Guitarist who are Officially MIA/AWOL - Where are they now?

Louis Cypher · 10-04-2011, 06:52 AM

Which guitar players do you love or did love but right now you havn't got a scooby doo as to where they are what they are doing or why they have disappeared off the face of the earth n you wish they woudl come back coz they actually deserve to be up there doing the multi million $ reunion tour or in your favorite new band or releasing fantastic solo albums... so which players do you wish would come in out of the cold...

Couple of names I thought of would be:
Thomas McRocklin
The mini Vai Wonderkid from Bad4Good/Audience is Listening video/Ibanez ads who at the age of 7 was better than most 20 yr veterans! Last I heard he was working in a guitar shop in Newcastle...

Jake E Lee - The ultimate guitar recluse.... though when he does surface its usually genius. Retraced is fantastic album!

Michael Lee Firkins - Know he recorded some of the live guitar for some Jason Becker releases...

Vito Bratta - Very very underrated guitarist imo....

XxXPete · 10-04-2011, 07:29 AM

pineappleman · 10-04-2011, 08:43 AM

CASEY. SABOL.

Ralyks · 10-04-2011, 08:43 AM

I'm still waiting for Josh Christian to come back with that Toxik reunion that was suppose to happen... 4 years ago?!?!! Awww!!

toiletstand · 10-04-2011, 08:49 AM

jim martin

Cabinet · 10-04-2011, 08:51 AM

Allan Holdsworth

CrownofWorms · 10-04-2011, 08:55 AM

Dave Suzuki

Mindcrime1204 · 10-04-2011, 08:55 AM

Vito from White Lion is MIA because his wrist/nerve condition.

mountainjam · 10-04-2011, 08:58 AM

How cool is that...Bobby Budnick from Salute your shorts was the singer of bad 4 good

Edit* classic nickelodeon shit

USMarine75 · 10-04-2011, 09:04 AM

Adrian Vandenberg (what might have been if you didn't F up your wrist before "Slip of the Tongue")

Vinnie Moore - He's in UFO now?

George Bellas - giving lessons?

David T Chastain - producing records now?

Marty Friedman - still in Japan doing that gameshow with Paul Gilbert?

Michael Schenker - lost weight, stopped drinking, and started touring again I think...

Neil Schon - busy in some love triangle???

Ralyks · 10-04-2011, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cabinet

Allan Holdsworth

Almost positive he's working on new material. Saw him earlier this year in Schenectady, fantastic performance.

Louis Cypher · 10-04-2011, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mindcrime1204

Vito from White Lion is MIA because his wrist/nerve condition.

No way that sucks.... sh1t....

Darren Householder is another Shrapnel gunslinger MIA for years....

Vandenberg is still sat waiting for Dave Coverdale to drop Doug Aldrich and call.... More chance of Coverdale asking Sykes back than him dropping Aldrich right now!!

Schenker has a new CD out actually Temple of Rock, loads of guest stars on it inc his brother and Leslie West

Harry · 10-04-2011, 09:39 AM

Now don't get me wrong, of course many of today's metal shredder guys can play well, but so many of them have this certain sound that just doesn't hit me at all. They will throw it on the neck pickups, which reduces the bite you can get from the pick attack, and combined with a total absence of picking dynamics, it just has this super flat, sterile sound. It's like a lot of guys have forgotten how to make a guitar scream in a metal solo these days.

And THEN you listen to this :

Holy shit

This is a lesson in injecting some ....ing balls and fire into a solo.
Listen to that sledgehammer pick attack and his intense vibrato. That's how you a bring a solo to life and it's the shit that truly separates the men from the boys. Heaps of the younger 'shred' guys in metal could learn from Jake and improve their own playing from watching this clip.

As much as I think Ozzy is terrible now, I think Jake should be up there playing in Ozzy's band for the exposure and also for him to get up there, learn Zakk's solos and play them even better than Zakk ever did without the irritating pinch harmonics.

DLG · 10-04-2011, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by toiletstand

jim martin

pretty sure jim martin is all about his pumpkin farm these days.

DLG · 10-04-2011, 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mountainjam

How cool is that...Bobby Budnick from Salute your shorts was the singer of bad 4 good

this is a truly amazing fact.

Louis Cypher · 10-04-2011, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DLG

this is a truly amazing fact.

Knew he was in Terminator 2 but never knew he was in Different Stokes... don't think we got Salute your Shorts in the UK.... who knows...

I love that Bad4Good cover of Nineteen though... Thomas McRocklin was an incredible player considering he was 12 when he recorded that track...

Spence · 10-04-2011, 10:49 AM

Muhammed Suiçmez

th3m1ke · 10-04-2011, 10:56 AM

Tour? Me? Nah.

Into Obsidian · 10-04-2011, 11:20 AM

MIKE DAVIS - NOCTURNUS

Adari · 10-04-2011, 11:26 AM

Buck Dharma

Jason2112 · 10-04-2011, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis Cypher

Jake E Lee

Vito Bratta

Jake E Lee played guitar on the last Enuff Z'Nuff album "Dissonance" (2011). No flashy playing at all, but some great songs on that album.

Vito Bratta left the music business to care for his ailing father. His father ended up passing away a number of years ago but Vito wasn't interested in getting back into music. Mike Tramp was constantly asking him to reform White Lion, Vito said no, Mike did it anyway, lawsuits ensued.

Vito Bratta Talks About White Lion Reunion | News @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com

Guitarman700 · 10-04-2011, 11:42 AM

Whatever happened to Guy Mann-dude? Bogus, brah!

Into Obsidian · 10-04-2011, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mountainjam

How cool is that...Bobby Budnick from Salute your shorts was the singer of bad 4 good

Edit* classic nickelodeon shit

Holy shit i loved that show!!!!

Viginez · 10-04-2011, 12:15 PM

brian and eric hoffman

Beowulf Von Thrashmeister · 10-04-2011, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis Cypher

Which guitar players do you love or did love but right now you havn't got a scooby doo as to where they are what they are doing or why they have disappeared off the face of the earth n you wish they woudl come back coz they actually deserve to be up there doing the multi million $ reunion tour or in your favorite new band or releasing fantastic solo albums... so which players do you wish would come in out of the cold...

Couple of names I thought of would be:
Thomas McRocklin
The mini Vai Wonderkid from Bad4Good/Audience is Listening video/Ibanez ads who at the age of 7 was better than most 20 yr veterans! Last I heard he was working in a guitar shop in Newcastle...

Jake E Lee - The ultimate guitar recluse.... though when he does surface its usually genius. Retraced is fantastic album!

Michael Lee Firkins - Know he recorded some of the live guitar for some Jason Becker releases...

Vito Bratta - Very very underrated guitarist imo....

Just watched that first Thomas McRocklin video (which was taken from the BBC`s legendary Arena documentry on Heavy Metal, which is worth checking out on `You Tube`) and there is something odd about it ...

Either its due to dodgy editing or he is miming due to his hands not matching the music in some places ?

Has anyone else ever noticed that (around 2:04 in the video) ?

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