Vernon Reid Chooses Mackie Tracktion
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
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- KVRer
- 23 posts since 25 Jun, 2003 from Los Angeles
and Lunch Money: MacAlpine has plenty of metal cred. You just have to go back in time a bit and listen to some of his earlier stuff like "Project:Driver".
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You can take the man out of the 80's, but you can't take the 80's out of the man. - Paul Gilbert
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- KVRAF
- 1818 posts since 5 Apr, 2002 from Seattle, WA, USA
That's so damn cool!SevenString wrote:Right on, Lady J! I was definitely into the "Shrapnel" stuff back in the day. I lived in the SF bay area, and had Atma in my band for a while. It was him that got me into odd-meter and all that.
Is he still drumming?They funny thing is my guitar teacher hated him. They were like bitter rivals. To be fair, my teacher could shred as good as him but he had this 'wholistic' approach to playing and loved the blues and jazz more than the rock/metal/shred thing. But Paul grew up about 10 miles from where i grew up, of course he is much older than me but it is amazing he came from the little backwater place hehe.I also used to worship at the altar of Paul Gilbert, and never missed a chance to see Racer-X when they came to town.
Wow, I've only seen Tony (but i got to chill at his HOUSE!) and Vinnie and Marty Friedman when he was with Megadeth.)I was lucky enough to see a lot of the Shrapnel guitarists play live at one point or another, including Vinnie Moore, Becker/Freidman, MacAlpine, Howe, Michael Lee Firkins, Kotzen, etc... etc...
Never got to see them but I got to see Symphony-X once. They opened for this very metal tour and got booed off the stage. Shame.Did you ever get a chance to hear Vicious Rumors? Mark McGee is quite the shred monster, and replaced Vinnie Moore in that band, and the late Carl Albert is one of my favorite singers of all time, along with Russell Allen of Symphony-X and Jorn Lande of Masterplan and ARK.
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- KVRian
- 975 posts since 31 Jan, 2005
Hear Hear!Lunch Money wrote:What the heck is going on with people? People beez nutz!
Tony MacAlpine is shred, and occasionally dabbles in tasteful fusion. He's hard rock at best, not metal.
Living Colour were not metal.
Fishbone are certainly NOT metal! They were diverse enough to have had one or two songs that teetered over the edge of metal, but metal they were not. Lady J's assessment as punk ska is at least closer!
Speaking of Lady J-- J, what do Evanescence have to do with Dream Theatre or King's X? The former is commercial hard rock; the latter two are kind of wankery prog-meets-hard-rock. They're from different eras, with different calibres of musicians, different lyricality, etc. etc. About the only thing they have in common is distorted guitars! To answer your question, though: I like quite a few Evanescence songs, but I'm not about to go out and buy their album.
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- KVRAF
- 4878 posts since 13 Jun, 2002 from Montreal
Huh? No biggie. I may be getting old but I still get a huge thrill brushing shoulders monster talent.Beardedone wrote:
Cool stuff braj wrote:
So rpc9943 is Veron Reid, eh? I love Living Color having seen them open for the Sones some years back .
Cheers,
Gordon
I didn't say anything about Ron
I have a lot of respect for Vernon Reid and I was thinking how cool it is to know that I had been involved in forum exchanges with him.
Cheers,
Gordon
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- KVRAF
- 1820 posts since 28 Mar, 2005
wonder if vernon looks at this forum? if so, i'd like to say, thanks for the inspiration and thanks for supporting mackie. we all look forward to hearing the new project and what comes of it with you using tracktion. i recommend using the waves plugins. it's a blessing to be able to use those marvelous plugs on such a simple and to the point host. the antares stuff is hard to get working without a dx to vst converter. i have yet to find one that will work with the antares stuff.
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- KVRAF
- 1618 posts since 15 Aug, 2001 from montreal, canada
Mmmm Lady J, was that you on the piccy? This is a lot better than talking about metal. Post more.
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35517 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
lharless quoth ...uhhh, let's start a lady j picture thread.
better yet, try and find a thread she's in that isnt full of the damn things.
better yet, try and find a thread she's in that isnt full of the damn things.
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRer
- 26 posts since 25 Dec, 2004 from la rochelle/rotherham
show us yer minge
ow much ee it?
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- KVRAF
- 1820 posts since 28 Mar, 2005
my point exactly... lol.whyterabbyt wrote:lharless quoth ...uhhh, let's start a lady j picture thread.
better yet, try and find a thread she's in that isnt full of the damn things.