Blues Saraceno...a monster I totally forgot about

[MBreinin]

Re: Blues Saraceno...a monster I totally forgot ab

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Dimebag was also a huge Blues fan. He was quoted as saying about Blues, "He's so good you just want to punch him!!" He also backed it up by getting the album cover of "Plaid" tattoed on one of his legs.

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Wow, I never knew that. He must have really liked Blues. Good to know that my taste is in good company.

Rock on.

Mike

[Cloud Strife]

Re: Blues Saraceno...a monster I totally forgot ab

HE is a fucking genius!

[charvelguy]

Re: Blues Saraceno...a monster I totally forgot ab

He has the vibrato ability of Sykes, which was something he kinda uniquely developed from what I've read as a means of being able to keep in pitch. His phrasing is very lyrical tho, quite brilliant IMO, he's utilizes it all, taste, tact, feel, speed, phrasing.. oh man, and his tone!

[Endrik]

Re: Blues Saraceno...a monster I totally forgot ab

He has a good vibrato, I wouldn't say like Sykes, but it is wide, he didn't know where to bend when he started playing, so he used wide range when he bent the string so he could be sure that he hits the right pitch somewhere and that's how he developed his vibrato.

[charvelguy]

Re: Blues Saraceno...a monster I totally forgot ab

well we can agree to disagree, I think their vibratos are similar but recognizably different, make sense? Sykes is distinct and easily recognizable as is Blues, just as Angus and Jimmy Page have classic powerful vibratos similar in their style but still distinct. I think Sykes shows greater control over speed and vibrato width in his recordings..but again, even that is likely debateable..

[Endrik]

Re: Blues Saraceno...a monster I totally forgot ab

well sometimes it sounds similar to Syke's vibrato, I agree with that, but John has the best controll over the vibrato of any players IMO. And his vibrato is Very slow. Blues bends the strings almost as far as Sykes, but he has a faster one. John didn't have that cool vibrato on the Lizzy days, when he was in the Whitesnake he consciously started to develop that wide one wich we are all familiar with.
Anyway I think Blues and Sykes sounds a little similar because they both bend the string more than any other player, Yngwie, Schenker etc,
I said that Blues isn't like Sykes because Sykes purposuly started to use his vibrato and Blues wanted to be sure that he is in the pitch.