I was into Metallica at that time.

I hope you got some sound clips to back up that "I play Paganini and Symphony X at 16" thing :)

Cause if you do I'd like to hear some, I Love Paganini stuff and Symphony X is really good.

Post some tricks of paganini, I know they were looking for some classical guitar tricks.

I got the fourth caprice (or somthing like that) for violin in tabs