Guitar clinics - and Jeff Waters

[Stormwatch]

I just found out the fucking LEGEND Jeff Waters is doing a guitar clinic in Glasgow tomorrow night. I wouldn't mind going along assuming they have tickets left at the time, but I don't know what such a "clinic" entails.
Anyone ever been to one?
To be honest, I'm a real lazy bastard and if it's not worth the hassle, I wouldnt bother going hahaha

 

[timmyc]

I've been to a Michael Amott (Arch Enemy) clinic a few years ago. Very cool. About 100 people there, he played some of his well known riffs, talked about his influences and gear etc. Showed a real "human" side of him rather than just the guy onstage, and it was awesome.

 

[timmyc]

Oh, and the best part of it was that it was free entry, and he signed my Doomsday Machine cd cover!

 

[Stormwatch]

Yeah this is free entry too. So you think I would probably get to meet him and actually talk about guitars for a bit?

 

[timmyc]

Possibly, yeah.

 

[Stormwatch]

The shop emailed me to say they have a few spaces left and I should be alright to turn up tomorrow. So I think I will, I fuckin love Jeff's playing, Annihilator are easy my favourite thrash band outside the big 4.

 

[Stormwatch]

My brother, who's 18, and I had never met until 6 months ago is going to get us tickets for it. Cool eh, find out you have a brother 16 years younger than you and find out he's into the exact same music as you.
Sweet eh?

 

[timmyc]

Cool mate, enjoy. And a brother who's an 18 yo Annihilator fan ..... you did well!!

 

[Stormwatch]

Jeff was awesome - gave away one of his guitars for free and played like a monster (as we expect)! Top man!

 

[timmyc]

Awesome. I had Alice in Hell on my ipod on the way to work this morning. First time I listened to it what must be 5 years!!! Just the way I remembered it too - very awesome record. Loved that and NNL back in the day but never followed them much after that.

 

[Stormwatch]

He played a couple off that record IIRC - "Word Salad" just fucking blew me away. Seeing someone play something as difficult as that, and play it note for note clean and perfect....fucking fantastic.
Annihilator have a lot of filler on their albums, but if you take their very best songs from each record you end up with some of the best metal ever written.

 

[mrthrax]

my first clinic was steven adler,didnt know what to expect but it was fucking awesome hearing him play on to gnr classics,really cool guy too

 

[Stormwatch]

That would be pretty awesome, I don't like Matt Sorum, but always loved Adler's groove, I would love to see him on the drums at something like this.

 

[Stormwatch]

Oh, here's a vid someone else posted from the night, you can't see me, I'm behind the guy(?) on the left with the pink(!) beany hat on.

 

[Stormwatch]

Here's another.


This is the one where I realised my time was running out on the parking meter and I had to leave to run half a fucking mile and put money in the bastard meter! I made it back before the end somehow.

 

[Stormwatch]

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I couldn't believe his playing on this at the time, fucking incredible! Love his "I never make mistakes, I'm perfect," and "Watch this" comments.

 

[fcgreenpower]

Thanks Stormwatch really great stuff.... I heard this guy is an asshole as Ian and he made a lot bad decisions putting down his band, but such a great guitar player.

The guitar player of Rush uses the same amp

 

[Stormwatch]

Jeff's an asshole? I dunno, it's not like we became friends or anything but he came across as really cool. I suppose he might have been an asshole when he was young, but who isn't?
The thing with Annihilator is, it's Jeff's band - he writes all the music, plays all the instruments except the drums, writes the lyrics, produces, engineers, mixes, he even sand lead vocals on some of the albums. So, I suppose he can do whatever he likes within the band, if another member doesn't like it, touch shit, it's Jeff's band!
I think Annihilator suffered from being TOO goofy - just like Anthrax probably did. "Chicken And Corn", "Kraf Dinner" (great song, but come on....), and a lot of the songs have really silly sections in them.
I still love them though, every album of theirs is fucking awesome IMO.