Is guitar rock making a comeback? Has it ever left? The reason I'm asking is because it seems like there have been some really outstanding guitar albums released this year. I'm gonna have a serious problem figuring out who my top guitarist is this year. Here are some of the terrific guitar albums I have purchased so far this year:
Whiskey Myers - Early Morning Shakes
Winger - Better Days Comin'
Wishbone Ashe - Blue Horizon
Monte Pittman - The Power Of Three
Gus G. - I Am The Fire
Miracle Master - Tattooed Woman
John Wesley - Disconnect
Asia - Gravitas
Kyng - Burn The Serum
Black Label Society - Catacombs Of The Black Vatican
Circa Zero - Circus Hero
Night Ranger - High Road
Neal Schon - So U
California Breed - California Breed
Cage The Gods - Badlands
Tesla - Simplicity
Judas Priest - Redeemer Of Souls
On top of that, I'm looking forward to albums by Slash, Joe Bonamassa and Ace Frehley as well. So what do you think? Am I just imagining a lot of great guitar playing this year? And what albums do you have from 2014 that you would add to this list?
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Not sure about the wording, but you definitely have a point. I would say RIFF Rock is making a comeback of sorts, and maybe its because our beloved Classic Rock bands have finally stopped trying to fit in with the current sounds and went back to who they truly are.
Clearly the cream of the crop rises in these times as they have to rely on themselves for most of the song writing and production, but that only serves to weed out those who were reliant on a creative team provided by the label to give their songs the extra something they needed to hit the charts, or to give them their songs entirely. The Johnny Bravo's haven't been able to get it together!
I don't think so, it's just a year that a lot of established groups have put out albums that could be considered geetar™ rock. There were quite a few "geetar™" albums released last year as well, could be that you didn't pick up so many.
I think guitar rock is definitely "back in vogue". But I think it started "rebounding" in the early 2000's. That is when I started noticing more bands returning to rock music that included guitar leads.
For me, a perfect "definition" of a grunge band would be a band that had/has very heavy guitar riffage, but not that much lead guitar. I think it is back to being a guitar driven, lead included, rock n roll "scene" today. And that's a good thing!!
I'd have to go through my CD collection to think of anything to add to the list.
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