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No Guitar Is Safe

48 - Rusty Cooley

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Oh, the brutality! On this episode, Texas shred monster RUSTY COOLEY plugs in his signature-model Dean 7-string and shows Jude how he forged his merciless metal style. Rusty also explains how he took inspiration from violinist Izhak Perlman, metal sensei Doug Marks, and the late Shawn Lane while developing his sound. And with help from lead singer Brad Lambert, Rusty shows you some crushing tunes from his band, DAY OF RECKONING.

Transcript

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0:00.0

No guitar is safe.

0:05.0

Hey, welcome to No Guitar is Safe, the show where we do in-person interviews with great guitarists, with guitars plugged in and in your face.

0:16.0

And it occurs to me, you know, here we are, episode 48,

0:21.4

had some serious players that can totally shred on here.

0:24.5

You got your Greg Howes, you got your Steve Vise,

0:26.7

Paul Gilberts, John Fives.

0:29.1

Last week was Richie Cotson.

0:30.7

But you know what?

0:31.5

I don't think we've had, as of yet,

0:34.2

a true meddler.

0:36.1

A true fucking shredder, pardon my French.

0:39.2

Well, that's all about to change.

0:59.6

You're listening to Rusty Cooley in his new band, Day of Reckoning.

1:02.0

I've known Rusty for years.

1:04.0

Used to have him write metal columns.

1:08.8

For Guitar Player Magazine, we'd have like Robin Ford doing a blues column, Steve Morris doing a Prague column, Satriani doing a rock column,

1:13.6

and when I needed a metal column I knew exactly where to go. Rusty Kooley is so dedicated to Shred.

1:28.3

Even if you don dedicated to Shred.

1:44.9

Even if you don't play Shred, you're going to love his dedication to practicing and to building his skills.

1:50.8

And just becoming a better musician.

1:59.3

I mean, he could be a motivational speaker, even if he was talking to non-gatar players.

2:05.3

Let's hear some more Day of Reckoning.

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