It really was. Another fun Craig Goldy fact is that he did one of those "Guitar Method in the Style Of _____" guitar lesson videos with MVP Home Video (the company behind guitar teaching legend Curt Mitchell), and I don't know if somebody threatened a lawsuit or what, but there are different editions of it both with and without "Dio" in the title. The video itself is hilarious because it mostly consists of Craig showing how to dial in a distortion sound on an old Marshall head (by setting everything to 5), and then demonstrating that he can't sweep pick or do string-skipping licks, so instead he fakes his way through with pick rakes and what he calls a left hand "spider hop." Then there's about 8 minutes of motivational speech in which he informs the dear viewer that the reason they aren't a rock star is not, in fact, that they aren't a well-connected nepo baby, but rather that they just don't want it enough.
There is a really cool bit where he goes off on a tangent about playing two-handed taps on the fretboard almost like a piano or harpsichord, but it's impossible to do without a stage hand to hold the guitar up for you and a scarf or something to stop the strings from ringing out. So, marginally useful info at best.
It really is amazing what hubris can do to a motherfucker. The hair era was rife with it.
It really was. Another fun Craig Goldy fact is that he did one of those "Guitar Method in the Style Of _____" guitar lesson videos with MVP Home Video (the company behind guitar teaching legend Curt Mitchell), and I don't know if somebody threatened a lawsuit or what, but there are different editions of it both with and without "Dio" in the title. The video itself is hilarious because it mostly consists of Craig showing how to dial in a distortion sound on an old Marshall head (by setting everything to 5), and then demonstrating that he can't sweep pick or do string-skipping licks, so instead he fakes his way through with pick rakes and what he calls a left hand "spider hop." Then there's about 8 minutes of motivational speech in which he informs the dear viewer that the reason they aren't a rock star is not, in fact, that they aren't a well-connected nepo baby, but rather that they just don't want it enough.
There is a really cool bit where he goes off on a tangent about playing two-handed taps on the fretboard almost like a piano or harpsichord, but it's impossible to do without a stage hand to hold the guitar up for you and a scarf or something to stop the strings from ringing out. So, marginally useful info at best.
All of that is pure