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12/20/2003 11:56 pm
Can you remember the first time you saw the band or guitarist who then became your idol?
I remember seeing Slash on MTV in 1995 with Michael Jackson. Slash came on in his leathers and top hat and played Black and White! I was like whose he! A then got into GnR and I can remember then realising they had split up, I was gutted :(

[Edited by Axl_Rose on 12-20-2003 at 05:59 PM]
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sambob
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12/21/2003 12:08 am
So Shawn Lane three years ago live. I had heard plenty ABOUT him, but his albums are so hard to find, that I'd never heard him. But it was cheap to get in. I was completely blown away. I had never heard anything like him (still haven't in fact). Wish he was still around.
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12/21/2003 12:42 am
Weel, I have yet to see Jimmy Page live, but I can still remember when I saw the Stones in Montreal. I had great seats, I could see the wrinkles on Keef's face!lol.
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12/21/2003 3:10 am
I remember our street got MTV back in 1986. We had an old-school tv (years before remote controls), that was on four wooden legs. The channel selector was a dial that went from 1-13, and had the channel "U". Somehow we had "U" programmed as MTV. A year later I remember seeing "Welcome to the Jungle" video, and instantly took a liking to slash. My mom bought me "Appetite for Destruction" soon afterwards and the rest was history. :p
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Death55
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12/21/2003 8:59 pm
Has to be when i just randomly thought "hmm i remember a guitarist called michael angelo on the video i got at christmas with my first guitar" so i downloadedthe video of no boundries by him. Since then he has been my favourite guitarist.
By virtue of their electrical properties, tubes generate a special waveform when they're saturated, which is why tube engineering has tremendous tonal advantages over solid state or DSP solutions, particularly for crunch and lead sounds. Tubes enter the saturation zone gradually or softly, which lends tube-driven tone its trademark yet totally unique character.
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12/25/2003 3:08 pm
I dunno if I'll ever get to see Blackmore play live,well electric anyway.I guess all he does is the aucoustic"Blackmore's knight"stuff now.
Allthough I have gotten to see other favs like BB King and Rick Derringer.
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12/26/2003 3:30 pm
Last year i saw Satriani.... All i have to say is when i saw him... i almost choked on my hot dog. he willl proabably be my idol... and i wanna meet him so bad.
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12/31/2003 5:29 pm
Last August, I saw the rolling stones SARS concert here in Toronto and saw AC/DCs Angus Young among the many artists who performed!
"Lets see… well I play the guitar and when I'm not playing the guitar, I think about playing the guitar. My other favorite instrument, is the guitar and if I aspired to play any other instrument, it would be the guitar...

I can’t sing so I sing through my guitar. So when the sound guy says: “Your guitar is too loud!” I think: "Why does he never say that to the vocalist?"
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12/31/2003 8:28 pm
A Muse koncert this year in Copenhagen. That was so unreal. It's like you don't realise what is happening before after the show (where you are still almost "high")!
I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every panda that didn't want to screw to save it's species..
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12/31/2003 10:58 pm
this is probably insignificant to some but i also met russell hitchcock 2 years ago at the woodbine tracks. i was able to meet him back stage- very nice chap. We talked and had pictures taken. Only problem was, when i had all them pics developed they were all blurry!!! :(

I went to their concert the next year at Casino Rama hoping I'd see him face to face again but security prohibited it. Graham Russel (the guitar) probably noticed me and threw his plectrum at me but some lady picked it up!!!
"Lets see… well I play the guitar and when I'm not playing the guitar, I think about playing the guitar. My other favorite instrument, is the guitar and if I aspired to play any other instrument, it would be the guitar...

I can’t sing so I sing through my guitar. So when the sound guy says: “Your guitar is too loud!” I think: "Why does he never say that to the vocalist?"
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01/01/2004 6:52 pm
'Twas my first AC/DC concert Fly on the Wall when we arrived not having a clue who this Yngwie Malmsteen fella was. My buddy said,"I heard he was a pretty good guitarist."

Ok, I thought, but Angus is god. Of course Yngwie came out and completely owned. I never experienced playing like this, I thought I was going to spontaneously combust! He was running all over the place, spinning his guitar around his back and throwing it up in the air and catching it in perfect time with the music. I was completely blown away and the door to a whole new world of guitar playing had been opened for me...Angus who?
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01/02/2004 5:59 pm
for me it was the new years eve of 89-90 when my brother took me to the show at the new ritz in NYC...

it was none other than the late, great, Stevie Ray Vaughan

talk about blown away!!!! They opened with Road House blues and the whole joint was singin along. I was hooked immediately. Bought everything I could find that related to him. Now I own a strat... coincidence?

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01/06/2004 12:19 pm
Hello everybody

Almost every guitar player would know that fingerpickers are the most talented all u people talk about is electric guitar stop and think players like tommy emmanuel and jerry reed,tuck andress play the pants of people like hendrix(not that he had any talent to begin with but u people seem to think so) so before u say or steve vai or vinne moore or SRV are the best players ever listen to fingerstyle players you'll be shocked how much better they are compared to shred and blues player are.
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01/06/2004 12:57 pm
Yeah i agree that guitarist that can fingerpick are very talentent. Have you actually ever thought that people who play shred and other styles of music can fingerpick too. Just because you never see them do it doesnt mean that they dont do it !
By virtue of their electrical properties, tubes generate a special waveform when they're saturated, which is why tube engineering has tremendous tonal advantages over solid state or DSP solutions, particularly for crunch and lead sounds. Tubes enter the saturation zone gradually or softly, which lends tube-driven tone its trademark yet totally unique character.
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Death55
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01/06/2004 12:59 pm
oh i ment to say the fact that you never see some guitarist fingerpick doesnt mean they cant. Look at someone like jason becker. He plays lots of shred etc and he can fingerpick and i'm sure lots of other guitarist like SRV can too.
By virtue of their electrical properties, tubes generate a special waveform when they're saturated, which is why tube engineering has tremendous tonal advantages over solid state or DSP solutions, particularly for crunch and lead sounds. Tubes enter the saturation zone gradually or softly, which lends tube-driven tone its trademark yet totally unique character.
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01/07/2004 1:59 pm
I saw Yngwie Malmsteen for the first time last year in April.
Real crowed, small performace. I stood like 5 meters away from the stage.
We were just im time, As we walked further to the stage yngwie started to play some powerchords to get the crowd wild (he was still backstage). I remember adrenelin flowing and me thinking: yes this is it!

Then 2 minuten later he just popped on stage out of nowhere, starting to play 'Valhalla' and the moment I saw him my mouth just popped open. I think if I ever meet him I will faint. Realy weird feeling came over me when I saw him. My mouth didnt closed until we got back home. It was my first real concert too btw :)
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01/11/2004 4:39 pm
When I saw Alice in Chains Unplugged, Layne and Jerry are both my idols.
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01/16/2004 12:29 pm
saw michael angelo @ birmingham NEC. it was a short show really but it was brilliant. me (and death55) were about 2 meters away from him...It was a brilliant day especially sinc there were hardly any people there=D
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01/16/2004 12:45 pm
yeah, that was amazing. Apart from the second time he played when we also managed to get to the front row and this time he had his amps a lot louder and everytime he starting playing higher notes i thought my ears drums were going to explode.
By virtue of their electrical properties, tubes generate a special waveform when they're saturated, which is why tube engineering has tremendous tonal advantages over solid state or DSP solutions, particularly for crunch and lead sounds. Tubes enter the saturation zone gradually or softly, which lends tube-driven tone its trademark yet totally unique character.
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