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Post by Michael Angelo Batio on Jun 21, 2013 17:26:01 GMT -6
Thanks everyone. It's great to read this.
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Post by riwaz on Jun 22, 2013 11:03:23 GMT -6
Went to my friend's home. U knw how our rooms were. Dvds were lying on the floor. I picked one up and took it home. It was jim 's instructional. He told me it was about some vocalist which his sis brought it from america. Had been knowing a guy talk about him but still there were no videos availiable. Tried looking for every thing. Bought a pirated cd of NITRO mp3, bought it in 2$. And finally got hold of michael's videos and started leaning his instructional immediately then.
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Post by tschaar14 on Jun 24, 2013 16:32:42 GMT -6
I found out about MAB about 5 or so years ago. I got interested in playing guitar from Guitar Hero and at the time I was interested in Buckethead (still am today but that's besides the point). I was young and naive and didn't think there was someone better until I searched online who are the best guitarists. I saw MAB as number 1 and of course I was thinking " What?!? There's someone better than Buckethead?!?". I then checked his double guitar vid on Youtube, needless to say I was blown away and it inspired me to practice even harder! If it wasn't for that, I probably wouldn't have bought my gorgeous MAB 2 Aviator and I wouldn't have gotten to meet him.
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Post by Shredini on Jun 29, 2013 1:05:18 GMT -6
I found out about MAB from Mark Tremonti awhile after he became friends with him. Checked out the No Boundaries album and I was hooked.
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Post by shreddingjoris on Jul 2, 2013 9:18:52 GMT -6
I think it was 2005 or 2006, someone showed me the video of "no boundaries" and after that i took guitar more seriously! And only listened to mab for a long period all the time :-)
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Post by blackjack on Jul 24, 2013 21:37:48 GMT -6
It was the late 80', possibly very early 90's when I went into a record store (they existed back then) and bought a cassette tape of Nitro's HWDWS album. I was impressed so when they played a show at The Rock-It Club in Tampa, FL I went to see Nitro play. Unfortunately Nitro broke up and I didn't hear about Michael Angelo ( that's what he called himself then) for quite a while. Of course eventually I found out he was playing instrumental music and had a new album out named "No Boundaries." I've heard lots of good playing from him since then but it doesn't seem that he's ever regained the popularity of the Nitro days when he was touring all over the place playing concerts rather than clinics. I guess it's hard to get played in mainstream outlets when you play instrumental rock. I know that the Freight Train video got played on MTV when Nitro's first album was released. I've never seen Michael's music played in such a high profile outlet as MTV since then and it's a shame. I have bought several instructional DVDs from MAB and I like the way he teaches. I had never previously heard any other guitarist explain the concept of Potential Picking Speed, a concept I feel is vital for any shred guitarist to understand.
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Post by shred2012 on Sept 9, 2013 23:11:44 GMT -6
In my beginning years of playing, I ran across Randy Rhodes... I was like WHOA DUDE HE ROCKS!!!!! About 3yrs ago was lookin at some Videos of Randy & of course Crazy Train & Mr. Crowley. These were songs I was working on.. Seen a video labeled Tribute to Randy.. Clicked the link and was dropped by what I seen.. Then all the other songs MAB wrote.. Never in my life had I seen such skill, passion, speed, clarity, and the smoothness of his flow. Just listening to Batio, you can feel the groove.. Truely inspired me to learn how to Shred. Meeting Batio in person, you can never ever knock him. He is a very genuine person and as an instructor, I have never learned much from others, but Batio's Speed Kills and Lives videos have increased my playing ability 5 fold in just 2 years!!! Much gratitude for his You Tube videos, finding him was a Godsend for me!! Thanks for your hard work Batio..
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Post by daij1 on Sept 16, 2013 23:26:27 GMT -6
I was explaining to a friend that my biggest inspiration (at the time, sort of still is) is Jason Becker. I watched an old vid of him playing the yoyo on stage and the guitar on the other and I was blown away by it. I started to really study him before and after his illness. I made a little joke which I thought would be impossible and told my friend that this guy could probably play and left and right hand guitar if he was able to play again. He tells me to check out Michael Angelo Batio Quad guitar and so I stumbled on a Nitro vid and said to myself that there is no way that is real. I didnt buy any MAB CDs or MP3s but I did listen to some of his music. When I saw the double guitar performance I was blown away and have been glued to his work ever since. I must admit, the double guitar is what drew me to the music but the music itself is phenomenal. I have then purchased everything Michael Angelo Batio on itunes whether it is a collaboration with another artist or his albums. I still check back every now and then to look for more music to purchase.I dont want to sound weird or anything like that but after listening to the tracks over and over, it is like listening to a story without words. The best way a story should be told. It inspired me in my life and I am thankful he still works to make more music.
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Post by dannyjoecarter on Nov 13, 2013 15:54:06 GMT -6
For me it was 1988 and I was watching the original "Head Banger's Ball" and a guy named Adam Curry was hosting the show that weekend. They played the video for "Night Train" from Nitro - wicked cool! I became a fan right then. Shortly after in about 91' I bought a video cassette called "Shock Em' Dead" where Michael plays the devil. After that I found out that Michael had moved here to Las Vegas and I saw him at a few clinics and at a bar or two.
What really sets him apart for me is Michale is always a gentleman and very gracious. As many of you know that's not always the case with many rockstar types! It was refreshing to visit and talk to a famous, great musician that didn't drop the "F" bomb every other word and wasn't slurring his words from over drinking. It was great to have an actual conversation where he seemed genuinely interested in what I offered to the conversation instead of just talking about everything he was doing. He is good people!
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Post by Klaus on Nov 15, 2013 3:55:47 GMT -6
I had a friend that started a guitar society and he and his friends, in the society, would seek out the best players. He played me "No Boundaries" and I was blown away. The funny thing is that I didn't realize I already knew of Michael from his Nitro days but I didn't make the connection until I started to look into any information available about this brilliant player. This was so long ago that a 28k modem was still high-end.
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Post by Carlos Lobo on Nov 22, 2013 18:20:42 GMT -6
I remmember it well, it was somewhere in set 2007. talking to a friend on the interwebs and suddenly he finds something on youtube that amazed him, someone playing 2 guitars at the same time. he sent me video wich was the Double Guitar performance from MACE youtube account. I spent endless hours watching that, No Boundaries (speed kills version) and Rain Forest videos, and eventually became a fan. aprox a year after Michael toured europe, so I went to the workshop, and saw the most awesome performance I would ever see, just a guitar, a amp and a master with unlimited amounts of skill. also meet one of the coolest persons ever Entrada livre!!!!! Whaaaat? Free tickets to see MAB! God how could I have missed that workshop
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2013 5:14:42 GMT -6
I have to be honest, I didnt know Michael Angelo Batio or his band Nitro existed until about 2 months ago. I set myself the goal of learning Crazy Train and found his tribute song on youtube. I have watched most of his videos on youtube and think he is a really great player and his music is really good. I think learning to play guitar has opened up a whole new world for me that i didnt know existed either, and I am really pleased about that because I enjoy playing. I plan on getting the speed kills dvd soon!
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Post by blackjack on Oct 10, 2015 15:28:52 GMT -6
It's interesting that so many of these posts talk abut discovering MAB on the internet. When I was studying at USF at Tampa in 1988 I met a girl named Tina who was taking guitar lessons from Dallas Perkins and I started taking lessons from him too. One day Tina and I were talking about fast guitar playing and she said I should hear Michael Angelo. I got the original Speed Kills VHS tape and the 2nd Nitro album and was really impressed. Then I went to see Nitro play at The Rock-It Club. There was no such thing as the internet then. Of course back then you could turn on the radio and hear most of the best guitar players of the day on the local rock station of your town. If you liked a band you went to see them play at your local club or arena. Nobody EVER used the term "hair metal." It didn't exist in 1989. You just called it rock or heavy metal. Everyone playing heavy metal had long hair! Except Rob Halford. If you even just listened to heavy metal you probably had long hair. They were so fanatical about the music they loved that they didn't just listen to it; they emulated their heroes by adopting that look. It was a very loyal community. Nothing like it exists anymore and hasn't in decades.
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