How did we NOT know?! Steve Vai vs Ralph Macchio Epic Guitar Battle Reaction | Asia and BJ
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Best comment I ever saw about this scene was that Ralph Macchio should've won an Oscar for acting like he could play a guitar, and Steve Vai should've won one for acting like he couldn't.
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Omg so true.
DUDE. That's an epic response. LOVE IT.
Yepp! Well said lol
Crossroads is the best guitar movie classic!
The movie "Crossroads" is great (where this scene is from). Ralph Machio character started out taking classical guitar at Julliard but loved the blues... found this old blues man in a seniors home and they travel back to the crossroads to get his soul back from the devil. The guitar contest is for the old blues guy's soul.. (played amazingly by Joe Seneca).
You should watch the movie Crossroads NOT BRITTANY SPEARS MOVIE. After this you'll know what your looking The movie came out in 1985 or so it's a great 👍movie you'll not regret watching it
CROSSROADS
I wrote out a post explaining what was going on, then see you did a better job, Rob!
@@garygriffin8311 1986 masterpiece!
Juli who??
He also put his soul on the line.
Crossroads is a take on the actual Robert Johnson legend that he sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads to play his blues guitar the way he did. Johnson and his guitar work has influenced every blues musician and rock musician. Johnson's own recording of Crossroads was electrified by Eric Clapton and Cream and Eric often marvels how he had the audacity to take in Johnson and electrify what he considered to be a masterpiece.
And that Crossroads reference goes back to Hoodoo and Voudon myths, things often mentioned in early blues.
The myth of the crossroads being a place to summon the devil or crossing between worlds goes back to both Medieval Europe and Ancient Greece as well as the Yoruba people of Africa.
Hoodoo and Voudon are a mix of European and African myths.
My favorite movie thank you for suggesting this.
Lot of folks don't understand how deep Clapton's musical roots are grounded in the Blues. His CD "From the Cradle " would be great listen for many to see what influence and helped possibly the best guitarist of the 20th Century - "From The Cradle" get ready for some unaltered raw Blues
worse was that Robert drank a tainted whickey bottle at a time, it took him 3 days to die of internal contamination!it is said in a documentary about him!
Great reaction as always!
key points.
Steve vai played both guitars. they dubbed it for Ralph macchio
Steve said the hardest part was learning how to mess the song up!
Arlen Roth was Ralph Macchio's guitar tutor for the film and played many of his pieces. According to Roth on his website, the final duel was arranged from parts played by him, Steve Vai, Ry Cooder and Bill Kanengiser, who did the classical playing throughout the film.
No he didn't Ry Cooder played all of Ralph Maccio's parts except for the final classical bit, that was Vai and it was based on Paganini's Caprice Op 1 #5.
@@RayC234 except for the classical guitar(acoustic nylon) scenes. I believe that was William Kanengiser.
@@RayC234 yep.
Ray's right about Cooder. IIRC, Vai didn't know how to play slide at the time, so he couldn't have if he wanted to. But Cooder brings some realness to that blues sound of Ralph's.
Ralph Macchio play some of the guitar parts in the film. Arlen Roth was Ralph Macchio's guitar instructor for the film and played many of his pieces. The advanced pieces were actually performed by Steve Vai, Ry Cooder and Bill Kanengiser in the movie.
Didnt Yngwei Malmsteen have a part?
Ralph played NOTHING...I did and so did Cooder, and Kanengiser, and I worked 8 months on this film!
Ralph is playing one of the greatest guitars ever made, the classic Fender Telecaster. And, they both had distortion on. The biggest differences were that Ralph was using a slide for most of it (actually played by Ry Cooder), and Steve used a tremolo bar very heavily (also called a whammy bar, which was most likely a Floyd Rose). The classical piece Vai wrote and performed for the end was heavily influenced by Paganini.
Ry Cooder played the slide parts.
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2 far different types of "distortion".
The slide playing of Ry Cooder always gives me chills.
Steve Vai plays for the Devil at “the crossroads” in this 80s flick; in reality Vai composed and (with the exception of his rendition of Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice no. 5) played both parts in the film.
He’s a genius guitarist who transcribed music for Frank Zappa when he was only 18! 🔥👏🏼
Yeah and Steve learned from Joe Satriani.
Let's not forget Ry Cooder on slide.
Well, Steve didn't write the 5th Caprice (of course he did play it.). That piece was composed by Niccolò Paganini.
Btw…Ralph Maccio is not really playing the guitar on his part. This whole scene is a battle for someone’s soul with the Devil
The boy didn't believe he was really talking to the devil, so he said "you get both of us if I lose"...But aside from the incredible guitar playing, the message is that his God-given talent beat what the devil could give the other guy. I've always considered this movie a must-see.
@Ewrekzz
You summed it up so well in that one beautiful sentence.💙☮
I thought the message was "you can't serve two masters," which is what his classical guitar teacher says to him at the beginning of the film about his budding interest in the blues. In the end, it was classical, his true master, that won his and Willie's souls.
The movie is centered around the lore/legend that the great Mississippi blues player Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil to play well. (a common folk tale throughout history actually).
and this is them battling, in front of the devil, the guy watching and laughing from the crowd.
Steve Vai actually played the part in real life, with another guitarist, Ry Cooder playing all the blues stuff in the movie, and Ralph acting well to make it look like he is playing.
but the part Ralph plays to win, is a variation on a classical piece of music called Paganini's 5th Caprice. And the legend around Paganini is, you guessed it, he sold his soul to play well. so it's an ironic full circle moment. that's partly why they picked that piece.
in the movie Ralph is training to be a classical guitarist but he's torn because he loves the blues. so this is him thinking outside of the box pulling out a classical piece for the wiiiin!
For the movie Crossroads they hired a guitar teacher named Arlen Roth to work with Ralph Machio, and he did play some of the guitar parts in the movie. However for this particular battle Ralph’s parts were dubbed and Steve Vai actually played bits of Ralph’s guitar riffs as well as his own.
Yall really needed to watch the 5 minutes before this duel to watch them have a conversation with the devil that led to the duel. Love that scene more than the duel itself
The older guy in the black suit they cut to was the devil (who Robert Johnson sold his soul to at the fabled Crossroads). Because Eugene beat the Devil's guy (Vai), Eugene bought his friend's (on harmonica) freedom as he too sold his soul to the devil at the same Crossroads 50 years before. Mere seconds after this clip ends, the devil stands up and tears up Willie Brown's (on harmonica) contract from 50 years ago. Incredible story of Mississippi blues history. Crossroads!
My favorite bit of trivia for this scene is Steve played all the guitar parts for them both, and said it was more difficult to intentionally mess up his part at the end than it was to play the correct version for Ralph's part.
Ry Cooder played Ralph's guitar parts, but when he got the part, Ralph started learning guitar! EPIC Film, must have watched it a million times! 🎸😎😄
Ry Cooder played "most" of Ralph's parts. The end "Eugene's trick bag" is all Vai
Asia, you can't quit in the middle of a battle like this - it was for Ralph Macchio's soul and to get back the soul of the old guy on the stage.
The man dressed in black, with the bow tie and hat, is the Devil.
"Arlen Roth was Ralph Macchio's guitar tutor for the film and played many of his pieces. According to Roth on his website, the final duel was arranged from parts played by him, Steve Vai, Ry Cooder and Bill Kanengiser, who did the classical playing throughout the film." IMDB
Love this, can never have enough Steve Vai. More more more Vai!!!
Cross Roads is a movie about Robert Johnson
Man… I remember watching this movie as a teenager back in the 80’s! Classic 80’s movie!
🎵I went down to the crossroads
🎵Fell down on my knees
🎵Down to the crossroads
🎵 Fell down on my knees
🎵 Asked the Lord above for mercy
🎵 Take me, if you please
😎🎸
Arlen Roth was Ralph Macchio's guitar tutor for the film and played many of his pieces. According to Roth on his website, the final duel was arranged from parts played by him, Steve Vai, Ry Cooder and Bill Kanengiser, who did the classical playing throughout the film.
This scene makes the whole movie!!
I grew up on this movie in the 80's! influenced me to play blues guitar and still do!
I loved that movie just for that part.Stevie was so amazing 💓
I saw this movie when I was 10 ,I started playing guitar and never looked back.
Crossroads came out 2 years after The Karate Kid. This movie is hallowed ground for musicians but especially guitarists. It's always worth a watch/rewatch.
I love Asia's smile everytime Ralph plays. She knows what he's capable of.
It was acting. He can't play guitar like that, but he was coached by, Arlen Roth, to look like he was doing it. The Original Score was by guitarist, Ry Cooder, who played Ralph Macchio's parts. And of course, Steve Vai played his parts. He said it took like a week, or some crazy crap just to shoot this scene!!! 🤯 I would've shot myself! Lol. Now you guy's need to watch this movie!! It's about the tale of the great Robert Johnson, who supposedly sold his soul to the Devil to become a great Blues guitarist.
Used to love this film, my buddies still quote it every now and again
This movie is one of the greatest, best scene in the movie, story line dates way back and is amazing tale of the battle for ur soul...altho did hear that Stevie had hard time trying to mess up...Thanx so much, Peace
Fun fact: the classical piece they are playing is
Paganini's 5th caprice.
Writen sometime in the early 1800's 😊
Ry Cooder actually played Machio's parts but I seen this movie long after it was in the theaters but interestingly enough the movie is about a budding virtuoso who learned about the real world on his own pursuit of a lost song. When the movie came out I also was 17 and a budding lead guitarist who went on to place 2nd out of 30 guitar players in a "Hot Licks" guitar contest in 1989 in Michigan. So even though I seen the movie in the early 90s, I really liked it and eventually I had 3 sons that were musicians that also really liked the movie.
Ralph was playing for their souls and vai was the devils big star and Ralph was playing for his and the old man’s soul. The devil was the old man that was laughing sitting in the crowd. All the people around them were people that lost their souls! You really need to check that movie out!
I don't know what is funnier Ralph pretending to play the guitar or Steve Vai pretending he can't.
1 - steve vai played all parts // 2 - the first SV solo is from a song called "Bad Horsie" // 3 - the last solo is a classical piece from the violinist Niccolò Paganini - 24th Capriccio
One of my favorites and this is the short version of this scene it's much longer,and the actual player on Ralph's part is Ry Cooder!
Something I never put together about the duel. The last part played by Ralph is a part of Paganini's No. 5 Caprice. A previous musician said to have made a deal with the Devil to play as well as he did. So he beat a devil dealer with another devil dealers song. Probably why the devil started frowning when he heard that piece. It cracks me up!
Hey, guys hope all is well. I'm a professional guitar player, so my nerd is coming out. Steve Vai, and guitar legend Ry Cooder did the guitar work in this movie. It is edited to look like Ralph is playing, but he isn't. The solo that Ralph beats Steve Vai's character at the end is a variation on a composition from a 19th century Italian violin virtuoso named Niccolo Paganini. Ironically enough, people in his time thought he had sold his soul to the devil to play so good, which earned him the nickname, "The Devil's Fiddler". Great video you two. Thanks a lot!
Love it when Asia gets the giggles. No, that is not really Ralph playing. Believe it was actually Rye Cooder.
yes, it was the great Ry Cooder. It would have been so much fun to make. Ralph was coached to do the chords we see I believe - he probably plays a bit himself anyway
If you haven't done it yet...you folks need to watch the whole movie. It's good!
That movie is definitely worth a watch.
This scene is Cutting Heads, a guitar contest they played for the devil ( the laughing guy in the crowd ) Steve Vai was the devil's player and Eugene was playing to save Willie's soul from the devil.
You guys always have great chemistry it comes thru in every video that is what makes them all so good.😎
Steve Via recorded and wrote both guitar parts👍
The hardest part for him was "Playing badly on purpose" 🤣
Check out 'For the Love of God ' to really see how awesome he is!
Its so funny watching Steve purposely do the the string slip. I didn’t buy that for a second 😂
Steve Vai didn't write both parts. The piece that won the duel was Caprice No 5 written by 1800s violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini. He was known as the Devil's Violinist because he played like a man possessed at twelve notes per second and was believed at the time to have made a pact with the devil
I hope you react to Steve Vai--Teeth of the Hydra just came out April 2022 and has 2.5 mil so far. 3 headed guitar.
As a guitarist this was my top 5 movies of all time. I didn’t get to watch it in the 80‘s but I did in the 90‘s. I got to learn the winning classical shred which Vai based off of Violin Virtuoso, Paganini‘s Caprice no.5. It is very difficult to play but Vai plays it effortlessly. It’s funny seeing him try to mess it up🤪
I rented this movie back in the day on VCR and after watching it I went back to the rental shop and told him I was keeping it and asked how much he wanted for the video.
This was a fun reaction video for me - I love rock guitar, but I'm a classical guitarist by training. I loved this movie when it came out - it helped inspire my learning classical music, just because it's so much different than most music people are exposed to. But this many years later, I've heard so many incredible guitarists from all genres - it would be really cool for this kind of guitar battle to actually happen in real life, but in my experience, this kind of thing is very rare (on a professional level). I think many rock guitarists have good skills, but massive & fragile egos - like is shown in this clip. The techniques between rock, jazz, Spanish flamenco & classical are very different - but not too many rock guitarists would want to get into this type of battle with a jazz, or classical virtuoso guitarist. The legendary jazz/rock guitarist Les Paul had fun doing this - he challenged anybody to on stage battles & just dominated everyone - the same thing would happen with a classical master going against rock - their finger strength & control is unreal - and classical phrasings are more advanced. Rock relies I think too much on effects, amps, distortion, pedals - just a lot of technology to get those sounds - if you unplug Steve's guitar & he does the same playing on an acoustic - it's a very different thing all together - without the power of all the unseen equipment & studio/audio engineers helping out, this showdown loses a lot of the 'wow' factor. BTW, the Paganini sections played here are very basic compared to how it's played by an international virtuoso - for a comparison watch on YT: 'Caprice No.24 N.Paganini played by Su Meng' uploaded by 'HMFPAC07' (less video lag) - Ralph, Steve, Les ... none would challenge her to a battle for a reason -
oh man, always loved this flick.....fantastic scene.
nice to see a reaction to this underrated movie the guitar battle was the best part of this movie
They call this cuttin’ heads. Two guitar players going head to head.
Absolutely one of my top favorite movies
During the duel, while Steve Vai's character was more flashy, more heavy metal sound seemed dominant: Machio's character was humble had a bluesy sound and started with what he'd learned about playing AND LIVING the blues leading up to this moment had a wild card waiting to be pulled out...his classical training!
Great 80s flick for a Sunday afternoon with the kids. Y’all can argue over who played what, but to me the funniest true story was Steve Vai getting told by the Director during filming to screw up the ending worse. Steve’s such a natural that making mistakes on purpose is harder than playing it right. First couple takes he got heat for not playing it wrong enough. So finally he had to clear his mind and just flap his fingers and stare at the floor. The result sounded like someone falling down stairs, but the director was finally happy. 🤣
Great movie and story, acting....and that finale !!! The best thing, though.....
...the hair! Both of ya!
niiiice!
The sass coming off of that girl dancing when the band kicks in and she pretty much punks Machio off. That was great
Others have commented on the legend about Robert Johnson. The Crossroads reference is interesting too. It comes from an old belief (that you can trace back to Africa) that the crossroads are the place where you can meet a character named 'Legba' who is essentially equivalent to Satan. He can grant your wish in exchange for your soul. The song Crossroads belongs to Robert Johnson and is known today mostly because the rock group Cream did their version of it. Led Zeppelin also 'borrowed' a lot of old blues but sadly never credited the original Black blues artists. Copyrights were not a thing way back when during the origins of blues music.
How do you celebrate 4/20? You go to the dispensary, where they're having a sale, then ya come home and do yer thang. Then, you go onto youtube, and you see that a coupla your favorite reactor peeps are enjoying the most epic guitar battle in cinematic history. Then you have some ice cream.
THAT'S how you celebrate 4/20.
This movie opened the way for me to be introduced to other iconic fusion guitarists like Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satch and Paul Gilbert
You mean Fusion about ten to fifteen years later than when it started.
Great movie!!!! I didn't know Ralph played for real either , I thought someone played it for him and he just held the guitar and of course they did camera tricks?? Shoot I didn't know and I love that movie!!
I'm not a huge movie watcher but I have seen this one several times and always enjoy it
Always loved this movie and the music that went along with it.
"BYYYYYYYYYEEEEE!!!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This movie is AMAZING, please react to it! There are so many great music scenes and Robert Johnsons legend needs to be told again and again
Ralph Macchio aka Lightning Boy breaks in with Paginini's 5th Caprice. Paganini was also rumored to have sold his soul to the Devil so it's on point.
In some magic books , they say if you went to a "crossroad" or intersection at midnight you could call upon the Devil and make a deal with him. That's what this movie was about. A man who supposedly did just that and got his musical talent from the Devil. Great movie.
This was one of the closeup looks at shred guitar for many musicians. Steve Vai did outstanding job here. And its pure fun to watch.
Steve's intro for the KISS song "God Gave Rock N' Roll" in Bill & Ted...
One of my favorite scenes ever. Great movie! Vai played both parts btw
Crossroad one of the Best movies ever!!!!
Thank you for sharing this with me
Yep, loved the movie "Crossroads", have it on DVD. Lots of fun and some great music.
I never even knew little, Danielson could play the guitar. Till now!!
This is one of my favorite movies ever
Crossroads, great movies. This scene was "Cutting Heads", where Ralph was playing to save his and Willie Brown's soul. Steve is playing for Willie's and Ralph's soul for the Devil.
This has a touch of The Crossroads in it. Great movie!!!!!
For some great Steve Vai, check out the most famous of the songs from Whitesnake. He played lead in a lot of them.
and classical music to the rescue for Ralph's character!
If you haven't watched this movie you ABSOLUTELY should. It's soooo good!
One of my favorite movies of all time. Story is based on the legend of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil and a lot of the lines in the movie are from songs of other legendary blues men. Blues started in the Mississippi Delta and that’s where the characters are going back to where it all started. To go to the crossroads where blues men make a deal with the Devil. Side note: Robert Johnson was the first of the cursed 27 club.
Great movie. It's been years since I'd seen this. Great reaction!
This a great movie and the battle is even better if you see the context of what lead up to it. Have a great day guys!!
This is the climatic scene of a great movie. THE LEGEND OF THE CROSSROADS. Macchio is trying to win back the soul of his black friend.
Very good movie and very underrated. I think this was after Karate Kid 1 or 2. Ralph did a great job looking like he was actually playing. For sure worth the watch. The whole "Selling your soul" type thing. The Ry Cooder parts in the movie are incredible.
The soundtrack to the movie "Crossroads" which is by Rye Cooder, doesn't include this battle between Steve Vai and Rye Cooder (Vai played the classical piece at the end on both, but the beginning had Rye Cooder playing slide guitar.) However, the soundtrack is really spectacular, if you love the sounds of delta blues. Steve Vai is an amazing guitarist, who spent a number of years touring and recording with Frank Zappa, and there's a great song, "Stevie's Spanking" on the Zappa album "Them or Us."
The Guitar from Ralph is played from Ry Cooder!!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Crossroads is such a good movie! Great music in it also. It’s a must see
Ry Cooder on Machio playing 'slide' guitar part and I had an old Rock magazine Steve Vai, voted best all around guitarist 4 yrs in a row interview (if my 66year old memory is intact) in being approached to do this movie appearance and he had to 'lose'... he was offered 2million dollars to play that part.
Re: the genius of Steve Vai............do you know how GOOD you gotta be to be able to pretend that you can't play? :D
Speaking of Steve Vai....you should react to his live version of "Tender Surrender." MINDS BLOWN
You guys need to see the video on here that shows what it really sounded like 😂😂😂it’s freakin hilarious
Love this movie. Vai is unreal
Good movie, been ages since I saw it. The end duel was done by 3 players. Arlen Roth, Vai and Ry Cooder. Arlen Roth was hired as Ralphs coach for the film, and all the slide parts was made by both Ry Cooder and Arlen (who never got proper credit). The classical parts earlier in the film was played by Bill Kanegiser.
Committed actors learn what they need for the role. I once saw Joan Jett bring Michael J Fox on stage before their movie Light Of Day so he could get some stage experience before they shot the movie.
This is awesome, Steve Vai is still My favorite guitarist should really check out his brand new video for Teeth of the Hydra with his new triple neck guitar 🎸
It is a great movie made in 1986 I got it here in the house somewhere. Joe Satriani taught Steve how to play. Steve also played in David Lee Roths band he makes the guitar talk in the song Yankee Rose.
Steve Vai deserves 2 Oscars for this movie... 1 for making the Karate Kid look good, and 1 for acting like he was not a guitar God.
ha ha I have seen that movie many times in the past....may have to watch it again now.
You guys should watch the full movie, it's got some awesome music.