Bernard is one of the best guitarists ever and even Ed Buller himself admitted that he's the only person he ever worked with who could be called a virtuoso. I think Jimmy Page was similar. Neither of them was technically perfect - in fact they were rather sloppy, at least live. But what made them great was their inventiveness and ability to improvise. If you listen carefully to some of the songs from the first two Suede albums there are many layers of improvised guitar melodies. You can hear it in Dolly, Animal Lover, The Wild Ones (especially in demo version - Ken). These songs are FILLED with original and clever guitar parts. Not just rock'n'roll pentatonic cliches or walls of sound based on guitar effects. He wrote so many great melodies - chorus in Heroine, verse in My Instatiable One or outro in The Drowners. I'm a guitarist myself and I can tell you that being able to improvise like that is probably the highest degree of musicianship. You can be technically great but if your music comes from muscle memory or learned licks you're not here. In cases like Bernard the music comes intuitively to his head, by itself and he just plays it. He listens to some notes and the rest comes by itself. That's a really indescribable transcendent feeling when there is no delay between these head-melodies and your hands. Feels like the guitar became a part of yourself and is your second mouth. Listen carefully to guitar parts in The Asphalt World or Stay Together and you will know what I mean.
Correctly and beautifully said. It used to baffle me how he wrote some of his riffs and licks, I found it very difficult understand how one can write like THIS. I can now comprehend, but it still is very fascinating.
Well said!! I also miss Bernards heavy and mean guitar tone, that made Suede stick out. Same with early Manic street preachers. It was great for us heavy metal guys to listen to beautiful popsongs with heavy guitars, without the Iron Maiden metallica ozzy ....stuff. Now we dont have that anymore. I miss great guitar solos in pop/rock bands, and those mean/loud guitars. Tomas Sweden.
Bernard is one of the best guitarists ever and even Ed Buller himself admitted that he's the only person he ever worked with who could be called a virtuoso.
I think Jimmy Page was similar.
Neither of them was technically perfect - in fact they were rather sloppy, at least live. But what made them great was their inventiveness and ability to improvise. If you listen carefully to some of the songs from the first two Suede albums there are many layers of improvised guitar melodies. You can hear it in Dolly, Animal Lover, The Wild Ones (especially in demo version - Ken). These songs are FILLED with original and clever guitar parts. Not just rock'n'roll pentatonic cliches or walls of sound based on guitar effects. He wrote so many great melodies - chorus in Heroine, verse in My Instatiable One or outro in The Drowners.
I'm a guitarist myself and I can tell you that being able to improvise like that is probably the highest degree of musicianship. You can be technically great but if your music comes from muscle memory or learned licks you're not here. In cases like Bernard the music comes intuitively to his head, by itself and he just plays it. He listens to some notes and the rest comes by itself. That's a really indescribable transcendent feeling when there is no delay between these head-melodies and your hands. Feels like the guitar became a part of yourself and is your second mouth.
Listen carefully to guitar parts in The Asphalt World or Stay Together and you will know what I mean.
Totally agree!
Correctly and beautifully said. It used to baffle me how he wrote some of his riffs and licks, I found it very difficult understand how one can write like THIS. I can now comprehend, but it still is very fascinating.
I wish he was more recognised. Clearly a quality guitarist and very inspirational. I think people who really know their music can see this.
Well said!! I also miss Bernards heavy and mean guitar tone, that made Suede stick out. Same with early Manic street preachers. It was great for us heavy metal guys to listen to beautiful popsongs with heavy guitars, without the Iron Maiden metallica ozzy ....stuff. Now we dont have that anymore. I miss great guitar solos in pop/rock bands, and those mean/loud guitars. Tomas Sweden.
@@jakan756 Suede and Manic Street Preachers, hands down the best bands of the 90s.
Dear Brits! Bernard Butler is definitely the best guitarist for you (we in Eastern Europe know this well!)
5:09 that's no way to treat a microphone
Woow 😮
Which doc is this from, people?
The Insatiable Ones