That 8-string is crushingly heavy and all the caffeine in the world couldn't help me to shred that fast in the solo section. Love the harmonics in the verse, too. Vintage, T-Mac! Hope there's some killer keyboard work on this album, too. Waiting (impatiently) for this and the new Symphony X CD to...
It's been mentioned earlier, but for those who don't want to scroll through the ton of comments, the lyrics were written by Neil as a tribute to Robbie Whelan, the asst. engineer at Le Studio (where Rush recorded several albums). Robbie and Neil were close and Robbie had taught Neil how to cross-...
Wow, that was a great tune, in the vein of Mr. Malmsteen. Just bought the self-titled Shrapnel CD of this band only because of the record label; had never of the band, but man, are they good!
Sucks to know that I'm not even the best guitar player on the x28 route. Man, I'm depressed now (hehehe). Anyway, that's some very tasty playing and congrats on the appearance in Guitar Player. I did a triple take when I saw the piece and recognized you. A tremendous honor for you, I'm sure.
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