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The guitar seems to drop in and out of corporate popular music every 10 - 15 years. And also, the music that inspires the bedroom players that shape the future is rarely the stuff that's on the radio. Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and all those bands that inspired the guitar players of our relatively collective youth was on those dark FM stations that we found in the middle of the night surfing the radio dial in our rooms it wasn't Top 40 by any means.
The current batch of all dancers and no musicians music that dominates the radio and television isn't really inspiring kids to want to make music. I live and perform in college town areas and the majority of my audiences are college age kids that are searching for American roots music. And if you look at the touring bands at the club level, they're playing country, old time and mountain inspired music. And it's a strong movement as newer and younger players are growing beards and singing their hearts out. I don't think organic guitar based music is even close to dying, but just like all the years past you gotta look for it to find it.
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IMO, the acoustic guys just seem to be doing what they do, sometimes playing wild looking acoustics, not taking themselves too seriously, etc. Your average Andy McKee track has more "shredding" than the average rawk album. |
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If the "music industry" is going to thrive, I really think it's going to have to get more democratic, too, from greater rights for artists to more inclusive instrument design. That means more diversity in instrument sizes - how about more appropriate instruments for women and left-handed players, just for a start? The same is true of other instruments. There's a movement to vary sizes on piano keys to accommodate more diverse players. We no longer live in a world where only the elite can access these things or where it can afford to be ruled by centuries of tradition.
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I winced in disbelief when George Gruhn said that John Mayer hasn't inspired young people to play, and quit reading when the writer called Lita Ford a 'guitar hero'.
What Vernon Reid said struck a chord with me, however. He talked about the culture of guitar playing. That's it. The guitar is a conveyance of culture, and the desire to start playing has deeply cultural roots. Increasingly, I see young people joining in and, almost invariably, they are playing guitar as they do it. Not electric, of course, but acoustic. |
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Interesting take on the 80s, I'm a child of the 80s, I turn 40 next month. I very very much didn't like that synth music as a kid. As soon as I became aware of music I was all about the guitar bands. Hip Hop and rap totally missed me for the most part too. And most of the older music I got into is all guitar stuff too. People my age are way too young for Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc.. but we we all discovered it in high school and college. Not sure what that means, but I've got to imagine kids 20 years younger than me are the same way. Last edited by beninma; 06-23-2017 at 02:47 PM. |
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I certainly think it's been much easier in the past 20 years to afford a good to very good guitar. I don't know, maybe guitars have simply hit market saturation. I've always been astonished at just how many guitars there are out there already. There are lots of other musical instruments but there sure seems to be plenty of guitars.
I don't think we have to worry about them becoming extinct. I know I've done my part to sustain the "species." |
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While there are some fairly good insights into some of why things are changing and will continue to change ( besides "change" being the only constant in the universe) I can't get to worked up about it on the whole.
The linked article is in fact presented from the perspective of overall sales volume.... not music. The fact that electric guitar sales dropped is hardly and indication that electric guitar music is dying
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I'm waiting for the cowbell to return...(Don't fear the reaper...!)
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The death of radio and albums (and then CDs) and major labels is probably part of the problem too. Anyone can put out you tube videos and make MP3 files available at a web site for pennies a song, so the connections between the music you hear on the radio, the albums you buy in response at the record store, and "hero", is gone. If someone plays awesome guitar on a song you hear, there's a good chance you have no idea who he or she is - or it doesn't fully register that it's a guitar, because computer-generated digital music is so pervasive.
Guitars certainly aren't going to die off, but it's not surprising that they aren't as popular as they used to be, between about Elvis and the rise of the world wide web.
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I'm 29 now so I'm getting older, but I'm sure Mayer has inspired numerous people my age and younger to pick up an electric guitar.
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John Mayer is the best player of the modern age, in my view.
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Gruhn is out of touch. There are a lot of kids playing guitar, making albums at home and selling them on bandcamp. I used to be able to keep up with new releases in my favorite styles, and now I can't anymore because there just SO much new guitar based music. Just last week I picked up 20 albums. All filled with guitar, all by musicians under 35. Some of the biggest grossing acts are guitar based: Metallica, The Foo Fighters. And kids are learning those songs. "Djent", shoegaze/post-rock and various flavors of metal are HUGE. Guitar virtuosity is at a peak, not a trough. Electric, acoustic, rock, metal, jazz. It's amazing how much great guitar stuff is happening. Animals as Leaders, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Mayer, Taylor Swift, the Avett Bros, Candyrat, Andy McKee, Mumford and Sons, Periphery, all have inspired huge number of kids to play and become musicians. So yeah, there's no 2017 Hendrix playing classic rock. But Hendrix died 50 years ago and music has moved on, unlike Gruhn and so many grumpy old guys stuck in the 60s. Like the Fender dude and his sexist dismissive attitude: Quote:
If the guitar dies, it's because of crusty dinosaurs like Mooney and Henry J, not the musicians making music.
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