is this guy for real? endorsed Gibson and Fender?

[lettmusic]

Well Fender needs to fire their Artist Relations group. They're clearly idiots.

the thing that baffles me is, during this period (late 80s-early 90s) there are a ton of guys who could play and bring the shred at the same time.
How the fuck did this guy get a Fender endorsement? Goes to show you, if you're in LA and you got a good publicist, anything can happen.

 

[TDePaul1313]

Wonder how much Yngwie & Vai laughed when they seen/heard this album! LOL!!

 

[155]

f#b ...is that the brown note?? what a tool..

 

[dfrattaroli]

How about that bullshit about Paul McCartney asking him for a copy of his CD? The guy is a nut. It's on his website btw. I had to look.

 

[mudf00t]

http://www.fender.com/news/maestro-alex-gregory/

Seven-string acoustic and jazz-box guitars had been around for decades, but were regarded as little more than novelty instruments; Gregory was among the first, if not the first, to successfully adapt the concept to the solid body electric guitar, long before the design became widely popular among the de-tuned thrash and speed metal shredders of the 1990s and 2000s.

Gregory’s pioneering work in this arena put him in partnership with the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation in the mid-1980s, when Gregory became the third signature artist signed by the company (after Eric Clapton and Yngwie Malmsteen). A pair of early prototype seven-string Stratocaster® guitars bearing Gregory’s signature was built and displayed at the January 1988 NAMM show in Anaheim, Calif., and the guitar was listed in the January 1988 Fender price list. The design was finalized in spring 1988. The guitar never went into full-scale production, however, except for a seven-string Squier® Stratocaster run in the late 1990s and a small number of Custom Shop instruments built over the years.

 

[rupe]

Sounds a bunch of of disgruntled players here are just jealous over this guys incredible chops and illustrious recording career...put in the work like he did instead of whining and maybe you too could make hundreds of dollars.

 

[messenger]

https://youtu.be/PqcSnFgL2lQ

 

[jimo]

I feel like I knew about every "shredder" in the 80's & late 90's but never heard of this dude.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

^agreed
I was totally into the Shrapnel/shredder scene & this is the 1st (and likely last) time I ever heard of this clown
Nobody should do that to a SRV tombstone, especially this hack
I bet his dad or uncle has a connection somewhere in the business to get him what little he achieved

 

[lettmusic]

^agreed
I was totally into the Shrapnel/shredder scene & this is the 1st (and likely last) time I ever heard of this clown
Nobody should do that to a SRV tombstone, especially this hack
I bet his dad or uncle has a connection somewhere in the business to get him what little he achieved

 

[timeroo]

This guy is almost but not quite as big a douche as Tom Hess, almost... but very few can out douche Tom Hess

 

[TDePaul1313]

^agreed
I was totally into the Shrapnel/shredder scene & this is the 1st (and likely last) time I ever heard of this clown
Nobody should do that to a SRV tombstone, especially this hack
I bet his dad or uncle has a connection somewhere in the business to get him what little he achieved

Steve Vai...Still not a good thing though

 

[crankyrayhanky]

Please don't stop my lashing out with accuracy & facts

 

[TDePaul1313]

Please don't stop my lashing out with accuracy & facts

 

[mooncobra]

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looking at the best of the best???
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[bigdaddyd]

Lol what a dickbag. "Embedding is allowed only by permission. Unauthorized embedding constitutes copyright infringement."

Some of what he says is interesting, at least from an entertainment standpoint , but when he starts comparing the two Les Pauls I couldn't stop laughing. "Night and day...." Personally, I couldn't hear much, if any difference. The funny thing is when you watch him finger the licks on his prototype, what he has to do to transpose that lick to get a nominal difference in tone (if anything at all) is moronic, especially when you consider the original fingering. Who in their right mind would do that? When you consider that most people couldn't tell difference in live tone between an original '58 burst and an '88 Kramer, who gives a shit?

 

[Inca Roads]

He's got a signature Gibson Les Paul Youtube vid.
Of course, it's the BEST model Gibson has ever
produced. He's the Biggest DOUCHE I've ever seen,
what a complete Tool!!

 

[JohnSykes]

LOL

Im ok with Yngwie calling himself "maestro", i guess...

but this guy? cmon man...

 

[voodooradio1]

I wish he would do a video lesson on that F#b he was talking about. Sounds like a very useful chord.

glad you caught that All my trainning, I must have missed F#b, missed that note, damn.

I looked it up on teh Google, and it is a great substitute for F.

 

[voodooradio1]

Sounds a bunch of of disgruntled players here are just jealous over this guys incredible chops and illustrious recording career...put in the work like he did instead of whining and maybe you too could make hundreds of dollars.

It's all about the Washingtons.