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Mike Hickey
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You also provided some lessons for Guitar Player magazine. What was that like?
It was great.They were good with the cash ! I sent in some stuff to Andy Ellis dealing with grind/metal stuff and he liked it so i ended up doing 6 or 7 articles and one got published in one of their books to. I have some of those lessons appearing on www.truefire.com
Tell us about your gear set-up?
Well it's very basic.....I have a pile of guitars so i like to use a Les Paul for standard tunings usually,and Ibanez RG when I'm tuning down. I have two 5150 heads and 4 Marshall cabs and I run one amp dry and one with chorus. I have a splitter box before the amps. That's all,just crank it up to 6L6 meltdown and let it rip !!! I am looking into some pedals to give me a little ambience for live.
You have a great new album out called "Gold" . Take us through the album track by track?
Okay, first of all I'm making these one at a time,as I don't have a deal yet,but you can find it at www.mp3.com/MIKEHICKEY
Something Heavy: That's the Ibanez tuned to B. Some odd time signatures,heavy crunch and a nice melodic solo...It's a riff inspired by My Bloody Valentine.
87: This is my tribute to all that is rock...Whitesnake,Dio,Maiden...the classic gallop,the muting. I pretend I'm John Sykes everytime I play it! And of course it's the Les Paul.
Funeral March: A dark trilogy on the Ibanez ,down to B again. Some cool harmonies, a classic double tracked solo,and sick octaves at the end.
Gold : My favorite,I wrote it on my 56 Goldtop on cold penniless night. Simple chords,melodic.Elements of Zep,Aerosmith,Vai ....who knows? But all I know is I like this track the best,and I surprised myself on the bass solo.
WC Blues: This is a classic VH style boogie with a kind of southern rock ending. This tune is best listened to in a pickup truck while drinking Coors.
The Sabbath: Influenced by Sabbath although it sounds nothing like them. I tried to stay in my A blues box and work the bends Leslie West style for the soloing.A heavy duty crunch riff.
The A jam : I like this too...elements of Satch and Vai with the super heavy Mountain/Band of Gypsys end riff. This one gets jammed different every time.
I feel that this material is different from most instrumental stuff because I am not basing the song around lots of lead guitar...more riffs and song style formats.
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