Lord Sausage

Surley the solution is just the intonation of your playing. Vibrato, bends, playing the note in a different place. You shouldn't be up the dusty end that often anyway.

I think timing is under appreciated by a lot of musicians. I don't think it gets practiced enough once you get decent. Kind of gets taken for granted. Obviously I can't speak for everyone. I've fell into the trap before. Heard back a recording of a show and my timing wasn't perfect on some bits. So this led to months of playing along with a metronome. Stripped my playing back to basics. Scales, arpeggios etc. Did the trick, now it's a regular warm up.

I once played a show. An anniversary concert for a big musical at a fairly big and famous venue. We had a problem with a singer. Not tuning......timing. She kept running off in front of us, a beat, 2 beats, a bar. Just totally random. We had to go with her. MD's decision. In was a fairly basic tune in 4 but we ended up sounding like Dream Theater.

TM and Bozzio ripping it up

A band i was in used to open with the Thundercats theme tune. I used to do all the shooty laser gun sounds.

So you're saying I don't come across very well in this ad then!

Turn me loose is a monster. What a tune

Still absolutely love that album, the band and Townsend just rip it up. It's my favourite Vai album.

First heard him with Vai. TM Stevens and Bozzio as a rhythm section. I was 14 and had just started playing. That's what I thought a rhythm section had to be like😆

Definitely this.

Eventually Thomann will become OCP. Tbh I've never really been a fan of Dawson's. In the 90's there was a Dawson in a town near me but me and my mates used to use the independent music shops. You could get better stuff at better prices. I found the service and atmospheres in those shops was better too.

Sack them all!

MasterBlaster by Stevie Wonder

Same again

I visited this thread to see if anyone knew anything about the LX8500. Glad I did, I will stay well away. I thought Hartke were supposed to be good. I have a bass attack pedal which I use all the time. Think I'll start looking at other amps.

Surely they're The Old Heavies by now.

No doubt he can sing, I just found his lyrics and songs, in general, a bit clichéd. Loved 5150 though. The levels thing is what I enjoy about Roth and the delivery. No doubt he had his cheesy moments too but not on early VH.

Awesome

The tensions between Roth and the Van Halens brought the magic. Like when they did those two tracks for the greatest hits in the late 90s. It was instantly better than anything they'd done for years. (This post was supposed to be an edit, not quoting myself)

Hagar is just a cheese-meister. Formulaic rock n roll.

Also drove the business, image etc

When I was 14 my first teacher, school instrumental lessons, was a classical guitarist, he started me off on Bach Cello etudes. I wanted to learn Guns n Roses. My second teacher, private lessons, made me do jazz. Complicated big chords and funny times signatures, but I wanted to do Guns and Roses. Neither of em let me do Guns n Roses and I'm so glad for that......I wasn't at the time.

Ain't that the truth!

I thought some of the last album they made had that magic but he's not been good live for a long time. Still love him tho