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Thursday, January 2, 2020
Albums that made an impact on me.
1.) Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
Everyone talks about Satriani's album "Surfing with the Alien", but this was my first exposure to him. I feel it is his best work. I was sixteen at the time when I first heard it and it blew me away. This man has one of the smoothest legato techniques I have ever heard. The solo on "Secret Prayer" probably my fav.
2.) Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart
This was my first exposure to Chick, I love how all the songs are themed and tied together.
3.) Savatage - Edge of Thorns
Criss Oliva is so tasty on this album, as well as his brother Jon, check out their guitar and piano together on "labyrinths". I love Criss's leads and fret tapping on this entire album. The song follow me has a cool horse whinny sound in the solo that is just killer.
4.) Prince - Purple Rain
I went a year in college where this album was played at least once a week.
5.) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
I grew up out in the country in the early 90s and didn't have many resources to draw from when it came to learning guitar. I didn't have internet and anytime I wanted to learn something about guitar it was when I either went to the super market to read the guitar magazines that I couldn't always afford or we made a trip into the local guitar store which was an hour drive from home. Anyways one eventful day a friend from that store sent me a box in the mail full of stuff that he wanted to pass on. It had magazines, guitar books, and cassette tape of Texas Flood. That was great day for me :) The first tune I heard was "Rude Mood". His tone was awesome and was so clean.
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Welcome to my blog, its been many years since I have posted and honestly I didnt think my blog was still up much less that I would remember my password. After much contemplating I decided to reboot the site and rebuild it. Here I will be posting things about music.
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Albums that made an impact on me.
1.) Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet Everyone talks about Satriani's album "Surfing with the Alien", but this was my first expo...
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1.) Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet Everyone talks about Satriani's album "Surfing with the Alien", but this was my first expo...
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Welcome to my blog, its been many years since I have posted and honestly I didnt think my blog was still up much less that I would remember ...