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	The Great Kat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Kat is the stage name of Katherine Thomas, an English-born, Long Island NY raised, musician best known for her thrash metal interpretations of well-known pieces of classical music.
		Kat's public persona, as portrayed in her publicity photos and videos, is influenced by the BDSM community and more specifically that of a dominatrix, albeit in a somewhat over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek manner.
		She publicly claims to be god and insists on being compared to Beethoven on occasion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Kat (215 words)

	Rough Edge: The Great Kat CD Reviews
		As stunning as the Great Kat's musicianship is (and it's breathlessly stunning), her outrageous and more than a little frightening character add a big steaming chunk of rock'n'roll attitude to the video.
		At a pace equal to Slayer's fastest, The Great Kat rips through four tracks here (not one of which is over two minutes long) and lays down some of the craziest, most out-of-control tunage you're ever likely to lay ears on.
		A graduate of the famed Julliard music college, the Great Kat (once known as Katherine Thomas) realized one day that "classical music is dead" and traded in her grand piano for a guitar.
	www.roughedge.com /cdreviews/g/greatkat.htm (1696 words)

	The Gauntlet :: The Great Kat - Heavy Metal - Buddy Icons - The Great Kat Videos - The Great Kat Ringtones - mp3s - ...
		The Great Kat was born Katherine Thomas in Swindon, England (on a U.S. Air Force Base Military Hospital) and moved to the U.S at the age of 3.
		At the age of 15, The Great Kat was accepted to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City as a scholarship student on violin.
		After touring the world, The Great Kat realized that Classical music was dead, so she began updating Classical Music with Speed Metal and transcribed intricate violin solos to the guitar.
	www.thegauntlet.com /bio/792/The-Great-Kat.html (352 words)

	RoomThirteen.com - Where Music Rocks
		TGK: The Great Kat is the most unique and individualistic person in the world- male or female, who is fighting the stupidity, abuse and ignorance of inferior men who think that because they have a penis, that makes them powerful and important!!
		TGK: The Great Kat started violin at 9 years old, and was awarded a full scholarship to the Juilliard School at 15 years old.
		TGK: The Great Kat, who was born in Swindon, England (on a U.S. Air Force Base Military Hospital), WILL be coming to England, when all my British slaves and Kat-possessed fans demand to see the high priestess of guitar shred live on stage-it's sick, insane, outrageous and genius!
	www.roomthirteen.com /cgi-bin/feature_view.cgi?FeatureID=259 (1003 words)

	The Great Kat: Extreme Guitar Shred review
		For those of you unfamiliar with The Great Kat, she was born Katherine Thomas, a child prodigy who was accepted at the age of fifteen to Juilliard to study classical violin.
		The Great Kat has created her own genre, Speed/Classical, by transcribing classical scores to a speed metal onslaught.
		The videos themselves are mini-plays set to Kat’s remarkable shredding but images flash by so quickly that by the end of the DVD your head is spinning like a Russian ice skater.
	www.fromoutofnowhere.com /kat (457 words)

	The Great Kat - THE FRENCH CONNECTION - The Great Kat
		The Great Kat was born Katherine Thomas in Swindon, England and at the age of 3, moved to the U.S. After listening to Beethoven since birth, Kat realized that her mission was to become a composer and musical revolutionary.
		Kat began piano studies at the age of seven, and switched to the violin at the age of nine in Long Island, NY.
		It allows to play on virtual classical instruments, to answer The great Kat IQ test (as it was in Beethoven on speed booklet),....Discover her in interview.
	home.nordnet.fr /~lbocquet/thegreatkat.html (1215 words)

	The Great Kat "Guitar Goddess"
		The Great Kat's newest CD 'Guitar Goddess' offers a short blast of intense hyperspeed guitar playing that most people will have to listen to a few times to pick up on.
		Kat's re-workings of these classics are hardly recognizable as the original composition.
		More proof that the Great Kat is totally out there is found in her newly released video "Dominatrix." The song comes from her latest EP "Guitar Goddess." The video is full of tits, ass, dungeons, candles, boot-licking crazed slaves, and blood.
	www.metal-rules.com /interviews/greatkat.htm (592 words)

	raw42 reviews: the great kat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		if you're into 90 mph heavy thrash metal with an added touch of classical music, then the great kat is the guitar goddess for you.
		impeccable timing and obviously classically trained, the great kat is definitely talented.
		but these are small things.....overall, an incredible effort and sound from the great kat.
	www.raw42.com /reviews/the_great_kat.html (194 words)

	Questions and answers from The Great Kat
		One could say The Great Kat’s extreme image has nearly exceeded her considerable talents, as she continues to portray herself as a tough dominatrix with a bad attitude, the exact opposite of her days as a student at New York’s exclusive Juilliard School Of Music.
		TGK: Finally everyone is starting to realise that The Great Kat is the new Beethoven of the 21st century!
		TGK: Get ready for the new extreme, insane, shredding virtuoso Kat CD out soon, featuring the first orchestral and band version of ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ [a track that also appeared on Kat’s 1990 ‘Beethoven on Speed’ album] with the great Kat shredding on violin and guitar!
	www.thezephyr.com /tunetime/greatkat.htm (1201 words)

	Kat Bio
		The Great Kat became the Concertmaster of the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and won the "Robert Hufstader Scholarship" in Theory at Juilliard.
		The Great Kat graduated with Honors from The Juilliard School and began performing, first as a Classical violin soloist at Carnegie Recital Hall as winner of the exclusive "Artists International Competition" and then soloing extensively in Mexico, the U.S. and Europe.
		The Great Kat is the only musician taking note-for-note authentic Classical Music scores (from Vivaldi, Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, Liszt, Paganini and Rossini) and entering the original Classical Music scores into music-notation software.
	www.greatkat.com /05/index05.html (875 words)

	Metal Reviews - Metal Coven Webzine - Metal Reviews - The Great Kat - Wagner's War
		Kat's music isn't folk metal at all, but she does incorporate violins and classical music into her music in large quantities, so it may have been an evolutionary band for me personally in terms of metal mixed with traditional instruments.
		As always with The Great Kat, most of the songs on her newest album "Wagner's War" are either speed metal renditions of classical masterpieces, or her own songs that also resemble classical pieces.
		The cover shows Kat leading three soldiers into war with a grenade in one hand and a rifle in the other while the American flag stands in the background.
	www.metalcoven.com /review_greatkat_war.html (966 words)

	SoundStage! The Great Kat - Bloody Vivaldi
		The Great Kat’s furious violin solo on Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy transforms a piece that is sexual and seductive into one which is purely demonic.
		The Great Kat had to study the original scores and carefully consider how to distribute the notes to her ensemble.
		The Great Kat is an unfortunate hostage of her unabashed self-promotion and hype.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev080.htm (747 words)

	The Great Kat - Wagner's War CD / Extreme Guitar Shred DVD Review
		The Great Kat set the music world on fire with her new genre of classical music shredder.
		The Great Kat is a unique individual that will be burnt in the minds of all music fans.
		Kat wants you to submit to her vows and dominate your body.
	www.rockeyez.com /reviews/cd/greatkat/rev-wagnerswar.html (511 words)

	Interview: The Great Kat
		The Great Kat was awarded a full scholarship on the violin to the Juilliard School in New York City, so every minute of my life was spent practicing, rehearsing, competing, working, living and sleeping the violin.
		The Great Kat’s violin and guitar on the Shred/Classical Paganini’s “24th Caprice” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumble-Bee”!!!!!!!!!
		THE GREAT KAT is the fastest guitar shredder male or female.
	www.rockeyez.com /interviews/int-thegreatkat.html (1402 words)

	Great Kat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Great Kat, who was born in England, grew up in New York, playing piano and violin.
		In addition to the violin and guitar, Kat is also a metal singer and yes, a dominatrix.
		Kat's violin is purple, but I can't squint hard enough to tell what kind it is.
	www.fiddlechicks.com /players/greatkat.htm (252 words)

	The Great KAT GUITAR SHREDDER
		THE GREAT KAT, a toxic feline with razor sharp claws and an affection for electric guitars."
		"Kat demonstrates a skill which I do not have words to describe, as much with the violin as the guitar at a speed that escape to the course human knowledge.
		The Great Kat is a phenom in the music world bringing shredding violin with unbelievably extreme ripping guitar playing.
	www.greatkat.com (1485 words)

	The Great Kat Wagners War
		Well, The Great Kat wants to share that new genre with the rest of the masses and I feel it may have made a mark with her latest album “
		The Great Kat, being a New York native, created this work in response to the events of 9/11.
		The Great Kat not only shreds on guitar, but also truly kicks ass on violin as is also demonstrated here.
	www.ddays-revenge.com /TheGreatKat--WagnersWar.html (565 words)

	GREAT KAT ENDORSES BURNS (Guitar News Weekly #253, July 14, 2003 - (c) GuitarSite.com)
		Burns USA Guitars chose the Great Kat to showcase their guitars because of her stature as the fastest female guitar shredder in the world.
		The Great Kat (aka Katherine Thomas) is a Juilliard graduate violin virtuoso turned Guitar Shredder, who was awarded Guitar One Magazine's "Top 10 Fastest Shredders of All Time" (April 2003 issue).
		The Great Kat was also proclaimed as "the fastest female guitar shredder in the world" in Spin Magazine's July 2003 profile.
	www.guitarsite.com /newsletters/030714/2.shtml (487 words)

	The Great Kat Interview
		The Great Kat’s “RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES” (from Wagner’s Opera Cycle “The Ring”--“Die Walkure”) is the “BATTLE CRY” to WAR!!!!!
		The Great Kat is “The fastest female guitar shredder in the world” and “The Speediest, Scariest, Female Shredder of all Time.” SPIN Magazine’s Feature on The Great Kat, (July 2003)
		THE GREAT KAT IS A SOLOIST on VIOLIN AND GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	www.ddays-revenge.com /TheGreatKatInterview.html (877 words)

	Metal Headquarters : The Great Kat Gutiar Goddess
		Known for her lightning-fast Shred/Classical riffs, The Great Kat has been heralded worldwide as the only guitar/violin virtuoso updating Classical music and is the only female guitarist included on the Guitar One “Fastest Shredders” list.
		Born Katherine Thomas, The Great Kat is a violin graduate from the prestigious Juilliard School and has performed as a Classical violin soloist at Carnegie Recital Hall as winner of the Artists International Competition.
		Kat then combined Classical music with Speed Metal, developing the exciting new “Shred/Classical” Music Genre: authentic classical masterpieces (Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and others) mixed with extreme speed and shredding guitar riffs.
	www.metalheadquarters.com /article.php?ID=49 (355 words)

	Tangento.net: Interview With The Great Kat
		"The Great Kat was born Katherine Thomas in Swindon, England and at the age of 3, moved to the U.S. After listening to Beethoven since birth, The Great Kat realized that her mission was to become a composer and musical revolutionary.
		Kat began Classical piano studies at the age of seven, and Classical violin studies at the age of nine in New York.
		At 15 years old, The Great Kat was accepted to the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City as a scholarship student on violin.
	tangento.net /greatKAT.html (1043 words)

	The Great Kat reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		While the Great Kat may increase sales as a result of this video, it adds absolutely nothing to the enjoyment of the music.
		Once again The Great Kat shows what a virtuoso she is at performing music, this time by playing speeded-up versions of Vivaldi's
		The "band" in question is mostly the Great Kat, doing the vocals, guitars, violins, viola, and cello.
	www.ram.org /music/reviews/great_kat.html (255 words)

	The Great KAT - "Guitar Goddess"
		With the albums "Worship me or DIE!" and "Beethoven on Speed" the Great KAT has been on one side ridiculed for her image of the typical 80s metal slut with an awful big mouth, and on the other side, she's been praised for her original remakes of classical music hits.
		On this four track EP, KAT presents us with two of her own songs ("Dominatrix" and "Feast Of The Dead") and two classical golden oldies ("The Barber Of Seville" and "Zigeunerweisen").
		Her interpretations of these songs keep fairly close to the originals (while of course playing them on a guitar with slightly enhanced speed), while the KAT compositions are a mixture of guitar-solo madness mixed with grindcore-ish chaos.
	www.dse.nl /~inferno/issue10/greatkat.html (167 words)

	THE GREAT KAT
		KAT has toured internationally as a classical violin soloist, won the illustrious Artists' Int.
		After realizing that 'classical music is dead', THE GREAT KAT discovered heavy metal and brought her classical virtuosity to the guitar, becoming the fastest guitarist of the world and the only composer to combine classical music with heavy metal.
		THE GREAT KAT is the fastest, most brutal guitar/violin virtuoso, vicious, maniacal, finger-bleeding, brilliant, rip-your-head-off tasmanian devil, guitar goddess, high-priestess of guitar shred, inventor of Cyberspeed music and the new Beethoven of the 21st Century!!
	www.metalmaidens.com /thegrkat.htm (1008 words)

	Tracks Of Creation: Issue 10: Reviews: The Great Kat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The cover features Kat decked out in a red satin cape with lacy red lingerie underneath, striking a pose with her guitar lifted ecstatically in the air and a marshall amp in the background.
		Kat's technical expertise certainly lends a great deal of credibility to her interpretation of these pieces.
		The Kat also has put out a CD-Rom called "Digital Beethoven On Cyberspeed", which purports to be an educational venture to introduce classical music into the 21st century.
	disemia.com /creation/issue_10/reviews/thegreatkat.html (400 words)

	Excite - Entertainment Buzz
		The Great Kat is the reincarnation of Beethoven, a Juilliard grad violin virtuoso turned blood-dripping guitar shredder-metal messiah-high-priestess-of-guitar-shred.
		The Great Kat: Guitar "Shredding" is playing as many notes as possible per second - cleanly and with articulation.
		The Great Kat is the world’s fastest female guitar shredder and the only guitar and violin shredder, taking authentic, note-for-note classical scores of Beethoven, Paganini, Vivaldi and reorchestrating and rearranging them for guitar, violin, orchestra and band!
	www1.excite.com /home/entertainment/entertain_buzz_list/1,19513,03-11-2005,00.html (877 words)

	Interview with Metal Guitarist the Great Kat
		The Great Kat was nice enough to take some time away from castrating people and composing the fastest music in the universe to answer some questions for Acid Logic.
		The Great Kat: The Great Kat is THE NEW BEETHOVEN of the NEW MILLENNIUM and is systematically RESURRECTING Classical Music by BRINGING it to the COMMON MASSES using SHRED SPEED METAL.
		The Great Kat is a HIGHLY TRAINED, Juilliard graduate violin virtuoso, who has won numerous competitions on the violin at Juilliard and in the Classical Music Field.
	www.acidlogic.com /great_kat.htm (1269 words)

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