My new favorite Jeff Loomis

[P I K A]

Holy shit this is the most outrageous playing Ive seen . Its perfect ,has the shred ,the feel ,and the heavy. What a great guitarist. That guitar looks pretty nice too. See them going for 6 bills used on ebay. May haveto start gettin into 7 strings. Anyway heres the vid ,dont know if you guys seen this one yet. Looks like he's playing along with the cd. Holy shit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjfUMLeKd5E

[P I K A]

Oh yea I know of Loomis thru Nevermore but this vid is the shit. Downloaded it thru firefox ,now I gotta work on it. Probably take me till Christmas.

[Dred]

He's not playing this live, it's just a his performance (this one, in fact http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP9ll...eature=related ) synched up to Miles of Machines off the album.

So if you've thought the other one is th shit, man, you'll flip when you hear this one.

Welcome to the club!

[VitaminG]

I would love to have heard the actual audio of him playing it. A long time ago now someone posted vids of him playing various NM solos over backing tracks at NAMM. Very cool stuff.

and there's always some unimpressed old guy wandering around in the back looking at pretty archtop guitars

[VitaminG]

here's one of them. Check the difference in sound quality from the same session

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0vctp35IkA

[Jacksons Shred]

I would love to have heard the actual audio of him playing it. A long time ago now someone posted vids of him playing various NM solos over backing tracks at NAMM. Very cool stuff.

and there's always some unimpressed old guy wandering around in the back looking at pretty archtop guitars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZJSC_WOvFU

There ya' go..

Yeah, Jeff's a killer player, he's one of my favorites. Horns666 is probably the biggest JL fan there is, so I'm sure he can give you any insight on him you want.

I happen to tab this song out (The intro, at least), if anyone wants it..

[Jacksons Shred]

Funny thing, is I actually recently submitted this tab to Ultimate-Guitar and it got denied.. I guess they don't like accurate tabs. I'll upload a GP for anyone who wants it, but here's the text of it for anyone who doesn't have GP.

       Miles Of Machines                                                         


                                                                                                                       Jeff Loomis
Track 1



       |--3-|  |--3-|  |-3-|  |-3-|  |-3-|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  
       S  S S  S S  S  S S S  S S S  S S S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  
D#||--------------------------------12-7---15-12----14-11-------------|
A#||-------------------------12-8--------8-------12-------12----------|
F#||------------------12-9--------9--------------------------11-------|
C#||--------9-14-9---------9------------------------------------13----|
G#||-----10--------10----------------------------------------------14-|
D#||--12--------------------------------------------------------------|


  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  
  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  
----------------11-14-11----19-14-------------12-------16-12----19-16----|
-------------12----------12-------16-------15----15-12-------15-------17-|
----------11-------------------------13-16-------------------------------|
-------13----------------------------------------------------------------|
--9-14-------------------------------------------------------------------|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------|


   |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  
--22-19----18-19-20-21-17-------------------------------------------------|
--------21----------------17----------------------------17-------22-17----|
-----------------------------18----------------------18----18----------18-|
--------------------------------19----------------19----------19----------|
-----------------------------------19-16----16-19-------------------------|
-----------------------------------------17-------------------------------|


   |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  
--20-17-14----------------14-17-14----------14-20-17-14-19-16-12----------|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------20-17-14-17-20----------20-17-20----------------------19-16-13-|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


   |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  
--------12----------------12-19-16-12-18-15-12----------------12-15-12----|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
--16-19----19-16-13-16-19----------------------18-15-12-15-18----------18-|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


   |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|    --  
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S        
--------12-18-15-12-19-14----------------------------14-19-14----17-14----|----||
--------------------------16----------------------16----------16-------16-|----||
--15-18----------------------16----------------16-------------------------|----||
--------------------------------16----------16----------------------------|----||
-----------------------------------18-14-18-------------------------------|----||
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|----||




Duration Legend
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W - whole
H - half
Q - quarter
E - 8th
S - 16th
T - 32nd
X - 64th
. - note dotted
|-n-|  - n-tuplets


Tablature Legend
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L - tied note
x - dead note
g - grace note
(n) - ghost note
> - accentuded note
NH - natural harmonic
AH - artificial harmonic
TH - tapped harmonic
SH - semi harmonic
PH - pitch harmonic
h - hammer on
p - pull off
b - bend
br - bendRelease
pb - preBend
pbr - preBendRelease
brb - bendReleaseBend
\n/ - tremolo bar dip
\n - tremolo bar dive
-/n - tremolo bar Release up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
/n - tremolo bar return
-\n - tremolo bar Release down
S - shift slide
s - legato slide
/ -  slide into from below or out of upwards
\ -  slide into from above or out of downwards
~ - vibrato
W - wide vibrato
tr - trill
TP - tremolo picking
T - tapping
S - slap
P - pop
< - fade in
^ - brush up
v - brush down

[horns666]

Jeff stole my Father Felon riff for his bridge to "Flirting with distater". Yes, I gave him my demo a while back. But he plays it better than I do! Hey, If it was worthy 'nuff to stick in his head, and liked it..I'm honored!!!

He doesn't use the exact three octave progression I do..but the riff is so obvious.

Jeff Loomis is THE most original/innovative/inspirational metal guitarist since Yngwie IMO! For me it srarted with Jimi, Eddie, Yngwie, and Jeff Loomis. Y'know I told him that years ago and he kept 'tellin' me I was crazy.. No, I wasn't crazy..I was right!

[horns666]

Jeff was my new favorite guitarist in early '97. He replaced EVH for me...until then it was all about Ed and the like.