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Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:29:37 -0500 |
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Yeah, but what about when Bonnet was in Rainbow?
"Since You've Been Gone" is a stone-cold 80's classic!
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>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 -0800 (PST) 13:50:28
>
>Gabriel Fuentes wrote:
>
>>> Yngwie Malmsteem with Alactraz
>>> (remember them?)
>
>Yea.
>
>I still remember the first time I saw the video for
>
>"Island in the Sun" on MTV in, like, 1984 (never
>saw
>it again LOL); here's this simplistic, relatively
>straight-ahead power-pop song and then, suddenly,
>Yngwie's
>totally-out-of-place-but-nonetheless-thrilling
>guitar
>solo (take that, guitar solo haters!).
>
>As a metal-head at the time -- oh, okay, so I still
>
>am, sue me -- I found Yngwie's fretboard prowess to
>be
>inspiring. Of course, after he released what seemed
>
>like dozens of solo albums that all featured
>exactly
>the same pentatonic mile-a-second runs, I grew
>board.
>
>The thing about Alcatrazz that killed it for me was
>
>the vocalist, Graham Bonnet; I'm certainly not a
>snob
>when it comes to vocal stylings, but damned if this
>
>guy didn't ruin the songs for me with his
>over-the-top
>screeching. Strange, because the man is
>well-respected
>among many metal/rock musicians, at least from what
>
>I've heard.
>
>Wheedle-y wheedle-y wheee!
>
>kErrY
>www.myspace.com/kompost
>
>NP: Droid Action -- Mama's Dead EP
>
>
>
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