Jason Becker
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1969-07-22
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Killing Pickman No. 1
- Legendary Guitar of Jason Becker
- Killing Pickman
- Ficus Fortunas
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- 87,672
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- 2,177,989
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guitar virtuosoneo-classical metalinstrumentalShredmetal
Born July 22, 1969, Jason Becker is a neo-classical guitarist who achieved fame at age 16 as a technical virtuoso and guitar prodigy. As part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony (with Marty Friedman, who later achieved fame in legendary thrash metal band Megadeth), Jason released two albums: Speed Metal Symphony (1987) and Go Off! (1988). He also released a solo album titled Perpetual Burn in 1988. Now aged 20, he was asked to join David Lee Roth's band and recorded A Little Aint Enough (
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- BLAST+: architecture and applications
· 2009 · cited 19,721x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,765x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Simple Combinations of Lineage-Determining Transcription Factors Prime cis-Regulatory Elements Required for Macrophage and B Cell Identities
· 2010 · cited 13,064x
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Key dates
- Born
- 22 July 1969
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jason
- Family name
- Becker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Richmond
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- neo-classical metal
- Instrument
- guitar
Connections
Categories
1969 births20th-century American guitarists20th-century American male musiciansAmerican heavy metal guitaristsAmerican lead guitaristsAmerican male guitaristsAmerican musicians with disabilitiesBLP articles lacking sources from June 2008Cacophony (band) membersElectric guitaristsGuitarists from CaliforniaLiving people