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Post by Hacksaw on Nov 30, 2005 16:54:30 GMT -5
I have heard very good things about the Petrucci DVD, I was thinking of buying that, glad to know it is worth it!
I am trying Perfect Pitch ear training. god knows I need it!
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Post by DonaldDemon on Nov 30, 2005 17:07:05 GMT -5
Hey, all you 'shmoes' and 'pros' who are your 'main' guitar influences? Judging from Scott Splawns web site most of you dudes seem to be metal heads....any rockers or SRV guys using a QR? I may be one of the few who are not influenced by the shredding metalheads that much. I do admit though there was a brief period where I was listening to Vai, Satriani, and Eric Johnson and I wanted to be a virtuoso as well but I just didn't have the time or the patience to train myself. put a guitar in my hand and I just don't know how to "practice", I just want to jam! Here are some of my main in some kind of order of most to least: -Hendrix -Page -SRV -Gilmour -D*ck Dale (HA, I had to edit it!) -Larry LaLonde (Primus) -Dave Murray (Iron Maiden) -Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead) I have to say that Al Dimeola came to my college and played because he is from around that area. I had to see a jazz-type performance for my music class so me and a friend went to fulfill requirements, not really knowing much about him. All I can say was we had to pick our jaws back up off the floor at the end of the night (he is a guitarist as well)! To this day I have not seen a better player live. He just nails the sh*t outta everything AND it was all friggin acoustic! I wish I could do a quarter of what that guys does on an acoustic on electric.
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Post by jimbax on Nov 30, 2005 17:12:00 GMT -5
He sets the bar WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY too HIGH!
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Post by jimbax on Nov 30, 2005 17:14:31 GMT -5
OH, BTW, I have really liked listenning to the 'texture' guitar players like the 'dude' from 'Tool' and the 'dude' from 'A Perfect Circle' and the 'dude' from 'ColdPlay'....never really fell into the 'Edge' thing though....
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Post by sledhead on Nov 30, 2005 17:47:48 GMT -5
I think the guys that really hit me were the guys like Vinnie Moore, Tony McAlpine (anybody heard the CAB stuff?), Yngwie etc. Petrucci is great. Di Meola is definitely on the list. The classical phrasing is what really got my blood flowing I guess.
Then there is Ted Nugent, I love his playing but mostly for his attitude on life!! He is my kind of dude.
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Post by Shawnee on Nov 30, 2005 18:05:23 GMT -5
That's a hard question! I think of influences as the ones who you can actually steal licks from. Most of the stuff I listen to, I can't play! I would say Lynch, VH, Rhoads (and just about every hair band with a solid guitar player) starting out. Then it was metalica and megadeath. From there I went to SRV, Billy Gibbons and Gary Moore. I loved Malmsteen and Vinnie Moore (and anything on Shrapnel records) but could only pull of a few licks here and there. Now, I like so much more, Norman Brown, Brian Setzer, Paco Delucia, even a few country players.
I guess my biggest influences were really the guys I grew up with. My Dad, my Boss, my friends like John Jagneaux (who is amazing luthier and player), and some other absolutely fantastic players from around town like Scott McGill (probably my 3rd favorite blues player ever behind SRV and Gibbons).
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Post by jimbax on Dec 1, 2005 9:59:16 GMT -5
Old 'Alice Cooper' (Randy Rhoads favorite band, where he claimed he got the idea to mix classical with heavy metal, listen to 'Killers' album..)...Peter Frampton could play guitar (unfortunately he is more known for writing sissy ballads...)...Angus Young? guitar player for an 80s band called 'Europe' was HOT! (don't know his name???). John Sykes, Dave Menketti (Y&T), Pat Metheney, Andres Segovia, Carlos Montoya, Alex Lifeson, Rudolph Schenker, Joe Walsh (early example of Les Paul/Marshall plexi sound on James Gang albums..check out cool solo on 'Bomber'), Richie Sambora (he can play...)
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Post by DonaldDemon on Dec 1, 2005 10:09:49 GMT -5
OH, BTW, I have really liked listenning to the 'texture' guitar players like the 'dude' from 'Tool' and the 'dude' from 'A Perfect Circle' and the 'dude' from 'ColdPlay'....never really fell into the 'Edge' thing though.... Its funny because it never really hit me that the textured style of guitar takes talent until I started writing and more importantly recording my own songs. It may not be exceptional technically but there is something amazing in creating moods with soundscapes like that. That's where "dudes" from Radiohead, Tool, etc come into my influence. The Edge is not my bag either but he did set the standard for those textured riffs. Oh, and I forgot to mention Duane Denison from the Jesus Lizard and now of Tomahawk (Mike Patton's project, from Faith No More). Recently I have really fell in love with this style. Very raw and dark yet precise.
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Post by shawn on Dec 1, 2005 10:12:42 GMT -5
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Post by VomHalen on Dec 1, 2005 10:33:42 GMT -5
shawn...holy cr@p man...i love the first 4 guitars on your site...that green/white flame is unreal!
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Post by Dirrty Craig on Dec 1, 2005 10:41:00 GMT -5
Shawn thats a really interesting homepage man. Very cool. I'm a hockey nut too and a guitar player and I own an internet business,, we have alot in common.
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Post by jimbax on Dec 1, 2005 11:05:16 GMT -5
Shawn...your site is COOOOL...a Splawn QR 1/2 stack will look good in the middle of your amp page....I really like the pics of the old composers! Adrien Vandenburg...I forgot that guy existed...I met Randy Rhoads @ the Starwood in LA in 79' our band (Arch Rival) shared the ticket with them (Quiet Riot) a number of times...you are right! a VERY cool guy...not one of my MAIN influences but, he is still to this day the single most impressive guitar player I have EVER seen play...And I have seen almost ALL the guys mentioned here...his 'command' of the guitar for such a little guy, was superhuman...
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Post by jimbax on Dec 1, 2005 12:15:09 GMT -5
that LA scene...I was there, in the middle of it...Specifically: George Lynch, Xciter, Blackie Lawless (Circus Circus then, WASP later...)...Our lead singer Jerome (went on to front a band called 'Rough Cut') his best friend was 'Randy Piper' (rhythm guitar for Circus Circus/WASP and a KISS freak...) Randy's mom owned a warehouse subdivision in Buena Park CA and one of the 'modules' (about 120' X 75') is where Randy lived (in the front) and Circus Circus practiced at night after all the businesses there closed...well, Xciter rented out a small corner of the warehouse for rehearsal space...that's where I met George...and was subjected to the 'weird' things that happened there during that time...
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Post by shawn on Dec 1, 2005 12:52:40 GMT -5
ah the good ol days when there was actually guitar solos in songs ;D
thanks for the site kudos guys...I really need to update it though
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Post by jimbax on Dec 1, 2005 13:16:52 GMT -5
yea, young guys that strap their guitar down to their ankles, and drop down to 'D' and run their index finger along the fingerboard for a 'barre chord'....when they see me play, they ask: alternate picking? whats an arpeggio sweep? string skipping? a whole different breed these guys....doesn't seem to bother them that they have NO technique for effectively playing single note runs etc...and hey, that's cool...it will limit them though if they want to play different styles other that thrash...
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