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I have to agree with many of the points made in this thread but disagree with others. Really, I think the biggest problem with music today is there's too much willingness to either duplicate the past or do something completely out there, and there's far more pressure to do the former. Recording technology has progressed to the point that it is easy to duplicate the sounds heard on your favorite records, and too many young bands are under the illusion that they'll sound "more professional" if they sound like established artists. But all that really does is homogenize (sp?) guitar sounds. In the past, amps did have their own unique sound but the player's touch came through, and recording equipment varied by studio/engineer, so differences were inevitable. Nowdays, amp modeling and Pro Tools have made it easy to recreate sounds already heard, so any guitar/amp sound can be produced from any guitar/amp combo. Combine that with the prevailing attitude that what's been done before was better than anything new, i.e. scooping your amp EQ because Metallica did, playing all downstroked barre chords because the Ramones did, etc, and you get the soulless dreck that a lot of music is nowdays.
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