WOULDN’T IT BE AWESOME TO TAKE GUITAR LESSONS FROM ARSIS’ JIM MALONE?
Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 11:46am by Axl Rosenberg
The times they are a-changin’. Maybe I was just totally out of the loop as a young snot growing up in NYC, but the idea of an awesome guitar player from an awesome metal band giving guitar lessons in between tours was unheard of; if I could have studied with Marty Friedman or Dan Spitz (I’m talking pre-Christian clockmaker “Dime stole my solos” Dan Spitz, when I still thought he was cool), I would have; alas, my guitar teacher was a dorky guy named Steve who became the punchline to the joke “What do you call a musician without a girlfriend?” (Answer: “Homeless.”)
ANYWAY, this is a very long way of letting you know that Arsis mastermind Jim Malone is giving guitar lessons in the NY area. In case you’ve had your head up your ass the past few years, Malone can SHRED like a motherfucker, AND he’s a mind-blowingly good writer of melodic technical death metal, AND he can do awesome death metal vocals. I’m saying you could learn a lot from the dude.
I have no idea what Malone’s rates are, but you can hit him up jamesarsis [at] hotmail.com. I met Malone once for all of two seconds, but his handshake said to me “I am a patient mentor who will not make fun of you for being retardedly bad at the guitar even though I myself am something of a god.”
It’s enough to make me wanna take guitar lessons again.
-AR
Mike Schliebaum also gives guitar lessons in the DC area when DH is not on tour. Something for those in that area to look for.
No, you mean, “My DRUMMER Charlie Benante wrote my guitar solos Dan Spitz”.
But yeah, it would be cool.
James can NOT do “awesome death metal vocals.” What few death vox occur on the new album are Cesca’s doing. James’s style has always been—and, I think, will always be—far more blackened. Not my favorite thing about the band, but absolutely everything else about Arsis makes my entire body turgid with excitement, so who cares.
I like his new guitar, hopefully washburn will give him a signature axe soon
Hi,
I would love to get some lessons from Jim Malone, but I live in Amsterdam which is a bit far from New York. Would he not consider to give online lessons? I would join and so would a lot of other people.
Harry
James is one guy whose DVD lessons I would totally buy. His making one could redeem the industry!
Come, Nuclear Blast! Pimp that shit!
MAke a dvd !!!!!!!!! it took me a year to play the face of my innocence !!! and 4 more years to learn overthrown .. Make a dvd featuring U teaching us ur songs >> and i would buy them ALL !!!!
PS : AM from freaking Bahrain u dont wat lifes u touched :P dvd plz !