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  • #1

    Jason Becker

    Still the player I aspire to the most. Such genius, imagine where he's be now if the ALS hadn't struck him down!

    Anyways, I had seen lots of clips of him before, but never the full video! Check this out: lots of Clinic footage and really cool stuff! UNBELIEVABLE. Still the best shredder ever, in my opinion! That documentary on him is on youtube as well, really gives you a good insight to him and what happened. I remember seeing that a couple of years back and whenever I need inspiration I just watch that. Music runs through his veins and his heart probably beats to the meter of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony.

    Check out his Hot For Teacher jam!!!! He sent that to DLR to audition for his band, needless to say he got the gig!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3fvB...jason%20becker
    You took too much, man. Too much. Too much.
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    That is a good video.....that documentary is sad but reminds us to live like its the last day we may have.
    Damn this is an expensive hobby.....

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    • #3
      Unreal - "one thing I'm not is a tapper".. then he RIPS it up ! Hot for teacher overhand. And picked ! WTF !
      I always enjoyed his playing, and was pretty bummed when I heard the news of his diagnosis.

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      • #4
        When he did the album with dave he was beginning to feel the symptoms of ALS, so he had to go to a lighter string gauge on guitar. He played the solo to "its showtime" with freakin ALS!
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        • #5
          Jason RULES!!!
          "Bill, Smoke a Bowl and Crank Van Halen I, Life is better when I do that"
          Donnie Swanstrom 01/25/06..miss ya!

          "Well, your friend would have Bell's Palsy, which is a facial paralysis, not "Balls Pelsy" like we're joking about here." Toejam's attempt at sensitivity.

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          • #6
            I really hate all the idiots on youtube who post comments...
            i love jason but he is a wank teacher.. thats all.
            It's always idiots being racist or thinking they know everything.
            If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. Unless you are a table.

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            • #7
              great tech player with passionate feel too But it could be Karma.lol..he played his arse off to get that good but showed off more than anyone i know!(black star and one handed eruption--lol--the song not the internet porno dance)His teaching wasnt realy good on that vid mate?but there only clips one to one he would be great!

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              • #8
                I'm preaching to the choir here, but the number of people who actually saw him play has got to be pretty small. I was lucky enough to watch him do that stuff from a few feet away. Not a note out of place, and he made it look completely effortless. This was on the Go Off! tour, and after seeing him do yoyo tricks while playing Eruption one handed, I couldn't bring myself to pick up a guitar for a month. In addition, Jason is one of the coolest human beings I've ever met.
                This electric phase ain't no teenage craze -UFO

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                • #9
                  The guy kicked some serious tail. Thanks very much for posting this.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by petedz
                    I'm preaching to the choir here, but the number of people who actually saw him play has got to be pretty small. I was lucky enough to watch him do that stuff from a few feet away. Not a note out of place, and he made it look completely effortless. This was on the Go Off! tour, and after seeing him do yoyo tricks while playing Eruption one handed, I couldn't bring myself to pick up a guitar for a month. In addition, Jason is one of the coolest human beings I've ever met.
                    +1
                    His playing is truly missed.
                    If you can, just imagine he had never got ALS and continued with Roth and eventually went on to do some solo projects? He without a doubt would've easily been a household name and much more. The sheer raw talent he had (no flashy tricks) was amazing. Now throw those flash tricks into it, he was a undisputable star player and writer in the waiting. Years ahead of the musical scene in that day. In all the arpeggio shedders, Jason stood out imo because he was a soulful and tasteful player, which the others lacked terribly. I never got bored listening to him play.
                    Last edited by Soap; 07-21-2006, 11:18 PM.
                    Peace, Love and Happieness and all that stuff...

                    "Anyone who tries to fling crap my way better have a really good crap flinger."

                    I personally do not care how it was built as long as it is a good playing/sounding instrument.

                    Yes, there's a bee in the pudding.

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                    • #11
                      Jason was truley an amazing player. Eleven Blue Egyptians is still one of my all time favorites.
                      Jackson: DK1
                      Charvel: CS (CSB), SD (RGF), SD (Bullseye), SD '83 (HRF)

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                      • #12
                        Thinking about all that lost talent and ambition is sad. Every time I hear his name mentioned it always yields the same reaction from me of comlete loss.

                        Well at least we have recordings and a slew of playings trying to capture what he's done.
                        I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. - Ayn Rand

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                        • #13
                          Even though I've seen this before, I am mesmerized every time I watch him.

                          Outstanding!

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                          • #14
                            I know him from cacophony. he was one of the greatest guitarists on earth
                            everlasting life for me in a perfect world...but I gotta die first, please god send me on my way!

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