Guitare Xtreme Magazine numéro 118

There are subjects that anger and divide, even in our guitaristic microcosm (yes, yes). Because the world, as a whole, has drastically changed and will continue to do so, whether it is the way we consume, the way we value things, the way we communicate and express ourselves: in short, the way we live together. Digitalization has turned our value scales upside down, pushing us in everything we do to rationalize costs, to go to the essential and always faster, minimizing human interactions, mercilessly shattering in the process almost everything that people over 30 have always known, the "Old World", the one of the "boomers", or of the "vintage" people as it is more politely called, and the generational divide is becoming gaping. Today, music is no longer part of movements of thought, it no longer changes people's lives or overthrows dictatorships. It is consumed like video games, struggling more and more to free itself from the image. For the most part, guitarists born 25 years ago or less have never listened to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Led Zeppelin or Van Halen and do not dream of a Gibson Les Paul, a Klon Centaur or a Vox AC30; some of them have never experienced playing with an amp. The "neo-guitarists" are already among us, armed with Strandberg and Quad Cortex, and they are putting the guitar back in the center of the debate with real artistic proposals, as demonstrated by Polyphia with its latest album "Remember That You Will Die". It's up to you to decide if you want to embrace this new generation or if you'd rather stay wrapped up in your nostalgia and celebrate the past with the umpteenth local tribute band.
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