🔥Joel Hoekstra Reviews 1993 Guitar World! 😱🎸 | Shred is DEAD! | TSO | Whitesnake | Cher |

[@joelhoekstra13]

Thanks everyone for checking out this unique interview and big “thanks” to Masters of Shred for the support!

[@MrUltraworld]

Great interview, I've been a fan for a long time now, keep up the great work. Thanks in advance.

[@chungaleta1234]

Big fan since I first heard you. Always cool to hear your stories

[@HunterRouth]

Would love to see some nice playthroughs of the Whitesnake songs you wrote and maybe go over the gear you used or how you wrote the songs! That'd be awesome!

[@JoeR203]

No mention of Revolution Saints?

[@leliopadovani]

Wow! That's me in the Mike Varney's Hometown Heroes section! Still playing after all these years!!!🤟🎸🎸🎸

[@MastersofShred]

OMG!! No kidding! What a small world! Thanks so much for giving us the heads up🙌🎸🎸🎸

[@chungaleta1234]

Amazing how you make your guests feel so comfortable, the conversation and stories just flow freely.

[@MastersofShred]

Thanks man! Happy you enjoy the series🙌🎸 Joel is a class act and always a blast to work with, he makes my job easy 😜🙌🎸🎸🎸

[@guitarlife6190]

I remember back in the 90’s playing local gigs and the whole shred is dead. I never let it affect me. I kept ripping, dive bombing, Squealing, tapping and doing what I like. People always seemed to enjoy it. It’s safe to say that to this day I’m still doing the same thing. lol. They wanted shred to die but I think it held up as good as any other fake news in the 90’s. For Blind Melon to say that about Nuno is quite hilarious. They couldn’t change his strings. Great interview as usual.

[@coachlarry6773]

I was 23 in 1993 remember it very well. Love these Pages in Time!!! Keep them coming please

[@tambor76]

These celebrity guitarist magazine reviews are kickin ass, keep em comin! 👍

[@hugoperry1452]

Great channel, great guitar players and great memories! Support from Western Australia 🇦🇺

[@MastersofShred]

Thanks so much! So happy you enjoyed the episode and thank you so much for your support! 🙏🙌🎸🎸

[@swedeinla]

I lived in a recording studio in Palmdale CA, in 1988, Russ Parrish was up there recording something with Jeff from Racer X and some other people. He is one of the best players I have ever seen in person. He is SO much better than he is perceived to be. Absolutely SICK player.

[@joeydego2]

What’s up Joel! Great to see all this old gear. Takes me back!!

[@gunna2276]

Amazing episode!

[@HeavyluisMillan]

😁 Great interview Master.! 🎸😎😎

[@heidid9715]

Awesome Derek!!!! Love this!!! 🤘🏻🎸🤘🏻

[@mannyfragoza9652]

One of my new found fav guitarists Joel Hoekstra.Even the greats of the greats can't hold a candle to him.

[@brianfudacz8238]

I was taking lessons from Joel back in 93. Great guy. Great teacher. Amazing guitar player. What is more amazing is that although he plays the guitar righty, he writes with his left hand.

[@mikemantis41]

Gary Moore as well

[@sargibson]

Amazing episode ❤🎸🎸

[@MastersofShred]

Thank you so much! It couldn’t have happened without you! ❤️

[@golfrick007]

I watched TSO back in 2019. It was with the other group not Joel's. A couple of great albums besides "I can't look away" are Brad Gillis - Gill Rock Ranch, Jeff Watson - lone Ranger.

[@CRiCRiCri694]

Great interview. Great insights. Thank you for sharing.

[@dirface]

Love his phrasing and style! Superb player!

[@lippsinc2010]

What a great review! Thank you! guy's. Shred On!

[@louisolachea1076]

I have this magazine, and like many, couldn't believe what a disservice it was to any aspiring guitarist who wanted to excel. But the interviews with Satriani and Scorpions were well worth keeping the magazine. I believe that Soldano ad featured Hot 100 amps, and if so they were very affordable at the time. Hosono Guitar Works shut down in the mid or late 90's. Tak Hosono now heads the Ibanez custom shop in Los Angeles.

[@MastersofShred]

Thanks so much for watching the new episode! Also I never knew that Hosono Guitars! 🤯🙌🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@JoeR203]

You need to do the impossible and get an interview with Vito Bratta.

[@victorvaldenegro4001]

My drummer plays in the Raiding The Rock Vault show with Joel, here in Vegas. I’m always joking with her about how she can share a stage with Joel and then still want me to be the guitarist in our band. He’s a monster player!

[@SanctusFractus]

I was 18 in 1993 just beginning my guitar learning journey which began in 1990

[@Heat5094]

Digging this idea, what a trip down memory lane.

[@theprisonier]

Yes they told me shred is dead, metal is dead, rock is dead, hard-rock is dead, so many time !!!!!! Here we are 35 years later who’s dead ? None of them.

[@MastersofShred]

Well said! 👏🙌🎸🎸

[@lesbois53]

Most of the dudes who told you that are probably dead!

[@lippsinc2010]

Joel is a master of his strings 110% for sure. His playing brings the house down.

[@EYECOMEINPEACE]

I have this mag 20 feet away from me right now. Bought it from the store when I was in highschool lol. I have about 200 of these mags ...including a June 1984 gftpm mag with Randy Rhoads on the cover. 🤟

[@BlizzardOfSteel]

Love his rendition Solos on in this love track by whitesnake

[@geezberry8889]

i had that coverdale page album pretty good album

[@DroidBishopMusic]

another festivus miracle!

[@Johnmannish]

Quid Pro Quo, great album by Brett Garsed an TJ Helmerich

[@Scrappalino]

Bro, you confirmed the evh Balance instrumental 🤯 I remember hearing that Trevor Rabin song, eyes of love and thinking Ed took that.

[@LicksoftheLegend]

Honestly though the Nitro comment by guitar world was accurate lol

[@prs149]

I remember Maestro Alex Gregory

[@bradleyberdahl6148]

YOUR KILLING IT WITH THESE BRO!!! ... Theyre, GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA RATE!!!!

[@MastersofShred]

Hahahah thanks so much man!! So happy you are enjoying them!! FYI - we just shot an episode with ZAKK WYLDE🤫😜Stay tuned 🎸

[@DenialAlner]

Ironicallly, Shannon Moon from Blind Melon, was huge fun of 80s hair bands, he was appeared in Motley Crue "Wildside" video

[@typedeaf]

I remember Shrapnel Records as signing 'Shred Metal' artists and I loved it. Shred, to me, was playing super fast and clean. I used to say, 'I want to be able to shred some day.' So, no, for me and my circle of friends, shred was a badge earned from many hours in shred shed. Some people hated it, but that didnt make it an insult. SHAME: Fire and Ice: Loved it. No idea what the guy is talking about. Fresh sound for YJM. Nitro: I think they were supposed to be somewhat tongue and cheek, with their tall wigs, triple neck guitars, etc. Still, vocalist was as insane as Angelo-Batio. Poison: Poor CC. He tried so hard. Still they had some great hits. Whitesnake: To this day I dont even know if I like that album. It went a weird direction away from hard rock and more towards the Led Zepplin era of rock.

[@2DclanSnipingTeam]

ART(Applied Research and Technology) was huge in the rack effects era of the late 80's early 90's.

[@Ottophil]

I’m a 90’s guy. Grew up on grunge, nu metal, pop punk, and guitar solos were not cool when i was a teenager learning guitar. We considered shredders to be stuck in the 80’s and i never understood the obsession with playing fast

[@garysanders3193]

What no mention of the Bartolini bass pickup add?

[@TeleCarlitos]

I would take that “bad mouthing” part of the magazine with a grain of salt. It reads more like editorial trying to create some controversy and trying to angsty. Most media was immature did whatever they could to attract readership. I’m sure guitar mags were hurting in sales by that year. I still ate all those magazines up though! Loved browsing them over and over. Miss them!

[@New_Jax_City]

Bro love the channel but can please stop the VAN HALEN AMP plug. We get it dude. Sorry if you cant sell them all but its enough. We know you have them. We get it. Please man.

[@jasonlee8497]

You found a thing…..get these cats to peruse these old guitar mags. Remember, before the internet, guitar magazines were super important. That can’t be overstated.

[@Carlito_Sway]

I was born in 1985. I started playing guitar in 1997 or so, during the apex (or maybe the nadir) of the post-grunge/nu-metal era. And yknow what? it SUCKED! You couldn't turn on rock radio and hear really great guitar playing from new bands- even the concept of a guitar solo was seen as tasteless (pretty incredible, considering how much tasteless crap that movement embraced wholeheartedly)! Shred wasn't dead, but it was certainly in a coma- and you'd think that a guitar rag would MOURN that instead of celebrating it. Lots of great guitar playing and great rock music in the 90s, for sure, but both at the time and today, I spent way more time listening to Steve Vai and Van Halen. Also, Slip of the Tongue is an underrated masterpiece, unfairly maligned by nearly everyone. Vai plays like his hair is on fire the whole album, and it's the first use of a 7 string guitar on a rock album!!!! HISTORIC!

[@MastersofShred]

Well said man! You hit the nail on the head! 👏 I dug some of the Nu-Metal stuff but like you said, Shred was in a Coma during that time. Especially in mainstream music. I think Avenged Sevenfold changed that when Bat Country broke out 😯👍🎸🎸🎸

[@VisserBros10]

Yes, I remember 1993. If you played an Ibanez people looked down on you. I'm more of a blues guy. I loved the Jeff Healey band. The Feel this album came out in 1993 and I think it's great! I'm also a big Richie Sambora fan. Bon Jovi's keep the Faith is one of their best albums. All in my very humble opinion. :)

[@radiosygnal1782]

You can thank that craptastic corporate buttrock (glam) for ruining the landscape for shred. The conglomerate exploited that formula until it was burning from both ends. Luckily, for those of us who were actually educated about music and didn't need MTV / radio, there were some great players that hardly get any credit. The early to mid 90s was a pretty damn good time for actual Metal. Rand Burkey Paul Masvidal Jason Gobel Michael Romeo Tommy Vetterli Chuck Shuldiner Rocky George Jim Matheos {and quite a few more that I'm forgetting}

[@saltpeter7429]

" tell em whats up Rocky!" That Suicidal Tendencies tune, YOU CANT BRING ME DOWN, introduced me to ST and Rocky George. What an amazing axe man. I appreciate you having him in your list.

[@DavidLeeHalen]

Master of shred didn’t know Tj Helmerich?????😂😂😂😂😂

[@SeanSilas_IronWrath_GTR]

Shred is not DEAD! :) Trying to keep it going! Thank you for this cool video my brother! Here is my band IronWrath and I made point to continue shred in this day and age! lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWKQeaNpa6-JgK8si=fjkkun4NR4aypiCC

[@helio1055]

How has he never heard of tube works?…. Lol

[@garysanders3193]

Shred bashing is insecurity plain and simple!

[@ksks6802]

You gotta shred to know when to stop shredding. Lol.

[@elvislad]

Shame on you,you should have talked about Ozric Tentacles,there entire catalogue is Shred,there were there on the page and you both just waffled on about bloody Yes.

[@DanielAgado]

The whole music industry is dead

[@jeffreyp1855]

I have that exact magazine I my closet. 🤘🤣