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sg guy
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-I puke every time I listen to an OLA demo-
snowdog
Active member
controlled_voltage":1vldfzsc said:
My money is on Bonamassa.
IndyWS6
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Me, too. I don't know Controlled_Voltage, but I'd love to see it. If he's better than Joe, then it would be two world-class musicians on one stage. Win/win...snowdog":3dffaed5 said:
shadowdevourer
New member
I really don't like dream theater.
Ventura
Well-known member
+1shadowdevourer":34i90yjp said:
I find Petrucci a boring player.
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Stinkbomb
New member
Mick Mars is an underrated guitarist.
Good black metal is better than most other metal
Never understood the fascination with Vernon Reed. That solo on Cult of Personality is a mess.
That is all...
Good black metal is better than most other metal
Never understood the fascination with Vernon Reed. That solo on Cult of Personality is a mess.
That is all...
thunda
New member
Marshall Silver Jubilee Heads (original models) have no balls
ElectricVoodoo
Well-known member
Def Leppard's best song is Bringin on the heartbreak.
Up to Hysteria, which barely makes the cut, they were good. They sucked ever since.
Probably not so unpopular opinion..Loosing Steve and Rick's horrible accident were two dramatic incidents that permanently damaged them beyond return in terms of band dynamics.
Up to Hysteria, which barely makes the cut, they were good. They sucked ever since.
Probably not so unpopular opinion..Loosing Steve and Rick's horrible accident were two dramatic incidents that permanently damaged them beyond return in terms of band dynamics.
leib10
Well-known member
Avenged Sevenfold is one of my favorite bands of all time and have an important role in introducing younger listeners to shredding and other hard rock/metal basics.
I don't like Rectifiers.
JJ makes some of my favorite tubes.
Dimebag Darrel, Lamb of God, Alter Bridge, Killswitch Engage, Rush, AC/DC and other bands I can't think of are overrated.
Guns and Roses and Metallica annoy me.
Schecter makes a good guitar for the money.
Gibsons and Marshalls are overrated.
Most emulators sound like crap compared to the real thing.
Monster Cables suck.
I don't like SLOs.
The Fortin NATAS is too gainy and overdriven. Likewise, I don't like Ola's tone on later Feared albums. (Sorry Ola!) It sounds honky and too midrange-focused and sterile.
I don't like Rectifiers.
JJ makes some of my favorite tubes.
Dimebag Darrel, Lamb of God, Alter Bridge, Killswitch Engage, Rush, AC/DC and other bands I can't think of are overrated.
Guns and Roses and Metallica annoy me.
Schecter makes a good guitar for the money.
Gibsons and Marshalls are overrated.
Most emulators sound like crap compared to the real thing.
Monster Cables suck.
I don't like SLOs.
The Fortin NATAS is too gainy and overdriven. Likewise, I don't like Ola's tone on later Feared albums. (Sorry Ola!) It sounds honky and too midrange-focused and sterile.
rsm
Well-known member
I still dig the Beatles
Springsteen, the Eagles, and Fleetwood Mac after Peter Green are all overrated.
Syd Barrett is underrated.
I always liked Poison - CC is underrated; great party rock back in the day, if you happen to like girls, and being surrounded by girls (Poison concerts were the best)
The Cure is my favorite band of all time, followed by The Smiths
Japan ('80s British new wave band) is a fav, and highly underrated.
I dig '80s new wave music (maybe because I was there?)
Death is my fav metal band, ever.
Some of the best current music IMO is from Japan, such as Wagakki Band
I dig current Japanese all-girl rock bands such as Gacharic Spin (Tomo Zo!), Doll$Boxx and Band Maid - my current fav. (eye candy is a plus too)
Some of the best rock / shred guitarists today are Japanese, here's who I dig and I'm finding more all the time:
Tomo Zo
Eita
Rie aka Suzaku
Takayoshi Ohmura
Syu
Hizaki
Hide
Norifumi Shima
Gentaro
Atsushi Yokozeki
Uruha
Kaoru
Sugizo
Pata
edit: Joy Division is underrated
Springsteen, the Eagles, and Fleetwood Mac after Peter Green are all overrated.
Syd Barrett is underrated.
I always liked Poison - CC is underrated; great party rock back in the day, if you happen to like girls, and being surrounded by girls (Poison concerts were the best)
The Cure is my favorite band of all time, followed by The Smiths
Japan ('80s British new wave band) is a fav, and highly underrated.
I dig '80s new wave music (maybe because I was there?)
Death is my fav metal band, ever.
Some of the best current music IMO is from Japan, such as Wagakki Band
I dig current Japanese all-girl rock bands such as Gacharic Spin (Tomo Zo!), Doll$Boxx and Band Maid - my current fav. (eye candy is a plus too)
Some of the best rock / shred guitarists today are Japanese, here's who I dig and I'm finding more all the time:
Tomo Zo
Eita
Rie aka Suzaku
Takayoshi Ohmura
Syu
Hizaki
Hide
Norifumi Shima
Gentaro
Atsushi Yokozeki
Uruha
Kaoru
Sugizo
Pata
edit: Joy Division is underrated
Fox77
Member
Did not care for the Diezel D-Moll nor the Lil Fokker when I tried them. Not even at volume.
I don't get the hype around Dream Theater. It's not that I really dislike them, but not my cup of tea.
The new Queensrÿche singer killed it when I saw them live a while ago. Tate was not missed.
The production on the new Alter Bridge album is awful. No dynamics, perfect example of the loudness wars. Also, way too many layers. As if Myles Kennedy needed vocal layers on top of his voice...
I don't get the hype around Dream Theater. It's not that I really dislike them, but not my cup of tea.
The new Queensrÿche singer killed it when I saw them live a while ago. Tate was not missed.
The production on the new Alter Bridge album is awful. No dynamics, perfect example of the loudness wars. Also, way too many layers. As if Myles Kennedy needed vocal layers on top of his voice...
rsm
Well-known member
I dig digital and solid state for guitar, and use both (Boss GT-100 direct into a Roland CUBE EX Street to PA or as a MFX into 1-2 Roland CUBE-80GX) I have several other Boss digital processors, TCE Nova System and pedals that are all digital except the Nova Drive. (I still own 5 tube amps, 2 I purchased this year).
My main amp tone is a digital model of a solid state amp (Roland JC-120) followed by a digital model of a Fender Twin Reverb.
I dig digital synths though I have analog too.
Engl makes the best modern tube amps; I get pristine cleans and massive high gain saturation with many usable points in between
Steinbergers (I have 4 guitars and 1 bass) are great guitars.
Rickenbacker's are great guitars (I have 5 guitars, all 6 strings, and 1 bass) and are more versatile than most people realize.
My Rics don't sound like Rics into my Engl, for example.
For more traditional and non-metal sounds, Vox and Fender amps can't be beat.
I don't like most Marshall amps I've tried, even my stack back in the day. I prefer Mesa Boogie, but Engl
ADA preamps (MP-2, MP-1, and MB-1) still sound great if you have the right rig.
I like synth pop, especially CHRVCHES.
I dig Kanye West, especially College Dropout. His newer music is more self-indulgent, seems many classic bands followed the same trajectory (hello Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, The Who,...
Steve Marriott has the best voice in rock music, ever. Extremely underrated.
Vito Bratta in his day outdid all of the hair metal guitarists; Stryper's Sweet/Fox are underrated guitarists.
Cinderella was the best hair metal band
Nirvana sucks
My main amp tone is a digital model of a solid state amp (Roland JC-120) followed by a digital model of a Fender Twin Reverb.
I dig digital synths though I have analog too.
Engl makes the best modern tube amps; I get pristine cleans and massive high gain saturation with many usable points in between
Steinbergers (I have 4 guitars and 1 bass) are great guitars.
Rickenbacker's are great guitars (I have 5 guitars, all 6 strings, and 1 bass) and are more versatile than most people realize.
My Rics don't sound like Rics into my Engl, for example.
For more traditional and non-metal sounds, Vox and Fender amps can't be beat.
I don't like most Marshall amps I've tried, even my stack back in the day. I prefer Mesa Boogie, but Engl
ADA preamps (MP-2, MP-1, and MB-1) still sound great if you have the right rig.
I like synth pop, especially CHRVCHES.
I dig Kanye West, especially College Dropout. His newer music is more self-indulgent, seems many classic bands followed the same trajectory (hello Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, The Who,...
Steve Marriott has the best voice in rock music, ever. Extremely underrated.
Vito Bratta in his day outdid all of the hair metal guitarists; Stryper's Sweet/Fox are underrated guitarists.
Cinderella was the best hair metal band
Nirvana sucks
ghosty999
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9 pages down, let's get shit REAL haha
- Nirvana are garbage pop-grunge which destroyed 80s rock in the worst kind of way. Cobain made a crap tonne of money and was signed a huge label... the same label Whitesnake was signed too, Geffen. They where the opposite of what grunge stood for and I'd rather rip my toe nails off and dip my feet in salt water than listen to any of their moany garbage. Also why does everyone lick Dave Grohl ass? Good pop-rock song writer, but no idea why his word becomes so final when he's just a multimillionaire with an opinion.
- Early Yngwie was an untouchable genius and a relentless talent, this raw talent died a long long time ago
- Pantera are over-rated, would be mailing it in if Dime was alive. His tone was garbage, fizz, woofy, solid state fizz.
- Early Racer X albums has some serious guitar playing but the production of the albums let it down.
- Guns N Roses do absolutely nothing for me besides being the first band people say when I say "I'm into 80s rock"
- Metallica will always be the 12 year old angsty teens favorite metal band, as a result I can't take them seriously. They made it worse with Some Kind of Monster, James' alcoholism was the only real struggle, everything else was very petty and 1st world, even Dave when he appeared.
- Don't diss a piece of gear because you can't afford it, just act your wage.
- I see lot's of middle aged balding rockers sporting Okleys on stage, stop. That includes Kerry King
- Flames on guitars... stop
- American flags on guitars... stop
- Combining two genres doesn't make you "original" or "unique" or "creative". You took two things that already exist and combined them to express your own "individuality". Slamming Rock and Techno together doesn't make you a creative genius.
- Indie sucks especially from my home country... the UK
- If your ears have been exposed to gigs and live music for a long long time, your tone will suck, what you hear from your amp will be bias'd by your fucked ears so no... your tone will most likely suck
- Bonamassa is great party background music, he's got chops, but I can't remember any of his songs
- Wylde copied Sykes. Fact
- Steve Vai is just a little too weird for me to enjoy but I respect him for being weird and still relevant in a musical world that demands conformity
- Jason Becker's first album has some scary guitar playing on it, I think it's incredible he's still kicking and writing tunes, clearly the love for music runs very deep.
- Gear spawns dogmatism, a high price doesn't mean it's good, a low price doesn't mean its under-rated and if your amp sucks, the price can't be used in it's defense.
- I use 8s and 9s and I will never use thicker.
- Megadeth after Rust in Peace bores me, but not as much as Metallica in the 90s
- We need more rock stars, hanging around with Alex Jones is not rock'n'roll and neither is petty band conflict which is the only rock news we seem to get today. Bring back the stories, the legends.
- Keyboards in metal is cool, it can soften a song but there is absolutely nothing wrong that, just your masculinity complex. Dissing keyboards bands wont make your band anymore "brutal"
- Nirvana are garbage pop-grunge which destroyed 80s rock in the worst kind of way. Cobain made a crap tonne of money and was signed a huge label... the same label Whitesnake was signed too, Geffen. They where the opposite of what grunge stood for and I'd rather rip my toe nails off and dip my feet in salt water than listen to any of their moany garbage. Also why does everyone lick Dave Grohl ass? Good pop-rock song writer, but no idea why his word becomes so final when he's just a multimillionaire with an opinion.
- Early Yngwie was an untouchable genius and a relentless talent, this raw talent died a long long time ago
- Pantera are over-rated, would be mailing it in if Dime was alive. His tone was garbage, fizz, woofy, solid state fizz.
- Early Racer X albums has some serious guitar playing but the production of the albums let it down.
- Guns N Roses do absolutely nothing for me besides being the first band people say when I say "I'm into 80s rock"
- Metallica will always be the 12 year old angsty teens favorite metal band, as a result I can't take them seriously. They made it worse with Some Kind of Monster, James' alcoholism was the only real struggle, everything else was very petty and 1st world, even Dave when he appeared.
- Don't diss a piece of gear because you can't afford it, just act your wage.
- I see lot's of middle aged balding rockers sporting Okleys on stage, stop. That includes Kerry King
- Flames on guitars... stop
- American flags on guitars... stop
- Combining two genres doesn't make you "original" or "unique" or "creative". You took two things that already exist and combined them to express your own "individuality". Slamming Rock and Techno together doesn't make you a creative genius.
- Indie sucks especially from my home country... the UK
- If your ears have been exposed to gigs and live music for a long long time, your tone will suck, what you hear from your amp will be bias'd by your fucked ears so no... your tone will most likely suck
- Bonamassa is great party background music, he's got chops, but I can't remember any of his songs
- Wylde copied Sykes. Fact
- Steve Vai is just a little too weird for me to enjoy but I respect him for being weird and still relevant in a musical world that demands conformity
- Jason Becker's first album has some scary guitar playing on it, I think it's incredible he's still kicking and writing tunes, clearly the love for music runs very deep.
- Gear spawns dogmatism, a high price doesn't mean it's good, a low price doesn't mean its under-rated and if your amp sucks, the price can't be used in it's defense.
- I use 8s and 9s and I will never use thicker.
- Megadeth after Rust in Peace bores me, but not as much as Metallica in the 90s
- We need more rock stars, hanging around with Alex Jones is not rock'n'roll and neither is petty band conflict which is the only rock news we seem to get today. Bring back the stories, the legends.
- Keyboards in metal is cool, it can soften a song but there is absolutely nothing wrong that, just your masculinity complex. Dissing keyboards bands wont make your band anymore "brutal"
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sleepingintraffic
New member
most solos are pointless
controlled_voltage
Banned
Well-known member
snowdog":1waurvkz said:
my money is on your mom piggy
Bloodrock
Well-known member
Axl Rose can still sing his ass off.
Dave Grohl needs to go back to playing drums and stop writing pop garbage.
Steel Panther has more talent, and makes more money than almost any metal band out there.
Dave Grohl needs to go back to playing drums and stop writing pop garbage.
Steel Panther has more talent, and makes more money than almost any metal band out there.
godgrinder
Well-known member
ghosty999":2vfb17r0 said:
The main problem I have with keyboards in metal is that it's often just taking the lazy way out. Lots of guitarists in 90's keyboard metal bands were just mailing it in and smashing basic chord progressions, then let the keyboards carry the song. My favourite use of keyboards in metal were often by bands that don't have a full time keyboard player, when these bands use keyboards it usually means that song really needs a keyboard part.
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indespise
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If dialing in a good tone (not a "perfect" tone) is very difficult or counter intuitive, the designer of that amp did a bad job with the EQ. There's no point in having 70% of a main parameter sweep being unusable.
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The sitar is a fine ethnic instrument in the right hands
Those are not Steve Vai's hands
The vocal mic is a fine instrument in the right hands...
Those are not Steve Vai's hands
The vocal mic is a fine instrument in the right hands...
NeubyWanKaneuby
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Sick Squid":ghyjvqvl said:
I've listened to some songs I wouldn't have normally listened to simply because of the vocals.