These are custom runs, I don't believe the paint or pickup colors are normally available options. When I hear that song I’m sixteen again, standing on a table at a club.For sale or trade is one of these two Friedman 'Green Meanie' tributes built by Grover Jackson and based on Steve Vai's green meanie. When I was a kid, all through high school, whenever my band would play that song, whatever bar we were in, all my friends would just start destroying the place.

Mott the Hoople was just rock’n’roll, you can’t put any other name on it.īlack Dog is still electrifying to me, but the one that evokes in me the most intense kind of musical feeling is Born To Be Wild. It was back when nobody was trying to impress each other with how great they could play, but how good a band they can be. It was the way the songs were delivered, the way Ian Hunter sang them and the sound of Ariel Bender’s guitar. When I listened to it as a kid, that record represented that live ‘aroma’, you know? The atmosphere of a concert. When he would get into a groove and a melody, and when you listen to the stunning background voices, the way he constructed them… Yeah, man! Cut through all the stuff the world does to him, and the picture painted of him, whatever it is, take all of that away, and that man was connected.

I was always quietly a big fan of Michael Jackson. I know he was in a boy band or something, but I just like the way the records sound. She’s been playing a lot of Harry Styles, and I really like it. My wife has great musical taste, and turns me on to music that my snobbery wouldn’t have allowed me to listen to. And it was amazing to watch David Coverdale sing every night. When I was young it was Robert Plant, later it was Devin Townsend. It’s not crazy virtuoso stuff, but it’s organic and honest. Yvette Young is a tremendously artistic person and I love watching what she’s doing on guitar these days. I like people who are doing things unconsciously towards their career – they just have a compulsion to do something artistic, and that flows into their work. And his phrasing is so unique – you could play his riffs, but it doesn’t sound like him.īut contemporarily there are a lot of great players I go to.

To me he’s still an absolute class act when it comes to arrangement, production, his touch on the instrument, his choice of notes, his construction of guitar parts. Jimmy Page was my first real guitar hero.

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