Which Modern Players have a voice?

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Kapo_Polenton said:
Awesome player but his "voice" isn't that much different than a lot of guys in that genre. I would actually say that the voice I do hear is actually an Andy LaRoque vibe but that's LaRoque's vibe right? There are just too many great players now which sort of circles back to my point that there isn't much room for voice when everyone speaks the same language in a variety of tonalities. Voice is Lynch, EVH, RR, Uli Roth, Blackmore , Schenker etc. These guys, you just know it is them the minute they start.

Satchel surprisingly has a bit of a voice. The way he puts things together. But it isn't like the old guard. There was more room for them among other players. Also gear varied a lot.
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I think Brandon has a pretty distinct wide vibrato but yeah other than that everyone is coloring with the same crayons.

I'm not sure if the term voice is supposed to be the same as style, but Laroques style is also unique.
 
Skolphy said:
Andy James...Guthrie Govan...Fred Brum..Matteo Mancuso...Wes Thrailkill...Andre Nieri...Tom Quale....Martin Miller...Angel Vivaldi..Marco Sfogli..
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Quayle has a distinct style. Pretty recognizable. Martin Miller a bit as well.

Andy James, I could never identify his playing. Sfogli either, and I’ve seen many videos of both.
 
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I've listened to a bunch of these guys and while I'm stoked as hell they're getting a new generation of people into guitar playing while seemingly packing their shows, I get the same feeling from them as I do Yngwie; once you've heard one song you've heard them all. Outstanding guitarists and they're definitely doing something on their own, I just want to hear some variance in their tunes.
 
Steve Terreberry doesn't get mentioned enough on this forum. Not Djent....but I can see with media this being the direction guitar is heading. Songs reduced to 20 seconds or less.
 
Sick Michael said:
You watch Instagram for long enough and you hear and see quite a ridiculous array of fretboard gymnastics. I listen to a lot of modern players and I hear guys who are frigging amazing at copping any style there is.

But where is the originality? Who has their own tone and theire own playing style? Who can you recognise after 10 secs of listening? Discuss...
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Vai, for sure. Petrucci.

I'm not really into "modern" players, per se. I'm not really sure how you define it.

Newer, most recent players that have broke into the scene in say, the last five years or so, that impress me are Martin Miller and Tom Quayle. They may have been around longer, but they've only really hit the radar here in the US more. Nick Johnston is another.
 
RevDrucifer said:
I've listened to a bunch of these guys and while I'm stoked as hell they're getting a new generation of people into guitar playing while seemingly packing their shows, I get the same feeling from them as I do Yngwie; once you've heard one song you've heard them all. Outstanding guitarists and they're definitely doing something on their own, I just want to hear some variance in their tunes.
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I'm old as fuck.

I listen to the new crop of metal/progressive/djent/whatever bands and my mind is blown. For about 60 seconds. Then it all starts to sound like:

Syncopated drop Z chugz, followed by inverted close-interval slurred arpeggio, back to chugz, then similar arpeggio but with taps and slides.

It gets old faster than me.

I'm sure that the generation before me, when listening to the shit I grew up on, said that it's all 'pedal tone riff and 3-note-per-scale-wankery'

Meh. Get off my lawn.
 
Dude was already a mindblowing player by the time he was 15 and is still getting better and pushing the envelope further. All three of his band's (DispersE) albums are masterpieces IMO. It's completely insane that the entire band was like 16 when they recorded the Journey Through the Hidden Gardens album



 
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