Okay, lead guitar players, gun slingers, virtuosos, et al, LISTEN UP!!! This is YOUR episode!!
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When you have a podcast about Metal Nerdery and 66% of the Metal Nerdery staff are guitar players (that’s 2/3 if you can Math good) and the guitarists decide to go down the rabbit hole regarding the art of shredding and overall lead guitar wizardry & sheer solo shreddery, you KNOW things are going to go off the rails in the most shred-tactical way possible.
You’re going to want to double your normal relaxer regimen as we went kinda long with this one (you’re welcome for that, btw). Turn off your workstation (“work” is subjective anyway), prepare your double bowl of relaxerole (with a lime) and JOIN US as we pay homage to guitarists who give us the gift of insane guitar shreddery. Metal Nerdery Presents: HAIL to SHRED!
Paul Gilbert
Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Randy Rhoads
Crossroads: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Surfing With The Alien
Buckethead
Eric Johnson (Cliffs of Dover)
… and many more..
Show Notes:
(00:00): – #bolth ear holes / #25 on Rolling Stone’s List should be moved up about 24 notches / #howyoudoin / Russell’s Rant, Part 2 re: Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time vs Metal Nerdery’s Lysticle of Metal Shredders (and any and all tangentionally related shredders with a degree of tangentionalality to Metal) / #superbowlritual / Russell’s microbrewery plug for #doctorrobot and #mondaynightbrewery / A word from Geezahhh…BUY OUR SHIT! www.metalnerdery.com/merch #dontdenythepowerof Reverb
(04:44): – Shout Outs and a word from Lars / Kirk Hammett and the wah-wah backlash (sorry, we had to get the #blackalbumreference out of the way early) #turnitoffnow / The origins of Shred (and some important names that YOU need to know about!!) / Guys that fucking ROCKED!
(09:50): – The 20 Greatest Shred Guitarists of All Time (per Guitar World which is #trustworthy) / ***REMEMBER CROSSROADS!? Eugene’s Bag of Tricks! *** / Steve Vai deserves an OSCAR for his amazing acting work as a shitty guitar player in #crossroads / The cutting heads duel in Crossroads is like porn for guitar players! #realtalk #metalasfuck
(15:25): – EVEN MORE Steve Vai: Liberty (if you are a guitar player, go purchase Steve Vai’s “Passion & Warfare”. You’re welcome) / So Happy (#hahaha #imgonnagetaballoon) We should ALL be #sohappy / Playin what she was Sayin / Yngwie J. Malmsteen (#nodonuts) ***Check out the guitar solo on Yngwie’s “Live in Leningrad”!!!*** Say what you want about Yngwie, but can YOU do that shit!? #noyoucant #dontdenythepowerof #yngwiemalmsteen / Questionable “axes” for “shredders”
(22:51): – Joe Satriani and a #WKLS 96 Rock flashback memory (Surfing With The Alien) / THAT is why Joe Satriani is fucking Joe Satriani! / Paul Gilbert (is ridiculous! HAIL!) ***Check out Paul Gilbert’s ridiculous guitar acrobatics!!*** / A half inch of reach…you can move your right hand faster… / You can check out more of Paul Gilbert’s #shreditude via Racer X / The most abbreviated John Petrucci guitar solo ever #johnpetrucci is a blessin (more to come in the future…)
(33:13): – #flabberflackle / Buckethead (and the urban legend that Paul Gilbert is actually Buckethead) / Guthrie Govan (#newschoolshredder) – The Aristrocrats (Bad Asteroid) ***Don’t be scared of #jazz*** / Jason Becker (#HFS) As Blitz tells us: He Came to #shred #jasonbecker #hail #yoyo #fuckingawesome and #ridiculous
(40:12): – Eric Johnson (Cliffs of Dover) and the very #symmetrical phrasing in his playing / Michael Angelo Batio (#nitro #freighttrain) / Skipping past the #excess to the #solo because it’s ALL #ridiculous
(46:40): – The Loss of a Shredder (Alexi Laiho, the Main Mustainer from Children of Bodom) / Top 10 List of Shredders (#ooooooh) Many of which we’ve already seen… Randy Rhoads Tribute version of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Suicide Solution” LIVE! (NOTE: The guitar solo starts at 4.44) #wegonnadoanumbahnow #sonicbliss #randyrhoads #shredgod #ozzy #princeofdarkness
(53:10): – Al DiMeola (***check out Race with the Devil on a Spanish Highway and also check out Mahivishnu Orchestra and also also check out Passion, Grace & Fire*** Please note that the Al DiMeola is tangentionally related to John Petrucci and therefore has a high tangentionalality to prog Metal). / DIME! #reinventingthemetal #domination #metalnerderyASMR / Progressive and Thrash bands have lots of shred! / Avenged Sevenfold (#A7X) / Hard Gack to Rewire Garage Loads
(01:03:00): – HAIL to John Petrucci and his #signaturemodel #guitar (and also HAIL to Less Paul) / ***#INNOVATION FOSTERS #GREATNESS!!!*** / Zakk Wylde (Farm Fiddlin’) from The Guitars that Rule the World compilation / Kirk “The Hamster” Hammett (#Metallica fans are #fickle and #petty) / #sizematters We Are #Blind / Richie Sambora = Shredding #noslouch PLEASE send the daughters of Bon Jovi pussy over to Metal Nerdery HQ…specifically for Matt because the other guys are married and off the market (#footloose)
(1:13:20): – Ritchie Blackmore (see also Deep Purple and Rainbow…see also see also coming soon #RJD) / Multiple shredders worthy of multiple accolades: Tony MacAlpine, Jeff Loomis, HAIL! / New Jukebox song naming conventions / Limping Literary / Tony MacAlpine (Hundreds of Thousands… (of notes)) / George Lynch (Mr. Scary) BONUS: the Beast from the East #guitarsolo #frightening #dokken #mrscary #shred (Is George Lynch’s solo style “violent”? Is it #violent enough for him to get into #slayer or #exodus ?) / More from RUSSELL’S RANT… regarding Rolling Stone aka “a great piece of paper”. Where is Robb Flynn and Machine Head? Where are Forbidden!? / Your spouse is #NOT #brucespringsteen or #theboss / THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO METAL NERDERY’S SHREDDERY NERDERY / Geezahh the Butlahh outtakes (on tons of relaxers) #easteregg