Jason Becker

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that he was....I actually caught this on Pandora....and it brought his playing and his situation fresh into my mind again..such a shame
 
What a man-crush I had on this guy... Thanks for reminding me... :D
 
No doubt.. :cry:
Would be interesting to see where he ended up had it not been for the disease. I've seen some stuff where he was hooked to a computer that would transcribe the music he fed into it. I never got to hear any of it, which was a shame.
You never know what life's gonna deal you. Bad stuff seems to happen to those who are undeserving of it. I've never been able to understand why, and I'm leary of those who act like they know...
 
Seriously...i never heard a bad thing about this guy..friggin' prodigy struck down in his prime..
 
just read on Wiki that there's a planned documentary about him due to hit in 2012..guy's still making music too...amazing
 
You can donate and help fund the movie by contributing on the site as well.. I did as every little bit helps. He truly is an inspiration and that album with David Lee Roth was off the charts guitar wise. He smoked.Incredible talent.
 
recorded this at a clinic he and marty did in fullerton in 87-88?

http://soundcloud.com/mentoneman/jason-and-marty-edit

-marty starts off the soloing trade off-

personally i think jason burned by him like the roadrunner v coyote--just listen to the crowd.


i remember being as dazed and blown away by jason that day as i was seeing yngwie for the first time with alcatrazz in 84. liquid lightning sweeps full of melody, married to total command of vibrato and tasty phrasing. he cites dave creamer as his bay area teacher who put him on the right path, but i cannot for the life of me locate any creamer material; tried e-mailing his earthlink acct. to no avail. my friend who knew him in the late 60's said he was blazing mahavishnu-esque fusion back then and coming up with his own scale vocab ala holdsworth way back then, practicing lithuanian modes and taiwanese funeral scales 25 plus hours a day whilst chomping on ashbury uppers til his teeth came a-tumblin' out. but he supposedly cleaned up his act and became an instructor at a music institute.

back to becker,
why did he and lane have to be the ones that got stopped early????
 
mentoneman":32vs4389 said:
recorded this at a clinic he and marty did in fullerton in 87-88?

http://soundcloud.com/mentoneman/jason-and-marty-edit

-marty starts off the soloing trade off-

personally i think jason burned by him like the roadrunner v coyote--just listen to the crowd.


i remember being as dazed and blown away by jason that day as i was seeing yngwie for the first time with alcatrazz in 84. liquid lightning sweeps full of melody, married to total command of vibrato and tasty phrasing. he cites dave creamer as his bay area teacher who put him on the right path, but i cannot for the life of me locate any creamer material; tried e-mailing his earthlink acct. to no avail. my friend who knew him in the late 60's said he was blazing mahavishnu-esque fusion back then and coming up with his own scale vocab ala holdsworth way back then, practicing lithuanian modes and taiwanese funeral scales 25 plus hours a day whilst chomping on ashbury uppers til his teeth came a-tumblin' out. but he supposedly cleaned up his act and became an instructor at a music institute.

back to becker,
why did he and lane have to be the ones that got stopped early????
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That was really cool! :rock:
 
Ive spoken to Jason one and one, purchased a few shirts to support him as well and still have them. He's an inspiration that is hard to deny - he was so good at his prime that its hard for people to accept even today IMHO - otherwise he would be much more well known :rock:
 
Jason will always be a hero of mine,,I was real sick in 006 and took a chance and emailed him since we had both been on the same harsh medications and to my dismay I did recieve an email back from him that hi mom helped him type.. Really helped me get through made me feel good as he was my idol as a child lol:) So i bought some merch as well,,they also came to my small town in the 80s and shot firecrackers and shit with us after a small bar Cacophony gig..
 
The guy had it all and had it not been for ALS, I think that he would have gone down as an absolute legend IMHO( moreso than he already is). The kid had( and still has) alot of music in him and limitless chops to create it. I truly think that the guy was another Shawn Lane and had he not been stripped of his playing would have enjoyed the same kind of status as well as bringing us a boatload of interesting stuff..
 
I just remember being so bummed when I learned he had ALS. Like a friend of mine was stricken with the disease. JB deserves endless praise.
 
Yup, and that young he was still ripping all the speed stuff but when you listen to some of his solos on " A Lil' ain't enough" you can see that he had a ton of swagger and feeling in his playing to accompany his chops. He was another guy who had this really technical swing to the way he played and his rythm structures. I bet he would have evolved to play less speed and more phrasing and do some really cool stuff or be a gun for hire and play in bands like Whitesnake or others. It is great that he can still write music but when other guitar players perform it, ultimately they don't have his chops or what he hears in his head and it comes out a bit different.
 
'63-Strat":1cca3342 said:
mentoneman":1cca3342 said:
recorded this at a clinic he and marty did in fullerton in 87-88?

http://soundcloud.com/mentoneman/jason-and-marty-edit

-marty starts off the soloing trade off-

personally i think jason burned by him like the roadrunner v coyote--just listen to the crowd.


i remember being as dazed and blown away by jason that day as i was seeing yngwie for the first time with alcatrazz in 84. liquid lightning sweeps full of melody, married to total command of vibrato and tasty phrasing. he cites dave creamer as his bay area teacher who put him on the right path, but i cannot for the life of me locate any creamer material; tried e-mailing his earthlink acct. to no avail. my friend who knew him in the late 60's said he was blazing mahavishnu-esque fusion back then and coming up with his own scale vocab ala holdsworth way back then, practicing lithuanian modes and taiwanese funeral scales 25 plus hours a day whilst chomping on ashbury uppers til his teeth came a-tumblin' out. but he supposedly cleaned up his act and became an instructor at a music institute.

back to becker,
why did he and lane have to be the ones that got stopped early????
Click to expand...

That was really cool! :rock:
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believe me man that was insane that day. i walked to this clinic as i was going to college at cal state fullerton and goodies was right across the bridge over the 57 fwy from my apartment. i only wished my little recorder had better sound! he was the next golden child imo. van halen swing, killer bluesy vibrato, and insane technique.

that day he did paganini's 5th capprice, and he was playing it fingerpicking with a semi clean tone on his hurricane strat, and prefaced it by saying he was rusty, messing up a bit, but it was still crazy, and what made that so cool was that yngwie at the time was the final word on shred and said no guitar player could ever perform paganini's stuff.

apparently he never met jason!
 
mentoneman":zugnnbrm said:
'63-Strat":zugnnbrm said:
mentoneman":zugnnbrm said:
recorded this at a clinic he and marty did in fullerton in 87-88?

http://soundcloud.com/mentoneman/jason-and-marty-edit

-marty starts off the soloing trade off-

personally i think jason burned by him like the roadrunner v coyote--just listen to the crowd.


i remember being as dazed and blown away by jason that day as i was seeing yngwie for the first time with alcatrazz in 84. liquid lightning sweeps full of melody, married to total command of vibrato and tasty phrasing. he cites dave creamer as his bay area teacher who put him on the right path, but i cannot for the life of me locate any creamer material; tried e-mailing his earthlink acct. to no avail. my friend who knew him in the late 60's said he was blazing mahavishnu-esque fusion back then and coming up with his own scale vocab ala holdsworth way back then, practicing lithuanian modes and taiwanese funeral scales 25 plus hours a day whilst chomping on ashbury uppers til his teeth came a-tumblin' out. but he supposedly cleaned up his act and became an instructor at a music institute.

back to becker,
why did he and lane have to be the ones that got stopped early????
Click to expand...

That was really cool! :rock:
Click to expand...


believe me man that was insane that day. i walked to this clinic as i was going to college at cal state fullerton and goodies was right across the bridge over the 57 fwy from my apartment. i only wished my little recorder had better sound! he was the next golden child imo. van halen swing, killer bluesy vibrato, and insane technique.

that day he did paganini's 5th capprice, and he was playing it fingerpicking with a semi clean tone on his hurricane strat, and prefaced it by saying he was rusty, messing up a bit, but it was still crazy, and what made that so cool was that yngwie at the time was the final word on shred and said no guitar player could ever perform paganini's stuff.

apparently he never met jason!
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Damn, would've loved to see him play up close back then :rock:
 
Greg Howe told me a story about him and Jason staying in a hotel room after doing clinics in the same town. It was really late at night and Jason was just chilling laying down playing unplugged. Greg asked him what the piece was that he was playing and that it sorta sounded familiar, it ended up being Bach's Bouree in E Minor..backwards!
 
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