That's a fair point.
I guess guitar players miming to highly chopped stuff is no different than singers doing make believe when it's tuned harder than a AMCMercedes
So?
I've done a NAMM thing with band for Taylor playing a Taylor T5 acoustic through a onset of distortion amp.
That's about as far removed from my gear as possible.
Hell I've done a tour with a distortion pedal into laptop into whatever backline they threw up in Asia.
If it sounds like the...
Well the point wasn't performing it flawlessly. Many of my faves have bumbled stuff, and I certainly have.
And I actually like his stuff, as well as Tim Henson's.
However the point is...
When it's so glaringly obvious after hearing his chops live that it's edited to hell and back and/or sped...
I came across him, and Manuel Fernandes Gardiner years ago via insta.
Kept not believing the "it's soedup/doctored" choir...until I made the mistake of watching NAMM "performances"
That was pretty telling...
You decide if this sounds the same level
Just wrote out the lines for a lesson I gave today if anyone needs burn material (see what did there lol)
https://www.soundslice.com/slices/2tVRc/edit/
Plus prior he was the designer at Kitty Hawk in the mid 80s, who made some cool pre-amps…like first Winger/Reb Beach come to mind and were prior the Dumble importer for Europe and the first Dumble clone.
Well only reason I clicked on the video because Wagener came out of retirement to produce it.
And it was slammin’
Wolfs album is like a Foo Fighters album to me, well done but I will never listen through the whole thing.
This I might just start listening to Rock stuff on occasion again.
Credits are a funny thing and really up to the discretion of whoever is running the show.
For example original VH line-up credited all 4 guys.
Great way to have an even share of the publishing.
But the reality is that the licks, riffs, chord progressions fall under arrangement.
Writing...
I was a huge VV fan when the the first VVI dropped.
Also only time I saw Kiss was on the Lick It Up tour and he was great.
I loved how he overplayed, for me that was how guitar should be played (back then).
I still bust it out at times yes.
But lately for my stuff with Atma Anur I’m gone mostly Strats, Teles…any single coil thing really.
Atma Anur with Ed DeGenaro - Mercy Mervy Mercy
Atma Anur Old Number 7