For those who can and cannot play a guitar...

grumpycommuter":2thns3tc said:
Be prepared to pop your trusty axe in the loft because you may well give up. This girl can play....

Steve Vai - Paganini 5th Caprice (Crossroads) - c…: http://youtu.be/_tXuYLc6rIg
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I have to say, I loved Vai's and Cooder's geeetaaar playing in that film.

Always enjoyed Lifeson on the guitar, too.
 
Neil":1tsysh7x said:
grumpycommuter":1tsysh7x said:
Be prepared to pop your trusty axe in the loft because you may well give up. This girl can play....

Steve Vai - Paganini 5th Caprice (Crossroads) - c…: http://youtu.be/_tXuYLc6rIg
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I have to say, I loved Vai's and Cooder's geeetaaar playing in that film.

Always enjoyed Lifeson on the guitar, too.
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Yes, the film in which Vai announced his arrival to the world. As soon as I saw it I wanted to play like that, sadly not a chance :lol: The Paris, Texas soundtrack still brings a lump to the throat.
 
I can strum a few chords but thats about the sum of it :?
Took me a while to realize i was really only tormenting the people i knew so stopped.
Never looked back :wink: :lol:
 
highlandsflyer":27turq6e said:
There are any number of these wizz kids out on Youtube and all. Vai is a pretty soulless player given his background. His best work has been under the thumb of Zappa and Roth. I have seen him numerous times, and am always amazed how spotty and male his audience are. You can only wow so often at over effected tones containing numerous wanky arpeggios and gimmicky playing.

For a serious guitar player with a sense of humour and a bit of soul see Paul Gilbert.
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Too young to remember his Zappa days! Legend has it that fans would bring sheet music to Zappa gigs for him to sight read. This young woman is classically trained apparently. It will be interesting to see how her playing matures.
 
highlandsflyer":77r69bj7 said:
Vai is a pretty soulless player given his background.
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I do get what you mean - there's a few guitarists of that ilk, that come across as all skill, no feel.

However, for the film Crossroads, I thought he did a decent job, given he was sharing guitar duties with Cooder - who I think was a good foil for the comparison of styles. Britney was rubbbiiish, though...

highlandsflyer":77r69bj7 said:
His best work has been under the thumb of Zappa and Roth.
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Thought his work with Roth was good - almost always seemed a bit of a promo vid / album for his rock guitar playing at times, though.

highlandsflyer":77r69bj7 said:
You can only wow so often at over effected tones containing numerous wanky arpeggios and gimmicky playing.
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Hey, I play the piano... and for about 8 years of my 10 years being taught / tutored, "classically" trained. I'm no stranger to wanky scales and arpeggios!
 
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Lads you are all stating the blatantly obvious,noodling/shredding/technical playing has about as much emotion as an i phone.Tina`s technical ability is whats being lauded here....
 
highlandsflyer":25nwk9vp said:
No Neil, I am not saying these are wanky things, just that in the hands of the likes of Vai, a lot of lovely scales and such become mere foils to his excess.
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No doubt - I wasn't railing against them being wanky - often they are, as you point out.

It's funny, I played the piano for a reasonable amount of my time, in my youth (10 years, being taught all through those years) and never really valued it. Having to spend many hours, during many years, practising scales, arpeggios and other drills, they always seemed so very tedious. And in some ways they were - I kinda got the value, just didn't really value the value.

Fast forward 25 years of practically zero playing, and return to it, and scales and other drills have been a major aspect of getting some proficiency back, but, oddly, there's something I find more rewarding at my age, now.

highlandsflyer":25nwk9vp said:
Dave Lee Roth is clearly the man who put the pop and fizz into VH, he strides across the rock pantheon like some funky behemoth. I have no deeper love for a man outside my family.
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Always been a fan of Roth, as you know. So many rap on about Eddie on the guitar, but it was Roth that made Van Halen as a band, great.

All the same, as much as I love the dude, I couldn't help but laugh when Lamarr called him "...rock knobhead David Lee Roth..." on Buzzcocks, some years back. There's a bit of knobhead in all of us.
 
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