Modern Guitar Heroes: The Men
Ongoing History of New Music
Curiouscast
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. He could walk to school by himself. She could see something, she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls? They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. |
| 0:22.3 | So, should I give my kid a phone? Could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls? They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. |
| 0:22.3 | So, should I give my kid a phone? |
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| 0:39.3 | Here's a question. What is a guitar hero? |
| 0:43.3 | Yes, yes, it's a video game that vaguely simulates playing a real guitar. |
| 0:47.3 | What else? |
| 0:48.3 | Okay, it does mean someone who can rock the expert level at Guitar hero, the video game. But before that came |
| 0:56.7 | along, it meant something totally different. A guitar hero was a guy, and it was almost always a guy, |
| 1:03.6 | who achieved a seemingly supernatural mastery of the electric guitar. They were so good that other experts looked to them to learn and for |
| 1:13.4 | inspiration. We had Chuck Berry, Jimmy Hendricks, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend, Jeff Beck. |
| 1:20.4 | They were among the first to be declared guitar heroes. They pushed the limits of what could be |
| 1:25.3 | done with that instrument and amplifiers and effects pedals. |
| 1:29.7 | More followed. |
| 1:30.4 | There was Eddie Van Halen, Angus Young of ACDC, The Edge from U2, Slash Stevie Ray Vaughn, Randy Rhodes, all excellent players. |
| 1:39.7 | This got me thinking about guitar heroes from the world of alt rocks specifically from the period |
| 1:44.6 | forward from when things exploded in the early 1990s they aren't necessarily better than the first |
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