i started playing when I was ten. A nylon string. I loved music. I listened to as many different types of playing as I could. My guitar journey had started... And then every so often I d hear something that I had no idea ‘how they did that!’. Not being conversent with fx, studio trickery or pedals I really was blown away by -
The Police - Walking On The Moon. Summers’ clangy, spacey, echoed rhythmic upstrokes. I’d never heard that before. Guitars were dirty tones in my experience.
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart. Rabin’s bonkers pitch-shifted solo. What the hell? Actually - is it a pitch shift? Never, ever come across anything like that before.
What tones, pieces of playing were new to you? What altered your perspective of what a guitar was capable of?
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More recently: Steve Vai's pre-bending on "Gravity Storm". Obviously I knew about pre-bending, but when you realise that song was done without the whammy bar...dang!
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It's not that unusual a sound, but I'd never heard a guitar used with that economy and effectiveness before. And very rarely have since.
It made me realise that you don't have to play anything complex to say something powerful.
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Just try counting the Freak Kitchen one.
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Again layering of the sounds in this verse
Circa Survive, again the arrangements along with the tones.
Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Cathedral, Entombed, Napalm Death, Godlesh, Winter, Dismember and Autopsy all sounded incredible at the time.