Question: Favourite (or despised) musical clichés?

bingefeller

Barney said:

Im starting to really dislike the modern fusion type of thing cos everybody is starting to sound the same and use that slide thingy on most notes that Greg Howe started doing in the 80s...

Ah yes, lots of YouTube famous players playing fusion on Suhrs with a semi clean tone.  

viz

Oooh who?

bingefeller

viz said:

Oooh who?

Tom Quayle, Jack Gardiner etc.  Technically great players but boring music.

SquireJapan

bingefeller said:

viz said:

Oooh who?

Tom Quayle, Jack Gardiner etc.  Technically great players but boring music.

Yeah ... now I've watched the video I can see what you mean - that things everywhere 

viz

bingefeller said:

viz said:

Oooh who?

Tom Quayle, Jack Gardiner etc.  Technically great players but boring music.

Ah thank you, didn't know either of them. Yes I don't get much from very technique-based jammin' but I did find quite a few excellent and musical tracks from Jack Gardiner which I really enjoyed, so thank you!

bingefeller

viz said:

bingefeller said:

viz said:

Oooh who?

Tom Quayle, Jack Gardiner etc.  Technically great players but boring music.

Ah thank you, didn't know either of them. Yes I don't get much from very technique-based jammin' but I did find quite a few excellent and musical tracks from Jack Gardiner which I really enjoyed, so thank you!

Jack has some vids of him trying Friedman Amps ar NAMM 2015 and he is just noodling in them, but that's some of his most interesting playing, for me anyway.  

Its funny, over the past 15 years or so there has been an influx of players with incredible technique who are making really boring cliché ridden fusion type music.  A lot of the sound seems to come from Greg Howes album Introspection, especially Jump Start.  Most of these guys are using boutique gear , yet Greg got that sound by plugging a Tubescreamer directly into the console.   

Sporky

octatonic said:

Cookie monster vocals.

What I don't understand about cookie monster vocals is that when Rosetta do it it sounds musical, but no-one else seems to have worked out how to do that.

Jalapeno

Pachabell's canon in D  

viz

bingefeller said:

viz said:

bingefeller said:

viz said:

Oooh who?

Tom Quayle, Jack Gardiner etc.  Technically great players but boring music.

Ah thank you, didn't know either of them. Yes I don't get much from very technique-based jammin' but I did find quite a few excellent and musical tracks from Jack Gardiner which I really enjoyed, so thank you!

Jack has some vids of him trying Friedman Amps ar NAMM 2015 and he is just noodling in them, but that's some of his most interesting playing, for me anyway.  

Its funny, over the past 15 years or so there has been an influx of players with incredible technique who are making really boring cliché ridden fusion type music.  A lot of the sound seems to come from Greg Howes album Introspection, especially Jump Start.  Most of these guys are using boutique gear , yet Greg got that sound by plugging a Tubescreamer directly into the console.   

Absolutely, and in fact Howe is a proper songwriter - ok he's technically brilliant, but his songs have direction and flow and purpose and tunes as well as just groove and accuracy.