ex-vicious rumors axeman vinnie moore is another neo-classical metal shredder...i have 3 of his albums - mind's eye, time odyssey, & meltdown...malmsteen, moore, & stump surely fall under a common rock denomination...fave moore tracks - mind's eye, pieces of a picture, the tempest, morning star...i really dig his version of george harrison's 'while my guitar gently weeps'...so cool...
iron maiden is another 1 of my fave metal bands...& much like ronnie james dio, bruce dickinson has a very distinct voice & operatic singing technique where he tries to hurle his voice to the last guy at the very back of an audience...i had an lp of the number of the beast before...the rest of their album i have on tape...eddie has forever been maiden's mascot monster, in a way, & is the main model appearing in all of their album covers, as well as making cameo appearances on stage with maiden...i only have the ff maiden dvds - raising hell, visions of the beast, live after death, & the rock in rio dvd...
i didn't get to hear april wine & status quo bro, i guess i'm not that **d, aruy...hehe...maybe you've got something to share about those bands...any info is good info as long as it's rock info...hehe...
& though i heard some tapes of thin lizzy & foghat before, my memory fails me now, & i have completely forgotten what they sounded like (shame on me)...