ok, folks........this is the ace diamond show!

[jhale667]

Man...heard killer tracks from Hale, Jimi, Hardrock and Lounge all in one night! There's some fucking kick ass talent here at The Army!

I like that there's some serious diversity to it, too...even though we're all huge VH freaks, our respective material sounds nothing alike, or even shows a blatant VH influence...

Gonna listen to HR's when I get home from the office...

[chefcraig]

I figured everyone's heard my band by now, but in the spirit of shameless self-promotion, here's a couple of tracks...

FANTASY

FEAR

[PETE'S BROTHER]

I figured everyone's heard my band by now, but in the spirit of shameless self-promotion, here's a couple of tracks...

FANTASY

FEAR

a face to the name, thanx chef

[chefcraig]

a face to the name, thanx chef

Actually, it's a bass to the name.

[jhale667]

Actually, it's a bass to the name.

OK, two sets of tunes to check out this afternoon...ROCK!

[kwame k]

I figured everyone's heard my band by now, but in the spirit of shameless self-promotion, here's a couple of tracks...

FANTASY

FEAR

Great stuff there, Craig

[kwame k]

I like that there's some serious diversity to it, too...even though we're all huge VH freaks, our respective material sounds nothing alike, or even shows a blatant VH influence...

Gonna listen to HR's when I get home from the office...

I would of never thought there was so much diversity, either! To me that's what having an influence should be......you might be able to pick bits and pieces of an influence out but no one is blatantly ripping off their influences. An influence to me is a starting point and not a way of life!

[jhale667]

I would of never thought there was so much diversity, either! To me that's what having an influence should be......you might be able to pick bits and pieces of an influence out but no one is blatantly ripping off their influences. An influence to me is a starting point and not a way of life!

Exactly! No one should wear their influences on their sleeve, or try to be a sound-alike...where's the fun or creativity in that? I mean, I've never aspired to be the "next (so-and-so)" I always wanted to be the first ME, y'know?

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Exactly! No one should wear their influences on their sleeve, or try to be a sound-alike...where's the fun or creativity in that? I mean, I've never aspired to be the "next (so-and-so)" I always wanted to be the first ME, y'know?

jagy secretly wants to be the next you...

[Jagermeister]

jagy secretly wants to be the next you...

What?

No I do NOT!

[PETE'S BROTHER]

What?

No I do NOT!

[kwame k]

Exactly! No one should wear their influences on their sleeve, or try to be a sound-alike...where's the fun or creativity in that? I mean, I've never aspired to be the "next (so-and-so)" I always wanted to be the first ME, y'know?

Yep, I prayed at the alter of the Holy Trinity.....Bonham, Van Halen and Moon but IMHO, I sound nothing like them.

Funny thing is....the older I get the more I want to play like Charlie Watts or Levon Helm..........strange, totally perplexing!

[jhale667]

Yep, I prayed at the alter of the Holy Trinity.....Bonham, Van Halen and Moon but IMHO, I sound nothing like them.

Funny thing is....the older I get the more I want to play like Charlie Watts or Levon Helm..........strange, totally perplexing!

I hear ya...my holy trinity was VH, Rhoads and Lynch when I was a kid, then as I got older I got into Gary Moore, Alan Holdsworth, John Sykes, Jake E. Lee, Warren Dimartini, Steve Vai and SO many others. Then in my late 20s-early 30s I got on a whole SRV/Jeff Beck trip...but I can learn something from music I don't necessarily even LIKE, y'know? I still pickup bits everywhere.

Heck, my original guitar teacher always maintained that I should have gotten away from the "dumb rock" and become a fusion player, but that's not my thing.

These days the only "comparisons" I get is Lynch, because I still use that aggressive, exaggerated vibrato-technique sometimes...like I said in another thread, I DO hammer notes a lot, but I consciously avoid the triplet-type hammer-ons in an attempt NOT to sound like EVH...

jagy secretly wants to be the next you...

Yeah, good luck with that...

[Guitar Shark]

That reminds me. Has anyone else seen the new A&E show "Heavy"?

[Guitar Shark]

Man...heard killer tracks from Hale, Jimi, Hardrock and Lounge all in one night! There's some fucking kick ass talent here at The Army!

I'd like to hear these myself... I need to hear some real music after listening to that video Ace posted...