Eklundh is awesome - I really like his track "Lydia's House"

One of my favourite new guitarists. Check out his stuff with his band Freak Kitchen too

A MUST Have. Maybe I can get my GF to buy me this one. He is versatile eh...he is great on nylon string too. I lovethe track "Print".

Problem though. Favoured nations uses Amazon to distribute their merch. Where else can I buy this?

Conrad

Get them from .co.uk:
Freak Guitar
Road Less Travelled

He He, wait 'til you hear his gypsy jazz version of Kiss's Detroit Rock City, or his La Bamba (which is along the same lines of his Smoke on the Water). Truly amazing stuff. If you liked him mimicing the dot matrix printer in Print This!, you'll love his video game noises in Insert Coin.

I've also managed to amass a bunch of clips and videos - the man is a bona fide lunatic. I have a workshop where he plays through a Gorilla 10W amp and a "Russian Distortion pedal from Hell" - and sounds just as good. The only effects he uses is occasional Wah, a vibrator and a toy cellphone - the rest is him using odd intervals and harmonics. He's probably the best player for using harmonics (and that includes the Rev. Billy G!).

His Freak kitchen stuff is great - more commercial metal. Three piece band, but very well crafted power rock with no overdubs and a few silly Zappa-influenced lyrics. Unusually for metal there are no dragons, demons or wizards in sight (although he often rips off metal players by referring to things as being "from Hell").

He and Bumblefoot are firm friends and often show up on each other's CDs.

Bumblefoot is really good as well. Listening to Devin Townsend at work. Is that wrong?

Townshend's another genius, I think I'm one of the few who thought his work with Vai was great. His own stuff is a little generic, but he plays all the instruments himself and to a very high level.

Now I love his work with Vai. He was so young. Have you heard his "Synchestra" album?

I haven't - Accelerated Evolution and one or two others. It all kind of washed over me without making much impression. I'll check out Synchestra.

I thought he made quite an impression on you coz youu called him a geniemouse. Synchestra is my favourite of his albums. He has serious bipolar depression though.

He's a wonderful and talented musician, but I don't care much for his music. I'll marvel at what he can do, but I won't put a CD of his on. I feel the same about Malmsteen, Tim Donahue, Pettruci, Trent Reznor and many others.

Bumblefoot is also bipolar. So was Mozart and many other great musicians/composers.

Yes. It's funny there seems to be a link between schizophrenia and mathematicians too just as there is one between musicians and depression (apparently)and this is empirical information, nothing too speculative. Weird...

All I'm going to say is that Electric Shock Therapy ain't as much fun as it looks in the movies...

Isn't that illegal in SA already? I met someone who had amnesia from that and couldn't remember his wife.

Wow! Just saw the "Print This" clip Amazing and so original!

CornFlakes wrote: Wow! Just saw the "Print This" clip Amazing and so original!

Yes...it's no wonder Vai put him on the Favoured nations catalog. Also check out acoustic guitarist Tommy Emmanuel (Dunno about spelling, sorry).

Conrad

Yes. It's funny there seems to be a link between schizophrenia and mathematicians too just as there is one between musicians and depression (apparently)and this is empirical information, nothing too speculative. Weird...

Endogenous depression is a necessary prerequisite to be a blues player ?
The demize and tragic death of Jaco Pastorus has been ascribed to his refusal to take the prescribed medication to control his bipolar disorder - he complained that the medication made his fingers numb.

Renesongs wrote:

Yes. It's funny there seems to be a link between schizophrenia and mathematicians too just as there is one between musicians and depression (apparently)and this is empirical information, nothing too speculative. Weird...

Endogenous depression is a necessary prerequisite to be a blues player ?
The demize and tragic death of Jaco Pastorus has been ascribed to his refusal to take the prescribed medication to control his bipolar disorder - he complained that the medication made his fingers numb.

His death was really tragic. He was beaten to death by a club owner who tried to get out of it by saying that Jaco fell. Apparently Jaco was causing a problem but you don't have to kill someone to subdue them?

Conrad

Luc Havan pled guilty to manslaughter, for which he served four months.
I would have given him life with a set of headphones stitched to his ears playing ABBA 24/7

ConradP wrote: Isn't that illegal in SA already? I met someone who had amnesia from that and couldn't remember his wife.

I doubt that its illegal, I went for about 4-6 treatments (my memory of that period isn't that good) but it worked for me, or well the combination of every pill and treatment they gave me worked, I don't know which specific thing worked best as I went through almost every possible treatment / drug for about 2 years. That was about 6 years ago. I do know that EST technology has been improved quite drastically, in the old days it was really not a good idea, plenty of people turned into vegetables / had amnesia. They have improved it quite a bit though.

Maybe the person you refer to was one of the early cases? I experienced a bit of short term memory loss, but nothing major. Glad I did it though, life is at east bearable these days.