Les Paul wasn’t not just a fantastic guitar player but he was also a very nice polite man who had a lot of humour and patience as we can see in this video...
Lee Thibidaux Les is in his 90s here in 2008 and had increasing chronic arthritis in his hands since the late 1980s. Still, he had a better lead tone though his entire life than Zakk has to this day. I love No More Tears, Suicide Messiah and Book of Shadows as much as the next guy but Zakk can’t even hang with these guys here. He’s playing like a spaz. At 10:10 Les has to lead him back because Zakk is totally lost on what to play that fits. Then whenever he’s not playing he sounds like a belligerent drunk asshole, including while singing like a garbled, wanna-be Greg Allman.
"So, you're saying I just sat there, then shredded up and down one solitary minor pentatonic scale shape the whole time? Fuckin-A! At least I didn't start drunk singing ...I DID, what!?!"
I came to expect a humbled Zakk jam with a legend among legends, and I left saddened by the amount of narcissism and disrespect Zakk had shown to all members of the band. This is exactly what alcoholism looks like at its worst.
@@lou4073 the other codger was the les paul who invented the electric guitar that the pos zakk wylde makes his living off of. Show some deference the his greatness. What zakk did was like disrespecting frank sinatra or elvis or mike jackson.
@@bearblackhawk9362 I think you've got yourself a bit mixed up. So Zakk Wylde shoulda just sat there like a cripple old man and plucked a few strings and said "Oh I love you Les Paul sir oh mighty!"?
This was back when Zakk was a ridiculously terrible drunk. He's been sober for like 6 or 7 years now, & He plays MUCH better. Check out his newest solo album Book of Shadows 2 (2016), it's a really mellow album with lots of acoustic, keys, etc.. I love it. Waaay different than his material from the last 20+ years. Also, Zakk will be playing guitar again for Ozzy' s 2017 tour.
He was at his prime when he was a “terrible drunk”, he played much clearer, faster, heavier n much more aggressive n explosive at that time. u mfs just don’t understand the art
@@Patrick-kz5xxfor studio work yeah, for a lot of BLS perhaps. I agree. Up until Shot to Hell I love BLS stuff. But for this, a totally different art, it's a total mess. Love Zakk tho.
You could see Les look at his bass player a couple times like wtf is this??? Hahaha he was laughing at him too lol making the weed sign and laughing, love Les, if les was a younger man "I'm all that Zakk Wilde" would have left crying, very few could touch Les's technical abilities on a guitar in his prime, other than maybe "Chet Atkins, he and his wife "Mary Ford"' were a class act and a gift to the entertainment world RIP Les & Mary you will be remembered with love for a very long time to come !!
@@robertterry2838 I get that Zakk plays a lot of mindless shredding stuff, but it's a mistake to write him off as being just a soulless shredder. Rust, Just Killing Time, Sleeping Dogs, Angel of Mercy, the guy has written dozens of songs that pack the soul into his playing. He's a great guitarist who (to his detriment) also does the boring 1000 notes a minute stuff for too long.
Wow, Zakk was very disrespectful here. I cannot believe that he dropped F-bombs in Les Paul's presence, and then goes on to insult Eric Johnson. Nobody laughed. He's got no place here, and the sad thing is that he's a really nice guy.
How did you interpret what he said as an insult to Eric? And do you think Les would dissolve if someone says "fuck" in front of him? He probably said "fuck" in his lifetime more than Zakk.
yup-a great guitarist but a real dick face asshole that thinks he is great as anyone because he played with Ozzy-not so -Jake E. Lee was not a hot headed ass face like him and RandY Rhoads was the greatest guitarist ever and this shit faced trailer park trash named Jeffrey "aka" Zakk thinks he is fabulous -he is a fucking dud !
Look by the bright side: at least he didn't kill Les Paul of a heart attack by playing one of his guitars with hyper-distortion EMG pickups and Morley pedals.
I like Zakk, but this one falls way short of the mark. Shredding isn't in the blues idiom. Half the notes he plays are sour, and the other half just don't fit in. This was like day one of my introduction to improvisation class in college. Also, Zakk, we all know you're a bad ass. You don't have to constantly prove it by saying fuck every other word. I say more than my fair amount of profanities daily, but I would never say anything crass in front of a legend like Les Paul. Show some respect.
What’s with all these hate comments. Zakk is swearing his head off, yes. But that doesn’t mean he has no respect for the legend Les Paul. At the end of the song you can clearly see Les is enjoying Zakks company. Zakk is a character like no other he’s loud and proud especially when he’s drunk like this video for instance. He’s a incredible player that has got him so far in life, don’t hate. Because look where you are compared to him.
No one is hating the guy. He just made an awful ass of himself and people are calling him out on it. If you can't handle the criticism, don't act like such a jerk. Wylde owed everyone there an apology.
I only came here after reading some of bashings on another video. I thought, "can't be *that* bad, surely?" I was surprised by zakk. I know he can play, was he joking? Seems like he wasn't bothered by the context around him to play *with* the band.
Zakk is an amazing guitarist. Unfortunately, he can't restrain himself from blasting through a million notes per minute. He did the same with Joe Bonamasa.
@@GaiaBuzzgive me a break, blues sucks, nothing rocks with it. Second, Zakk plays his styles no matter where, they invite him for him to do exactly that, he’s not like other guitarists u know that’s why he’s good. u just can’t accept something that’s way much better than what u know that u can’t comprehend
Les is Royalty in the Biz! He's seen & head it all!! Not gonna shock him or make him blush.... But still nothing wrong with showing a little Class & respect!! Not is for Les, but maybe the audience. Believe it or not, they are important
I was in awe when I saw this. There's an old saying where I come from and its "respect your elders". I used to like Zakk as a player but, man, when I saw this, you lost my respect Zakk. I hope you saw the playback of this and if your weren't embarrassed, your not a good human being......
manav you don't know anything lol. Les is too old to be jamming with zakk. But he obviously invited him for a reason. Zakk can play wayyyy better than anyone there. Yes he's a "metal" player but his shit is actually good. If you hate on zakk you should go listen to your Justin Bieber's, Adele's, and any other pop singer who doesn't even play any real instruments. I don't count knowing a couple chords on a guitar as being a guitar player. But fuck all y'all hatin on zakk. He was invited unlike you motherfuckers beating your meat to a fucking trash can
Can’t take it, less than 3 minutes in and I have to turn it off. Love Les (thank you for all you did, especially us guitarists) and glad that Zakk is sober now.
the reality of it is black label society was like in prime biker mode during this era and zakk was a full blown drunk at this point,hes grown up alot since then i imagine he would have been different with the zakk we got today
Past criS because he wasn’t.... you can’t justify bad playing I love Zakk and I understand your anger in his bad playing but I’m a huge slash guy and there was a solo was fucked up cause his guitar was out of tune but I commented wow slash sucks cause he screwed up I’m just saying don’t bite the bullet even if you love the musician cause they don’t even know u exist
Exactly. It seems that Zakk only knows how to solo around a key; the idea of basing a solo on each chord and playing around each change seems completely foreign to him.
Besides acting rude and playing I don't know what, other than making noise with his guitar for someone that everyone says is so great I'v seen more then one video of Zakk playing crap on the guitar with other players... The best part is when it was over! Less was to kind.
Had resisted watching this clip for years thinking that it would be pretty crappy, I wasn't wrong.Les sure did give a lesson on humility by putting up with the very drunk guest guitarist.
Les Paul wasn’t not just a fantastic guitar player but he was also a very nice polite man who had a lot of humour and patience as we can see in this video...
I even don't have enough patience to watch this nonsense till the end
Zakk was one of my all time greats... Then I saw this
@2:50 when the piano player quotes Zakk's last guitar line. Too funny!
Les is more.
How can les be more.
More is more.
since 12 August 2009 les is no more.
The more I see of Les, the less i want to see of Zakk.
JoshuaFinancialPL More is more.-Yngwie Malmsteen.
To all of you, Les STFU and listen, OK?
when les is looking at zakk like wtf are you doing man
Justin Kelly crack up, but sadly you're right,Zakk was a complete smackhead that evening
You could be right but he looks like this in every video I’ve seen of him
3:11 lol
It's more like less is going wtf I'm lost..... Should of retired like 30 years ago.
Lee Thibidaux Les is in his 90s here in 2008 and had increasing chronic arthritis in his hands since the late 1980s. Still, he had a better lead tone though his entire life than Zakk has to this day. I love No More Tears, Suicide Messiah and Book of Shadows as much as the next guy but Zakk can’t even hang with these guys here. He’s playing like a spaz. At 10:10 Les has to lead him back because Zakk is totally lost on what to play that fits. Then whenever he’s not playing he sounds like a belligerent drunk asshole, including while singing like a garbled, wanna-be Greg Allman.
Zakk the next morning.........."I did what"???
Lol
"So, you're saying I just sat there, then shredded up and down one solitary minor pentatonic scale shape the whole time? Fuckin-A! At least I didn't start drunk singing ...I DID, what!?!"
"Let's fucking do this shit."
The way Les looks away to the pianist says it all.
He’s just asking what key is all
obviously zakk wasn't prepared to play
he always reverts to his old frank marino licks when in doubt
I felt like I was at guitar center watching this.
The inventor of the electric guitar. Thank god for father paul!
Gary Gibson lespaul.org
Les was saying damn this is what it's like going to guitar center and trying out one of his guitars.
....and they’ve all been down tuned.
I didnt know Zakk was so bad at impro. 😂
I came to expect a humbled Zakk jam with a legend among legends, and I left saddened by the amount of narcissism and disrespect Zakk had shown to all members of the band. This is exactly what alcoholism looks like at its worst.
Who would have thought a rockstar would act like a rockstar. Bro, he literally kissed Les Paul’s hand.
He was very humbled actually. Just had alot more get up and go than the other old codgers.
@@matthewarant7491 -I can think of another part that he can kiss…🤔
@@lou4073 the other codger was the les paul who invented the electric guitar that the pos zakk wylde makes his living off of. Show some deference the his greatness. What zakk did was like disrespecting frank sinatra or elvis or mike jackson.
@@bearblackhawk9362 I think you've got yourself a bit mixed up. So Zakk Wylde shoulda just sat there like a cripple old man and plucked a few strings and said "Oh I love you Les Paul sir oh mighty!"?
Thank you Lester, for creating this beautiful guitar used by everybody, we all love you... R.I.P. Les Paul, we will always love you!
Les lookin at zak like wtf
This was back when Zakk was a ridiculously terrible drunk.
He's been sober for like 6 or 7 years now, & He plays MUCH better. Check out his newest solo album Book of Shadows 2 (2016), it's a really mellow album with lots of acoustic, keys, etc.. I love it.
Waaay different than his material from the last 20+ years.
Also, Zakk will be playing guitar again for Ozzy' s 2017 tour.
Are you his Brother??
He was at his prime when he was a “terrible drunk”, he played much clearer, faster, heavier n much more aggressive n explosive at that time. u mfs just don’t understand the art
@@Patrick-kz5xxPussy ass people are better off listening to the beatles
@@Patrick-kz5xxfor studio work yeah, for a lot of BLS perhaps. I agree. Up until Shot to Hell I love BLS stuff.
But for this, a totally different art, it's a total mess. Love Zakk tho.
This was horrible but I couldnt take my eyes off the screen. Its one of those things so strange and awful that are even funny and interesting.
Like a car wreck.
Exactly!
Sometimes it looks like Les is laughing at Zakky boy.
Ya the whole time in his head for sure.... Zakk made a food of himself here its embarrassing
Gotta love Les keeping time while talking and looking around the room.
eric johnson is the man..
You could see Les look at his bass player a couple times like wtf is this??? Hahaha he was laughing at him too lol making the weed sign and laughing, love Les, if les was a younger man "I'm all that Zakk Wilde" would have left crying, very few could touch Les's technical abilities on a guitar in his prime, other than maybe "Chet Atkins, he and his wife "Mary Ford"' were a class act and a gift to the entertainment world RIP Les & Mary you will be remembered with love for a very long time to come !!
Mathew Ryan lespaul.org
Yes that was from outer space...poor les..
Insecurity is a hell of a drug.
That's exactly right ! I notice he def. does steroids too, EVERY steroid user i know (many) are ALL very insecure people.
@@shanghunter7697 Zakk doesn’t do steroids lol
@@connordrysdale5333 he so does
Zakk gave a master class on how to play a bunch of notes and not say anything.
Basically you described his whole career
If solos like no more tears and angel of mercy don't say nothing.....
Oh, he said plenty with that big cake hole of his. What a turd.
@@leonardogensini8960 the tears solo is great. Makes me wondering how much of it was zakk and how much of it was the producer coaching him along.
@@robertterry2838 I get that Zakk plays a lot of mindless shredding stuff, but it's a mistake to write him off as being just a soulless shredder. Rust, Just Killing Time, Sleeping Dogs, Angel of Mercy, the guy has written dozens of songs that pack the soul into his playing. He's a great guitarist who (to his detriment) also does the boring 1000 notes a minute stuff for too long.
Thx for sharing.
Amazing tone from Les
Wow, Zakk was very disrespectful here. I cannot believe that he dropped F-bombs in Les Paul's presence, and then goes on to insult Eric Johnson. Nobody laughed. He's got no place here, and the sad thing is that he's a really nice guy.
He was shit faced. I bet if he saw this he'd be embarrassed.
How did you interpret what he said as an insult to Eric? And do you think Les would dissolve if someone says "fuck" in front of him? He probably said "fuck" in his lifetime more than Zakk.
yup-a great guitarist but a real dick face asshole that thinks he is great as anyone because he played with Ozzy-not so -Jake E. Lee was not a hot headed ass face like him and RandY Rhoads was the greatest guitarist ever and this shit faced trailer park trash named Jeffrey "aka" Zakk thinks he is fabulous -he is a fucking dud !
Was it disrespectful when Zakk said lets make some mother fucking noise for the dime bag?
It's part of the show and he is just joking around.
Can we appreciate the piano player. Damn
Look by the bright side: at least he didn't kill Les Paul of a heart attack by playing one of his guitars with hyper-distortion EMG pickups and Morley pedals.
The look at 3:15 is the same look my wife gives me when I say I'm buying a new guitar.
Zakk is like I need about 12 more beers for this man
Such respect is truly admirable.
Zakk is a perfect case study on the long terms effects of heavy alcohol addiction.
Wtf???
His alcoholism legit saved him from dying from a blood clot. It thinned his blood out just enough with the excessive use, and saved him.
@@rowanshreds If you search for Alcoholism + blood clots you will learn that alcoholism causes blood clots
@@rowanshreds LOL!!!
@@rowanshreds no it did not. This is just a "joke" from Zakk he sometimes tells. He nearly died of booze. That is why he can not drink anymore.
I like Zakk, but this one falls way short of the mark. Shredding isn't in the blues idiom. Half the notes he plays are sour, and the other half just don't fit in. This was like day one of my introduction to improvisation class in college.
Also, Zakk, we all know you're a bad ass. You don't have to constantly prove it by saying fuck every other word. I say more than my fair amount of profanities daily, but I would never say anything crass in front of a legend like Les Paul. Show some respect.
Les said way worse than that lmao
Zakk hasn't even started playing and my teeth are already aching
totally agree...i swear and cuss every other word...but I would never talk like that in front of an elder...especially les...zero class right there
It's practically a Les Paul and Mary Ford reunion!
Only if Mary Ford was a drunk, burly, bearded man
Although I would have loved to hear Vaya Con Dios
Painfull to watch and listen to
I am surprised Les didn’t hit Zaq over his dumbass head
Wasted my time watching this crap
What’s with all these hate comments.
Zakk is swearing his head off, yes. But that doesn’t mean he has no respect for the legend Les Paul.
At the end of the song you can clearly see Les is enjoying Zakks company.
Zakk is a character like no other he’s loud and proud especially when he’s drunk like this video for instance.
He’s a incredible player that has got him so far in life, don’t hate. Because look where you are compared to him.
Your right but you have to admit, this was clearly not his best performance
Loser
No one is hating the guy. He just made an awful ass of himself and people are calling him out on it. If you can't handle the criticism, don't act like such a jerk. Wylde owed everyone there an apology.
People on here act like he was playing at a temple in front of Jesus ... he had a drinking issue, everybody knew that 🥴
This is priceless...
I only came here after reading some of bashings on another video. I thought, "can't be *that* bad, surely?" I was surprised by zakk. I know he can play, was he joking? Seems like he wasn't bothered by the context around him to play *with* the band.
One trick pony Zakk, looked like he was having a seizure trying to play. Goodness only knows what Les was thinking watching him.
5:36 start singing to hide 😂
"LORD LORD LOOORD yeah"🤣
Les was such a class act!
Eric was just saying in his own head “go on buddy, keep on crashing and burning”
Zakk is an amazing guitarist. Unfortunately, he can't restrain himself from blasting through a million notes per minute. He did the same with Joe Bonamasa.
Amazing? Give us a break. He struggles to play a simple 1-4-5 blues turn around, or even play a simple call & response with the legend Les Paul.
@@GaiaBuzz seriously ? you don't have a clue
"Amazing guitarist"... You're kidding, right?!
Its OK he's good enough to do that. Some of those rock guitarists can't play the blues at all
@@GaiaBuzzgive me a break, blues sucks, nothing rocks with it. Second, Zakk plays his styles no matter where, they invite him for him to do exactly that, he’s not like other guitarists u know that’s why he’s good. u just can’t accept something that’s way much better than what u know that u can’t comprehend
Les is Royalty in the Biz!
He's seen & head it all!! Not gonna shock him or make him blush.... But still nothing wrong with showing a little Class & respect!! Not is for Les, but maybe the audience. Believe it or not, they are important
I really needed a good laugh and this did it 😂
Zakk: It's a Les Paul.. not a fuc**' stratocaster... lol
Enough already! I've enjoyed Zach's playing for years, but he totally blew it here. No hate, just sadness watching the train wreck.
ZAKK*
....and a train wreck it was.
RIP Les Paul
Legends
This takes me back to the "creed sheds" parodies.
Exactly what I thought!
Surprised it wasn’t 12 minutes of zakk doing nonstop pinch harmonics
Other then make a bunch of noise and endlessly bend the low e string that's about all he knows how to do
@@tshay27tell me you’ve never played guitar without telling me you’ve never played guitar
@@deskducker nobody fucking asked you
I was in awe when I saw this. There's an old saying where I come from and its "respect your elders". I used to like Zakk as a player but, man, when I saw this, you lost my respect Zakk. I hope you saw the playback of this and if your weren't embarrassed, your not a good human being......
He did just fine everyone. Cracked some jokes, and played music. I swear everyone forgot how to have fun. 😂
Exactly what I’m saying,let him warm up,damn
He called him Father Paul
He wasn’t disrespectful,just drunk
I love zakk but he's so bad in this video.. why zakk :/
dydy0928 well zakk is not used to playing the type of music that les does and everyone knows les is better at his type of music then zakk
Agreed.. Zakk is my favourite, but in this case..He is much more solo guitarist, and when he is on his own wave, he doesn't hear other band members..
Eric Johnson is Beethoven. Zakk is Miley Cyrus in this case
At least Miley looks hot!
thats your taste mate
Todd Gilbert hueekkk, there's something wrong with your eyes mate
manav Les a Selena gomez
manav you don't know anything lol. Les is too old to be jamming with zakk. But he obviously invited him for a reason. Zakk can play wayyyy better than anyone there. Yes he's a "metal" player but his shit is actually good. If you hate on zakk you should go listen to your Justin Bieber's, Adele's, and any other pop singer who doesn't even play any real instruments. I don't count knowing a couple chords on a guitar as being a guitar player. But fuck all y'all hatin on zakk. He was invited unlike you motherfuckers beating your meat to a fucking trash can
Can’t take it, less than 3 minutes in and I have to turn it off. Love Les (thank you for all you did, especially us guitarists) and glad that Zakk is sober now.
Love Zakk, but, OUCH!, that was so pathetically terrible.
what the fuck. I love zakk and les but fuck my ass this was a train crash.
this was terribly cringe worthy..imo.. geez zakk
Watch your manners Zakk, the king is next to you, came on man!
Drunk at the bar and the folks wants you to play, from 5mins and out he gets better. But the shred start 🤣
Les loved it he smiled and was so professional
PSA: Les Paul was actually given a medal, at the time, for tolerating that FS from Zakk.
Ronnie Williams Food stamps ?
oh man thats wild.....
the reality of it is black label society was like in prime biker mode during this era and zakk was a full blown drunk at this point,hes grown up alot since then i imagine he would have been different with the zakk we got today
Lot of people didn't understand Zakk Wylde was joking
Past criS because he wasn’t.... you can’t justify bad playing I love Zakk and I understand your anger in his bad playing but I’m a huge slash guy and there was a solo was fucked up cause his guitar was out of tune but I commented wow slash sucks cause he screwed up I’m just saying don’t bite the bullet even if you love the musician cause they don’t even know u exist
Lmao ! Really ?
The joke was on Zakk... he was in way over his head here. 🤷🏼♂️
I think the band decided to end the first jam prematurely, because they think Zakk was just not in harmony with the rest of the band
Way too cool
Sometimes things go good and other days....this....shit happens life goes on.
Always funny when a Metal guitarist tries to play the blues.
Not one of these "ohhh Zakk doesn't know... disrespectful" comments is from any half talented musician.
Zakk is just having fun, dont hate on him
Agreed
LP looks like real shredder
zakk focus on the breathing room.. the notes you dont play are as important if not more so..find the chord tone..not a criticism
Exactly. It seems that Zakk only knows how to solo around a key; the idea of basing a solo on each chord and playing around each change seems completely foreign to him.
Besides acting rude and playing I don't know what, other than making noise with his guitar for someone that everyone says is so great I'v seen more then one video of Zakk playing crap on the guitar with other players... The best part is when it was over! Less was to kind.
I was hoping to see Les playing the No More Tears solo.
Zakk + 🎸 👍 Les even more so
Wtf zakk you're no a jazz guitar player, satriani and eric jhonson kick your ass in this concert
Les wasn't really a Jazz player.
man i thought this would be wholesome like bb playing with eric
😂🤣
Pissed away a great opportunity.definatly out of his element.still a master of metal guitar.
Doesn’t get much better than o⚡️⚡️🎸🎸👑👑
Zakk invent freejazzmetal in this video.
does it djent?
N. Vale good question!
The elder, Mr. Les Paul seems to be totally unamused by the f bombs and lack of respect.
Les Paul cussed like a sailor - he was a cool
mofo - the f bombs he loved them
Mykal Gambull what is fbombs? my native language is not english
F-bombs = cursing/swearing, have a good day from Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada Nico
Mykal Gambull oohh thanks man, salute, cheers from argentina
He loved the word Fuck, and all kinds of other curse words.
Great man. ... and Les not a bad example.
Who is playing piano in the background?.is it a soundtrack of is their a jazz pianist playing live..sounds amazing !
These where not easy times for Zakk as he’d just lost Dime
4 years before this
@@exelchannel8806 lol
He must of lost his hearing around the same time because that was pitiful....
Crude, rude and totally disrespectful. Check out Steve Howe with Les, absolutely brilliant and the way to honor the master
Agreed! Steve Howe is real virtuoso. IMHO it's all but not blues beside the fact of being very rude behavior by ZW
Les paul dando aula 😂😂😂
You can hear him in the backgrounr of other ayers videos like "Play a fuckinges paul!"
This sounds like a beginner guitarist who just learned the pentatonic
I learned something today, playing millions of notes at a high speed don't make you a good musician.
Playing billion of notes in a song that match put you up in a place where soul and slow blues player goes jealous....
"Lets go..Lets fuckin do this shit" 😂
RIP Sir Les Paul....
Zakk couldn't clean up his act for once? Jeez, what a jerk.
Had resisted watching this clip for years thinking that it would be pretty crappy, I wasn't wrong.Les sure did give a lesson on humility by putting up with the very drunk guest guitarist.
These guys look like they are having a great time.
Class less.wild sheesh 🤧
I feel violated after watching this.
Bashing my boy Eric.
When he first sat down was Zakk warming up or playing along with the band?
I'm just laughing at the open string at 2:14. BOWNG!
Hahaha fuckin' ROCK hell yeah
Hahaha yeah