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I just have one question: Is there no radius to the fretboard? Is that a classical guitar thing, the radius built-in from the kit, or just something you missed? I'm a beginner guitar player and it would seem a flat fretboard would be a uncomfortable.

@LordSauceness Well, let's not get excited here. Vai is ONE HELL OF A GUITARIST. The problem, to me, is, he's much like Neal Peart is on the drums: Overly technical proficient, yet unable to improvise at all. When I took lessons, my teacher taught me that there is a ladder of improvement, it star...

I once read an interview with Neal Peart that I think I mostly agree with. He said that anyone can learn to play in odd time, but the trick is to learn to play in odd time and make it feel as if it isn't. He pointed to Pink Floyd's "Money" as an example. However, these exotic signatures like 13/1...

Does this guy singing look like Lt. Harris in Police Academy or what?

Trade unions are a world apart from shop unions. Seniority means nothing in trade unions.

@weaselpopper Like I said, Jimi INVENTED many of the techniques later used and taken for granted by other guitarists, like EVH, Jeff Beck, Robin Trower, SRV, Ted Nugent...the list goes on and on. On June 18th, 1967, guitar changed forever when Jimi Hendrix took the stage at the Monterey Pop Festi...

@Dcarn23 I believe what HeartcoreMitRA is getting at is that you're taking a Marshall tone and coloring it with a Crate tone, or a Fender tone and coloring it with a Crate tone, etc. To hear the modeling as it's designed for, it needs to be plugged into a stereo or a keyboard amp. That way it doe...

@ruelsmith Neither one of them will actually sound good through a guitar amp. You're taking a sound that is colored and then coloring it with the amp. That just doesn't work well. Also, I know from the Boss that it completely sucks the tone out of your amp. I hear you can fiddle with it to get mo...

@RubHerSoul1 Well, I think Mick Taylor said it well when he said that the Stones (other members) played so poorly that he couldn't figure out how they managed to make hit records. Mick Taylor truly was a great guitarist.

I just wished Johnny Winter had joined them...

It's sad that all the really great ones are dying off... I'll never forget seeing Collins play live. He opened for th Allman Brothers. Those Deadheads that came to see them didn't know who he was, I think. But they soon got a lesson! They were shocked! When he went into the crowd with that 100' c...

@IgnariusGaming Barker isn't bad, but he's not in the same league as Buddy. I agree, I'm tired of the Barker fan club. What separates guys like Buddy is that every one of his peers pretty much agreed he was the king on drums. It wasn't just is legendary ego saying it. Every legendary drummer ther...

That I'll give him, but his technique is not in the same league as Buddy's, period. I've seen a lot of drums solos performed by him. With Buddy, it's not just the speed of his sticks, it's what he does with them. Note at 1:15 the single handed rolls that are very fast. Then there is use of the wh...

First of all, those screws are self-tapping, but they're not TapCons. TapCons are special screws that anchor into concrete. They're blue in color. Second, instead of aluminum tape, why not mastic? If you truly want to stop leakage in your duct, you want to use mastic to seal it.

Paul Nelson pretty much saved Johnny's life and career! Awesome clip!

It's interesting that I've always felt Rod Price was the baddest slide player I've ever seen, and he's up there with the greatest blues musicians of all time, including Johnny Winter, who's no slouch on the slide. Nice video! Thanks for sharing...

@cameltooth1 Everyone has an opinion, but I disagree. I've never heard anything Bloomfield played that made me think he was in the same league as Johnny Winter. Don't get me wrong, both Bloomfield and Taylor are/were excellent guitarists, but Johnny is in a league of his own. This isn't even the ...

One word: WOW! It's funny how you read all these lists of the "greatest guitar player of all time" and he's pushed down on the list. I've seen lists where the likes of Tom Morrello and The Edge were rated higher? That's crazy... Certainly in the top10, if not top 5 guitar players of all time!

Possibly the most underrated guitarist of all time!

The new Cat In The Hat on PBS is horrible... Nothing will ever be like the original!

What is the launcher applet you're using?

Yes, there are some problems with the smoothness of the animations. That is what makes iOS so appealing. If I put my finger on the screen and swipe anything at all, the animation keeps up with my finger, no matter how fast I swipe. It does not do that on Android. Android is choppy. Personally, I'...

Anyone know if that's Porcaro on the drums? Definitely sounds like him...