It's Chris Broderick...

[Norton]

Nevermore rules!! Though, all of their stuff is tuned a half-step down... Eb for 6-strings and Bb for 7-strings.

Yeah, I know. But I don't think of "half step down", as downtuning

[toejam]

True, it's not drastically downtuned, but still...

I've owned an Ibanez RG7620 and Schecter 007 Elite, found them cool, but just didn't use them enough. I do have a little GAS now for a Carvin 7.

All my guitars now are tuned either to E, Eb or D. I really don't like to go lower than D for a 6-string. The 7-string definitely opens up some more possibilities, which I really want to try again.

[Norton]

I want a Carvin 7 ,too. I just need the money.

[Endrik]

Did Tony Iommi have an "updated" sound with his Black Sabbath songs that were tuned down?

most of the classic riffs he did were only half riff lower, he later used some lower tuning because of his fucked up fingers, even Ed had sometimes C# but it didn't sound much different, just lower, the riff sounded still like Ed's riff

Tommy's updated sound were riffs that sounded evil as shit

[horns666]

I want to lick the balls of the god who made Tony Iommi chop off his digits..

[Endrik]

I want to lick the balls of the god who made Tony Iommi chop off his digits..

while you are doing that I want to fuck that god's wife

[MartinBarre]

Dream Theater and Nevermore? Well, I can't really say either of those bands interest me. Sure Nevermore play some mean guitar, but the songs aren't very good. If that's the best a 7 string can offer, I think I still don't really see any point in it.
Why reinvent the wheel? There was nothing wrong with Megadeth when they made RIP - a 7 string guitar is not needed, just great songs again.

[Norton]

while you are doing that I want to fuck that god's wife

What if you get busted? A bolt of lightning in the head wouldn't be good.

[horns666]

What if you get busted? A bolt of lightning in the head wouldn't be good.

Yeah..how do ya think Lucifer got put in the dog house!!!

I'm just saying, Tony lopping off his fingers was the best thing that ever happened..it gave birth to metal and the "evil" riff...who knew?!

There is soooooooooo many awesome 7 string players..you'd prolly wouldn't even know they were playing a 7. A freind of mine has a site called "stricky 7" or something like that..he's a good noodler. He's good freinds with Curran Murphy of "Shattered Messiah"..who was a long term "live" secondary player for Nevermore and Annihilator. He's playing in my old singer bud's band. He's also helpin' out in that same camp with "Dark Arena" and "I King"..the same dude that I did that Attaxe thing with. Maybe I can find that site..he had it up and running for some time now.

Like mentioned above, 7's are NOT an exclusive "Nu" thing..Uli Roth and Steve Vai set that tone (pun) years ago...and Uli Roth isn't joing Korn anytime soon !

"Nu" is for the shreddily challenged..:ROTF:

[Endrik]

the only thing wich has more than 6 strings that I'm interested of playing with is Chapman Stick

[horns666]

the only thing wich has more than 6 strings that I'm interested of playing with is Chapman Stick

THAT is exactly how I started tapping on bass. But I don't tap the way guys like Billy does. I look at bass much like a keyboard in treble/bass clef. Tony Levin fucked me all up when I saw him in '81' w/ KK with a Chapan stick. I was completely floored. I was young and had no clue or could afford to get one of those. Naturally I just adapted his techniqe to the 4 string bass...and I wrote 30 years worth of riifs that way. Stu Hamm and Jeff Berlin also does it in that same style..

I actually played some bass chops for Glen and Shawn Drover on Adrian's 6 string bass. Glen actually held the neck by the nut to dampen the strings so I could do some of my tapping/slapping shit. I kept busting Adrian's balls and kept telling him his bass was too big.

I can play 6 string bass pretty good, as long as I remove a string or two..

[Brick]

Thats great he is awesome, i wish he played full time for nevermore (I'm saying that has a huge fan). I don't think we'll be used to his full ablity in megadeth but whatever it'll still be sweet it see him on gigantour. good news!

[Endrik]

THAT is exactly how I started tapping on bass. But I don't tap the way guys like Billy does. I look at bass much like a keyboard in treble/bass clef. Tony Levin fucked me all up when I saw him in '81' w/ KK with a Chapan stick. I was completely floored. I was young and had no clue or could afford to get one of those. Naturally I just adapted his techniqe to the 4 string bass...and I wrote 30 years worth of riifs that way. Stu Hamm and Jeff Berlin also does it in that same style..

I actually played some bass chops for Glen and Shawn Drover on Adrian's 6 string bass. Glen actually held the neck by the nut to dampen the strings so I could do some of my tapping/slapping shit. I kept busting Adrian's balls and kept telling him his bass was too big.

I can play 6 string bass pretty good, as long as I remove a string or two..

yep, my friend also plays it like a piano (mostly with 4 or 5 string basses) and often incorporates all the tapping licks into funk/slapping grooves wich gives a cool vibe
but the Chapman Stick is a funny thing, there you got string wich are for low end bass line grooving and then there's strings for guitar sounding stuff. It's like bass and guitar built into one.

[Norton]

I used to want a Chapman stick. Then, like any human being, I started to forget that I wanted one. And I started not to want one


I think I could do a lot of stuff ,including the two handed tapping thing, on a 7 string.So, they're cool for me.


And for X(Insert any divine being here)'s sake, who wouldn't like to be able to play Dead Heart In a Dead World?

[jdr94]

hahahahahaha, who cares if dave can't let go. that is HIS problem. if he HAS copied metallica, who cares? to me megadeth was always different. much more technical and less "catchy" songs. metal dudes that liked technical stuff gravitated to megadeth while the mainstream gravitated toward metallica. to me they are apples and oranges.

and, again, who really cares?

yeah guess you're right it dont really matter. megadeth to me will always be better than metallica except for the metallica dave helped write