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  • thegummythegummy Frets: 4389
    dbphoto said:
    I’m struggling to understand some of the negativity and assumptions being made here.
    The whole "look at my golden child, he's the captain of the football and debate team" thing has been annoying people since time immemorial, that's probably why there's a lot of the negativity, show off kids are just annoying in general.

    I don't understand the thing about knowing blues by having bad life experiences. Personally I find it a bit pretentious to think that an instrumental piece of music somehow comes from a life experience.
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  • siraxemansiraxeman Frets: 1935
    Arktik83 said:
    "one of my greatest influences growing up..." excuse me?  Growing up?  You're like 12 years old haha! 

    I thought exactly the very same thing!! I :lol: 'd
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  • SchnozzSchnozz Frets: 1926
    edited December 2017
    These kids are gonna be so messed up when they're older.

    For anyone under 22/23, it's Harry Enfield's "I'm considerably richer than yow" on a mass scale and not just the odd wanker.

    The lad's great, but it's just the whole concept behind it...
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  • dindudedindude Frets: 8534
    No matter how pushy the parents, kids don’t get that good without having a genuine passion - I bet he practices night and day, sleeps with a guitar and dreams about guitar. We just write about it on a forum and work out what we’re going to buy next ;)

    I do believe that you need someone with something to say, so to speak, to capture interest (even instrumental), but that doesn’t need to mean you have to have a hard life for this to be worthy, and he has plenty of time - as early foundations go, it doesn’t get much better than this.

    Fair play to the lad, only slight negative I can find is that it’s a little too theatrical in the facial and body expressions, but that will die down over time I’m sure.
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  • siraxemansiraxeman Frets: 1935
    Schnozz said:
    These kids are gonna be so messed up when they're older.

    For anyone under 22/23, it's Harry Enfield's "I'm considerably richer than yow" on a mass scale and not just the odd wanker.

    The lad's great, but it's just the whole concept behind it...

    that is a very real danger that he'd become conceited...hopefully his parents will have him taught well enough not to be so - but its really not that different for adults....many adults are full of themselves and their warped sense of self importance. Musicians are notorious for having egos!
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  • RockerRocker Frets: 4943
    dbphoto said:j
    I’m struggling to understand some of the negativity and assumptions being made here.
    Would you want your child spending all of his/her time playing guitar? To the exclusion of everything else a child does like playing games with other children?
    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [Albert Einstein]

    Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

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  • siraxemansiraxeman Frets: 1935
    edited December 2017

    Does that mean no kicking a ball around the green across the road, no knock n run, hide n seek or playing 'Kirby' ? No xbox or PS3/4?? o

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  • He’s localish to me and has featured in the local papers a few times, then played on the Chris Evans radio show and tv when he redid TFI Friday. After that it seemed that go mega for him. 
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  • xpia98jfxpia98jf Frets: 309
    He’s localish to me and has featured in the local papers a few times, then played on the Chris Evans radio show and tv when he redid TFI Friday. After that it seemed that go mega for him. 
    No pressure then...
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  • dbphotodbphoto Frets: 716
    Rocker said:
    dbphoto said:j
    I’m struggling to understand some of the negativity and assumptions being made here.
    Would you want your child spending all of his/her time playing guitar? To the exclusion of everything else a child does like playing games with other children?
    No.  I wouldn’t want either of mine spending all of their time doing any one thing.  I want them to experience all the good things life has to offer.

    (are you assuming that’s the case with this young lad?)

    If however either of mine find something they are passionate about then I will support them as much as possible, but socialising with their friends and getting out the house will always be encouraged/enforced.

    I just hope neither become interested in bloody football........ 
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  • randellarandella Frets: 4088
    Kid rips it up on loud overdriven guitar with raw talent, looking like he's thoroughly enjoying himself whilst he's at it.  Everything you'd think the participants on a guitar forum would approve of. 

    Guitar forum says no playing until he's old and bitter, apparently then he'll have 'something to say'. And his parents are obviously shit to boot. 

    Hell's teeth. 
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  • xpia98jfxpia98jf Frets: 309
    randella said:
    Kid rips it up on loud overdriven guitar with raw talent, looking like he's thoroughly enjoying himself whilst he's at it.  Everything you'd think the participants on a guitar forum would approve of. 

    Guitar forum says no playing until he's old and bitter, apparently then he'll have 'something to say'. And his parents are obviously shit to boot. 

    Hell's teeth. 
    I don’t think the views expressed so far represent the ‘view of the forum’ any more than yours does. Voicing a few concerns about the way the kid is being touted around all over the place and the fact that at his age he is too young to know what the ‘blues’ really means doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. He’s 11 for christ’s sake.
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  • dbphotodbphoto Frets: 716
    Too young to know what the blues really means?

    Pretentious nonsense I would say.

    SRV played his first gig aged 11 if I remember correctly.
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  • BRISTOL86BRISTOL86 Frets: 1920
    Rocker said:
    dbphoto said:j
    I’m struggling to understand some of the negativity and assumptions being made here.
    Would you want your child spending all of his/her time playing guitar? To the exclusion of everything else a child does like playing games with other children?
    Quite a big assumption to glean from a YouTube video that he doesn’t play games with other children
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  • xpia98jfxpia98jf Frets: 309
    edited December 2017
    dbphoto said:
    Too young to know what the blues really means?

    Pretentious nonsense I would say.

    SRV played his first gig aged 11 if I remember correctly.
    So at 11 he knows about falling in/out love, getting your heart broken, losing your job, grief over lost loved ones, drug/drink addiction, money problems etc etc? Because that’s where authentic blues comes from.

    Or are we just talking about generic blues by numbers?
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  • thegummythegummy Frets: 4389
    dbphoto said: D
    SRV played his first gig aged 11 if I remember correctly.
    Did he look right into the camera every few seconds as well?
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  • ricorico Frets: 1220
    I do not think he has raw talent. He might have great learning agility but not raw talent. 
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  • BRISTOL86BRISTOL86 Frets: 1920
    pia98jf said:
    dbphoto said:
    Too young to know what the blues really means?

    Pretentious nonsense I would say.

    SRV played his first gig aged 11 if I remember correctly.
    So at 11 he knows about falling in/out love, getting your heart broken, losing your job, grief over lost loved ones, drug/drink addiction, money problems etc etc? Because that’s where authentic blues comes from.

    Or are we just talking about generic blues by numbers?
    My fiancée lost her Mum only a few years older than this kid. I believe she’d have some choice words if you suggested she didn’t understand emotions around the loss of a loved one enough for her feelings to be valid! 

    So you can only truly play the blues if you lose your job and can’t lay off the booze?! 
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  • xpia98jfxpia98jf Frets: 309
    BRISTOL86 said:

    My fiancée lost her Mum only a few years older than this kid. I believe she’d have some choice words if you suggested she didn’t understand emotions around the loss of a loved one enough for her feelings to be valid!

    So you can only truly play the blues if you lose your job and can’t lay off the booze?! 
    For it to be authentic and from the heart, yes. Otherwise it’s just mimicry like I said before. Of course it doesn’t have to be those examples I gave necessarily but some life experience at least.
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  • BRISTOL86BRISTOL86 Frets: 1920
    pia98jf said:
    BRISTOL86 said:

    My fiancée lost her Mum only a few years older than this kid. I believe she’d have some choice words if you suggested she didn’t understand emotions around the loss of a loved one enough for her feelings to be valid!

    So you can only truly play the blues if you lose your job and can’t lay off the booze?! 
    For it to be authentic and from the heart, yes. Otherwise it’s just mimicry like I said before. Of course it doesn’t have to be those examples I gave necessarily but some life experience at least.
    I just don’t buy that you have to be a certain age bracket or have had terrible things happen to you to make good music. If you like it you like it. 
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