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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.Dec-20-2015 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Instrumental Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........2015 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......anthem Songs........11 ║ │
│║ Covers.......Yes Url... www.vinniemoore.com ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Vinnie Moore Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : Aerial Visions (Jap. Ed.) Label : MEM ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ Before he was a teenager, Vinnie Moore had been ║ │
│║ rocking out on his guitar well enough to be ║ │
│║ professionally performing in his tiny home state ║ │
│║ of Delaware, but after getting spotlighted in ║ │
│║ Guitar Player Magazine for his instrumental ║ │
│║ prowess by age 20, his career would take off ║ │
│║ running as one of the vanguards of the shred ║ │
│║ guitar scene. Throughout the mid-'80s and '90s, ║ │
│║ Moore's career spanned from his shred-showcasing ║ │
│║ solo albums, to working with other bands like ║ │
│║ Vicious Rumors, as well as appearing on Alice ║ │
│║ Cooper's 1991 album "Hey Stoopid," sharing the ║ │
│║ same guest musician bill as other guitar greats ║ │
│║ like Slash, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie ║ │
│║ Malmsteen and Mick Mars. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ Moore's activity in the current millennium has ║ │
│║ slowed down a bit, however, more or less due to ║ │
│║ the cooling down of the shred guitar craze. ║ │
│║ After his sixth solo album, 2001's "Defying ║ │
│║ Gravity," Moore's solo catalog would collect ║ │
│║ dust while he was soon recruited as the next ║ │
│║ lead guitar player for the long-standing heavy ║ │
│║ metal band UFO. Having only released another ║ │
│║ solo album during his tenure with UFO six years ║ │
│║ ago (2009's "To the Core"), the past couple of ║ │
│║ years have shown Moore in high gear in the ║ │
│║ studio; not only continuing his work with UFO, ║ │
│║ Moore also played the role of guitarist for the ║ │
│║ new band Red Zone Rider, and has also just ║ │
│║ released his eighth solo album, "Aerial ║ │
│║ Visions." ║ │
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│║ From the eight-year span of "Defying Gravity" ║ │
│║ and "To the Core," Moore's style of composing ║ │
│║ solo albums went from the standard shred ║ │
│║ guitarist tropes of neoclassical guitar style ║ │
│║ and flamenco acoustic riffing, and "To the Core" ║ │
│║ showed more elaboration in songwriting as a ║ │
│║ whole - with Moore's lead guitar playing more ║ │
│║ reserved in some areas, there was more focus on ║ │
│║ guitar layers working in groups, more ║ │
│║ synthesizer elements, even some guest saxophone ║ │
│║ parts. In "Aerial Visions," Moore focuses the ║ │
│║ spotlight back on his lead guitar acrobatics, ║ │
│║ which seldom leave any moments without throwing ║ │
│║ in some peppy hammer-on licks, tremolo picking ║ │
│║ ascents, or full-on shredding fits - every song ║ │
│║ features a hodgepodge of all this, but Moore's ║ │
│║ lead guitar-work is especially relentless in ║ │
│║ "Mustang Shuffle," "Aerial Vision," "The Dark ║ │
│║ Dream." Moore also wields some unconventional ║ │
│║ guitar sections to diversify things, heard in ║ │
│║ the warm whale-song-esque swells in "Faith," and ║ │
│║ the noise guitar layers that break things down ║ │
│║ in the bridge of "Now's the Time." ║ │
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│║ But even with Moore's lead guitar sitting back ║ │
│║ on top of this compositional hierarchy, "Aerial ║ │
│║ Visions" still makes its genre flavors and ║ │
│║ instrumental arrangements to be a full-bodied ║ │
│║ experience rather than just simple backdrops for ║ │
│║ Moore's shredding. Mainly, "Aerial Visions" ║ │
│║ shows a penchant for a southern rock flavor, ║ │
│║ heard in the swingy rhythms of "Mustang ║ │
│║ Shuffle," the slap bass-touting "Aerial Vision," ║ │
│║ and Moore's punched-up cover of ZZ Top's "La ║ │
│║ Grange" (though it would've been even better to ║ │
│║ hear Moore attempt to do Billy Gibbons' vocal ║ │
│║ parts in the beginning, just for the full ║ │
│║ effect), but the album also takes some turns ║ │
│║ into funky jazz fusion (in "Slam"), '80s-style ║ │
│║ power ballads (in "Looking Back" and "Calling ║ │
│║ Out"), and the final song "A Million Miles Gone" ║ │
│║ is especially elaborate - in its near-seven- ║ │
│║ minute span, it goes from a soft rock acoustic ║ │
│║ ballad (also being the designated area for ║ │
│║ Moore's flamenco acoustic guitar skills) to a ║ │
│║ heavy metal ballad, then closing out with a ║ │
│║ stronger and faster metal finish. ║ │
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│║ Though the past ten years have been sparse for ║ │
│║ Moore's solo work, the couple of albums that ║ │
│║ have come in this time have been pivotal in ║ │
│║ pushing his style forward from his out-of- ║ │
│║ fashion roots. With his reinvention from his ║ │
│║ neoclassical shred style into the more ║ │
│║ instrumentally-cooperative likes of "To the ║ │
│║ Core," the step forward shown in "Aerial ║ │
│║ Visions" bridges the gap between exploring ║ │
│║ different genre styles and maintaining an ║ │
│║ interesting instrumental effort all across the ║ │
│║ board, and having Moore indulge more in what he ║ │
│║ does best - playing guitar leads that could ║ │
│║ reduce a fret board into splinters. ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - Mustang Shuffle [04:15] │
│ 02 - Now┤s The Time [04:12] │
│ 03 - Faith [04:22] │
│ 04 - Slam [04:37] │
│ 05 - La Grange [04:04] │
│ 06 - Looking Back [04:30] │
│ 07 - AerialVisions [04:40] │
│ 08 - The Dark Deam [05:41] │
│ 09 - Calling Out [04:39] │
│ 10 - A Million Miles Gon e [06:59] │
│ 11 - Let┤s Jam (Vinnie At 15 Years Old) (Bonus [04:27] │
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