The best guitar performance you'll ever hear

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The best guitar performance you'll ever hear

Postby dokool » Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:47 am

Came across a video via Fark.com yesterday that is most definitely for great justice - especially for you Evangelion fans who enjoy a bit of classical music.

Link to the video is here, and I have a link to an mp3 version somewhere.
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Postby bum » Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:02 am

It's cool, but mainly because its a modern revival of a great classical piece. John Petrucci's (almost)solo in Hollow years (the live at Budokan version) is still the only piece of guitarplay that's ever brought me to orgasm.
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Postby Tono_Fyr » Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:13 am

Seen it. If I'm not mistaken, it was rearranged by Trans Siberian Orchestra into "Canon Rock" or something similar. I only have one TSO CD, so I can't be sure, but that seems like what I've been told.

I could top it... but I don't feel like it.
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:52 pm

It's a good performance, but not the best I've heard.
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Postby nailz » Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:28 pm

It seems that a lot of people who know how to play guitar could pull that off in their sleep. I know nothing of playing however. But for REAL Joygasm of guitaring godliness, you may want to look into live performances of Michael Romeo.
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Postby faaip_de_oiad » Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:50 pm

Mediterranean Sundance/Rio Ancho or Frevo Rasgado from Friday Night in San Francisco by Al DiMeola, John Mc'Laughlin and Paco de Lucá.
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:28 pm

^ I was actually going to link to that one.

I had a post written up linking to a bunch of great performances (including one of Romeo's), but I'm using IE and I got 404d when I tried to post it. But if anyone wants to see 'em, they're all over Eutoob. Check for Al di Meola, Michael Romeo, John Petrucci, Yngwie Malmsteen, Jason Becker, and Shawn Lane.
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Postby Farlo » Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:03 am

batio

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Postby Lahalito » Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:25 pm

Of course a great band for some great guitar is Dream Theater. They specialize in lots of crazy musical techniques like changing up the time signature...pretty much all of the time. So the guitar solos can't have a whole lot of improvisation, since the number of beats changes every measure, but what they've already worked out is amazing.
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:30 pm

Farlo wrote:batio

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You misspelled "overrated." :o
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Postby Farlo » Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:56 pm

i can misspell it again


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Postby nailz » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:06 pm

Lahalito wrote:Of course a great band for some great guitar is Dream Theater.


Blugh. Worst. Musicanship. Ever.

Liquid Tension Experement, however, can be mindblowing.
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:01 pm

Does... not... compute.

I mean the bands share three of the same musicians. LTE's writing may be better because it's more focused on the music, but I would hardly call DT bad musicians. Even if you don't like them.
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Postby nailz » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:57 pm

The stuff they write from dream theater sounds like each muscian seperates to seperate corners of the universe, writes their own stuff, then puts them together randomly in the studio blindfolded and deaf. It's horrendous.

the LTE project music is a lot cleaner.
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Postby Lahalito » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:40 pm

I feel like DT doesn't flow as nicely as other bands, so I can see how you disagree with their musicianship. But they definitely work together in studio =P There's no way they can play some of the stuff that they do without sitting down and figuring out every measure before they even rehearse. Which is what I don't like so much about their music. It almost seems mechanical. I like the changes and how it's almost impossible to figure out a set pattern, but I'd rather there be no set pattern at all than a difficult one to find, if you know what I mean.
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