MXR Yngwie Malmsteen overdrive...

Feral Feline said:
The same way nobody listens to saxawfullest KeLaimey Gee — and yet he continues to produce the sonic equivalent of "processed" baby-pablum. I just wish they'd stop calling his laxative-effluence "Gee-azz" — it may be smooth as re-constituted formula, but "it shore-ass-sheeit ain' Jiasz".

I'm not into Malmsteinerdude, but if somebody likes the peg-a-ninny note-flurries, fine whatever — but Kill-me Gee? I don't ... I just can't... I refuse... to ... yeeshhh...
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Yeah, I’ve thought that about Kenny G- in fact, I think it was really wrong of him to record a solo over the original studio recording of “What a wonderful world” after Louis Armstrong died.

But then out of nowhere I see him guest with one of my favorite avant black metal bands, playing a fucking ripping solo on his goofy soprano sax.

So until he does some other dumb shit, Kenny G for now has a pass with me.

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szukalski said:
But I think the moral of this whole debacle is that the OG pedals are all you need.
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It’s kind of painfully obvious if one takes a moment to think about it. There’s a guitar, plugged into a pedal, plugged into an amp. The player is not inside that signal chain. They are on the outside of it, manipulating the controls and the instrument.
 
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Early on in my guitar journey as a teenager I was introduced to Yngwie by my guitar teacher. Not in the sense of "we're going to learn one of his solos today", but more along the lines of "you should listen to him at least once". I also was in a neoclassical phase of my learning. I also bought a greatest hits album which I enjoyed at the time. IMO, he's a great shredder, but incredibly one dimensional in his overall sound. Once you get to a certain speed on guitar things tend to blend together.

I also went through the SRV phase as well. He had much more variety musically than Yngwie.
 
BuddytheReow said:
Early on in my guitar journey as a teenager I was introduced to Yngwie by my guitar teacher. Not in the sense of "we're going to learn one of his solos today", but more along the lines of "you should listen to him at least once". I also was in a neoclassical phase of my learning. I also bought a greatest hits album which I enjoyed at the time. IMO, he's a great shredder, but incredibly one dimensional in his overall sound. Once you get to a certain speed on guitar things tend to blend together.

I also went through the SRV phase as well. He had much more variety musically than Yngwie.
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I hear you. I grew up trying to be a shredder, doing the Yngwie/Vai/Satch/Petrucci thing, and I still love listening to it now and then, but it becomes one dimensional after a while. Almost like the skills they have box them in.
 
jcpst said:
That’s funny- I never realized he was in Quiet Riot. I only know him from the first two Ozzy albums. Really he kinda rips. Does a lot of neo-classical, but not so much as to be in Yngwie Territory. if I don’t think someone’s tone is on-point, I can still dig their playing.
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I have the first two QR albums, they’re terrible and he isn’t fantastic on them.
 
szukalski said:
Almost like the skills they have box them in.
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I don’t think the skills per se block them in, it’s the valuing of technical skills at the expense of attention to musical composition that limits them. If your goal is to be shredding as fast as possible with as many tricks all the time, the composition is going to be necessarily structured to allow for that. If your goal is composition, the technical skills are tools that allow you to meet the demands of the composition.

There’re plenty of guitarists that have similar skill sets but channel it differently. Mostly you’ll find it in genres that are deemed not as easily approachable as the neoclassical shred bois and are somewhat obscured to casual listeners.
 
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