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Alex Skolnick

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Alexander Nathan Skolnick (born September 29, 1968), is an American musician who is best known as the lead guitarist in the thrash metal band Testament. [1]

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Alex Skolnick Trio

The Alex Skolnick Trio is an American jazz music trio comprising the guitarist Alex Skolnick, Matt Zebroski on drums, and Nathan Peck on bass.

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Anthony Bozza

Anthony Bozza is a New York City-based author and journalist who has written extensively for Rolling Stone and other magazines.

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ArtistShare

ArtistShare is the internet's first documented crowdfunding website.

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Ashes of the Wake

Ashes of the Wake is the fourth studio album and first major label release by American groove metal band Lamb of God, released in 2004 via Epic Records.

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Bay Area thrash metal

Bay Area thrash metal, or "Bay Area thrash", referred to a steady following of heavy metal bands in the 1980s who formed and gained international status in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Brad Tolinski

Brad Tolinski (born 1958) was the Editor-in-Chief of Guitar World Magazine for 25 years (1989–2015).

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Bradford Morrow

Bradford Morrow (born April 8, 1951) is an American novelist, editor, essayist, poet, and children's book writer.

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Brotherhood of the Snake

Brotherhood of the Snake is the eleventh studio album by American thrash metal band Testament, released on October 28, 2016.

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Budda Amplification

Budda Amplification is an American company that designs and manufactures electric guitar amplifiers and effects pedals.

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Chen Yihan

Yihan Chen (born 1994) is a Chinese pianist and composer living in Plainfield, Indiana.

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Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.

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Dark Roots of Earth

Dark Roots of Earth is the tenth studio album by American thrash metal band Testament.

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Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (born January 26, 1955) is a Dutch-American musician, songwriter, and producer.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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ESP Guitars

is a Japanese guitar manufacturer, primarily focused on the production of electric guitars and basses.

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First Strike Still Deadly

First Strike Still Deadly is a compilation album by Testament, released in 2001. It consists of re-recordings of songs released on The Legacy and The New Order, as well as a re-recording of "Reign of Terror", which was originally on Legacy's Demo 1 and was also a b-side from the "Trial by Fire" single. On some Japanese versions of this release, a different cover is present, and the disc is an Enhanced CD and includes a bonus QuickTime documentary with live clips of various incarnations of the band. First Strike Still Deadly saw a Testament reunion with three former or current members (Alex Skolnick, Steve DiGiorgio and John Tempesta) as well as their original singer Steve "Zetro" Souza. Souza and drummer Tempesta did not officially rejoin Testament, and First Strike Still Deadly was the last Testament album with bassist DiGiorgio before his return in 2014. Skolnick eventually rejoined Testament again, and appeared on their next three studio albums (starting with 2008's The Formation of Damnation).

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Ghazal

The ghazal (غزَل, غزل, غزل), a type of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry.

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Godin (guitar manufacturer)

Godin Guitars is a Canadian manufacturer that specializes in stringed instruments, including guitars, electric basses, ukuleles, and ouds. The company is owned by founder Robert Godin.

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Guitar World

Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists, published since July 1980.

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Handful of Rain

Handful of Rain is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Savatage, released in 1994.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Heritage Guitars

Heritage Guitar is a guitar manufacturer in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.

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Horacio Hernández

Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez (born April 24, 1963, in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban drummer and percussionist.

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Ibanez

is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki.

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Iridium Jazz Club

The Iridium Jazz Club is a jazz club located on Broadway in New York City.

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ITunes

iTunes is a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It was announced on January 9, 2001.

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Japan Live '94

Japan Live '94 (also known as Live in Japan) is a live album and VHS by the American heavy metal band Savatage.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist.

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Jerome Herbert Skolnick

Jerome Herbert Skolnick (born 1931) is a professor at New York University and a former president of the American Society of Criminology.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Joe Satriani

Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956)Prato, Greg.

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Johnny Winter

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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Kiran Ahluwalia

Kiran Ahluwalia is an Indian singer, songwriter who infuses African desert blues and Western musical styles.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley.

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Kora (instrument)

The kora is a 21-string lute-bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.

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Lamb of God (band)

Lamb of God (sometimes abbreviated as LoG) is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia.

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Le Trio Joubran

Le Trio Joubran (الثلاثي جبران) is an oud trio playing traditional Palestinian music.

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List of Iron Maiden tribute albums

This is a list of albums recorded in tribute to the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

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Michael Manring

Michael Manring (born June 27, 1960 in AnnapolisTom Mulhern, Bass Heroes: Styles, Stories & Secrets of 30 Great Bass Players: from the Pages of Guitar Player Magazine, Backbeat Books, 1993,, p.26) is an American bass guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Musikmesse Frankfurt

Musikmesse Frankfurt is an international fair regarding the music industry, and takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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Nader Sadek

Nader Sadek is an Egyptian-American artist.

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Ned Vizzini

Ned Vizzini (born Edison Price Vizzini, April 4, 1981 – December 19, 2013) was an American writer.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil.

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Oud

The oud (عود) is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of instruments) with 11 or 13 strings grouped in 5 or 6 courses, commonly used in Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi, Arabian, Jewish, Persian, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, North African (Chaabi, Classical, and Spanish Andalusian), Somali, and various other forms of Middle Eastern and North African music.

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Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (also known as The Prince of Darkness) (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter and actor.

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Palmetto Records

Palmetto Records is an independent American jazz record company and label in New York City founded in 1990 by guitarist Matt Balitsaris.

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Pipa

The pipa is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments.

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Practice What You Preach

Practice What You Preach is the third studio album by American thrash metal band Testament.

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Primus (band)

Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde and drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander.

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Qanun (instrument)

The kanun, ganoun or kanoon (qānūn;kanonaki; קָנוֹן, qanon; fa, qānūn; kanun; k’anon; qanun) is a string instrument played either solo, or more often as part of an ensemble, in much of the Middle East, Maghreb, West Africa, Central Asia, and southeastern regions of Europe.

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Randy Rhoads

Randall William Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne.

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Roadrunner Records

Roadrunner Records is an American-based Dutch major record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal and hard rock bands.

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Rochester International Jazz Festival

Established in 2002, the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival takes place in June of each year, in Rochester, New York.

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Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rodrigo y Gabriela (Rodrigo and Gabriela) are a Mexican classical guitar duo whose music is influenced by a number of genres including nuevo flamenco, rock, and heavy metal.

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Savatage

Savatage is an American heavy metal band founded by the Oliva brothers Jon and Criss in 1979 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

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Scorpions (band)

Scorpions are a German rock band formed in 1965 in Hanover by Rudolf Schenker.

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Souls of Black

Souls of Black is the fourth studio album by American thrash metal band Testament.

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Stratospheerius

Stratospheerius are a band based out of New York City that play music in a progressive rock, jazz fusion and jam band genres.

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Stuart Hamm

Stuart Hamm (born February 8, 1960) is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well as for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings.

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Testament (band)

Testament is an American thrash metal band from Berkeley, California.

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The Formation of Damnation

The Formation of Damnation is the ninth studio album by American thrash metal band Testament, released on April 29, 2008.

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The Legacy (album)

The Legacy is the 1987 debut studio album by American thrash metal band Testament.

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The New Order (album)

The New Order is the second studio album by American thrash metal band Testament, released on May 5, 1988.

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The New School

The New School is a private non-profit research university centered in Manhattan, New York City, USA, located mostly in Greenwich Village.

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The Ritual (Testament album)

The Ritual is the fifth album by the American thrash metal band Testament.

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Thrash metal

Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.

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Tim Alexander

Timothy W. "Tim" Alexander (born April 10, 1965 in Cherry Point, North Carolina) is an American musician best known as the drummer for the rock band Primus.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American rock band founded around 1993 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck; 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist and bandleader.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Skolnick

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