In the early nintees a change of trend was necessary. But People i love this 80s type of shredding etc. way more than grunge and alt metal etc. Reb Beach, early Steve Vai, early John Petrucci woooo thats my shit bro. I love the naive 80s rock and hair metal stuff.. They were always elegant in a sort of way.
Amazing lead player but what really amazes me about Reb is his rhythm playing he is outstanding and possibly one of the most well rounded players to exist
For my money, Reb Beach and Nuno Bettencourt were (and still are) the top axeeslingers in the business following Eddie Van Halen. Don't get me wrong there was a lot of great guitarists, I am a huge fan of Jake, Warren, George and many others but Reb and Nuno were and still are, a cut above.
I never really liked hair metal a whole lot, but I can’t think of any hair metal bands that didn’t have talent, it seems like hair metal bands were always more talented than everyone else in the 80s. So we get musicians like this who join bands that dint even get big, and yet Metallica made it big… I kinda wish Metallica didn’t exist, Dave mustaine would have started thrash if Metallica hadn’t anyways.
