Spastic Ink
Back in the ‘90s, they wrote some of the sickest shit I’ve ever heard. By far the tightest compositions you’ll hear in this kind of music. – Federico Paulovich
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n0L6H8xFaM[/youtube]
Stochelo Rosemberg
Impressive. No shit. I tried many times to play what this man is doing, but I really think I was arrogant to imagine I could learn some of his style on a DVD. Gipsy is a language you experience while living and hanging with people. Play, don’t explain. Either you catch up with it or you don’t. Probably is something you learn as you learn how to walk. One day maybe. – Matteo Di Gioia
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neibvJHm55Y[/youtube]
Allan Holdsworth
He is the mind behind everything in the modern fusion and even tech metal environment. He really inspired almost the entire array of modern guitarists from Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah to John Petrucci of Dream Theater, Michael Romeo of Symphony X and so on. His own approach to the instrument is so personal and twisted that is almost impossible to fully join his mind. – Ralph Salati
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMi2mCe7CKg[/youtube]
Paul Gilbert
Among the metal/neoclassical shredders and not only, I love him the most cause of his attitude. He can be very irreverent and ironical playing and speaking, but always with such a great precision and a meticulous attention to make it grooves! He is also an avid music expert, which is in my humble opinion, the right and only way to be positively desecrating towards music! – Ralph Salati
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPGA3vjMLgE[/youtube]
Antoine Dufour
My friend Fede always says one of the best things in music happens when u listen to something and you can’t really understand what’s going on. Listening to Antoine makes me feel like that. I don’t grab time scanning, harmony, and form. All I can hear is incredibly well crafted art, inspiring images and diabolically advanced technique which is not there to impress. – Matteo Di Gioia
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk41vvXW6UI [/youtube]
