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ago. That was an idea
that I just had for a long
time, and I just never
really got the chance
to do it, and there was
a time that Lynch Mob
was on tour, and they
came over here to the
Northeast. I opened for
Lynch Mob with my
band Burning Heat.
And I just got lucky because the next two days,
Lynch Mob had off, I
talked to George Lynch
after the show, it was
like three in the morning, outside the club. We were
talking, and I told him, “If you’re already going to be
here, why don’t we do the video right now?” And he
was like, “You know what? All right. I have the time off,
so why not? Let’s do it.” Basically I had to get all the details in one day – I had to find the location, the camera
people, every single detail I had to figure out within one
day. I don’t know, all the stars lined up and we managed
to do the whole thing. I think we shot the whole thing in
maybe three hours. We didn’t even know what we were
walking into, so we had to figure out all of the details as
we were shooting. Because we shot it that quickly, and
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without any planning or anything like that, the editing
took a lot of effort, so I think the editing itself took sixty
hours. So, sixty hours for editing, and we only shot it for
three hours! So yeah, pretty amazing.
That’s awesome. What do you like to do outside of
all this? I understand you have a love for some vintage
amplifiers, guitars, stuff like that.
Yeah, ever since I started playing guitar, I was always intrigued by playing different guitars and different
amps. Guitar players are always searching for that perfect tone that doesn’t really exist! It’s the never ending
quest. At some point I realized that there is no perfect
guitar, there is no perfect amp. You can get close, but
there are certain guitars for certain things, and there’s
certain tones and certain amps that work for different
things that you’re trying to achieve. I figured that instead of trying to find the perfect tone, I’ll just get everything!
Are you more prone to the guitar amp side, or are
you also like known to get the pedals and stuff, too?
What’s your weaknesses and strengths when it comes
to all of that and balancing it all together?
That’s a tough question because I do look at everything. For the longest time I was into rack units, and I
bought a lot of rack units and I have a ton of them, and
that’s what I used to use live. Only in the last few years,
I’ve gotten into pedals,
which I like a little bit
less just because you can’t
control them as much. So
I don’t like that approach
as much, but it seems
like, for certain gigs it’s
just so simple, because
it’s just like a pedalboard
and it’s a lot quicker and
simpler. It has its pros and
cons, just like anything
else. Two years ago, the
company that I endorse,
which I absolutely love,
ISP Technologies, they
came up with a pedal
version of the amp that I
used to play with them –
well, I still do. I have the
rackmount version of
their Theta amplifier, and
I have the head version of
it, too. A couple of years
ago, they came out with a
pedal version of it, which
sounds exactly the same
as the amp, so this was a
big turning point where
I said, you now what?
Now I can have the exact
same tone in a smal pedalboard, and everything is really
simple, yet I get that amazing tone. I remember a year
ago, I went to open for Jake E. Lee in San Diego, and I
just had to fly in for one gig. And all I took with me is
basically that pedal, and then they made a really tiny
amplifier called the Stealth, and it’s a