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Thanks for mentioning, I really mean what I wrote there, you know...

As always, only US residents. Well, not for me ;-)

Good choice, man, I wouldn't put that suit on me either ;-)

I thought so...

Good point, grasshopper.

I think we have the same fashion taste ;-)

So I understand you play it well, otherwise you wouldn't have bought 2 of them, right? Can you make a video and submit it here? It would be interesting to watch, or a personal review!

I think I didn't explain it well, see this post, I think you'll get my point http://www.guitarflame.com/2008/what-do-you-do-...

It may be, I guess that if you play over an over on I IV V progression you develop some standard licks that you automatically insert into your playing. A few months ago I had here a post about repeating yourself and trying to not sound like...yourself and constantly trying to find and discover new lick so you never repeat yourself. Playing slow is a first step to this, I guess.

@Dr J: I don't know the album, but I will try to listen it if you pointed me to it. I have thought about reviewing albums but I said that it's not for me, honestly, I have really paid some thinking to this, because I have here in Romania a few examples and I have always considered those guys people with a vast musical culture. I have my own "musical culture", if you want, larger or smaller, depending on where you look from, but I don't think it is large enough to allow me to judge other people who did more than me, even if sometimes I can't help it and I make judgment of one artist or another. I'm only human and I have my opinions. However, it is more to it when reviewing music, I think, and you hold a responsibility. Plus that sometimes I get excited quite fast about one song or another and this is never a good thing when writing reviews ;-)

@Stratoblogster: I have listened some old music, but not that much that I could follow it's development, as I was saying a bit earlier, I have my culture, but I can't say it's wide and covers all aspects I would like to. It's my own and it's quite fragmented, you know...However, I had a friend once that used to make judgment of music of the 50's, 60's, music that I didn't listen that much, and I was always amazed of how deep he went into judging music and comparing it to what other have done before it, as in 40's, 50'...

I will look for that video you speak about of Bonamassa and Trout on YouTube

Yes, I have also loved that version of Stairway to heaven, it's something else, as anything he plays, to be honest. The suit, well...I just don't like it ;-)

From your comment I understand that you should play blues with an outside influence, like jazz, in this case, right? Indeed, if you do this probably will sound more interesting and exactly the mixture will become interesting and give you your trademark. That's exactly why I love Andy Timmons (again, not blues, but serves my points)

Well, so you are one of the lucky people that really saw these guitars. Did you play any of them?

Well, I guess you can look at it this way, like in jazz, but sometimes I feel every blues player overuses this basic progression and no matter the variations, at some point becomes too much. However, I like this idea of sharing something with the audience, in this case this feeling that a "known" progression gives you, I have not thought about it this way.

Hey, guys, I don't think it is a contest who's faster, it's all about music, right? Plus that Mustaine is an icon in rock music

I ended up uploading Alice Cooper but Living on a prayer is a great song!

I will, Carol, because I love what I do here ;)

That's a pointy guitar, I would be curious about the sound. I guess that you can pay $470 for a guitar that doesn't sound well, but I don't think you would ever pay $2000-3000 for one if it doesn't sound well. The Normandy guitar here seems to have a nice sound. Regarding the built in speaker, well, I am not a big fan since it sounds cheap. Would you buy such thing?

Well, for sure I haven't seen them on other guitars so this comes as a design particularity after all. I wonder why didn't they build a camouflage guitar also, I think personally this would have been the first thing I would have done considering the aluminum and the initial destination.

Well, that is true, because we have complex personalities and we can not just like one thing and that thing only. That's exactly why music is so beautiful, isn't it?

But isn't this formula sometimes constraining the artist? I mean being somehow forced to stay in that pattern gives a feeling of deja vu in most of the cases. I just ask myself how would I feel if I would hear the same pattern over and over in hard rock or heavy metal or in classic rock. OK, I don't want to be an ass, I like blues and I like to play blues, but the question still remains and it is more difficult to be original in playing blues than other genders, I think.

And, Roben, it is not artificial that we look for originality, because we are not always jamming, we need new things, this is what defines the progress in music as well as in other domains but OK, we should not make a target out of this.

Thank you for mentioning my site, I am honored and always happy to know somebody appreciates my site! I will think about removing some ads, I also appreciate your feedback from this point of view, sometimes ads can be annoying. Thank you!

It will surely be interesting, I barely wait. I don't know if the 3+1 formula is what he referred to, both him and Sammy Hagar said the same about the band and I had the impression it is also about the music. By the way, if you are right, it means that me and my band played in an early Zeppelin style band ;-)

@Bill: I have also thought about this, being his own songs, I guess his trademarked licks will be there so I barely wait!

Yeah, I noticed how Satriani changed the tone, indeed, he is warmer today, like for ex on Starry night, I barely recognize him. Also, if you think about his performance in Deep Purple, then you may say he has a history but on Deep Purple's songs, he plays like Deep Purple, not like Satriani.