Guitarists! (get ready to weep) ... "strumming" from hell (Jaw still on floor)

[Carl Snow]

A fellow Git-Teach sent me this link.

http://www.tablatures.tk/articles-read.php?id=1
(Click on the "watch Video" part ... then click the Tab-link)

YES ...its an acoustic guitar
NO ...no pick used
YES ...its far too short ([I]and only in WMV format)
NO ...He can't be human
YES ...It made me put MY guitar down and leave the room (really) for a minute before making Cin watch the clip to prove I wern't insane.
NO ...HellNo I can't play it
YES ...There is a TAB (really)
NO ...The Tab aint much help

I need a guitar-shrink NOW !

**OUCH!**

[Milo Bloom]

His name is Justin King:

http://www.webcds.com/artist.asp?ano=740

...aaaaand here's the same video, on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZWc3x1D4Ws&search=larrivee

[Randall]

Do you think he knows Kaki King (http://www.kakiking.com/)?

[Milo Bloom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge23x6FBtuQ&mode=related&search=

Another one of his.

[spinetingler]

classical guitarist friend said to me after viewing clip:

In flamenco: Rasgueado (strumming) is pretty common. He's simply rotating his forearm and the thumb plays as the forearm rotates counterclockwise, fingers play as you rotate back.

[Shinola]

classical guitarist friend said to me after viewing clip:

In flamenco: Rasgueado (strumming) is pretty common. He's simply rotating his forearm and the thumb plays as the forearm rotates counterclockwise, fingers play as you rotate back.

Oh. That's all? Hell, let me get my guitar out then.

[straps]

Oh. That's all? Hell, let me get my guitar out then.

Weirdness note: I was going to type the same thing at the same time. I hesitated, hit the back button for some reason, and there was my comment, BUT SOMEBODY ELSE HAD WRITTEN IT. Oooh, spooky. And Led Zep IV was still playing on the tape deck...

Anyhow, yeah, I'm gonna try that stuff with my feet. Right after I a build me a guitar out of a tree growing in my back yard.

[JCWhite]

[QUOTE=Milo Bloom]His name is Justin King:

Any of you guys ever heard of a guy named Steve Vai?
Don't want to piss anyone off but, I am not that impressed.
Guys have been doing sh*t like that forever.
I bet there is a whole heap of funk driven bass players who could slap there way around a guitar all day, if that was there thing.
Don't get me wrong, pretty cool stuff, just not that jaw dropping.

Oh & Zappa would have just laughed.

[fluffy]

sort of a mix of slap bass a la victor wooten and the stuff Michael hedges used to do.

[JCWhite]

sort of a mix of slap bass a la victor wooten and the stuff Michael hedges used to do.

Yea I agree.
But it just is all flash!
Don't you think?

[fluffy]

[QUOTE=Milo Bloom]His name is Justin King:

Any of you guys ever heard of a guy named Steve Vai?
Don't want to piss anyone off but, I am not that impressed.
Guys have been doing sh*t like that forever.
I bet there is a whole heap of funk driven bass players who could slap there way around a guitar all day, if that was there thing.
Don't get me wrong, pretty cool stuff, just not that jaw dropping.

Oh & Zappa would have just laughed.


i kinda agree. its a lot of flash, but no different than the stuff folks have been doing on electrics for decades now. id still take michael hedges instrumental stuff over this guy any day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Tb2BnCnrY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G75kaEPEd4

[spinetingler]

Not that I could do any of it, of course.

[skirob]

My first thought was Michael Hedges. Someone I had not thought of in years. ot to change the subject, but what was it that he died of?

[Randall]

My first thought was Michael Hedges. Someone I had not thought of in years. ot to change the subject, but what was it that he died of?

I believe he was in a car wreck. I'll look it up.

... Yep. Car wreck. Just like D. Boon.

[jack frost]

Yeah, I mean, I couldn't do it either, but I'm not impressed. It sounds like crap and I've seen guys doing very nearly the same thing at amateur open-mic nights.

It's all somehow Dave Matthews' fault, I think.

[Randall]

It's all somehow Dave Matthews' fault, I think.

And Ani Difranco.

[fluffy]

And Ani Difranco.


and that randall brown fella too!

[Gray]

A quick Wikipedia check reveals that Michael Hedges died in a car accident, back in 1997, at the age of 43. I saw him at the Bijou (I think it was the Bijou.. maybe the Tennessee) a long, long, long time ago - circa 1992 or 1993. This dude in the video is, in my humble opinion, completely ripping Hedges' style off. He's doing a damned good job ripping him off, mind you (the superfast flamenco strumming is pretty crazy), but Hedges, despite his hippy-dippy New Age leanings, was very musical, and occasionally even somewhat soulful.

[he who]

I saw that micheal hedges concert too Grey---it was great.

I also thought of steve Vai mixed with some flamenco---basically he is strumming chords instead of single notes like in flamenco style---which is a fairly difficult style to pick up---

I thought the guy was pretty melodic in his stunt playing. I liked it...

[fluffy]

A quick Wikipedia check reveals that Michael Hedges died in a car accident, back in 1997, at the age of 43. I saw him at the Bijou (I think it was the Bijou.. maybe the Tennessee) a long, long, long time ago - circa 1992 or 1993.

bijou i can almost guarantee. i saw him quite a few times, and im pretty sure thats where he played that year.



This dude in the video is, in my humble opinion, completely ripping Hedges' style off. He's doing a damned good job ripping him off, mind you (the superfast flamenco strumming is pretty crazy), but Hedges, despite his hippy-dippy New Age leanings, was very musical, and occasionally even somewhat soulful.


yeah his lyrics were godawful new age stuff(which is sad cause he had a decent voice), but i loved listening to him and watching him play guitar. fun to watch without being over wanky(unlike the guy in this video) and never sacrified the song in order to be a showoff.

[liltimmy]

to paraphrase most of the previous comments...
ho-hum

gimme the rev. willie g. with pearly gates and a coupla rio grande half-stacks anyday ... 'cause it sho' done got cold after the rain fell..

[JohnnyB]

to paraphrase most of the previous comments...
ho-hum

gimme the rev. willie g. with pearly gates and a coupla rio grande half-stacks anyday ... 'cause it sho' done got cold after the rain fell..

liltimmy, did I ever tell you that you ARE rock & roll?

[Randall]

liltimmy, did I ever tell you that you ARE rock & roll?

I thought that was just our unspoken understanding about Tim.

[liltimmy]

liltimmy, did I ever tell you that you ARE rock & roll?

no, but thanks ... all this time I thought I just leased a small parcel of rezoned intellectual property from rock & roll.

[Carl Snow]

sort of a mix of slap bass a la victor wooten and the stuff Michael hedges used to do.

YUP!
The Hedges-factor is very evident (Huge (early)Hedges fan here) and I agree about the slap (Buckethead does the slap thang 10 times as well) ...
BUT

1) Yeah, folks have been playing 'stunt' guitar fer as long as guitars (and the opposite sex) have been around; just listen to some old Hendrix, Son House, Eddie VH, Carlos Montoya, Tommy Emmanuel etc...

2) 'Stunt Guitar' (as Zappa credited Vai w/) does NOT mean "good" guitar.

3) It was more the chordal-tapping than anything that i enjoyed about this clip; although many folks are good at this technique I had yet to see anyone do it well on an acoustic. (Hedges basically "tapped" -no pun- bass-lines...not chords)

4) I still think its a fun little movie to watch and i aint too cool to admit it.

[Carl Snow]

Yea I agree.
But it just is all flash!
Don't you think?

of course.
that was the whole point (or most of it) of the clip.