Missionaria Protectiva

      Prior to joining Guns N’ Roses, Duff McKagan had barely touched a bass. He was an ex-guitarist and ex-drummer who had come up in Seattle’s early-Eighties punk scene, and the combo of his background and his raw approach to playing gave Guns N’ Roses songs like “It’s So Easy” and “You Could Be Mine” a rough edge. To learn the instrument, McKagan binged on the bass lines of Prince , Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, the Clash’s Paul Simonon, Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, and, most surprising, Barry Adamson of the postpunk group Magazine. “In Magazine, those bass lines were so pronounced, he had the chorus pedal on the bass,” McKagan once said, referring to a device that gives the instrument a glassy, almost hollow sound, “and that’s really where I grabbed the chorus pedal for Guns.” That secret weapon helped McKagan push his bass to the forefront on  Appetite for Destruction  and the  Use Your Illusion  LPs, equaling the musicality of Slash and the grit of Axl Rose, making him an integ

     If you are in a band with Freddie Mercury chances are you won't get your fair share of the spotlight.This is why May,who pound for pound holds his own against or even surpasses the likes of Page,Iommi and Gilmour,is shamefully underrated as a guitarist.he holds a masterful guitar tone that is recognizable on the first note.Not only can he shred,but does so against the wide range of stylistic shifts his band took.Queen layered their songs with lush vocal harmonies and piano parts.May was skilled at not crowding,yet could fill an arena with a single note.Most guitarists who don't have the chops to play an arpeggio are quick to call guitar solos a masturbatory excess,but May was the shinning example of having the skill and knowing when to temper it with taste.He could burn a fretboard as well as any guitar legend,but served their songs first.      Back To The Light      Parlophone,1992       https://www.sendspace.com/file/x0h5jp

      Roger Waters and David Gilmour may have dominated the Pink Floyd headlines, but few will argue against the fact that Wright’s delightful keyboard sound coloured much of what the band produced. He also wrote some of the band’s more memorable pieces of work. He rarely ventured beyond the confines of Floyd, but when he did, it was often more than worthwhile. Famously sacked by Waters during the making of  The Wall , David Gilmour brought him back into the fold for 1987’s  A Momentary Lapse Of Reason , while  The Endless River  was Gilmour and Nick Mason’s final tribute to their late keyboard player. Broken China EMI,1996 https://www.sendspace.com/file/uhsars

      Guns N' Roses' landmark debut,  Appetite for Destruction , gets much of its swagger from the tense yet swinging beats of Steven Adler, the band's energetically goofy drummer. "To Steven's credit, and unbeknownst to most, the feel and energy of  Appetite  was largely due to him," Slash wrote in his autobiography. "He had an inimitable style of drumming that couldn't really be replaced, an almost adolescent levity that gave the band its spark." Bassist Duff McKagan agreed: "Without his groove, we wouldn't have come up with a lot of those riffs," . Adler, who was fired from the band in 1990, was replaced by technically advanced drummers like Matt Sorum and Frank Ferrer, but no one can properly capture his exuberant, whiskey-soaked, youth-gone-wild pulse. ADLER'S APPETITE Adler's Appetite EP Arrogant Bastard Ltd.,2005 https://www.sendspace.com/file/blh3gn