112 - Alex Skolnick

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

TESTAMENT lead guitarist ALEX SKOLNICK plugs in one of his signature ESP guitars and demonstrates solos and riffs from the pioneering thrash metal band’s new album TITANS OF CREATION, as well as guitar parts from the Testament back catalog. The guitarist also reflects on the band’s scary exposure to Covid-19, as well as many other aspects of his lifelong musical odyssey -- everything from studying with Joe Satriani at age 15 to touring with Trans-Siberian Orchestra. And yes, Alex “cleans up” for a bit, too, to demonstrate approaches and arrangements from his instrumental jazz records. This episode is brought to you by NUCLEAR BLAST records, who invite you to check out Testament’s TITANS OF CREATION wherever you stream or purchase music, or on the Nuclear Blast website, www.nuclearblast.com.

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0:00.0	What up everybody? Alex Skolnick from Testament is finally on the show. A lot of you have asked for him,
0:06.5	and today he's plugging that guitar straight into your brain.
0:16.0	Here's a little sample. That's what we're going to get into on the killer musical odyssey that follows.
0:24.0	And did you know that Testament just released their 13th album, Titans of Creation,
0:29.6	that features a super cool song called Children of the Next Level.
0:33.8	You've got to see the video for this.
0:36.1	It's awesome.
0:37.0	It's a cartoon, fully animated, with
0:39.7	headbanging, guitars, aliens, all the stuff you love. There's other heavy hitters on this
0:45.8	record too, such as City of Angels, a song about the Nightstalker, and also the aptly titled
0:51.9	Symptoms, which as you're about to find out, Alex had a huge role in
0:56.1	writing this song, which unfortunately now kind of addresses the era in which we live. Great song.
1:02.7	Listen now. Wherever you stream music, the album again is called Titans of Creation from Testament.
1:07.7	And of course you can order the CD or vinyl at Nuclear Blasts store.
1:14.2	Head to Nuclearblast.com. So thankful for them for bringing us Alex Skolnick.
1:24.4	No guitar is safe.
1:29.7	Just imagine you come back from Europe.
1:32.1	You've rocked that wonderful place for four or five weeks show after show, but the world is changing.
1:40.0	Everything's being locked down.
1:42.4	And literally half your band or half the other guys in the band
1:45.6	have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and are fighting it off, feeling sick as
1:51.9	and you've got a cold yourself. And members of your crew are diagnosed. Maybe someone from
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