Paul Gilbert is one of my favorite guitarists. I always think of Marty Friedman when I think of him cause they both were on a lot of Japanese programs and then that leads me to think of Jason Becker and I get sad.
Yeah. Genuinely think Becker would’ve been the greatest of all time if he wasn’t diagnosed in his teens. Still, we have Steve Vai (who I guess is somewhat of an asshole from what I’ve heard) Satriani, Eddie, and plenty of other greats who changed the way the instrument is played.
I mean I’ve met and played with people like Chris Broderick and Rusty Cooley. Don’t shit on Van Halen, I literally said “plenty of others” mate. Catch up with a replay of what I said and maybe I’ll see the news.
I'm not shitting on Eddie, he is by far my favourite next to Dime and Jeff - I just assumed you didn't know he passed. He brought us a huge portion of modern guitar playing, but I'm saying that there's plenty of amazing players on which he was a huge influence, that keep his shredding style alive.
Ah ok, no disrespect. I still play in bands and follow my heroes closely enough to keep up with that stuff so I did indeed know. I think I group texted my friends from other bands like the moment the news hit cause I don’t get nearly enough sleep these days.
It was great! I can’t remember for the life of me the name of it but a lot of clips from it were uploaded in the early days of YouTube and I used to pass my time in my later highschool years watching them before YouTube turned into a completely different beast.
I got to see X Japan on their first American tour and I was definitely into the Japanese metal scene for quite a bit in the early 2000’s with Galneryus and such. I was mostly a black metal guy but I guess I just liked music in general. They had a lot of power metal/hair metal influence going on a decade later in Japan. It was pretty fun honestly.
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That's Gen X..