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Old 01-27-2006, 09:26 AM   #2 (permalink)
jth
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Yeah well pop music today is the absense of listenable solos period (imo).

Guitar, Drum, Piano, Bass whatever solos have been replaced by dance breaks and video dialog clips on MTV. The level of musicality in live band style music (rock mainly) has gone down hill except for the fact that the cats pumping out the crap in Nashville can still play!

People either do not want to hear a ripping guitar solo anymore Or more likely don't know what a good Solo sounds like. I listened to a lot of pop music, and played and taught a lot of pop rock music over the last 2 years and did not hear ONE well put together solo. They were all crap. I would listen and then play something for my students off a CD that actually had someone who could freakin' play. When I think Rolling stone stated that Cobain's Smells like Teen Spirit solo is one of the 100 best all time solos.... a restatement of a melody that was indicative of 13th century Church Chant (which is translate to, if you haven't heard the Greogorian Chant of SLTS it's a hoot), how can we expect people to really appreciate even a relatively simple (albeit obscenly tastful) Eric Clapton solo?

I'm not holding artists like Hendrix, Page, Van Hallen over people's heads here. I sympathize greatly. I think there should be drum solos. I love drum solos! But the level of competent drummers out there who could play one in a rock band is a sad number. Then again, we are nostalgic for the days of Bonzo beating the sweet shit out of the drum kit for 20 minutes on Moby Dick.

Alas indeed those days are long gone. Again, in favor of a death droll drum machine kicking out syncopated 16th notes. I doubt a lot of young people even know what a real human drummer is capable of anymore.

sorry for the rant.

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