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FATES WARNING: 'No Exit'-Era Guitar From FRANK ARESTI Being Auctioned - Oct. 3, 2009

A customized, one-of-a-kind 1987 Jackson Randy Rhoads Flying V guitar once owned by FATES WARNING guitarist Frank Aresti is currently up for auction on eBay .

Aresti used the guitar on the band's classic 1988 recording "No Exit" (mixed by the legendary Max Norman, who worked with Randy Rhoads on both "Blizzard of Ozz" and "Diary of a Madman"), and is pictured with the instrument on the LP inner sleeve/CD booklet. This is also the exact guitar Frank played in the "Silent Cries" promotional video (see below) that aired on MTV's "Headbangers Ball" at the time.

The auction runs another four days. The current bid stands at $1,800.

For more information and to place a bid, go to this location.

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	COMMENT \| no offence posted by : mummyman 10/3/2009 10:44:32 AM

	but this is the so what story of the day...not a shitty band by any stretch,but they were a poor mans Queensryche back then at best

	COMMENT \| Fates Warning went Downhill after posted by : RiotAct66 10/3/2009 11:01:07 AM

	No Exit.

	COMMENT \| Cool guitar posted by : RiotAct666 10/3/2009 12:59:10 PM

	No Exit is one of the best Prog Metal albums of all time. Fates Warning are a good band with great players.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Neo139 10/3/2009 1:22:02 PM

	RiotAct666 (Riot \m/), Perfect Symmetry is excellent.

	COMMENT \| Poor man's Queensryche? posted by : spymagician 10/3/2009 1:39:22 PM

	hardly.... um the queensryche ep was 83 night on brocken was 84 if anything they were maiden derivitave on the first album but queensryche started as a priest cover band..... personally thought they smoked ryche...

	COMMENT \| mummyman = silly man posted by : TruthIsParamount 10/3/2009 3:17:30 PM

	FATES WARNING never sounded anything like Q'ryche - if anything, they were very Maiden influenced on their debut, 'Night On Brocken.' QR were the better band in the 80's but their last album worth a damn was 'Empire' almost 20 years ago whereas FATES continued to release great music in the 90's and beyond. Albums like 'A Pleasant Shade of Gray' and 'Parallels' make QR sound like amateur hour in comparison. Jim Matheos = more talent & creativity in his pinky finger than all of QR combined.

	COMMENT \| Poor man Queensryche posted by : Global Warming Is A Hoax 10/3/2009 8:01:56 PM

	You have got to be kiddin me.!!.After Rage for Order, I always considered Queensryche a gay mans Fates Warning.

	COMMENT \| posted by : wolfking 10/3/2009 8:13:22 PM

	Fates Warning ate Queensryche for breakfast back in the day.

	COMMENT \| mummyman is a lost soul^^^ posted by : rds 10/5/2009 10:22:21 AM

	Fates IMO were heavily influenced by the riffs of Murray/ Smith then Ryche's. And it seemed that Matheos/ Aresti moved on from that style when they started writing Perfect Symmetry, whose riffs were more radio friendly then say the godly Awaken the Guardian era. All in all a great Prog metal band.

	COMMENT \| Almost interesting... posted by : Jtull 10/5/2009 12:29:00 PM

	If he'd used it for the stuff on Awaken the Guardian then it would be worth having. Sorry, folks, but it's got to be Arch era Fates Warning. Queenswho?

	COMMENT \| No Exit posted by : Night_Prowler 10/8/2009 12:18:04 PM

	BEST RAY ALDER FATES WARNING album BY FAR. Nuff said.

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