Shadowing-Übung: Steve Vai Reflects on John Sykes' Legacy with Whitesnake: 'A PHENOMENAL Guitar Player' - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube

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John Sykes, just wanted to bring him up.
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John Sykes, just wanted to bring him up.
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Obviously a super tragic passing here in the world of rock and metal.
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You know, you've spoken on Sykes in past interviews, talking about the fact that when you joined Whitesnake, you definitely, you weren't going to sound like John Sykes and you weren't going to try to sound like John Sykes.
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What are some of your memories of him and just some thoughts in general you could share?
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Well, he was such a phenomenal rock guitar player.
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You know, I mean, when I when that Whitesnake record came out, we were all just stunned.
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He really captured that audio real estate with a guitar tone and a playing style that created like a fever,
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you know, and and his he really has a stamp in his musical DNA and he delivered so much.
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He was really a great player and a great guitar orchestrator.
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And I didn't know him very well.
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You know, our kids went to school together.
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Oh, wow.
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He lived right down the street and our kids went to the same school and his son would come over a lot, but actually we have never really hooked up.
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We were always on tour or something.
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So he kept his illness very quiet.
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So I know I didn't know about it And I don't know anybody
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that I know that knew him that knew about it.
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But, you know, like I said, everything in this world is coming and going and coming and going.
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And if it doesn't go, that only means you went before it. But he really delivered.
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He came and he lifted the whole scene.
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He really did.
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You're a young man in the 80s when that Whitesnake record came out.
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It was a phenomenon.
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I mentioned that I wasn't going to try to sound like him.
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A better way of putting it is I can't.
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I sound like me, which is very obvious when you compare the two Whitesnake records.

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