HeHasTheJazzHands
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MONUMENTS Goes On Indefinite Hiatus As JOHN BROWNE Deals With Health Issues
We wish Browne all the best.
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Monuments on hiatus
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Never heard this band but it's a bummer to hear when any musician has a condition that stops them from being able to do what they love. 
gunch
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Sucks to hear
Shorts_Mike
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Great instrumental sound. Personally, could never get on with the singer/vocals though. Just absolutely ruins it for me.
soul_lip_mike
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High skill band. Browne has some good youtube content. Hope he gets well.
Ordacleaphobia
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This band continues to not be able to catch a break.
Hope indefinite wraps up sooner rather than later.
Hope indefinite wraps up sooner rather than later.
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I forget John's name on here, but yes, hope for the best recovery possible.
I have zero experience with his new online guitar academy, Modern Metal Academy, so this isn't a recommendation, but you chould check it out if you want to support him.
I have zero experience with his new online guitar academy, Modern Metal Academy, so this isn't a recommendation, but you chould check it out if you want to support him.
JDB123
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I hope Browne can get the healthcare he needs. Dude has a wicked right hand, love hearing the kind of riffs he comes up with.
Emperor Guillotine
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Monuments was one of the original "djent" bands in the early days of the sound (early 2010s). And Browne was active here on the Sevenstring forum during the peak era of the forum before Monuments really took off. He has the best picking hand in the biz, period.Never heard this band but it's a bummer to hear when any musician has a condition that stops them from being able to do what they love.
Same, man. Just from watching Browne's latest YouTube content, and especially his latest shot content for his Modern Metal Academy site, he has been totally hunched over and looked physically locked-up. I thought it was just from years of bad posture while playing, and also from trying to slam his face into the floor onstage while playing. I didn't know that he had ankylosing spondylitis (in addition to having psoriasis, which also causes arthritis).
The best soldiers (or players in this case) always seem to have the toughest challenges to hurdle over. Jason Becker, Christian Muenzner, Django Reinhardt, John Browne, and more...
@John_Strychnine is his username.
Agreed on members checking out Modern Metal Academy to show support. I joined MMA briefly for a month or two to check it out immediately upon launch, and it kicked me right back into playing guitar.
Modern Metal Academy is pricey though at $40 per month; and the content is still being developed and added. The pathways (courses) are very, very slow-moving, expecting students to really hone in and practice because most of the exercises and lessons are comprised of just solely learning Monuments riffs or Flux Conduct riffs verbatim. And we all know that since this is Browne's material, the riffs are finger-twisting and punishing on your picking hand. Even the "beginner" level pathway is tricky before you climb up into the really difficult material.
Obviously, the goal is to be able to play and dissect the riffs/sections, but then you have to submit a video of you playing the riffs/sections for feedback (so that you can appropriately revise and try again to get it 100%) before you're allowed to proceed or gain some kind of certificate of completion.
It's good for instructors to expect so much practice, and ultimately perfection, out of students; but again, it just seems super slow-moving and drawn-out to really keep students around as long as possible for more subscription income. That's the business though.
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gh0styboi
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Just saw this on Insta as well. Really sucks, and I hope he makes a strong recovery. He's such a beast of a play and a hell of a nice guy. Hate to see someone unable to do what they love - especially such a decent dude.
RevDrucifer
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That’s a bummer, for sure. I really only know his playing from YouTube vids but always dug whatever he was doing and generally the tones as well. Best of luck to the dude.
This is the same thing Mick Mars has been dealing with.
This is the same thing Mick Mars has been dealing with.
gunch
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It feels really rude to bring it up in this thread specifically but the curiosity is killing me, what happened between him and Levi that he split off from Riffhard?
MONUMENTS Goes On Indefinite Hiatus As JOHN BROWNE Deals With Health Issues
We wish Browne all the best.
Wishing the best for John
Hope he gets better but this looks like they were anyways already missing the drummer and maybe second guitar player to be able to play live, no?
soul_lip_mike
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I feel like I saw someone say somewhere Levi is kind of a douche. But I could be confusing him with someone else.
I was gonna come in and post the "oh no anyway" meme because I never got into these guys, but it really sucks that it's because of a medical condition.
Emperor Guillotine
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Send me a PM. I can provide some insight on this.
