Ask Nita Strauss....

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Since I rather enthusiastically joined in her Kickstarter campaign, I'll be having a Skype chat with Nita Strauss at some point in the near future.

While I don't really want it to turn into a full-on interview-type affair, I figured I'd be remiss if I didn't offer you guys the chance to ask questions. So...what would you ask her if you could, which she hasn't already answered in her previous interviews?

I'll try to record it, but that sort of thing's a bit maybe-works on my machine for some reason.

Also...if anybody's tempted to be a dick about it, please don't. She might be reading...
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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24601
    How did she get the Alice Cooper gig?

    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • jonevejoneve Frets: 1467
    Fretwired said:
    How did she get the Alice Cooper gig?
    Wasted question - just watch Hired Gun, that will give you the answer ;) 
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  • bloodandtearsbloodandtears Frets: 1645
    Has she kept in touch with Jason Becker?
    What's her favourite Iron Maiden song?
    What is Alice Cooper really like?
    My trading feedback

    is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    These probably aren't the most amazing questions but if you don't get any better ones:

    Nita did say something about having to change her style when she got the Cooper gig, what kind of things did she have to work on and how did she approach them? 

    As a 'gun for hire' does she put stylistic limits on any gig she would take or would she have a go at anything? Working with a band or artist whose music she didn't really like or the music was completely out of her comfort zone (as  examples)? 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • Winny_PoohWinny_Pooh Frets: 7730
    Ask her about her favourite Nita Strauss meme
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  • joeyowenjoeyowen Frets: 4025
    Does she have any go-to warm up/practice routines?
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  • vizviz Frets: 10643
    Who else is she planning to work with? It’d be great if she and Greg Howe could do something. 
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • darthed1981darthed1981 Frets: 11669
    What's her top tip for getting stage confidence, to go out in front of people and not freeze up like you've been bitten by a poisonous frog?
    We have to be so very careful, what we believe in...
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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24601
    joneve said:
    Fretwired said:
    How did she get the Alice Cooper gig?
    Wasted question - just watch Hired Gun, that will give you the answer ;) 
    No it won't .. it just gives you the glossy heads up cleared by the PR department. DS can get the juicy inside track ..

    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • BowksBowks Frets: 413
    Ask this please:

    If you could change the each of your fingers of one hand to 5 different chocolate or candy bars, which would she choose and which finger would each one be?
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  • stonevibestonevibe Frets: 7080
    What does she use to get her core sound?

    Is she still on good terms with The Iron Maidens?

    Does she think she could take on Orianthi in a dual (guitars or otherwise)?

    So does she think music in her genes/blood, since she is related to the other 'Strauss'?

    I think she is great and an inspiration for women, I keep telling my daughters to listen to her playing.




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  • jonevejoneve Frets: 1467
    stonevibe said:
    What does she use to get her core sound?

    Is she still on good terms with The Iron Maidens?

    Does she think she could take on Orianthi in a dual (guitars or otherwise)?

    So does she think music in her genes/blood, since she is related to the other 'Strauss'?

    I think she is great and an inspiration for women, I keep telling my daughters to listen to her playing.




    The 'Strauss' lineage thing is an old wive's tale unfortunately :( 
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 16541

    What is Alice Cooper really like?
    Wasted question.  Just watch Wayne’s world 2.  

    ;)
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  • musteatbrainmusteatbrain Frets: 871
    edited June 2018
    My staple question to anyone with any modicum of fame is always, who’d win in a fight, a penguin or a monkey?
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  • LuttiSLuttiS Frets: 2243
    If not ibanez superstrat, what guitar? 
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    Struggling to believe we’ve got this far and no one has wanted to know her favourite cheese. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • SchnozzSchnozz Frets: 1926
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  • GarthyGarthy Frets: 2268
    Did DiMarzio build her Pandemoniums around the True Velvet or was the TV the closest fit? If the latter, why didn't DM create a bespoke single coil for the Pandemoniums? There really aren't many HSH sets available off the peg so to speak so I was hoping her sig set would include the single coil. Funnily enough it's because of Nita that I've got Evos & D'Activators and now she's got a hybrid of the two!

    How/why did she choose to use the S as a signature instrument over the RG?

    Has she got any non-Ibanez's at home, and does she own any other artist signature instrument including Jems?

    If Doc Emmett Brown turned up on her driveway in the Deloren to take her back to 1985, which act would she want to play on at Live Aid and which guitar from all time would she take with her?
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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2513
    Could someone perhaps do me a favour and link up some really great playing of hers? I've watched a fair few clips over the years, but I'm just not sold at all, musically...
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  • darthed1981darthed1981 Frets: 11669
    I'd be interested to hear Nita's take on "metoo" and how it applies or doesn't apply in the music industry.

    She is, let's face it, a beautiful woman, in a male dominated industry full of utter bastards.
    We have to be so very careful, what we believe in...
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