He was the only guitarist in Italy who could shred in the '80s, and was Italy's best guitar player. Then, Arthritis literally killed his ability to play guitar, starting from around 1995. Unfortunately, almost all famous videos of him are from 1995 to now, which means he plays bad because he can't play good, even though once he was a guitar god.
xHeavenHelpUsAll7771x I know, do you really think people would choose such a tragic guitarist (whom Richard is now) as “The best guitarist”? No, there was a reason. That’s why I wanted to reveal a bit of Richard’s history and why he’s not that great anymore. Thanks for supporting Richard mate :D
So sad...people try to take the 1 thing he loves away from him because disease has limited his ability to perform. Yet he continues to do what he loves regardless...that should be celebrated and in today's world it is...but this man doesn't get that treatment because he has been pushing through since the 90s, so all the bleeding hearts don't know him...sad.
You can see the start of it in this video. If you look closely at his fingers, there already starting to deform. I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my hands, fingers and wrists last year and I’m already finding my finger strength and endurance is slowly getting worse. I’m also in a bit of pain from just 20 minutes of warming up and my fingers seize up when I play fast licks and runs.
@@LeadMe2TheBliss 🤣 Well ...yeah. That was the joke. LMAO He's the Marty in this situation talking to the audience on here making fun. I'm quite aware of what the guy is capable of. LOL There's several good videos on UA-cam that have not been edited to make him look bad like this one has. All of these people talking big and probably can't even play 3 chords. LOL Below is a good video compilation. ua-cam.com/video/FXRPPUI9Jbo/v-deo.htmlsi=untfoZaEX6JttaS_
@@calebheney302 exactly lmao, I like his riffs but his solos is pure cringe at times. Great rhythm player but solos was never his thing. At least his sound fit slayer for all these years
you can tell he was good before, you can tell that theres technique, theres passion, but the athritis was sadly starting to show up around the time of this video, rest in peace richard benson, no matter what, you were a guitar god
This video was taken from earlier in his career before his arthritis really kicked in... this video has been overdubbed and sped up to make him appear worse than he actually was during the time of that video's recording.
Steve Vai actually gave up guitar playing and gave his guitar to Richard Benson after seeing him play, knowing he could never achieve true greatness like Richard Benson!
The part near the end, if you watch a different video of this he does demonstrate how moving his fingers up and down the threat makes a really funky sound I dont think it was meant to have any pattern to it tbh
@@bcrichwarlock7608 First of all, calm down and write a comment that actually makes sense. Second, if I ever get arthritis, you can be sure I would still sound better than Richard benson. Hell he's not the only musician to ever get arthritis, yet I'm sure most musicians who got it sound better than him. And third, I never said anything bad about him in the first place, I don't understand why you got so mad.
He never practiced to achieve that level. He stopped somewhere on the road and started showing off. He saw that people who dont understand music will still clap because he was showing off. But I cant describe how wrong he is. its like when someone achieves a certain level and decides to fool people instead of keep on practicing. He deserves the pelting. He stopped practicing and decided he will gonna be a star and there is why this is all so wrong. He is all mechanical. Feeling for the song = 0%
Grandpa used to be a race car driver until he crashed the car every time he went to the grocery store. At some point you have to take away the keys. Maybe he was good, but he’s not now.
I have seen some of his older videos, and new videos (where the audience simply can not behave at all, just terrible) And I have heard some old and new recordings. And I must say that I really like his guitarr playing. He is/was not bad at all. People can talk about scales, notes and his use of the whammy bar. So? His playing is special, not bad and special. Most of the rest, so called good players, simply sounds like everyone else and like anything else. Richard Benson does not. If you like to create something new, something unique, a new sound, you can not play like everyone else or sound like everyone else. And not use the instrument that way either.
I was wearing an earphones while listening to this "gutter" solo.. And was on the bed and was about to take some sleep..but..after listening to this solo..I didn' t sleep that night..🙂🙄
He clearly loves music. Is he any good..not my kind of playing, not to say he isn't but I prefer melody. You can shred with melody. Either way a sad journey
Even when he was "good" he was still fucking awful. Nonsensical, sloppy, Michael Angelo Batio-style "shredding" is appalling no matter which bonehead is the one perpetrating it
The best guitar player who ever walked the earth. He is like best parts of john mclaughlin, al di meola, holdsworth and steve morse technique and shwan lane and john petrucci rock- metal feeling. Amazing.... an essential
Quite the gondola ride from Ennio Morricone... This was at the time when every fool that could play a chord on a guitar came out of the woodwork and thought they would be famous by having long hair and a leather jacket.
Just Imagine you hear Flying In A Blue Dream or For The Love Of God... and all of sudden ---- Guitar öoisgposgp9usgp9sgp9shg shredding mania!!!! The best thing about this video is the backing track 😆🤣
Or carpal tunnel syndrome. Its probably caused by not warming up properly or slowing down at the end of a session. Anyone who moves their fingers a lot must warm up properly
Play something that's music that's amazing. I did not see this video he actually do play music well I meant this type of music the rest of the biz music literal ass
Screw keys, melody, harmony, counterpoint, general music theory. Just make a lot of noise and move really fast. Why isn't this guy on covers of guitar world?
Might as well!
Researching your next Fix The Band Video man? 😅
He was the only guitarist in Italy who could shred in the '80s, and was Italy's best guitar player. Then, Arthritis literally killed his ability to play guitar, starting from around 1995. Unfortunately, almost all famous videos of him are from 1995 to now, which means he plays bad because he can't play good, even though once he was a guitar god.
Isnt that a bummer man
He was literally named the best italian guitarist on a 1996 poll by an italian magazine called Chitarre
Lucas Biohazerd It is indeed, especially for him. Press F
xHeavenHelpUsAll7771x I know, do you really think people would choose such a tragic guitarist (whom Richard is now) as “The best guitarist”? No, there was a reason. That’s why I wanted to reveal a bit of Richard’s history and why he’s not that great anymore. Thanks for supporting Richard mate :D
tbh in this video he totally coudn't shred lol
Scales used: A minor Phryghtening scale, A major Mixeduplydian, C Ludicruousian and chromatic jazz fusion Benson scale 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Dude you can't just go around saying words, little to none of those scales were used, if I'm wrong, someone please tell me.
@@TheAnalyticalObservers it's a joke lol
@@henrybash2285 I stand corrected, I do apologize sir. Now I challenge you to a duel. A guitar-off.
@@henrybash2285 IBANEZES at the READY. FIRE!
What? Lol
"What chords will you be playing, Richard?"
"Yes."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!
Best comment!!
Lol I think he invented new chords
Maybe
What about the key?
The key omg he even invented a new key
The Richard Benson technique: if you play a wrong note, just use the whammy bar until the note sounds right.
ha ha
Della serie anche un orologio rotto due volte al dì fornisce l'ora corretta.
nobodyhasthisyet hahaha
Fuk off
He teached that to Kerry King!
Hey , I love this guy. He is not the worst guitar player.. atleast he didn't fake his guitar live solos
he was actually very talented. he just got worse as he got older. shocking i know. it slike that NEVER happens
lol no one fakes their guitar solos live.
So sad...people try to take the 1 thing he loves away from him because disease has limited his ability to perform. Yet he continues to do what he loves regardless...that should be celebrated and in today's world it is...but this man doesn't get that treatment because he has been pushing through since the 90s, so all the bleeding hearts don't know him...sad.
Exactly.
You can see the start of it in this video.
If you look closely at his fingers, there already starting to deform.
I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my hands, fingers and wrists last year and I’m already finding my finger strength and endurance is slowly getting worse.
I’m also in a bit of pain from just 20 minutes of warming up and my fingers seize up when I play fast licks and runs.
1:29 now I know who inspired DragonForce to do that technique
this is one of the most incredible, thought provoking, emotive performances I've heard...on any instrument.
It's like you read my mind.
😜😜🤣🤣👍👍
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. ...But your kids are gonna love it."
Speak for yourself, I'm ready for it. I could listen to this guy rock out for hours.
Nice BTTF reference, though! 👍
@@LeadMe2TheBliss
🤣 Well ...yeah. That was the joke. LMAO He's the Marty in this situation talking to the audience on here making fun. I'm quite aware of what the guy is capable of. LOL There's several good videos on UA-cam that have not been edited to make him look bad like this one has. All of these people talking big and probably can't even play 3 chords. LOL Below is a good video compilation.
ua-cam.com/video/FXRPPUI9Jbo/v-deo.htmlsi=untfoZaEX6JttaS_
As someone into avantgarde and experimental, this is nice to listen to. Amazing job, Richard.
" what key is this ? "
Richard : all of them
But then Kerry King can do this and he’s called brilliant lmao
nobody calls kerry king brillian. Not even slayer fans.
@@calebheney302 exactly lmao, I like his riffs but his solos is pure cringe at times. Great rhythm player but solos was never his thing. At least his sound fit slayer for all these years
@@Mrp00p3rs I think on slayers first album show no mercy and their last album repentless, kerry kings leads are the strongest.
@@calebheney302 very, you are correct on that
0:34 It sounds like music
Stolen from stevie t
It lasts for about 40 seconds then spirals off into nothingness
Yousef Badawi he is doing this before stevie t born
@@rifkyr76 HEY CHILL
@@gigachad2276 covering your ass up?
He just kerrykinged the solo
0:34 Stevie T: IT SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC!!! HE PLAYS SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Davis DS you and the crossed eyes are su dumb
That actually makes a pretty good riff though.
Sure, the internet also watches StevieT
Holy shit wow tf oOoOoH what? ahhhhh I knew it was too good to be true
He hit a couple wrong notes.
Johnny Jones He hit more than a couple wrong notes. 🚫
Just a few
How do you know?
More like 100s of wrong notes
Arthritis was just beginning to kill his ability to play around this time.
0:23 this part sounds cool
No it doesn't
It stops sounding cool around 2:01
you can tell he was good before, you can tell that theres technique, theres passion, but the athritis was sadly starting to show up around the time of this video, rest in peace richard benson, no matter what, you were a guitar god
That solo is almost as good as Benson's wig!
This video was taken from earlier in his career before his arthritis really kicked in... this video has been overdubbed and sped up to make him appear worse than he actually was during the time of that video's recording.
RIP to a legend.
Richard Benson.
10 March 1955 - 10 May 2022
nooooooooooooooooooooo RIP
People called him the worst guitarist, I wish I could’ve been that worst
Steve Vai actually gave up guitar playing and gave his guitar to Richard Benson after seeing him play, knowing he could never achieve true greatness like Richard Benson!
Vai is MILES ahead in his ability, this is sooo sloppy
he is not the worst guitarist the worst is who is judging him actually his a good guitarist sorry for my bad english
The best guitar player that has ever lived. Show your respects to King Richard!
He used to be really good guys. See? Back in the day he was way better. A true shredder. He’s really good at guitar I promise.
Decent guitarist. He mostly pics randomly.
But this isn’t… uhhh… good?
Speed and skill are 2 different things😂
Richard Benson could actually play at a point in his life. No joke. Really!?!?
0:51 - 1:06 kind of resembled music I was surprised
Just cause you play fast doesn’t mean you’re good 😂
Is what I usually tell myself when I can't play guitar solos
0:30 did i just hear the fucking lick
He plays like my love life...does pretty well for a SECOND then does really bad for the rest of the minute! Lol
Even UA-cam autoplay stopped working after this video. Somebody rescue his guitar collection pls!
The part near the end, if you watch a different video of this he does demonstrate how moving his fingers up and down the threat makes a really funky sound I dont think it was meant to have any pattern to it tbh
I agree
How to have a gear that is super expensive and make it sounds like crap !
+GamesTech Believe it or not, he was named the best metal guitarist on Italy in 1996, three years before this video was recorded
+xHeavenHelpUsAll7771x I feel sorry for Italia, but that's neck jerking at this point....
GamesTech If you want to cry and laugh at the same time, watch how he plays now
Well just watched his incredible betcha can't play this and no I can't play this, without being evicted :D
@@bcrichwarlock7608 First of all, calm down and write a comment that actually makes sense. Second, if I ever get arthritis, you can be sure I would still sound better than Richard benson. Hell he's not the only musician to ever get arthritis, yet I'm sure most musicians who got it sound better than him. And third, I never said anything bad about him in the first place, I don't understand why you got so mad.
When your dreams felt so real you tried it out in real life
He never practiced to achieve that level. He stopped somewhere on the road and started showing off. He saw that people who dont understand music will still clap because he was showing off. But I cant describe how wrong he is. its like when someone achieves a certain level and decides to fool people instead of keep on practicing.
He deserves the pelting. He stopped practicing and decided he will gonna be a star and there is why this is all so wrong. He is all mechanical. Feeling for the song = 0%
@@robotube7361that couldn't be further from the truth. His ability to play went down due to arthritis, and not because he stopped caring.
Grandpa used to be a race car driver until he crashed the car every time he went to the grocery store. At some point you have to take away the keys. Maybe he was good, but he’s not now.
This is Nechromatic Scale.. 💀
Rest in peace Richard he is the best guitar player in my eyes 🙏♥️
Is he for real? Nigel tufnel would destroy him in a shred wars.
Ask Richard
I have seen some of his older videos, and new videos (where the audience simply can not behave at all, just terrible) And I have heard some old and new recordings. And I must say that I really like his guitarr playing. He is/was not bad at all. People can talk about scales, notes and his use of the whammy bar. So? His playing is special, not bad and special. Most of the rest, so called good players, simply sounds like everyone else and like anything else. Richard Benson does not. If you like to create something new, something unique, a new sound, you can not play like everyone else or sound like everyone else. And not use the instrument that way either.
Imagine he playing this with a orchestra...
Holy shit, he's on time.
No joke he plays bad but on time!
I was wearing an earphones while listening to this "gutter" solo..
And was on the bed and was about to take some sleep..but..after listening to this solo..I didn' t sleep that night..🙂🙄
He clearly loves music. Is he any good..not my kind of playing, not to say he isn't but I prefer melody. You can shred with melody. Either way a sad journey
0:34 it sounds like music
-Stevie T
Genius!!! All hail Richard Benson!
0:33 the only good part
Still better then other solos...
It really isn’t lol
Richard never used vibrato with his fingers. He made it happen with his whammy bar
At 0:34 the only part of his career that doesn't sounds like his fretboard being sawed off
If you close your eyes e try to listen this solo , you can hear him suffering
Even when he was "good" he was still fucking awful. Nonsensical, sloppy, Michael Angelo Batio-style "shredding" is appalling no matter which bonehead is the one perpetrating it
the dude is a fucking genius !!
0:16 best part
The best guitar player who ever walked the earth. He is like best parts of john mclaughlin, al di meola, holdsworth and steve morse technique and shwan lane and john petrucci rock- metal feeling. Amazing.... an essential
A God
I love this cover of Santana's Smooth
so this is how you shred...
That's the sound of a guitar being tortured.
- Stevie T-
Stevie T doesn't know anything past his own ability to play, which is passable, but boring.
Richard Benson is my greatest inspiration 😀
Thats sad
@@tonoest I guess you didn't catch the sarcasm
@@leochavez6833 There's always at least one.
@Ding Dong I was being sarcastic
@@leochavez6833 you’re making fun of a sick man you arrogant bastard
Richard Benson is so washed up from all his health concerns, I now tell my children to Richard Benson before supper
This is what it sounds like when a guitar can't surrender to a large dose of DMT
Bruh is this slayer?
Arthritis doesn't just appear like that,he probably had it even then,but the symptoms were less
Quite the gondola ride from Ennio Morricone... This was at the time when every fool that could play a chord on a guitar came out of the woodwork and thought they would be famous by having long hair and a leather jacket.
RIP Richard
What? 😨😢
Oh there is some sort of melody at the end when he quits playing .
We should remember Richard as a musician who lost his ability to play due to arthritis.
Anybody know where i can find tabs?
This is Art.
*Antibacterial mata el 99.9 % de los gérmenes*
El 00.1% restante: 1:21
Он просто зажигает! Жаль что жизнь з ним так поступила😪.
0:34 is the only best part
Yall laugh, but have you ever listened what he played before in that performance?
At least the bends are in key
This is AWESOME HAHAHAHA
i like how you can hear the acoustic picking sound, i guess this was just recording from the camera mic...
Pure talent
Just Imagine you hear Flying In A Blue Dream or For The Love Of God... and all of sudden ---- Guitar öoisgposgp9usgp9sgp9shg shredding mania!!!! The best thing about this video is the backing track 😆🤣
Stevie t will cry out of awesomeness after watching this
Wow that’s crazy good. All sounded in key as well. I don’t get the hate 🤷♂️
1:24 .... and that's how you get Arthritis
This makes me sad. Because I'm getting these weird feelings in my hands when I play guitar and drive the car. Mainly on my left thumb.
Brandon Adams Arthritis. You...are... screwed
Or carpal tunnel syndrome. Its probably caused by not warming up properly or slowing down at the end of a session.
Anyone who moves their fingers a lot must warm up properly
I died and went to shredders hell! 😩👹
Why did he play Behringer Amps?!🤦🏼♂️
ANOTHER THING. GET ME THE TABS. I'M GONNA TRY TO REDO IT.
BENSON! BENSON! BENSON!
yep best solo i have heard
r.i.p dimebag will shocked
Damn he's good in this time
It's called jazz
He use to actually play melodically and was skinny
imagine living in a world and you think your really that good at guitar but other people here this shit
Play something that's music that's amazing. I did not see this video he actually do play music well I meant this type of music the rest of the biz music literal ass
This video taught me alot!!..........Alot of what not to do actually! This is just fuckin terrible!! ....he should be embarresed really !
Screw keys, melody, harmony, counterpoint, general music theory. Just make a lot of noise and move really fast. Why isn't this guy on covers of guitar world?
Awesome shit you should have said
0:34 The only part that makes the description real.
Half a good part haha