Guthrie Govan Discussion

[alexkhan]

The GG buzz keeps growing:

http://digital.premierguitar.com/premierguitar/201003_1/#pg133

Guitar Player magazine wants to do an interview and full-feature article on Guthrie as well.
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[MissMisstreater]

a great read

more please Guthrie

[Zakka]

thanks!

"I can generally guess within reason what they're doing, and what fret they're on, and where they learned that lick. I can generally give you the genealogy of the lick and who did it first"

If it was another guy saying it, i wouldn't believe it at all. But it's Guthrie =)

[alexkhan]

"The world's most outrageous guitarist"... I like that. Hard to argue, I have to add. Someone on the Petrucci Forum also stated: "Sickest player on earth." Not the best (no such thing), not the fastest (absurdly pointless), not the most soulful (too subjective), not the most innovative (hard to measure), etc., just "the sickest" and the "most outrageous." Have probably seen Guthrie live nearly 4 dozen times now and his playing never gets old. There are always surprises and new things that he plays every single time.

And that's what makes him so outrageous and sick; it's his amazing improvisational ability and the way he connects his mind and soul to the technique to simply express the ideas in his head and what he's feeling at a given moment during performance. Every solo he performs are like a snapshot of that moment. I played some audio from the recent Boston show for my wife (who was a music major in college for a while and has played piano since she was a little girl) and after she listened to it, she said, "I think of him as more of a composer than a guitar player."
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BOING Music LLC - Managing Partner
.strandberg* Guitars USA
Ed Yoon Consulting & Management
Guitar Center Inc.

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[Garry]

I agree with everything posted above. It is useless to be the fastest guitar player, and if this is your only goal you are in the wrong way. Instead, all of us should aspire to have such a vocabulary and knowledge of our instrument, to be able to express ourselves with no limits. Just like Guthrie.