Guthrie Govan Discussion

[alexkhan]

I see that he's on the cover on the latest issue of Guitar Player, which is no small feat. Is he and the album worthy of all this attention? Or is GP so desperate for more newstand sales that they have to put the ex-Marilyn Manson guitarist on its cover to compete with Guitar World and Guitar One?
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[Donnie B.]

[shredrulez]

what a joke! stopped reading gp ages ago. this guy couldn't tie guthrie's shoes. in fact, he couldn't tie the shoes of a lot of players out there. gp must indeed be quite desperate to feature someone on its cover that dresses and puts on makeup to look like a zombie. geez. they must be under some corporate gun.

[frankus]

I had a hard time gettin a handle on Johny 5, he's on the cover of this months guitarist magazine, the photos are all heavily stylized portraiture, him in gloves, him with guitars, him the dog and his wife, like a sitting for a dutch master...

At first I wasn't sure it was my deep dislike of Goth/Nu-metal (rather unfortunate as my wife and half my friends are tending that way).. then I thought it was envy about his charming wife (lots of candid piccies on t'interweb ).. then I thought it was just disgust at his slavish pursuit of image.. then I listened to the demo track on Guitarist.

There are some great parts in there, it sounds cool and there's a lot of technique in there. It's not what I'd call music per-se, just a Dance Mix of Hill of the Skull with gauche roccoco ornamentations that appear to a pleb like me to have no bearing on the piece. The acoustic part is really good and there's a technique that sounds like shred with intermittent harmonics that's really rhythmically tight.. I'd like a heads up on that.

I think the most fundamental difference between Johny 5 and Guthrie is that Johny 5 has actively sought to promote himself. I don't think Guthrie takes the music business that seriously.
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[Greg]

I think John 5's Album is great and the Tremolo Picking on Track 7 is very FAST!!

Track 3 is great as well, the Riff to Fiesty Cadavers is Heavy!!

Yeah I think it's a great Album although it gets annoying when my friend keeps trying to say he is better than Guthrie!!

Greg
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[frankus]

Feisty Cadavers is the one I was grumbling about it was free on the Guitarist CD.
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[alexkhan]

[Greg]

He has never actually given any specifications, just taking the piss I suppose.
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[alexkhan]

Ordered a used copy off of Amazon. Better live up to the hype...
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[bill®]

[ARUjeff]

i gotta say...i was a little skeptical because of his recent past with manson**cringes** but after giving it a listen....i enjoyed his mix of chicken pickin and neo shred...a good album for a first solo project...nowhere near the status of guthrie though.

As for his look....can you blame the guy, he was with manson for years im sure some of mansons eccentric style rubbed off on him, it doesnt change his skill.

[alexkhan]

Yeah, this guy is definitely a good player with well-rounded chops... But, I don't particularly care for his choice of notes in the lines he plays and a lot of the shred stuff sounds a bit generic. I like the country stuff he does more than the rock shred stuff. There's some personality in his country playing but not much in the rock/shred stuff. And I don't really care for his tone either. The guy is great technically but it's the type of chops that many others have. The thing about him is that he's got some quirky yet compelling ideas in his writing with a good mixture of modern sounds and the way he puts things together that makes it an interesting listen, but that's about all I could say about it. Some will like him a lot more than others. For me, it's alright but nothing all that special.
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[treeduck]

I wasn't going to get this one after hearing clips of his other album, Vertigo, but the other day I ordered it on a whim after listening to the new one at his website. The Albert Lee and Steve Vai appearances brought me there initially. He's pretty good, I like his country stuff more than the rock stuff but songs like Blues Balls are solid. There's a quirky nature to the album, isn't one song title a reference to Ed Gein, the lunatic killer of the 50s? He seems to be one of those guys you have to be in the mood for though, (he's perfect if you're in a country-metal frame of mind) anyway overall I enjoyed it, it surpassed my expectations.

Hey didn't John 5 watch Guthrie play at Namm?

[alexkhan]

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