Guthrie Govan

JK

Apparently this guy is the shit. Anyone a fan? If so, what you recommend i start listening to 1st from his stuff?

andrewjbryson

There you go.. you've just hit gold...

This guys is insane, Steve Vai is a freak, but this guy takes it to the next level...

Get his album - erotic cakes...

and the following tracks : Waves, Fives, Sevens

He used to be the guitarist for the band Asia...

JK

There you go.. you've just hit gold...

Haha, awesome. Will get those songs. Thanks man

andrewjbryson

After you hear "Waves".... you will probably want to play it ...

Its tricky.. ?

arjunmenon

+1 with AJB. I would also add the title track "Erotic cakes" (check out the chromatic intro that beautifully melts into a kickass jazzy solo)and "Slidey boy" (unbelievable groove with some awe-inspiring muted picking) to that list!

Guy-Onraet

Golden Guthrie. Ner Ner is great too, and Road Island Shred. Just get the whole album! www.cornfordrecords.com

AlanRatcliffe

Guy Onraet wrote: Just get the whole album! www.cornfordrecords.com

I was thinking exactly the same thing! The whole album is great.

Malkav

Guthrie is truly my favourite example of the closest to perfect kind of guitarist you could ever find, in guitar polls he is a major contender and winner in awards for feel and phrasing and speed and melody and... and... and... the man is just the best all round example of musicianship and technique I have ever heard and I feel priveliged to be alive at the time of his outcoming and interested enough in guitar to realise how monumental his influence will be (people always told me about Vai's passion and warfare and what a life changing experience it was but now I feel I can truly understand what they meant about the influence that it had)

In my mind Guthrie is the best guitarist in the world, there are arguments about genre etc that can come of this but I'm pretty sure he can more than happily navigate in most circumstances.

Guthrie was a teacher at the Academy Of Contemporary Music a while back as well ? and has written many articles for guitar techniques and done many lesson videos for lick library ?

@ andrew - lol! I learnt the melody piece for waves like 3 weeks after I got the album and now I'm busy working at Fives, close to finished just wish I could get a backing track for it ? I'd really like to tackle sevens and wonderful slippery thing one day but chances are after getting fives up to scratch (which will probably never even be a .000001th of a % as well played as he plays it) I think my mind will go into overload and my tendons will snap as my body will never let me attempt anything as fulfilling as that again - more so in the sense that while learning the song I'm trying to really understand why the chords, melody etc work and also study his phrasing, not to clone him but to show myself new ideas on how to improve my own phrasing ? it's a totally fulfilling learning experience even if I'll never pull it off right I will have gained so much just by learning it and understanding it. More importantly I feel like just by listening to him it has helped me understand execution of melody and feel combined with technical prowess far better than ever before.

Bottom line is that Guthrie can shred the pants off of almost anyone and do it tastefully ?

AlanRatcliffe

Great post Chad. You know, I do have one little complaint about Govan though - it takes him too long to complete an album. ? Erotic Cakes is his first and there were tracks on that he already had out on compilations in 1993. He's been gigging most of the tracks on the album since the turn of the century. So I get the idea he's either way to humble about his stuff to release it or he's a perfectionist.

Oh well, if 15 years is what it takes to create albums like Erotic Cakes, I can live with it...

JK

Bottom line is that Guthrie can shred the pants off of almost anyone and do it tastefully

Ok, so what i am hearing is that i should maybe listen to him. ?
I must confess, i still havent yet, will make a point to this week!

Renesongs

Guthrie Govan is certainly one of the most versatile and creative impresarios of the guitar - enough big words me likes him lots ?

Manfred-Klose

wondering when joe satriani and steve vai will invite him to a play G3 concert with them :-\

....maby they are afraid that he will make them look bad ?

andrewjbryson

A G3 with Guthrie would be kickass!

Johnson / Vai / Guthrie

Satch / Petrucci / Guthrie

Batio / Guthrie / Malmsteen lol

Manfred-Klose

Batio / Guthrie / Malmsteen lol

That would be insane!!!
i'll maby replace malmsteen with petrucci.

I think everyone's head will explode after seeing such a show.

mmmmh, maby oneday.......... ?

Guy-Onraet

Cornford tried to get Guthrie, Greg Howe and Ritchie Kotzen together for a show. That would have been nuts (or the nuts ?) pity it didn't happen.

themanthatwalks

I just became a fan. This guy's arrangement is his greatest asset

AlanRatcliffe

Greg Howe is another one who, when he puts his mind to it, is incredibly tasteful and musical, but still rips up a fretboard. Introspection is an amazing album that shows he has a lot of depth as a composer. Unfortunately he also does albums of pure shred that lack the extra dimension in the backing music.

Someone else to watch is Dave Martone - that boy's gonna go places if he doesn't disappear up the backside of his own technique.

Trying to get a handle on Scott Henderson at the moment. Lovely stuff when he doesn't have that woman warbling over the top of the music ?

Squonk

@ Alan

Scott Henderson is actually quite good. I also desperately tried to get into his music, but battled at first. took me about 10 years to get it.
Have you had a listen to Vital Tech Tones with Victor Wooten on bass.

good stuff

Malkav

Cornford did manage to get Rob Balducci and Guthrie Govan together at NAMM which was quite a cool show, I got a video of them playing little wing all instrumental ?

@Alan - why thank you ?, I agree though the man must release more music more often I'm already all anxious for the next dose and it still hasn't come...I need my fix man! lol

Dave Martone is a very radical player even though he does look a bit silly on stage and I seriously dislike his drummer (the guy from nickelback ☹ he really makes martone's stuff fold) I only have his when the aliens come album but it's also rocketed itself up to my all time favourite list.

other new and varied players to check out would have to be dannielle gottardo, marc playle, jas morris and gustavo guera ? just a thought in case some people might wanna experience more ?

AlanRatcliffe

Chad Adam Browne wrote: Dave Martone is a very radical player even though he does look a bit silly on stage and I seriously dislike his drummer (the guy from nickelback ☹ he really makes martone's stuff fold) I only have his when the aliens come album but it's also rocketed itself up to my all time favourite list.

I have his Demon's Dream too and it's almost as good as Aliens - well worth having. You can hear his influences clearly (lots of them) but still manages to keep his own voice and is creative.

other new and varied players to check out would have to be dannielle gottardo, marc playle, jas morris and gustavo guera

Thanks! I'm always looking for more interesting stuff. Especially guys who have a totally different approach or even unusual instrument (Fretless, Strick, Warr guitar). Problem is most people recommend players that are too derivative of players that I already know well.