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

[metalmaniac93]

There is great music and shitty music from all decades in my life time (1960's to current). There is nothing wrong with the 80's although it did start getting out of hand in the late 80's with bands like Poison, Warrant, Britney Fox, and the other cheese bands.

I grew up on the 70's classic rock stuff like Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper, Sabbath, Queen, KISS, Ted Nugent, RUSH, AC/DC, Trower to name a few, but I also loved the 80's which included bands like VH , OZZY, DIO, Maiden, Priest, Scorpions, Tesla, Dokken, Ratt, early Def Leppard,The Crue, Queensryche,Loudness, Crimson Glory,Skid Row, Fates Warning, Whitesnake and many more. Of course there is the thrash scene and I started with Metallica and continued on with the others like Anthrax, Exodus, Testament, Slayer, Megadeth, Sanctuary, etc. in the late 80's due to the cheese factor of some of the hairbands. Then I moved on to the 90's with AIC, Soundgarden, Pantera, Dream Theater, etc. I listen to all types of metal including some extreme and death metal and also some prog rock/metal.

 

[ejecta]

 

[Anonymous]

This thread is really fucking stupid.

No shit

Just shows you can play an instrument and still not know jackshit about music

And arguing tastes as facts is always really constructive...

 

[stephen sawall]

Red... You name some of the bands that are still being played on classic rock stations.... There was a ton of garbage that put out then also that is all long gone. It will be true of music of today. ..and even if it does not pass the
test of time big deal. Most people only listen whatever was popular when they were in school. Look at what is big now & making money. It will shape what happens in the future. I have no illusion music from the past is going to come back big....

 

[mchn13]

Carcass heartwork was '94 wasn't it? Also a couple good megadeth albums.. Slayers devine intervention.. A couple great death albums..:.

Steve

 

[metalmaniac93]

Carcass heartwork was '94 wasn't it? Also a couple good megadeth albums.. Slayers devine intervention.. A couple great death albums..:.

Steve

Yep Carcass Heartwork was releases in 1994. Great LP/CD!! At The Gates "Slaughter Of The Soul" was another great heavy LP/CD!!! Other bands like Dark Tranquility, In Flames, Children Of Bodom, and Soilwork released some great stuff in the 90's although Soilwork's releases were mostly in the 2000s. You cannot forget about Machine Head "Burn Your Eyes" and Down's "NOLA".

 

[Racerxrated]

Fuck it.
Here is the 90's

Ill take this over all of the 80s

Pantera has less to do with ANYTHING that was out in the 90's and more to do with 80's metal and thrash. How many times did Dimebag say he was pissed off that nobnody else was playing any solo's?

Very true! My band back in the day opened a few shows for Pantera around the Dallas area before they were the Pantera we all know and love. Dime was already a monster player but yes....they had big hair and spandex. We were a jeans and T shirt band. Probably because no one sold that stuff in the small town I'm from in Oklahoma. The other thing thats ironic about everyone knocking Van Halen and EVH but praising Pantera is... Van Halen was their biggest influence and Ed was Dimes favorite player.

This...and I believe Ed buried his Bumblebee guitar with Dime..RIP.

 

[ACShreds]

'93

 

[Mailman1971]

My Music Era can beat up YOUR Music era!!!

Its just....BETTER!! It really is!

 

[Meathead]

My Music Era can beat up YOUR Music era!!!

Its just....BETTER!! It really is!

lol
Everything is a completion.
If you don't like what I like there is something wrong with you.

 

[Red_Label]

Red... You name some of the bands that are still being played on classic rock stations.... There was a ton of garbage that put out then also that is all long gone. It will be true of music of today. ... and even if it does not pass the
test of time big deal. Most people only listen whatever was popular when they were in school. Look at what is big now & making money. It will shape what happens in the future. I have no illusion music from the past is going to come back big....

Just depends on whether you like good song craft with timeless themes, written in such a way that it won't sound shallow, silly and dated a few years afterwards... or here-today, gone tomorrow feel-good trinkets rolled-out on an assembly line. The particular piece of art is what it is. But a McRib will NEVER be a choice cut of perfectly aged steak. There IS a difference.


And by the way... I enjoy many of the trending trinkets as they come and go with time. But they'll never have the deep impact on me and speak to my soul like the deeper, more well-crafted stuff. Which is fine. I really don't think that some of the newer popular artists churn out their costume jewelry with any grandiose notions of their work living in the halls of greatness alongside Bach, The Beatles, Zepplin, Boston, etc. If they do, they're fooling themselves.

 

[Red_Label]

Just for the record, I never chimed into this thread with a "all old music is good, all new music is crap" mentality. I just didn't care for the complete dismissal of older music by a poster or two here and chimed-in more to defend the classics, then to say that stuff written after the 80s was all garbage. I don't believe that and can often be heard playing covers of artists like AIC, Tool, Halestorm, Saliva, Jon Mayer, Hootie, etc.

 

[Steinmetzify]

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.

And as was stated above, if you're not a guitarist or active on forums, you never even heard of the guy. Most of the people I know would consider themselves knowledgeable about music having lived thru it but not one of them could tell me the name of any of his albums or songs.

I'm in the minority here, and I know that.....I hated the glam bands and all the makeup and teased hair and what not.....when Metallica and GnR hit it and killed em all dead I couldn't have been happier....finally, guys in dirty leather jackets and blue jeans playing rock on LPs again. No more Bret Michaels wearing lipstick.

Rush, LZ, Hendrix and Sabbath all led me to Ozzy, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against The Machine, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Pantera, Sound Garden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Velvet Revolver, Bush, White Zombie, Ministry, Helmet, Jane's Addiction, Prong, Tool, Helmet and Meshuggah.

What you grew up listening to defines what you think of as 'good music'. The guys in the 80s could play, there's no doubt about that, but to me they (and to a lesser extent a lot of the guys on here) all just sounded like they were trying to copy Ed....instead of doing something original like he did. You might not like Rage, but Tom Morello did something on a guitar that no one else ever did. To sit there and say "that's not music" is to do it and yourself a disservice...because the same things could easily be said about Whitesnake and Ratt and whoever...just like some guys want to rag on 'one finger power chords', you could say that every band in the 80s all tried to sound the same......Warrant into Europe into White Lion. I can't listen to modded Marshalls to this day without hearing that crap in my head.

Just comes down to what you think of as good guitar music. I'd rather listen to chunky downtuned power chords against a slamming beat than anything resembling Poison and CC DeVille.

 

[mchn13]

Carcass heartwork was '94 wasn't it? Also a couple good megadeth albums.. Slayers devine intervention.. A couple great death albums..:.

Steve

Yep Carcass Heartwork was releases in 1994. Great LP/CD!! At The Gates "Slaughter Of The Soul" was another great heavy LP/CD!!! Other bands like Dark Tranquility, In Flames, Children Of Bodom, and Soilwork released some great stuff in the 90's although Soilwork's releases were mostly in the 2000s. You cannot forget about Machine Head "Burn Your Eyes" and Down's "NOLA".

Nice! Good call; at the gates, down, and machine head were 90's bands!

 

[nighttrain69]

so were creed ,hanson ,ace of base and limp bizkit bands of the 90's
so to simply say the 80's sucked because of certain bands is rediculous , there is good and bad in every era of music , not every band wore lipstick and hairspray, thats like saying every band today are fat guys with beards and forearm and calf tattoos

 

[rsm]

CC Deville! FTW

Back in the day I played hair metal too, I would not trade that experience for anything FWIW. At the same time or around that time, among other things, I also played in an original prog band and a mostly original thrash band (we did a few covers more for fun to change things up...we got a request for freebird and had a thrash version prepared). The shows for the prog and thrash bands were sausage fests. Then I moved on to death (black) metal in the mid '90s or so...not many girls in the crowds well, usually big girls.

Damn, I miss my hair band shows. I guess times really have changed, having your pick from several hot young women every night was worth it IMO. And those songs made it easy to scan the crowd, make eye contact and make your connection for the break or after the show. IME / YMMV. Guess you had to be there to relate.

 

[stephen sawall]

Red... I agree. my favorites bands are beatles ,zep ,Floyd, etc... I just do not listen to them much any more. At this point I rather listen to something new most of the time...

 

[espquade]

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?

Oh no you didn't...

 

[thiswaythatway]

Fashion of the 80's ruled.

 

[rsm]

Yup.

Early 80s new wave fashion too. As a kid, I was doing punk and then new wave early on...when it was still new.

My girlfriend at the time was digging Pink Floyd, but also this:

There was also this