Cool Guitar Videos

[vournikas]

I've just watched this:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYrCaM_PIYE

It's a short, but intimate, insight (with period footage) into the making of Passion & Warfare by a certain Mr. Vai. As always, Steve really comes across as a very "regular" guy who just lives for playing guitar. Now, I love Vai's work but what I found a little scary is that P & W is now 25 years old Christ, I remember buying it on cassette back in the day!

It will always be one of my favourite guitar albums, and has some legendary tracks (For The Love of God / Blue Powder for example), and I didn't know where to post the above clip on here. So in the absence of any other information, I thought I'd start this thread for cool guitar clips.

[Mastodon2]

I saw that video the other day, it's exceptionally cool. Vai is an incredible, immeasurable talent but he is a perfectionist to the point of being OCD about his recordings - the results speak for themselves though. P&W is my favourite guitar album, probably the most important album I'll ever hear. You may have just missed the 25th anniversary tour, I was fortunate enough to see it from the front row of the Newcastle O2, seeing that album played live in full was akin to a religious experience.

Here is one of my favourite guitar videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u96Rk31Qzc

Richie Kotzen playing "Flashback", a tune that doesn't appear on any of his albums sadly. Tone, touch, dynamics, phrasing and technical ability by the tonne. Kotzen is a true AAA grade musician.

[red997]

still one of the top virtuoso guitarists in existence IMHO

he just makes it look so easy....

[SickAsAParrot]

Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJxoV5O8HUU

[kuro]

Fortunate to have seen him a couple of times. Sex and Religion Tour 1993/94 and one of the G3 gigs with satriani and paul gilbert i think. Amazing player

[6th Gear]

https://youtu.be/jQQIT4SJHpY

Greg Koch.

He's a bit handy on the old guitar.

[vournikas]

Mastodon2 said:

You may have just missed the 25th anniversary tour, I was fortunate enough to see it from the front row of the Newcastle O2, seeing that album played live in full was akin to a religious experience.

Here is one of my favourite guitar videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u96Rk31Qzc

Richie Kotzen playing "Flashback", a tune that doesn't appear on any of his albums sadly. Tone, touch, dynamics, phrasing and technical ability by the tonne. Kotzen is a true AAA grade musician.

I didn't know there was a 25th anniversary tour for P & W

fksocks, I'd have made sure I'd got a ticket for it.

WRT Kotzen, I seem to remember he was featured a fair bit in the likes of Guitar World magazine back in the day but as a rock shredder. Has he gone full Alex Skolnick and turned to the Jazz Side?

[Mastodon2]

Actually Kotzen has most recently been back to rock, which is where he seems to end up mostly. He is in a band called The Winery Dogs with Billy Sheehan and Mike Portnoy, not my regular listening material but pretty good, solid heavy rock with virtuoso level guitar, drums and bass. His jazz stuff was in the 90s, he did a fusion album called "The Inner Galactic Fusion Experience" and 2 fusion-ish albums with Greg Howe, which are superb.

Saying as we had some chicken picking above I'll toss in a video of Johnny Hiland, a blind guitarist from America. He is an amazing country guitarist, his chicken picking stuff is wild but he also does a great EVH impression too - he could be a stunt guitarist for Eddie Van Halen when he is too drunk to play, he's spot on. He is one of those guys who just loves the music, he doesn't earn a lot and spends a lot of his time teaching. He also reminds me on a regular basis that I need another Telecaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR2jenju9-E

Skip to about 1:15

[6th Gear]

Cheers for posting Mastodon. He has some great skills ^^

Any Philip Sayce fans? This is a mind blowing performance IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khkghSLo750

Killer Tone and feel.

Nice seeing the younger guys keeping the Blues alive.

[vournikas]

I like Hiland's work, despite not being a fan of C & W music. I watched some of his videos about a year ago after his name was mentioned by Guthrie Govan, and was told he was a "must see". I tend to trust Govan on the technical merits of given guitarists.

That Sayce video is great, which contains much Bonamassa / Moore / SRV influences.

On a blues related note, Octane magazine did a feature back in 2014 whereby they drove the Interstate from the Gulf coast in the South to Chicago whilst visiting as many "blues guitar" landmarks as they could on the way. One of the stop-offs was at a tiny blues shack in Mississippi (?? - can't recall), and playing there was a 14 year old lad called The Kingfish who they absolutely raved about. Further investigation revealed this sort of stuff:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSv0AgjwR14

Christone will have been 15 in ^ that clip

[popeyewhite]

SickAsAParrot said:

Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJxoV5O8HUU

Such a terrible, terrible shame FZ's gone.

[vournikas]

Nile Rodgers gives us a little insight into some of his disco classics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF1d227_4ac

I must admit, I've played/paused/played/paused this clip endlessly to see how he plays stuff like I Want Your Love / Spacer etc. I still can't get a couple of chords in Everybody Dance, though.

[Mastodon2]

True Fire are a US company who do guitar instructional videos, a bit different to the old school "guitarist rips at 100mph and shows some exercises along the way", they tend to be a lot more focused on the meta-aspects that make the top guitarists so good. It's less of "these are some licks" and more of "This is my approach, use it your way".

They've done a few with Steve Vai and they make fantastic viewing.

Here is a section on "For the Love of God":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPTHOsrGBoc

And at the risk of this becoming a Steve Vai love in, here is one of my all time favourite guitar videos, Eric Johnson playing "Cliffs of Dover" in a live performance filmed only a few weeks after I was born - albeit on the other side of the Atlantic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15eu7ar5EKM

[MiggyA]

Mastodon2 said:

And at the risk of this becoming a Steve Vai love in, here is one of my all time favourite guitar videos, Eric Johnson playing "Cliffs of Dover" in a live performance filmed only a few weeks after I was born - albeit on the other side of the Atlantic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15eu7ar5EKM

There are loads of videos of him playing this song because he does it at every concert, but this will always be my favourite. Delicious jamming over the delay pedal at the start.

[vournikas]

That True Fire clip of FTLOG reminded me; back in the day, I subscribed to Total Guitar magazine and one of the tab transcribers was the very excellent Dave Kilminster.

Anyway, in one issue he tabbed out FTLOG which I tirelessly practiced (but gave up at the very quick widdly bit up at the 14th fret), and one thing he was very specific about was the fret fingering in the first bar of the tune. At fret 12, he said, Vai lands on the initial note using his ring finger then without losing sustain, switches to his index finger on the same string at the same fret to allow a seamless transition to the next note. I thought at the time that our Dave was needlessly over-thinking things.

Watching that True Fire clip, it seems not!

[Billsnemesis]

6th Gear said:

https://youtu.be/jQQIT4SJHpY

Greg Koch.

He's a bit handy on the old guitar.

Surely beaten by this https://youtu.be/OrpWSWpHMjs

[otolith]

I was looking for this;

https://youtu.be/2Kk-RKo7214

But I like this better;

https://youtu.be/yzwPZ27ju5I

[dabooga79]

Probably going to get shot down in flames for this but I keep coming back to Ed Sheeran live videos. OK it's ONLY one man with an acoustic guitar (+1 fancy loop pedal) and also mainly chord playing but the overall sound that can come from one man is awesome and utterly mesmerising. The skill, timing and practising that must go into these performances must surely match any 10 minute long solo - especially to do it flawlessly time after time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL8CWVf4Ueg

Sorry shredders!!!

[vournikas]

otolith said:

I was looking for this;

https://youtu.be/2Kk-RKo7214

But I like this better;

https://youtu.be/yzwPZ27ju5I

Rob Chapman's guitar range seems to have come a long way in a short time, judging by the second clip

[interloper]

Whilst trying to find a suitably intelligent and interesting guitar vid to share I keep coming back to this one....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aveUEZkcQno

Which is neither of those things but its quite amusing (Rob Chapman, Cap'n Lee and the Miku pedal)