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Originally posted by RobRR
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Seriously, you know Cooley is in the band... you know how he plays... why would you expect anything different? Just take it for what it is... a shred fest. Sure, you cant hum along to the solo... but who gives a fuck? Its kickass NEW metal and we should all be pretty thankful!
Criticizing Rustys solo is like buying a new Yngwie album and complaining because he plays the same scales over and over again just like the last 42 albums.
Criticizing Rustys solo is like buying a new Yngwie album and complaining because he plays the same scales over and over again just like the last 42 albums.
Sorry,but what's "NEW" about it? DT already did the rhythms 10+ years ago,and Yngwie....Jesus,Yngwie was playing that shit 20 years ago. The only thing "new" about this is taking something older and something less older and putting it together.
Yay.
I was kinda enjoying the rhythm stuff until it got to the complete change into an Yngwie tune for the solo,then I almost fell out of my chair laughing,it doesn't even come close to fitting that song...which is all heavy and shit,then wusses out HARD for what....some egotistical cock waving? ROFL
I think it's great if that's the kinda stuff you like,ok,nothing wrong with that,but it's not "new",not by any stretch.
And yes Yngwie is still playing the same sounding stuff he always has for the last 42 albums,he says he always will,and that's fine,fuck he invented it,or at least this version of it.It's HIS style,and just like classical composer of the past,the melodies may change,but you still know who it is.
It's kind of sad to see how lead playing has stagnated in the last 20 years,it's like once the technique hit the top speeds,that was it. Everyone was doing it and IMO it killed that whole scene.Which was good,it needed to die.That and G&R ,but thank God for Slash,the world needed a melodic player. Which is what could be the next "new" thing.....let's bring back taste...phrasing....melody,......and some fucking emotion to the instrument that was designed for that,and can most mimic the human voice. The guitar is supposed to be an expressive instrument,not a tool for jacking off and splooging all over your bandmates with.
Whoever brought up Drover ,you deserve a pat on the fucking back,he is a prime example of what I'm talking about...he has speed and brings it out when the song calls for it,but omg,the dude can play the perfect parts for the song...I love that he got the Megadeth gig. We need more people like him,not that play like him,but have that mentality and creativity and fucking taste.
Look at it this way:
1950's - 1960's : Birth of Rock and Roll,evolution of the instrument
1960's - 1970's : Hard Rock,and birth of Metal,new sounds,styles and techniques.....Hendrix playing with his schlong and chopping down mountains with the edge of his hand,and banging our moms,or for the younger guys,your grandmas...and yes she liked it...
1980's-1990's : Huge shift in technique and musical styles,evolution of the instrument by leaps and bounds,tapping,shredding,floyds,pickups,master volume amps,scallops.etc etc
1990's-2000 : Everything comes to a screeching halt,people abandon advancing technique wise,if for no other reason,who can play faster than Impelliteri or Shawn Lane? Why the hell would you want to? Guitars have not really changed either,sure we got 7-strings,but Vai was doing that in the 80's,so it's not really new. Oh we got modeling amps,which are just digitally trying to copy other amps anyhow,so not really new,other than it's wrapped up in one package. Oh,super high gain amps,which really allow you to not hit the front with a pedal anymore,and not have to crank the fucker until your ears bleed to get a good distorted sound out of it...and people still play the same shit through them ,so it's not really advancing anything.
If anything we have WAY more choices today,different pickups,paint jobs,frets,locking tuners,strings,but none of that is groundbreaking,only more of what is already there,nothing new at all in the grand scheme of things.
Back then the players pushed the edge of what their instruments were capable of,some more so (Hendrix,EVH,RR,Vai) which spawned the innovations which we enjoy in todays off the shelf instruments.Hell now that I think about it,I'm not sure what "shredding" brought to advance the instrument anyhow,other than Vai's 7 string,I mean hell,Yngwie was kicking ass and still does on a 21 fret strat,with modified pickups (stock when he was younger) a scalloped board (hand done when he was younger) ,a V-trem (OH NO) and a cranked to hell Marshall. Ok,well maybe the scalloped board,but that's not something you see as nearly often as say a Floyd,which was the doing of people like EVH and RR.
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