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What John Sykes Taught Me

What John Sykes Taught Me

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If you ever fancy doing a lesson on Billy from the first Blue Murder album, that woukld be superb!

Craig Duncan

Bro please Still of the Night guitar solo lesson please bro

Scott Lee

Slide it In (the Sykes remix) and Whitesnake were in constant rotation for me back in the day, heck, they often are now! The first and indelible Sykes moment for me was at the age of 12, with a mix tape I found at a record store in London called Heavy. Near the end of it was the Tygers of Pan Tang playing Love Potion #9. I was blown away by what Sykes did on that. From then on, I always watched for his name, and was never disappointed!

Paul French

Hey Ben, you think one day you could do tutorial on Bad Boys, like you did with Still of the Night?

Nick Castelluccio

Need to do the 'valley of the kings' solo breakdown πŸ‘ has all of sykes best lead tricks in!

The Metal Icarus 02

More great work Uncle Ben. Cheers! Although a humble man, John Sykes's playing was the epitome of righteous and unafraid. Guitar wise, the equivalent of the guy who turns up to your party with his cock out who then immediately romps your all too willing girlfriend on the lounge room floor, thus totally impressing the shit out of all the grateful observers, especially you! The guitarist's guitarist! I'm so fucking gutted! To think I had planned to win lotto soon and finance his next masterpiece. :(

Phil Ashio

The first time I heard the first Blue Murder album, I completely forgot about pretty much every other band and listened to that CD over and over, it was ridiculous. And I knew the man could play guitar but had not idea he could SING like that. Know he got treated like s**t by Coverdale and others, but he was also pretty big on his own in Japan for a while there. Hope him and Dime are having a blast! R.I.P Mr. Sykes, and thank you! You changed my playing forever!

BlackWolfe

Great job with this tribute! You always recognized how great he was. How can you describe a player like him with just so much talent?!! He was a force of nature on the guitar. The sad thing is, he was robbed of glory, by both Coverdale and management. John Sykes was Whitesnake 1987 and HE was the reason that Coverdale was finally able to breakthrough in the US! Coverdale can go on about how he extended the olive branch in the past, and John said no… kind of reminds me of how Gretchen and Elliot treated Walter White with Great Matter Industries. for you Breaking Bad fans.

Nick Castelluccio

Such an amazing guitar player- thanks for your beautiful tribute!!!

Brian Newman

Johns live solo on still in love w you from Live lizzy in the 80s i learned by ear note for note. I was like 16? But i still remember all of it. One time i got a marhsall at black market music in hwood back in 2000 and John's Blue Murder cabs where for sale they had the logo spray painted on the cabs. Back then u could still get 1980s marshall jcms 50 and 100 watt cheap

JJs Sheddin


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