Tony MacAlpine - Mr. Destructive

Great song!! One of many favorites from Mr. MacAlpine.

Take a look at this review:

"Mr. Destructive is my favorite pick from the album. MacAlpine tears down all musical wall and soars to the heavens with this high-octane instrumental guitar fest! If you were to only purchase the CD for one song, this would be the one. Tony had me at hello, for lack of words. This track is action packed with some of MacAlpines best guitar playing ever, and he goes off on a tangent that cant be opposed. Heres the breakdown Happy/upbeat repeating hook lines, complex melodies, fast picking and overall his virtuoso performance. Tony opened the song with a super catchy main melody line that will literally turn your brain to mush! Soon after he kicked my butt with a not of this earth chorus line. I mean folks this is instrumental guitar at its finest. Check out the killer tension build at 01:28, I just keeping screaming for more. MacAlpine has mastered the art of writing a solid song and its no wonder this guy is considered a guitar virtuoso. Not many skilled players can even compare to the intensity that Tony delivers with every note. The only other artist that I can safely say that MacAlpine should tour with would be Vinnie Moore. Could you imagine that, the two high priests of instrumental guitar on the same stage? All the worlds problems would be washed always in a brisk bath of guitar chaos."

Reviewed by: Nick Martinelli
Reviewed: 2/25/2003

http://www.theshredzone.com/content/article.asp?pageid=60

Category:

Music

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• Tony
• MacAlpine
• Electric
• Guitar
• Shred
• Mr
• Destructive
• Violent
• Machine

[Buyakaasha]

macalpine is underrated... he is a god of guitar, undisputable

[stringst]

the main melody of the piece is simply devine....

[noquarter701]

love the extended arpeggios and consistent alternate picking. tony macalpine is pretty sick. already one of my favorite guitarists, certainly up there with impellitteri, gilbert, malmsteen, and becker.

[superguitarman72]

Is the best composer, and guitarrist. Es el mejor compositor y guitarrista.

[jenn4utube2011]

Hell yeah Tony still rules , always liked this track, he really has awesome sound on his new album release 6/21/2011 & is playing an 8 string!

[manuelink64]

holy shit...

I did not know how amazing it is tony on guitar...

his works with Vinnie Moore lead to me here!!

great stuff!!

[rmsolympic1]

@mrvallely hahah

[ojideagu]

@rmsolympic1 I know it's an old comment, but that's EXACTLY what I thought. The intro is the best bit of this song, and he should have based the track on it, or at least reused it a few times. Seems a waste.

[ExtremeBogom]

@mrvallely

Utter nonsense. Macalpine was well known to the guitar community. Of course Vai knew his history.

[HillaryHitler]

@mrvallely

BULLSHIT

He KNEW Tony played guitar!

Where did you get this crap from?

[mrvallely]

@McMinnManiac If you check out the steve vai live at the astoria there's a nice Macalpine appearance which was his first tour with via, he was hired for keys but clearly his guitar ability has been noted and there are a few Macalpine guitar moments, its not like a G3 its most definably a Steve via gig but can you blame him for not giving too much time on macalpine? I mean Tony'd show him up at his own gig.

[McMinnManiac]

@mrvallely Really. i don't like Vai's playing too much. He can play like an MF and Produce . He's done quite alot for guitar Effects and the betterment of guitar over all, no Doubt. What year is this recording? it's a collaboration of Vai and Mac Alpine?