scene

The "Scene" typically refers to a hardxcore or emocore subculture where fashion and physical appearance are held in higher regard than the actual music itself. So closely related to fashioncore that the two terms are interchangable in most scenarios.

The scene is a slap in the face to real musicians. The contention of the scene is that it's basically cool to be a poser.


Characteristics that scene kids usually have:
- pretend to be guitarists when all they're likely able to play are open/power/barre chords

- hair that's long in the front and short in the back (e.g. a devilock or emo hair)

- overly-tight pants. the scene guys usually wear misses size womens pants.

- overly-tight shirts with the name of the crappiest/most obscure band you can find. also wear "vintage" shirts that are bought from ebay or thrift stores (e.g. a shirt from a rolling stones concert in the 1970's while the kid wearing it was born in the 1980's).

- lots of facial piercings... gauged ears (usually 0g or more), septum piercing, double lip piercings (snake bites), labret piercing, etc.

Scene and emo need to die.

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john frusciante

Guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Also a solo artist as of recently. Very creative, uses a lot of heavy distortion, compression, and delay effects.

Frusciante plays economically on the pepper's studio albums, but has some wicked solos on their live ones.

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pinch harmonics

On the guitar, pinch harmonics is the act of lightly touching a string with the edge of your thumb/palm (picking hand) after plucking it. Similar to natural harmonics except you're not playing off a fret. If you use a lot of distortion and gain it produces a squealing effect.

A lot of guitarists use pinch harmonics, most notably Zakk Wylde, but also players like ZZ Top, Dimebag Darrell, and even Steve Vai.

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bill and ted's excellent adventure

The most awesome movie ever made. Two punk kids from the 80's (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) go back in time with a phone booth.

Bill and Ted's is a most excellent movie.

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ultimate-guitar

A website/forum with great guitar tablatures. It has some awesome guitarists that tab songs and even make instructional videos.

Unfortunatley the forum community is mostly made up of dumbass high school freshmen who want to learn to play power chords like their hero, Billy Joe Armstrong. And God forbid when they try to tab something simple like a pop-punk song, they fuck it up somehow.

If you're a good guitarist who doesn't think that My Chemical Romance and Avenged Sevenfold are the pinnacle of musicianship, come check out Ultimate-Guitar.

If you picked up the guitar to try to get pussy, stay the fuck away.

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counter-strike

Most addicting video game ever, next to World of Warcraft. Any chick that tells you not to play CS for hours on end can suck a fat one.

Weed, sex, guitars, and counter-strike through high school, then use my dad's money to get me into college.

^^^
the way to live life

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buckethead

Guitarist that is famous for using (and perhaps inventing) 10 finger tapping, even utilizing his thumbs. He wears a KFC bucket on his head and Michael Myers mask covering his face.

I don't care what "GuitarOne" says, I guarantee that Buckethead can tap more notes per second than someone like Yngwie can sweep pick.

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