This forum is changing me

[phatduckk]

Well this forum is crazy... i now have a lot of guitars and basses and a lot of great friends b/c of this place.

so most folks know that im a punk rock fan. i like short, quick, energetic songs. thats just what's moved me. i love it... BUT NOW things are changing.

my cd player now has Toto, Dream Theater and Albert Lee in it and thsoe discs are getting heavy rotatation. I watch a bunch of Luke clips on youtube on a daily basis and also watch Tristan's videos quite a lot... ive got the DT Score concert from vh1 on my tivo and watch that a helluv a lot.

its crazy. my friends are in total shock. he he

I was at a Lee Rocker (bassist from stray cats) show a few weeks ago and i spent a bunch of time talking to the guitarists (great players!) and all 3 of us went on n on abut how badass albert lee is.

this forum's definately expanding my musical taste.

now someone tell me what morse cd to buy AL, Luke, Vinnie, DT reccomendations are totally welcome to

 

[Nicolarsen]

Hey Duck...

Always nice to someone expanding their musical horizon...

I hear a lot of Toto/Luke among others... But Toto is, by far, my favourite band!

I'd say: Give Toto-albums like Tambu, Kingdom of Desire, Mindfields and maybe Falling In Between a listen...

Let me hear what you think...

 

[Psychicpet]

pssst ( don't forget the ovrdrvn clips on YouTube)

 

[savannah_sean]

now someone tell me what morse cd to buy

My feeling about Steve Morse is that you can't go wrong with any of his albums- and the way that you relate to them may well depend on your perspective.

For the greatest proportion of high-energy tunes, I'd start with Southern Steel or Coast to Coast. (these are "Steve Morse Band" albums)

For the richest compositions, I'd go with High Tension Wires.

It's the same story with the Dregs, I love all of their albums almost equally. I'd start with Bring em back Alive and Full Circle.

Even though I love it now, I wasn't into "Stand Up" for a long time, simply because I thought it had too many tunes with vocals- but all of the songs are really good and it features a lot of cool guest artists, like Eric Johnson.

 

[robelinda2]

is Stand Up the album with Distant Star ( w/Eric Johnson) on it?

 

[fogman]

Phatty,

I know exactly what you're saying!
This place is good for the musical soul!

 

[savannah_sean]

is Stand Up the album with Distant Star ( w/Eric Johnson) on it?

Yep- here's a list of guests on Stand Up: from the discography link on www.stevemorse.com:

Peter Frampton - guitar on "Stand Up"
Eric Johnson - vocals and guitar on "Distant Star"
T. Lavitz - piano on "Unity Gain"
Albert Lee - vocals and guitar on "Rockin' Guitars"
Alex Ligertwood - vocals on "Stand Up"
Mark O'Connor - violin on "Pick Your Poison"
Van Temple - vocals on "Book Of Dreams"

 

[Smellybum]

This forum is changing me too..... I'm selling all my F3nd3r and G!bson guitars and buying EBMM's!!!!!

 

[SteveB]

Phatty,

Steve Morse - High Tension Wires
or
Steve Morse Band - The Introduction

Vinnie Moore - Mind's Eye

Dream Theater - Images & Words

These are my recommendations.. I think these are easy to digest for someone new to the artist(s), as well as being representative of some fo their best work.

 

[robelinda2]

Vinnie Moore- Meltdown or Defying Gravity for me. Minds Eye i never liked, too neo-classical Yngwie sounding.

 

[SteveB]

Vinnie Moore- Meltdown or Defying Gravity for me. Minds Eye i never liked, too neo-classical Yngwie sounding.

There are a few like that, but there's also a lot of jazz influence and just an amazing sense of melody on some tunes like "the Journey". Plus some wicked keyboard performances from Tony MacAlpine.

 

[robelinda2]

Macca is just great, true genius.

 

[Warg Master]

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[beej]

Hah! Glad to hear it Arin- I feel the same way.

Rock on

 

[Norrin Radd]

I like what JP said on the Score documentary, if you want to see what DT is all about (and has been about) get Octavarium - it runs the whole gamut of evrything they have done - like a sample platter! I started with Awake - an awesome album too.

As far as Morse goes - coming from your background I'd start with Coast to Coast and Southern Steel. As someone else said - more up tempo.

Vinne Moore - I'd go with Out of No Where or Mind's Eye (although it does lean a little neo-classical at times).

 

[wolfbone07]

Vinnie Moore Live! is also quite good. I'd also have to say that Out of Nowhere is a favorite also. For Luke, if you can find the Los Lobotomys album, it's amazing. For Mr. Morse I like High Tension Wires, Southern Steel, Coast to Coast, and Split Decision.

 

[phatduckk]

pssst ( don't forget the ovrdrvn clips on YouTube)

i do watch those. ive been sending links off to my friends too

 

[phatduckk]

i always felt that my taste in music has stunted my growth as a musician/player. thru highschool/college etc i never listened to anything that was really hard to play or technical...

im my experience it seems like when people are starting out they woodshed on a lot of songs by the bands they like etc... well, the songs i liked were all power chord stuff so it wasnt until a couple years ago that I tried learning "strange" chords and soloing etc. i reppied myself off. LoL

but now my ears have grown up and im way more accepting of other music so its great to have this whole slew of new stuff that im diggin'. i cant beleive i dismissed some of this stuff as "lame" or whatnot years ago. but, what do u expect from a skate-punk? there's no way i would have listened to AL or Luke back then. but now i can't get enough.

thanks for the info guys

 

[Bungo]

Mind you it can go the other way as well. Having spent more years than I care to remember trying hard to learn 'the clever stuff' mostly to impress other people, I now get more pleasure blasting through Basket Case or the Foo's Monkey Wrench than struggling with the fiddly technical business.

 

[phatduckk]

Mind you it can go the other way as well. Having spent more years than I care to remember trying hard to learn 'the clever stuff' mostly to impress other people, I now get more pleasure blasting through Basket Case or the Foo's Monkey Wrench than struggling with the fiddly technical business.

true true. its all about fun in the end. im a firm beleiver in that.

a bassist buddy came over on sunday and we had a cool jam session for a couple hours. he played bass and I was all about the jp6. that guitar is awesome.

he's totally into metal so we did a bunch of random metallica, ozzy and slayer tunes then some improv stuff. i definately have more confidence in taking solos now as opposed to before but i have a lot to learn. its so great that the learning is forever... you've always got something new and fun to work on just around the corner