whats another good guitar/gear forum???

[colimofsmoke]

Different strokes I guess. The only one on yr list that has ever really grabbed me as genius was master of puppets, i like priest and maiden, but those albums never got me like early Metallica, and post-sabbath ozzy can suck it for the most part(i love some rhoads, too). I guess i think that people who think GNR is dangerous probably wouldnt like the music that would be "dangerous" now. More importantly, i don't think that the way the music industry and consumer culture are now would allow a Beatles to emerge. Rec execs aren't interested in finding dangerous ground breaking music, they are interested in what sells, and what sells is lady gaga and shit like that. The next one hit wonder, or the next flashy poppy bs with sexy video stars that look good on YouTube. And maybe that's because in the age of the Internet, that's what the majority of consumers want, who knows.

 

[Digital Jams]

I agree with Carl in some ways, real feel was not there for many of the players BUT technical playing was still showing heart and drive while the grunge movement was banging away at guitars in an angry manner because they were pissed at their parents or "the man". They wanted to learn theory but agreed some went way overboard without listening to the masters from the 60s and 70s.

Regarding forums they are what you bring to them.

If you love taking pics of your gear and going through it like thighie whiteys you will get your crowd to praise you.

IF you post great reviews with audio and demos but do not cycle through gear you will have some that understand and respect you.

 

[colimofsmoke]

Weren't a lot of the masters from the 60's and 70's pissed at the man or their parents when they were new and young?

 

[Progbusters]

I usually visit the gear page, TDPRI, and Strat talk.

 

[guitarnoize]

So hopefully this discussion about what era of music was the best answers your question kaeli0430...

 

[Heritage Softail]

Go visit all the forums out there. Google search it.

I have a few and that is all I need. Give them some time to get to know you. SLO forum is really good. The first really good amp I bought was an SLO. it is a slower forum and I have not been for a while, but some gear experts there. Some visit here as well.

Telecaster forum is good. Different group of players. A whole new world. Mad love for what a serious player can squeeze out of a tele.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

Guitar forums of today are less fun than the drunken mall hangouts of the 80s

Gearslutz
Specific area forums such as:
Les Paul
MTS
Peavey
11R

 

[Anonymous]

So hopefully this discussion about what era of music was the best answers your question kaeli0430...

it started out telling me what forums to hit up and then BOOM went to shit i have no idea about but i really enjoyed reading about it.. alot of this forum i have noticed is modded marshalls and lynch and EVH, and etc... but there are some good info and i love learning about all styles of music.. there is some good gear talk about about the stuff i like.. im more of a 90's to modern day metal head.. i havent really been on any other forum besides here and peavey.. im going to try sevenstring, gear page for starters.. im just looking for a good forum that discusses 90s to modern metal.. thrash,deathcore,metalcore, drop tunings, heavy fucking brutal ass metal.. high gain amp talk.. anything to do with metal all day everyday.. i know more about modded marshalls, cameron amps, mike fortin, lynch,EVH,doug alrich/motor city pickups,Dave Friedman, v30 speakers.. than my own gear... .. which i am thankful for all of that and i have learned alot but i wont to learn more.. so that is why i wont to check out other forum to get as much information as i can.. i will still visit this site daily has i have been doing for over a year now.. the people of this forum are top notch group of people...

 

[metalmaniac93]

Some of You guys have a really mainstream idea of what rock is or can be. There are tons of underground bands making fucking killer music that is challenging and even at times "dangerous.". It might not float your boat, and almost certainly won't if you love all the 80's players listed earlier in the thread, but it's out there. And seriously, the 80's? Of all the decades, you pick the one of midi and spandex and hairspray and sterile recording techniques? There's tons of good music from the 90's, and great players. You may not like dinosaur jr., but j mascis rips. My bloody valentine? Alice in chains is great guitar driven music, likewise with Tool. 90's death metal? A lot of it is not great music, but hell if there arent some amazing players. Ever heard the guy from Cryptopsy? I highly doubt that 90% of the people on this board could play those songs. I love 80's Metallica and slayer and a ton of other shit, but the 80's are far from the pinnacle of music, unless you prefer technique over style or substance, IMO. And as far as new guitar bands, there are plenty with killer players and good songwriting. Heard Vektor, Tombs, Asunder, Twilight? Might not be your thing, but those dudes can play.

Fwiw, i do think this is usually the best forum, probably because I have expensive taste and like to hear about the boutique stuff, but the modded Marshalls, VS threads, 80's focus, and some of the metal slamming do make it hard to swallow some days.

Cheers

Yeah the 80's of all decades! The decade that produced Blizzard Of Oz, Back In Black, Master Of Puppets, Appetite For Destruction, Rush Moving Pictures, Number Of The Beast, Screaming for Vengeance, Fair Warning, 1984.

Every one of those albums has timeless riffs and tunes. I think some of you are sucking on hairspray fumes yourselves.

Well said even though I did like some of the 80s hair bands, but hated bands like Warrant and Poison (except Native Tongue with the great Richie Kotzen). The 80's produced the best metal (also thrash metal) around as you mentioned and paved the way for the later hard rock/metal bands!!!! I am still into most of the 80's bands and listen to them at times, but I have moved on to other things to and listen to bands like Opeth, Nevermore, Riverside, Arch Enemy, Symphony X, Jorn, Govt, Mule, Joe Bonamassa, Dream Theater (not so much lately), Lamb of God, to name a few. Hell, I even like some of the old death metal. It is not all about 80s rock/metal to me even though that is where my main roots are from!!!


I still have yet to find a forum better than this!! If it was not for this forum, we would not have the Cameron drama, new production Cameron amps, the great Luxxtone guitars, Friedman amps, Scumback speakers, Mike Fortin and the FJA mods to name a few.

 

[maddnotez]

This forum is the best, except for the 80's fascination.

 

[ptgold]

My Les Paul is pretty cool......but it boggles my mind how a handful of dickheads there havent been banned yet. Most people are cool there except for 3 or 5 shitheads sitting all day in front of the pc

 

[andwhatnot]

To sum things up, yes there is an 80's obsession on this forum, but to each their own. Not my all time favorite music decade, but still had good music. Sevenstring.org is one of my favorite forums (this forum being my favorite right now, but I'm young so my opinions are opt to change ) , but come to this forum if you need technical and/or gear advice, because, as stated before, there is a lot of rumors that float around. Definitely good for advice such as touring stuff, 7 and/or 8 string guitars, etc... Ultimate Metal Forum is also cool, kind of a cool mix of experience and an actual metal crowd, but generally filled with older metal fans, not new metal necessarily. Not to generalize of course, but that's the feel I get from it. And here's one, I'm 17, play guitar in a band, am NOT rebelling against my parents, listen to metal music, play metal music, and do it because I love it. How odd is that?

 

[andwhatnot]

Also, I think at that time GnR was 'dangerous', the epitome of real rock and roll, and I like the bands that are 'dangerous' now. And I don't mean stuff like 'Tool', or any band in that genre, as that couldn't be less dangerous or any more mainstream at this point. Hardcore stuff. Also, if you're looking for a metal genre kaeli than go to sevenstring forum, I love that place, and some of my favorite bands are subscribed to the site (whitechapel guitarist is a regular, which is really cool). Definitely the right place to talk about high-gain amps, and all that stuff. But again, this is my favorite still.

 

[SBlue]

This was just so well written that I want to make it my sig.!!!!
Not only you wrote one of the best posts I've seen online, but you also have the best avatar!!!
And I'll open a cold Guinness for that!!!

There are great bands in every decade. Picking one and slagging the others is silly.

Hendrix freaked us out when Hey Joe hit the radio. Trower got us all stoned on the Bridge of Sighs. Alice Cooper chopped our heads off. KISS took us back to Detroit Rock City. Zep gave us the guitar store anthem of all time. Too many killer guitar players in the 80's to mention. Pick your favorite dozen.

I like 90's Metallica and AIC, Soundgarden, Godsmack... So many great bands.

I think we are living in a great time to play. So much great gear, music tab, shared knowledge.

Now is the best time, if you do something with the tools at your disposal.

And this forum is still the best.....

 

[guitarmike]

80's bias? Not in this thread: http://www.rig-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=121608. Look at what most people listed as music they listen to, its all over the map and a lot is newer stuff. Gear wise we may be stuck in the 80's but I don't think the rest of this site is biased towards any era.

 

[cujo]

This forum is the best, except for the 80's fascination.

People will continue to be fascinated with the 80's until something better takes its place. 1965 - 1994 was a magical period for music.

There is so much better music now. The 80's were far from magic. I'll take 1969 Hendrix over any 80's "magic" . Lots of aqua net and assholes in the 80's , glam metal? You can't really think that was magical?

The tones aren't even that good! (except all early EVH).
I hear way better guitar tones in the music before and after the 80's. All these cats running around scooping the mids and tapping with tons of delay and effects isn't tone, it's crap. (sorry , Its not my intention to offend, but to really say what needs to be said once and for all)

That being said I have the highest respect for the guitar playing innovators that came from the 80's, Demartini, steve Stevens, EVH, etc. but that shit is so played out.


This forum would be over the top awesome if there was a more varied appreciation for tones beyond the 80's.

"AMEN" ... My thoughts exactly gag me with reverb !!!

 

[threadkiller]

I've gotta agree with Shiny Surface. Guitar has become a safe hobby and rock and roll has run it's course. Sorry to say it, but I think it's true. I'm not closed minded to new music, but I'm just not hearing a lot of new stuff that makes me want to run out and buy it. And for the record, I loved the 80's including and or especially all of the cheesy aquanet bands. I freakin' love it all including Warrant, Poison, Bon Jovi, etc Brittny Fox? Bring it on. There I said it. I realize it is cheesy and flash over substance. Why overanalyze everything? I remember it (and I was a kid during the 80's, not in high school or college) and it was fun. Fast forward to the early 90's and people started beating out the few chords they new how to play and screaming into the mic about how mama didnt love them while starring at the floor and faking partial seizures on stage for the whole concert. No thanks. I figured, this fad will pass. And it did, somehow it got even worse. Now I hear a lot of pop shit out of Disney and a lot of hip hop. Metal bands are out there and I just can't seem to find any that I can get into that much. The more modern metal tries to turn the guitar into a percussion instrument the less interested I am. Hopefully you can find new music that flips your switch, I'm not hearing it. Please feel free to forward me some new riff based rock with some melodic vocals (no screaming please) and some lead guitar work (please don't bother with detuned 8 string chunka chunka bullshit, I'll leave the 80 Hz stuff to the bass player).

Back to my original point, one only need look at the immense interest in vintage tone and vintage gear to know that RnR has shot it's wad. So much interest in trying to replicate sounds from the past. Do you think the pioneering rock legends everyone is so hungup on were trying to replicate the sounds of yesteryear? They were all about new technology, pushing the envelope and doing things that had never been done. Hip-Hop is the new rock n roll...I guess. I say that because 1. it's all I hear these days 2. I think it sucks. But then again, I'm not supposed to get it right? And I sure as hell don't get what's so great about Hip Hop, so that must be this generations rock. Maybe 20-30 years from now people will be out there trying to get that vintage Eminem tone.

Well, I'd love to stay on the forum all day lamenting the current state of music but I gotta go smack my bitch up yo!

 

[petejt]

I like a lot of the 80's guitar tones but the over produced drums and keyboards wear me out.

Same here, heaps.

 

[Heritage Softail]

Maybe 20-30 years from now people will be out there trying to get that vintage Eminem tone

Yeah!