Author: Chris Alfano

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Chris Alfano has written about music and toured in bands since print magazines and mp3.com were popular. Once in high-school he hacked a friend's QBasic stick figure fighting game to add a chiptune metal soundtrack. Random attractive people still give him high-fives about that.

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The Metallica bassist sat in with the Mexican acoustic guitar duo for some re-imaginings of classic pre-Black Album tunes.

Because inexpensive doesn't have to mean cheap.

You don't want limp, straggly rosewood, do you? You're looking for volume.

...and that conductor cares about just one thing: the band must play the most massive riffs imaginable.

The Intervals/Skyharbor/Jeff Loomis drummer has production chops, drum super chops, and apparently chops up his guitar tracks into recordable bites.

Seriously, how many of us would have done far better in math class if we had to sub-divide time signatures instead of train schedules?

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