yngzaklynch
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=klh7J8lq40o
Oblivion DC
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Nice!!! I was in LA in 1987, too bad I never had any money and I couldn't go to see any shows... Ahhhh, those were the good old days.
Oblivion DC
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My family was out here (VA) and being a young slacker with no education and no real prospects for any kind of band I thought I'd come back home. I was out there in 87 and 88 going to GIT and burning out brain cells after school.
I joined up with a band out here (MD) in 90 and was back in Cali around 91 or 92 for about a year. Oakland was the most fun 12 months I've ever had!! I didn't work for about 9 of those months, just played guitar and rehearsed with my band. We threw keg parties and charged 3 bucks a head to pay rent a few times!! You haven't lived until you've had 350 people in your band house drinking and getting loud!!
I joined up with a band out here (MD) in 90 and was back in Cali around 91 or 92 for about a year. Oakland was the most fun 12 months I've ever had!! I didn't work for about 9 of those months, just played guitar and rehearsed with my band. We threw keg parties and charged 3 bucks a head to pay rent a few times!! You haven't lived until you've had 350 people in your band house drinking and getting loud!!
tnourse
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That was sweet! I love seeing those old Racer X videos!
Digital Jams
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Next thursday baby........Paul and Bruce at the Viper!!!!!!!!!!
thiswaythatway
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The amount of chops in that band was just scary. I used to think that singer was soo terrible but compared to crap today he doesn't sound half bad.
mentoneman
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one of the truly great LA bands of that era. the only one i was interested in seeing over and over again. i'd always squeeze up front and it was like getting a guitar lesson from two shred masters every time!
i always thought paul's precision was on another level from yngwie, although YM did seem to have slightly more drama and passion in his playing
and i don't think the epiphone coronet did much to elicit monster tone; the body was thin like the gambale ibanez sabre=wafer thin... although it was pretty darn nice and a fast neck. billy bogner used to play one of those gtrs back in hawaii pre-racer x days, and it's bruce egnater's favorite axe as well....secret weapon?
paul had this trick where he'd play every F note on the guitar from high e to low e in rapid succesion, same pitch, and it was such a weird sound...by moving from string to string it had a sort of envelope filter effect
he would also pop on the pitch shifter and quote the opening from holdsworth's metal fatigue including the freakish legato lead line and that was also great
given the fact that they were doing this stuff 20 years ago, it really was a talented ensemble, and it was always a killer show/event to see two amazing guitarist just stretching the breaking point of speed and complexity time and time again.
me and my friends used to call jeff martin (the singer) chocolate teeth because the guy had a million fillings which made his teeth look black when he sung
i was supposed to work on a music video for bouliett's band the scream, and had a production meeting about it, but it got postponed and i never heard another word about it after that...bummer.
i always thought paul's precision was on another level from yngwie, although YM did seem to have slightly more drama and passion in his playing
and i don't think the epiphone coronet did much to elicit monster tone; the body was thin like the gambale ibanez sabre=wafer thin... although it was pretty darn nice and a fast neck. billy bogner used to play one of those gtrs back in hawaii pre-racer x days, and it's bruce egnater's favorite axe as well....secret weapon?
paul had this trick where he'd play every F note on the guitar from high e to low e in rapid succesion, same pitch, and it was such a weird sound...by moving from string to string it had a sort of envelope filter effect
he would also pop on the pitch shifter and quote the opening from holdsworth's metal fatigue including the freakish legato lead line and that was also great
given the fact that they were doing this stuff 20 years ago, it really was a talented ensemble, and it was always a killer show/event to see two amazing guitarist just stretching the breaking point of speed and complexity time and time again.
me and my friends used to call jeff martin (the singer) chocolate teeth because the guy had a million fillings which made his teeth look black when he sung
i was supposed to work on a music video for bouliett's band the scream, and had a production meeting about it, but it got postponed and i never heard another word about it after that...bummer.
cibyl
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Hmmm,....I don't know. I think he definitely sound much worse than "half bad" -- fairly horrible actually. There are plenty of bad singers from every era in rock music,....today's no exception, same with the 80's. But I don't think anyone that was into Racer X back in the day listened to them for the awesome singing and intensely deep lyrical content. I've never been into the super shreddy stuff or many hair bands, but I do like Paul Gilbert a lot -- he's definitely my favorite of that genre. I will admit,...I did like Mr. Big -- flame away!
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danyeo":2750e said:
Hmmm,....I don't know. I think he definitely sound much worse than "half bad" -- fairly horrible actually. There are plenty of bad singers from every era in rock music,....today's no exception, same with the 80's. But I don't think anyone that was into Racer X back in the day listened to them for the awesome singing and intensely deep lyrical content. I've never been into the super shreddy stuff or many hair bands, but I do like Paul Gilbert a lot -- he's definitely my favorite of that genre. I will admit,...I did like Mr. Big -- flame away!
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