Sad. It’s a who’s who of where are they now. But, with respect to Eddie, he never pulled off anything quite as melodically breathtaking as the solo Bratta played on Wait. Guitar World Magazine named Bratta the Best New Guitarist in 1988. Vito Bratta (born July 1, 1961) is an American guitarist and the former main songwriter for the rock band White Lion.He co-founded White Lion with lead singer Mike Tramp in 1983 and played with the band until 1992. Band: White Lion. White Lion's 1991 album Mane Attraction has lots of great musicality on it, but it was buried by the end of the hair metal era and it never took off. Here’s a great Amazon playlist I stumbled on by accident. Bratta’s finger-tapped style is surgically accurate and clean. To paraphrase what I said in the EVH clone thread, one of the things I lament about the grunge era is that it effectively ended the viability of some really good players like Vito Bratta. Vito developed a fingerpicking style that combined what classical, blues, country and bluegrass players do however he applied it in a pop sense. Bratta co-founded White Lion with lead singer Mike Tramp in 1983 and played with the band until 1992. Album: Pride (1987) Wait: Words and Music by Mike Tramp and Vito Bratta. Mike Tramp Discusses His New Solo Album, Vito Bratta & White Lion. He left White Lion and fell out of public view in 1995, then reappeared in 2007. Vito Bratta was the most tasteful, lyrical and inventive guitarist of his generation, adding structure, style and an unerring pop sensibility to Van Halen’s oft-tapped fountain of inspiration. Written by Vito Bratta. Dont Give Up solo from white lions Pride album. Poor Vito was always being compared to Eddie Van Halen. Marty Friedman and Jason Becker are hot …

Vito Bratta is the former guitarist and main songwriter for the rock band White Lion. Imagine being the singer and you get given a demo that has the bass parts, the chords and the melody … Played on this video by Joe Ferguson fergie91. VITO BRATTA – Guitar World September 1989 – Part 1 It’s a different experience when you open a Guitar World issue from September 1989 and re-read it in 2013. White Lion, the band Vito Bratta formed with vocalist Mike Tramp in November 1982 in Brooklyn, NYC, disbanded after their last show at The Chanel in Boston on September 2, 1991. For one thing, he finger-tapped like Eddie – a lot of players did at the time – and the two men even looked a bit similar.

Zakk Wilde once even told Guitar World: “Vito Bratta is the only guitarist I’ve heard who sounds cool doing taps.