Here's a piece of music news I'm excited about but no one else will be.
Living Colour will be playing "Cult of Personality" live at Wrestlemania on Sunday. ("Cult..." is the theme song of wrestler CM Punk)
Re: Music News
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:17 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
I love that song. It's a shame they didn't stay together long enough to make more like it. Sort of a one hit wonder.
It' had everything I like. Funk, hard rock, riff driven guitar, loud drums and a catchy chorus.
Re: Music News
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:21 pm
by roymond
I saw them play that warming up the Stones in '90 or so. It was great. But yeah, I can't remember another song of theirs. It's like that song was them. Sort of like Big Country was Big Country. But different.
hey, living colour had a lot of good songs, although their later albums fell off sharply in quality.
"vivid" is awesome (which has cult of personality but other great songs)
"time's up" had quite a few good songs.
"stain" was pretty good but i don't listen to it much.
the other two, not sure when i listened to them last...
-bill
That is really sad. 61 is waaay too young to lose such an important artist.
I know, right?. That's not that old. He must have had pre-exsiting health issues. Being in the studio with Hendrix, Zep and the Stones I'm sure had a little to do with that. Yet Kieth Richards is still chugging along. Tiger Blood?
RIP Andy.
Paco Del Stinko wrote:That Wangcaster guitar is the nuts! Sorry.
Funny, when I saw that yesterday, I started to make a similar comment about the first thing that sprung to mind. It was really hard, but I took the high road.
Wow, that Peavey AT-200 is crazy. Auto-tune in your guitar? Ugh.
Re: Music News
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:10 am
by Billy's Little Trip
^ that is awesome. I fear it will not properly teach a person to manage their guitar, like autotune for a bad singer not to practice. But for a seasoned guitar play, that guitar is the bees knees, the cat's pajamas.......best thing since sliced bread!
Hartley Peavey said, "Having a guitar that is out of intonation and won’t tune properly can take away the motivation and joy in playing".
I've said this before for new guitar players. A precision perfectly set up guitar can make a first time guitar player become addicted to it. A guitar out of intonation and won't stay in tune is very frustrating to a new guitar player because they think it's their fault that they don't sound anything like the song they are learning. So they say **** this! And throw it in the closet.
Re: Music News
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:17 am
by ken
I'm not sure I agree with the assertion that if guitarists can't tune their guitars then they will be deficient in some way. We don't expect pianists to tune their instrument and I don't think that anyone would say that electronic keyboards have eroded the skill level of the beginner. I suspect having access to an entry level instrument has probably helped keep people learning and playing this behemoth of an outdated technology.
Re: Music News
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:53 am
by Lunkhead
I would agree with the theory that it's discouraging to n00bs when they buy a cheap guitar and everything they play sounds like crap due to tuning/intonation issues. I just think that if you start out on something like the AT-200 you may develop a distorted perspective about how guitars work and sound. You're not really hearing the actual guitar anymore, everything's going through a DSP. At which point do you stop bothering with actual having the strings except for strumming/picking? There are already MIDI guitars that just have strings down on the body for strumming, and no strings on the fretboard. To me at that point it's not really an "instrument" per se, or at least not a "guitar", it's just another MIDI controller. Maybe just buy a $100 MIDI controller if you just want to trigger samples or something. I don't know. I guess there's just going to be a spectrum between straight-up MIDI controller and actual organic acoustic instrument, with more and more options everywhere along the spectrum, which is kind of cool I guess. It's probably going to cause confusion and communication issues though, with a lot of people only knowing about the one point on the spectrum they're familiar with.