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Originally Posted by Stratrat
I think that would be Joe Perry of Aerosmith....Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist.
Interesting perspective, though - I've never really thought of either of them as "metal" guitarists.
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It seems at some point, metal stops being metal and is "hard rock", then that seems to morph into "rock".
Interresting how stuff that when I was young was called metal, but now they would call it hard rock. To me, grunge is metal, anything with lots of distortion is metal. Course even Bon Jovi would fall under this definition.
There are such labels as speed metal and death metal. Who can keep up with it all?
Is Van Halen metal? well, I guess you could say yes, and you could say no. I think the interresting thing is almost any self respecting metal head has learned from Eddie Van Halen.
With metal getting heavier with dropped tunings, over the top amps, and 8 string guitars providing bass chugging power for days... I soon feel that Van Halen will be considered light rock!
I hear people all the time saying that Metallica is hard rock, not metal. Somehow, they have lost their edge with many people, and many don't even consider them metal anymore.
It is interresting about how different people view rock/hard rock/metal and even country today is sounding more rock/hard rock then ever before.