DIAMOND HEAD Guitar-Lesson Videos Now Available

Music lesson web site PlayThisRiff.com is now featuring guitar lesson videos with Brian Tatler from DIAMOND HEAD.

At PlayThisRiff.com you will find the following guitar lesson videos by Brian Tatler:

* "Am I Evil"
* "Helpless"
* "It's Electric"
* "Lightning To The Nations" (Intro)
* "Lightning To The Nations" (Verse Riff, Middle Section)
* "Technique Exercises"
* "The Prince" (Opening Riff)
* "The Prince" (Main Riff)
* "The Prince" (Chorus Riff)
* "The Prince" (Middle Section)

"Helpless" can be viewed in Quicktime HD and Flash formats at this location.

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Tatler and former DIAMOND HEAD singer Sean Harris are among the musicians who joined METALLICA on stage on December 5 for the first of four intimate shows at the 1,200-capacity Fillmore in San Francisco as part of the week-long celebration of its 30th anniversary as a band for fan club members only.

DIAMOND HEAD played one of the biggest shows of its career in early July at the U.K. installment of the Sonisphere festival at Knebworth House. The band opened for the so-called "Big Four" of 1980s thrash metal — METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX — who had been paying tribute to DIAMOND HEAD at previous "Big Four" shows by performing "Am I Evil?", a DIAMOND HEAD track METALLICA made famous by covering it on the B-side of its 1984 single "Creeping Death".

In a recent interview with Radio Metal, Tatler was asked if it's fair to say that without METALLICA, DIAMOND HEAD might not be as well-known today as it is. "Yes, absolutely. Since they've started covering songs in 1984. And of course, if METALLICA hadn't had made it big, it wouldn't have made any difference, but the fact that DIAMOND HEAD had been covered by such a huge and important band has just reflected the glory onto DIAMOND HEAD, hasn't it? It's just made the DIAMOND HEAD legacy seem much more cool and credible and important, because we've influenced the major metal band in the world. . . Obviously, DIAMOND HEAD were going before METALLICA, but yes, I think we would've faded away in the late '80s without METALLICA. If they hadn't have done covers — because a lot of bands don't do covers, do they? They just do their own material, but METALLICA decided to do covers for B-sides and things and that has just been fantastic for bands like DIAMOND HEAD, and BUDGIE, and MOTÖRHEAD, and MERCYFUL FATE, or whoever they've chosen to cover."

When asked if he gets tired when people talk about "Am I Evil?" and confuse it with a METALLICA song, Tatler said, "I don't mind, because I get the royalties! [laughs] I think we've all done that, we've all listened to an artist and thought, 'That's a good song,' and then later realized they didn't write it, they just did a good version of it. . . I've had [people not believe me when I told them who originally wrote the track]. I said, 'It's a DIAMOND HEAD song,' and people answered, 'No, it's METALLICA!' You have to tell them to look at the small print on the record where it says, 'Written by Tatler/Harris in 1980.'"