Dinosaur Rock Guitar Forum

Yeah I agree.... if you knew the stories...wheeewwwww.... damn. He was fucking killer,no doubt. I hear ya DDave, I feel the same.... we pretty much came up in the same era I  & remember this stuff, thankfully.Lots of good memories  & S&TFS were just like background music, in the early 70...

Yeah the news is kind of weird, most sites say "reportedly" ....hmmmm..... Anyways, he was actually quite a badass, saw him live & met him in the early 90s & he was super friendly & cool but the dude smoked on the guitar....a lot more Dino than he probably gets recognized for. ...

I'm in the "it's cool to see Diamond Dave looking fit & still performing" camp for sure. I love his vocals on all the old stuff. Seems he's kind of become a "love him or hate him" kind of guy, whereas back in the day most people loved him.... VH crossed genres really & I ...

Yeah, I think that's part of his genius though....simple and effective and melodic. You're right though, I was like "shit I can do that!" 

I love how his timing, intonation and precision are still hallmarks of his style, he makes it look easy. 
 
 

Nothing wrong with that
 

What Dave said.... Mad Mikey could care less about that stuff, probably less now than he did then  :) .... He never cared about trends, or gear, or whatever, it was all about making music.  I still have this issue. It's funny, a lot of these influencer YT guys, you can tell they basically were proba...

I dug that CD out...it's called  Priest,Live & Rare & hoo boy it's a cracker .....it's live in Cleveland '78 on the Stained Class tour for 3 songs (Beyond The Realms of Death-White Heat,Red Hot-Starbreaker) and then the rest of the stuff from Point of Entry era & Screaming For Vengeance....

Yes, he really was quite a powerhouse, just a killer old school drummer in the vein of the greats ..... it seems like he'd reconnected with KK over the last few years if I'm not mistaken, I always wondered if anything would come of that. I actually put Stained Class up there as among their best, abs...

Need I say more? The dude's been around, to put it mildly. I'll go out on a limb here & say he's a good part of why we're all here, more or less...... no he's not the inventor, be-all-end-all of rock guitar playing but he's certainly provided some key moments. The Wizard of the Stratocaster.  Ch...