68 Rox you are so right. As a musician i have a good idea. It's a big popularity contest. Instead of recognizing talent they recognize money. Now i'm a big classics fan. Zeppelin, Sabbath, Megadeth, Doors, Hendrix, Beatles, Metallica, GnR, and so on. I even dig on Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, some Marvin Gaye, and Miles Davis, old R&B, Willie Nelson and such. Real musicians....! Music stopped being interesting for me after about 1996. I loved the grunge thing and felt like it was a breath of fresh air. Say what you want about those bands musicianship, but they were full of intensity, creativity and fire.
They brought rock back to what it was supposed to be, basic,with absolutely no pretenses, raw and dangerous. Most bands toay are influenced by this. Guitar players no longer play solos because of this, but they lack all that fire. Kurts Cobain for instance was a sucky guitar player that i always found wonderfully refreshing, in his unschooledness. The solo in In Bloom is one of my favorites cause after listening to CC Deville and Van Halen and all the other amazing guitar players all those years. (not necessarily CC. lol). That solo made me go WTF??? He's playing that on the radio and it's selling? I loved the "screw it, here's a song" attitude.
That said, if you really wanna hear skull crushing guitar grooves chech this.
http://www.myspace.com/groovegrinderhttp://zoomoozik.com/grazydine
