Tim Henson of Polyphia: Redefining guitar

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Does this band have a female following, or any they more like Rush with an intensely devoted, overwhelmingly male fanbase?

My 16 year old has never heard of this band and none of her friends have either. She keeps me up-to-date with what's popular in youth culture and, talented or not, this is not a good sign if Tim is "redefining guitar".
 
scriptphase said:
Does this band have a female following, or any they more like Rush with an intensely devoted, overwhelmingly male fanbase?

My 16 year old has never heard of this band and none of her friends have either. She keeps me up-to-date with what's popular in youth culture and, talented or not, this is not a good sign if Tim is "redefining guitar".
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It's the equivalent of yngwie but with less songwriting skills and for people with broccoli hair and salmon colored short shorts who say "bussin' " and "on god no cap FRFR"
 
Just heard of him. Checked out his band and ehhh, not my thing at all ( I'm 36 if it matters ) the three tracks I checked out sounded almost the same. If it's getting people to pick up guitar that's great though.
 
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legend71 said:
I do not need guitar redefined
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Strange post. I’m sure at one point some of your favorite players redefined the guitar, then inevitably coasted throughout the rest of their careers riding that accomplishment. I too am sometimes guilty of being a metal Mennonite whereby my favorite players certainly redefined things at one time but I also ignored other emerging styles that pushed the instrument further.
 
It obviously requires a great amount of skill and imagination to do what Tim does. I applaud him and his band for that. Unfortunately, for me, his music doesn't hold my attention very long. It kind of reminds me of something i think Segovia said about flamenco guitarists: noisy?
 
Amazing player but he looks ridiculous. That's just a fact. Now that said, I am sure his look makes them more marketable in some circles and hence why they have him dress that way. I guess it doesn't resonate with me in the slightest but I'd never take anything away from his chops. Just his neck tatto.
 
Fusionbear said:
It obviously requires a great amount of skill and imagination to do what Tim does. I applaud him and his band for that. Unfortunately, for me, his music doesn't hold my attention very long. It kind of reminds me of something i think Segovia said about flamenco guitarists: noisy?
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Yeah, it just sounds like electric flamenco shred, which has been done before.

 
PLX said:
Yeah, it just sounds like electric flamenco shred, which has been done before.

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I LITERALLY just picked up my guitar to practice....and your post makes me wanna just put it down and give up again >: (
 
Techdeth said:
I love how he plays but he’s still a fuck . And his fan bass is weird af . On the Polyphia reddit it’s dudes constantly asking how to get their hair like his and where he shops it’s the weirdest .
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I think that's part of the problem and what I was eluding to..it is a whole brand now. You need to catch people's eye and ear and make sure they want to be like you. He is totally the new age woke hip ( slightly feminine) poster boy that the industry likes. I wonder if om his own time he wears muscle car t shirts and jeans like everybody else. He has got to hate some of those stupid zoolander sweaters he wears.
 
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I think that's part of the problem and what I was eluding to..it is a whole brand now. You need to catch people's eye and ear and make sure they want to be like you. He is totally the new age woke hip ( slightly feminine) poster boy that the industry likes. I wonder if om his own time he wears muscle car t shirts and jeans like everybody else. He has got to hate some of those stupid zoolander sweaters he wears.
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I love his playing . But even he said I’m guitar world he’s got to stop being a prick once the back lash came . He realized it wpujd hurt him later on . So I give him credit for changing it up
 
marvcus said:
Seems like this crowd would like 16-year-old Tim better

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Is that a Wonderbar Washburn guitar? Why no wiggle stick work? lol I knew he could do heavy stuff. When I was working on building guitars with a friend (who is a huge Polyphia fan) he was playing some of their very first recordings and I'm like wait....what? Those are the same dudes that wrote that Goat song you're always trying to play?
 
Did Tim really invent his current style though? I feel like I've been seeing the Djent kids play like this for some time now, including bands like CHON. Just hyper fast tapping and chord changing; super fast melodies, all completely forgettable.
 
Given some of the bands that were around in the 80s when I was a teen, I guess maybe I'm not too phased by feminine-looking dudes. Chicks probably think he's adorable. To paraphrase Family Guy, he's probably pulling more tail than a slow kid at a petting zoo.
 
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Metalhex said:
Did Tim really invent his current style though? I feel like I've been seeing the Djent kids play like this for some time now, including bands like CHON. Just hyper fast tapping and chord changing; super fast melodies, all completely forgettable.
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Lol of course he didn't invent it, they (the guitar media) have to rewrite history and pretend ass polyps is some genre defining game changing creative endeavor, because otherwise they'd have to write the 6 trillionth "EVH pinched a loaf at my house in 1993" article
 
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