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Eric Basler

About Me


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I am a giant from a small Wisconsin town. I learned to be invisible. Then I learned to be opaque. I am intelligent non-stuff. I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. I have silenced my internal dialogue, yet I indulge like a motherfucker. I have dropped ashes on the Buddha. I live in a holographic universe. My mother is Mitochondrial Eve. My father is the mold of man. Music is my alchemy. Words are my playground. I am deeply stunned by the profundity of my occasional shallowness and yet nonplussed by my usual depth of compassion. I am a goofy bastard. I am the butt of my own jokes. I am in everyone else's shoes all the time. I was rich, then suddenly very poor. In each case I found I was still me. I am a conduit for energy. I am a stained-glass window for the light to pass through. I am a sludge-clogged filter making the water spit and sputter. I am whatever I decide to be. I am a contradiction, vast and containing multitudes. To say, "I am" says too much.
Eric Basler solo after Razors Edge competition!
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Member Since: 25/10/2005
Band Members: Still just me.
Influences: My main guitar influences are Jason Becker, Jeff Loomis, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Schenker, Steve Morse, Steve Vai, Michael Hedges, Tony MacAlpine, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Steve Smyth, Vinnie Moore, Brian May, Akira Takasaki, Al DiMeola, Joe Satriani, Joey Tafolla, George Lynch, Michael Denner, Gary Moore. These are more inspirations than influences, although what skill I do have was certainly shaped by these incredible players.
Sounds Like: Hopefully some mix of Jason Becker, Jeff Loomis, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Schenker, Steve Morse, Steve Vai, Michael Hedges, Tony MacAlpine, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Steve Smyth, Vinnie Moore, Brian May, Akira Takasaki, Al DiMeola, Joe Satriani, Joey Tafolla, George Lynch, Michael Denner, Gary Moore. You tell me.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Tears and Memory liner notes

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."  Oscar WildeI wrote the main body and melody of this song in 2000 after my Grandmother died.  I had a version posted here for a while, but it...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:15:00 GMT

Player Prayer liner notes

I play guitar for a band called Mandragora and Player Prayer was originally a  lyrical song in that band for a while called Play or Pray.  The rhythm was mostly written by the other guitaris...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:39:00 GMT