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david
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:23 pm |
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Guitar Lords of heavy metal.
Michael Angelo Batio is the fastest, meanest shredder on this or any other planet. He is the only true guitar god. He is best known for his twin-necked, left and right-handed double-guitar, which he both invented and was the first to play. You name it he's done it! Although, Angelo can play at breakneck speed, he can create the most immaculate melodies you will ever hear, it is in a sense music that Shredaholic describes as ''it gets you there''. |
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gunner
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Joined: Jan 30, 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:10 pm |
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I do agree that Batio is a shredder....but the best from another planet??
mmmm...thats a tall order...there might be a planet out there that might have an entity that can play a 23 neck guitar with all 12.5 of his toes!!
Then what???...lmaooo
Im kidding....
I just saw a commercial where this kid is playing guitar queer-o (hero)
and Batio walks in and grabs the controller and smashes it....and the he plays his left and right necked guitar and the title was "The Real Guitar Hero".....
lmaooo
But please.....lets not forget Yngwie....
Rock On brother and thanks for mentioning Batio!! |
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gorgatron
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:53 pm |
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Batio is amazingly gifted, but i've always felt like that he's not at all a very creative composer, which makes it sort of difficult to listen to in large doses. the little tricks are neat, but for a guy that could do anything, he isn't doing everything he could be doing. for a man as conceited about his talent as Batio is (just check out his freaking website!), he spends a ton of time playing medleys of 70s classic rock tracks with a bunch of flash between well-known, well-established riffs that will please the crowd. i guess i should just be short and say 'it's not my thing' but there's something about the guy that just pisses me off, and it's not that fact that listening to him reminds me of how good i'll never be. i've seen John McLaughlin, Leo Kottke, and Victor Wooten, for example, and none of them pissed me off. i was real taken with the sound effects McLaughlin was using, but i got over it. of course McLaughlin is about the only one you could compare...well, the 8 finger hammer-on/pull-off thing that Wooten does with his base is perhaps one of the more beautiful and amazing things i've seen live and it was also pretty cool.  lets just leave it at Batio is amazing at what he does, but lets not go overboard here. i guess he was a nice enough guy, too. i met him at a Dean promotion at a really small store in St. Joseph, MO. there was like 60-70 people. we all got to meet him and have him sign stuff or buy some stuff from him, if you were into that sort of thing.
it's cool that someone mentioned him, though. after i watched him i was very surprised that i had never heard him play before that. afterwards i did quite a lot of research to derive the long-winded opinion i just typed out for ya'll. Gunner is a pretty good guitarist himself. i have a double-neck acoustic i play. that's just one dude on the Sylvan Lane stuff. all right, now i'm just being stupid.  |
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Seneki
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:12 am |
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I kind of agree with gorgatron as well.
Batio is incredibly talented, but, just like Yngwie, I can only listen to them in small doses. too much speed, not enough melody.
Batio's live video of his double guitar solo is amazing, and is a good example of how creative he *can* be. But most of his tracks can sound very repetitive.
Seeing Yngwie play with Vai and Satriani was a joke, too. It seemed like he would go up and down the same scales in a slightly different way as quickly as he could for as long as he could, and do a high kick at the end of every fourth bar.
Speed + melody is a hard thing to pull off though, but I would say Petrucci does it pretty well, especially in the Liquid Tension Experiment side project of his (which I prefer to Dreamtheatre, in which I don't like the singing).
There's also a guy worth checking out from Brazil called Oziel Zinho.
Good melodies in his work too. |
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