![]() ![]() Others ask about playing with Cooper or her recent fitness challenge launched through social media (and connected to her forthcoming e-book, Body Shred: Your Guide to Feeling and Looking Like a Rock Star). Some are musicians who bring guitars and request technique tips. There is an hourlong sit-down and Q&A where fans can ask Strauss questions. This is her first tour doing pre-show VIP meet-and-greets by herself, and she doesn’t simply shake hands and take photos. The 32-year-old guitarist likes to interface with her fans in person. That’s what I try to do with my shows as well.” Not that all artists aren’t appreciative, but it’s really inspiring to see how much effort he puts into making sure each and every person that comes to the concert has a good time. “He is always so appreciative - whether he’s walking around the mall or eating dinner - of all the fans that come to see him. “I think the main thing that I’ve learned from Alice just as a person is putting the fans first,” says Strauss. It has given her the chance to learn from a legendary figure, and not just about music. Her main gig for the last five years has been playing with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper on tour. So if it’s an opportunity for me to do that, it’s a great thing.” Like, I would have to dress a certain way or dress provocatively, and that’s not what I’m about. “The only time that I would turn down anything would be if I felt like it was inappropriate. “I’m not in the habit of turning down work,” she remarks. Everybody onstage is giving 110% the whole show. ![]() “They’re there to be entertained, and I’ve got a great band on tour with me. People aren’t going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record,” declares Strauss. Her live show is mostly instrumental in nature, combining originals with covers. 1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart and No. Strauss is in the midst of her first solo headlining tour with a five-piece band - rhythm guitarist Johnny Young, bassist Christopher Dean, keyboardist Katt Scarlett and drummer Josh Villalta - in support of her first solo album, Controlled Chaos, which reached No. Any little kid that wants to have someone to look up to that looks like them has that hero. There are Asian guitar heroes and black guitar heroes and female guitar heroes and gay and lesbian guitar heroes. And there’s a guitar hero that looks like everybody. Now it’s totally normal to have girls in a band or have an all-female band. “I’ve had a front-row seat to watch this change happen. Petrucci's guitar work with Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment and as a solo artist exemplify the present-day ideal of extreme guitar discipline.“It’s not weird to go into Guitar Center to ask for strings anymore,” Strauss tells Billboard while at a New Jersey tour stop. Maybe it's the six daily hours of practice he put in during his formative years, and his rigorous studies at Berklee, where he mastered the intricacies of sweep and alternate picking. How else can one explain the man's ability to make six- and seven-string electric guitars generate quantum-shifted note clusters exceeding the speed oflight? There are those who swear that prog-metal pioneer John Petrucci has a few extra fingers on both hands that he craftily keeps hidden during photo shoots. The sons of bluegrass fiddler Ray Parks, Cary and Larry grew up in the crossfire of Los Angeles’ country rock scene and the more traditional sounds they heard at home.Īs a result, their unique playing styles blend the chickenpickin’ twang of the Bakersfield sound, the clean cross picking of Kentucky bluegrass and the rowdy attitude of Hollywood rock, best heard on their blazing countrified cover of the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me,” which comes across like Van Halen and Bill Monroe jamming at a Buck Owens concert. ![]() Even the most diehard country music fan has probably forgotten the band Boy Howdy, which is best known for the hit ballad “She’d Give Everything,” but the sibling dual-guitar team of Cary and Larry Parks recorded several impressive dueling-guitar solos that deserved a much bigger audience. ![]()
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