Billy Connally – Metal / Rock / Progressive

Guitar instrumental work is difficult to get the public to be pleased by it. Only true Rock and Metal guitar fans I feel can appreciate it (if any cares to dispute then please do).

Billy here, will be appreciated.

His songs on his player are definately Vai/Satriani influenced, I mean, who isn’t though really? But their mantle is an awkward one to climb to being as they have been there for so long and never been removed from it. Will they ever?

Possibly so if Mr. Connally here didn’t have to quite do everything all by himself. After putting the tracks together, putting them down and to the morons, copy and pasting, copy and pasting then the work currently available to listen to is pretty impressive. Initially aprehensive about the tunes that I’d here i find myself flowing along and enjoying them because too many times they are eye-cringing, boring or just way OTT.

The balance of sound is there, the highs match the lows but I feel the journey which the tracks take us do not really take you very far. You want to chillout, be flown to magical places on this magic carpet called Guitar Solo but your’re just taken to the kitchen for another cup of Chai.

It’s difficult for me to appreciate this kind of work nowadays as the variety I feel can not really progress any further than what it has done due to the already mentioned maestros previously said.

Same old, same old it may be, but on the positive note, it is right up there though. The depth of the growling, supporting rythym humming along with the delighful, wailing over the top that good old Zakk loves to bits and has done for blinking years. Cognitive Dissonance is cool as. Fast and furious at parts and grows wonderfully, harmonious, soothing and great production for what you could say is a bedroom guitarist.

www.myspace.com/billyconnallymusic