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coolcat said: Man Why he tryin to sound like Prince with the fat tone....he good but Prince would wipe the floor with this dude.... Yoda is my Mentor! | |
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ccollin88 said: coolcat said: Man Why he tryin to sound like Prince with the fat tone....he good but Prince would wipe the floor with this dude....  Respectfully disagree. doesn't sound anything like Prince IMO.
edit: Were you just kidding? [Edited 7/8/06 12:17pm] | |
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coolcat said: ccollin88 said: Man Why he tryin to sound like Prince with the fat tone....he good but Prince would wipe the floor with this dude.... Respectfully disagree. doesn't sound anything like Prince IMO.I was just talking about tone.....dude is super good!why that other dude playin that funny lookin bass? Yoda is my Mentor! | |
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ccollin88 said: coolcat said: Respectfully disagree. doesn't sound anything like Prince IMO.I was just talking about tone.....dude is super good!why that other dude playin that funny lookin bass? I hear ya. Steve vai loves prince, so he might have a similar setup... Yeah, I don't know about that bass. First time I've seen one like that. Crazy stuff.  | |
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could you imagine Vai doing Purple Rain?  HOW GREAT WOULD THAT BE!Yoda is my Mentor! | |
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ccollin88 said: could you imagine Vai doing Purple Rain?
HOW GREAT WOULD THAT BE!I'm surprised he hasn't already done it! | |
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ccollin88 said: ...he good but Prince would wipe the floor with this dude....
 Au contraire mon frere
On guitar, it's the exact opposite. tA  Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: ccollin88 said: ...he good but Prince would wipe the floor with this dude....
Au contraire mon frere
On guitar, it's the exact opposite. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 Co-sign to the 10th degree. I guess Prince invented the "fat tone" eh? Ignorance must be blissful. | |
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ccollin88 said: coolcat said: Man Why he tryin to sound like Prince with the fat tone....he good but Prince would wipe the floor with this dude.... Nah. Prince is great, of course, but Vai is a legend! | |
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Oh, and that bass player playing the "funny looking bass" is Billy Sheehan. Probably one of the best rock bassists around. The answer to why he is playing it - BECAUSE HE CAN. | |
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BlaqueKnight said: theAudience said: Au contraire mon frere
On guitar, it's the exact opposite. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 Co-sign to the 10th degree. I guess Prince invented the "fat tone" eh? Ignorance must be blissful. no prince perfected it Yoda is my Mentor! | |
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ccollin88 said: no prince perfected it  ...
...For some reason the term "baiter" is coming to mind. tA Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: ccollin88 said: no prince perfected it ...
...For some reason the term "baiter" is coming to mind. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 name me 5 guitarist with a fat pretty tone like Prince? Well besides Jesse Johnson [Edited 7/8/06 13:33pm] Yoda is my Mentor! | |
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When's the org gonna put an "ignore user" button on this board? | |
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BlaqueKnight said: When's the org gonna put an "ignore user" button on this board?
When u understand that I play a fender stratocaster so i know WAY much more about guitar than you! Yoda is my Mentor! | |
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BlaqueKnight said: Oh, and that bass player playing the "funny looking bass" is Billy Sheehan. Probably one of the best rock bassists around. The answer to why he is playing it - BECAUSE HE CAN.
 Billy Sheehan, Steve Vai, and Tony Macalpine all on one stage!
I just got Maximum Security by Tony Macalpine from itunes! Wonderful stuff! I'll have to get "Edge of Insanity" soon. Billy Sheehan plays on that album. | |
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coolcat said: BlaqueKnight said: Oh, and that bass player playing the "funny looking bass" is Billy Sheehan. Probably one of the best rock bassists around. The answer to why he is playing it - BECAUSE HE CAN.
Billy Sheehan, Steve Vai, and Tony Macalpine all on one stage!
I just got Maximum Security by Tony Macalpine from itunes! Wonderful stuff! I'll have to get "Edge of Insanity" soon. Billy Sheehan plays on that album. MacAlpine is a MONSTER, too. I'm more into Greg Howe, though. Steve is the quintessential rock guitarist...thus he gets very little love on certain messageboards.  People think just because an artist publicly acknowledges his respect for another artist that it means they've all of a sudden turned fanbot and worships said artist. There are a lot of artists that virtuosos like just because they like them and not necessarilly for any particular reason. Tony MacAlpine was good friends with CeeCee from Poison. He liked them even though he could probably play circles around each member on each instrument. 
I've got some decent live stuff of Tony Mac when he was doing his solo thing. Maybe I'll YouTube some of it. | |
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BlaqueKnight said: MacAlpine is a MONSTER, too. I'm more into Greg Howe, though.
I agree. Hoping to catch him doing some live stuff since he's relocated to the L.A. area. This looks interesting... 
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ccollin88 said: name me 5 guitarist with a fat pretty tone like Prince?
Well besides Jesse Johnson 1) Prince's tone has been far less pretty since -- I'd say -- Graffiti Bridge. Not sure what processors he threw out with his drum machines and computers (if you believe that story he told), but his tone is nowhere near as fat and pretty as it used to be. 2) Only 5? Eric Clapton Doyle Bramhall II Steve Lukather Robben Ford Eric Johnson Phil Keaggy Michael Hampton Jennifer Turner Mark Baldwin Nick Gonzalez (Salvador) and Eric Gales, among many others. | |
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ThreadBare said: ccollin88 said: name me 5 guitarist with a fat pretty tone like Prince?
Well besides Jesse Johnson 1) Prince's tone has been far less pretty since -- I'd say -- Graffiti Bridge. Not sure what processors he threw out with his drum machines and computers (if you believe that story he told), but his tone is nowhere near as fat and pretty as it used to be. 2) Only 5? Eric Clapton Doyle Bramhall II Steve Lukather Robben Ford Eric Johnson Phil Keaggy Michael Hampton Jennifer Turner Mark Baldwin Nick Gonzalez (Salvador) and Eric Gales, among many others. I think you just... 
..."fell" for it. Nice examples though.
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theAudience said: ThreadBare said: 1) Prince's tone has been far less pretty since -- I'd say -- Graffiti Bridge. Not sure what processors he threw out with his drum machines and computers (if you believe that story he told), but his tone is nowhere near as fat and pretty as it used to be. 2) Only 5? Eric Clapton Doyle Bramhall II Steve Lukather Robben Ford Eric Johnson Phil Keaggy Michael Hampton Jennifer Turner Mark Baldwin Nick Gonzalez (Salvador) and Eric Gales, among many others. I think you just...
..."fell" for it. Nice examples though. 
Yeah, I know. But I was hungry, and the bait looked too good to pass up. 
Thanks. Anytime I'm able to rave about Doyle II, Jennifer Turner and Nick Gonzalez, et al., I'll take the opportunity. Just for giggles, let's add theAudience and ThreadBare, too... I'm a neck pickup-boosted mids kind of guy... | |
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I would say he just took us to church! | |
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lilgish said: I would say he just took us to church!
Though, in Mr. Vai's case, he might insist that church be "somewhere between pagan and Christian." | |
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ThreadBare said: I'm a neck pickup-boosted mids kind of guy...
Neck on the Turser *Neck/Middle on the Strat *The position Hendrix help to popularize when there were only 3-position pickup selectors. tA Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: ThreadBare said: I'm a neck pickup-boosted mids kind of guy...
Neck on the Turser *Neck/Middle on the Strat *The position Hendrix help to popularize when there were only 3-position pickup selectors. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 *tipping hat* And, how did I forget Carlos Santana, whose tone and phrasing had a huge influence on ol' Prince? | |
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ThreadBare said: And, how did I forget Carlos Santana
Back in the day we used to call him Mr. Sustain. 
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theAudience said: BlaqueKnight said: MacAlpine is a MONSTER, too. I'm more into Greg Howe, though.
I agree. Hoping to catch him doing some live stuff since he's relocated to the L.A. area. This looks interesting...
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tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 Well, I'd never heard of Greg Howe before. And, just watched some YouTube clips of him.  | |
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Vai is a legend. The movie Crossroads (Not with Britney Spears the other one from the 1980's), played with Whitesnake, 1990's album "Passion and Warfare".
Thank's for the UTube, I added this to my favorites. Have been playing this song here and there this summer. I love how they make Vai's hair blow all around while he is playing. . classic stuff. . very rock n roll. I also dig it when he plays the guitar in a piano position, his fingers are so long and crazy all over the place. | |
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ThreadBare said: Well, I'd never heard of Greg Howe before. And, just watched some YouTube clips of him. Whoa.
Crap.  You just get the tail end of Greg's solo on...
http://www.youtube.com/wa...reg%20Howe ...Wonderland In The Sky. (I guess the Dennis Chambers solo makes up for it.) That's my favorite tune from Tetsuo's album... 
...Gentle Hearts They also do a nice arrangement of Jaco's Punk Jazz tA Tribal Disorder
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