I had a laugh when I read this. Boomer bends… Anyway, it’s nice that kids are playing guitar their own way and making their own guitar music, whatever that is.
https://www.guitarworld.com/features...bends-backlash
I had a laugh when I read this. Boomer bends… Anyway, it’s nice that kids are playing guitar their own way and making their own guitar music, whatever that is.
https://www.guitarworld.com/features...bends-backlash
Call me clueless, but I read that article and I stilll have no idea what "boomer-bends" means.
|I'll watch the video when |I get a chance, to see if it explains more...
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"Do you call sleeping with a guitar in your hands practicing?"
"It is if you don't drop it."
- Trent Lane, Daria, Episode 1-2.
Though I agree (and I do: most of what I play and enjoy listening to is precisely that kind of guitar playing), I like the fact that younger guys than me are playing guitar their own way, not just programming iPhones to mimic music…
However, the biggest mistake these youngsters make is to think they’re actually innovating. Guitar music without bends and bluesy licks? Uh… punk rock has been around since the seventies.
Well, shit. I'm a Gen-xer and |I play those bends all the time. Pretty much every band I listen to uses them, from the classic rock stuff (I guess that's who he's mostly disparaging.) to just about any modern band, except those who play too fast to do it (actually, I think Polyphia and Animals as Leaders pretty much fall into that catagory...)
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"Do you call sleeping with a guitar in your hands practicing?"
"It is if you don't drop it."
- Trent Lane, Daria, Episode 1-2.
Didn't watch, but I think the bend dichotomy is hilarious in a way because the Indie I hear hardy ever has solos, and if it does, there are no bend-y licks. And I have to add, these players are not bad; their playing could never be void of blues and rock and country, but these players have different ways of thinking about the guitar.
Having said that, I'm a few months from 60, and I'll f'in bend when the song calls for it; and I'll f'in not bend when the song says, "No bends."
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
Pretty sure Chuck Berry was the first one I hear doing bends in rock, but country guys were doing it in the 50's. It's a country thing that made it to rock and blues. Double stops too.
Last edited by Offshore Angler; 11-19-2021 at 01:30 PM.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
It's not so much about having talent and skills these days as it is about "being famous."
I recently heard a rising singer talking all about being famous and everyone getting to know who she is, but there wasn't a word about her honing her craft, no word about artistry, just a desire to be famous.
When that's your goal, you don't give a shit about craft and might as well give an award to your auto-tuner.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison