Max Cavalera (Soulfly) interview about his guitar style (pt.2 of 2)

2nd part of the interview.
In case you missed the 1st part of the interview, see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMkZx1Mp_rY

And please keep your comments meaningful. "Max is God" etc. are not.

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Music

Tags:

• Max
• Cavalera
• guitar
• lesson
• Soulfly
• Sepultura
• heavy
• riffs

[Metallikid1]

i just wish that he would play his guitar live nowadays. from the looks and sounds of it, he has marc do everything from the lead to rhythm playing. personally, i think he's tired and may need some time off. in NO WAY do i think he should retire, but i think if he takes the time to lay low, practice his songs again, and become the awesome stage presence he was before...it would definitely be beneficial for the audience to see him perform that way than jump around and shout the lyrics imo.

[bloodySunday77]

@Metallikid1 Nice comment! :-)

[YorkshireMacduff]

People ripping Max are just blind. I've tried for years to be a 'shredder' but there comes a point when you realise you can't beat simplicity and passion.

Who gives a fuck if he can't do a 15 string sweep while sucking Steve Vai's dick. When's the last time any of those guys wrote a riff that people can actually rock out to.

[metagore]

Max makes me want to break stuff...

Great technical skills don't make a great riff, a great imagination does.

[K3NxRaiNsxBl00d]

@YorkshireMacduff very good comment im writing stuff too and simplicity and passion does sound better then a sweep. i rarley use solos in my songs cuz im one guitarist and i like rhythms more

[sodaspider]

yes, riffing goes a whole lot farther than just a shit load of solo's and melodies

[breedfk]

@linchpin313 nice and truth words... i saw soulfly in 2006 (sbsr06) and 1 time in 2009 or 2010 in coliseu lisboa i think... major difference, is in need to stop for a litlle time, take a breath and come fresh... we believe he can. this guy has a fucking energy ( not the jump and shit on stage) but the energy he puts on people when people see him and soulfly live. the vibe that just few can put out to the audience.

[fairlystupidjello]

@YorkshireMacduff I've been at the point where a good ass riff interests me more than a good lead, I never really try to work on solos always riffs

[linchpin313]

i think what he is trying to say is that anyboby can shred hours and no one remembers the shit you have done, simplicity is the key in terms of groove... all the best riffs in rock are the most simplest.. smoke on the water, paranoid, roots bloody roots, blind.. all these songs are classics yet anyone who picked up the guitar 2 days ago can pay them, i mean yeah there are guitarist better than him that's reading this right now but they will never write a song like roots bloody roots.

[jjallen1976]

I love Max Cavalera!!!!!

[TheWaterAintSafe]

@bloodySunday77 Yeah, not a soulfy fan either. I am a fan of Max though lol. He even appeared in a rap song which i think is great. He does the chorus in the song "War is my destiny" by Immortal Technique and iLL BiLL. Awesome guy and i forgot to say this but thanks for uploading. :]

[bloodySunday77]

@TheWaterAintSafe Well thanks... I am only thinking whether people are seeing things in a different, more mature way when they grow up or not. I am 32 and I was listening to Sepultura ever since Beneath The Remains came out. Not so much with the new stuff. I am not crazy about Soulfly either, but I respect Max a lot.