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Fumbles said:
I remember when Images & words came out- it was a real game changer for me. I felt similar to when I first head Animals as Leaders for the first time- unmistakably groundbreaking levels of technique.

I saw Rush on the Counterparts tour in Toronto, & I've always loved that album. I still have the newspaper ad for the show.

Not familiar w/ most of the rest of the albums Except Physical Graffiti, & the Coltrane albums, & I haven't listened to those in years.

I'd probably consider Claptons "Beano" album to be be perfect. The playing, the tone, great songs. I'll have to dig that one out again, & I'm very glad guys like him & Jeff Beck & "Pagey" are still around.
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Oh shit Guitar Shop and Blow by Blow...perfect instrumental guitar albums, also start to finish listeners. Beck is just ridiculous. In that post that someone put up a list of the age of some of legendary players still among us, it's surprising to see Jeff at 71. His playing has the vitality of a decades younger musician...like five decades!

It seems only a couple of years ago when Jeff was in his early 50s and Tal Farlow, Jim Hall, Hooker, Albert King, and their generation of players were in their 70s. Now those older legends have passed and Beck, Clapton, Page, Gilmour, McLaughlin, Nelson, May, Knopfler, Santana, Blackmore, Holdsworth, and Scofield, Stern, and Metheny bringing up the younger end of the new "old guard".

Part of what of the weirdness is that the jazz and classical guys seemed more mature by virtue of the music they play and the audience/reverence bestowed upon it. But so many of the this new old guard are still playing rock and blues rock and aggressive fusion, music that stills seems of and for a younger and vivacious audience. But to that crowd, it's all dinosaur music and the guitar is pretty much arcane for the casual music fan and significant amounts of modern "musicians".

Lastly, GET OFF MY LAWN!!! Hey you! Yeah up in the sky! Slow down! In my day clouds weren't so fast and reckless!
 
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Yep. Guitar Shop. It's long enough to not feel cheated when it's over but short enough to have you think "I wish there was more to this". Jeff is one of 3-4 players who actually dropped my jaw when I saw them live.
 
Dogsinotpalc said:
Oh shit Guitar Shop and Blow by Blow...perfect instrumental guitar albums, also start to finish listeners. Beck is just ridiculous. In that post that someone put up a list of the age of some of legendary players still among us, it's surprising to see Jeff at 71. His playing has the vitality of a decades younger musician...like five decades!

It seems only a couple of years ago when Jeff was in his early 50s and Tal Farlow, Jim Hall, Hooker, Albert King, and their generation of players were in their 70s. Now those older legends have passed and Beck, Clapton, Page, Gilmour, McLaughlin, Nelson, May, Knopfler, Santana, Blackmore, Holdsworth, and Scofield, Stern, and Metheny bringing up the younger end of the new "old guard".

Part of what of the weirdness is that the jazz and classical guys seemed more mature by virtue of the music they play and the audience/reverence bestowed upon it. But so many of the this new old guard are still playing rock and blues rock and aggressive fusion, music that stills seems of and for a younger and vivacious audience. But to that crowd, it's all dinosaur music and the guitar is pretty much arcane for the casual music fan and significant amounts of modern "musicians".

Lastly, GET OFF MY LAWN!!! Hey you! Yeah up in the sky! Slow down! In my day clouds weren't so fast and reckless!
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Part of what makes Becks music so vital sounding to me is that he's always changing perspectives on each album- like when he began to explore techno music 17 years ago already. Hmm I just realized that he was about 48 when he released Who Else. He seemed so old to me when it was released. Now I'm 40, & 48 doesn't feel old to me at all.

I feel very lucky to have lived at the same time as the artists you mentioned, & it really sucks if I make it to their age, they'll mostly be gone. I don't really have favourite younger players yet, besides the guys in Animals as leaders.

I think it's unfortunate that certain types of music is typecast as for certain ages of people.
 
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Fumbles said:
I don't really have favourite younger players yet, besides the guys in Animals as leaders.
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I definitely hear and agree with what you're saying, except for the young(er) players thing. It depends upon what type of music you like, but Derek Trucks is a monster player...seriously otherworldly. Much like Beck, he can play very straight, but always adds his own voice to whatever he's playing. To date Derek hasn't explored contemporary/modern musics to the extent Beck does on a somewhat regular basis, but he just a masterful and unique.

In the acoustic realm I just love Sean Watkins' playing in and out of Nickel Creek. Chris Eldridge from the Punch Brothers is a great player as well. I think they've both benefited greatly from not only being exposed to, but being fortunate enough to play with Chris Thile (and he from them as well).

Julian Lage, who started a very straight/traditional jazz player, is excellent and branching out more with each new recording. Becca Stevens is also a great player (as well as singer, writer, and interpreter of tunes). Annie Clark/St. Vincent is a great player, but her music isn't for everybody. Megan Lovell is another really good player (of Larkin Poe and Lovell Sisters fame), she plays dobro and standup lap steel.

There are plenty of other younger players out there, butter me the specific instrument (as a vehicle for delivering music to me ears) has become almost unimportant, as long as I like the music. So most of what I'm listening to these days is newer stuff often from "newer" artists. A fair amount is either without guitars or the guitars are just adding another layer/texture to the overall piece, not dominating it in any way. It actually makes it refreshing to go back and listen to more guitar dominated music.
 
Dogsinotpalc said:
I definitely hear and agree with what you're saying, except for the young(er) players thing. It depends upon what type of music you like, but Derek Trucks is a monster player...seriously otherworldly. Much like Beck, he can play very straight, but always adds his own voice to whatever he's playing. To date Derek hasn't explored contemporary/modern musics to the extent Beck does on a somewhat regular basis, but he just a masterful and unique.

In the acoustic realm I just love Sean Watkins' playing in and out of Nickel Creek. Chris Eldridge from the Punch Brothers is a great player as well. I think they've both benefited greatly from not only being exposed to, but being fortunate enough to play with Chris Thile (and he from them as well).

Julian Lage, who started a very straight/traditional jazz player, is excellent and branching out more with each new recording. Becca Stevens is also a great player (as well as singer, writer, and interpreter of tunes). Annie Clark/St. Vincent is a great player, but her music isn't for everybody. Megan Lovell is another really good player (of Larkin Poe and Lovell Sisters fame), she plays dobro and standup lap steel.

There are plenty of other younger players out there, butter me the specific instrument (as a vehicle for delivering music to me ears) has become almost unimportant, as long as I like the music. So most of what I'm listening to these days is newer stuff often from "newer" artists. A fair amount is either without guitars or the guitars are just adding another layer/texture to the overall piece, not dominating it in any way. It actually makes it refreshing to go back and listen to more guitar dominated music.
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Oh yeah- I forgot about Derek Trucks- the first time I saw him was in the early 1990's. He was 12 years old, playing in the Allman Brothers on "The Dini Petty Show" in Toronto. I was blown away by how good his slide playing was, even at that age. And since then he'd added all these other, non blues influences into his playing. There's some fantastic live recordings of him on the internet archive.

Haven't heard most of the other players you mentioned, other than St Vincent, & I forget what she sounds like.

One newer artist I like that I heard on the radio is Patrick Watson & the Wooden Arms. There was a live performance & some of it almost sounded like modern chamber orchestra music. Great, unusual arrangements w/ an emphasis on solid musicianship. I don't think that they have a guitarist- it's oriented around the piano, but it's still pop music. I guess you could call it fusion, but not in the way you would think when you think of the word.
 
Danzig I/II/III
NIN-Downward Spiral
Misfits-Walk Among Us/Earth A.D
Darkthrone- Transylvanian Hunger
King Diamond-Abigail
Slayer-Reign in Blood

And although it's not my favorite band or album by any means, the first Boston album ought to have a mention, it seems like every single song is still played regularly on the radio.
 
Grave Bomber said:
And although it's not my favorite band or album by any means, the first Boston album ought to have a mention, it seems like every single song is still played regularly on the radio.
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Yeah, good call on Boston. That's another flawless debut album. Too bad I can't stomach it anymore due to it being so overplayed.
 
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