We said, 'If we use the rock guitar edge, it's a little harder than disco.
' So the rock 'n' roll edge, having a rock guitar, was kind of the icebreaker to say we're familiar.
Add some shredding rock guitar riffs and then you have me running off at the mouth over the top of all that.
Musically, rock has centered around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums.
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One of the biggest (and certainly most recent) gaming fads was brought on by Guitar Hero and Rock Band, two music games that persuaded everyday consumers to pick up a plastic guitar and rock out.
His lyrically innovative guitar lines and song structures, along with his oft-cryptic lyrics, have earned him a place in the rock-guitar canon.
Srowing up, she says she saw plenty of women playing guitar in folk and rock groups, but little in the way of jazz guitar.
This is a guitar hero any rock fan or jam band aficionado could adore.
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Naked' is coinciding with an increase in demand for guitar-based rock and quality pop, it is hoped that this new appeal to the young will be enduring.
The "mad genius" concocts music that is as mesmerizing as it is odd and eclectic, running the gamut from electronic trip-hop to guitar heavy arena rock and earnest, acoustic singer-songwriter work.
Globally, Mr. Shimabukuro began connecting in a big way via one of YouTube's first viral videos, a rendition of George Harrison's rock elegy "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" shot in Manhattan's Central Park in 2006.
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Ms. McGovern, on the other hand, plays the stately Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey, " but in real life, we know she is a proper rock chick, with the guitar, band and leather pants to prove it.
When the Kaiser Chiefs turned their attention toward their own back yard, they started making better music, but you can still hear a little garage rock revivalism in the menacing guitar rift that hovers over their first single.
Electronic Arts' Guitar Hero spinoff (created by Harmonix, the original makers of Guitar Hero), Rock Band is a great big, expensive music videogame that will take up serious room in your house.
Mr. Stills was already an extraordinary acoustic-guitar player, and his increasingly fierce electric guitar would push CSN toward rock without the group abandoning its unparalleled vocal blend.
Communications manager John Drake had a lot to say on the official Rock Band forum about the demise of Guitar Hero, and future of his own franchise.
Fairly or not, Blackshaw has come to represent the "academic" side of the acoustic guitar (as opposed to the raw American Primitive sound of the late Jack Rose), so it's a surprising and somewhat ballsy move to put aside the full, resonant sound of a 12-string acoustic for the staccato feel of the electric guitar, with all the rock baggage that instrument carries.
Guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder is a rock chameleon, hopscotching across genres and geographic locations.
Game developers like Harmonix have paired their games with a drumset and a guitar to turn living rooms into rock arenas.
Drive-By Truckers' multi-guitar attack is classic swamp-rock.
Though it began as more of an experiment in guitar noise and feedback than a rock band, Sonic Youth has cemented its legacy as one of the most important acts of its era, influencing countless performers both directly and indirectly.
Better known as "hide" (pronounced hee-day, and with a small h), Matsumoto played lead guitar with the now-defunct rock group X Japan - a five-member band that had a passionate following among teenagers, but which most adults had never even heard of.
"Rock Band" and its rival, "Guitar Hero, " are two of the most successful videogame franchises to debut in recent years.
The man picks up the guitar, and we get a mini rock concert as the two people handing the controllers start head banging to the music.
On an appearance last year on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, for example, Shimabukuro played an amplified rock solo that sounded very much like an electric guitar.
By the time of "Their Satanic Majesties Request, " what his Satanic Majesty would be requesting was a 38-inch waistband, and everyone would have mocked the Stones for having a faintly ludicrous wobble-butt on guitar who was ruining the concept of rock 'n' roll.
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We've gone into thorough detail about how pro guitar works on the software side of Rock Band 3, for better and for worse (you can check out that impressions piece here), so for this review we're largely going to focus on how the hardware feels.
Hendrix changed the way the guitar was played and inspired legions of aspiring rock stars to crank up their amps and make that feedback sing.
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