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My hands - Very Important Part ("VIP") An essential part of the sound comes out of the hands! Especially my intense vibrato and the scooping effects are two of his style building elements. For bio and more information about Dan see the Who's Sultan Of String page. |
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Sebastian Mereu - Monsterbazz Sebastian "Monsterbazz" Mereu is an extraordinary bass player from Switzerland. He shows a lot of different techniques on the album "Electric Storm", and that's what makes the bass parts alive! Check it out at www.sebastianmereu.com "Sebi, it's a pleasure to work with you, and to take a next musical step together...!"
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Dirk Zimmermann - Groove Master It was Victor Smolski (the guitar player from Rage/Germany) who gave me the deciding hint, to track the drum parts with Dirk Zimmermann. So Dirk joined us at VPS studio/Hamm during the recording sessions in spring 2003. It was a real pleasure to work with Dirk, he's such a creative drummer, and he adapted quickly to every song. |
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Natali Keller - Power Vocals Shortly after Dan begun to record the first rhythm tracks, he decided to put a vocal version of one song on the album. This bonus track is performed by Natali Keller, former singer of the band Queen Of Nile. Natali has chosen to perform the song "Slaves of Pyramid". Dude, if you like female Metal vocals, check out this track! If not, check it out anyway - and you will like it! |
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Joseph Anastacio Glean - Keyboard Wizard In fall of 2002, Joe asked me to play the Sonata No 6 from Niccolo Paganini,
as an intro to one of his upcoming albums. It was a real pleasure to play that wonderful piece
of classical violin music! A few months after that, when I recorded
"Electric Storm", I heard some keyboard solos in my head. I
contacted Joe and asked him to play some solo parts. Thank you Joe, for
your contribution to my "Electric Storm"! |
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Natali - Dan's wife Natali, my beloved wife, the most important part of my
life! "Thank you for your passion and love! - and for the contribution of your great vocals parts!" |
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Nathan "Fuzzy" Jon Tillett - Art Director It was coincidence, that I got to know Fuzzy while I was searching the web. The artwork for CD label and logo is done by Fuzzy, our visual creative head. Unfortunately, I never met Fuzzy face-to-face, maybe another day...who knows...? Find more of Fuzzy's work at www.FuzzyPlanet.co.uk |
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Charly Czajkowski - recording engineer at VPS Studios Charly did the recording of the drum parts. It's not that easy to get a "time slot" with that guy! As the owner of the VPS Studios/Hamm he's very busy (tour sound engineer for Rage, Helloween,...). But it was worth to wait, because he really knows how to "move the faders"!
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Dan's Guitar Tech Well, she knows to polish the guitar and a lot of other things... |
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A special THANX to all people who
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Tom Hess for advice how to practice the most challenging parts Jamey Andreas for the Guitar Principles Victor Smolski (Rage/Germany) as guitar teacher Roland "Roller" Zenger for web design consulting ma-Saki/Japan for friendship and business information about Japan Trevor "Jazzy-Shredder" Galeckas for the continuous contact Dad for opening the door for me to classical music - RIP Mom for your livelong interest in my music Gordana for the best Macedonian food All my guitar studentss and many other... |
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Guitarists which influenced my play style... |
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Marty Friedman - exotic sounding melodic ideas and bendings Jason Becker - the way to use the whammy bar Steve Vai - melodies with wide slides George Lynch - the intense vibrato Yngwie Malmsteen - neoclassical elements |
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Other musicians which inspired me... |
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Asida Hamidi, Harp - Oriental touch and grooves Jagdeep Singh Bedi, Sitar - Indian melodies and bendings Mich Gerber, electro-acoustic bass'n samples Ling Ling Yu, Pipa - intense Chinese string music |
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Highlights... |
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Lori Linstruth, a very melodic female Metal Guitarist plays charged with emotions! Katrina Johansson, a new shredding Queen! |
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Fans soloing over my "Just A Goddess!" jamtrack (you get the original jamtrack, as soon as you subscribe to the newsletter) |
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More web-friends... |
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Ray Mohan, an Indian neoclassical Shredder living in Los Angelos. Senor-X, an exotic influenced metal guitar player Tony Lloret is a guitar player and instructor from Spain Session guitarist Chris Juergensen from NY - living in Japan - gives useful information A great scale-viewer (download!) site from zubrowka50, especially for Eastern scales (Japanese,...) This is Neovantz with his very creative website (!), interesting exercixes & "enhanced" neoclassical sound A fan of my guitar-music, Shinsuke Iwanishi, the 7String guitar-guy from Japan! Want to listen highest-speed shred form Italy? Here is Francesco Fareri... Find free guitar site for beginners and advanced guitar students... at MyGuitarSolo |
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There are still more people & sites I had contact with... |
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If you like cool photo-realistic (and other...!) pictures visit Name's Imaginantion Boogadelic from Switzerland, a bluesy-funky-jazzy mixture, with a hyper-cool Flash-site Find a LOT of guitar-related links on the MEGA Guitar.com site! JUNO'S R&R PARADISE: Japanese Female rock singer, songwriter & guitarist, enjoy her melodic, emotional oriental world with a little of hardrock taste. Find cool reviews/interviews at QUINTESSENCE WEBZINE Find all guitar stuff at guitar.com "Cool music man. great use of those scales" - words from Total-Guitar Dave (music'n lessons) Roderick from Swiss "Heavymetal.ch" magazine Jim Horne show's you cool things from the greatest guitarists. Have a look! Check the German guitarist Rolf Munkes, who recorded with....(have a look!) Learn Guitar with Daniel Puddick (Chords with Pictures ...) Want listen to interesting non-cliché guitar music? Discover Julien Carayon, a fresh-sounding French guitar player. |
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