This guy is better than me!

[GAR]

Bopping around on Youtube I find this young shred dude named Stephen Platt.

You'll be hearing about him in the future, ho mark my words..

He has a band he calls Collibus. Whoever knows what that means, I call it Dictionary-Metal when you gotta look the thing up to figure it out.



Anyways, I don't know his age but he's got every lick I got and if I thought I was ever on the right path and he's this close to my style, I'd say he's ahead in where I want to be with my own playing!

WAY ahead, both in dexterity of speed, and clarity of picking.

Now, some of you may not dig the 7-stringers and the Deth Metal stuff but there are some correlations between my style and his that when there are more similarites than differences I sit up and take notice.

So I introduce Stephen of Collibus! He kicks ass, I like him in a way I haven't liked any guitar players in a decade or more. Maybe 2.

PLUS he's a newcomer, and if this is the way the younger set are coming up man I am all for it.

[GAR]

Now, lets take a look here at what he's doing in this one: I likey likey likey!

1. I'm a fan of harmonic minor scales, so I can't judge this guy.. he could rub his face in coffee grounds and piss in the camera I'm gonna like the clip no matter what..

2. He's got both left-hand sweep speed and right-handed fan picking attributes as well as an excellent string-span when he does it, he's dialed in.

3. That's not all: the most important part I'd like you to focus on is - he's doubling with a prerecorded track on his PC and hardly mistracking at all!

His Dictionary-Metal band will get him a buzz to do other things, this is just a start but he's done his homework in a way the Glam Band era never really understood.

Kudos kudos kudos, Stephen Platt.

I don't much like the music but the playing is 10/of 10 top notch and when I find a guy I'm impressed by (which I never do) I hope he gets out there and not just does well, but I hope he really does really really well!

[Seshmeister]

Hmmm...

[GAR]

Here's one where he's clearly taking the Yngwie deal of the roling-arpedge-thing, and instead of Yngwie'ing the fuck out of it he makes it a gimmick for a good deal of the bridge, then dumps it to sustain the key notes.

Pretty mature, pretty cool. He coulda just yknow, played with it and made that riff the whole song the way most Dethmetallers do but I say he's pretty well creative about it.

He'll be maybe, in 2 or 3 years, the next Randy. He has done his homeWORK people!

[GAR]

Be NICE! He is a fellow UK-er.. maybe you're unhappy there in FL but he's got something you have to admit is a challenge to meet or beat.

If this guy got a Dio audition, Dio could actually make another record I'd listen to. This guy makes Craig Goldy look like a piece of rancid roadkill.

[Seshmeister]

I couldn't play that stuff but to me all of it apart from the 1st half of the second clip sounds like an exercise rather than a piece of music.

To me though Death, Thrash or whatever don't usually allow much room for anything apart from widdling as fast as you can.

[GAR]

He's half my age.. if he just stays away from dope he's got a chance!

[GAR]

Yeah, the wheedly-wheedly ain't my bag but he's got some strength everywhere else, plus a melodic sense the regular-cut Wheedlies never glom onto..



Could I play like this at 16 or 18? This is one he did from 10-2006.. god whatever I was doing at that age seems a waste of time when I look at Stephen's clips.

[ELVIS]

Damn!

He's good!

[ELVIS]

But the thing that people forget about Yngwie is that he never copied any guitar player...maybe some blackmore for fun, but other than that he was totally original in 1980...

[Nitro Express]

But the thing that people forget about Yngwie is that he never copied any guitar player...maybe some blackmore for fun, but other than that he was totally original in 1980...

People make fun of Yngwie because today he seems like the cliche of the 1980's rocker but he is what he is and does what he does. Yup. He never copied anyone and came out with his style of guitar and technique. That is why he is still touring and making a decent living doing it. He never was a poser. The guy is a true musician.

[jhale667]

But the thing that people forget about Yngwie is that he never copied any guitar player...maybe some blackmore for fun, but other than that he was totally original in 1980...

He prayed at the altar of Uli Roth, too - but yes, was definitely a step beyond when he broke out...

[GAR]

He's great!

[ELVIS]

He prayed at the altar of Uli Roth, too - but yes, was definitely a step beyond when he broke out...

That's true, but after Yngwie had been around awhile, Uli's playing seemed to sound, to me, a bit more like Yngwie...

I was never a huge Uli fan, but a friend was and he turned me on to some of his stuff from the 70's, Scorpions and some other project I forget the name of...

But it seemed to me that Uli caught the Yngwie bug like a lot of players did in the 80's...

[ELVIS]

I can only cite three guitarists that truly changed the path of rock guitar...

Jimi Hendrix

Edward Van Halen

Yngwie J. Malmsteen


That's it.