The Slow Secret Death of the Guitar

Very sad.

It was real nice to watch Vernon Reid play Chuck Berry licks.  Otherwise the decline of the guitar god is a boomers lament (cue the really small violin).

Thanks for posting the link.

While the article is interesting (and accurate) it really should not come as too much of a surprise to us, since the acknowledged guitar gods are only one facet of the overall of what we've really been in decline with and that is rock or pop musicians who are talented with their (physical) lead or rhythm instruments in general.

The lure, after all, of making music by computer is not that it's 'just as good as guitar', it's really the implied promise that you don't Have to spend all those years learning how to play Really well.

But, based on all that has musically come of it so far, I'd say that maybe the computer is still proving to be the most difficult musical instrument to learn yet. ;>)

The electric guitar was the dominant technological innovation in musical instruments from+/- 1935 to 1970.  After that, keys and digital technologies replaced it.  So, no huge surprise - sunrise, sunset.

Just listen to anything by the Chainsmokers if you want to know everything that's wrong with music.  Not wrong, actually, just why things are the way they are.  You only have to listen to one song because they're all the same.