Devin on the new Total Guitar
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:40 amThere is a Download festival special and they interview many guitarist..Ill post the answers devin gave, and try to post the picture of devin...
Which guitarists would be in your superhero supergroup
Everybody I would have in that band would be better than me.
Stravinsky and Mozart together with Bartok. And I'll produce the album.
What is your guitar superpower
I can improvise really well in open tunings, I sweep like a mutherfucker and I'm pretty good at tapping.
Whose guitar powers would you like to steal for yourself
Jim Plotkin from the band Old Lady Drivers. He did fascinating things with guitar. Fredrik from Meshuggah does amazing things too. He is the most underrated guitar player out there. I listened to (meshuggah) the other day, and the riffs that gui plays are fucking astounding. It's the way he voices things. Not only is it astounding, it's doubled perfectly. They are the best metal band in the world.
What's the most remarkable thing you've seen a guitarist do?
I don't get astounded by guitar anymore. Techniques got to the point in the 1980s where everyone could do all those great things. I saw a guy called Eric Sardinas playing some slide dobro, and I was like "WOW!". I also saw Winger open for KISS when I was 15. He (Reb Beach) was amazing.
Most superheroes have secret identities. What would yours be?
Devin. The Dev is the one that gets onstage and goes mad. Devin is the one with hat and the glasses that watches Futurama and drinks a little red wine. That's my Clark Kent.
It's 1969. Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page have a guitar duel. Who wins?
Musically, Jimmy Page would kill him. The song Friends, with his use of wholetones and suspensions, was such an influence on me. He would bring the sound of the countryside into his stuff. If they didn't have Plant(Im not a fan of his voice), they would be the ultimate band for me. He started it for me, but if it came down to drawing from the universe in terms of improvisational powers, Jimi Hendrix would slay Page. Neither of them are necessarily that in tune, though! Hendrix is a bit before my time. However, guitar-wise, I think David Gilmour's better than both of them. I really like his tasteful style.
Do you thing there are ay guitar skill to be discovered
Oh yeah - universes. It's about the guitar or the amp; it's what you command it to do. If you're basing it on and instrument that is capable of going down to the basement then up to the stratosphere, you're got the framework for an entire orchestra.
Which other artist from your convention have influenced you?
Theres a lot of great bands here, but....no! Oh, hang on, James Hetfield. He's one of my heroes of all time. That guy's the ultimate metal rhythm guitar player. Stuff like Blackened is astounding. He's still the fucking best. He showed us young bucks what it meant to have a right hand. The tone in his right hand is amazing.
Is there anything you haven't yet mastered on guitar, but would like to?
Folk music! I know it sounds ridiculous, but somebody wrote Jingle Bells and Happy Birthday - they're so instant I'd like to be able to incorporate some of that. Not for metal or for SYL, but to sit round a campfire and pick up any guitar and be like "Here's a song and it'll stick in your head!"..
update:here is the picture
Which guitarists would be in your superhero supergroup
Everybody I would have in that band would be better than me.
Stravinsky and Mozart together with Bartok. And I'll produce the album.
What is your guitar superpower
I can improvise really well in open tunings, I sweep like a mutherfucker and I'm pretty good at tapping.
Whose guitar powers would you like to steal for yourself
Jim Plotkin from the band Old Lady Drivers. He did fascinating things with guitar. Fredrik from Meshuggah does amazing things too. He is the most underrated guitar player out there. I listened to (meshuggah) the other day, and the riffs that gui plays are fucking astounding. It's the way he voices things. Not only is it astounding, it's doubled perfectly. They are the best metal band in the world.
What's the most remarkable thing you've seen a guitarist do?
I don't get astounded by guitar anymore. Techniques got to the point in the 1980s where everyone could do all those great things. I saw a guy called Eric Sardinas playing some slide dobro, and I was like "WOW!". I also saw Winger open for KISS when I was 15. He (Reb Beach) was amazing.
Most superheroes have secret identities. What would yours be?
Devin. The Dev is the one that gets onstage and goes mad. Devin is the one with hat and the glasses that watches Futurama and drinks a little red wine. That's my Clark Kent.
It's 1969. Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page have a guitar duel. Who wins?
Musically, Jimmy Page would kill him. The song Friends, with his use of wholetones and suspensions, was such an influence on me. He would bring the sound of the countryside into his stuff. If they didn't have Plant(Im not a fan of his voice), they would be the ultimate band for me. He started it for me, but if it came down to drawing from the universe in terms of improvisational powers, Jimi Hendrix would slay Page. Neither of them are necessarily that in tune, though! Hendrix is a bit before my time. However, guitar-wise, I think David Gilmour's better than both of them. I really like his tasteful style.
Do you thing there are ay guitar skill to be discovered
Oh yeah - universes. It's about the guitar or the amp; it's what you command it to do. If you're basing it on and instrument that is capable of going down to the basement then up to the stratosphere, you're got the framework for an entire orchestra.
Which other artist from your convention have influenced you?
Theres a lot of great bands here, but....no! Oh, hang on, James Hetfield. He's one of my heroes of all time. That guy's the ultimate metal rhythm guitar player. Stuff like Blackened is astounding. He's still the fucking best. He showed us young bucks what it meant to have a right hand. The tone in his right hand is amazing.
Is there anything you haven't yet mastered on guitar, but would like to?
Folk music! I know it sounds ridiculous, but somebody wrote Jingle Bells and Happy Birthday - they're so instant I'd like to be able to incorporate some of that. Not for metal or for SYL, but to sit round a campfire and pick up any guitar and be like "Here's a song and it'll stick in your head!"..
update:here is the picture
