There's a hard rock-heavy metal guitar geek site I like called Dinosaur Rock Guitar. It's neat in that it's very nitch-y. It includes information about guitarists, equipment, and bands - but very specific ones. Old hard rock - yes. Blues hard rock - yes. Metal - yes. -But each of these only if they have those old-school blues-based, frequently classically-influenced, yet aggressive; roots, and style. It will really only be interesting to people who like 70's and 80's heavy music... and play/own a guitar.I stumbled across it in a search result again today, and I call your attention to it now, for one specific set of pages that are truly vintage-metal-guitar-geeky. The "Guitar Alchemy" section. There they have very detailed and insightful analysis of a particular player's style, influences, strengths and weaknesses, as well as specific technical signatures, sound, equipment, essential recordings and "dinosaur credentials".
The rest of the site seems to be a bigger framework than the content it contains - and the pictures suck throughout. I don't know why they bury the alchemy section three links deep, for my money it's by far the best part. Alchemy/Guitar Alchemy/A through Z.
They have a funny description they occasionally apply when analyzing one of these masters, if they get distinctly slower and mellower in the second half of their long careers. They say they have "ALD". Alex Lifeson Disease. Gary Moore has it.
Sean and Randy at least will enjoy this - fuck you all, metal rules.
2 comments:
I've read well over half of these and they're like three, four pages long.
...So I can read.
Cool.
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