Subj : Re: the great ones...
To : ALAN TENORIO
From : BRETT MCCOY
Date : Sun Jul 09 2000 08:25 am
> BM> Speaking of John Petrucci, I picked up his
>"Liquid
> BM> Tension" CD he did with Tony Levin last
>year.
> BM> Some smoking fusionesque metal on that one.
>
> Thanks for the info, man. I'm going CD
> hunting. Petrucci showed that
> he can be both melodic and bluesy in his work
> with Dream Theater, that's
> why he's one of my favorites. I like his
> instructional video too. :-)
Didn't know he had one. Check out the one Robin
Trower did a few years ago. you can hardly
understand what he's saying, but he shows sone
nice licks.
> BM> And let us not forget Frank Marino...
>
> Well, it's too bad that I don't have a single
> copy of any cut he did,
> though I recall vaguely that I heard a fleeting
passage on the radio
> over a decade ago.
That was probably "Strange Dreams", which,
ironically, is about the onyl song he did without
a guitar solo. Maybe that's why it became a radio
hit. :-)
> I guess he's avant-garde.
I wouldn't call him avante-garde. He's very
blues-based, kinda Hendrixy, but with a harder
edge than SRV or Trower (I've even seen him
classified as heavy metal, but I won't go that
far). Some of his tastier moments are "Dragonfly"
and "King Bee" (from one of his live albums). he
plays almost exclusively with Gibsons (especially
SGs), but he does pull Strats out on occasion.
