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Great New Guitarists Using Hot Hand

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Posted by: Source Audio | Posted in: Artist / Heroes, Music Reviews,

After navigating the MySpace pages of a few of our users, I came away quite impressed.

Not just because they use our products, but because I hear such skill, quality and determination in these bands of completely different genres.

Rolla (www.myspace.com/Rollaband) combine great vocal harmonies, reggae-ish beats and atmospheric arrangements into melodic tunes that make you want to hear more. Their tune "Clay" has a great signature use of the Hot Hand for a nice dose of colorful sprinkles (never underestimate the clever placement of sprinkles) on their already delicious doughnut of sound. I really like how they leave room for all the instruments to be heard.

Galactic (www.myspace.com/galactic) throwdown an infunktious, greasy and blackened modern New Orleans groove with great hip hop beats, sax and B3 tones. "The Moil" is one of the coolest tunes I have heard on MySpace - and talk about the therapuetic quality of music - I was in a way better mood after hearing it!

London-based Dragonforce (www.myspace.com/dragonforce) has got to be one of the premier modern progressive metal bands of today - I could hear influences of Iron Maiden, with Dream Theatre like precision, and Queen influenced vocals. Guitarist Herman Li recently played alongside Steve Vai and Joe Satriani at the Key Club in Hollywood, for the 20 year anniversary party of the Ibanez Jem. How many guitarists can hang with those guys? Well, Herman can, no doubt. I hear a Malmsteen influence in his playing, yet he doesn't cop any of Yngwie's licks; which is what you get most of the time with Yngwie's influence.

3 very different bands and guitarists, all using Hot Hand. All making music of value.

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