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ANTHRAX Guitarist SCOTT IAN: 'Rig Tour' From FRET 12 (Video)

May 26, 2016

Fret12 has uploaded "rig tour" video featuring ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian. Check it out below.

In a recent interview with Premier Guitar, Ian stated about his playing style: "I want melody. I want feeling. I want soul. I want attitude. All my favorite guitar players — they all have that. It’s not about how many notes you’re playing. I think that's what so many people have gotten wrong for so many years. And I get it. Some people love that — the technical aspect and the technical ability of super, super intense shredding and fast, crazy guitar playing. But I will never be able to play like Paul Gilbert. I understand that, but it's not something I aspire to. I know he's an insane guitar player, but that world never interested me. I like songwriting and I like solos that are a little tiny mini-song inside of a song. Look, AC/DC is my favorite band in the world, so I'm not going to be listening to super technical guitar players."

Asked when he first started using mostly downstrokes in his rhythm-guitar playing, Ian said: "It's a style of playing that just worked in the context of the music we were writing. That's all guitar has ever really been for me: It's a tool to play in a band with other people and it’s a tool to write songs with. ANTHRAX developed from when we started in 1981 and the music we were playing — the songwriting, the ideas, the sounds we heard in our heads, the ideas we had for riffs, that down-picking style and the fast alternating-picking style — that was the way we played. So my guitar playing just developed out of the songs we were writing. I had no style of any type of guitar playing before I was in ANTHRAX, because I was only playing cover songs. I wasn’t writing my own songs until I was in ANTHRAX. The guitar playing developed around the type of music we were writing."

ANTHRAX's latest album, "For All Kings", came out on February 26 via Megaforce in North America and Nuclear Blast in Europe.

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