It’s impossible to do this blog without mentioning Vai. Top Song Picks: Altitudes & Eleven Blue Egyptians You can find out more about Jason, support his health and family by going to Jason and his family continue to be inspiring to this day, Jason still writes music thanks to ground breaking technology in health care, MIDI programming and being surrounded by a group of talented, loving people. Jason would go on to appear on David Lee Roth’s 1991 album ‘A Little Ain’t Enough’ before complications with ALS sadly took his ability to play guitar. He wasn’t afraid to push the boat out, but never at the expense of creating beautiful works of art. But he would also have such vocal like expression in his melody playing, you could hear a voice, yearning through each note. Not only was Jason playing 3 octave arpeggio inversion sweep picking runs, following beautiful chord changes, with counterpart melodies in overdubs. Yngwie had already put his flag up in neo-classical turf, however what Jason was doing here was extraordinary compositionally. was only in his mid to late teenage years. Perpetual Burn was recorded shortly before Jason’s diagnosis with ALS in ’89. Top Song Picks: Motor Man & Sunlit Nights Paul would go on to be one of the most inspirational and diverse rock guitar players and teachers of our current era. This would be before band rehearsal where they would run the songs as a group. Reportedly Paul would wake up at 6am to go practice the at the local rehearsal rooms with Bruce for countless hours. To the point many LA musicians from very notable acts (Slash was a fan of Racer X!) would be at their ram packed shows. They would play this in nightclubs around LA, their show featured bright coloured guitars, blow up dinosaurs and stacks of speakers! They would nail these solos and complex parts with ease. Not only did this album get released and listened to in the safety of your own home. This album features terrifying speed metal riffs, catchy song structures and riffs. Jeff martin on vocals, Jeff martin on vocal, Scott Travis of Judas Priest on Drums and Jean Alderete (Mars Volta) on Bass. This fast, adrenaline pumped Speed Metal album featuring a very young Paul Gilbert and his prodigy student Bruce Bouillet on guitar.
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