Danny Sapko discovers… (now including follow up vid that is worse!)

[Wolverinebass]

10 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I'm not so sure that no-one can play half the stuff in the videos - that's going to depend on whether the people creating the original content were able to play it at the speed at which it was shown in video, rather than the ability of the content thief to play it.

There is that. I've recorded people in the studio and slowed the song down by 5bpm so they can do it. 

 

I did get clocked for it by one of the other band members once who politely asked "what the hell are you doing Andy?"

 

I politely told him to "shut up" whispering very quietly saying I'd explain afterwards. It was the other guitarists band and he was really, really good. He just couldn't quite play his own solo at the tempo they'd chosen. He would have taken years to get it right in bits as it was at least 45 seconds long and intensely complicated. Sometimes preserving someone's ego in the moment is worth it. 

 

Miming live is fraud to me. There's something that's been lost by all this and that's spontaneity. None of these clowns can play on the hoof. Like listen to a live album and you hear things being slightly messed up. That's gone now. 

 

In one of my own bands, the guitarist becomes intensely irritated by the fact that I freestyle loads of bits of songs. The point was I improvised when I recorded them, so I play them differently every time I play them. Which I feel is being true to myself and what I did on record. People like this Giacomo glock can't do that as everything has to be perfect and they don't have the facility to adjust themselves to anything else. Hence the miming and ludicrous striving for "perfection."

 

Oh, and he ripped folk off too. Classy.

Edited 4 hours ago by Wolverinebass

[Beedster]

11 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I'm not so sure that no-one can play half the stuff in the videos - that's going to depend on whether the people creating the original content were able to play it at the speed at which it was shown in video, rather than the ability of the content thief to play it.

 

In one of the videos - I forget which one - the host demonstrates that the switch between strings would be all but impossible for a player with only the two hands  

[Hellzero]

3 hours ago, Beedster said:

 

In one of the videos - I forget which one - the host demonstrates that the switch between strings would be all but impossible for a player with only the two hands  

Or, to quote, without freezing the progression chord by chord...