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ROMOSAPIEN9 · Apr 23, 2006

So after talking all this crap about Malmsteen, I stummbled upon a video that pretty much blew me away. I still wish he'd slow it down here and there, but this is really great IMO. Also, I LOVED the tone of his guitar in this video. Sounds like he's running it thru an old tube amp or something.

Thoughts?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SzW8fi8z5C8&search=malmsteen

Juke99 · Apr 23, 2006

DANTHEMAN said:
So after talking all this crap about Malmsteen, I stummbled upon a video that pretty much blew me away. I still wish he'd slow it down here and there, but this is really great IMO. Also, I LOVED the tone of his guitar in this video. Sounds like he's running it thru an old tube amp or something.

Thoughts?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SzW8fi8z5C8&search=malmsteen

He's a great guitar player who I find unlistenable...I cut off the video before it was half way done. Reminds me of the great Charlie Parker...he was doing stuff that no one else was doing...but again, to my ears, unlistenable.

For Malmsteen to be getting that sound from a Fender guitar, I am assuming the guage on those strings is pretty heavy....

Hostile · Apr 23, 2006

BrAinPaiNt · Apr 23, 2006

If you like him Hos, and that style of music.

You may wish to check out Elliott Fisk, He did the paginni (sp?) pieces on classical guitar.

Hostile · Apr 23, 2006

BrAinPaiNt said:
If you like him Hos, and that style of music.

You may wish to check out Elliott Fisk, He did the paginni (sp?) pieces on classical guitar.

I haven't heard Fisk, but I will look him up.

My other favorite is Chet Atkins.

Juke99 · Apr 23, 2006

Hostile said:
I haven't heard Fisk, but I will look him up.

My other favorite is Chet Atkins.

Well, there simply isn't any beating Chet Atkins...If you can get your hands on the early stuff he did with Jerry Reed...it's great.

You should listen to some stuff by Tommy Emmanuel...Doyle Dykes..Larry Carlton...and actually, Bernie Williams of NY Yankee fame has done some nice stuff.

Tommy Emmanuel... http://youtube.com/watch?v=fZNJf-h7F8s&search=tommy emmanuel

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JCFFKrfO9Z0&search=tommy emmanuel

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HmidYDoKmOA&search=tommy emmanuel

Dykes...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3mwFA56dKP8&search=fingerstyle

All of the lessons I've been taking have been geared toward classical guitar...it's quite the challenge.

Hostile · Apr 23, 2006

Juke99 said:
Well, there simply isn't any beating Chet Atkins...If you can get your hands on the early stuff he did with Jerry Reed...it's great.

I saw Chet Atkins live in concert twice. He was so amazing.

He told a great story about being on a cruise ship one time and there were some guys picking guitars. One wanted to go eat and the other protested for him to stay. Chet offered to play with the guy for a while if the guy going to eat didn't mind him using his guitar.

Chet said they played for about an hour until the hungry guy showed up. Chet gave him back his guitar. The guy he had played with said, "you're sure good, but you're no Chet Atkins."

In concert Chet said, "If he's here tonight I just want to tell him, yes I am."

This is from the Johnny Cash Show. I vaguely remember this. I will never forget Chet on Hee Haw one time playing "Under the Double Eagle." My Mom told me if I could learn to play that she'd buy me any guitar I wanted. I can't play a lick. If you haven't heard Chet play that song, I highly recommend downloading it. It's great.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QkhnCvVC3HY&search=chet atkins

Hostile · Apr 23, 2006

Not a music video, but some amazing footage of music history.

Filmed in 1955

Elvis Presley

Carl Perkins

Buddy Holly (pre his band The Crickets)

and

Johnny Cash

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xlRDkrIci0w&search=johnny cash

calico · Apr 24, 2006

Hostile said:
Not a music video, but some amazing footage of music history.

Filmed in 1955

Elvis Presley

Carl Perkins

Buddy Holly (pre his band The Crickets)

and

Johnny Cash

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xlRDkrIci0w&search=johnny cash

Excellent find...I will watch anything that includes Cash.

Juke99 · Apr 24, 2006

Uh oh....here I go...out on the limb.

I gotta be honest. I never "got" what the big deal was about Johnny Cash.

There are musicians who I don't like but I can hear their talent.

Elton John as a songwriter has always been one of those to me. I dont own any of his stuff...never will....but I can hear his talent.

Johnny Cash on the other hand? I simply don't get it.

BrAinPaiNt · Apr 24, 2006

Juke99 said:
Uh oh....here I go...out on the limb.

I gotta be honest. I never "got" what the big deal was about Johnny Cash.

There are musicians who I don't like but I can hear their talent.

Elton John as a songwriter has always been one of those to me. I dont own any of his stuff...never will....but I can hear his talent.

Johnny Cash on the other hand? I simply don't get it.

You know what is funny.

For the most part the type of music Elton Played is not my cup of tea.
But I can listen to some of his music and actually love it.
Not ALL, would not even say a majority, but something about some of it is just perfection. Some of his songs just pull at my heart for some reason.

Johnny Cash is another odd bird to me.

I don't think he is a great guitarist, not saying bad but just not in the same league as some others. I don't think he is a great singer, more often more of a story teller of sorts.

But some of his songs just have something in them. I don't know what it is sort of a blues/pain attitude to them.

I just seen Johnny as sort of someone who had his own style that you really could not fit into one category. Not country as many think, not really rock and roll compared to some others, not folk, not blues...just an odd mix of all of them I guess.

Zaxor · Apr 24, 2006

Juke99 said:
Uh oh....here I go...out on the limb.

I gotta be honest. I never "got" what the big deal was about Johnny Cash.

There are musicians who I don't like but I can hear their talent.

Elton John as a songwriter has always been one of those to me. I dont own any of his stuff...never will....but I can hear his talent.

Johnny Cash on the other hand? I simply don't get it.

I love Jonny Cash's stuff and I loved Elton John's stuff till I found out he was gay... than I had to throw it all out as it might have kooties or a subliminal message :laugh2:

Juke99 · Apr 24, 2006

Zaxor said:
I love Jonny Cash's stuff and I loved Elton John's stuff till I found out he was gay... than I had to throw it all out as it might have kooties or a subliminal message :laugh2:

Uh..too late. I've heard stories. It's all over the Zone.

Juke99 · Apr 24, 2006

BrAinPaiNt said:
You know what is funny.

For the most part the type of music Elton Played is not my cup of tea.
But I can listen to some of his music and actually love it.
Not ALL, would not even say a majority, but something about some of it is just perfection. Some of his songs just pull at my heart for some reason.

Johnny Cash is another odd bird to me.

I don't think he is a great guitarist, not saying bad but just not in the same league as some others. I don't think he is a great singer, more often more of a story teller of sorts.

But some of his songs just have something in them. I don't know what it is sort of a blues/pain attitude to them.

I just seen Johnny as sort of someone who had his own style that you really could not fit into one category. Not country as many think, not really rock and roll compared to some others, not folk, not blues...just an odd mix of all of them I guess.

Cash is Elvis on the guitar. It was an ornament. He plays A-D-E...and sometimes G-C-D...that's about the sum of it.

The voice...nice schtick...for a few songs...

I dunno, I can like some of his stuff...I simply don't understand the status some have propped him up to...

BrAinPaiNt · Apr 24, 2006

Juke99 said:
Cash is Elvis on the guitar. It was an ornament. He plays A-D-E...and sometimes G-C-D...that's about the sum of it.

The voice...nice schtick...for a few songs...

I dunno, I can like some of his stuff...I simply don't understand the status some have propped him up to...

I think some of it is his attitude and his past.

I don't think it was ever that he was a great musician in any sense of the word.

He was kind of a rebel and of course the whole image of being "the Man in Black"

Heck I would rather listen to Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and some of the others in that general time frame.

But something is cool about Johnny.

Juke99 · Apr 24, 2006

BrAinPaiNt said:
I think some of it is his attitude and his past.

I don't think it was ever that he was a great musician in any sense of the word.

He was kind of a rebel and of course the whole image of being "the Man in Black"

Heck I would rather listen to Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and some of the others in that general time frame.

But something is cool about Johnny.

..and Carl Perkins..

I don't deny the coolness of Cash..no doubt...but uh, that doesn't help me when I'm listening to a CD.

If having and attitude and a checkered past was an ingredient of musical stardon, Nors would be platinum recording artist.

BrAinPaiNt · Apr 24, 2006

Juke99 said:
..and Carl Perkins..

I don't deny the coolness of Cash..no doubt...but uh, that doesn't help me when I'm listening to a CD.

If having and attitude and a checkered past was an ingredient of musical stardon, Nors would be platinum recording artist.

I think attitude is a very big part of music IMO.

I always look for attitude in music, different forms of it in different genres.

Attitude in my mind does not mean it has to be a bad attitude or don't give a darn attitude.

One thing I do want to know...How well, Johnny did in his later years, singing I've been everywhere.

Because that song had to have him panting by the end, not only is it faster in parts with long parts of no pausing, but a great deal of his songs were slower by nature anyways.

ROMOSAPIEN9 · Apr 24, 2006

I think Johnny Cash is the Aerosmith of country music. There's just something about the act that draws people in. But it DAMN SURE ain't talent.

Zaxor · Apr 24, 2006

Juke99 said:
Uh..too late. I've heard stories. It's all over the Zone.

that may be but they are only half true

BrAinPaiNt · Apr 24, 2006

Zaxor said:
that may be but they are only half true

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