You can't innovate with the guitar anymo-

Jesus this is cringe

>I don't understand The Theory of Obscurity so its cringe.

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Meme Haino is the objective and logical conclusion to the electric guitar, and this cannot be refuted.
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Not melodic enough for me. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy abrasive, psychedelic guitar work like this. I just need something more melodic to really get me going.

brainlet, that's one of his most melodic works

I didn't say it was entirely void of melody I just said I needed something more melodic.

Well it’s not as melodic as other artists. Magical Mystery Tour is the Beatles most psychedelic album, but it’s not as psychedelic as albums by other bands. The fact that this is 不失者’s most melodic work doesn’t make it melodic

What about Marc Ribot?

be patient. go in about 13 minutes. it's fucking beautiful.

trying too hard to make gimmicks and not music

You use the word gimmick as if it's a bad thing. Isn't music all one big gimmick? Smoke and mirrors?

pretty sure the lead guitarist in this live album is done my Maki Miura, no way in hell Haino is/was ever capable of nailing those fucking improvised solos so perfectly. Not to mention the guitar work resembles Miura's guitar playing in his former band Shizuka.

Unpopular opinion but Haino is a hack when it comes to guitar, I GET his philosophy behind it I just think he never truly branched out with it considering hes been doing it for almost 50 years and at the core of it he's basically overriding his guitar signal with a chain of pedal effects on stacks of cabinets and when the signal is clean it's basically his 'intentional error/never repeat' guitar noodling. Sanhedrin seems like his most interesting recent works, but I'm pretty sure its Yoshida Tatsuya who's carrying the band. His real gift is his voice if you ask me

gimmicks are bad when you abuse them to the point when the final product isn't music

Honestly I don't even think Jimi Hendrix was that "innovative". People say it was an innovation to use feedback, but when did he even "use feedback" that's just something that happens when you turn your amp too loud.

Oh do tell: what IS music?

literally doing nothing new except wearing some gimmick costume

He's not doing anything Fripp and Belew weren't already doing in the early 00's.

melody and rhythm

>His real gift is his voice if you ask me
Best opinion spotted

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Using pedals should disqualify you from being an 'innovator'. Either you use your actual instrument or you shut the fuck up. Piano manages this but the guitar is simply at an end in that regard which is why talentless hacks who still seek recognition have to use pedals in order to mask their playing while hoping to establish the guitar as a 'texture' instrument