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- |1-Know your guitarists
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- a very informative article typed listening to Slash`s Snakepit by
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- This ere article will give you an insight into the various forms of
- guitarists there are, so if you get talking to/meet one you know whether
- to avoid them or not, right, lets kick off with an easy spot....
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- Grunge Guitarists
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- Normally miserable, with long greasy hair, flares and a t-shirt that
- needs a damn good wash. Normally around late teens age and plays a
- fender strat with distortion pedal and gain up full so the open strings
- he hits on the power chords won`t sound. Song he most normally plays -
- Smells Like teen Spirit, why?? Cos its all power chords, palm muting
- and only 4 chords thats why, ask him to play Aneurysm instead, that`ll
- piss him off. (Especially if you say the chords are A5, D5, D#5 and
- Eminor). Conversation level - low as they think they are gods gift to
- the guitar.
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- Rock guitarists
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- Normally late twenties this lot, either playing Strat, Gibson Les Paul
- or Telecaster they spend their entire waking existence perfecting Voodoo
- Chile by Hendrix. They laugh in the face of metal and insist that 90%
- of the song is their solo based on E minor Pentatonic finishing on a
- slide whammy bar arpeggio, they only way to stop these axe-men playing
- is to switch the amps off. Conversation level - high, I know a few rock
- guitarists and they are very chatty, just dont start discussing music
- theory as they know absolutely EVERYTHING, scales, the lot.
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- Metal Guitarists
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- A wide spectrum ere, these can be any age at all sporting the obligatory
- Metallica/Megadeth t-shirt playing the biggest Washburn/BC Rich you can
- imagine. A metalheads party piece is to play over 200 notes a minute,
- watch his right hand at all times, when he has finished ask him if he
- can sweep pick. (I.E does the pick hit the strings at all). Listen for
- the lack of vibrato is the solo. Conversation level - when sober, good.
- When pissed, forget it pal, he`ll twat you with a bass guitar if you
- approach him.
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- Bass Guitarists
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- An unknown quantity is yer bass player, normally any age but with long
- fingers as a bass is hellish to play with short fingers. Normally seen
- alone in the corner bored plucking the same four note riff over and
- over, he is longing to get a real guitar and show them the meaning of
- the word "screaming solo". Thing to ask him to do - bend the bottom E
- up 2 frets worth using his little finger, ouch. Conversation level -
- University graduate, I know a bass player and he is a right laugh (Hiya
- Nigel, love to Clare).
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- Acoustic Guitarists
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- The polo-neck mob, usually middle aged with a gorgeous Martin acoustic
- these guys put everyone else to shame, they think John Williams is ace
- and Gordon Giltrap is the best thing since sliced bread. Acoustic
- guitarists are a breed apart, get them on stage they go mad, four finger
- picking with the left hand bent into contortionate shapes playing chords
- that would have Yngwie Malmsteen rip up his theory notebook. Song to
- ask them to play - Stairway to Heaven, just to see the look on their
- faces. Conversation level - they dont talk, they`re too busy playing to
- come down to your level.
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- So where do todays guitarists fit then??
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- Noel Gallagher - ripoff artist.
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- Eric Clapton - God.
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- Dimebag Darrell - dangerous!
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- Yngwie Malmsteen - tosser
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- Steve Vai - We are not worthy!!
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- Joe Satriani - HOW fast??
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- Slash - perfection.
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