TIM HENSON ??? AM I JUST AN AULD GUY NOW ???

[BrettFuzz]

Friendly reminder that this dude is turning 30 years old. The stuff you're really out of touch with isn't even on your radar.

This ^^^

G.O.A.T. was released 5 years ago. Check back in 5 years to see "what was wrong with the world" in 2023
I am not a fan of Polyphia but I don't mind them. I was also never a fan of Vai, Satriani, Malmsteen, Johnson and a buncha others mentioned here whom I have never heard about before.

For some reason I quite like this dude, tho - https://www.youtube.com/@Bernthguitar

 

[Hodgo88]

Friendly reminder that this dude is turning 30 years old. The stuff you're really out of touch with isn't even on your radar.

TDPRI John barely acknowledges that millennials aren't the youngest generation anymore. Any thread about "new" phrases that bother our elder forumites is usually chock full of slang from 95-2013.

Friendly reminder that people born in the year 2000 have already voted in a presidential election and have been legally drinking for 2+ years.

 

[Maguchi]

I’m really old. I’ve never heard of him.

Me too, I never heard a him before yet neither.

 

[FuzzBuzz]

Listening to this kid play guitar makes me appreciate the artistry and feeling that comes from playing a few chords on a guitar and making a song of it. I don’t blame anyone for liking this kids music. I’m glad there’s an audience for him and his group.

 

[willietheweirdo]

TDPRI John barely acknowledges that millennials aren't the youngest generation anymore. Any thread about "new" phrases that bother our elder forumites is usually chock full of slang from 95-2013.

Friendly reminder that people born in the year 2000 have already voted in a presidential election and have been legally drinking for 2+ years.

...and folks born in 1996 are eligible to join the 27 club

 

[ahiddentableau]

...with a name that's sounds like it bridges the gap between an upper-average English tennis player from the 1990s and a legendary American puppeteer...

LOL

The tennis reference loses me completely, but I still love it.

 

[eddiewagner]

I think these guys are awesome. Kinda like formula one cars or radical skiing. But I prefer some old Ry Cooder to listen to.

 

[trev333]

He's the M&M guy, right?.. Let's prune..

 

[Kandinskyesque]

LOL

The tennis reference loses me completely, but I still love it.

Tim Henman was the "best UK player since Fred Perry" for a while they even had an area of Wimbledon named "Henman Hill" but he won nothing, so a few years later we inventive Scots invented Andy Murray and sent him down south.
Of course, he done the business and in honour the tennis fans renamed Henman Hill, "Murray Mound".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Henman

 

[Festofish]

Immensely talented band! Yet I too marvel at the skill but wouldn’t listen to them. I just watched an Ibanez video of them talking about their new guitars. Henson’s design is brilliant. He chose to make it basic to accentuate the neck inlay. I think the soulless argument goes too far yet I get the reason.

 

[Papa Che]

I think I’m better than that guy. I have more soul. I can soulfully pick on one note above the 12th fret and at the same time bend it and vibrate it for like an hour. Soulfully. One note. Full of soul.

 

[Cloodie]

Think it's more of a style issue than an age issue. For me I've never been into guitarists who are very technically proficient and keen to show it off. I always find them lacking something in the musicality department. It wouldn't do if we were all the same though.

 

[Jupiter]

I think I’m better than that guy. I have more soul. I can soulfully pick on one note above the 12th fret and at the same time bend it and vibrate it for like an hour. Soulfully. One note. Full of soul.

literal gobs of soul

 

[twangking]

He's the Vai, malmsteem guy of this era. Not my thing at all but they will most likely always exist.

 

[Midgetje94]

The current YouTube sensation in the guitar world, for a certain generation, with a name that's sounds like it bridges the gap between an upper-average English tennis player from the 1990s and a legendary American puppeteer, has come onto my radar in recent months.

He has a guitar ability that is beyond my comprehension, even videos of him in his early teens supersede my more elaborate dreams. However, there's something in his playing that I fail to emotionally connect to. There are quite few guitarists on YT of his generation with half the skills and fractional production costs with whom I do connect, therefore I don't think it's a generational thing for me.

Maybe it's the egregious marketing that surrounds him that leaves the music without soul.
In this video at around 3:10 he extolls the merits of high end guitars on their capacity to intonate better.
I may be wrong, but based on 45+ years of playing and obsessing around all things 6 string, and a close friendship with a guitar tech with a 30 year career with some of the world's better known musicians, I thought a half decent luthier or tech would be able to resolve any intonation issues in a guitar whether it's on either side of the $1500 figure he gives in the video.



In this video, he gives a tour of his "home studio", where he seems to vacuously parrot off model numbers of equipment, in "influencer" fashion.
It puts me in mind of the product placement parody scene in Wayne's World.



Despite his obvious merits as a musician, he's a fantastic player, there seems to be a end result which metaphorically speaking is like the fruit from a tree with its roots firmly planted in Madison Avenue as opposed to Sun Studio.

The egregious marketing leaves me cold.
Then again maybe I'm just an auld guy now.

I actually knew him back before they got big. Played many shows with them back then. Not saying we are best buds. But definitely really cool. There’s a few guys from the 2000-2010s Dallas scene who are making a name for themselves. I remember back when Post Malone was a Dallas metal kid.

But Tim is insanely talented. But also very cool and down to earth.

 

[Digital Larry]

literal gobs of soul

Please wipe it up when you're done.

 

[Papa Che]

literal gobs of soul

They call it “gobshoiit blues”!

 

[NeverTooLate]

This is a very interesting thread. I guess I am a bit the other way. As a kid of the late 80s, I cannot listen to pretty much anything pre-Hendrix, pre-LZ, pre-Deep Purple In Rock.

I just cannot listen to endless strumming of open cords, no matter the amount of soulfulness thrown in

 

[Kandinskyesque]

I actually knew him back before they got big. Played many shows with them back then. Not saying we are best buds. But definitely really cool. There’s a few guys from the 2000-2010s Dallas scene who are making a name for themselves. I remember back when Post Malone was a Dallas metal kid.

But Tim is insanely talented. But also very cool and down to earth.

Glad to hear that, his talent is unquestionable but it's also good to hear that the kid behind the persona is sound.

As I was saying when I finished my rant, maybe I'm just an auld guy now.

I suppose through these 50 something eyes the whole YouTuber platform is alien to me having been brought up through the post punk DIY way of making music.
I imagine because the music itself makes so little money these days that the only viable income is in product promotion, which, to me, kinda sucks the soul out of the music.

However, I could be doubly wrong here and it's always been a bit of a soul-less business.

 

[markal]

You can be both massively talented and utterly devoid of soul. This is what AI guitar sounds like. Hits the right notes. Doesn’t know or care why they’re the right notes.

I’d say that’s a little harsh. He’s young, probably naive, and trying to make his mark. As I said above, his music does nothing for me either, at least what I’ve heard of his music. But he’s affecting somebody out there. And I’d bet he has some soul, he’s just finding his way.