In Reply to: Friday with Beth and Joe posted by G Squared on July 22, 2016 at 12:27:56:
If you were in San Francisco in the late-80s, you got to bathe in the wave of thrash metal, and may have heard of speed metal band, Cacophony. Cacophony was basically a vehicle for guitar virtuosos, Marty Friedman and Jason Becker, to show off their shredding.
So in 1988, Friedman and Becker headed to Cotati (near Sonoma State, between Petaluma and Santa Rosa), and each recorded solo albums, Dragon's Kiss and Perpetual Burn, respectively. Both garnered positive reviews, but it seemed that Friedman got more attention, and thus, sales.
To this day, a small army of audiophiles keeps bugging me for tales of the late-80s/early-90s Bay Area metal scene. But sometimes, we need to tone it down. And that is what we get, with Becker's "Air."
I went to the academic public high school, and found it interesting, that all those smart kids in orchestra tried to play along "Air," and figure out where Becker stole the ideas, progressions, techniques, and notes from. At the time, Becker himself was still a teenager, so it made sense that my high school classmates were excited, inspired, and encouraged by Becker.
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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- Jason Becker, "Air" - Luminator 17:42:53 07/22/16 (0)