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

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmsmtF9wMjc[/youtube]
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.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBV6bsR6za4[/youtube]

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.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPcGHGpZB1E[/youtube]

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

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LRmfT9rjcA[/youtube]

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.

Ah, true. Any guitarist who's not Ritchie Blackmore, is no Ritchie Blackmore.

I'm bumping this 'cause it's absolutely brain-melting and I want someone to comment....

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

I've never really enjoyed anything I've heard from Coryell, and that is no exception.

Alrighty then....