Guthrie Govan Discussion

[anders]

Norway, up in the north. Voted for "Mainland Europe"

[Speed Demon]

Burnham, UK. I go to school in Guthrieland a.k.a. KEGS. How cool am I?
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[iumentum]

I'm from Norway too...

[alexkhan]

Obviously, this poll doesn't reflect reality as most members have not voted and I know that there are a bunch of lurkers who don't register. I also have a good idea based on the orders of the DVDs where the fans are coming from. It's still about the same as I posted earlier, but mainland Europe and Asia are gaining ground:

Local - USA Southern Cal and West Coast: 19%
USA Central - 7%
USA East Coast - 14%
United Kingdom - 38%
Mainland Europe - 12%
Australia/NZ - 5%
Asia - 4%
Other (Brazil, Chile) - 1%

One of the most interesting trends I've noticed is the high number of fans from Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Finland. I've sent a ton of DVDs to that part of the world.

Japan is still slow going, which I find the most perplexing as it's a huge market for extreme virtuosic guitar playing. I've shipped more DVDs to Korea and Taiwan and those markets combined are just a small fraction of Japan. I've been surprised by the recent interest in Taiwan (bunch of new DVD orders) and this forum:

http://www.modernmusician.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24917

The links to the clips pages, the bits of English spelling out Guthrie's name, and the universal exclamation points tell us that they're essentially saying the same things that we are.

BTW, just shipped 6 copies to Taiwan and 3 more to Japan today, so Asia's slowly but surely catching on.

An interesting tidbit I heard is that the Japanese aren't really into forums and message boards like these. I heard that it's not really in their culture to express opinions so freely. I'm not sure whether I could believe that or not, but it's interesting. That may explain it somewhat, but I still find it weird that the huge virtuosic guitar crowd in Japan hasn't latched onto Guthrie yet. But the album should finally and definitely change that.
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[fufux]

HEy guyz.

A little hello from Paris France.
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[alexkhan]

[metal_insomniac]

[alexkhan]

[GGG]

Hi everybody, I am from Hong Kong...

[M@]

Hi there GGG. I'm living in Hong Kong (originally from Australia). Good to see some more guitar fans in Hong Kong (just wish there were some good quality music/guitar shops in Hong Kong with quality staff/luthiers).

Hey Ed, you wanna open up a shop in Hong Kong mate?


Cheers
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[alexkhan]

[M@]

The live music scene here in HK mainly involves a lot of cover bands with Fillipino musicians. They are fantastic musicians, but the songs they play are rather lame (keeps the expat community happy I guess).

I think there is a niche market in the live scene for music that's more on the edge, with some room for funk, blues, edgy rock and fusion. Unfortunately, the radio focuses on Canto Pop or Mandarin Love songs (which is OK to practice my language skills, but that's about all I find it good for).

Re the music shops here, they are just into selling commodity items...

I'm just on the doorstep to Japan, so I wanna get over there and buy some quality Strats at good prices (i.e. not some of the poor quality Fenders they make in the US these days). I'm starting get to back into original Tokai's and would love to just spend a few days checking out the guitar shop district over there... I can do that, and my girlfriend can go and buy clothes and all that other woman stuff!





Cheers
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[kanak1911]

Hawaii here I think I'm alone in my percentile.

[alexkhan]

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