How can you make money from playing guitar?

compboyo said:
Oasis influenced me and I guess many others to pick up the guitar because I liked there songs and music and saw that they played guitars...


It was not like oh this guitar sounds are amazing I need to buy a guitar and try to play guitar like this.

I just got into guitar to play live forever and wonderwall. I had never even heard off or knew about lead guitar. I thought only chords existed lol. Then I found out about lead and solos and I was like WOW!! I wondered how they make those noises with guitar lol...I was trying to play the solos using chords lmao...I couldn't get chords to sound like the solos (which was notes not chords and was mad for weeks) then on internet I discovered that you didn't need to play chords you could play individual notes,,,lead guitar lol

lol..thats how clueless I was.

So you can see Oasis influenced me to pick up guitar without actually making you aware off the guitar itself...the guitar was a medium to play a song.

Whereas Hendrix or Van halen influence would be to pick up the guitar to make amazing sounds form your guitar.

I think Beatles would've influenced many in the same way oasis did...
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That makes a lot of sense. The like of Oasis were a path into a whole world that music fans didnt really know existed.

John Squire was a far better guitarist compared to Noel but i guess Wonderwall hade more mass appeal than Driving South cos Squire wasnt about the song at that point.

The Stone Roses as a cd is better than 99% of anything that has been done in the last 40 years though.
 
dmpoole said:
Kaboom.
I do understand what combypro is getting at.
Guitar Legends are those guitarists that played in such a way that it made other people pick the guitar up and start playing.
For my Dad it was Chuck Berry & Buddy Holly and for me it was Marc Bolan even though I had all my Dad's influences before that.
The 60s had The Beatles, Duane Eddy, Hank Marvin, Eric Clapton and of course Jimi Hendrix.
The 70s had Jimi Page (yes I know he was late 60s but he didn't start to influence young men until the early 70s).
The 70s also had Ritche Blackmore, Tony Iommi, Eddie Van Halen and yes, absolutely Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols who influenced 1000s & 1000s to pick the guitar up.
In the 80s James Hetfield & Kirk Hammett played an influence on modern guitaring.
My minds gone blank but I reckon Noel Gallagher was probably the next guitar hero for lots of new budding guitarists.
I can't think of anybody else.
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You forgot Johnny Marr.
Great Youtube vid below explaining how he fell in love with the guitar......
http://youtu.be/MWivXLXeyLI
 
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It doesnt make them the band they are made out to be though.
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You're going to have to explain that one.
Oasis sold 70 million albums
Beatles sold 1.3 billion and still selling by the truckload.

My Dad had been playing in guitar based bands for 6 years when The Beatles came on the TV and he said he sat there transfixed because he couldn't believe the perfection he was hearing.
I genuinely think you had to be there to see the massive impact The Beatles had on the music scene at the time and absolutely no-one will ever have a worldwide effect like they did.

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and the Rolling Stones were far superior in every possible way.
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I prefer the Stones but to say they are superior is laughable.
The Stones were basically (and still are) a 3 chord band where the Beatles were writing structured masterpieces but obviously we'll forget Yellow Submarine and other such nonsense.
And don't forget the Stones owe The Beatles a large one for writing I Wanna Be Your Man for them in 5 minutes.
 
I was referring to fact that like the Beatles, Oasis inspired people to pick up a guitar to play simple easy pop/rock songs.....I was not comparing the Beatles to oasis in any other way at all!!!! Though I coudl but Id save that for another thread.

However,

Fxxxkin in the bushes

And swamp song

And live forever solo was sick

were 2 exciting guitar songs by Oasis, though still both rather simple...but cool.
 
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i'm not a massive beatles fan but considering they are essentially a pop band, the timing of their music is second to none, maybe only rush but rush are a completely different kind of band. remember, mcartney would play bass and sing (as does geddy lee of rush) this is apparently harder than playing rythm or lead yet they're probably the 2 tightest bands ever.
 
Also the Edge is pretty amazing at guitr but never shreds...Hes always slow notes and delay etc...well most off the time..pretty cool stuff. With or without you was sweet.
 
my brother is an accomplished guitarist and he says with or without you is harder than it sounds to play but most of the edges stuff is expensive effects. great band and top bloke though.
 
I've heard a few times that The Edge is nothing without his pedals. I think these people are looking way too far into it. Just want to tell them to shut up and enjoy the music :p
 
compboyo said:
Also the Edge is pretty amazing at guitr but never shreds...Hes always slow notes and delay etc...well most off the time..pretty cool stuff. With or without you was sweet.
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cm1179 said:
my brother is an accomplished guitarist and he says with or without you is harder than it sounds to play but most of the edges stuff is expensive effects. great band and top bloke though.
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The sound is based upon the effects.

Lets say hes one of the best skilled guitarists at using delay and reverb. AS for clean/raw...tbh we dont know lol. I dotn think hes an amazingly skilled guitarist but he is good at making sounds.

IMO his guitar work isnt hard to play. Off course timing etc.w the delay is key to making it perfect but the notes are usually simple and relatively slow playing.

Its quite innovative and unique and exciting though so thats good. He has his own thing going on regardless of difficulty. Theres 1000000 shredders and blues players out there...This is what makes Edge a guitar star..If he just played simple pentatonic Im sure U2 songs are still good enough for fame and big sales but hed just be any other guitarist.
 
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but that is the edge, that's him. that's beauty of the guitar, it's so versatile. i have massive respect for the edge, even if he does use an effects stack that probably costs more than the average house, if he didn't there would be no U2.
 
compboyo said:
trying to promote your YouTube sight? ;)

Dude must be too ugly to make a live career..shame..

http://youtu.be/gmH9IJVV40g
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lol.
If I could play like that then posting on Youtube would be the last thing on my mind.

Have you read some of the comments.
This one is class...........
'its gotta be john squire!!!! go and see ian and reform the stone roses right now my friend... a whole generation needs you'
:D
 
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