{"id":7995,"date":"2013-04-23T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2013-04-23T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:39:10","slug":"is-the-electric-guitar-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=7995","title":{"rendered":"Is The Electric Guitar Dead?????"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Is%20The%20Electric%20Guitar%20Dead%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>I was reading a review of the new Bowie album, and came across this quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s also probably worth noting that the four-piece rock band itself, and especially the electric guitar \u2014 that bastion and symbol of late-sixties rebellion \u2014 has grown long in the tooth. It&#8217;s been nearly 50 years since Hendrix, and though it&#8217;s still a satisfying instrument, I think it&#8217;s safe to say that the electric guitar no longer has the power to shock or surprise in the way that Mick Ronson&#8217;s performance on &#8220;John, I&#8217;m Only Dancing&#8221; once did \u2014 has a rock guitar ever sounded hornier? \u2014 or Adrian Belew&#8217;s eerie squeals and drones in the &#8220;Heroes&#8221; era. Earl Slick&#8217;s performances are nicely rough-edged, but some of the other guitar sounds on [I]The Next Day[\/I] just remind me of a trip to Guitar Center, no matter how adeptly executed they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, I first have to note that I love the nod to the Guitar Center auditions, which drives me nuts, and is one of the reasons I don&#8217;t shop there much. But getting to the main point, the writer of this review does have a point I think. At the moment in the music continuum, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be much in the way of guitarists who are that &#8220;Great Leap Forward&#8221;, such as Clapton, Hendrix, Van Halen, Eric Johnson, Satriani, ect. I do admit there might be someone out there that is making the rounds, but I haven&#8217;t come across them. Bonamassa maybe?<\/p>\n<p>As I type this, I&#8217;m realizing this dovetails with another interesting phenomenon in the music continuum&#8230; The re-emergence of Americana and folk, and the renewed interest in the acoustic guitar. All of a sudden, Americana \/ Folk is everywhere! Which is really cool, as I&#8217;ve been heading in that direction for the last seven years with the trio of projects Acoustic Highway, Taylor Martin, and especially the CSN&amp;Y inspired Laurel Canyon. I still can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m ahead of the curve of a trend&#8230; Any trend! \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>PS. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/thetalkhouse.com\/reviews\/view\/jonathan-meiburg-david-bowie\">the review<\/a> of the new Bowie album. Gail Ann Dorsey plays bass on it, so you know the bass line are going to be quite tasty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Is%20The%20Electric%20Guitar%20Dead%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>I was reading a review of the new Bowie album, and came across this quote: It&#8217;s also probably worth noting that the four-piece rock band itself, and especially the electric guitar \u2014 that bastion and symbol of late-sixties rebellion \u2014 has grown long in the tooth. It&#8217;s been nearly 50 years since Hendrix, and though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,42,3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7996,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions\/7996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}