â??I could probably outdo The White Stripes with a guitar

i think one of the main things it's doing is forging an even further separation between the "mainstream" and the "non mainstream," which makes it even harder for new ideas to appear in the forefront because we've become so unaccepting of stuff like that.

Off of the top of my head, in no particular order:

Jason Isbell, Drive By Truckers
Grant Tye from Robbie Fulks' band (though Robbie Fulks is an amazing acoustic picker in his own right)
Vinicius Cantuaria
Junior Brown
Cody Kilby from Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder (though he doesn't touch Ricky Skaggs' mandolin playing)

Originally posted by the sonick:

Originally posted by Chaz Nakatestes, Breaststroking Guy:
So do you think this reflects:

a. the lack of fine guitarists in the last decade
b. your limited exposure to music
c. the fact that you've probably been listening to music seriously for way less than a decade.

???

Originally posted by you be betty:
i think Jack White is one of the finest guitarists that has come out of the last decade.

so rhett

who ARE the best guitarists to come out of the last decade?

since you clearly have more exposure to music, more discerning taste AND have been actively seeking out all sorts of music since you were conceived…..

so since 1995….name your top 5.

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:

Originally posted by the sonick:
i bet if the who came out now, many people on this board would claim them to be crap.

really? i think there's a lot of power pop fans on this board, and early who is basically quintessential power pop … not sure what you mean here

i didnt say everyone would bash em.

Originally posted by Chaz Nakatestes, Breaststroking Guy:
Off of the top of my head, in no particular order:

Jason Isbell, Drive By Truckers
Grant Tye from Robbie Fulks' band (though Robbie Fulks is an amazing acoustic picker in his own right)
Vinicius Cantuaria
Junior Brown
Cody Kilby from Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder (though he doesn't touch Ricky Skaggs' mandolin playing)

i'll give you the DBT guy…maybe in a tie.

Junior Brown ???


so either

A) you are hard of hearing

b) you like name dropping Brazilian guitarists

c) you havent closely listened to jack white.

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:

Originally posted by the sonick:
i bet if the who came out now, many people on this board would claim them to be crap.

really? i think there's a lot of power pop fans on this board, and early who is basically quintessential power pop … not sure what you mean here

actually, i think lots of people would say they are ripping off GBV. :)

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
actually, i think lots of people would say they are ripping off GBV. :)

maybe just one :D

http://www.last.fm/user/pdxpollard/

Originally posted by you be betty:
i think one of the main things it's doing is forging an even further separation between the "mainstream" and the "non mainstream," which makes it even harder for new ideas to appear in the forefront because we've become so unaccepting of stuff like that.

Speaking of Mainstream and older rock, Mainstream music was a much, much different animal back then than it is now. There use to be lots of great music and deep album tracks often aired on Mainstream radio or in other media, even though we had much less of it (different forms of media). Now it's so filtered that we are forced to search for the sort of music that any of us personally want to hear rather than what the media would prefer us to hear. Yes, there was still an incredible amount of dirty controls back then but they tended to offer us music that was closer to what the rockers wanted to hear. I may not have worded that all that well but I suspect you get my idea.

Originally posted by you be betty:
i think one of the main things it's doing is forging an even further separation between the "mainstream" and the "non mainstream," which makes it even harder for new ideas to appear in the forefront because we've become so unaccepting of stuff like that.

That's a cyclical thing. Eventually people get tired of the mainstream styles and then the non-mainstream comes to the fore, becomes the new mainstream, wash, rinse, repeat…

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Originally posted by you be betty:
i think one of the main things it's doing is forging an even further separation between the "mainstream" and the "non mainstream," which makes it even harder for new ideas to appear in the forefront because we've become so unaccepting of stuff like that.

That's a cyclical thing. Eventually people get tired of the mainstream styles and then the non-mainstream comes to the fore, becomes the new mainstream, wash, rinse, repeat…

Sounds exactly like Benjamin Britton's theory of revolution. But I agree.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
then the non-mainstream comes to the fore, becomes the new mainstream

wait for it …….

Okay, guitarists since '95?

Are we talking like killer lead players, or just great guitarists that I rank ahead of Jack White?

in no order:

*Josh Garza of the Secret Machines

*Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead (The Bends was released in '95, and this my be one of my favorite guitar records of all time; not to mention OK Computer in '97)

*Matthew Bellamy of MUSE

*Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine

*Efrim Menuck of Godspeed You Black Emperor

*Travis Stever/Claudio Sanchez of Coheed & Cambria

*Bill Kelliher of Mastodon

*Billy Corgan

*Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age

and as much as I hate them, the dude from the Darkness can shred.

Originally posted by callat703:
Okay, guitarists since '95?

Are we talking like killer lead players, or just great guitarists that I rank ahead of Jack White?

in no order:

*Josh Garza of the Secret Machines

*Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead (The Bends was released in '95, and this my be one of my favorite guitar records of all time; not to mention OK Computer in '97)

*Matthew Bellamy of MUSE

*Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine

*Efrim Menuck of Godspeed You Black Emperor

*Travis Stever/Claudio Sanchez of Coheed & Cambria

*Bill Kelliher of Mastodon

*Billy Corgan

*Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age

and as much as I hate them, the dude from the Darkness can shred.

billy , johnny and tom were before 1995

but in the 90s.

and yes, Matthew Bellamy is better than Jack White, and so is Johnny Greenwood.

Originally posted by callat703:
Okay, guitarists since '95?

Are we talking like killer lead players, or just great guitarists that I rank ahead of Jack White?

in no order:

*Josh Garza of the Secret Machines

*Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead (The Bends was released in '95, and this my be one of my favorite guitar records of all time; not to mention OK Computer in '97)

*Matthew Bellamy of MUSE

*Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine

*Efrim Menuck of Godspeed You Black Emperor

*Travis Stever/Claudio Sanchez of Coheed & Cambria

*Bill Kelliher of Mastodon

*Billy Corgan

*Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age

and as much as I hate them, the dude from the Darkness can shred.

billy , johnny and tom were before 1995

but in the 90s.

and yes, Matthew Bellamy is better than Jack White, and so is Johnny Greenwood.

Originally posted by the sonick:
[/qb]

billy , johnny and tom were before 1995

but in the 90s.

and yes, Matthew Bellamy is better than Jack White, and so is Johnny Greenwood. [/QB]


well, yes, they had albums before '95, but they also had killer guitar records after '95. Same with John Frusciante.

Man, I'm not even going to get caught in this trap. There were plenty of truly great guitarists in the past covering all genres just as there are plenty today and we will continue to spawn plenty more of them.

What we sometimes fail to remember is that generations, or groups of people, change and they too want their music in their moment and some of those will be the very ones to, at some point, be added to someone's list of greats.

Originally posted by the sonick:
and yes, Matthew Bellamy is better than Jack White, and so is Johnny Greenwood.

I'm sorry, but, according to authoritative sources, Johnny Greenwood is more than 40 spots behind Jack White. Matt Bellamy doesn't even rank.

and back to the topic at hand… is pete's memory fading or what. because aren't the scoop releases essential pete and drum machines, if not they are pretty darn close.

and pete really needs to put his money where his mouth on this one and just release this white stripes defeating record… someone needs to really wind him up like they did neil young recently..

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Originally posted by the sonick:
and yes, Matthew Bellamy is better than Jack White, and so is Johnny Greenwood.

I'm sorry, but, according to authoritative sources, Johnny Greenwood is more than 40 spots behind Jack White. Matt Bellamy doesn't even rank.

This list was the reason I stopped reading Rolling Stone all together. Its fucking awful.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Originally posted by the sonick:
and yes, Matthew Bellamy is better than Jack White, and so is Johnny Greenwood.

I'm sorry, but, according to authoritative sources, Johnny Greenwood is more than 40 spots behind Jack White. Matt Bellamy doesn't even rank.

haha. well that also means that jack white IS the best guitarist in the last 10 years!!!!

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Back in the day…

Back in the day alert!
Back in the day alert!

Penalty: 15 yards for overusage of stale rap phraseology.