FuzzBob wrote:

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:if this guy isn't skilled as shit i don't know who is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e28G35HnREs



also, don't you think that D. Boon was skillful with a guitar?

YouTube is blocked here at work. Can I guess that's "The Boilerman" by Mike Watt with Nels Cline on guitar?

No, it's "Eruption" with Eddie Van Halen on guitar.

I've always thought that when your average person talks about a "good" guitar player they mean someone who plays a lot of notes really fast. Maybe a lot of notes really fast and far apart from each other. This is CRAP.

FuzzBob wrote:

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:if this guy isn't skilled as shit i don't know who is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e28G35HnREs



also, don't you think that D. Boon was skillful with a guitar?

YouTube is blocked here at work. Can I guess that's "The Boilerman" by Mike Watt with Nels Cline on guitar?

guess again, it's this guy.


wilco is suck. medium tempo garbage.
i would never post a link to that trash.

STF wrote:I've always thought that when your average person talks about a "good" guitar player they mean someone who plays a lot of notes really fast. Maybe a lot of notes really fast and far apart from each other. This is CRAP.

I disagree. To me, it's completely value-neutral.

Particularly "notey" guitar playing has such a negative stigma because it's hard not to associate it with bad hair bands from 20 years ago and the douchebags who love them.

Think about Fripp, or for that matter, a Bach interpretation on classical guitar in which, despite the notiness, every note reflects a beautiful economy of means and is absolutely essential to the piece. In these two instances, the music is just as if not more "notey" than a wheedly rock guitar solo, except the music is also good.

"Notiness" just is. It is neither good nor bad; it simply assumes the quality level of the music it applies to.

Ty Webb wrote:Eric Johnson plays some horrible shit, but he's a cyborg. Looks like he has an extra joint in his freakishly long fingers.

Plus, the guitar mag worship of his "tone" is complete and total bullshit. He sounds like every other jerk running everything through rack delays and a chorus pedal.

Nico Adie wrote:


Martin Taylor plays some insanely complicated Jazz.

As maybe but he refused to play Happy Birthday for my wife's (then girlfriend) 21st birthday in the cheesy hotel he worked in (20 years ago).

I would even have accepted it in an insanely complicated jazz style too.

Herman Li of DragonForce.

I'm really a fan of power metal, but the guy can rip.

Thanks for the Kaki King cover band clip.

I think skillz is one of those things that you know when you see it. They can usually make shitty music at least listenable.

Dude in the clip did not have skillz. Not to me anyway. Buddy Miles had skillz.

This one always sounds like "crap writer but what a vocabulary" to me. I know what you're getting at though. And my vote goes to Thomas Bonvalet.