This made me a feel a little inadequate...

vasselmeyer

But can he play "Brown-eyed Girl?"

impmann

Bet he can't put a Rowntrees Fruit Pastille in his mouth without chewing it...

HarrySeven

But can you dance to it?

Sooner have this any day.

Skipped

There is nothing wrong with admiring technique!

But it is important to understand why John McLaughlin was never mentioned, ever, in any episode of the much loved and popular tv show....Name That Tune.

StuartMac290

HarrySeven said:

But can you dance to it?

Sooner have this any day.

This in spades. 

The original video sounds like a Gameboy. 

HarrySeven

StuartMac290 said:

The original video sounds like a Gameboy. 

Most apt.

Funkfingers

OP video performance is pretty much what Emmett Chapman was doing in the late Sixties, immediately before he invented the Stick touch board instrument. It is also what Stanley Jordan did in the Eighties because - by his own admission - he was too mean to purchase a Stick.

The plinky plonky sound is improved by the addition of ripping distortion.

guitarfishbay

It's crazy skill, but I prefer other arrangements from a listening perspective.

This is a nice guitar one.

guitarfishbay

I usually come back to listening to piano though when it comes to this kind of music, I just prefer the sheer power of the instrument.  Guitar is a bit wimpy and restricted compared to a grand piano if we're talking virtuoso classical style stuff.

robinbowes

I think Bach works well when played like this.

Here's a piano intepretation by the great Glenn Gould:

p90fool

^^^ The best. 

guitarfishbay

HarrySeven said:

But can you dance to it?

Sooner have this any day.

I wouldn't know how to dance to that either.

HarrySeven

guitarfishbay said:

HarrySeven said:

But can you dance to it?

Sooner have this any day.

I wouldn't know how to dance to that either.

Then you’re already dead.

merlin

Adam Fulara is a great technician. I wonder whether he has a sense of humour though....

p90fool

I doubt it, that sex doll face thing while staring at the camera is very unsettling. 

Dominic

I appreciate Baroque Music immensely and I am a Bach lover but I don't want to hear it on an electric guitar because it demeans the integrity of the music which was meant for the Clavier /primitive Piano . Amazingly clever guitar player but I also wouldn't go to Wimbledon to watch a bad version of tennis played with Snowshoes.

Bucket

HarrySeven said:

But can you dance to it?

Sooner have this any day.

[Sex Pistols]

Oh dear.

Talk about apples and oranges... jeez.

SlopeSoarer

HarrySeven said:

guitarfishbay said:

HarrySeven said:

But can you dance to it?

Sooner have this any day.

I wouldn't know how to dance to that either.

Then you’re already dead.

A couple of JD's and your away.... 

tampaxboo

the sex pistols were the rolling stones with ripped t shirts. their presentation may have been bold but their actual sound was fairly traditional rock and blues. post-punk was the revolution.

HarrySeven

tampaxboo said:

the sex pistols were the rolling stones with ripped t shirts. their presentation may have been bold but their actual sound was fairly traditional rock and blues. post-punk was the revolution.

I wouldn't necessarily deny that.

More often than not, '76-'77 had it's roots firmly in R'n'B, etc. Nevertheless, as a catalyst, it was particularly effective.

In the same way that "Post-Punk" (in it's broadest sense) spawned some stunning music, the second wave (or "UK82" or whatever you want to call it) was also interesting (and exciting - in a more politicised, primitive and perhaps spectacularly egalitarian way).

HarrySeven

Bucket said:

HarrySeven said:

But can you dance to it?

Sooner have this any day.

[Sex Pistols]

Oh dear.

Talk about apples and oranges... jeez.

@Bucket - you're absolutely right.

However, I simply can't listen to Mr. Fulara's beepy-boopy-plippy-ploppy-tippy-tappy twiddles. As @StuartMac290 said, it sounds like a f*cking Gameboy.

Yes, the boy can play, but (to me) it's utterly emotionless and may as well be the soundtrack to a particularly frantic bit of gameplay in The Legend of Zelda.

But hey, it's a broad church - and that's what's fascinating about the aesthetics of music.