well i have had enough ACDC for awhile

oh quick story:

 

my cousin plays guitar and usually brings it over for thanksgiving.

so he brought it over and i play bass so we played together.

except neither of us new each other's songs to play.

he said "do you know any van halen?"

haha

i didnt realize van halen had guitars

i thought it was an orchestra of synthesizers and guitars with distortion

bah :confused:

i don't like van halen, but eddie van halen seems to be really respected by other guitarists as a really great lead. i always tended to believe their accounts, and when i listen to van halens big songs i do hear some classic riffs.

im just not a fan of 80's guitar what can i say

they totally abuse the distortion pedal

I tend to agree. I don't like the 80s rock stuff. I tend to lean more towards the 80s music that, at the time, was referred to as "Modern Rock."

yeah it was pretty computerized

i wasnt around but thats besides the point

werent there alot of european influences on american music at the time?

There was this divergence in rock music. American rock was really at a low point. There was Van Halen and a bunch of medicore bands (Bob Seger-type stuff). The good stuff was starting to trickle over here from Europe and slowly made it's way onto MTV and the radio. But for the most part, the European music had a pretty distinct style for most of the eighties.

 

The American rock scene that can to the forefront in the early 90s was domant, giving rise to college radio as bands like REM couldn't find other popular outlets for their sound.

 

Aside from those bands on college radio, there really wasn't anything American that was incorporating what was going on in Britian and the rest of Europe. It would be the 90s before the music of bands like U2 really started to influence musicians here.

 

At least, that's my view.

I still don't get what that has to do with anything.

 

Even though still around, and around in the 80's, AC/DC is still pretty much considered a 70's band as I recall, considering that's when they actually started getting more well known and making records.

 

The real original band though started forming as I recall in 69.