Ben Randall: a brace of interviews

Ben: Some of my favorite bands are Dream Theater, Arch Enemy, Megadeth, Scar Symmetry, Killswitch Engage, Danger Danger and Europe.
The musician that I admire the most is John Norum (guitarist of Europe). He is a fairly underrated guitarist, but he has fantastic tone/phrasing and his playing conveys real emotion – all elements which I try to incorporate in to my own playing!

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Ben - For me personally it's a totally new experience as I've never been in a band before this, this is my first band so everything is just so completely new. Learning a full set of songs and quite technical songs as well is good.

MM - Yes but you're a really brilliant guitar player so how come you've never been in a band before?
Ben - (laughs) I don't know! It's been a great experience to me just learning how the whole band thing works and getting to play live more. It's all been really great. (As modest as he is, Ben was actually the winner of the 2008 'Most Promising Young Guitarist Award' at the international Guitar Idol competition).

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