AD3THREE wrote:At least Eddie could play with soul! I think its hard to pin point the exact moment everybody thought it was cool to have neon colored guitars and spandex. I wanna know why everybody that was a dude back then looked more like girls then the girls did back then? Thank God for Guns & Roses, and then the Grunge movement or we might still be teasing our hair! My opinion is Van Halen jumped on the band wagon, I think it started with either The Scorpions or Dokken, and then everyone else tried to copy the sound but were no where near the skills or MR. Scary. YOU can directly pin point Randy Roades for the Neo Classical stuff in 80's rock. So maybe Quite Riot with Randy Roades.
I think I'd absolutely classify them (Eddie, Randy) as non-wanks, and then you cut the to the ultimate non-wank, Jeff Beck (who may have actually started it-it being making much usage of the whammy beyond a short duration effect?)...and like trying to play like Jeff, those who tried too hardly to sound like Eddie, who came on in the second half of '70's full bore in my opinion, you ended up with some terrible emulations. Guitar Wanker Central in many respects-just look at the crazy growth of 10,000 pedals in the 1980's!!!! A pedal for every Wankel Engine!
By the way, Jeff Beck himself, when asked who he seeing as someone to be reckoned with, was impressed with EVH early 80's...I remember his quote..."very slippery"! He meant his overall fretting more than his whammy likely, but Ed was playing pretty darn good both ways. Who gets the Wankerchief??? Hmmmm... Bracket elimination of at least double the entries of the NCAA March Madness Tournament...
Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
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