Vinnie Moore

[axeman81]

I listen to a lot of 80's music, but I was born in the early eighties so... I'd never heard of this guy Vinnie Moore before...his name came up along with Paul Gilbert as I was reading about Yngwie over at Wikipedia

downloaded a couple of early albums, only heard a couple of songs off his 1987 debut Mind's Eye, but it's totally awesome!! It has much better production than Yngwie's albums from the same era...his style sounds a lot like Paul Gilbert but yet it's different..wow he's got a really nice blend of technique and taste that I had thought PG was alone in having. Anyway...had to share this, I know many of you older fellas already knew all about this, but us youngins' gotta pay attention in history class [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

- Rune.

[Shawn Lutz]

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yeah...he came around about the same time as Tony McAlpine (who also is great) I kinda got out of that vein as it seemed like everyone and their brother was doing neo-classical instrumental albums. The first 2 Vinnie Moore lp's are really cool though.

[kmanick]

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MInds Eye is a good one , so is The Maze, it's funny his later stuff "Out of Nowhere" is really bluesy compared to his early stuff. Shows his versatility. I like the Vin Man good stuff

[Tekky]

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I actually think that "Out of Nowhere" is my favorite VinMan album.

[taxistationary]

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"Time Odyssey" is also spectacular. Moore is one of my favorite for sure.

[Ninja Guitar]

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I love Vinne's stuff. The Maze is my favorite.

[morbid]

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Time Odyssey for me, it's the best Vinnie album. I'm looking for an Ibanez VM1...

[mournblade]

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Time Odyssey and Minds Eye are great 80's shred albums. I liked Vinny more than any of the others (McAlpine,Gilbert, Becker/Friedman, I thought his songs had a nic er flow and composition to them. I wanna get the new UFO album, I have heard one track that sounded pretty good, definitely a different sounding Vinnie Moore on that track.

[Endrik]

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Vinnie plays very tasty solos. I like him a lot. His ballad "Rain" is one of my all time favourite guitar tracks.

[brett8388]

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As an Al DiMeola fan, Vinnie was always #1 for me in the neo-classical field. He still rules, and The Maze is awesome.

Brett

[kmanick]

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Moore fans need to check this one out
http://www.vinniemoore.com/sounds.html
right click on it and save target. good clip

[jwoods986]

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Yeah, Vinnie is awesome. Rune, you were only a couple years old when these guys (Yngwie, Gilbert, Moore,etc.) came out but I was in high school and learning guitar. It was both motivating and frustrating at the same time. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[ChickenScratch]

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Vinnie is amazing, one of my favorites. If you don't have the new UFO album go get it now! On it a lot of the riffs and solos are lifted right off of his Meltdown album, it's weird and cool hearing those songs with vocals behind it.

[LRGman]

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Yea Saw Vinnie on Meltdown tour. Hung out after the show and met everyone. Wasn't even like a meet in greet he just hung out and anyone that wanted to come up and shoot the **** good. Cool guy and was flawless during the show. I have every Vinnie except Defying Gravity- which is great too.

[ChickenScratch]

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Defying Gravity is cool. Too much acoustic stuff for my tastes but it's still a great album. It's worth getting just for that solo on the title track.