Well, it's also 100% true, thats why it bugs you all the wrong way. If you dont hear scale pattern exercises in that uncoherent thing you might call a solo, then you are tone deaf.

Jeez you guys...and I thought Echoes was bad. Eeeeh im leaving this dump of a forum. Feel free to ban me since this place is so retarded you dont even have an option to delete your account. So long deaf fools!

No one's forcing you to post here, you know. And yes, based on some of your comments here, I can safely say that you don't understand guitar playing. Wayne Krantz is an astonishingly talented guitarist whose skill is blatantly apparent when you watch the vids posted here. Only someone who didn't comprehend basic theory would use those words that you used about Krantz's playing. That, or someone who's trolling, which wouldn't surprise me one bit.

Instead of unfunny jabs, why don't you use your 20 years of experience and explain just what Krantz is doing wrong?

And he flees with his tail between his legs after a successful trolling attempt. Why am I not surprised?

It's like whenever someone plays moderately quickly people like rusty and echoes resort to calling their playing 'scale exercises' or crap like that.

What bothers me isn't how they don't like fast playing, it's how they don't accept that it's not their cup of tea, but write it off as having no artistic merit.

I see a number of classic trolling techniques. One is the obvious one where someone brushes aside an obviously skilled performance as incompetent scale exercises, which isn't just a case of having a different opinion, it's simply wrong. It's like saying Michael Jordan can't dunk, or that Garry Kasparov is a shitty chess player. When guitar playing reaches a certain level, there are some things that are just factual.

Another is the oft-seen "X years of experience", where someone uses this to defend their opinions, even if this person has no evidence to back up said experience claims. What is the response when someone asks to hear clips of this person's music? "I'm not wasting my time posting my music online", or similar.

And of course: "You people are deaf. Enjoy being ignorant, I'm outta here!"

Some amazing early footage of Keaggy with Glass Harp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPxmNyrr ... re=related

Not really much guitaring going on here, but I just love it when a group of musicians are on top form. And cot damn Melvin Davis on bass. Found myself humming the melody to this all night tonight.

amen...

Yeah that comment made me laugh too....fucking youtubers....

That was some killer playing from Keaggy though...

Abnormally brilliant.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pc_gXT-CGs

Great stuff, he was definitely ahead of his time.



Not the best sound quality but EJ kills it here, one of the best performances ive seen from him on youtube. I often enjoy his chordal improvisations as much his actual songs.

Guthrie jamming over some new bluesjamtracks backing tracks, incredible as always.



My favourite song from guthries new album, like the video annotation says i urge everyone to buy it.

He's just playing random scales up and down with no phrasing.

Also, he's not Ritchie Blackmore.