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DIP

Home-cooked instrumental guitar rock

About Me



In the late 80's, I saw the movie Crossroads where Ralph "the Karate Kid" Macchio outplays the devil's guitar slinger Steve Vai in the ferocious head-cutting duel. Man, I've been trying to figure out the instrument ever since! Still, I've yet to find out how to shoot rockets from my guitar and how to make the smoke coming out of it…

Turn it up,
Juha

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/23/2006
Band Website: [ Watch this space... ]
Band Members: Juha - all guitars, bass and drum programming

The Very Special Guests:
Katja - vocals on "Powwow"

Influences: GUITARISTS:
Ace Frehley
Billy Gibbons
Eddie Van Halen
Joe Satriani
Nuno Bettencourt
Paul Gilbert
Steve Vai

MAGAZINES:
Guitar FTPM
Guitar Player
Guitar World

SONGWRITERS:
Tom Petty

Sounds Like: Huh?...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

15 YEARS OF ROCK N ROLL

(Originally written in August 14th 2006)Today 15 years ago I took a 5+ hours trip by train with a bunch of friends to my first real rock 'n' roll concert to Helsinki. That got me thinking of making a ...
Posted by DIP on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:55:00 PST

ABOUT THE SONGS

I'm currently in the midst of re-recording, re-arranging and "re-drumming" some of my older material as well as working on some new tracks. I'm hoping to have 6 songs in the play...
Posted by DIP on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:11:00 PST

SOMETHING TO DIP INTO... THE SELECTED LICKS

Hey all my fellow Diploids!In this section I'd like to share some of my favourite licks found on the demos posted on my page. Although the excerpts will feature different playing techniques, the main ...
Posted by DIP on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:59:00 PST

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU POST

Hello fellow guitar geeks and music freaks! First of all, I think MySpace is a great resource for discovering new music. I've found loads of cool new artists that I otherwise would never have gotten...
Posted by DIP on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:10:00 PST