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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
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- Killing Pickman No. 1
- Legendary Guitar of Jason Becker
- Killing Pickman
- Ficus Fortunas
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969
Discography
Member of
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- 87,672
- Total plays
- 2,177,989
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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 19,880x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,819x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,519x
- 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 15,391x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,147x
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.jasonbecker.com
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- Jason Becker
- date of birth
- 1969-07-22
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- social media followers
- 23888
- name in native language
- Jason Becker
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