[atlantaprog] Re: Country players

Jeff Blanks wrote:

who begat all the 70's and even 80's guitar players and
virtuosos, who begat no-talent hair bands, who begat record companies
looking for good looking people that can be produced and make a quick
buck, ala Milli Vanilli, who begat New Kids on the Block who begat
Backstreet Boys, who begat Britney Spears.



One part of this is wrong: Most hair bands had plenty of talent in the lead guitar and lead vocalist spots, and besides, there's no way they can be held responsible for "record companies looking for good looking people that can be produced and make a quick buck"--that's been going on for decades. But I'm surprised no one else seems to see the connection between the New Kids On The Block and the Backstreet Boys *et al.* The '80s never ended--they just put baggy pants on and threw out the synths and said they'd ended.




Well, I make a distinction between 80's guitar players and virtuosos and no-talent hair bands. And remember, it was a (quick) evolution. You have your EVHs and then your Randy Rhoads players who evolve to the still good but slightly less talented Warren DiMartini's and Adrian Vandenbergs. Still really good guitar players. However, then you evlove into (or maybe it would be DEvolve) Poison and Warrant! BTW, the guitar players in Warrant didn't play their solos on record. Studio guitarists recorded those solos, and the guys in Warrant then learned them for playning live. Sweet! THe coolest guitar part on a Warrant album was the acoustic intro to Uncle Tom's cabin, which was played by someone also not in the band. I believe it was the singer, Jani Lane's, cousin who played that guitar part.

Poison, well we should all know that CC DeVille was the crappiest guitar player. Ritchie Kotzen doesn't count. He was one of those Virtuoso players that got into the band to make money and didn't really get a long with them. He just didn't belong in that band and it was awkward and you could hear it..

Anyway, so there you go. There are hair bands, and there are no-talent hair bands. The hair bands (D)evolved into the no-talent versions that ended up being the death knell of the 80's metal genre.

Brain21



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