Matt Bellamy believes the guitar “is no longer a lead instrument”

If you like this story, you'll probably like our other stories. Like us on Facebook to ensure you don't miss out.If not, that's cool too. Just click close and we won't bother you about it again. Although “guitar” based genres seem to be thriving at the moment (just suss how many “rock” tracks dominated this year’s Hottest 100, check out how many local up and coming acts will be storming the Download Festival Australia stage etc.), pessimists seem to squander in the idea that its a mere notion of the past. Matt Bellamy could be contributing to this mindset, revealing recently in an interview with BBC that he believes the guitar “is no longer a lead instrument”. In the interview, Bellamy expanded on the idea that he thinks that rock bands have “one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums” because now genres like “classical and hip hop” can be fused. Considering Muse have managed to maintain the status as one of the most commercially and critically successful rock acts of the last 15 years, he continued to state that thought that rock music was more of an “aesthetic” that people “attached themselves to”, removed from the...

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