I was a professional musician in another life. Played guitar in various bands in Hollywood back in the early to mid 80's... during the heyday of "hair metal". Never quite made it... but got close a couple of times though. I gave up the dream completely in 1990 when I got married.

Since my divorce a couple of years ago I've dusted off my gear and set up a little practice area in one of the spare bedrooms.

I've got 2 Ibanez JEM 777's, a Marshall 50w tube head w/effects loop installed, 2 4x10" Marshall cabs/celestion speakers and a Digitech GSP 21 Pro effects rack.

I was completely into the virtuoso players of that era:

Steve Vai
Eric Johnson
Yngwie Malmsteen
Paul Gilbert
Nuno Bettencourt
Tony MacAlpine
Vinnie Moore
Steve Lukather

I still love that style of playing. Nobody plays like that anymore though?
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