Raggamuffin  - 2013-01-02
If you went to hang out with this guy at his out it would be just like this. I bet he would answer the door with his guitar already on his shoulder.
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Gmork - 2013-01-02
Hey, I have that song on my hacked guitar hero!
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Riskbreaker - 2013-01-02
So much technique, so little sense of melody and pacing.
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Old_Zircon - 2013-01-02 The two hardly ever seem to go together, do they?
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Gmork - 2013-01-02 Haters!
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EvilHomer - 2013-01-02 www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=Q_UsmvtyxEI
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threads - 2013-01-02
Willing to bet serious money he tried out for Trans-Siberian Orcherstra and didn't make it.
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EvilHomer - 2013-01-02 He's never auditioned for TSO, or much of anything, for that matter! He's a very good guitarist (allowing for the usual aesthetic problems people have with "virtuoso" guiarists in general), but his resume is spotty and completely underwhelming. He was in a long-forgotten hair metal band during the 80s, and when that died, he went on to... nothing. Self published solo releases. Not even a solo career with Shrapnel Records. He had a major breakthrough in the early 2000s as the result of internet file sharing and his viral shredding videos, but as near as I can tell, he completely failed to capitalize on that, too. It's not like he has a day job (Joe Stump) or laurels to rest on (Marty Friedman or The Great Kat) or a medical excuse (Jason Becker). He simply potters around, plays guitar, and occasionally puts on a show for the neighborhood kids.
Sorry for the burst of guitar autism, I know you were just making a funny joke, but Michael Angelo has a lot of symbolic meaning for me. He's like a living metaphor for all my guitar-fag friends, guys who spent years developing these amazing high level skills, but do absolutely nothing with them.
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Old_Zircon - 2013-01-02 Doesn't sound like a bad life to me.
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EvilHomer - 2013-01-02 I guess it's not a bad life. He could certainly be doing a lot worse.
But he's never getting that Lamborghini.
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Oscar Wildcat - 2013-01-02
At least you got the Lambo, all I ever got from the guy was a seedy dime bag.
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Siebenstein - 2013-01-02
It's sad that the guy is virtually unknown. Incredible skill.
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robotkarateman - 2013-01-03
I picked up the guitar in '88 because of all the hair band douchenozzles I listened to at the time. I quickly learned that being a great guitar player isn't about how fast your fingers are - hammer-ons and pull-offs mean you're sweep-picking every third note; throw in tapping and you sound like a machine gun - no, the hard part is remembering your progressions, and there's like 9 million variations on guitar. The really great guitarists are the guys who have a vast repertoire of progressions and know how to improvise using them rather than just play the same ones over and over, or play random ones like this guy.
Buckethead had a column in Guitar Player where he would teach different progressions that could be strung together in any order to create a kick-ass solo. He was basically making fun of guys like Diamond Darrell whose columns were all about how magical guitar playing is.
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EvilHomer - 2013-01-03 Dude, that's not cool. Poor guy's dead, and you have to go and use the D-word.
HIS NAME IS "DIMEBAG", DAMMIT. ALWAYS WAS. LALALALA.
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robotkarateman - 2013-01-03 Unless I'm mistaken, "Dimebag" came after he had his column. He was still Diamond then, they weren't long out of their arena-rock roots. I could be wrong about that.
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EvilHomer - 2013-01-03 THERE WAS NO ARENA ROCK ERA. COWBOYS FROM HELL WAS THEIR FIRST ALBUM. THEY WERE TRUE HARDCORE BADASSES FROM TEXAS AND NEVER USED HAIRSPRAY nope lalalalala shutupshutupshutup lalalala
But yeah, guitar's hard. It's tough to visualize the notes; there are no obvious visual ques, you've got to worry about the tuning intervals between each string, etc etc. I played guitar for about six years before switching over to piano, and I think I got more out of that in my first month than I ever did on guitar, simply because it was so much easier to locate, identify, and transpose chords, scales, and progressions.
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