but yet these modern kid guitarists blow those hair metal guitar gods away in every inch.
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There's something that a lot of technically extraordinary musicians lack, and that's the main thing that makes good music -- SOUL.
 
67mike said:
Do they have soul and swing?

If not: fuck em.
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I don't even care for most of Polyphia, especially their newer music. I can't help but laugh though when I see people posting "do they have soul and swing?". Go listen to them and figure it out. The problem with guitarists and "metal heads" is that they're all biased gate keepers who think whatever they listen to is the only good music in existence. On this forum it's a bunch of EVH nut swingers. If you listen to Polyphia's Renaissance album and don't hear "soul" or "groove" then the issue is your pre existing bias, it isn't the new music being released.
 
PiggySmallz said:
I don't even care for most of Polyphia, especially their newer music. I can't help but laugh though when I see people posting "do they have soul and swing?". Go listen to them and figure it out. The problem with guitarists and "metal heads" is that they're all biased gate keepers who think whatever they listen to is the only good music in existence. On this forum it's a bunch of EVH nut swingers. If you listen to Polyphia's Renaissance album and don't hear "soul" or "groove" then the issue is your pre existing bias, it isn't the new music being released.
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PiggySmallz said:
I don't even care for most of Polyphia, especially their newer music. I can't help but laugh though when I see people posting "do they have soul and swing?". Go listen to them and figure it out. The problem with guitarists and "metal heads" is that they're all biased gate keepers who think whatever they listen to is the only good music in existence. On this forum it's a bunch of EVH nut swingers. If you listen to Polyphia's Renaissance album and don't hear "soul" or "groove" then the issue is your pre existing bias, it isn't the new music being released.
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I don’t really care for them either, but fuck their drummer shreds with groove when I watch them live, I watch for him more than the guitar players
 
PiggySmallz said:
I don't even care for most of Polyphia, especially their newer music. I can't help but laugh though when I see people posting "do they have soul and swing?". Go listen to them and figure it out. The problem with guitarists and "metal heads" is that they're all biased gate keepers who think whatever they listen to is the only good music in existence. On this forum it's a bunch of EVH nut swingers. If you listen to Polyphia's Renaissance album and don't hear "soul" or "groove" then the issue is your pre existing bias, it isn't the new music being released.
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This may be turned into something else and I may be called a troll but I think Guitarism is in a better place now than or was in the 80's. I feel like the 80's was full of guitarists trying to copy each other's method and a competition of speed. Today's guitarists are made up of originality and being set apart, in my opinion.

And for anyone else who gets the wrong idea when they read this, I'm not saying there wasn't amazing guitarists who were pioneers... thing is that EVERY era has it's pioneers. Today's Polymath/Poly-
Rhythm exceed any technicality/soul aspect that has been achieved. So good on these kids who play in their bedrooms instead of going with friends and doing whatever. They've realized all that hard work truly does pay off
 
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