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GOOD TIMES MAGAZINE'S COVER STORY ON THE GREAT KAT "THE GREAT KAT-AN INCREDIBLE
GUITARIST SHREDS BEETHOVEN" AND REVIEW OF "BEETHOVEN SHREDS" CD
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By
Bob Smith, Good Times Magazine
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LI Spotlight - The
Great Kat - The World's Fastest
Guitarist?
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Long Island Spotlight
The Great Kat
An Incredible Guitarist
Shreds Beethoven
Who:
The Great Kat Is a
veteran Long Island-based metal
guitarist who has earned a completely
justified reputation as one of the
world’s fastest rock guitarists – her
“shredding" has to be heard to be
believed. Though she was born Katherine
Thomas in England, she now calls New
York her home, and has spent the past
several years interpreting the works of
the world’s greatest music composers
with her unique one-of-a-kind guitar
style.
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The Artist & Her
Sound:
From her official bio: “The Great Kat (greatkat.com)
the worlds fastest guitarist, unleashes
the ultimate shred guitar CD, Beethoven
Shreds. Displaying the world’s fastest
shred guitar music, the new CD features
The Great Kat’s electrifying “The Flight
Of The Bumble-Bee” on guitar and violin
with dazzling, insane speeds of 300 BPM,
and Beethoven’s “5th Symphony” on
guitar/violin with the world’s most
famous four notes composed by history’s
first metal head – Ludwig van Beethoven!
“The Great Kat, guitar goddess, is the
female classical violin virtuoso rebel
from Juilliard turned metal guitar
fiend, and has been named “among the Top
10 Fastest Shredders of All Time” by
Guitar One Magazine, and has toured
with her all-male shred band and
featured on TV shows and magazines
around the world. Featuring songs from
the “Beethoven’s Guitar Shred” DVD,
“Beethoven Shreds” CD blends metal music
in The Great Kat’s original songs:
“Torture Techniques” and "IslamoFascists"
with classical music: Bach’s
“Brandenburg Concerto #3” played on six
guitars, and the super-fast Paganini’s
music from the devil “Caprice #24”– a
notoriously impossible-to-play violin
piece, shredded on both guitar and
violin by The Great Kat."
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To Learn More:
The Great
Kat, a national artist, now has her work
distributed worldwide through Music
Video Distributors. Her new album is
available everywhere music is sold; log
on to
greatkat.com to learn more. One
thing we music note: At a whack, scant
list price of $7.95, this album is a
no-brainer for metal fans; see our
review in our "Record Reviews" column
for our rave summation.
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Record Reviews:
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The Great Kat
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Beethoven Shreds
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TPR
Music
- Things you can always count on: Death, taxes, and every two years The Great Kat re-emerges with a raging new album of crossover metal/classical guitar work. As corny as a rerun of "Green Acres," Kat nevertheless is a true original, this time taking some of Beethoven's best-known pieces such as "Fifth Symphony" and shredding the holy hell out of them. The never-subtle Kat is truly one of the fastest and most over-the-top guitarists in the history of metal, and that can't be disputed. Incredible, the still-sexy Great Kat is so chronically uncool that she becomes exceedingly cool - this is more than likely the first classical music album with a "Parental Advisory" sticker on the artwork. That fact alone makes this one of the best locally produced albums of 2011. There is no one else like The Great Kat anywhere: she was the hard rock Lady Gaga long before the pop goddess put on eyeliner.
- -Bob Smith
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