Painkiller (1) - Live at Musician's Institute

In my humble opinion, rhythm is the most important element of music. And this has to come from the early days when the natives where beating on stones or pounding on whatever. Later on, intellectuals added melodies, harmonies, techniques, etc... I've always been into rhythm guitars and to me that is the essence of METAL.
My favorite metal albums of all time are Rust in Peace by Megadeth and Painkiller by Judas Priest. So I had to play tribute to the gods of metal; Judas Priest.
The hardest thing to accomplish playing this song was finding the right drummer, but Pete Parada as always was down and ready to go before I said; "Pain...". Ronny Allen my buddy bass player did a really good job with the bass and back-ups. And as a Judas tribute I needed another guitar player so the guitars would be double layer thick; enter Chris Cardenas. Once we had this going I went to my friend and singer Tommy to seal the deal and we where off and ready to go.
I love the way we are playing pocket in this song, the rhythms are very tight and most people probably don't realize that this is extremely hard to do. It's like a machine when all the elements are in perfect sync. Most musicians don't even know what pocket means and I couldn't even start explaining what it is. All my riffs are played by doing downstrokes which gives it a special attack but Pete started this song a bit faster so I was hurting. This song is all about rhythms; I could care less about the solos. I did try and follow the same melodic lines Glenn and K.K. did, but what I wanted to do with this song was play a very aggressive rhythmic metal song in front of the school of guitar intellectuals. The arpeggio part is lame but as I said; rhythm is where it's at guys.

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• Painkiller
• George
• Jorge
• Felipe
• Montaldo
• Pete
• Parada
• Ronny
• Allen
• Chris
• Cardenas
• Tommy
• Sinclair

[stratmagic71]

God bless all of you guys,wherever you are....i remember you from that year.GLORY FUCKIN DAYS it was....

[fitchley72]

yeah they where a blast.. thanks stratmagic71!

[TimeLordGuitar]

As much as I love to rip it up and solo, rhythm guitar is MUCH more important. I've been in more than one band over the years that had a "lead" guitarist that could not play rhythm AT ALL. In one band I was only singing with,the lead guitarist was one of these "Yngwie types" with a Strat with a scalloped fingerboard and assorted Yngwie bullshit. The guy could not play anything more difficult than Dokken/Dio rhythm without sounding like complete crap. Even the Dokken/Dio rhythms sounded awful.

[fitchley72]

Yeah man too many guitar players focus on lead only.... you need both, but more importantly a good rhythm!

thanks for the comments.

[trex257]

I don't know what you are talking about rhythm being the thing here man. Yeah it's a badass groove no doubt and you guys are definitely in the pocket. If you have been in enough bands and played for long enough you know what the pocket is. Either, your solo was very good. You BLEW AWAY the other player up there man so don't sell yourself short as a very good solo player.

[fitchley72]

It's just my opinion that solos are not the most important thing about metal, to me it's the rhythm, the drive, the machine, the pocket. This song has both and I will have to agree with you that rhythm is probably not the most important aspect of this song, it's just what I think we did best when we played it.

Thanks for your comments. I appreciate comments like these.

[TimeLordGuitar]

Also- most metal bands that have attempted to cover this only fail in the vocal department...and this is NOT a horrible vocal performance. It is very difficult to sing. Also- it would sound much worse with some idiot doing the trendy MTV metal screaming bullshit. This is a completely acceptable cover.

[thefateshavewarned]

Singer really screwed up the lyrics.

[LinkMasterRated]

Class of 2011

[jipsonrock18]

exelente panas sigan adelante........

[TheSupnickmon]

awful vocals, but everything else was very good

[NoGuitarNoLove]

Hendrix once said a lot of guitarist only want to do solos & forget about the most important thing in music called "time", which is rhythm.

[delt01]

Not bad performance. like you said, rhythm section is most important, nice job guys!

[SCRIMandBLANK]

first i was like....WHAT THE FUCK??? THIS IS A TRICK VID!!! but no, it was just a really weird build up to the song. or whatever

[Hudzan]

Lead guitarist should have a volume pedal, when the solo comes make it sound louder so people can hear it better :D