1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up?
Randy Rhoads, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, Vinnie Moore, Jason Becker, Steve Vai 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? Yngwie, Paul Gilbert/RacerX, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Shawn Lane, Allan Holdsworth 3. Name your five top albums of all time (not necessary guitar music) Paganini's 24 Caprices Mark O'Connor - Midnight on the water Czerny School of velocity op 299 and 6 octave studies op 553 Racer X - Second Heat Vinnie Moore - Meltdown 4. Name your top five guitar albums of all time Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force Racer X - Street Lethal Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue Shawn Lane and Jonas Hellborg - Time Is the Enemy 5. What recorded (and officially released) track or video do you consider to be your finest moment as a guitar player? Dark Matter from my debut solo album 6. What are your future plans? To continue write, record, perform, teach and publish all of my instructional material and to continue to learn an get better everyday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up?
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Beatles 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? Gilmour, Blackmore, Hendrix, Page 3. Name your five top albums of all time (not necessary guitar music) Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon Glenn Gould/Goldberg Variations Allan Holdsworth/IOU Led Zeppelin/Physical Graffiti Franz Biber/The Rosary Sonatas played by Susanne Lautenbacher 4. Name your top five guitar albums of all time Hendrix/Electric Ladyland Deep Purple/Made in Japan Van Halen/Fair Warning Allan Holdsworth/IOU Shawn Lane/First Demo 5. What recorded (and officially released) track or video do you consider to be your finest moment as a guitar player? Disembodied in the Mojave - Late Nights at Desert Rimrock 6. What are your future plans? Complete the new solo album and start working on an album with vocals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up? My father was a musician and I grew up listening to his records from the artists like: 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? As a child I took classical guitar lessons some years but after a teenage I got into more guitar players like: - Tony Macalpine, Michael Romeo, Eric Johnson, John Petrucci, Trevor Rabin like Deep Purple, Yes, Whitesnake and all the blues based music from UK
- I like the way "Fallen", a megalomaniac track from the Anthriel album "Transcendence" , came out. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up? Guns N 'Roses, Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne. 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? Subsequently, when I threw myself on the study of the guitar, I was extremely impressed by Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Van Halen and many others.
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1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up? Iron Maiden 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? Steve Vai
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1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up? The Beatles, T Rex, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Jimi Hendrix 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, Ritchie Blackore, Eddie Van Halen,Gary Moore
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1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up?
Elvis Presley, my sister used to listen to him constantly and that kinda rubbed off on me. 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? Ace Frehley in KISS inspired me to pick up the guitar back in 1983. I was later influenced by Gary Moore and Michael Schenker, John Norum. When I later discovered Yngwie Malmsteen and Al Di Meola, that was it :) 3. Name your five top albums of all time (not necessary guitar music) - Anything with Bach - Anything with Paganini - Anything - Vivaldi - Brecker brothers - Heavy metal bebop - Dream Theater - Images and words 4. Name your top five guitar albums of all time - Yngwie J Malmsteen's Rising force - Al Di Meola - Gypsy suite - Tony Macalpine - Maximum security - Dokken - Under lock and key - Racer X - Street lethal 5. What recorded (and officially released) track or video do you consider to be your finest moment as a guitar player? Treasure Land - Questions 6. What are your future plans? Release my second instrumental album. That cd will be a shred feast :) Then release albums with Deathriders, Rebel Gel, Treasure Land and a secret project I'm working on right now. This cd will turn heads for sure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up?
Hearing my mother teach pop & classical songs on piano and Dad playing jazz records. I loved all of that. 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? Keith Emerson; Ritchie Blackmore; Frank Marino; Robin Trower; Michael Schenker; Uli Roth 3. Name your five top albums of all time (not necessary guitar music) Brain Salad Surgery - ELP Hemispheres - Rush Masque - Kansas Close To the Edge - Yes Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond 4. Name your top five guitar albums of all time Earthquake - Uli Roth/Electric Sun Land of the Midnight Sun - Al Di Meola Force It - Michael Schenker/UFO Birds of Fire - John McLaughlin/Mahavishnu Orchestra Centrifugal Funk - Brett Garsed, Frank Gambale, Shawn Lane 5. What recorded (and officially released) track or video do you consider to be your finest moment as a guitar player? Michael Harris "Opus Conceptus" (intro) 6. What are your future plans? To keep composing music, making records, and performing live -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up? I use to listen to music from my father’s vinyl small collection and remember listening to The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, besides some good folk Italian music. Then I have discovered new music from older guys in my hometown such as AC/DC, some Metallica and... Van Halen: wow, this truly makes me wanna pick up a guitar and can’t understand at the time people listening to Nirvana, even if I had listened all the songs, if you know what I mean. 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? Van Halen surely was a lightning and a thunderous drill into my head, but the music I’ve based my early years with bands was 70s rock, like Deep Purple, Yes, Whitesnake and all the blues based music from UK 3. Name your five top albums of all time (not necessary guitar music) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Who were your first musical main influences when growing up?
Let's say that I grew up where there was still a great passion for music, but for what was transmitted by the mainstream and not where rock or classical music was listened to. I had some distant relative who played popular music.it is also true that in the 70s and 80s mainstream music was much more complex and had a lot more passion inside than it is nowI already had more rock preferences, but at 14, at school, a friend gave me a tape of Queen. I think that was when my real journey into the world of music began 2. Who were your first musical main influences later when you got serious about playing the guitar? Over time I made a tape of many Brian May guitar solos, one attached to the other. Listening to them I went with my mind to another dimension, and I realized that I wanted to play the guitar. At 17, a friend lent me a classical guitar for a couple of months, of course I return it. My parents bought me my first classical guitar, to start a very cheap model. I was learning self-taught. Then I discovered Satriani, Vai, Hendrix and I tried to play them with that guitar but it was practically impossible. I worked in the summer while on vacation from school and at 18 I bought my first electric guitar, a "Shadow". I enjoyed being with friends who played, I was comfortable with them, we had the same interests and there was a lot of information exchange 3. Name your five top albums of all time (not necessary guitar music) Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Michael Jackson – Thriller Savatage – Streets Ozzy – Live with Randy Rhoads 4. Name your top five guitar albums of all time Jason Becker – Perpetual Burn Van Halen – F.U.C.K. Ozzy – No More Tears Malmsteen – The Seventh Sing Savatage – Edge Of Thorns 5. What recorded (and officially released) track or video do you consider to be your finest moment as a guitar player? Maybe on Broken Glass, the closing track of the Eyes Of Mind album with The Rock Alchemis 6. What are your future plans? I'm working on the production of the Universal Revolution part.2 of my instrumental project B Gera , on a new album with my band The Rock Alchemist, some cooperation with great and interesting artist with guitar tracks, to mix and produce some album for some band and above all.... play guitar live!! |
