Sevenstring.org Interview: Rusty Cooley

Sevenstring.org: What first drew you to seven string (and other extended range) guitars?

Rusty Cooley: It was love at first sight, the same goes for my 8 string. A friend of mine told me about Conklin and as soon as I saw them I was on the phone with them having one designed. For the most part extended range says it all. You can cover more octaves with minimal fretboard movement. For example on a six string guitar to do a three octave run say in G major you have to go from the six string third fret all the way to the...

Nice to see you posting Steve... That would be a good show... the Jaw dropping action would be everywhere.

How cool is that, really. Rusty rules.

At first I was all stoked to see a Rusty Cooley interview, and it's cool for the most part, but why did he have to make a point of DQ'ing death metal vocals? None of those bands he mentioned are doing close to what the top death metal bands are doing... Bah, humbug!

Rusty, you are king

:bows:

Rusty's a god!!!

Your band rocks too.

IMO I agree with Rusty, death growls are pathetic!

Great interview. Rusty rocks.

wow

Death metal/grind/screaming vocals are actually rediculously hard to pull off well. Sure you've got lots of people doing them, but it doesn't make them all good, just like with singing theres a quality to look for. Just because I don't care for clean vocals in my music doesn't mean clean vocals are pathetic. In other words, get your head out of your ass and realise that even though something isn't your cup of tea, it doesn't deserve less respect.

I agree with the aspect that it's definitely difficult to pull that growling stuff night after night. A lot of these bands tour constantly and it's amazing how they pull it off. I tried it once when I was pretty drunk, I sounded like an wanna- be emo with a dildo lodged in his throat. So mad props to them.

Anyway- Rusty's an incredible inspiration to a lot of young players and it really warms me to see him finally getting his due, (especially with Dean guitars). He sure in hell deserves it and hope he goes even futher with Outworld.

id come see you.. i live in New York...

and how ironic that in the new outworld vid carlos does growls at the very end...