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I thought the Bohemian Rhapsody kid was good , but the busker guy sounded , well , like a busker.
I'm also a bit tired of the acoustic tapping thing , its all gone a bit gimmicky like the two handed ,widdley guitar stuff back in the 80s/90s .
I agree 8 isn't enough ,and there should be more places for rock , simply because the vast majority of players play rock , 2 places isn't enough .
One girl there played something a bit ethereal , that sounded an awful lot like the "Future music" from Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure , I'm just saying.
A few observations:
1. If the prize is a festival slot, and not a recording contract etc, what's the point in having a producer like Visconti as a judge? Surely a big name guitarist like Slash or Jimmy Page would be better? God knows it could do with a rock heavyweight on the panel, with the amount of rock entrants. Plus, Visconti saying that the fella who took on The Kinks' YRGM, "brought a 60s song up to date" must have meant he missed the Van Halen version which did exactly that and was better...
2. The percussive acoustic players are getting a bit long in the tooth now, as everybody has said.
3. The shredders were no better than most Saturday morning guitar shop players; plus that Orange stack made them sound bloody terrible.
I'm 47 this year ffs & I can give most 22 year olds a run for their money, which is mad really. Outside of Metal, the avg indie guitarist is soul crushingly conservative.
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The kid with the pointy headstock guitar who was flailing around was the best argument I've heard for playing acoustics. In the entire guitar-playing community of the UK I find it hard to believe that he was worth broadcasting.
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I can't wait for Milos next week (he said something along the lines of "they may not like me, I will tell them the truth") when confronted with the acoustic slappers.