I felt that way when I first saw Malmsteen on MTV, I literally dropped my guitar, and yes I broke it… From that day forward I made a point to quit sounding like others and tried finding my own voice, as I'll never be someone else, it's just better to be myself, and I've been enjoying playing ever since!
At my age this level is unattainable, probably always was. But as Guthrie would say I'm sure, speed isn't everything but my is he impressive when he does it. Keep playing and keep enjoying. 🤘
I am not a huge fan of all of his work, but I can listen to his solos on Steven Wilson's albums every day of the year ! Drive home being probably my favorite.
man i mean what he does with his solo stuff is just supernatural for us mortal beings, he does some crazy mind bending stuff, but his work with steven wilson is just otherworldy, for example his live solo on The Watchmaker is just out of this dimension
Otherworldly indeed. Seen him live quite a few times and everytime he brings something mind blowing into the picture. A guitar god/ virtuoso in the truest sense !
Please do more compilations like this. It is super difficult to search for relevant information on today's UA-cam. Your compilation makes me know more about Guthrie Govan!
2:19 is the best, most incredibly thing I've ever seen coming out from Guthrie. Completely insane. Surpassed Shawn Lane's Tri-7/5 in my personal favorites. Damn. Let alone this was completely improvised.
@@psh_ The solo he played was completely improvised, sounded totally different than the studio version of Waves. He almost never plays things the same way lol
GG playing one-handed, drinking a beer with the other, asleep, driving uphill in the snow to Grandma's house both ways, is better than most guitarists.
Guthrie is one of those musicians you don't need to know or listen to know or listen to it. That's the size of his talent Edit: i hope you understand what I mean 😆
The only thing wrong with Guthrie Govan on guitar is it's been 17 years! 😢 I've tried with his Steven Wilson and Aristocrats work but, please please 🙏🎸💿.
@@skierpage would love to see a collaboration with (Guthrie, Steve vai, joe satriani, Kiki loureiro, John petrucci, lari basilio, michael Angelo batio, tony macalpine and nuno bettencourt)
@@peterwagner2083 maybe. On New Levels New Devils and other Polyphia albums Tim Henson and his co-writers made hooky songs with coherent bridge sections perfect for a featured guitarist to come in and solo. Maybe Guthrie can write that kind of song, but he tends to have his own 🎸 knobs turned to 11 on every section.
When someone's so good you just want to put your guitar down..... I've been playing for a long time (nearly 20 years as a bedroom guitarist). There's some stuff for me that's *really* hard but I'm like 'yeah I could probably play that if I practiced for a while - e.g Altitudes by Becker', then there's some stuff where I'm just like 'I actually think it's physically impossible for my fingers to move that fast/with that much endurance/with those bends and melody, even if I practiced every day until I die' - Govan is in the latter bucket.
Amazing technique. With such a barrage of look at me, and look at all the notes I can play at lightspeed to impress all who hear and see, his at times outward boredom seems apparent. Sometimes the playing in this series of clips sounds more like exercises to improve flexibility and technical proficiency rather than music. He is an obvious virtuoso for sure. If notes, time signatures, modes and key signatures were bullets, somewhere between a single shot bolt action 22 and a fully automatic machine gun, lies tasteful musicality and musical genius. More can be impressive and needed for certain works. Sometimes also, less is more. A rest in a composition isn't because the composer wanted no sound. Silence is infact a sound when surrounded by musical sounds. He's so amazing on his instrument it makes me wonder, just how many guitar players stopped playing guitar after hearing him play? His playing is so out of reach of most mere mortals. How many musicians picked a different instrument after hearing what they'd never be able to achieve. "That's it. From now on I will choose to master the Kazoo. Or better yet, I'm gonna focus on becoming the greatest 12 skinned, dropped D electric tambourine player anyone's ever heard. Yeah, my new focus." Haha
Guthrie can do the "less is more" thing as well as anyone, but this compilation focuses more on the technical flashy moments. His slower playing is as deep as it gets. "Spiritus Cactus" by the Aristocrats is a great example of this, as is "Sweet Water" by Bryan Beller. It's a little sad that so much musical context is missing in this video, since he uses a lot of contrast in his playing in concert and the fast bits are made much more meaningful by the more mellow parts which often preceed them and build up to them.
I find it sad and inexplicable that artists with far less raw talent are so much more popular than Guthrie. It goes a long way to tell you about what entertains the typical person and how rare are true music lovers.
@@asegal4677 You're watching a video of his highlights where he plays fast. He plays with very good feel and knows many compositions when he needs to. You don't seem to really know who you're bashing all that well.
@@aucusticguitar8069I've been following Guthrie for 30 years since his first releases on Shrapnel. Stunning technically and some memorable melodic lines here and there. That's why I'm here. My point was simply that what's most important in music is music (i.e. compositions) and Guthrie hasn't released much of it over the last 30 years and even less that many people reach for when they want to sit down and really listen to great, transformative music (as opposed to just flashy, difficult or memorable licks). Guthrie just hasn't earned wider fame because of this and he doesn't deserve it until this changes. It's not impossible. Satriani and Vai have done it in more or less the same genre. At this rate, in the long run Guthrie will be relatively forgotten as the state of the art catches up with and surpasses him, while lesser technicians who create great music will be remembered.
@A Segal I see where you're coming from, but I disagree. Music doesn't exist for the purpose of being streamed on Spotify or selling records. Music was orginally for the moment. The musician would perform and after that moment passes thats it. I would say he has made "music" in your definition but it lives only in the moment. Only carried on through recordings of shows. So I would say his style of composing is just spontaneous, not that he doesn't compose. And about his recognition, it doesn't look like he cares whether people recognize his ability its just not his style. It feels like he chooses not to post on social media or write more records since he prefers live performance to premeditated recording
@@aucusticguitar8069 Good perspective. I posted to respond to the above original post and so from what you said and what I said taken together I think we can see why Guthrie isn't as popular as others with "far less raw talent." Nothing necessarily wrong with it. It's fine. Guthrie should do what he does.
It's so impressive and beautiful to watch and listen to. Does anyone know what's the Title of the Song at 3:07 to 3:37 ? I would like to watch the whole video.
The name of the song is "Sevens" the live video is this ua-cam.com/video/y8NRJ-dfr4Y/v-deo.htmlsi=p-6-1oKOOEErT3IF And the original song is this ua-cam.com/video/n5xa4Lqbenw/v-deo.htmlsi=nZETEyWHaatMWVx9
Dizzee Rascal at the UK Proms, Guthrie also toured/played with him for a while, and they played that show together. There's also some good live acoustic playing from Guthrie with Dizzee at the Radio 1 Live Lounge and on the Jools Holland TV show too
Notice how he said he occasionally does some of this nonsense? That's because he's good enough to know that mindless tapping and shredding is nothing to be overly impressed about.
@@TravelingWastrel I guess that's up to you if you find his stuff catchy or not. Honestly too many guitarists play too many notes nowadays without enough hook
@@TravelingWastrel He's no Tim Henson and collaborators putting out absolute Polyphia bangers, but _Erotic Cakes_ has some excellent instrumentals. To me it's as good as a middling Allan Holdsworth album, which makes it better than nearly all guitar god noodling. But... it's been 17 years!
@@MrThebigcheese75 unfortunately the way the UA-cam guitar Community has evolved it makes it seem like the only thing Worthy is blinding speed and really to be honest with you after you hear one Shredder it's like they're all the same. You can't make different original music if everyone is just blowing through scales a thousand miles an hour
@@MrAntisound Hmmm... I think the same about buckethead) I like him for his raw playing. But I think Guthrie has his unique style and plays really good. But but he has nothing to do with TJ 8 finger tapping, or Shawn Lane fast improv stuff (I know that Guthrie transcribed him). So in my opinion there is no best even in terms of technique.
Too many notes. Not a Mozart with Guthrie. Great player, but no melody to dwell on. Pity, since he is clearly far advanced from Vai and many others. It's Blackmore for me.
Goat moments:
0:02
0:15
0:32
1:12
1:51 1:56
2:01
2:18
3:01
3:38
4:12
4:30
5:05
6:01
6:33
6:46
7:27
8:15
8:58 (watch this PLS)
There's 623 timestamps of goat moments wym?
Goatest flex is finger tapping on a fretless, at perfect pitch no less. Govan inspired me to quit the guitar.
Hehe! 😁
Ain't that the truth my brother sometimes I feel like throwing it out in the front yard
I felt that way when I first saw Malmsteen on MTV, I literally dropped my guitar, and yes I broke it… From that day forward I made a point to quit sounding like others and tried finding my own voice, as I'll never be someone else, it's just better to be myself, and I've been enjoying playing ever since!
Love this comment you definitely have talent to make people laugh 😂😂😂
At my age this level is unattainable, probably always was. But as Guthrie would say I'm sure, speed isn't everything but my is he impressive when he does it.
Keep playing and keep enjoying. 🤘
He reach the unreachable level. No one in this planet can do what his doing! Its amazing and terrifying at the same moment...
I loved when he picked up the brew, drank and kept shredding 😂😂😂💯🤘🏾👊🏾💣🎸✊🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
Everything he plays, even the lightspeed runs with a million notes, is musical AF.
Everything.
He was my guitar teacher .I used to be in his class and I still can’t get my head around his playing 😂
You are one lucky student!!! 🤩 🎶 🎸
That Sevens solo at 5:05 is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard on a guitar
Agreed!!! 🥰🎶💜💕
kinda chris poland-esque
This guys mind must be a very beautiful place, to be such an endless flow of musical freedom.
I’m sure both beautiful & dark…because that’s where most of the great music & artistry seems to come from! :)
I am not a huge fan of all of his work, but I can listen to his solos on Steven Wilson's albums every day of the year ! Drive home being probably my favorite.
man i mean what he does with his solo stuff is just supernatural for us mortal beings, he does some crazy mind bending stuff, but his work with steven wilson is just otherworldy, for example his live solo on The Watchmaker is just out of this dimension
Perfect.
Otherworldly indeed. Seen him live quite a few times and everytime he brings something mind blowing into the picture. A guitar god/ virtuoso in the truest sense !
This is what happens when you prioritise guitar practice over haircuts
my dude is tapping on a fretless and is more in tune than my guitar with frets
He really does flex in the best ways possible.
Funny and musical in the same time!
thanks for your work. I've seen thousand video of him but discover another with your video. 5:05 with the ending solo of seven. thanks again !
Don't care how many notes are played. Guthrie always takes care of the melody.
I said as much in an earlier comment. Everything he plays is musical.
Melody is paramount
How could you be anything else, but mesmerized
Please do more compilations like this.
It is super difficult to search for relevant information on today's UA-cam.
Your compilation makes me know more about Guthrie Govan!
Holy nitemares,,,l need 10% of this dude skills on fretboard
The Best of the Best!!!
All the moments are goat
One of the cleanest purveyors of emphatic dirt out there!
Love Gutherie!💚
You can’t be great every second of every day!
GUTHRIE'S A GENIUS!!!
2:19 is the best, most incredibly thing I've ever seen coming out from Guthrie. Completely insane. Surpassed Shawn Lane's Tri-7/5 in my personal favorites. Damn. Let alone this was completely improvised.
It's not completely improvised, it's from his song Waves. Doesn't take away from how impressive it is though.
@@psh_ The solo he played was completely improvised, sounded totally different than the studio version of Waves. He almost never plays things the same way lol
Oh Lord! 🎸👏👏👏
Guthrie plays better than most people before he even wakes up.
GG playing one-handed, drinking a beer with the other, asleep, driving uphill in the snow to Grandma's house both ways, is better than most guitarists.
GOAT moments
Freaky Genius
Красиво и видос смотрится и музыка тоже.....
I find it interesting and wonder why so many people today are interested in the greatest of all time when in reality No Such Thing exists?
9:01 definitely something that Jason Becker would play. Probably inspired by him !
Guitar god
at 2:07 that's the sound of a high score when you shoot the invader. :D
Amazing player. Although Guthrie has this robotic look about him like hes spent a century imagining guitar scales on his guitar
Guys, do You know the name of the vídeo or the song that gunthrie play at 5:05 ???
HORS CONCOURS!!! UNIQUE!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! INCOMPARABLE!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
that bit at around 0:40 was filthily ridiculous, what the actual fuck?
Guthrie is one of those musicians you don't need to know or listen to know or listen to it. That's the size of his talent
Edit: i hope you understand what I mean 😆
6:31 : LMAO 😂
Erotic cake release in 2006 I love that! you sure got more ideas for another solo album.
The only thing wrong with Guthrie Govan on guitar is it's been 17 years! 😢
I've tried with his Steven Wilson and Aristocrats work but, please please 🙏🎸💿.
@@skierpage would love to see a collaboration with (Guthrie, Steve vai, joe satriani, Kiki loureiro, John petrucci, lari basilio, michael Angelo batio, tony macalpine and nuno bettencourt)
@@peterwagner2083 maybe. On New Levels New Devils and other Polyphia albums Tim Henson and his co-writers made hooky songs with coherent bridge sections perfect for a featured guitarist to come in and solo. Maybe Guthrie can write that kind of song, but he tends to have his own 🎸 knobs turned to 11 on every section.
"sips while playing"
I swear he grew a sixth finger at 2:11. He cant be human. WTF?
you could make a never-ending video for GG's Goat moments..
Mantap keren.❤❤❤❤❤
When someone's so good you just want to put your guitar down.....
I've been playing for a long time (nearly 20 years as a bedroom guitarist). There's some stuff for me that's *really* hard but I'm like 'yeah I could probably play that if I practiced for a while - e.g Altitudes by Becker', then there's some stuff where I'm just like 'I actually think it's physically impossible for my fingers to move that fast/with that much endurance/with those bends and melody, even if I practiced every day until I die' - Govan is in the latter bucket.
Amazing technique. With such a barrage of look at me, and look at all the notes I can play at lightspeed to impress all who hear and see, his at times outward boredom seems apparent. Sometimes the playing in this series of clips sounds more like exercises to improve flexibility and technical proficiency rather than music. He is an obvious virtuoso for sure. If notes, time signatures, modes and key signatures were bullets, somewhere between a single shot bolt action 22 and a fully automatic machine gun, lies tasteful musicality and musical genius. More can be impressive and needed for certain works. Sometimes also, less is more. A rest in a composition isn't because the composer wanted no sound. Silence is infact a sound when surrounded by musical sounds. He's so amazing on his instrument it makes me wonder, just how many guitar players stopped playing guitar after hearing him play? His playing is so out of reach of most mere mortals. How many musicians picked a different instrument after hearing what they'd never be able to achieve. "That's it. From now on I will choose to master the Kazoo. Or better yet, I'm gonna focus on becoming the greatest 12 skinned, dropped D electric tambourine player anyone's ever heard. Yeah, my new focus." Haha
Guthrie can do the "less is more" thing as well as anyone, but this compilation focuses more on the technical flashy moments. His slower playing is as deep as it gets. "Spiritus Cactus" by the Aristocrats is a great example of this, as is "Sweet Water" by Bryan Beller. It's a little sad that so much musical context is missing in this video, since he uses a lot of contrast in his playing in concert and the fast bits are made much more meaningful by the more mellow parts which often preceed them and build up to them.
Follow your own advice the next time you write a comment, less is more…
@@valebliz Fair enough. Point taken. Although, my comment will never be confused with virtuosic artistry like musical ability can be.
Guthrie can teach any guitar player something, but I don't thing theres anything any other guitarist could teach Guthrie.
I think hes amazing but I wish you would slow down and play with a little more feeling.
Hes all about speed.
00:32 source??? Amazingggg
😳😳😳😳
This guy plays a different sport...
I find it sad and inexplicable that artists with far less raw talent are so much more popular than Guthrie. It goes a long way to tell you about what entertains the typical person and how rare are true music lovers.
Talent at what? Playing fast? I like Guthrie but his catalog of compositions is very thin and what there is of it isn't great.
@@asegal4677 You're watching a video of his highlights where he plays fast. He plays with very good feel and knows many compositions when he needs to. You don't seem to really know who you're bashing all that well.
@@aucusticguitar8069I've been following Guthrie for 30 years since his first releases on Shrapnel. Stunning technically and some memorable melodic lines here and there. That's why I'm here. My point was simply that what's most important in music is music (i.e. compositions) and Guthrie hasn't released much of it over the last 30 years and even less that many people reach for when they want to sit down and really listen to great, transformative music (as opposed to just flashy, difficult or memorable licks). Guthrie just hasn't earned wider fame because of this and he doesn't deserve it until this changes. It's not impossible. Satriani and Vai have done it in more or less the same genre. At this rate, in the long run Guthrie will be relatively forgotten as the state of the art catches up with and surpasses him, while lesser technicians who create great music will be remembered.
@A Segal I see where you're coming from, but I disagree. Music doesn't exist for the purpose of being streamed on Spotify or selling records. Music was orginally for the moment. The musician would perform and after that moment passes thats it. I would say he has made "music" in your definition but it lives only in the moment. Only carried on through recordings of shows. So I would say his style of composing is just spontaneous, not that he doesn't compose. And about his recognition, it doesn't look like he cares whether people recognize his ability its just not his style. It feels like he chooses not to post on social media or write more records since he prefers live performance to premeditated recording
@@aucusticguitar8069 Good perspective. I posted to respond to the above original post and so from what you said and what I said taken together I think we can see why Guthrie isn't as popular as others with "far less raw talent." Nothing necessarily wrong with it. It's fine. Guthrie should do what he does.
3:49 + boom
It's so impressive and beautiful to watch and listen to. Does anyone know what's the Title of the Song at 3:07 to 3:37 ?
I would like to watch the whole video.
The name of the song is "Sevens" the live video is this ua-cam.com/video/y8NRJ-dfr4Y/v-deo.htmlsi=p-6-1oKOOEErT3IF
And the original song is this
ua-cam.com/video/n5xa4Lqbenw/v-deo.htmlsi=nZETEyWHaatMWVx9
Guthrie the Great (no relation of Gandolf the Great)
does anyone know where 0:32 is from
@9:00 😂😂
2:05 3:00 crazy tapping
Which concert was that at 6:46?
Idk, i only found the video
Dizzee Rascal at the UK Proms,
Guthrie also toured/played with him for a while, and they played that show together. There's also some good live acoustic playing from Guthrie with Dizzee at the Radio 1 Live Lounge and on the Jools Holland TV show too
ua-cam.com/video/l_ZHn4GyARg/v-deo.html
Notice how he said he occasionally does some of this nonsense? That's because he's good enough to know that mindless tapping and shredding is nothing to be overly impressed about.
Even though that's mostly what he does 😒. Can he write a memorable song?
@@TravelingWastrel I guess that's up to you if you find his stuff catchy or not. Honestly too many guitarists play too many notes nowadays without enough hook
@@TravelingWastrel He's no Tim Henson and collaborators putting out absolute Polyphia bangers, but _Erotic Cakes_ has some excellent instrumentals. To me it's as good as a middling Allan Holdsworth album, which makes it better than nearly all guitar god noodling.
But... it's been 17 years!
I love Steven Wilson's guitar playing, stuff like Even Less. Not that many notes really but in exactly the right place.
@@MrThebigcheese75 unfortunately the way the UA-cam guitar Community has evolved it makes it seem like the only thing Worthy is blinding speed and really to be honest with you after you hear one Shredder it's like they're all the same. You can't make different original music if everyone is just blowing through scales a thousand miles an hour
Amazing speed but where's the melody and musicality?
8:58 Where is this from?
ua-cam.com/video/ehS0hbF5Os8/v-deo.html
but is it always the same song? 😅
Why is Andy Mckee playing bass? 😂 2:02
He's playing fingerstyle with less strings lol
Meanwhile.....Buckethead does all these "exercises" while warming up on a random tuesday morning, before recording his 4th album of the day.
Imagine if Buckethead was guthrie and he used temporary dye to make his hair black
@@aucusticguitar8069 Mind = Blown
Yeah, I could do some insane shredding on guitar too if I completely ignored playing on time or in key.
🤣
It's called FUSION 😜
I bet the best guitarist in your opinion is Buckethead.
@@justanotheranhedonicguy5132 what's wrong with buckethead?
@@MrAntisound Hmmm... I think the same about buckethead) I like him for his raw playing. But I think Guthrie has his unique style and plays really good. But but he has nothing to do with TJ 8 finger tapping, or Shawn Lane fast improv stuff (I know that Guthrie transcribed him). So in my opinion there is no best even in terms of technique.
Too many notes.
Not a Mozart with Guthrie.
Great player, but no melody to dwell on. Pity, since he is clearly far advanced from Vai and many others. It's Blackmore for me.
show off , i’d rather listen to one note by Beck
Exactly.
Boring! Amazing skills, one of the best guitar player, not that great musician.
Boring
I dont here good music..all his doing is playing guitar fast and loud
Godthrie is not from this planet