Take a tb 303, authentic sounding drums? I remember the boom of drum machines, I think I can speak with confidence that drum machines were first intended to sound as authentic as possible, but they all had that electronic sound. However soon instead of saying it doesn't sound real people discovered much like with the electric guitar that there were cool new things you could do. Now people want an authentic sounding 303. If the electric guitar or 303 had of remained completely authentic how much creativity would we have missed out on?
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with those early sounds, my first synth was a dx7, (I even had the cassette tapes teaching you how to program it) authenticity didn't matter...the cool sounds did though actually I had seil before the dx7 but it was borrowed and it sounds were out there, also while we were dating my wife worked at Arp.
Not only do we learn from our mistakes we often discover things by mistake, things that change authenticity forever. So my point about that was simply that authenticity can hinder creativity and even a failure at authenticity can be a groundbreaking, earth shattering discovery. This is everywhere in life though, take Teflon for instance. Great discovery but it was a failure for they were trying to do.
As for my clip and you being judgmental, I gave up on that bothering me a long, long time ago. I think when someone is judgmental about the music of others it reflects worse on the one doing the judging than the artist. Being critical and not liking something is subjective, to me if someone decides that the artist sucks because they dislike the music then it's not the artist's problem. The point I was making was it's really hard to tell with that clip, so if you were to be judgmental about that I would laugh it off. I'm not trying to be better than any other guitar player, I only care about my own growth and if I keep going in what I consider a forward direction. If you want to be judgmental towards that please feel free, it wont be the first.
I have taken serious flak and hatred on my music over the years (quite a bit here) and honestly I believe that stems from a problem with the other person. I once got the same attack I hear often, "you didn't bend to the note you were trying to hit. This came up about a year ago from one noted guitar player, my first thought was how do they know what note I was bending to
I used samps EA and sure enough on those parts I was within a few cents of the note I wanted or achieved the effect I wanted. The problem is authenticity, standards, rules set expectations and predictability. When the passage doesn't go where the listener expects (especially with musicians) it's wrong, it sux, the guy can't play and imo those people are transparent. It's also why I wont ever play in a cover band again, I got tired of people saying I didn't play the song "right". It was my interpretation of the song and only the critical musicians would say "there's suppose to be a chord there, not a riff...what's the matter can't you play the chord?" It all ties back to authentic may mean that creativity takes a back seat (note I say may) to creativity.
That particular clip I'm reasonably sure that most of it the listener has no idea what the guitar playing actually sounds like...but I know
