Watched this doc Inside Metal: The LA Metal Scene Explodes 2, and there were guys liked Marty Friedman and Bruce Bouillet from Racer X talking about the stir caused on the Strip shredding community when Ron Keel bright Yngwie Malmsteen over to the US to be in Steeler. One anecdote recalled Dokken's George Lynch seeing one of the first Steeler gigs with Yngwie and looking visibly shaken. Everyone was running in fear of the fury!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 August 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
Harvey Mandel is one of these dudes, a pioneer of two-fingered tapping, does a lot of cool things with sustain. his 70s albums are all totally righteous, though, funky bluesy exotic electric guitar instrumentals..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDHD-jR3xU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWcyNJ_bwhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_IGj-dTDW8
― brimstead, Saturday, 26 August 2017 23:09 (six years ago) link
"cristo redentor" (last vid i posted) is extremely lush
― brimstead, Saturday, 26 August 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
he's a british dude, played with john mayall, canned heat...
― brimstead, Saturday, 26 August 2017 23:13 (six years ago) link
this is an example of him "going off" so to speakhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24seZArkCUs
― brimstead, Saturday, 26 August 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
Cristo Redentor and Baby Batter were good early 2000s sample fodder. Was never into him for any other reasons.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 28 August 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link
From a press release for a guy named Angel Vivaldi, who claims to be "a guitarist, songwriter, producer, philanthropist and environmentalist."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIgzGU0XcAA-Jff.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
Cristo Redentor and Baby Batter were good early 2000s sample fodder.
Nice! Yeah that intro break on baby batter had to have been sampled somewhere
― brimstead, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
i looked up angel vivaldi on youtube and i was shocked to discover his music sucks real bad
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
Hey now, here you are all talking about Gambale missing that he featured on this legendary thread
John Petrucci brings you...ROCK DISCIPLINE (a picture thread if the pictures can fit)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
You are very astute: http://www.whosampled.com/sample/124623/J-Live-Probe.dms-Asheru-Kick-It-to-the-Beat-Harvey-Mandel-Baby-Batter/
Also: http://www.whosampled.com/sample/19767/Pharoahe-Monch-The-Truth-Harvey-Mandel-Cristo-Redentor/
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
Hey Frank: I'd rather modes remain a mystery than have you teach me them
― calstars, Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
harvey mandel came out with a new record last year! it RULES. i heard about him through his work with "sugarcane" harris in pure food and drug act.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
whoa, that pure food and drug act records looks sweet
― brimstead, Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
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those other guys are all over his 70s albums
― brimstead, Thursday, 31 August 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
dying @ that vivaldi guy doing 4th-rate satriani impressions over nu-metal
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 31 August 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
by Jay Skyler- Nicknamed The White Jimi Hendrix by Anahiem, California's Metalhead Radio, Jay is one of the 21st century's most dynamic and innovative guitarists and educators and is currently the lead vocalist and guitarist for Rock 'n' Roll Villain Society.
― Made in the Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 April 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link
finally, a white Jimi Hendrix
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, 9 April 2018 11:01 (six years ago) link
I find that hard to believe, but if it's THE Metalhead Radio of Anaheim, California...
― how's life, Monday, 9 April 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, April 9, 2018 6:01 AM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Robin Trower would like a word
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 April 2018 11:45 (six years ago) link
He'll one-note you to the ground
― JRN, Monday, 9 April 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
You know all those "The Clash SAVED my LIFE, maaaan" pieces? Here's the chopsophiliac version
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/8zutxi/discussion_eric_johnson_saved_my_life/
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
https://popula.com/2018/08/01/a-style-of-music-played-on-the-guitar-that-pretty-much-no-one-listens-to-except-guitar-players/
Most shredding music is bad. Some bands that influenced shredding—Van Halen chief among them—are often very good. But when unaccompanied by a singer or other instrumentation, shredding usually sucks. Just think of Van Halen without David Lee Roth.Guitar music exclusively for guitar players is probably prefigured by Jeff Beck’s mid-seventies albums Blow by Blow and Wired, which are legitimately good, and started in earnest a decade later by Joe Satriani and his student Steve Vai.
Guitar music exclusively for guitar players is probably prefigured by Jeff Beck’s mid-seventies albums Blow by Blow and Wired, which are legitimately good, and started in earnest a decade later by Joe Satriani and his student Steve Vai.
― enochroot, Thursday, 2 August 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38285397_10214939781842332_2840689127601471488_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=68bea23787d3d3693b693041333772e6&oe=5BD74474
Shot of Yngwie's current touring rig (via a Gear Page thread from yesterday).
― how's life, Friday, 3 August 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
lmao
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 3 August 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
Guessing/hoping all or most of those heads and cabs are dummies and there's actually a Kemper rack somewhere going direct.
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
also i think steve vai is in on the joke and pretty good sometimes
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 3 August 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
I AM intrigued by the idea of a guitar pre-placed in front of the cone for feedback on demand. I don't know what sort of switching regime would make it musically useful though.
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, August 3, 2018 11:40 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hah same
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 August 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
i had these cassette tapes (not the vhs) of Rudy Sarzo bass master class
this stuff was so great to make a little kid who could barely play try all this fancy bullshit lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUCm6Ca4z0
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
somehow i knew there was gonna be tapping in that video
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
Saw Harvey Mandel live last weekend. Dude shredded. Tap master. Tremolo whiz
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
i heart rudy
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 August 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
sad all those youtubes are broken upthread :(
Vinnie Vincent - Metal Tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEyYGNX_TP4
― Ae$op Rocky (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 December 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
I love metal as much as the next cerebral middle aged hipster, but that shit is just so amusical I can’t understand what the devotees get from it apart from dexterity awe
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 28 December 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
Vinnie in the Invasion era had a super wild style, almost atonal
The shredder thing kind of fascinates me, just as a musical/culture thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 December 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
Yeah, if you got rid of the screeching vocals and whatnot you could pretty much draw a straight line between what he was doing and what Vernon Reid (post-Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, pre-Living Colour) was doing at the Knitting Factory or the Kitchen.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 29 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
guitar solos are fun to listen to
― brimstead, Saturday, 29 December 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
What song evidences this wild style?
― calstars, Saturday, 29 December 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link
aww, now i'm bummed that all the 'tubes are gone too. iirc, this one led to an absolutely baffling allan holdsworth "jazz" performance:
what kind of music is this even?
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:32 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 29 December 2018 04:26 (five years ago) link
Does anyone ever compare them with The Replacements? There is some overlap in acknowledged influences, in particular as seen in the mixing Kiss and Partridge Family covers, but to me the RK versions of this material seem to be more competent, inspired and affectionate. Of course maybe I just finally got sick and tired of The ‘Mats after reading that bio Ned recommended.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 December 2018 05:36 (five years ago) link
Ha wrong thread 🧵
Well Bob was not averse to semi atonal shredding at times
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 29 December 2018 06:03 (five years ago) link
Right, exactly
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 December 2018 06:04 (five years ago) link
Calstars - the solos on Boyz Are Gonna Rock are apeshit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 29 December 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
Oh shit! V V just shredded my eardrums. Awesome (Also appreciated the notes the vocalist was hitting, sounds a little like a castrated Steve Perry )
― calstars, Saturday, 29 December 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
The singer used be in Journey, btw (Robert Fleischman).
― brownie, Saturday, 29 December 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hxZyD9VGI
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
On a day trip w/the family. My sister's turn at the CD player, and it's this Eric Johnson album from ten years ago that sounds like it could be thirty or twenty years ago, or from tomorrow, or ten years in the future. Dude's like the Ramones or Motorhead, stylistic consistency-wise, of guitar mag shredders.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 June 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link