I think my favorite thing from Aaron's Petrucci review:
He makes like Steve Vai at the end of Crossroads for a few minutes, then plays some shit slow for a while, finally showing us again how fast A REAL ASSHOLE LIKE HIM can play it!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 November 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Heh heh
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 14 November 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
We await these reviews.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone explain to me Dream Theater's enduring popularity in ... Italy!
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
italy has some nutty rock fans. no detached irony in the culture whatsoever.
― the birdman from the hilarious "alcatraz" prison (get bent), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
i remember the mojo article on van der graaf generator and it was like crazy beatlemania with them in italy : )
― any major some dude will tell you (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
what a weird place!
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 02:19 (fifteen years ago) link
surprised this hasn't been mentioned:
http://cover7.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/video/Large/7523958.jpg
― MC Hammarskjöld (get bent), Sunday, 27 September 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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― kshighway1, Thursday, 15 October 2009 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs
You know, this was kinda on the wrong board to start with so let me move it here...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 October 2009 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Was it not on ILM? I just did a search for John Petrucci and this seemed like a good thread to toss that video in.
― kshighway1, Thursday, 15 October 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ILE for whatever reason. Anyway it's in its spiritual home now.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 October 2009 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks Ned. :-)
― kshighway1, Thursday, 15 October 2009 06:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Jeff Baxter American Guitar Technique w/Japanese sub-titles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVawcjJ27vk
― earlnash, Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Keyboard_Breaks:_Live_in_Chicago
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
1. "Universal Mind (When the Keyboard Broke)" 2:202. "The Chicago Blues & Noodle Factory" 7:033. "Fade Away or Keep Going?" 5:034. "The Haunted Keyboard" 9:345. "Close Encounters of the Liquid Kind" 15:136. "Ten Minute Warning" 5:557. "That 'Ol Broken Down Keyboard Blues" 6:348. "Liquid Anthrax" 4:559. "That's All Folks!" 2:12
Poll.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
I like how it just randomly mentions Charlie Benante there in the summary.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
oh hey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc3i9GdVLsI
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh oh levin alert!!
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
cool legato phrases, bro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k40sTyyGLd4
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
alan holdworth talks and performs with the mighty SYNTHAXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aAYfZdkCA8&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GtbBmNEEWg&feature=related
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
oh wow, hour long documentary about dream theater auditioning drummers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L609JsPFmmI
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRQJgZVxRX0
― earlnash, Saturday, 9 August 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
i fucking WANT that shirt gambale's wearing in the "modes: no more mystery" pic up top. '80s geometric abstraction/bauhaus revivalism FTW.
― wapo tofu (get bent), Saturday, 9 August 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link
coffee shop near my office has a chalkboard where they ask questions, today's was "celebrity living or dead you'd like to have dinner with." right up at the top someone wrote
JOHN PETRUCCI
― goole, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
this is on youtube
― brimstead, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
might as well post this here, mike portnoy talks drum chops. epic hair.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no4luPP6t9c
― brimstead, Sunday, 7 August 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Aj68pPv.jpg
― brimstead, Sunday, 7 August 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
Any new examples of such madness?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uwyHPa6RB0
― i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
I should have known.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
you're welcome
― i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link
I'm honestly surprised his shows aren't just him talking the whole time.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
ned i don't know if you saw this but it's amusing tone attorney content
Carr Mercury - Holy Grail of Tone - 800 (Lino Lakes)
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:51 (seven years ago) link
Oh dear.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link