Not
New and Improved
You can't revise something without changing it and some
parts of the original were truly lost in the changes.
I'm not saying that the original was better than the current
version because it wasn't. But it was different. 1983
was a very exciting time for hard rock and metal and it's
reflected in the original audio course.
While
I was writing and recording the course I was determined
to put together the ultimate rock band. I had just moved
to California to "make it in music." And yes,
that sounded as naïve then as it does now. Still,
I was very determined to find success in the music business.
It was great back then going to the Sunset Strip and
watching Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison, and others before
they found success. I was living the rock dream and
conveying this experience in the course.
In
1984 my ex-wife Londa and I wrote six newsletters and
combined them into a booklet called "The Metal
Message" that's included in this package. Some
of it looks and sounds a bit silly today but it was
like a journal of the early eighties metal scene. Londa
discussed image and I discussed music. I've shared many
of these stories in my lessons and newsletters since
then but it is interesting to read these observations
written as I was living the experience. I answered student's
questions in The Metal Message and it's surprising
how similar their questions were then to the topics
discussed on our bulletin board today. The Metal
Message is filled with letters from students about
their guitar hopes and dreams. It's interesting to read
these letters by my then fifteen-year-old students that
are now grown into adults and are in their early forties.
That's unbelievable.
I've
also included our first three Metal Method ads on disk.
The first one was a tiny 1/6th page ad, the second one
was a 1/3rd page ad, and the final one was our first
full-page ad. For those of you that were around at the
time it's the one with me playing the white Randy Rhoads
Charvel / Jackson (pictured). The three ads were all
published in the first year that Metal Method existed
and show how quickly the company grew.
What's
Included?
There are three audio CDs to play in your car or home
player and one data CD for your computer. Insert the
data CD in a computer CD drive to print copies of the
original eight booklets, our first three ads, The Metal
Message newsletter, and a program guide.
When
you read the full-page ad you'll see that this material
originally sold for $80 back in 1983. So, after adjusting
for inflation over the past twenty-five years you can
have all this material for only $4,999.99. That's less
than $5,000! But if you act now, it's all yours for
only $29.95.
Obviously
I'm kidding about the $5,000… not the $29.95. For
$29.95 you get the first eight lessons: Metal Gear,
Metal Primer, Metal Progressions, Metal Tricks, Metal
Licks, Metal Theory, Lesson Seven (Van Halen), Lesson
Eight (Randy Rhoads), and all of the additional materials.
I
hope the original 1983 puts some of my first students
in touch with their original motivation to play guitar.
For the rest of you, this may be an interesting look
back at the inspiration for much of today's hard rock
and metal. $29.95 Buy
Now
Speed
Kills and Speed Lives Revision 2.0
These two DVDs were recently given a facelift. We now
have Scorch animated files instead of TablEdit files
and a few menu and chapter changes. These aren't reasons
to purchase programs if you already own them. The changes
are small but it is a good time to purchase them if
you don't already have a copy.
Speed
Kills Info or Speed
Lives Info
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