Jason Becker playing Hot for Teacher

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  • ThrillsNSpills
    ROTH ARMY ELITE
    • Jan 2004
    • 6626

    Jason Becker playing Hot for Teacher

    Never Heard Recordings


    from his demo to DLR.
    along with plenty of amazing recordings.
  • degüello
    Sniper
    • Mar 2004
    • 858

    #2
    Cool, thanks for posting that.
    "What we've been doing, which is great and certainly cost saving, is I train in the sand pit in McDonald's. I do a few laps. I go through the tunnel a few times. The kids don't mind if I smoke. Plus, when I'm done, lunch is right there."- DLR 2003

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    • GAR
      Banned
      • Jan 2004
      • 10849

      #3


      I never liked Jason's soul-less, mechanical playing style and disliked his trashy Carvin sound even more than that.

      He does take some creative liberties, that's a plus. However, there is no however. I don't like his playing and that's the bottome line.

      I did buy the "Cacophony" tape when it came out. I loaned it out after a few listens and it never came back as it got passed around like a month-old National Enquirer with Rosie O'Donnell on the cover with a story about how fat and disgusting she is.

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      • ELVIS
        Banned
        • Dec 2003
        • 44120

        #4
        Pretty cool stuff...

        Drop in The Bucket demo is nice...better so than whats on the album...


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        • ELVIS
          Banned
          • Dec 2003
          • 44120

          #5
          He butchered the Hot For teacher solo...

          That sweep crap gets old just like tapping does...

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          • Seshmeister
            ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

            • Oct 2003
            • 35160

            #6
            I agree but I thought you were the big Yngwie fan????

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            • degüello
              Sniper
              • Mar 2004
              • 858

              #7
              It's remarkable that he learned the tunes and recorded that in a single night, if what he says is accurate. Pretty fluid and relaxed sounding. Effortless, really.
              "What we've been doing, which is great and certainly cost saving, is I train in the sand pit in McDonald's. I do a few laps. I go through the tunnel a few times. The kids don't mind if I smoke. Plus, when I'm done, lunch is right there."- DLR 2003

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              • GAR
                Banned
                • Jan 2004
                • 10849

                #8
                It sounds like the dbx compression of the tascam porta cassette unit.

                I had one of those.

                I buy the story that he did it in one night: I once went to an audition and the guy spent 3 hours smoking pot, and a half hour talking to me while duping his cassette copy of the demo he wanted me to learn.

                I wasn't given the chance to listen and discuss it.. just "here ya go, gotta run, let me know"

                So I wasn't surprised when I got home and it sucked.. I flipped it over and rerecorded a parody of his tune with a better solo using my Alesis HR16 drum machine, and left it on his answering machine.

                I did that in an hour, programmed the drum machine with the correct verse-bridge-chorus count and my own Weird Al version of the guy's vocals with mock lyrics.

                HFT could have been done in a day, what's so difficult about it especially when you'd have heard it 100 times on MTV that summer of 84, it was all over the radio, and if you was a EVH fan, you'd probably played the record a couple hundred times stealing the licks off it.

                I say Becker had the song down years before he was asked for an audition tape!

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                • ELVIS
                  Banned
                  • Dec 2003
                  • 44120

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Seshmeister
                  I agree but I thought you were the big Yngwie fan????
                  Did that sound like Yngwie to you ??

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                  • ELVIS
                    Banned
                    • Dec 2003
                    • 44120

                    #10
                    Yeah Gar, I had the Cacophony stuff as well...

                    What did they do, two albums ??


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                    • GAR
                      Banned
                      • Jan 2004
                      • 10849

                      #11
                      I only had the one, bought out of curiosity.

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