Music Is Better In The 60's 70's And Mid 80's Than Now
Why guitar players from the 60', 70's & up to mid 80's are more musically talented then now days.
Throughout the years there has been many different guitar players. Some that people have heard like, Jimi Hendrix, and some they haven't heard of, like Adrian Smith from Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band. They are both great guitar players, and there are some guitar players who aren't as musically talented as they are, most off the ones who are not so musically talented are the ones from these past few year. This paper will cover why guitar players from 60's to the mid 80's are more musically talented than of the 20th century.
Eddie Van Halen is one of the most talented of the very talented guitar players. He has brought sounds out of a guitar that nobody else could match. Especially after he and his friend Floyd Rose invented the first locking tremolo with a whammy bar (it changes the pitch of the sound) and called it The Floyd Rose Tremolo. Just a few months after inventing it they sold their idea to a company who made great guitar called Kramer. In later years, around 1985, Eddie also came up with an idea to use a drill on his guitar. Later, this made it one of the greatest riffs. The song that he did this on was "Pound- cake." It turned out to be a very successful song while Sammy Hagar was the lead singer and it was on the CD For Unlawful Cardinal Knowledge. People today haven't come up with anything like that. Nobody has ever come up with anything better than that so far.
All the guitar solos from the earlier were so incredible that there is nothing that could match them. When the phrase "guitar solo" is heard most older people that were alive in the sixties most people think of the solo from the greatest song ever written " Stairway to Heaven" written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Every time this song is heard people recognize just how great of a song it is. There are still pretty good solo's when they are actually put in to a...
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