Out of all the guitar players from the 60s-80s, who is the most canonically representative of the boomer playing style?
My bet is on David Gilmour, he plays slow as fuck , bends and plays Strats.
Out of all the guitar players from the 60s-80s, who is the most canonically representative of the boomer playing style?
My bet is on David Gilmour, he plays slow as fuck , bends and plays Strats.
There’s a boomer playing style?
yeah, slow and with boomer bends. Boxed Pentatonic. You are not allowed outside notes, and if you do, it has to be a bent blue note.
You know nothing about music.
… have you looked at some of the solos from that era? It’s mostly in some pentatonic with bends.
Huh. Well, TIL.
Here’s an article I found that seems to explain things pretty well, for anyone else just hearing about this.
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/boomer-bends-backlash
Yeah, Tim’s statement was awesome because he straddled between the worlds of extended techniques & shred, and pop music collaborations. So the boomers and media , hungry for the next pop sensation wanted to get to him, and his frank explanation of , as the article you linked to put it , “the crutch” really got sand in their butts.
Which had a long time coming; even though the boomers played loud and distorted, as soon as you hit distortion any wilder than sabbath or played over 200bpm would CONSTANTLY sling mud about how it’s unexpressive junk, which is offensive to anyone enjoying or playing death metal, progressive metal or *shock horror* Technical Death Metal, combining the two and sometimes even adding JAZZ INFLUENCE! 😱
Thankfully headless, ergonomics guitars are becoming more and more mainstream, and these weird bands and playing styles are getting more recognition.