That’s interesting, I’d only ever heard people say that EVH used to say Clapton was his main (I think he even said “only” on occasion) influence. I’ve always thought there was a lot of Paginess in his playing (listen to the Atomic Punk isolated guitar track for example).
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Here I am with a bit of a delay 
Firstly… at the moment I don’t know how I managed to record that (and pretty much everything else on my channel). I struggled all year to find the same level of focus and confidence to record something proper. And I do still have some time to practice and a very supportive partner, I have no excuses really 
(first world problems, as they say). Well hopefully it’ll come back someday!
I can’t give an exact deadline but I’d be very happy to do it - at least for the tricky passages!
See above, I’m hoping the same
@DjangoUntrained, @RockStarJazzCat, @BillHoudini and everyone else, thanks again for the nice words! Means a lot to me!
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Killer performance. My guess is that most of the “dislikes” are people who just hate shred, because you played the hell out of this.
Why the double tracking? I don’t recall that from the original, but I haven’t listened in forever.
I’ll try to remember to take a crack at this myself, just to be properly humbled once I understand how hard it is.
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@Tommo, lots of sadistic, jealous, and/or just grumpy people out there. Consider the very small number of dislikes as “I’m Oscar the Grouch, and I took the time to watch (maybe),” and don’t sweat it? (Easier said than done.)
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Yeah, what he said /\ I’ve done a ton of youtube videos over the years, mostly pickup comparison/shootout videos, and few if any have ever had NO thumbs down. I just kinda look at the percentage of ups to downs, and if I’m in the 90s, I consider that very good. Just pretend it’s a grade on an exam or something.
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Well since you’ve all been so nice I’m going to show you what I’m working on - I thought it would be good to record and share a short thing to get myself back on track
Still a lot to do in terms of timing and consistency (also sorry for that bend hehe), but I think I’ll get there! Not sure when I’ll manage a full recording though, maybe in a week, maybe in 2 years 
Two reasons (who am I kidding, we all know the order should be inverted):
- it adds a bit of tonal variation when repeating the part
- some rough edges I didn’t like (present in both takes) are covered up a bit.
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The Thinking Machine cover is great Tommo! I really enjoyed listening to that (and your other stuff).
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Well, this was clean as hell, I thought.
I tried the intro last night - kind of a weird-feeling riff, you’re right. Cool, though. LOTS of memorization to get this down, though, there’s a lot of variety here.
EDIT - and I’ve been listening to Moore all morning now because of this thread, lol.
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Yeah! Let’s give the VinMan some love. A compositional genius of the electric guitar in my 100% unbiased opinion
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Holy sh*t!! That’s great tommo!
We were supposed to start practicing this together, but life got in the middle and I haven’t practiced at all in past 2-3 months. I’ll try to catch up with you until 2020 haha.
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