Without the benefit of lyrics, Joe Satriani is a master at painting pictures using his guitar. His crystal-clear playing and perfectly orchestrated instrumentation are capable of taking you on an introspective journey into your mind’s eye, and just when you think all the musical possibilities have been pulled out of a guitar, Joe continues to re-invent brilliant playing!
Throughout his 40+ year career, Steve Vai has transformed the world of instrumental guitar, something that would seem to be nearly impossible, into a very successful career. From his early beginnings with Frank Zappa’s to his work with the ever-flamboyant David Lee Roth, then back to his exploratory solo work, Steve has continually challenged traditional guitar playing and composition into a mind-altering experience. He has revolutionized guitar playing and has influenced legions of fans and guitarists along the way, something he is very humbled by.
Yngwie Malmsteen On Fierce New CD, Parabellum- All Of It Came To Me Like A Vision Of Inspiration!
The overall vibe in the music is the diversity. We all fit into a particular genre, but within that genre, we are pretty diverse.
Guitar God, Innovator, and Virtuoso – those are the first three things that come to mind when I think of Joe Satriani.
He truly is a gifted player who can make instrumental guitar playing savagely entertaining,
To me Kotzen has released one of his best albums to date and goes a long way into proving once more he is one of the most underrated and greatest and most talented songwriters of this generation.
The tracks are all heavy metal based once again sounding a bit like a Yngwie Mamlsteen record without any vocals. He combines the backbone of thrash metal with the technical proficiency of progressive metal and adds some pure speed metal for good measure, which leads me to another comparison to the eighties band CACOPHONY..
JOOP WOLTERS’ blend of speedy shredding mixed with jazz fusion and sprinkled with a bit of classical inspired stuff is very easy on the ears and is a guitarist’s wet dream. Seriously, this is one of those albums that you listen to and then decide to hang your guitar up in shame as there is so much technicality here that it just shouldn’t be possible for one man to be so versatile…