Michael Angelo Batio's New Quad Guitar

[iondestroyer1527]

i really like shredding but batio is annoying...these guitars are senseless and dumb. every riff i've ever heard from him just sounds like something generic to solo over. jeff loomis said it best when he said that practicing technique can only do so much...

 

[Scar Symmetry]

wow that is fucking disgusting

 

[willybman]

gay

 

[ra1der2]

I can't say that I'm a fan, but he is clearly a guitar virtuoso in every aspect and I respect him for that.

 

[Xiphos68]

how the hell do you steal something like that?


stanley jordan is a BEAST

haha yeah. It comes apart in 4 pieces.

 

[BenEllerGuitars]

haha that is just terrible... i will again refer to my "blind man" analogy.

if you were a blind person ---listening--- to MAB, would you give a fuck that he's using 4 different necks? if you weren't seeing it happen, it wouldn't matter. the same can be said of any other needlessly technical music (i.e. people playing with their non-dominant hand, people playing over the fretboard ala Dragonfarce {sic}, or even worse MAB using that ridiculous "over and under" the board bullshit). if it doesn't sound better or make the song more interesting IT DOESN'T MATTER.

 

[Ancestor]

i hated it when i first looked... now i kinda get it. you can pack it up in a couple cases and the shape can be an "X" or a double "V"

pretty cool. so now he can do the two-guitar config or the 4-x or the 4-double v all from the same four guitars.

 

[CrushingAnvil]

Will MAB ever just STFU?

wow that is fucking disgusting

See, there! Dave, you ALWAYS 'go there' when no one else will

I was going to, but I didn't...

 

[Fred the Shred]

This guitar is a tribute to all things ugly. We all should save a pic of it for those days in which we think one of our own guitars is ugly - we'll stand corrected in a matter of seconds.

 

[walleye]

Batio is just fail all round. I have no idea why he still continues to make music, perhaps mislead to believe that someone actually wants to listen to it.

yeah
i think being ambidextrous is the most useless talent in the world in the music business, it doesnt make him able to play better music. if he spent less time shredding on his left hand he could have learnt jazz or flamenco, and he'd actually be amazing, instead of "a bit of a chuckle", which is all he is really, to me.

 

[Fred the Shred]

Actually, MAB can play a huge variety of styles with great authority. That is one of the reasons I still don't get why he not only limits his solo work to the vastly over-explored "the song is but a backing track for my awsome solo licks" concept, but also chooses to actively promote the songs with the most gimmicky lead tricks crammed into them.

A shame, given the obvious talent and skill this man possesses.

 

[EDG3CRUSHER]

this guy is such a living, breathing joke.

 

[Kayzer]

Sick and totally cheesy

 

[TomParenteau]

I can't do it.

 

[SpaceDock]

Why hasn't someone started selling these? Seems like an untapped market to me.

 

[Scali]

If I'm not mistaken, the old quad had two sevenstrings on top. This one seems to be 4 6-strings.

 

[Harry]

wow that is fucking disgusting

Dave knows how to be as subtle as a car crashing into your house

 

[Daemoniac]

wow that is fucking disgusting

Tact; there is none here

Also, i agree completely.

Dave knows how to be as subtle as a car crashing into your house

Damn, beaten to it

 

[Masadar]

MAB FTW

 

[Prydogga]

Batio is just fail all round. I have no idea why he still continues to make music, perhaps mislead to believe that someone actually wants to listen to it.

I listen to some of his music at least once a week to get pumped, I actually like his music.