Why dont you just tell me your opinion on the matter. I think that in mainstream rock the guitarists dont play anything difficult. Its all just simple chords progressions and sometimes if your lucky youll get a less than climactic guitar solo.
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i found one...ready?
its meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! lol
mainstream "rock"sucks. nowadays "rock" is pop. which is ***. if a band that played songs anything like used to be made, id pay attention to them. now...its very hard to find one "mainsream" rock band i like...if i even like just one.
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Nightmare says:
No its not that dumbasses, there was crap before and there's crap now, it's just that today there are more bands and artists.
hence more crap is being produced. some one call al gore and tell him its not cars causing global warming...its the bands nowadays producing "crap"! lol.
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^ Oh I didn't see Joe mention the Arctic Monkeys, they're pretty cool. Also, one could make a case for Tom Morello. And there's lots of good metal guitarists around (though they're less mainstream).
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Time after time this basic thread comes up under a different title. it's rather tiring. Every one is listening to old music, classic guitarist like Randy Rhodes, Jimmy Page, Hendrix, Pete Townsend what ever else.
If you keep looking for great guitarists in yesterdays music your going to find yesterdays great guitarists. If you want today great guitarist then listen to today music. Better yet, how about tomorrows music, check out the indie, and un-signed music of myspace and else were on the internet.
You said exactly the same people I was going to GRX :) I would include the whole band though, so Jonny, Ed O'Brien, and Thom Yorke.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is really good, Tom Morello, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, Jack White, the guys in Opeth... all kinds of really good metal guitarists. So yeah, look harder.
Opeth is black metal and it is relativly mainstream.
How about John Petrucci of Dream Theater?
I'd have to agree with Telecrater though there are a fair share of great guitarists in modern music but we as musicans and of an...educational age are to busy looking into the past, my opinion is that it is due to the music other people en-lighten us to in academic places, it makes us believe/feel 'modern music is pants, look into the old' so yes we may gain things but we gain nothing new and lose out on contempory music to learn from.
I'd also have to agree on looking at the indie/un-signed bands/musicans, hell I've found some really insperational bands and some amazing guitarists in my own area through myspace and it's like.
Mainstream is generally any established band that has gained worldwide fame or notoriety. Just because a band plays a particular genre of music doesn't exclude it from being mainstream.
I mean, if you can go into a major chain store like Best Buy and find an album by a band like Opeth (which I did about two weeks ago), then I would classify them as mainstream.
Back on topic. There are plenty of great guitarists out there. There's just so wide of a market that it's hard to narrow down what you would define as a great guitarist in such a growing and competitive profession.
That's it Bodom. THE RADIO. Hip Hop, Pop, Country, Talk, and Spanish dominate the radio. At least in the L.A. area. If it were'nt for the internet and sattelite radio, it would suck for us guitar people. Almost all major radio stations in L.A. in the 70's and 80's were rock stations. And when I say rock I mean metal, punk, classic rock, everything! But know it's all crap.
avenged sevenfold have pretty good guitarists and id say theyre pretty mainstream. muse have an amazing guitarist and you can really get as mainstream as them lol. the legendary solo guitarists are still kicking out the good stuff. the offspring has two good guitarists, sum 41. i can go on forever, just goes to show there are plenty out there you just got to look.
I think brodyxhollow described mainstream fairly accurately: You could go into a chain store and pick up an album. Out of my selections, I would actually be more surprised to see The Mars Volta (Omar Rodriguez-Lopez) in a chain store's selection.
you dont really understand, just because they dont bust out 2 minute solos doesnt mean theyre not good. anyways thats your opinion if they **. i dont care, makes no difference to what i think. also matt belamy from muse is actually a much better guitarist than you think
matter of opinion really infact i really like that sort of music and it just shows that almost everyone here needs to expand their horizons that little bit more, and stop being so intolerent of others music.
As different genres of rock develop they sooner or later become mainstream. Once the genre hits mainstream it's no longer about the quality of the music itself but money. It then becomes more about production of the music, the image of the band, and its ability to attract large audiences. Punk is a great example of how a whole genre can be ruined by money.
A good punk band is one that no one knows of except for the small following it has in its town. The lead singer is usually a drug attict who eventually overdoses and dies, the lead guitarists ends up in jail for assault and other charges, and the drumer marries his long time girlfriend and becomes an accountant for her dads firm.
i think that yes, mainstream can ruin a genre. rock has been ruined in my opinion. in the 70's, rock was about melodies and harmonies and the songs had alot of meaning to them(this was mainstream then). Now the mainstream stuff, is about what will appeal to the younger people this generation. Rock isnt the mainstream type of music anymore though I think rap or something like that is.
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owensp says:
i think that yes, mainstream can ruin a genre. rock has been ruined in my opinion. in the 70's, rock was about melodies and harmonies and the songs had alot of meaning to them(this was mainstream then)
Eric Clapton "Roll it Over":
"Go down easy and let me take my time.
Go down easy and let me take my time.
Rock me slow till I lose my mind.
Roll it over, let's take it from behind.
Roll it over, let's take it from behind.
It's only love, God knows it ain't no crime"
It's not deep at all. It's about having sex. Of course, Clapton is an excellent guitarist, and he did have a lot of deeper songs, but it's no different than any mainstream song now.
EDIT:
John Mayer is a pretty good guitarist, and he's mainstream:
Even though he dresses like a total tool (two popped collars?), he shows good skill.
You are somewhat correct, they are a progressive black/death metal
Quote from my Guitar World magazine interview with Opeth:
'Even though we were part of the Black Metal scene, I didn't feel like we really belonged to it; we were more like hippies'-Mikael Akerfeldt
But yeah I'm not a massive fan of them so I won't argue anymore about it.
That was a pretty nice, improv?, then...kind of SRV influnced.