Jason Becker (born July 22, 1969) is an American neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and Go Off! in 1988. Cacophony broke up in 1989 and Becker began doing solo work, having released his first album Perpetual Burn in 1988. He later joined David Lee Roth's band and recorded one album with him. However, Becker's success was hampered by his then-diagnosed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and was given three to five years to live. In 1996, Becker eventually lost the ability to speak and now communicates with his eyes via a system developed by his father. Despite his disability, he continues composing by using a computer and has since released Collection, a "best of" album of his favourite songs and 3 new songs
Albert Einstein wrote:"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
I heard he's got nice sweeping skills.Matoso wrote:Slash
Titanoboa wrote:I heard he's got nice sweeping skills.Matoso wrote:Slash
Lucifer wrote:I think you got the wrong thread, this thread is the one where we're debating banning sinewav and dubStep until they have a threesome with dubbie's mother.
I'm sure that slash CAN sweep, ( I heard somewhere that he dropped out of school at 11 to play guitar. Whether that's true or not I don't know thoughTitanoboa wrote:I heard he's got nice sweeping skills.Matoso wrote:Slash
) but it's not his style to play in songs I guess. Really all that Slash does is play really fast minor/major pentatonic scales with some Dorian scales thrown in from time to time :p. Well I probably haven't heard all of his songs, so that's probably not ALL he does, but that's what I've seen so far He's definitely a great guitar player though.
