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# PRS Guitars

Paul Reed Smith Guitars, also known as PRS Guitars or simply PRS, is an American guitar and amplifier manufacturer located in Stevensville, Maryland. The company was founded in 1985 in Annapolis, Maryland by Paul Reed Smith. Products manufactured by PRS include electric and acoustic guitars, basses, and amplifiers.

## Quotes about PRS Guitars

* If there is a guitar brand that is best known for its exquisite build quality and stunning custom finishes, it's PRS. [...] Paul Reed Smith has [become] a pioneer of modern manufacturing techniques, creating guitars that perfectly balance form and function.
** Daryl Robertson of Guitar World (May 24, 2023)
* The superiority of the PRS lies in the fact that each guitar is produced with the highest-quality maple, and every little detail is considered during the production of their electric guitars. The second puzzle piece is its design features, significantly adding to its playability. We’re talking about the 24-fret design, which allows for more expressive playing, as well as the locking tuners and tremolo system, which the brand actually patented. The result is a fantastic guitar that can hold anything from clean to overdriven sounds, from warm to aggressive leads.
** Donna Maurer of Mixdown (October 4, 2024)
# Joey Santiago

Joseph Alberto Santiago (born June 10, 1965) is a Filipino-American guitarist and composer. Active since 1986, Santiago is best known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band Pixies. After the band's breakup in 1993, Santiago produced musical scores for film and television documentaries, and he formed The Martinis with his ex-wife, Linda Mallari. He also contributed to albums by Charles Douglas and former Pixies band-mate Frank Black. Santiago resumed his role as the Pixies' lead guitarist when they reunited in 2004.

## Quotes about Joey Santiago

* Seemingly allergic to pentatonic scales and harboring an aggressively defiant swagger, Filipino-American indie hero Joey Santiago broke in with the Pixies in the late '80s. As originators of the loud/quiet/loud dynamic that would be perpetually mimicked in the '90s, Santiago and the Pixies should be considered true precursors to grunge.
# Bob Stinson

Robert Neil Stinson (December 17, 1959 – February 18, 1995) was an American musician best known as a founding member and lead guitarist of the rock band the Replacements.

## Quotes about Bob Stinson

* He was by no means a virtuoso or a hard worker, but as a founding member and the lead guitarist of The Replacements, Bob Stinson changed alt-rock forever. Known for being completely unhinged and often disastrously inhibited by copious amounts of drugs and alcohol, Stinson angrily attacked his guitar like a sloppy drunk on payday. Still, the six-stringer seemed to have a heaven-sent gift, and though he fought it through the use of intentionally abused guitars, garish technique and a punk rock attitude, his gift bled through.
# Herb Ellis

Mitchell Herbert Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010) was an American jazz guitarist. During the 1950s, he was in a trio with pianist Oscar Peterson.

## Quotes about Ellis

* [Ellis was] an excellent bop-based guitarist with a slight country twang to his sound.
** Scott Yanow of AllMusic
# Kurt Ballou

Kurt Ballou (born February 1, 1974) is an American musician and record producer based in Massachusetts, best known as the guitarist for metalcore band Converge and for his recording and production work at his own GodCity Studio.

## Quotes about Kurt Ballou

* His guitar tone is both beefy and filth-ridden, setting a bar in 2004 that many hardcore bands have still been attempting to clear over the last 20 years.
** Graham Hartmann of Revolver (September 4, 2023)
# The Silver Jews

Silver Jews were an American indie rock band from New York City, formed in 1989 by David Berman alongside Pavement members Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich. Berman was the only constant band member. During the last few albums, Cassie Berman became a regular member of the band. They disbanded in 2009.

## Song lyrics
### American Water (1998)

* I’m gonna shine out in the wild kindness and hold the world to its word.
** “The Wild Kindness,” as quoted by Matthew Strauss of Pitchfork (September 28, 2022)
# Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins were a Scottish rock band active from 1979 to 1997. They were formed in Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth by Robin Guthrie (guitars, drum machine) and Will Heggie (bass), adding Elizabeth Fraser (vocals) in 1981. In 1983, Heggie was replaced with multi-instrumentalist Simon Raymonde. The group earned critical praise for their ethereal, effects-laden sound and the soprano vocals of Fraser, whose lyrics often eschew any recognisable language. They pioneered the 1980s alternative subgenre of dream pop and helped define what would become shoegaze.

## Song lyrics

* Burn this whole madhouse down.
** “Iceblink Luck” as quoted by Pitchfork (September 28, 2022)
# Jacob Bannon

Jacob Bannon (born October 15, 1976) is an American musician who is the vocalist, lyricist and graphic artist for the metalcore band Converge. He is the co-founder and owner of the record label Deathwish Inc. and the author of many visual works for independent punk rock and heavy metal musicians. Bannon has also composed and performed experimental music as Supermachiner with Ryan Parker and more recently as Wear Your Wounds.

## Quotes about Jacob Bannon

* If you're not familiar with this kind of music you might be blown back by the apocalyptic screech of frontman Jacob Bannon's vocals. It's clear with each gritty blast that the guy is screaming out his lungs for you. Naturally, you can't follow a single word but the vox bleed into the furious guitars and it's all acidic corrosion.
* Jacob Bannon sounds like a rabid animal as some of the most challenging yet endlessly addictive music blares from Converge’s instruments.
# Every Time I Die

Every Time I Die was an American metalcore band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 1998. For most of the band's career, the line-up was centred on brothers Keith (vocals) and Jordan Buckley (guitar), as well as rhythm guitarist Andy Williams, with bassist Stephen Micciche also being in the band for a cumulative 15 of the band's 24 years.

## Quotes about Every Time I Die

* Every Time I Die always had a sense of swagger that other bands in their scene didn’t really have. The band’s energy was intense, making them a live act who could, and often did, tour with just about anyone.
** Emily Bellino of Decibel (February 15, 2024)
# Bathory (band)

Bathory was a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Vällingby in March 1983. Named after Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory, they are considered pioneers of black metal (alongside Venom and Mercyful Fate) and Viking metal. The book Lords of Chaos described Bathory's first four albums as "the blueprint for Scandinavian black metal."

## Quotes about Bathory

* In a musical realm where scale of influence has little to do with commercial success, few originators of the extreme metal arts evoke as deep a sense of mystery, or incite such hushed, reverential tones of admiration, as Sweden's Bathory. Essentially a one-man operation helmed by the mysterious Quorthon, Bathory's development from the rawest form of embryonic black metal, to thrash, death, and back to its self-devised Viking-themed black metal, has mirrored and regularly defined the genre's very evolution. Indeed, along with Switzerland's Celtic Frost, Germany's Kreator, and Denmark's Mercyful Fate, they easily qualify as one the most important European extreme metal acts of the '80s and '90s.
** Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic
# Mercyful Fate

Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 1981 by vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann. Influenced by progressive rock and hard rock, and with lyrics dealing with LaVeyan Satanism (often with ironic or sardonic use of Christian themes) and the occult, Mercyful Fate was part of the first wave of black metal in the early to mid-1980s, along with Venom and Bathory. The band is also cited as a formative influence on many then-up-and-coming subgenres of heavy metal, including thrash metal and death metal, as well as the Norwegian black metal scene.

## Quotes about Mercyful Fate

* Mercyful Fate won a large cult following thanks to their dramatic lyrics, showing a Gothic obsession with evil and the occult, and Diamond's amazing vocal range, which shifted from a low growl to a banshee scream, plus the interplay of Shermann and Denner.
** Steve Huey of AllMusic
# King Diamond

Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956), better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his powerful and wide-ranging countertenor singing voice, in particular his far-reaching falsetto screams. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond. He also plays keyboards and guitars on studio recordings but uses live shows to focus solely on his vocal performance. Diamond is renowned for his dark lyrical content and his story concepts. He is also known for his distinctive shock stage persona (in particular his black and white facepaint). He has been an influence for other rock and metal artists, including Metallica, Slayer and Cradle of Filth.

## Quotes about King Diamond

* Widely regarded as one of the finest vocalists in all of metal (who possesses a multi-octave range), Danish theatrical rocker King Diamond first rose to prominence as a member of gothic black metal group Mercyful Fate before launching a solo career in 1986. Known for his elastic falsetto, distinctive face-paint, occult leanings, femur- and tibia bone-adorned microphone stand, and seminal 1987 concept album Abigail, Diamond is one of late 20th and early 21st century most iconic heavy metal figures, issuing a slew of quality, narrative-driven albums, [one] of which earned a Grammy nomination.
** Greg Prato of AllMusic
# Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky is an American post-rock band, formed in Austin, Texas in 1999.

## Quotes about Explosions in the Sky

* While Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mono, and Sigur Ros gained acclaim for their original sounds on an international level, [Explosions in the Sky] is perhaps the American group most-associated with the genre of post-rock.
** Jarret Green of Reverb.com (February 07, 2023)
# Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sometimes abbreviated to GY!BE or Godspeed) is a Canadian post-rock band that originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994.

## Quotes about Godspeed You! Black Emperor

* Perhaps the most interesting of the popular post-rock bands, [...] Godspeed You! Black Emperor blend samples, orchestral-like movements, repeated and building phrases, and dramatic dynamics into a sound that is strikingly unique and affecting. Godspeed are perhaps the most consistent among their peers in positive critical reception and a cult-like following among their fans.
** Jarret Green of Reverb.com (February 07, 2023)
# Slint

Slint was an American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, formed in 1986, after the dissolution of two local bands, Squirrel Bait and Maurice. The band consisted of Brian McMahan (guitar, vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums, vocals), Todd Brashear (bassist on Spiderland), and Ethan Buckler (bassist on Tweez). Though little known during their original run, they have retrospectively gained a cult following and critical acclaim as one of the pioneers of post-rock and math rock.

## Quotes about Slint

* A major innovator of dramatic, experimental guitar music was Louisville, Kentucky’s Slint. The band’s final album, Spiderland, was released in 1991 and is considered one of the founding works of post-rock and its cousin, math rock.
** Jarret Green of Reverb.com (February 07, 2023)
# Mogwai

Mogwai are a Scottish post-rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar), and Martin Bulloch (drums). Mogwai typically compose lengthy guitar-based instrumental pieces that feature dynamic contrast, melodic bass guitar lines, and heavy use of distortion and effects.

## Quotes about Mogwai

* The Scottish post rockers from Mogwai are today perhaps best known as masters of one of the movement's distinctive trends - abrupt successions of calm, meditative parts with roaring, all-out outbursts of sound.
** Vlad Nichols of Ultimate-Guitar (Oct 31, 2019)
* Mogwai's tracks are often built around huge guitar riffs and building arpeggios, but they also implement keys, vocals and other instruments. Mogwai helped establish some of the hallmarks of post-rock music, including striking dynamics, recurring phrases, and swelling tremolo picking. When combined with gain, delay, and reverb, rapid picking of single notes and slides up and down the fretboard can create epic glissando.
** Jarret Green of Reverb.com (February 07, 2023)
# Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of experimental rock characterized by the exploration of textures and timbres as well as non-rock styles, often with minimal or no vocals, placing less emphasis on conventional song structures or riffs than on atmosphere for musically evocative purposes. Post-rock artists can often combine rock instrumentation and rock stylings with electronics and digital production as a means of enabling the exploration of textures, timbres and different styles. The genre emerged within the indie and underground music scenes of the 1980s and 1990s, but as it abandoned rock conventions, it began to show less musical resemblance to conventional indie rock at the time. The first wave of post-rock derives inspiration from diverse sources including ambient, electronica, jazz, krautrock, psychedelia, dub, and minimalist classical, with these influences also being pivotal for the substyle of ambient pop.

## Quotes about post-rock

* While it never solidified as a concise genre, post rock emerged in the early '90s from the work of a few disgruntled artists who did away with the worn out formula of rock & roll for the sake artistic expression and delving into peculiar new musical horizons. Since then, the movement has grown in volume and recognition enough that we might have at least a working definition of this take on music, but not so much to have had a clear heyday and a chance to grow stale, as there are still many musicians, fledgelings and veterans alike, who make great music true to the movement's ideas, which are no less relevant today than they were almost three decades ago.
** Vlad Nichols of Ultimate-Guitar (Oct 31, 2019)
# Quicksand (band)

Quicksand is an American post-hardcore band from New York City, founded in 1990. Their debut self-titled EP was followed by two major-label albums, Slip (1993) and Manic Compression (1995). Quicksand's sound has been compared to that of post-hardcore bands Fugazi and Helmet.

## Quotes about Quicksand

* Founded by Gorilla Biscuits guitarist Walter Schreifels, Quicksand were at the forefront of the post-hardcore/alt-metal wave in the ’90s. And that’s exactly the point in hardcore history that the beginning of “Fazer,” the intro track of their debut album, hints toward.
** Giedre Matulaityte of Alternative Press Magazine (September 7, 2020)
# My Bloody Valentine (band)

My Bloody Valentine (often stylised in all lowercase or abbreviated as MBV) are an Irish-English rock band formed in Dublin in 1983 and consisting since 1987 of founding members Kevin Shields (vocals, guitar, sampler) and Colm Ó Cíosóig (drums, sampler), with Bilinda Butcher (vocals, guitar) and Debbie Googe (bass). Their work is characterized by distorted guitar textures, subdued androgynous vocals, and unorthodox production techniques. They are widely cited as a pioneering act in the shoegaze genre.

## Quotes about My Bloody Valentine

* Loveless isn’t just an essential alternative rock album, it’s also one of the best albums of the 90s. It’s like an overwhelming out-of-body experience – transcendent beauty with a capital ‘trance’ – and its reinvention of sound, texture and mood in rock music sounds as radical now as it did in 1991. My Bloody Valentine spent two years in the studio perfecting [their] formula: a dizzying blend of roaring guitars and sensual vocals from Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher. Loveless is a classic that’s spawned many imitators but has no peer.
** Rhys Williams of Loudersound
* You could say, shrewdly, that Loveless combines two main modalities of the ’90s by being the greatest rock album that is made almost entirely of samples—drum loops, guitar feedback, vocals, all sent through an Akai S1000, which could then be triggered from a keyboard—creating a singular melding of dream-pop and acid-house and hip-hop that defined a new genre called shoegaze. You could say its underlying philosophy remains as relevant as ever: that sleepiness is a largely underrated state of being, that our unconscious impulses are far more truthful than our conscious behavior, that the best music should feel like it could go on forever. You could say that its chief architect, Kevin Shields, is influenced by no one more than fellow Irishman Edmund Burke, the 18th-century philosopher who coined the Romantic ideals of beauty and sublime, and who wrote that the richest emotional response from art comes from the “terrible uncertainty” it can elicit.
** Pitchfork (September 28, 2022)
# Vijay Gupta (poet)

Vijay Gupta was a 15th-century Bengali poet from Barisal. He was part of a revival of Bengali literature in the late 15th century and early 16th century.

## Quotes about Vijay Gupta

* Vijaya Gupta, one of the eulogists of Husain Shah, gives a gruesome detailed description of the outrage on Hindus by the Muslim qazis, Hasan and Husain. These two made a pastime of baiting the Hindus in all possible ways. Anyone found with the sacred Tulsi leaf on bis head (an obligatory Vaishnava custom) was taken to the qazi with hands and feet bound, and heavy blows were administered to him. The piyada (peon) tore away the sacred thread from a Brahman and spat saliva in his mouth. On one occasion a Muslim mulla happened to pass by a hut in a wood where some shepherd, boys were worshiping the goddess Manasa with the symbol of sacred earthen pots to the accompaniment of music. In righteous indignation the mulla made an attempt to break the pots, but was severely trounced. The mulla brought it to the notice of the two qazi brothers who exclaimed: “What! the scoundrel (haramzadah) Hindus make so bold as to perform Hindu rituals in my village! The culprit boys should be seized and made outcast by being forced to eat Muslim bread.” So the two brothers gathered a large number of armed Muslims and proceeded towards the shepherd’s hut. The mother of the qazis, a Hindu girl forcibly married by the former qazi, vainly tried to dissuade her sons; they demolished the shepherd’s hut, broke the sacred pots into pieces, and threw away the offerings to the goddess. The affrighted shepherd boys had concealed themselves in the wood, but some of them were hunted out and seized.
** Majumdar R. C. and K. M. Munshi. 1990. The History and Culture of the Indian People The Delhi Sultanate. 4. ed. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. p 632ff. also quoted (partially/paraphrased) in Bostom, A. G. M. D., & Bostom, A. G. (2010). The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims. Amherst: Prometheus. quoting KS Lal, Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India, pp. 238-39n124. also in SR Goel, Story of Islamic Imperialism. Also quoted in Ibn Warraq, Defending the West.
* But it should be said in fairness to Vijay Gupta that his work has not come down in its entirety or purity. It should also be said that some of his passages describing contemporary life, e.g. the oppression of Brahmans by Muhammadan Kazis, are remarkably graphic and have considerable historical value.
** Bengali Literature by Ghosh, J.c. p 46
# James Hetfield

James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and primary songwriter for heavy metal band Metallica.

## Quotes

* Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.
** Playboy, April 2001
* I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
** Playboy, April 2001
* Lars would talk his way into their pants. Kirk had a babyface that was appealing to the girls. And Cliff; he had a big dick. Word got around about that, I guess.
** Playboy April 2001.
* Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
** MusiCares, May 14, 2006
* If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead — and I'd much rather be alive.
** at St Quentin, during the videoshoot for St Anger
* Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.
** at St Quentin during the videoshoot for St Anger
* All the drinking and all the other junk that I was stuck in... It was so predictable. So boring. I wake up the next day - somewhere, in some bed, I don't know who this person is next to me... and I'm drunk, competely hung over and have a show to do. The result is the same... When life now is pretty... exciting. You don't know what's gonna happen.
** Some Kind of Monster, 2003 - Talking about his addictions and big changes.
* It had to be something real bad. I think he stole music online.
** Asked what the narrator in "Ride The Lightning" did to earn the death penalty
** James Hetfield And Kirk Hammett Look Back On Metallica's "Ride The Lightning". Village Voice (20 June 2012).

## Quotes about James Hetfield

* Just try and downpick as much as he does and you'll quickly realize your puny skills stand no chance against James.
** David Slavković of Ultimate-Guitar (Jun 25, 2018)
# Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist. Known in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies, he was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions. Kessel was a member of the group of session musicians informally known as the Wrecking Crew.

## Quotes about Barney Kessel

* One of the finest guitarists to emerge after the death of Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel was a reliable bop soloist throughout his career.
** Scott Yanow of AllMusic
# Izzy Stradlin

Jeffrey Dean Isbell (born April 8, 1962), known professionally as Izzy Stradlin, is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and backing vocalist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he recorded four studio albums and left at the height of their fame in 1991.
Following his departure from Guns N' Roses, Stradlin fronted his own rock band, Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds, before continuing to record as a solo artist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Guns N' Roses in 2012.

## Quotes

* When you mention Guns N' Roses, most people think of Axl Rose or Slash. Meanwhile, it's sad how they all forget about Izzy Stradlin as he was one of the key components of the band's sound.
** David Slavković of Ultimate-Guitar (Jun 25, 2018)