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curious as to how this collaboration took place, and does Loomis have a favorable opinion of the Hair Metal genre?MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:19 pm Jeff rules... great guy... and I was stoked to watch him grow from a pre-teen shredder in Wisconsin, to a world-class player!
TUFF "What Comes Around Goes Around" (2012) Feat: Jeff Loomis and Stephen Pearcy
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aues5M9gzgM
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Jeff is from Menasha Wisconsin, a smaller town than Oshkosh, which is about 15 minutes from where I grew up!alleyrulez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:43 pmcurious as to how this collaboration took place, and does Loomis have a favorable opinion of the Hair Metal genre?MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:19 pm Jeff rules... great guy... and I was stoked to watch him grow from a pre-teen shredder in Wisconsin, to a world-class player!
TUFF "What Comes Around Goes Around" (2012) Feat: Jeff Loomis and Stephen Pearcy
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aues5M9gzgM
$tEvil
damn, I had no idea.MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:49 pmJeff is from Menasha Wisconsin, a smaller town than Oshkosh, which is about 15 minutes from where I grew up!alleyrulez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:43 pmcurious as to how this collaboration took place, and does Loomis have a favorable opinion of the Hair Metal genre?MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:19 pm Jeff rules... great guy... and I was stoked to watch him grow from a pre-teen shredder in Wisconsin, to a world-class player!
TUFF "What Comes Around Goes Around" (2012) Feat: Jeff Loomis and Stephen Pearcy
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aues5M9gzgM
$tEvil
Jeff would come to watch me rehearse with my local band in 1985/86 before I moved to L.A..
He would come to hang around, and he was like 14 years old and already ripping!
We let him jam with us doing stuff like "Yankee Rose", "Shy Boy", and Dokken and he'd KILL it.
We've remained friends the entire way... Jeff is the REAL deal!
$tEvil
Yup!alleyrulez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:52 pmdamn, I had no idea.MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:49 pmJeff is from Menasha Wisconsin, a smaller town than Oshkosh, which is about 15 minutes from where I grew up!alleyrulez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:43 pm
curious as to how this collaboration took place, and does Loomis have a favorable opinion of the Hair Metal genre?
Jeff would come to watch me rehearse with my local band in 1985/86 before I moved to L.A..
He would come to hang around, and he was like 14 years old and already ripping!
We let him jam with us doing stuff like "Yankee Rose", "Shy Boy", and Dokken and he'd KILL it.
We've remained friends the entire way... Jeff is the REAL deal!
$tEvil
the fact that he hasn't forgotten his roots is commendable.
not sure how any of this works, but I'm assuming there was some fee involved for his appearance?MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:57 pmYup!alleyrulez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:52 pmdamn, I had no idea.MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:49 pm
Jeff is from Menasha Wisconsin, a smaller town than Oshkosh, which is about 15 minutes from where I grew up!
Jeff would come to watch me rehearse with my local band in 1985/86 before I moved to L.A..
He would come to hang around, and he was like 14 years old and already ripping!
We let him jam with us doing stuff like "Yankee Rose", "Shy Boy", and Dokken and he'd KILL it.
We've remained friends the entire way... Jeff is the REAL deal!
$tEvil
the fact that he hasn't forgotten his roots is commendable.
So... when we did this "WCAGA- Again" record in 2011/2012, I told Chase I wanted to have guest guitarists and guest back-ground singers.
Which we did... and I reached out to all kinds of people... and pretty much everyone agreed to do it.
Solos by George Lynch, Jeff Loomis, Steve Brown, Howie Simon, Keri Kelli, and Michael Raphael. Also had Pearcy, Jaime St. James and Lizzy DeVine do some backgrounds too!
Good stuff... good people... great friends!
$tEvil
alleyrulez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 5:04 pmnot sure how any of this works, but I'm assuming there was some fee involved for his appearance?MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:57 pmYup!alleyrulez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:52 pm
damn, I had no idea.
the fact that he hasn't forgotten his roots is commendable.
So... when we did this "WCAGA- Again" record in 2011/2012, I told Chase I wanted to have guest guitarists and guest back-ground singers.
Which we did... and I reached out to all kinds of people... and pretty much everyone agreed to do it.
Solos by George Lynch, Jeff Loomis, Steve Brown, Howie Simon, Keri Kelli, and Michael Raphael. Also had Pearcy, Jaime St. James and Lizzy DeVine do some backgrounds too!
Good stuff... good people... great friends!
$tEvil
did his label (if he was signed to one at the time) dictate that, or was it a "we're buddies so just pay me whatever" type of deal?
wow, that was awesome of them.MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 5:05 pmalleyrulez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 5:04 pmnot sure how any of this works, but I'm assuming there was some fee involved for his appearance?MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:57 pm
Yup!
So... when we did this "WCAGA- Again" record in 2011/2012, I told Chase I wanted to have guest guitarists and guest back-ground singers.
Which we did... and I reached out to all kinds of people... and pretty much everyone agreed to do it.
Solos by George Lynch, Jeff Loomis, Steve Brown, Howie Simon, Keri Kelli, and Michael Raphael. Also had Pearcy, Jaime St. James and Lizzy DeVine do some backgrounds too!
Good stuff... good people... great friends!
$tEvil
did his label (if he was signed to one at the time) dictate that, or was it a "we're buddies so just pay me whatever" type of deal?
""""""""""""but I'm assuming there was some fee involved for his appearance?"""""""""""
You would be assuming, wrong.
Not a penny was given to anyone!
Everyone did me the favor... and guess what... when they need a favor from me, it's done!
$tEvil