Awesome guitarists

Starfox · November 2007

In this thread, we share stories of sweet guitar playing. Videos/pics are nice, but a good tale will suffice as well. Favorites, just good ones, whatever you want. I'll start you off with a little 12-string action:

Leo Kottke - "Vaseline Machine Gun" from 6- and 12-String Guitar.
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I like it because it's not your typical "woo, super fast crazy arpeggios guitar solo". Not that there's anything wrong with those; I think they have their place. Just not all the time. It's also 12-string, and 12-string guitars sound sweet. You don't hear them very much.

Chris · November 2007

I don't have any pictures or video's, but a guy I know is an amazing guitarist. I've seen him play gutiar and drums at the same time and have it actually sound good not just a lot of bass drum and finger tapping. He also played an improvised song on a classical guitar for about 3 hours and didn't hit a bad note. Well he did hit a bad one but that's where it ended. I have a video of that one somewhere, if I ever find it I might try and post bits and peices of it or something.

Neito · November 2007

Tom Sholtz from Boston. It's typical 80s power chords, tho.

Andrew · November 2007

Michael Hedges and his "Deep Tissue Gladiator Guitar" style:

Apreche · November 2007

Tuttle kids

Omnutia · November 2007

Eric Mongrain - Airtap

Also: 4 handed guitar

Apreche · November 2007

And you think it's hard playing this with five big plastic buttons. Hahaha.
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Usagimaru · November 2007

John Butler Trio - Ocean (lag is bad, but him playing is awesome)

If you've played Guitar Hero 3, you've already heard it, but Cliffs of Dover, by Eric Johnson is just amazing:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7959518288584765325

Edit: Dang, I'm not sure how to embed the video. And PS to Scott, the Dragonforce video isn't able to be embedded

Omnutia · November 2007

"War of the Worlds" by Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly

Chris · November 2007

And you think it's hard playing this with five big plastic buttons. Hahaha.
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I really hope that the guitarist actually plays the intro to the song like that and it wasn't just some bullshit for the video.

Johannes Uglyfred II · November 2007

Alexi. Motherfucking. LAIHO!

Children of Bodom owns me.

Usagimaru · November 2007

And you think it's hard playing this with five big plastic buttons. Hahaha.
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I really hope that the guitarist actually plays the intro to the song like that and it wasn't just some bullshit for the video.

I saw these guys in concert a couple months ago when they were with He Is Legend and Killswitch Engage. I can safely tell you that the way the play into is what you see in the video, but better. I was watching Sam Totman (the non-asain guitarist) most of the time and in between the drinking of beer while playing faster than a human should he would switch is hand from over, to under multiple times. Dragonforce is amazing live.