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I have been up since 7am returning emails. Holy smokes, this is gonna be crazy, so many amps. We may even have a couple of rockstars on hand! We'll see.
Been giving a lot of thought as to the best way to do this and I think I got it figured out, in my mind anyway. lol The first 3 minutes or so will be a somewhat structured shootout with my engineer Dan McMains and I playing; some solo guitar (guitar only) and some with guitar mixed in tracks. Using the same group of guitars for each section (single coil and humbucker). Then at the end of the final track let people throw down some riffs, it can be the guy who brought the amp or anyone at the shootout, they can use my guitars or their own, doesn't matter. This is so everyone can play and have a good time, while the beginning of each file (first 3 minutes of so) will be more structured to give the listener a good reference to how these amps compare and stack up against one antoher.
I brought a guitar home to practice and get my chops up a little. Please bare with me, I've played guitar the past 20 years mostly as a songwriter/producer so I'm not hip to a lot of the newer shred stuff. I pretty much stopped practicing in 1988 and have used guitar more for artistry and less for slick chop playing. I just got the first 4 VH records and have been having a great time listening to them. When I was a kid I studied with Paul Gilbert privately and was into Ygnwie, Lynch, VH etc... I actually played for a while in Dokken after Goerge left (circa 90-91) but without practice my hands just don't move like that anymore, also I've kind of lost the memory of a lot of my licks and songs so my childhood riffs are what come out now, very strange anomaly. So I grew up playing blues and country in bars in Florida and my heros were; Billy Gibbons, David Gilmore, Ace Frehley and Neal Schon. So there you go, I wish I could bring a bigger pallet but that's it. Though I will play with impeccable feel and attack so the amps will be shown in a good light regardless.
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