Originally Posted by: FireAndIce24ya but you have to consider that i am talking to a guitarists here. if hes doesnt like any soloist type players and enjoys listening to the same three or four chords over and over again, thats fine but how could you limit your self to that?[/quote]
Mr. Bungle = three or four chords?

Because they're sure not a band you want to listen to for guitar solos.

Originally Posted by: FireAndIce24there just so much more out there beyond that.[/quote]
Just as soloing is a very small part of the guitar as an instrument; different chord progressions, voicings, and rhythmic devices, dynamic elements, melodic themes... I could go on.

Originally Posted by: FireAndIce24a guitarist is a musician! not a average joe. theres gotta be passion (you can put that into 3 chords, listen to blues) but like i said stopping at that is just incomprehensible to me.

1. Not everybody we play for are guitarists.
2. The last thing I'd describe a band like Nirvana as is "un-passionate."


[QUOTE=FireAndIce24]Your example of you finding some subject fasinating while others don't is slightly different than this. We are talking about two guitarists having different ideas, a much more narrow field than peoples interests.

I don't think so, take my brother as an example:

He's a very compitent musician. He plays guitar, drums and bass (all well) and learned to play trombone well enough to play it in a ska band in less than a week. The general rule with him is if he decides he wants to learn it, he can.

That said, he has no desire to plays solos. It's not that he can't (I've seen him play them), he simply has no interest in it. What interests him is song structure and rhythmic devices. I've seen him spend hours at my computer inventing odd time signatures and polyrhythms. When we were in a band together, he once mad us rewrite a chorus so he could use this odd drum beat he'd written. The most complicated song we had (structure-wise, not from a technical standpoint) was a "Punk" song he wrote. He's the reason we had the irregular tempo changes that we did, he's the one who wrote/advocated/inspired both our heaviest and most chilled material and he's the reason we didn't have a single drum solo -- because he refused to take one.

So, is he a bad musician or is his taste in music bad because Steve Vai bores him?


[QUOTE=FireAndIce24]but of course this is all just my opinion and they all differ.
and i have no intention of getting into an argument first thing coming to this board.