About as modern a guitar style as you can get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7aAKMzi4zw
Great technical playing man that's shocking stuff.
Fuck sake, I thought it was another gender bender sexuality.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 15, 2021, 03:14:56 PM
Great technical playing man that's shocking stuff.
Some serious tech going on alright. One of the guitarist's playthrough videos came up in my newsfeed when I was searching for floyd rose related stuff. I clicked onto it thinking "what the fuck is this cunt with his emo fringe gonna do with a floyd rose" but he fairly showed me, so he did.
Here's another one with a cleaner tone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_gkpYORQLU
The lads have talent alright. I hope they keep it as instrumental.
I absolutely hate it though. And I have a fairly high tolerance for shredy wank.
I usually LOVE shreddy guitar stuff and dig alot of the modern progressive styles but I was appalled when they did one of the NAMM jams a year or 2 ago with Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Satriani, Nita Strauss and others. They couldn't jam or improvise a solo at all and got completely blown off the stage by the "old guard". It was painful to watch and it's tainted this band forever for me.
I'm not surprised! The likes of Vai and Satriani could entertain you by themselves for hours, whereas I think that the players in Polyphia work as a whole band, not as individuals.
I think their style is kind of like when acoustic players slap the necks of their guitars, except with a few clean sweeps and whammy action thrown in here and there.
That's exactly what I thought. That slappy acoustic stuff is impressive to watch for a few minutes but who would ever actually want to sit down and listen to it. Not me.
That composition is shit, no two ways about it.
Quote from: if6was9 on June 16, 2021, 08:48:49 PM
I usually LOVE shreddy guitar stuff and dig alot of the modern progressive styles but I was appalled when they did one of the NAMM jams a year or 2 ago with Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Satriani, Nita Strauss and others. They couldn't jam or improvise a solo at all and got completely blown off the stage by the "old guard". It was painful to watch and it's tainted this band forever for me.
The same happened for me with Steve DiGorgio after I saw some bootleg video of him attempting an improvised solo. I think it was a gig somewhere in South America.
Proof that practice doesn't make perfect music.
Not for me.