Andy James

[straycat113]

Have any of you guys seen this kid play, I mean he is just phenominal. I do like the John 5 thing and buy a dvd of a technique or music I am not into big. So I bought a metal DVD off licklibrary which is a great UK guitar site with some tremendous players and this guy blew me away so much I bought 3 more of his DVDs.

He plays a 7 and 6 string Petrucci and also an Axis. If you never saw him or want to take your metal or just your chops period to another level check this guy out he is really amazing, and his tapping is just off the chart.

To the guys who are from the UK how is this guy percieved over there. Is he well known? Some guys were asking for a dead out Metal EBMM well this guy would be my candidate to design a model. As I went to listening to very little metal to watching him everyday and really digging his playing.

The worst thing you can do is to pigeonhole yourself into one style, I learned that a longtime ago. So checkout country, rock,blues,metal,classical,jazz and you will be astonished at how many amazing players there are in different styles and then you can throw these techniques into your own playing.

 

[azazael]

No he is not well known over here, well apart from those who see the Lick Library stuff and maybe if he does a song/article in a magazine every now n then.

He hangs around here also sometimes, I believe he was trying to sell his Axis in here at some point. Had swapped the pups to something else though if I remember.

 

[straycat113]

Wow this guy is not signed or recording. I figured he had to be in a metal band and pretty popular. I try to stay up to date on current players but I dont know a lot of the young metal guys. This kid is a tremendous player with some serious chops. In fact over in the UK you guys got a handful of amazing players that a lot of people here would flip for if they knew more about them, like Guthrie Govan that does his own thing and was playing with Asia for a few years, Dave Kilminster who plays with Keith Emerson and Roger Waters, Jamie Humphries and Mike Casswell.

In fact I got turned on to all these guys from Licklibrary which I first stumbled on in 03,and I have to tip my hat as they all are tremendous players. I would of sworn Andy James was a known player there like on a shred label or something.What ever the case may be I think the guy is some player that will be heard from.

 

[marduke]

Andy is one of my fav players at the moment. and he is in a band called Sacred Mother Tongue. quite good too, some great guitar riffage has also recorded a couple of instrumental albums.

 

[dstockden]

I think he jumped ship to Schecter........... Could be wrong though.

 

[Adamr]

yeah he plays in sacred mother tongue. exellent album. im not into that style of music its a bit heavier than i like. but the guitar playing on is fantastic . the whole band are very good. he plays esp guitars when playing live (i think hes endorsed by them). and in some of his instructional videos. but a lot of the videos he puts on youtube. have his petruccis on there. absolute fantastic player. i came across him via lick library also . i have a lot of there dvds and im a regular on there forums. colinboy posts a bit on there to.
im half way through his steve vai quick licks dvd. which there is a video of him doing the performance on on youtube. its very very difficult. but theres some very useable licks in. oh he does lessons aswell via skype if ur intrested . heres the link lol [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW55bPZ2zKU"]YouTube- Andy James Online Guitar Lessons Ad (info in description)[/ame]

 

[73h Nils]

One of my top 3 favourite guitarists. That's saying a lot, too. I've got his SMT CD, In the Wake of Chaos and Kaos 7. The man is unparalleled in his all-out fretboard pyrotechnics!

 

[Adamr]

yeah i think if he had the exposure a lot of these american guys get , then he would be up there at the top of his field.
great to see all these tremendous guitar players coming out the woodwork from england. about time we had some guys to match the likes of vai, satch, jp etc. now we have guthrie and andy and a few more.

 

[colinboy]

Yeah Andy is great player,met him at LIMS last year in 2008 as he was working for S&t promoting EBMM products but as david stockden said he is gone from playing muiscman now as far as i know.

 

[Tung]

Yeah Andy is great player,met him at LIMS last year in 2008 as he was working for S&t promoting EBMM products but as david stockden said he is gone from playing muiscman now as far as i know.

That's too bad. He sounded great on the JP models.

 

[straycat113]

OK That sounds a bit more like it.lol The first responce put up saying he came in here looking to sell his ax and that he hangs around a bit had me puzzled as if the kid was no big deal or you see chops like that everyday.lol

As I stated I am not into metal so I wanted to check out some metal playing as well as a technical approach and I was floored by his playing. So much I got 3 more of his DVDs and he is playing EBMM guitars on all of them. Now I have to get a CD of Sacred Mother Tongue.

Adamr I have to agree 100% about the recent talent pool you guys have got going on there with Guthrie Govan having to be one of the top players period. The great thing is I stumbled upon Licklibrary in 03 so I have Elite membership and get to use the whole site for free and it is by far my favorite guitar site. In fact when I joined Stuart Bull had hair.lol

 

[Slingy]

I really admire these type of players, he really impressed me alot. I don't normally listen to that kind of shred.

 

[azazael]

OK That sounds a bit more like it.lol The first responce put up saying he came in here looking to sell his ax and that he hangs around a bit had me puzzled as if the kid was no big deal or you see chops like that everyday.lol....


In fact when I joined Stuart Bull had hair.lol

Well he did... whats the deal with that?
We also get Sterling Ball, Steve Lukather and Jamie Humphries too posting on here...
they arent so high and mighty that they cant use a computer you know.
They are still people and so are we....

Stuart Bull, I dunno how he still has a job at Lick Library. He makes the worst videos of them all.

 

[Adamr]

Stuart Bull, I dunno how he still has a job at Lick Library. He makes the worst videos of them all.

he owns the company dougie. lol. he was the original instructor. if you remember you used to be able to get the "total accuracy" dvd's and that was him. he then built up lick library from that.

as a player i dont particularly like his stuff, and his dvds are my least favourite but they are still good. and hes still a good teacher.

and i watched the live webcast he did on the 15th and he was really really good. he did about a 5 minute improv solo at the start and he can really play.

straycat you should get on the forums. we could do with more people , the forum is pretty bad to be honest.

 

[azazael]

he owns the company dougie. lol. he was the original instructor. if you remember you used to be able to get the "total accuracy" dvd's and that was him. he then built up lick library from that.

as a player i dont particularly like his stuff, and his dvds are my least favourite but they are still good. and hes still a good teacher.

and i watched the live webcast he did on the 15th and he was really really good. he did about a 5 minute improv solo at the start and he can really play.

straycat you should get on the forums. we could do with more people , the forum is pretty bad to be honest.

Oh he does... it all makes sense lol

 

[straycat113]

Azazael dont take it the wrong way bro.lol I was just shocked as I thought the kid was pretty big over there and probably cashed up. So when you said he came around looking to sell his ax I just thought it odd. Yes everyone bleeds red I am totally with you on that and I talk straight up and there was no intention to offend and I would just like to make that clear.

 

[conan02919]

yes Stuart Bull does own the comapny but I agree he is pretty bad when he interviews people. Licklibary is a good site I like Danny Gill as an instructor

 

[straycat113]

Conan2919 I agree 100% with you. I never had a formal lesson in my life and in the 90s I came upon some really advanced books from MI that were done by Danny who used to be a student of Satriani. So when I came across Licklibrary and saw he was on the site that is what made me become a member.

I have so many DVDs by him I feel I know the guy.lol As a teacher he is unequaled. I love the way that he always runs the chord progression so you know why what lines, scales, arpeggios and the like work and fit over what your playing.I wish I could take live lessons with the guy as he would be my first choice followed by Gilbert and Petrucci. As all three have that knack for being great players and teachers. Some guys are great players but horrible teachers like Yngwie,lol

 

[Adamr]

my personal favourite is jamie humphries. who is a mm endorsee. and also post on the forums ocassionally. awesome talent. and brilliant teacher. his dvd's are fantastic and he always give u insight into the gear he would use and a bit of background about the artist.

anyway back to andy here is his band [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_b-mtSOAZM"]YouTube- Sacred Mother Tongue - Two Thousand Eight Hundred[/ame]

and this is what im pulling my short hair out trying to learn . man he makes it look stupidly easy. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Vuc3YSowo"]YouTube- Andy James E lydian (in the style of Steve Vai)[/ame]

 

[colinboy]

Licklibrary is a great site and is well worth the money to be honest.you get great advice on the forum and as adam R has already said we both post on their forum regularly but its pretty quiet compared to here.
mike casswell is a great instructor and player and all round nice guy.