{"id":17883,"date":"2018-09-27T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17883"},"modified":"2018-09-27T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:16:01","slug":"the-brainfart-talks-with-testament-guitarist-alex-skolnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17883","title":{"rendered":"The Brainfart Talks with Testament Guitarist Alex Skolnick!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thrash metal guitar legend, blogger, jazz master, and cat lover.  \nThese are all things that pretty much encompass the man you are about to\n hear me talking to. Better known for his work as Testsament\u2019s lead \nguitarist, Alex Skolnick has done everything from jazz albums to playing\n with Ozzy and his currnet project Metal Allegiance.  Alex took some \ntime out of his hectic schedule and it was a real honor to talk to him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We talked cats, metal, jazz, politics, and even about how the making \nof Testament\u2019s \u201cOver the Wall\u201d video was done guerilla style!  Hope \ny\u2019all dig this one and huge thanks to Alex for the great chat.  Let\u2019s \nget to it shall we? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link below to check out the podcast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-blowin-039-wind-with-the-great-southern-brainfart wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-embed-aspect-16-9\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3XP4I7soKN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainfartinterviews.com\/2018\/09\/27\/episode-23-alex-skolnick-testament-alex-skolnick-trio-metal-allegiance\/\">Episode 23: Alex Skolnick (Testament\/Alex Skolnick Trio\/Metal Allegiance)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brainfartinterviews.com\/2018\/09\/27\/episode-23-alex-skolnick-testament-alex-skolnick-trio-metal-allegiance\/embed\/#?secret=3XP4I7soKN\" data-secret=\"3XP4I7soKN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Episode 23: Alex Skolnick (Testament\/Alex Skolnick Trio\/Metal Allegiance)&#8221; &#8212; Blowin&#039; Wind with The Great Southern Brainfart\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thrash metal guitar legend, blogger, jazz master, and cat lover. These are all things that pretty much encompass the man you are about to hear me talking to. Better known for his work as Testsament\u2019s lead guitarist, Alex Skolnick has done everything from jazz albums to playing with Ozzy and his currnet project Metal Allegiance. Alex took some time out of his hectic schedule and it was a real honor to talk to him. We talked cats, metal, jazz, politics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1643,606,1649,403],"class_list":["post-17883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-alex-skolnick","tag-alex-skolnick-trio","tag-metal-allegiance","tag-testament"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}