80's Metal
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- Geith0
madirish: i shot it for Brian Slagel, who hadjust started up Metal Blade Records on my dad's VHS camcorder and a shitty boom mic. I think he paid us $100. Man, if I only stuck with Brian. Smart guy.
- ********0
yeah , alot of the smokin metal guys do sound alike now.
I know he wasn't "the best" but I think Dime had that quality you are talking of. You heard one note and you knew it was him.
- TheBlueOne0
Oh, Dime definitely did!! Plus that tone of his was fucking singular...But I think he was over 35...
- ********0
yeah, your right.
...starts thinking
- madirish0
nice progress here people. i come back from the market (which by the way i could not find a bullet belt at) and i see this. dig it.
i hear you Blue- but as i was listing it, i think those guys are better than Yngwie, take it or leave it. hell, it is all personal taste- that is why metal is so awesome!
- blaw0
everything about this thread is awesome.
except for the malmsteen arguement.
i can't believe i had to sit through another one of those.
and morilla's old band photos are 100 times cooler than mine.
and my appreciation of the topic being due to the fact that i'm on the back stretch of my thirties.
on second thought, this thread sucks.
way to go blueone.
- ********0
here ya go mad
- madirish0
alright morilla, do you want your christmas card scented with roses, or sealed with a kiss? cause yer gettin' one or the other....
*places order
- TheBlueOne0
Yeah..I mean the cats in Trivium, Shadow's Fall, Archenemy..all good, but I couldn't pick them out of the crowd..I meaa in the 80's I could tell Skolnick from Hammet from the Slayer dudes from Gary Holt from exodus or Viv Campbell or Akira..you know..each guy had a style...nowadays it all sounds like it's squished through a POD and everyone is doing their Yngwie sweep picking runs and no one has a "voice"
- ********0
- madirish0
we actually agree 100%, Blue. you just summed it up.
why i think Hammet is so good is for the very reason you pointed out; the hair on my neck stands up with the first note he strikes. :)
- TheBlueOne0
I am kinda happy that I have lived long enough that bullet belts have almost. almost come back in fashion....
- TheBlueOne0
..but then again the 80's were filled with Van Halen clones everywhere...
- ********0
exactly rigth Blue.
also I would throw in Children of Bodom and Mick from Slipknot with that crowd
- TheBlueOne0
also I would throw in Children of Bodom and Mick from Slipknot with that crowd
morilla
(May 10 07, 11:26)Yeah..can someone please explain that kid from Children of Bodom?? I mean I won't cmoe out and say he sucks, but I don't get what the hubub is about him..he's just like...tasteless..souless..
- ********0
I don't either
- TheBlueOne0
newer players who I do like are Andy Timmons (arguably not "new", but what great tone/melodicism), Mathias Euckland...
But in the whole New Wave of American Metal thing...I'm hard pressed to come up with somebody...I mean the dude from Mastadon maybe - but only in the same way I would say Kim Thaiyl from Soundgarden..not really a technique/technical guy, but he's got his own sound..one I couldn't play with but he makes it work...
- TheBlueOne0
It's almost as if Yngwie was the worst thing that happened to metal..bc his influence made everything so fucking technical, like it was expected for you to be able to play like that after him for any kind of metal and all the guitar players went to GIT and all the soul was gone..and now you end up with little niche "guitar virtuoso records" that sell like 12 copies and the bands get akll these cookie cutter sound alikes...when metal lost the "blues" root/influence and went all neoclassical or whatever it is alot of originality got lost too..
- ********0
I hear you on Mastadon, alot of their stuff gets repetitive and their ham and eggs gets old after awhile.
But he definately has a sound. They uesed to rehearse next to us back in the day in atl. They would shake the f-in foundation.
Brent used to come in and listen to us go over our set and drink all my wine. I would alwyas look up and he would be out the door and my bottle was empty. F-er.