Bands that, today, might not be "guitar" bands

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ILM was the first place I heard the idea of guitar bands. Not really bands that play guitar, more or less, bands that wouldn't have it any other way.

Listening to the Beatles, I get the feeling that, today, they wouldn't have held so steadfastly to their previous instruments of choice, and probably wouldn't have been the type to say "SYNTHS ARE FOR PUSSIES." Well, I don't know, maybe they would, you don't just drop an instrument you're well-versed in. But a band like Faust definitely would be totally different today.

I guess I'm asking, were there bands that only really played guitars, because that's the only way they could make music at all? Who might have taken a different musical route if he was growing up today?

― David Allen, Monday, 15 September 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

rolling stones

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(are a "really played guitars" band i mean)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Hendrix (might have taken a different route).

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Possibly any prog band might have gone all-the-way electronica today.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Judas Priest - they would definitely be hardcore gabba plus beats and really pompous melodies - like a faster Laibach but on helium.

Aaargh, I don't know what I'm talking about.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it was different then - more about songs than sounds, so it's hard to say. The only person springing to mind is Joe Meek (do producer's count?), although the lack of technology made him creative. It's sad how common-or-garden electronic production techniques have overtaken Kraftwerk. (I think that) what I'm saying is that technical advances have actuallty stunted some people.

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Possibly any prog band might have gone all-the-way electronica today.
Electronica.....on Ice! With Rick Wakeman and the Wave Form Collapse Groove Collective!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Apologies for the apostrophe in Producers, by the way.

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

New York Dollz

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 15 September 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

red transistor

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 15 September 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Possibly any prog band might have gone all-the-way electronica today
Okay, seriously now...
Wouldn't it be much more likely that prog-rockers would mellow into new-agers?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

But a band like Faust definitely would be totally different today.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, but Faust are still around and they're actually not radically different from the 70s Faust altho (regrettably) they're a bit less diverse and playful. Musically, Hans-Joachim Irmler's producing much the same noise using much the same gear as he did 30 years ago - which is kind of interesting.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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