Why don't 90's guitar players get talked about here?

[Bob Savage]

One of the most reasonable posts I have ever read on here . Thank you.

And I think it's about enough for another decade. Logic and reason are overrated.

 

[RSRD]

is like pissing into the wind...

You say that like it's a bad thing.

It is if your mouth is open.

 

[Bob Savage]

is like pissing into the wind...

You say that like it's a bad thing.

It is if your mouth is open.

OK, now you've just crossed the line. Yeah...

 

[Heritage Softail]

People talk about Glamtera or Pantera all the time.

Diamond got swapped for Dime Bag

Whatever...

There was some great music in both decades.

 

[romanianreaper]

I'm an 80's fanboi (complete with Warren DeMartini signature Charvel in the basement) but there were some great players in the 90's that didn't get credit due to solos not being popular. I don't listen to Tool but they have some great riffs/tone. I thought Stone Temple Pilots had some great guitar playing. I think the 7-string, dark, heavier tones took everything in a different direction with no room for solos.

 

[4406cuda]

I grew up listening to 70's and 80's hard rock, metal, and progressive rock. Black Sabbath, UFO, Scorpions, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Hendrix, Trower, ZZ Top, Judas Priest, Kansas, Queen, Deep Purple, Triumph, Tesla, Iron Maiden, Ratt, Van Halen, Al Dimeola, Mahavishnu, Styx, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc

But, I also very much enjoy:

Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Alter Bridge, Rage Against The Machine, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Pantera, Sound Garden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus, Velvet Revolver, Bush, White Zombie, Ministry, Helmet, Jane's Addiction, The Smithereens, Weezer, Jet, Smashing Pumpkins

Not a huge fan of them, but I saw Candle Box open for Rush in the 90's and they were excellent. The guitar player had a great tone and ripped some great solos.

 

[Shask]

Also, there were other forms of rock/guitar that stood out more as shown in the bands that come to peoples' minds so far in this thread. For me, I remember more of industrial and some mixed with electronica (NIN, Ministry, Rammstein, Fear Factory, Marylin Manson, Rob Zombie).

That is some of my favorite stuff from the 90's. I still listen to it all the time.

I wish Industrial would have continued on more. Seems like all of the bands changed later on.....

 

[4406cuda]

I remember seeing Ministry in 1992 headlining with Sepultura and Helmet opening up. Great show!

 

[snowdog]

Reza maybe you should go and find a nice 90's forum to go and promote. Your overdouchyeness is coming to a boil. Aside from breaking out your Diezel cheerleader outfit daily what are you doing here?

 

[War Admiral]

Nah....theres room for everybody...thats what makes this place interesting

 

[thiswaythatway]

Yngqie? Please. Nobody outside of internet forums knows who he is, let alone knows how to pronounce his stupid name. Might as well be called Nguyen.

Let's see signature Marshall? CHECK.
Signature Fender Strat? CHECK.
Turned the ENTIRE guitar world upside down and influenced a generation of players? CHECK.

 

[thiswaythatway]

First of all, fuck the 80's. Specifically all those glam bands, they all fuckin totally suck. (Looking at you Trixter, and faster pussycat et al.)

Fuck those bands.

Guitar shredding, awesome. The package it came in sucked.
Thank god for satriani and vai for taking the cock rock singer bitch out of the equation.

That being said, the 90's fuckin ruled!
Some of the BEST guitar tones and approaches were from the 90's
Once they destroyed all this shitty glam bands, and threw away their fizzy shit tone amps, we actually got real guitar heroes back.

I for one am happy to see the demise of any cock rocker.

This one track is better than anything from the 80's

But I will post a few more that just destroyed all those makeup wearing ladyboys.
There is more diversity and a wider range of awesome new guitar sounds in the 90's than anything from the 80's, I can't even post enough examples of how diverse the 90's were for guitar.
80's were for animal prints, spandex loving wanna be shredders, the 90's is where the REAL music happened.

I could go on and on, although I will say that none of my comments apply to alternative and punk, or thrash metal bands of the 80's , only those glam pussies.

FUCK THE 90's. The best metal bands ever came from the 80's including your heros Metallica. Let's see where exactly did bands like Slayer and Megadeath come from? They sure as fuck didn't sing songs about how Daddy didn't want to play with them and hanging themselves to 1 finger chord songs more boring than watching paint dry. The only guitar hero's from the 90's are Dimebag and Slash....wait nope, they were already established in the 80's. Maybe Cantrell, that's about it.

Yes, fuck Trixter and Faster Pussycat and all that shit. But EGH, every metalhead in the 80's held a middle finger up high to all that shit. The same douchebags who supported Poison and Warrant were the same assholes who became Nirvana fans overnight.

The guitar players like Lynch and Demartini are awesome but there was a reason why we wore out the fast forward button on our cassette players just trying to get to the solo. There were a LOT of great players wasting away in gay bands when they should have been in metal bands.

I had Iron Maiden, Ozzy, and Priest posters on my wall. Not Poison and other gay LA bands.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Okay, so I just went next door to the neighborhood market and asked like 8 random people if they could name a Van Halen song. Their ages ranged from like mid 20s to like 38 or 40 years old.

One person was able to name 1 song: "Uhmm.... hmmm.... oh oh... like... Jump? Yeah... Jump."

Nobody was able to name more than 2 EVH songs. Jump was the one most people knew. The other songs people were able to name were Panama and Hot For Teacher. But those were the only three songs.

And nobody could sing or hum them other than "Jump!" or "Panama! Panama-ah-ah-ah!"

I'm starting to think the people on this lonely corner of the internet are overestimating the importance of Van Halen... Not that they weren't talented. But people really just don't care anymore unless it's karaoke night. Not that any other band from the '80s or '90s would fair any better. But it's music. Only musicians like the us on internet forums care that much about this stuff.

And I went up to 20 random people and asked them about Tool. They said which one? A hammer? A Saw? A Shovel?

 

[thiswaythatway]

The 90's fuckin ruled. Get over your hairspray loving asses.

Yeah the 90's, when guitar playing got soo lazy that any A-hole could join a band and sound like Breakfast At Tiffany's.


This stuff ruled.

Lookout, lot's of energy on this one.

I'd rather listen to Trixter then this crap

 

[nevusofota]

What's with all the Trixter hate?

Steve Brown was the guest guitarist on TMS a few months ago and ripped!

 

[bulletproof_funk]

Also, there were other forms of rock/guitar that stood out more as shown in the bands that come to peoples' minds so far in this thread. For me, I remember more of industrial and some mixed with electronica (NIN, Ministry, Rammstein, Fear Factory, Marylin Manson, Rob Zombie).

That is some of my favorite stuff from the 90's. I still listen to it all the time.

I wish Industrial would have continued on more. Seems like all of the bands changed later on.....

I still go back and listen to industrial every now and then, I still love the sound of Rammstein's Mesas pounding out punchy heavy riffs. Fear Factory was crushing but they kept changing band members and what not, seemed to lose their edge after Demanufacture.

And aside from Cantrell and Dimebag, there weren't many defining 90s guitar tones that stuck with people IMO (or maybe I forget because of all the brown sound EVH type threads? ).

Maybe not in popular music, but there are entire genres of music built upon guitar tones and writing styles of bands like Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, Entombed, Dinosaur Jr., Godflesh, etc. The '90s was the polar opposite of the '80s, so it's understandable that '80s rock fans wouldn't get into the simplified, more expressive music of the '90s. Yeah, the numetal and post-grunge periods sucked, but if someone is listening to the radio, what else would they expect?

My belief is people can better identify a sound when they put a name or face to it because they can talk about so-and-so's amp and rig vs. being less specific when talking about the sound of a genre or style. And the original question of this post is why people on RT don't post more about 90s guitar players, not why we don't post about 90s genres or bands. I mostly agree with you, although I also believe the pro-song, anti-guitar hero trend took further emphasis away from guitarists at the time which is also why to me many 90s bands or guitarists musical styles overshadowed their guitar tone (they wanted us to focus on the songs, the songs! or at least not the guitars nearly as much as the 80s).

 

[Spaceboy]

80s metal was children's lullabies compared to what it became in the '90s

 

[just42dave]

jeff loomis and chris when in nevermore or jeff prior to 2000

 

[nevusofota]

Please fellow RTers, donate to the "Help Reza Get Laid" fund.

 

[carlygtr]

Please fellow RTers, donate to the "Help Reza Get Laid" fund.

I usually don't agree w/ Reza but he's right about "Snowfag". Seems Snowfag is stalking Reza's posts as well as mine. I agree, Snogfag's gear is junk