"It's F***ing Disgusting!" The Music Industry Is DESTROYING Guitar Solos!!

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I am passionate about this cause. #GuitarSolos are a beautiful, expressive, important part of any song. Where have they gone? Why don't those in radio stations like them? What's happening?
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@JustinHawkinsRidesAgain 2 года назад

I do lots of more in depth personal stuff on my Patreon, you can check it out here if you're curious: www.patreon.com/jushawk

@jasonhollis3958 2 года назад

Thanks for the performance last night at Rock city it’s my first time ever seeing you guys live and it was amazing and brought back a lot of memories from school when you guys first came on the scene. In fact you saved me at school from a lot of shit music that I was fed up of listening to. I was starting to lose hope then boom I believe in a thing God love came on the radio.

@LoneWolf-sh1ph 2 года назад

You scared me when you said ' Metallica guitar solos from the olden days' I just realised IM OLD

@nostalgiatripmedia6937 2 года назад

Justin please give Band-Maid a try if you haven't already. Would love to see you talk about them here. I don't see any possible way you wouldn't love them. Plenty of amazing guitar solos in the service of fantastic rock n roll songs. You can't go wrong with any of them but the official studio music video for Warning would be a good starting point. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9yD3IqrLtPk.html

@bridgetyoung190 2 года назад

@@LoneWolf-sh1ph 🤣😂🤣

@danomite9049 2 года назад

BIG FAN here Justin ,I know im going out on a Limb here but ...im on tiktok and I did a 1st verse and chorus of your song I believe in a thing called love and I would love it if you could duet me the 1st verse and chorus 🙏 😀

@tristanavakian 2 года назад

As I was for a time a session rock guitarist in the 80’s, I can tell you that guitar solos were overused to make underwhelming music sound more exciting. Wretched pop, jingles. Eventually proficiency on the instrument became synonymous with soulless commercialism, and ineptitude was conflated with integrity - the worst of all possible outcomes.

@ashtonbalder1963 2 года назад

Thank you for this, lot of people talking about how it’s a lack of opportunities - no, the internet gave us more opportunities than ever. Even Justin mentioned seeing virtuosic guitarists on the internet today, so that’s obviously not the problem. The problem (to piggyback off what you’re saying) is that rock didn’t wane in popularity with dignity, it waned with a whimper, and when rap and pop took over as the mainstream genres, rock just wasn’t able to wipe the egg off its face in time. Even the rock revival of the 00’s was…questionable at best, maybe some of them were capable but the aesthetic just wasn’t there, and unfortunately nothing has really taken hold since then. It’s not that guitar solos have gone out of style, rock just hasn’t come back with enough of a reason to exist yet. Thus, no one is willing to invest the 30 seconds (which is a LOT of time by modern radio/streaming standards) to listen.

@diegosotomiranda4107 Год назад

@@ashtonbalder1963 for me Wee need to take out nostalgia googles about 70s and 80s rock, from the overused Pentatonix solos to The whashed up attitude of "Rockstar" i mean, why would be exciting to anyone today to watch a millenial dressing, and acting "crazy" when that aesthetic was just beated to death when rock was mainstream, most gentes don't hold that much to a specific time, ofc the influences exist but with rock theres seems to be stuck in time cause nodoby etapa their heads that it's not the 80s anymore and that it's a good thing

@stevesuttner300 2 года назад

2 words: MOON. WALKER. The guitar solo is alive and well

@roberthumphreys3928 2 года назад

Thats what made me fall in love with the darkness. Nu metal was in full swing and there wasn't a guitar solo in sight then you guys came along and brought the solo back. Nothing better that a great guitar solo!!

@jamesclerk815 2 года назад

Still remember getting Permission to Land in high school and being absolutely blown away by it

@roberthumphreys3928 2 года назад

@@jamesclerk815 it did the same for me. I grew up with the guitar solo and when I heard I believe in a thing called love I literally jumped for joy!!

@BOBANDVEG 2 года назад

I'm looking for "great rock bands I never heard of". Anyone?

@SpacemanXC 2 года назад

Guitar hero and Dragonforce happened shortly after. Which also helped bring it back a bit. Now we have RU-vid and Polyphia getting kids to pick up guitars. Although most of us don't like it. It's worth mentioning that country acts are some of the biggest money makers in the business. And they still have guitar solos.

@PrivateSi 2 года назад

There's always Steel Panther!

@OTOss8 2 года назад

Here's a 10 minute first draft thought on where guitar solos went. *The loss of live venues killed the guitar solo.* Going into why so many live venues have vanished is a whole huge topic on its own but the crux of it is this: If a young person has no place to go and learn the basics of their craft (string diddling in this case) then they never have the chance to improve and reach a point where they are revered as a master string diddler. There was a time where you were spoiled for choice when it came to seeing live music. Even in smaller metropolitan areas you'd have numerous spots where bands were playing and for a modest sum you could attend and enjoy the entertainment. The bands got to practice and gain confidence, the venues didn't have to pay all that much because they weren't established acts, the patrons didn't have to pay that much because they were in dives, but some time around the late 90s and early 00s these live venues started to vanish. Everything gets expensive. Land is expensive, owning a business is expensive, just running a joint is way more than it once was and all the smaller dives vanish and the only places left standing are spots that might appear independent but are quietly part of some large group that owns most of the clubs in your city. People want to make money so *if* they're still booking bands they have to book bands that can draw a crowd that will pay well above what an unknown group of string diddlers would normally command so these novice string diddlers never get a chance to get off the ground. If you closed all the small grotty fields, pitches, courts and rinks, in 10 to 15 years you'd run out of pro sports players. Where did all the Ronaldos go? you'd wonder. Why don't we have any superstars left? Well because they can't just spring up, fully formed. People need practice to become experts and you really need to be an expert to solo in a way that people enjoy. Soloing isn't just the technical ability to diddle strings in a pleasing manner, it's the confidence to stand there in front of dozens or hundreds or thousands of judgmental strangers and diddle those strings loudly and proudly, chest puffed out pulling a face like you're sucking on a lemon. Like it's a whole big thing and it takes more words than I have the time to presently write and more words than you have the desire to presently read to really get into the nuts and bolts of it but the death of live venues killed the ability of young people to learn this craft and if you can't learn it you can't do it. Now, get out there and diddle some strings.

@jeffarcher400 2 года назад

Absolutely. Radio play songs used to have to be under three minutes. It may not be law but it's what is bite sized and marketable. That doesn't leave room for much artistry.

@someoneelse5005 2 года назад

that's actually a pretty bad excuse - not seeing people live doesn't mean you can't learn to solo, a lot of young and upcoming musicians learn from youtube, from playing music from 60s all up to today, etc. There is just less exposure to this type of music if you are looking at live venues, but platforms like yt have given everyone else a venue to participate, so you are basically looking in the wrong place.

@AndyFordify 2 года назад

@@someoneelse5005 I'd always thought it simply down to changing trends/taste, but I think the lack of cheap small venues is an interesting point. Where I grew up there were an handful of dive bars that any local band could book and get in front of people. It was in these venues that they really developed, less so in rehearsal. Seeing local bands experience that "turning point" gig was a wonder to witness. When I returned to that city a few weeks ago literally all of those venues had closed. Yes of course there's more to the loss of guitar solos than just that, but I think it's a valid point. There's an abundance of RU-vid guitar warriors, but how many of them able to get in front of a crowd to figure out what actually works in a song. How many of them can pull it off when eyes are on them?

@longneck6456 2 года назад

Nashville exists

@Ronno4691 2 года назад

Remember, bands like Oasis and Kasabian are THE Led Zeppelin and Beatles of the working classes because proles do not like hard rock bands such as Guns N Roses or AC/DC (they're considered to be too 'heavy metal'). Proles prefer to listen to reggae, acid house shite and Oasis because of drugs and Liam Gallagher being a soccer casual made good. Oasis and Kasabian don't play guitar solos so that also killed off the solo.

@DrumWild 2 года назад

The music industry has destroyed music itself, to the point that looks and popularity are more important than actual talent. On the list of things required to "make it," musical talent and ability is at the bottom of the list, if it's even on the list at all.

@TheExtremeCube 2 года назад

Who gives a fuck what the music industry says, you have the option to A) create the music you love and B) support artists who make music you love today. Given those two options what else do you need. You have all the tools to keep whatever music you like alive.

@DrumWild 2 года назад

@@TheExtremeCube I generally do not care much about the music industry. However, the topic of this video is about the music industry, which is why I put focus there. Plus, I wasn't really talking about my own situation, so nobody knows my positions on that, or what I'm doing.

@christineayres7199 2 года назад

Mainstream music has turned into 30 second dog shit that you hear on Tik Tok , thats how bad its got pal , you have 30 seconds to play your beat lol peoples attention spans are fucked

@jtmichaelson 2 года назад

As I've gotten older, I've learned to appreciate David Gilmour. I've always loved Pink Floyd, but I didn't understand the "feeling" and "mood". Something David Gilmour is the master of when it comes to solos.

@Automaticman88 2 года назад

I found the David Gilmour comment and it only took me 10.5 seconds.

@vividvulpe9842 2 года назад

It took me to the age of 30 to finally appreciate Pink Floyd.

@zsaz4453 2 года назад

Same

@evansmusic2009 2 года назад

I love guitar and guitar solos...but Floyd was always so boring to me!! I remember a mate trying to get me interested - the only way I could listen was to change it from 33 to 45rpm on the record player....yeah sure the vocals sounded odd but finally there was substance to the guitar solos - not much but way better!!.... I think their drummer was asleep most of the time ;)

@zsaz4453 2 года назад

@@evansmusic2009 comfortably numb live..iam normal into slayer n slipknot n stuff but that solo is pure magic

@Redmi-pj6uc 2 года назад

You NEED to hear Moon Walker!

@folkrocksage9666 2 года назад

Grunge was actually abundant with guitar solos. Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Collective Soul ... all had great solos.

@misterknightowlandco 2 года назад

Yeah there were a lot of solos they just weren’t 80s styled solos

@alienanal7639 2 года назад

Even Cobain still did solos even though he was somewhat opposed to them. anti solos maybe but they were still very much solos just lest wanky sounding

@stevec6427 2 года назад

@@misterknightowlandco That's because the 80's had ended and everyone was fed up with the ego's, reworked versions of the same songs and lack of variety. By the late 80's all the hair metal bands were all drink & drug addicts who could no longer perform a decent show. Along came the punk energy of grunge and the originality of bands like Faith No More and people lost interest in hair metal. Same happened 5 or 6 rears later when all the grunge bands had over done the drugs and were either dead or couldn't perform.

@kevinkibble8342 2 года назад

Also not necessarily grunge, but from that era, Smashing Pumpkins were famed for their solos.

@TheKennyboy92 2 года назад

@@misterknightowlandco 80s solos were always overindulgent anyway

@DeathBringer769 2 года назад

Makes me miss the Van Halen days back when you could have both synth AND an obligatory, quality guitar solo all in one song.

@lordowl3533 2 года назад

They still have a lot of that in metal. Born of Osiris is the first one that comes to mind, as they have a keyboardist in their lineup, as well as an incredible guitarist. I think polyphia and chon use synths too

@dingleberrysnigglefritz 2 года назад

Rush had a whole lot of that.

@trillrifaxegrindor4411 2 года назад

jump was ground breaking for the time..also yngwie malmsteens guitar/synth solos were brilliant

@davidtsang5424 2 года назад

Children of Bodom when they were around made use of synths and epic guitar solos

@simongladwin816 2 года назад

Must confess Permission to Land was a breath of fresh air to me when it came out. I’d been in bands all my life and packed up because I’d become frustrated by it all. Permission to land made me pick up my guitar again because it was packed full wonderful riffs and solo’s. I interrupted your brother at the bar in de Montfort Hall when he was touring with Stone Gods to tell him so! I just wanted to shake his hand and say thank you! If I ever get the chance I’d do the same with you too. Permission to land made me want to play music again!

@imjustthegarbageman759 2 года назад

I reckon the long demise of the guitar solo really reached full throttle when Pop Idol/Pop Stars: The Rivals/X Factor/BGT etc slithered onto our screens. It told all the dull mums and dads who were frightened of all us gnarly rockers at school that actually the music business was filled with boys who combed their hair and enjoyed singing songs by Matt Monro and girls who liked lots of pink and hair spray and lippy and little dogs that fitted in handbags. The shiny sparkly BORING people got in the door. They didn’t like smelly sweaty pubs and clubs, they preferred chain pubs and nightclubs and they all wanted to work in insurance or estate agents (I know, I went to school with them!) and they hated distortion and real drums, they loathed anything without a label to tell them it was cool. The homogenisation of music into one great big bland RnB (not rhythm and blues, THAT is cool), commercialised hip hop, pseudo soul and cover versions into one awful, rotting beige ball of dribble. I think there were/are good bands who use keyboards - the 80s had tons. The Human League, ABC, Psychedelic Furs, Tears for Fears but they were all individual sounding, they didn’t all decide to ‘just write a pop song’, they used guitars as well. And then think about Prince! The absolute GOD of the 80s/90s guitar solo. Another absolute one-off. Basically, the guitar got trashed by fret-wanking (sorry, but it did) and the onslaught of dreadful ‘light entertainment pop’ that was only made so execs could get rich. It was bought by parents and grandparents and aunties and uncles who feared rebellion and anything different. Here endeth the lesson - now go forth and rock thy arses off! See you at the bar - Mine’s a cider.😁

@jowlorenz9555 2 года назад

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@Dan-pj4pp 2 года назад

That solo on the back of a flying white tiger - I've just spat my tea out laughing 😂😂😂

@bashr52 2 года назад

I can't even imagine "I believe in a thing called love" without that epic guitar solo??? The guitar solo's in The Darkness stuff is something I look forward to. Never let them die!

@DavidOakesMusic 2 года назад

Or even Love is Only A Feeling

@squidwardshouse5431 2 года назад

All three of those solos too. Even the short one after the first chorus.

@Mudder1310 2 года назад

Holy shit, THANK YOU! My friends and I have lamented the lack of guitar solos in modern music. You said it perfectly.

@CarloRegadasGuitar 2 года назад

I couldn't agree more with you, mate. Your point about radio edits is bang on. It's always the guitar solo that is either truncated, or completely omitted from the song. Is that mini traveller acoustic a Martin? The sound is deceptively big for its diminutive size! Most of the haters who post negative comments, in the hope of getting a rise, probably don't realise that your music theory knowledge is very good and you have a lot of really interesting insights about songwriting and music in general. Very interesting content and channel mate; you have a new subscriber. Carlo (47 year old, fellow 80s rock guitar nerd)👍🏼🎸

@jefftucker201 2 года назад

Totally agree! Being a guitarist myself (and even if I wasn't)... I miss guitar solos so much!

@TheExtremeCube 2 года назад

Did you know you can write a guitar solo today and post it on the Internet, and in that way keep them alive?

@foofy14 2 года назад

Love Justin's stubborn passion with music, anybody who truly loves the art is the same

@jpyoungs 2 года назад

There's still The Darkness, King's X, Devin Townsend, The Wildhearts, Andrew W.K. Don't forget the prog nerds - Haken, Big Big Train, Neal Morse Band, *Frost, Flower Kings, Stephen Wilson. They're out there. Just no radio play or chart success. It's a shame. I blame hip hop and iPhones.

@bridgetyoung190 2 года назад

Kings X! 😍

@jpoorr9973 2 года назад

@@bridgetyoung190 "Gretchen goes to Nebraska"🔥

@CWZGuitar 2 года назад

Fewer and fewer people want to take the time to become proficient at an instrument when you can just appropriate beats/samples. Still some good new stuff out there. You just gotta dig deep for it.

@blackheart7886 2 года назад

Imagine Queen without the Brian May solo's. His solo's made the songs sound wonderful.

@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14 2 года назад

Yeah but imagine Love of My Life with a shredding solo, you have to know where to use them

@Olegstuff21986 2 года назад

Of course, just like any proper rock/hard rock band. (Good) solos often take songs 'to the next level'.

@bloodyhellism 2 года назад

I wouldn't want to live in that world!

@andycrowley 2 года назад

GET THE DARKNESS BACK ON RADIO AND BRING BACK GUITAR SOLOS! 🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥 7:23 The Yubgblud song Fleabag has a wicked guotar solo in it 🔥 But you're totally right. 'Rock Bands' without any guitars on the recordings is an insult to the genre and such a shame. I put it down to commercial radio - advertisers put music on their ads that sound like pop songs. They then force the station to play music that matches with their ads. Commercial radio is paid for by the advertisers, so it makes sense - but it sucks for music. GET THE DARKNESS ON THE RADIO AND BRIBF BACK THE GUITAR SOLO 🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥

@kevinkibble8342 2 года назад

Yungblud is awful lol. He epitomises everything trashy about this younger generation and their tastes.

@bt3743 2 года назад

@@kevinkibble8342 no wonder rock music is dead when its fans are this needlessly whiny and self entitled

@russellnewton6660 2 года назад

Andy, I’ve followed you and even paid for your dvd some years ago, but pleaseee don’t encourage them lol.

@nilly666 2 года назад

once again you hit the nail on the head there!! think come next year me and James will start a campaign so we can get one of the new singles on mainstream radio! Stone Angels and The Darkness for radio one!! haha

@kevinkibble8342 2 года назад

@@bt3743 You're looking too deep into it there buddy. I just simply think his music sucks.

@StevoLloyds 2 года назад

What a great definition of the Blues, 'Blokes with guitars, moaning'. Hilarious but heartfelt, Justin and The Darkness personified.

@Almost_Genius 2 года назад

I'd argue it's less about the death of the solo, and more the death of the bridge. Thanks to the dominance of forever shuffled playlists and the advent of the 'vibe playlist' have left a lot of compositional elements on the cutting-room floor. Most songs that end up hitting the Billboard 100 end up 90-150 seconds in order to rack up those plays. You could also argue that the solo gained prominence after the shift from singles to LPs in the late 60s-early 70s as aperitifs, but since we've moved to songs over concept, the need for breaks or interesting structures have diminished in the public appetite. Rock will make it's reappearance when it finds a way to feed the audience appetite. The art of 'playing the dozens', freestyles or 'storytelling' seem to be what people want these days, and prog/folk rock is typically where those stories came from, which tend to be far too long to be cut into those digestible chunks for TikTok content. All hook, no melodic interplay. As a suggestion for a (half a song) solo from a vaguely unknown/recent-ish band... Sick Shit - togetherPANGEA

@protendi 2 года назад

90-150! I listen to a lot of prog so the average for me is 4-7 minutes, are peoples attentions spans really that short?

@btherr 2 года назад

From my late teens to my mid-20's, I was in a relationship with someone with whom I was musically incompatible. Aside from this making roadtrips nigh unbearable, it led to me forming views on her personality based on how she listened to music. A major part of her listening habits was only listening to music while someone was singing. Instrumental breaks aside, she couldn't even be bothered to listen to the end of a given song after the singing had stopped. (Raised on 70's prog and 90's alternative, I was more the sort to dismiss anything that wasn't guitar based. We're all with our own ignorant fault to overcome.) I believe the guitar solo has disappeared because more and more people have adopted listening habits like this. As the world has gotten faster, people have become less patient. As people have become less patient, tastes have shifted to the point that nobody considers anything but a vocal hook a waste of time. I believe there are still plenty of conscious music fans who don't feel that way, but I think you're unlikely to hear it on the radio or in arenas anymore because it's not what an A&R department tells us what we want.

@Sthephyr12 2 года назад

That would be so irritating to be with someone like that. Might seem petty but I wouldn't be able to help it.

@michaelarby 2 года назад

To jump on this, as we move out of the 'album era' towards music that is primarily streamed, and released single by single rather than albums all at once, its been noted that songs are getting shorter and shorter. Pay per stream means that a song can be listened to more times, and therefore earn more money the shorter it is. Perhaps the guitar solo is seen as a lengthy indulgence these days and that extra 20-30 seconds is cutting a hefty % of potential stream revenue

@6969jezabel 2 года назад

I came of age going to concerts by the Dixie Dregs, Jeff Beck, Jean Luc Ponty, Return to Forever, etc. My dates would ALWAYS say, ‘Where is the singer??” Ha!

@joannayannotti9076 Год назад

How was that not a massive red flag?? I hope you dumped her shortly after learning this 😂

@AnthonyBurrito1313 2 года назад

I just got hip to The Darkness, sorry for the late arrival, but I love your band and you and your brothers guitar playing!! LOVE IT!!!

@johnott193 2 года назад

Our band (who no one outside of our family have heard of) were using guitar solos more as a melodic break say during an intro or a break between verse and chorus. The rest of the band always wants more guitar solos and although I am the guitar player and love playing solos, when I put my producer hat on I start thinking about length of the song, are people going to stick around for the solo, etc I sometimes decide on not adding a guitar solo. And I think a lot off that stems from more modern rock bands not having guitar solos, even the bands I love like Strokes, Cage the Elephant, Black Keys. I will say we have proper guitar solos in maybe 50% of our tunes and they always serve a purpose in the song. I sometimes think of them as a bridge like you mentioned early on in the video. Love these videos. Always constructive and honest.

@willjoby1961 2 года назад

I think the renaissance of dj-ing in the 90's had an effect. All of a sudden there was another thing to practice on your own in your bedroom. And people who didn't have the guitaring skills could do that instead. And then became the most popular people at parties. And lo. People putting on other people's records became the cool thing to do musically.

@giuseppecavuoto2098 2 года назад

Queens of the Stone Age are a guitar solo in its pure essence. And I would also add The Hives. Not too many guitar solos, but definitely guitar-centric

@teagancombest6049 2 года назад

I don't think either of those bands could be considered "modern", even 9 months ago lol

@TheDrogich 2 года назад

I just can't imagine songs like "Love is only a feeling" and "Growing on me" without that awesome guitar solos that make this songs even better :D

@grahamdrummond2412 2 года назад

It's a fantastic solo & outro on Growing on me, so melodic, Justin is a brilliant guitar player, up there with the best

@drewsollars2239 2 года назад

A good guitar solo usually (but not always) requires a fairly high level of musicianship and creativity, two elements so wholly absent from modern radio that one can only conclude that they are significant liabilities in today's popular music industry.

@cfcuker 2 года назад

Even a strategically placed single string bend can lift a song from the mundane into a classic. Too many solos are overworked and wanky.

@drewsollars2239 2 года назад

@@cfcuker Less can certainly be more. Generally in my book a solo can get away with being super wanky as long as it's kept fairly short

@danielhoskins4690 2 года назад

Love you Justin. That said, we are in a heritage pursuit now. Steam train enthusiasts in the age of diesel and electric. It is still fun to have a record player, a les Paul and a 100 watt triple rectifier, sure. It’s also fun for some people to spend their weekends in a field dressed as a civil war soldier. Rock on!

@DefyTheTyrant 2 года назад

Great take on the music industry. We love your insight on these things

@NickCodyComedy 2 года назад

I heard Coheed and Cambria's new single "Shoulders" on the radio and in a lot of hockey and American football stadiums this year, love their use of solos.

@nothere941 2 года назад

Ooooo yeah dude Coheed is 100% rock haha. Especially their more recent stuff!

@fooman54 2 года назад

Love Coheed but wasn't crazy about the effects on their guitars for that one. Went a little too Royal Blood for my taste. Still a catchy as hell chrous though.

@rikurodriguesneto6043 2 года назад

Two of my favorite new bands - Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Dirty Projectors - have some of the best guitar solos I've ever heard (Thought ballune and Knotty pine, respectively). White Stripes' Black Math is awesome. I guess bands like King Gizzard, although I haven't listened to them that much. I don't know about mainstream radio. The reasons? Beats me. A guitar solo seems to be the ultimate "look at me, I'm here!" and I feel like we live in quite a downer society - it's more about "let me zone out to this beat 4 a sec". There are some rumblings of change, though - that inner voice is coming out in the form of Danny Brown yelling: "ain't it funny?!" Thanks for a great video and thanks for introducing me to Greta van fleet! :D

@badfantom4702 2 года назад

I know I'm late to this, but for me Mastodon are keeping the guitar solo alive - from a metal band that is relatively palatable to a general audience. Brett Hinds is one of the prominent soloists living today in my opinion. Incredible emotion, melody, everything, colliding in a cathartic release. A bit old now, but the solo on 'Oblivion' from 'Crack the Skye' is a superb example. Would love for you to cover them. Much love, Justin!

@loganderby5890 2 года назад

Hundred percent! The best!!

@jimmieerickson3598 2 года назад

I think you hit the core of the issue when you said it’s mostly instrumental sections in general that are lacking. I think the industry has wanted to only push figureheads with unknown and unidentifiable “professional” backing musicians for ages. With the decimation of the radio from the late 90s onward to the huge downsizing of the entire record industry due to file sharing, they’ve finally been able to achieve their vision. Now, the producers and suits are responsible for the nuts in bolts, which leaves the figurehead singers completely dependent on them instead of a Led Zeppelin style band where everybody has a unique sound and opinion and is irreplaceable.

@nikkbertschman2200 2 года назад

This is 100% accurate. The industry has cast quality musicianship and guitar solos aside. If you want some more great bands out there playing guitar solos I’d suggest Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown, Rival Sons, Jared James Nichols and Bros Landreth.

@fab208athome 2 года назад

Goodbye to Love by The Carpenters was an amazing song elevated to brilliant by that guitar solo - yet Richard Carpenter had to fight hard against the record company to keep it in.

@deborahanlon2323 2 года назад

I just heard that song again the other day and was thinking that solo was pretty bold for that genre at the time!

@CharlesHess 2 года назад

A great surprise solo.

@stevenharrison488 2 года назад

Love that a girlfriend bought it for me when it came out 👍👍

@rylieriley 2 года назад

Yes.... more guitar solos, please! I can imagine guitar solos in classical music, EDM, just about everywhere. Be imaginative. Break free from the normally accepted rules of music. Keep the guitar solo alive!

@christineayres7199 2 года назад

DONT LET THE BELLS END , JUST LET THEM RING PLEASE!!! LOL

@michaelarby 2 года назад

A lot of retrowave music conbines synth and solos. A brilliant example is 'on the run' by a group called wolf and raven - check it out :)

@wilssantos2 2 года назад

Justin, you're really a great guy. I'm really liking these videos. I also feel that, although a solo is not necessarily "needed" in one song, having the solos as integral parts of songs is part of what makes rock rock. Strange, small solos are still solos, the point is the instrumental break. I'd love to see new stuff with solos too. ...by the way, two things: 1) I play since I was 14, but your expertise on the guitar is on another level. Always a joy to see. 2) watching these videos, I can't help but be reminded (both ways) by how you and Bradley Hall end up looking like each other, with this British accent and this superb guitar playing. I assume you know him, right? All the best for you and yours!

@mikeg2939 2 года назад

At a darkness gig once I had a brief chat with a guitarist, he May have been called Brian, who pointed out that that year there had been record sales of guitars in the UK. Could that have been due to the emergence of the darkness at that time? Who knows. Could it be possible that music looses its way occasionally and just needs someone to remind people what proper music and musicianship is, and what the electric guitar was intended for. All hail the Hawkins brothers. (I really don't know why I wrote that last bit).

@Gsmoovie420 2 года назад

I see what you did there. You capitalized Brian May.

@AntonioFranco75 2 года назад

Hi Justin. I'll tell you something. I only knew one song from The Darkness. (You know, that hit with the falsetto). But having listened to your opinions on this channel, which I thoroughlly enjoy. It picked up my curiosity an I ended up diving into The Darkness discography. You got a new fan here. Keep it up.!

@michaeldelaney5971 2 года назад

When writing, you get a feel of when a solo is needed. Sometimes it just doesn't feel right, but other times you know one needs putting in. Had times where a guitarist has come up with a solo, and we have had to build the song around that

@ChromeDestiny 2 года назад

I worked at a restaraunt for many years. Near the end of my time the owners brought in a music service and it was so depressing hearing so much recent mainstream music back to back. It sounded like musicians were literally afraid of their instruments.

@alessandrociapica5180 2 года назад

I still can clearly remember the first time I heard Darkness, I was so impressed by all that amazing guitar solos. It was 2003/2004 I was 18 and the guitar solos were banned from the radio at that time too. It was all about nu metal and indie rock, I was much into Zeppelin, Guns, Hendrix, Maiden, ecc so I was not really satisfied with that trend. Then you guys came out and not only you had this incredible hard rocking anthems, but there were this beautiful guitars with so many fantastic solos in it! You are totally right with nowadays situation, I see guitar totally disappears on mainstream music

@SonnyBrown1965 2 года назад

I’m a synth nerd, but totally agree with you. Music is ‘king bland. Everything on the grid too, none of those minute timing fluctuations that give music soul. I love my synths and drum machines, but absolutely need guitars and solos… if only I had the skill… 👍🏼🎸

@simonlawson5498 2 года назад

While She Sleeps are the band to check out right now I’d say. They probably venture more into the metal side of things but like you say, the lines of what rock is seems blurred these days. ‘ENLIGHTENMENT(?)’ is the first track off the new album and it is covered in beautiful guitar melodies and the use of pedals and varied tunings make Sean one of the few guitarists I recognise just from there playing in recent years. There is modern production and lots of layers, but the guitars always seem to take centre stage. Give it a go!

@jpoulter8845 2 года назад

No, the hoards of Swedish, Finnish and German bands who have taken the old school sound and built on it are. While She Sleeps are another facet to the death of rock, the pussification

@billiehaycraft4064 2 года назад

You're right, all these bands calling themselves rock bands! Makes my blood boil 😡

@yoshubigaming 2 года назад

Prime example, i tuned into Rock FM a few months ago, they played Rhianna, Bloody Rhianna !!!!!

@billiehaycraft4064 2 года назад

@@yoshubigaming FFS!!! That is just beyond stupid!

@miaschu8175 2 года назад

One of my playlists is called Guitar Solos and Cool Riffs. Every time I listen to a song on Spotify that has a great guitar, I add it to my playlist. Then, when I really need a good guitar fix, I can just go there and know I'll find what I need. Personally, I like guitarists showing off. I wasn't into heavy metal, then I saw Angus play an awesome OTT solo during an old UK concert. He was really going for it, and I forgot to turn over the channel to something more sedate. I was hooked.

@TheArtofGuitar 2 года назад

Agreed guitar brother!

@Pyrohelix_ 2 года назад

Awesome to see you here!

@erik.liebenberg 2 года назад

I think there is a direct correlation between the rise of technology, in particular the internet, and the decline of guitar music in general - not just guitar solos. As a child of the 90s we had less distractions. There was no RU-vid. To keep entertained I'd be out and about with my friends or be at home banging my head against the wall trying to figure out a guitar solo or just guitar parts to my favorite songs. It wasn't easy then and it's not easy now. It's easier to get distracted now! Can't play solo X of band Y, then watch someone play it on RU-vid. It's not the same thing. I think it comes down to complexity and hard work over time. It's not easy learning to bend strings - let alone in pitch at high tempos. In summary: They are hard and I don't think people want to put in the effort anymore. As a result the palate of the masses has changed over time.

@KINGBublepop 2 года назад

Well in another perspective, the rise of the internet helps to teach certain crafts more efficiently. The people who you say might get more easily distracted and not learn anything in the process are probably just the ones who play for fun. Honestly I just think people got tired of guitar heroes and "epic" solos, I know I did.

@ricardoslhenriques 2 года назад

The easeness of accessing pretty much anything is the downfall of individuality. Stretch this to any given field of human craft, and you'll find it to be (almost) entirely true. It's not about bashing internet, and more about the laziness of copycat. Even in videogames, kids are watching others playing the game, so they don't have to....

@connora4444 2 года назад

I’m part of the generation who have it easy and I’d just like to say I live for a guitar solo. Lots of people choose to learn by ear still because it’s too boring to just pick up a solo on the internet. If anyone’s looking for the current underground of guitar noodling it’s all with math-rock and electronic metal core, bands like Polyphia are about as influential to some as Van Halen. I do miss the classic rock solos but the modern generation prefer indie rock which normally skip over solos

@heartshinemusic 2 года назад

Great that you mention Thunder... have always been a very underrated band. They also suffered from the rise of Grunge. I love guitar solo's. I miss them. Instead of mourning them, ask the question: How can we bring the (melodic, emotional, singable) guitar solo back? There should be a foundation, an NGO for promotion and protecting the guitar solo... Great channel Justin. (I think many old rockers listeners have crossed over to country pop/rock. More melodic guitars and solo's there. I like Keith Urban, not really rock, but I enjoy it much more than "modern" rock bands.) Check out Halestorm, Alter Bridge and Tremonti for great guitar solo's! I used to love Shinedown, but they've abandoned solo's too now.

@chrisjackson9626 2 года назад

I remember watching Thunder, Little Angels, ZZ Top, Bryan Adams and Paul Rogers band The Law playing at Milton Keynes in the early 90's. Awesome day, plus plenty of guitar solos.

@andyoc 2 года назад

As much as I love the 80s especially as a guitarist, I think a lot of the negativity towards solos emerged from the "Arms race" during that period, between Yngwie, Vai, Vinnie Moore, Gilbert amongst others and those who sought to better or emulate them. I love all those players (even the copycats) but it seems the mainstream got well sick of it. As for today: Tim Henson's got some very cool unusual chops, very unique, Andy James is a monster, Tom Quayle is maybe the greatest legato player of this era and Rick Graham is God. He even looks like him.

@steven5054 2 года назад

Tim Henson? Ew. It's like Stanley Jordan playing math-rock.

@syzyphyz 2 года назад

@@steven5054 hard disagree, Tim Henson actually has some very interesting original compositions featuring dissonance, which makes him distinct from both vanilla math rock and Stanley Jordan.

@vorpalblades 2 года назад

None of those players were "mainstream", even back then. Vai was probably closest when he played with David Lee Roth. You never heard them on the radio.

@adammcbride6276 2 года назад

Samantha Fish: Faster. Released in Sept 2021, has been played on radio and will not disappoint! Also, keep up with the great show Justin!

@GROUNDWAVES 2 года назад

The two solos on Love Is Only A Feeling slap you right in the heart.

@richard127gm 2 года назад

Solos of all sorts were killed by the excesses of bands doing 20 minute guitar, drum, keyboard solos etc. Fortunately there are many, many good rock and metal bands that don't bother the charts, still giving the guitar some love. Keep on keeping on Justin.

@kaleidoscopicvoid 2 года назад

yeah they need to know when they've overstayed their welcome

@DR-nh6oo 2 года назад

Karma's Pimp don’t we all…

@kaleidoscopicvoid 2 года назад

@@DR-nh6oo true lol

@jasonhollis3958 2 года назад

Yeah and 20 minutes of fret wanking no thanks

@WhatIsMeDoing 2 года назад

Wolf Alice's The Last Man On Earth has a lovely and simple solo which transitions beautifully to the triumph of the final chorus. The album it's from, Blue Weekend, debuted at number one so it's not not mainstream.

@Rosie-uo8ij 2 года назад

oh wow! i am so surprised to see someone talking about wolf alice, honestly they don’t get the recognition they deserve and their new blue weekend album and their older my love is cool album are both really awesome displays of what they are capable of, Ellies vocals are amazing and the boys are talented musicians in themselves, really hoping they get more recognition as they develop, im going to see them live in january!!

@theonlyredspecial 2 года назад

The modern world is very ‘disposable’. Low attention spans. ADHD audiences. Tik tok shorts. Bored in 5 seconds ? Swipe to move on. Guitar solos are too much work for the mainstream audience to listen to now. It’s all quite sad. I miss the 70’s. People listened - more effort was made.

@BrettLong 2 года назад

I think what Justin proved with his fingers (and the exception bands) that if you solo, the people will listen! It's not the audience, it's the bands. Or most likely, the record labels. I still blame the Internet and short attention spans, but it's the effect this has had on the statistics that the labels are going by. Your comment reminds me of a phrase Ive heard from both my grandparents and my parents. "I remember when this all used to be fields"

@theonlyredspecial 2 года назад

@@BrettLong I turned 50 this year. I guess I am getting old. I remember pouring over vinyl as a kid and just admiring all the photos. Reading the credits. Playing both sides. Many times. Good memories.

@BrettLong 2 года назад

@@theonlyredspecial people do that now still! Instead of great quality Vinyls it's mostly low quality RU-vid videos (that's changing with players like amazon music, deezer and tidal thank jebus!) played over and over while the listeners pour over their favorite artists wiki page, fan groups, merch sites and lyric sites. Same same, but different :) I hope when I'm 50 in another 20 years, I'll have similar memories... and likely be saying the same things lol

@rominef 2 года назад

Saw Biffy live last night and I can assure you they do have guitar solos. Really into them and the Struts right now and just had an epiphany that it might have a lot to do with the guitars. Thanks for that!

@andipatrick7735 2 года назад

I love a guitar solo, as long as it has it's place in the song and isn't just an excuse for the guitarist to show off. Brian May has said he saw the guitar solo as a continuation of the vocal, as if Freddie was handing the melody over to him and then he was handing it back again so he felt a responsibility for that continuation. I like that philosophy and I think the best guitar solos follow it. Maybe not the best "technical" solos but the best musical solos. Not sure if I'm making sense any more...hopefully! ;) As you said Justin, Kurt Cobain often just reprised the verse or chorus vocal melody, sometimes with a little twist, but they fitted perfectly!

@bobito8997 2 года назад

I think you nailed it when you said that guitar solos became more about showing off and less a part of the song. We need more guitar players wanting to play like Paul Kossoff and fewer who are trying to ape Eddie Van Halen. More music, less notes please.

@bUklMusic 2 года назад

Nah, Eddie Van Halen was a genius. I think it was probably to do with a load of jealous people putting good guitar playing down. But there certainly is a difference between too many notes without good melody/phrasing and people like Eddie VH.

@awesomesquares7023 2 года назад

i often appreciate guitar solos, but honestly they’ve been done to death. throwing one in every once in a while can be cool or refreshing, but at this point not every song or even every band needs to be doing them

@the.communist 2 года назад

Every rock song NEEDS a solo, its the climax of the song

@iliketrains3495 2 года назад

@@the.communist no. And if you need proof, just watch Music is Win’s ‘If Songs Without Solos Had Solos’ video and skip to ‘In The End’ to find him doing some shredding wankery and completely ruining the pace of the song

@awesomesquares7023 2 года назад

@@the.communist idk i mostly listen to punk and hardcore these days (still “rock” imo) and those bands manage to write good songs without guitar solos and when there is one it’s fun and exciting. granted blues rock is heavily reliant on guitar solos but honestly do we really need more blues rock?

@dane4944 2 года назад

Biffy do indeed have solos! Listen to their new one "A Hunger in Your Haunt", there's a pretty good one around the 2 minute mark. AND (bonus) I've heard it on the radio

@stevenadams1795 2 года назад

The edits of guitar solos drive me insane! Especially My Sharona, and Fooled Around And Fell In Love.

@joshthompson4821 2 года назад

There’s a song called Rats by Ghost that I love. There’s a guitar solo that is melodic, has harmonies and also shows off a little bit. It also has woahs in the chorus, that are good woahs. Similar to the woahs in livin on a prayer

@itsHenery_ 2 года назад

Ghost slowing brining rock back into the mainstream!

@lindseyd1208 2 года назад

Everything you’ve said here is exactly what I’ve been trying to figure out since I was a kid. Guitar solos and melodic riffs have always pricked up my ears, but they have proven to be difficult to find in mainstream music from the mid 90s onwards (hence my delight when The Darkness appeared on the scene and saved my ears and eyes from the drudgery of bands like Coldplay). It’s probably due to people not wanting to put in the work to master the guitar to the point where it can take the spotlight. I guess modern day “musicians” think why bother learning an instrument well, if they can create a hit single using computer programmes and the bare minimum amount of actual, physical musical instruments 😔. It’s a sad state of affairs.

@jowlorenz9555 2 года назад

The insider-cheater-class hipsters and their pedophile preistclass music industry executive masters think they are 'crafty' enough to schmuck the whole world into going to war against everything pure and natural and good --- but they definitely got another thing coming ...

@leftmono1016 2 года назад

I think you need to be a bit more informed with your generalisations. Computer programmes don't write music. They can be incredibly useful tools but you get out what you put in. I'm sure you'd be a bit perturbed if a classical music enthusiast bemoaned the lack of talent in rock music i.e. they've not put in the work to learn how to read sheet music. It's a rubbish statement. Modern mainstream music is poor in my opinion, but that's just my opinion and why I only listen to a few select radio stations. The good stuff is out there, just harder to find!

@lindseyd1208 2 года назад

@@leftmono1016 You have an opinion on my opinion, fair enough. I never said computer programmes ‘write’ music, maybe using the word programmes was an error. What I meant was that the use of computers in modern rock music has become much more prevalent in recent times, to the point where the music barely shares any characteristics associated with guitar based rock anymore, in my opinion. The type of “rock music” favoured by the mainstream, including rock media such as Kerrang! magazine/radio/TV in the UK, is much more likely to contain computer generated sounds and much less likely to contain guitar solos. I completely agree with your statement that ‘the good stuff is out there, just harder to find’ - exactly, because the mainstream won’t play it!

@leftmono1016 2 года назад

@@lindseyd1208 - don’t forget that computers are used to record pretty much everything you hear nowadays. They’ve replaced multi track analogue tape machines and huge mixing consoles. In the case above they’re purely a recording tool and not a creative one. However, in the process of changing to digital recording systems, an entirely new creative process has opened up which some producers have been keen to exploit. You’re correct in that this adds additional sound options which I guess goes away from the more traditional pure sound and structure.

@syzyphyz 2 года назад

@@leftmono1016 I think you're the one being ignorant of the vast overuse of quantization (time correction), autotune (pitch correction), and simply copy-pasting the chorus over and over. From a production point of view it's disgusting to me, everything is starting to sound like pop music, and that's not a dig on older pop music which used to sound good and actually had some talent and even intricate playing involved.

@ROOKTABULA 2 года назад

You have to understand, that unlike rap and singing solely with autotune, or programming a sequence at a computer keyboard, guitar requires YEARS of playing to reach the mastery of being able to play a guitar solo. This isn't easily attainable and therefore not aspirational or attractive to the modern, blighted music consumer.

@buzzerking 2 года назад

It's moreso that tastes have changed and more popular genres atm don't really care about guitar solos. That and not every song or genre even needs guitar solos. It's really that simple. There's more to musicianship than being able to do a solo.

@renefrijhoff2484 2 года назад

🤣Miku Kobato from the Japanese band Band-Maid would prove you different. Though I have to say that she's an exception or at least one of the few exceptions. I have to mention also that it's a rythm guitar solo and not a lead guitar solo. Onset: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mVrN-j_Uc0U.html

@dingleberrysnigglefritz 2 года назад

Your intro has drilled it's way into my head and I think I'm ok with that. RIDES A-GAIN!!!!

@thesolitaryadventurer 2 года назад

If you get the guitar solo back, next campaign should be the saxophone solo!

@jamiesguitars 2 года назад

I’m massively into Smith/Kotzen at the moment. Not mainstream by any means but it’s nice hearing solos again haha. I think you are right in saying it became a bit of a sport and that sort of ruined it for me (at least for a while). Barbarian solo is one of my favourites by the way, fucking bananas sound on it!

@jamescolburn2683 2 года назад

Amazing band two of my favourite guitarist , Adrian Smith solos are always amazing melodic with some flashy parts

@112131415191213 2 года назад

Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown have banging solos in their songs. Their live performance of The Wayside has an incredible solo in it.

@DoMw94 2 года назад

What a band! They deserve much more recognition

@daveghaxton 2 года назад

I think one player who has impressed me in recent years is Scott Holiday from Rival Sons . Comes up with some great sounds and I'd put "Radio" as an example of a brilliant solo.

@jowlorenz9555 2 года назад

I rather prefer the term 'Lead' than the selfish sounding 'solo'. Mememe culture is all about cutting the message short enough to fit on a bumper-sticker .

@piratephilnitch8505 2 года назад

Ahoy, Justin me matie. It's "Pirate" Phil from THE JOLLY GaROGERS in Austin, Texas. Many moons ago we met at a venue called Stubbs. I agree with you 1000000000000 percent that guitars have been removed from pop & rock and I am quite sure it is a deliberate move by the giant mass media/sports/entertainment owners. Society has been spun by propaganda to "de-masculate" the planet. Rock guitar has a very distinct "male" characteristic and that's why I LOVE great female guitarists. They hae broken the mold but not the clay that goes in it. Finally, there's a very obvious trend to control the planetary population, but rock guitar does not fit in and walk the straight line. So there be me thoughts and I wish ye the best. PLEASE keep playing solos..ye aarrgghh a phenominal musician!

@paulcarr9983 2 года назад

Your ear has always fascinated me! I grew up roughly around the same time and I HATED guitar solos. So it tripped me out to hear your songs at the time. I think my hearing was just not fully matured, like that part of my brain was stunted until later in life. Like a solo was too complicated to digest, didn't give me what I wanted. Maybe that's why the industry steers away from them unless they're rudimentary, for the young'ns money.

@jimmytwotoes 2 года назад

Would love to hear Justin’s opinion of Muse. Depending on which era you listen to they’re definitely influenced by Zep and Queen who he loves.

@raithrover1976 2 года назад

A bit of Sparks in there as well. Does Justin like Sparks?

@jimmytwotoes 2 года назад

@@raithrover1976 in my experience all musicians like Sparks. It’s the golden rule! 😄

@flake6959 2 года назад

There's still bands (like us) who have solos in every song! \m/

@wvc5150 2 года назад

I knew I dug this dude when I ran across The Darkness on RU-vid last week. Forgive me mate, I’m fuckin old, well I’m told 50 is old. You named most of my musical influences and the inspiration behind me picking up a guitar. I agree with you 100%. Guitar is integral to rock music. If it doesn’t have guitars and especially guitar solos, it can fuck off.

@GlenGarcia1961 2 года назад

I an definitely with you on this issue, Justin. I think this is why, as open as I try to be toward new songs that come out, I miss the instrumental breaks that used to be so common. The guitar solo has been dying a slow, auto-tuned, beat-corrected death ever since Napster scared the music industry into circling their wagons into bigger, fewer wagons in order to maximize their profit margins. When production time is shaved into even more, and producers and engineers only have enough minutes in a day to capture a few chords, maybe a riff or two, then auto-tune and beat correct everything into musical soylent green, you lose the creative drive to "deviate from the norm," as the late Frank Zappa preached.

@carl-johanfougstedt199 2 года назад

Really like your channel and your way of approaching musical matters. Here in Finland guitar solos have been revitalized a little bit during a few last years. Not so much in mainstream, but we have a strong new rock scene growing up in the underground. On the other hand finnish mainstream and finnish underground are not so far from each other, because 10 000 sold copies classifies for a gold record. That´s why we have every now and then quite obscure bands from a mainstream point of view which manage to create a solid following. I mean 10 000 people know them and 10 000 people buy every record.

@dpabercrombie 2 года назад

Would love to see Justin do a video on Dirty Honey. It’s like gunners and Aerosmith mixed with a modern feel

@iammoog 2 года назад

@ThePsychedelicCinema 2 года назад

Dirty Honey is fantastic. Been obsessed with The Wire for a while now.

@kbusby4824 2 года назад

Great band. Planning on seeing them on their upcoming tour with Mammoth WVH.

@Ryan_Wiseman 2 года назад

I think it's because the complex theory one can play with a guitar solo is at odds with the more simplistic theory you hear on the radio. It's rare you'll hear anyone on the radio bust out a piano solo for the same reason, it usually entails a skillset that doesn't work well with radio pop even though it is just as valid of a play style as anything else.

@Ryan_Wiseman 2 года назад

@Kyle Zonneveld You know EDEN, Jacob Collier, and Tigran Hamasyan exists and have been blowing up? Modern radio is garbage cause it appropriates all the interesting shit we got out of modern music with the addition of DAWs and the endless possibilities. We wouldn't even have immersive audio like we do now if we never got the computer because shit was too obscure and expensive and impossible to maintain a media library of. The computer hasn't ruined it, that's for sure. Radio has made the potential use of computers ruined for the genres it so likes, but computers certainly were a step up from the garbage shitshow of production that we used to have where you had to have big bucks to do anything meaningful to begin with. DAWs can offer a level of simplicity, but so did the easy listening music genre. It's allowed for artists to gain traction that never would've in the past due to the gatekeepy nature of the industry. Almost no industry head would've been approving of microtonal artists like Sevish to begin with. Pop music is mostly where your problems are at, not the "computers are ruining music" bullshit I commonly see

@Ryan_Wiseman 2 года назад

@Kyle Zonneveld You act like the industry was great before computers, which, it was not. Immersive audio wasn’t possible and almost all studios refused to go beyond standard stereo, which is disgusting. Bass response also tends to be rather lacking, which is why 80s music commonly doesn’t do well on something like a SUBPAC, which translates bass frequencies into physical vibrations you can feel. However, cause computers, I can enjoy this immersive device far more than I can appreciate the times of music before a computer

@Ryan_Wiseman 2 года назад

@Kyle Zonneveld You do realize it's elementary and kids have been like that without electronics. My mom's teacher complaint when she was in elementary is that she talked too much and had a short attention span. It's just you lose insight into these things as you get older, but nothing really has changed from generation to generation on this. However it is manufactured consent by the media that technology has been destroying kids attention spans. Now they complain kids aren't obsessing about outside like they used to; where at the time this was most frequent, parents would complain that their kids wouldn't ever want to be home and would be hanging out at skate parks too much (which was a tool used by DARE to fuel their decline)

@joelfildes5544 2 года назад

I blame DJ’s…they lowered the ‘musicianship’ bar too much.

@MaksoTheBass 2 года назад

Meh, it's a different skill. Production can be incredibly intricate and I have massive respect for great producers. I think Justin is right, I think people became sick of people just jerking off on a guitar. I'm sure the guitar solo will come back eventually.

@joelfildes5544 2 года назад

@@MaksoTheBass yeah,but you know what I mean innit…DJ’s…they are like the ‘drummers’ of a non-band.

@MaksoTheBass 2 года назад

@@joelfildes5544 Ofc there are people like DJ Khalid who literally are just a brand and play songs but I think that sort of thing is going to occur in any field no matter what. There's always people ready to take advantage of consumers.

@FuckYoutubeCensorship 2 года назад

The problem is that the commercial music industry only cares about consumers with a short attention span who will buy nine albums just for like three hours of music instead of buying three albums for upwards of four hours of music sometimes, and talent became completely irrelevant at some point when they realized they could do everything on FL or Pro Tools as fast as they wanted for a fraction of the price. All they need is a frontman, and any musicians who they hire will be there for a salary paycheck, not to input creative ideas.

@Roomba69420 2 года назад

Thank you for this! It’s so sad as a person that plays guitar I miss the solos too but the show offs ruined it lol they will be back as history repeats. It’s like people are rediscovering the guitar and it is starting out very understated and in like ten years it will re-evolve back into stadium glam rock solos again like it’s new

@michaelthompson3286 2 года назад

I think the main point people miss is the guitar doesn't HAVE to be the "default instrument" that always deserves to be heard; it's had its moment in the sun from around the 1950's up until today so maybe people want to hear different things now?

@couthon 2 года назад

-But when there’s a guitar… it means you’re gonna get manhandled, assaulted, abused. Keyboards are kid gloves. Come on!

@michaelthompson3286 2 года назад

@@couthon Not sure if that's even a good thing...

@Hardiment123 2 года назад

Bring Me The Horizon are a massively guitar centric band and their latest track does indeed have a guitar solo. Their last album moved closer to pop in places but their recent EP brought back the heavy guitars.

@CoffeeMatt10 2 года назад

Bring Me The Horizon seen to have this weird cycle, to appease their entire fanbase from both sides of the rock coin they do a heavy guitar centric album and then a more pop centric album the next, and then back to the heavier stuff, and so on. I guess it works for them in terms of record sales and keeping their entire fan base happy, the problem is it doesn’t work for a live setting as half the audience want one thing, the other half want the other.

@omega1231 2 года назад

Bring me the horizon is such a strange entity, I used to listen to their blackened death metal album from around 15 years ago - I listened to their new stuff lately and what a shock I was In for, I don't mind musicians changing style no matter how drastic it is, but staying with the brand name of bring me the horizon seems utterly weird considering what it used to be compared to what it is now.

@danni.tx87 2 года назад

Greta Van Fleet has an almost 7 minute guitar solo on their song “The Weight of Dreams”. Also a really really nice one on “Broken Bells”.

@Rosie-uo8ij 2 года назад

they are not my type of music but i really do admire their songs, almost like a beautiful art, they are doing really well for themselves they deserve the recognition completely!

@stevenharrison488 2 года назад

66 years old and digging Greta van fleet 👍👍👍👍

@AnthonyBurrito1313 2 года назад

My God I completely forgot to wish you a Merry Christmas!! So MERRY CHRISTMAS

@DaP84 2 года назад

Goes hand in hand with the fast food music business and instant gratification, short attentionspan. A consequence of the age we live in, a lot of shallow

@BobGnarley. 2 года назад

This is something that hit me with EVH's passing (RIP). I truly believe we witnessed peak innovation at his hands.. nowadays everyone is more than capable and happy to fake it untiil you make it. None of the young uns care about virtuosity. I have no idea what actually caused the change though ... swings and roundabouts i guess

@machidaman 2 года назад

Eh? I could reel off numerous 'virtuoso's' that have succeeded EVH and, frankly, moved the game on exponentially. EVH was an icon and changed the game, but peak innovation? Either you ain't listening or you're not a player.

@danlightfoot6592 2 года назад

Well said Bob. We were lucky to be alive in the EVH era. He was an innovator in playing and design.

@LuBeDaddY12 2 года назад

@@machidaman Tosin Abasi comes to mind as a modern guitar hero

@BobGnarley. 2 года назад

@@machidaman name them then. I guarantee none of them INNOVATED as much as Eddie shaping the music industry as we know it. Just because people played "better" or whatever you're trying to get at doesn't mean jack. There's no way you play if you can't grasp that literally every modern rock guitarist took something from EVH. Nobody ever succeeded or dethroned Eddie Van Halen.. only Eddie could play/write like Eddie. To claim otherwise says everything.

@machidaman 2 года назад

@@BobGnarley. you can extend that argument to include EVH and suggest that if it wasnt for Hendrix, Page, Blackmore, robert Johnson etc etc. There would be no EVH, which is true. Literally every player since Hendrix, including Eddie, took something from him. Your point is moot. And I never suggested Eddie didn't innovate, but again, innovation didn't stop with him. Bottom line is EVH is mainly known for being 'better' than his contemporaries and doing exactly what Hendrix did, and what others like Fripp, Holdsworth, Malmsteen, Vai, Lane, Ron Thal, Guthrie, Abasi, Henson to name but a few have also done or are doing to this day. Yoi may disagree but that is your opinion based on your feels for your guitar hero. Vai is my hero but I gotta accept that, as innovative as he was and as virtuosic a player he was, the game has moved on, and considerably.

@simonholt8982 2 года назад

I think the decline of the guitar solo has a direct relationship to the rise in popularity of dance music, where for some reason people are impressed by someone playing some else's record on a turntable, the "drop" being the new guitar solo....I believe this is where the "dj" turns the volume up a bit🤣🤣.

@lennon1482 2 года назад

britpop and dance music were both massive at the same time for years in the uk

@simonholt8982 2 года назад

@@lennon1482 fair amount of guitar solo's in alot of brit pop stuff Blur, Oasis, etc....

@musicman0423 2 года назад

I’d have to disagree. The most technically advanced soloists to ever live are alive right now. Tosin abassi, Tim Henson, Misha mansoor, Angel vividali, and soooooo many more. Guitar soloing is far from dead. You’re just listening to the wrong music

@MrGorpm 2 года назад

Guitar solos are far from dead, but, do they chart? I believe that discerning people search out their own preferences, and I love a good guitar solo.

@philpeters3689 2 года назад

Guitar solos are certainly dead in mainstream rock. You're cherry picking a handful of legends today, when there's thousands upon thousands of other bands leaving the solo behind

@musicman0423 2 года назад

@Phil Peters don’t listen to mainstream music lol. Guitar solos are far from dead my friend. I could name hundreds of guitarists right now still shredding, and bands that incorporate solos into their music. Rock has never been a pop/mainstream kind of music. Listen to more metal

@musicman0423 2 года назад

@Roy Mepham the reason you don’t see it in mainstream anymore is because record labels have killed musicians desire to be innovative. Most of the music I listen to they are self promoted and aren’t signed. Lots and lots of great bands are starting to do it this way. Who needs a label when you have the internet at your disposal?

@MrGorpm 2 года назад

@@musicman0423 I beg to differ; Rock music was everywhere in the 60s - 80s era. Metal is fine, but that's not all there is as far as guitar solos are concerned, besides, who needs the charts anyway?

@xxnonstopdancingxx 2 года назад

This is a great subject. The idea that you can’t be a rock band if you can’t hear the guitars will leave offence eventually. The truth here, in my view, is about the compressed EQ in current production. For a guitar solo to do what it does well it needs to pop out of the mix and the current obsession is that the vocal sits in that mid range where the guitar sits. (Even though the vocal is nasal). And the vocal is the “star” so what artist is going to give way to a solo when they can remain front and centre for another shit bit of their song.

@hi-ccowboy7983 2 года назад

There was a period in the late 80s / early 90s where the solo section was a person rapping for 8 bars. Prince was even guilty of it and it was heartbreaking. I’ve always felt that was the point where guitar solos ended. Even when the rap breaks ran their course, guitars just didn’t return.

@SpacemanXC 2 года назад

What happened is music just became incredibly diverse. And it turns out, most people don't really enjoy guitar prominent music. Considering modern access to music, I don't really think that's a bad thing. Let the normies have their music. There's still plenty of us filling clubs to hear punk, metal, rock, or whatever.

@LuBeDaddY12 2 года назад

You are right but also would be nice to hear a killer rock band get something in the mainstream these days.

@SpacemanXC 2 года назад

@@LuBeDaddY12 Rock always makes a comeback every few years so it's bound to happen again sometime soon. Although it isn't rock, I have high hopes for the next Polyphia album. They've done a lot to make kids want to pick up a guitar again.

@fnub 2 года назад

Just responding to the video title. As a guitarist of 39 years, I can say that shitty guitarists with shitty phrasing killed the guitar solo. I grew up in a generation of innovative musicians. Rhoads, Page, EVH, Yngwie, Vai etc. Players that had something to say during a guitar solo. That shit is gone forever. Unless an innovative guitarist comes along and makes us pay attention, like Dime! 🤟

@atlashammercock9582 2 года назад

oh they're out there if you look

@JoelAbeyta 2 года назад

There are still plenty of guitar solos out there. You have to break away from the charts though. Come down here with the people who really like real rock. The corporate machine is making music by the numbers and if the numbers don’t favor a guitar solo, they don’t go in. Also, why should we listen to the radio if it’s all rubbish? I choose not to.

@Ukmongoose3 2 года назад

Agreed! Havok, Warbringer, Running Death and LOADS of contemporary thrash. Awesome.

@Coaster.alt98 2 года назад

One of my favourite bands is Biffy Clyro and a little while ago a song from their newest album was played on the radio and they kept the solo in to my surprise! The song is called a hunger in your haunt. It’s a shame how the music industry has gone to shit lately, especially with how they incorrectly identify rock music. It makes people have totally different expectations of what rock music is. It’s not just synths and voice’s droning, rock music is guitar, bass and drums and that’s always been the core of real rock bands.

@thommysguitarcorner4687 2 года назад

Yeah, that song is brilliant. Also love the fact it has a breakdown

@robdee1000 2 года назад

I love Biffy Clyro, the sheer power of their music is incredible. There are fantastic solos within a track but because they produce the albums mostly themselves they can experiment and express themselves. Unknown Male 01 is a masterpiece.

@Coaster.alt98 2 года назад

@@robdee1000 They’re always adding strange sounds into their music that shouldn’t work but do. That’s what makes them a solid band because the listener has no idea where a song’s going

@sjukfan 2 года назад

In the 90s we had this expression of a "Farsta-Yngve". It was a (usually younger male) guitar player who lived in a suburb to Stockholm without any friends spending his days training on solos, kind of like Yngwie Malmsteen.