Brooks

1st album seemed generic to my ear, but I'm a picky SOB

I was expecting Punky Meadows

His tenure w/ Zappa had some good stuff. RIP

Yep. I was born in '66, then at Xmas '76 I got a stereo & three 8 track tapes; Frampton Comes Alive, Best of BTO, and Dressed To Kill. Immediately started air guitaring w/ a tennis racket and begging my folks for a guitar. Kiss was my bridge from comic books to music. Joined Columbia House and got more 8 tracks; Alive!, R&R Over, & Alive II. My brother, my best friend & I would put makeup on, turn on a black light, and air guitar to Kiss until my parents told us to go to bed. Soon got a guitar and moved on to Sabbath, Led Zep, etc but Kiss lit the fuse. Ace was always the coolest guy in Kiss. RIP

I used to live next town over, Garland (or "Arlen", if you watch King Of The Hill). "Shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet, house the people, living in Mesquite"...

RIP Anthony Jackson, the bassist on many 70s era Al DiMeola records that I love, among others. I saw him w/ Wayne Krantz in 2011, I was in a wheelchair due to my recent motorcycle crash. This is one of my faves - Here's a cool example of his piano like bass tone -

Love Rush, good for them, yada yada... BUT!!! Hard rock vocals just don't work very well w/ old men, and yes I'm including Halford & Dio.

That tune was crazy! very cool

THIS, as it pertains to 12 strings, acoustics, fretless, and baritones. I tried, I really did...

Sig worthy.

So many are perfect (to me);

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Tunes from last years BEAT tour are now up on Spotify. I love how Vai adds his own touch, tapping the relentless Fripp part ~55 seconds in on Frame By Frame, and adding a sweet solo at the end of Neal & Jack & Me;

The whole SBS album (minus Fluff).

Gary was playing that red strat when I saw him open up the 84 Texxas Jam.

Cool, almost looks like the one Ace held on the cover of Guitar Player

Looks a little like my old shredder;

They're all in here;

Thread should be "favorite sabbath song", hard to pick just one... Bonus round - best covers of my other fave sabs tunes;

Yeah, I take a handful of vitamins and supplements every morning; glucosamine, turmeric, multi vitamin, D, K, zinc, aspirin...

For me, it's my back, especially on 3 hour gigs. Compressed disc from lifting patients for ~14 years. The good news is a lighter call volume since I swapped counties in 2018, and only 1 monthly gig is 3 hours, the other 2 or 3 are 2 hours. I'll be 59 in December (!)

Diablo those are badass

THE SUGAR PLUMBS ARE RANCID AND THE STOCKINGS ARE IN FLAMES, THERE'S SOMEONE UP THE CHIMNEY HOLE AND SATAN IS HIS NAME