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.

[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?

[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

[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.

[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!

[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

[vournikas]

oddball1313 said:

I'm not a huge Guthrie, a lot of his stuff is too clever and fusionish for me but this is rather epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaH2C2Qe97Y

Fantastic

On a related note (as I love Govan's playing), I've always rather liked this one:-

Guthrie & Gilbert Jam

Good time happiness guitar stuff

[vournikas]

I hope he doesn't mind me posting this, but Malam of this 'ere parish posted this up some years ago after buying a Boss looper pedal:-

Pictures by Dave Malam

I suspect he'd admit that this was an impromptu noodle, but its a bloody good one (it's in DADGAD tuning as he was kind enough to send me playing notes after watching it)

[vournikas]

Another Vai clip that shows, if nothing else, that he's really just a guy who enjoys playing the guitar:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yqm97-d73I

[vournikas]

glazbagun said:

Hendrix/Band of Gypsies playing Machine Gun live at the Filmore East. This is one of those things like A Love Supreme that I try not to play too often so as to prevent it's impact from fading, just an amazing, very special guitar moment.

http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=ade_1299019469

Legendary footage and tune, that is.

I've always loved "Who Knows" from that same set; it's a great riff.

[vournikas]

Not a playing video, but a creating one:-

How a Greenfield Acoustic Guitar is Made

The craftsmanship is well worth watching, but I'm not an acoustic player and - after investigating - I thought that prices that started at $10,500 was optimistic to say the least.

>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64MmzR7EZ2o<<<

As I said, I'm no acoustic expert but that sounds very, very good indeed.