Saw Jennifer Batten at the Rock Hall tribute to Les Paul in Cleveland in 2008. She came out alone and used one guitar and looper to build all 8 tracks for Les' song Lover. No pre-recorded stuff. It was nuts. Lover was the first professional song Les recorded using multi-tracking. Recorded in Les' garage in 1948, it was done on acetate. No tape back then. Literally every recording using multi-tracks of any kind can trace the tech back to Les and that first recording.
0:40 The nasty and theatrical face-off with MJ at the end of JB's solo. He stalked her off the stage but not before one last whole body flip-off from her. Golden performance.
Still awesome Jennifer Batten and playing in a small house band for fun! After all these big stadiums and arenas after, a truly amazing artist and wonderful human being.
Jennifer Batten paved the way for girls playing guitar today. She's the First Lady of Rock guitar, a Legend. She's beyond amazing - incredible musician - innovative, original, and waaaay underrated
There's a reason Michael kept her as a part of his touring band for about 10 years. Her exotic style, her look, she just kicked all the ass there was to kick. She's so awesome!
@@arielnightmare8997 you don’t have to get offended at everything lol. They meant she’s the best female guitarist as in not the best guitarist in the world but out of the females she is the best. And before you call me sexist or mysoginistic I’m female lmao
HAHA best comment, i feel sorry for the metal bands, but unfortunaly it is true. Michael knew the importance of good riffs/beats or whatever you wanna call it. Metalbands today is all djent or lame single string rhytms with strange small bends to create "interest" cause they suck
@@AE-hx7wy At least Prince didn't need featurings for his instrumentals 😂 I don't know what you call Metal and/or Rock, there's so many sub genres... MJ rocker 🤣
@@AE-hx7wy Bubi's best Songs were recorded by the best Rock and Metal Musicians of the World, who adapted their Music to suit him. please don't forget that. For a lot of Money. Otherwise none of these would have played for Bubi
I remember when she started and was on the cover of the American guitar magazines. She used to tie a sock round the nut to mute her tapping. Great talent and not seen enough. I might still have that magazine somewhere.
I was at a clinic back when she was touring with MJ, and we asked her about the outfits. She said that it was part of the deal she had, that the tour producer and director could do whatever they wanted to modify her appearance on stage. She gave them an open ticket. That included peroxide hair and all the accessories. I have a picture with her of that night. One of my precious souvenirs.
It was the compromise as she couldn't dance and play (her comment was "I can barely chew gum and walk at the same time let alone dance and play), so she was given an exotic costume instead.
My fav part/note of that fantastic solo has always been thevery last note, landing down, right into the chorus, It''s magnificent. This lady is magnificent. Wonderful stuff.
A guitarrista, surreal, toca demais, onde ela está,? Esse talento tido, meu Deus......cada guitarrista, fortaleza.....Rock pesado.... Poderoso,.........🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🥳🥳🥳🥰
@@borischerni From what the stories say, he improvised it kind of on the fly. Like they asked him if he would track something and he was like "sure, what they heck" and blasted out what we know today.
@@cmdrdredd that's how most guitar rifts are created. On the fly. Look at Ted Nugent's 7 minute long Stranglehold solo track. Ted said the best version of it is the first recording, which he, the bassist from Amboy Dukes, and Derek St Holmes did at random, and is also the version on the album.
As a San Diego musician she was well known on the scene long before her MJ days. She started with jazz and can shred to Coltrain's "Giant Steps." I took a photo with her, Jeff Beck, and my ex gf Jennifer Bratton who I dated in the late 90's...three JB's!
Had the pleasure and good fortune of seeing, hearing and meeting Jennifer at trade show in London in 1990.. Total class in every way! Pete Woodroffe Music UK
Apenas 1.900 positivos, para uma lenda, que admito, mal conheço, mas que por trabalhar com quem trabalhou, graças, certamente ao seu profissionalismo e a sua competência, é no mínimo, uma afronta ao bom gosto, à musicalidade em si!
Seems so.... i remember when a bandmate says while watching MTV: "What is that ? A women ??? Ah..... " ( in 🇩🇪 we say "na ja, mal sehen..." ) later he says: "😯"
She was with a great band at least for the HIStory Tour.. David Williams - great funk guitarist Brad Buxer - great keyboardist Isaiah Sanders - great keyboardist Jonathan Moffett - amazing drummer Freddie Washington - amazing bassist
@@mdnblues I'm aware Jackson's band is a bounch of great musicians.. I meant if she only could have a band like say.. Van Halen did.. her own band.. of course being Michael Jackson "special guest" is not that bad....... but I think she deserve more
Jennifer batten could play that solo in her sleep. She (along with Mike Batio and Steve Lynch) took tapping to the next level and beyond in the mid/late 1980s.
That's what separates him from so many technical shredders . It's one thing to be able to play it .. but to compose it something different all together .
Where is she now? I just wanna say THANK YOU to her.. Im fans of MJ since 80's. Now im 58 yrs old. And im lost from MJ. His songs still alive. To MJ we proud of you bro. Love from me to MJ.. 🇲🇾❤️
I had the pleasure of seeing her doing a guitar seminar at Wembley Conference Centre! She's enormously underated and a class act generally! Pete Woodroffe Music UK
she was one of my teachers when I was at G.I.T. in 86-87 before she got the Jackson gig. Great player & teacher in addition to being a very nice & humble person (she also toured & recorded with Jeff Beck after the Jackson gigs) 🤘
Wow. I thought they dubbed in Eddie Van Halen and that she was air guitaring to it, until I saw that last clip. She really can play.
Jeff Green is gay
Jeff imho she's the best female guitar player that ever existed and that's not even one of the best solos of her check out her stuff, worth to listen.
Saw Jennifer Batten at the Rock Hall tribute to Les Paul in Cleveland in 2008. She came out alone and used one guitar and looper to build all 8 tracks for Les' song Lover. No pre-recorded stuff. It was nuts.
Lover was the first professional song Les recorded using multi-tracking. Recorded in Les' garage in 1948, it was done on acetate. No tape back then. Literally every recording using multi-tracks of any kind can trace the tech back to Les and that first recording.
Brett how I envy you mate..!
Yeah, a female with amazing guitar skills...Guess you never expected that in your universe.
What does your grandma do?
My grandma is a guitar goddess.
No, your granda is guitar grandpa
oh and she used to rock with Michael Jackson
hahaha epic
What is your grandma playing?
She plays with Grandpaaaajuhuuuu
Lmao how cool is that for the kids... Lol
0:40 The nasty and theatrical face-off with MJ at the end of JB's solo. He stalked her off the stage but not before one last whole body flip-off from her. Golden performance.
- Hey, grandma. Can you teach me how to play a song?
- Yes, honey. Come here.
Still awesome Jennifer Batten and playing in a small house band for fun! After all these big stadiums and arenas after, a truly amazing artist and wonderful human being.
She's a very humble person.
@@naiyalexic of course.
her love of ripping up on guitar is a joy to see...and she's a warm & sharing person-so yes, i 'm kinda fond of JB!
Jennifer Batten paved the way for girls playing guitar today. She's the First Lady of Rock guitar, a Legend. She's beyond amazing - incredible musician - innovative, original, and waaaay underrated
@ Boyan: Underestimated? haha, maybe from you
As a female guitar player I must say she really did us dirty. How are we supposed to compete with that????
@@AA-kc5np hi I’m learning to play guitar do you have any tips ?? It’s ok if you don’t !
I asked her how she got so good. She replied. I sat in my bedroom for a long time then I got a life.
First lady of rock guitar?? Sister rosetta and lita ford doesn't like that...
Jennifer is both teacher and player extraordinaire, and has been for decades. Lucky kids get to have a genuine guitar superstar play with them!
There's a reason Michael kept her as a part of his touring band for about 10 years. Her exotic style, her look, she just kicked all the ass there was to kick. She's so awesome!
Could not have said it better myself. Their onstage chemistry was INSANE. True friendship that lasted a lifetime.
Incredible guitarist, great cover of the master EVH. Rest in peace Eddie, rock guitar legend.
This is more than a cover. She added quite a bit to it, and a level of difficulty. They're both masters.
@@naiyalexicEddie was his own thing. Batten was on another level
the queen of the electric guitar !!!!!
Best female guitarist of all times 🤘
Tina S
can’t you just say she’s the best guitarist. u don’t have to say she’s a female we can see it
@@arielnightmare8997 It's not the same thing unless she is actually better than all the male guitarists out there.
@@arielnightmare8997 you don’t have to get offended at everything lol. They meant she’s the best female guitarist as in not the best guitarist in the world but out of the females she is the best. And before you call me sexist or mysoginistic I’m female lmao
Indeed!!!
Michael Jackson was called "King of Pop" but damn! He really rocked and rolled way better than many modern "metal bands".
HAHA best comment, i feel sorry for the metal bands, but unfortunaly it is true. Michael knew the importance of good riffs/beats or whatever you wanna call it. Metalbands today is all djent or lame single string rhytms with strange small bends to create "interest" cause they suck
THIS! He did! Wish he did a while album or rock .
@@AE-hx7wy At least Prince didn't need featurings for his instrumentals 😂
I don't know what you call Metal and/or Rock, there's so many sub genres...
MJ rocker 🤣
@El Cover Precious: Not him. His Musicians
@@AE-hx7wy Bubi's best Songs were recorded by the best Rock and Metal Musicians of the World, who adapted their Music to suit him. please don't forget that. For a lot of Money. Otherwise none of these would have played for Bubi
Jennifer is one of the most talented guitarists in the world..this solo is very very hard
No
Pues para ellos no es difícil pues fue ella quien lo inventó
I remember when she started and was on the cover of the American guitar magazines. She used to tie a sock round the nut to mute her tapping. Great talent and not seen enough. I might still have that magazine somewhere.
How the hell did she play with those contraptions on her head? She lucky she didn’t tip over. Just shows what an incredible player she is.
I was at a clinic back when she was touring with MJ, and we asked her about the outfits. She said that it was part of the deal she had, that the tour producer and director could do whatever they wanted to modify her appearance on stage. She gave them an open ticket. That included peroxide hair and all the accessories. I have a picture with her of that night. One of my precious souvenirs.
If you look, they aren't attached to her head. There is a back brace with a riser that is supporting them.
Did you see that she kept playing with that grin to emphasize her red lips? lol... not only had she play guitar well, but she had to have the looks!
It was the compromise as she couldn't dance and play (her comment was "I can barely chew gum and walk at the same time let alone dance and play), so she was given an exotic costume instead.
She plays from her heart, not her head
My fav part/note of that fantastic solo has always been thevery last note, landing down, right into the chorus, It''s magnificent. This lady is magnificent. Wonderful stuff.
just powerful magic from her fingers & she looks great in 3 ft tall horns!!! heh hee!
The BEST 10 guitar solos in history
Jammin with the young band...WOW! hOW FREAKIN COOL!
She teaches a lot, really gives back and inspires the next generation.
Djarra haha she’s my teacher, she’s amazing dude no joke I couldn’t imagine having anyone else teach me
Não é brincadeira o que essa mulher toca. Pqpariu
Every time I see/hear someone do a thing this well, I try to imagine how much time they’ve given to it. Legend!
Jennifer Batten still rocks! She is always great! A serious musician.
A guitarrista, surreal, toca demais, onde ela está,? Esse talento tido, meu Deus......cada guitarrista, fortaleza.....Rock pesado....
Poderoso,.........🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🦺🥳🥳🥳🥰
VERY underrated...the little adjustments to phrasing on the second solo are awesome!!
yeah that one blew me away. If I was there I might have passed out.
Incredible example of what Eddie Van Halen brought to the solo. Only the real masters can emulate what he created
yeah. eddie played that amazing solo for the first time in the album
@@borischerni From what the stories say, he improvised it kind of on the fly. Like they asked him if he would track something and he was like "sure, what they heck" and blasted out what we know today.
@@cmdrdredd that's how most guitar rifts are created. On the fly. Look at Ted Nugent's 7 minute long Stranglehold solo track. Ted said the best version of it is the first recording, which he, the bassist from Amboy Dukes, and Derek St Holmes did at random, and is also the version on the album.
I believe that 85% of the people commenting here don't have a clue who Jennifer Batten is, there's so much crap in the comments.
I will note that I do not, in fact, know who Jennifer Batten is. I will, however, do a quick google search.
I also do not have a clue, but I can see she's fucking awesome
As a San Diego musician she was well known on the scene long before her MJ days. She started with jazz and can shred to Coltrain's "Giant Steps." I took a photo with her, Jeff Beck, and my ex gf Jennifer Bratton who I dated in the late 90's...three JB's!
That's really cool to know man!! Cheers
...I can assure you I do ....I've much respect for her ....so does Jeff Beck...
Jennifer Batten, maravilhosa e virtuosa para todo sempre... Gratidão por sua música.
There's a clip her on YT of Jenn playing with Beckola on Letterman show, and she does EVERYTHING he does, just as well as him...
She had been keeping our beloved Michael Jackson's legacy alive. Love her to the very end. ❤❤❤❤❤
OMG I love this! forever in time!!!!!! thank you so so much
MJ and Jennifer's occasional stage interaction was so exciting - nobody rocked that laser gun like you, Jennifer! I'm forever in love
Whoa....
I grew up in that era. Nothing can beat it.
Had the pleasure and good fortune of seeing, hearing and meeting Jennifer at trade show in London in 1990..
Total class in every way!
Pete Woodroffe Music UK
Apenas 1.900 positivos, para uma lenda, que admito, mal conheço, mas que por trabalhar com quem trabalhou, graças, certamente ao seu profissionalismo e a sua competência, é no mínimo, uma afronta ao bom gosto, à musicalidade em si!
I miss MJ so much 😢
Her solo is JOY!!! I’ve GOT to see her doing this live! All respect for the one and only 🎸
Ela vai estar em Goiânia com Rodrigo Teaser em Goiânia 🇧🇷 junho de 2023
Jennifer Batten: Bad-Ass 4Ever!!! Saw her tour with Jeff Beck. Monstrous player.
Still one of my favorite guitarists
EVER!!!!
Still got it, girl 😎
👍👏🙌🎸
She been there with Michael since 1987
Ahhhh!!! Help me find my lips & eyeballs…. My face just got melted!!!
Espectacular Jennifer Batten, Beat it se complementa con la extraordinaria voz de Michael, y el sonido de esta guitarra. Una maravilla.
mfw most people in the comment section doesnt know jennifer batten.
facts
@UltimateGod55 then why would he state that not a lot of people know who she is?
Seems so.... i remember when a bandmate says while watching MTV: "What is that ? A women ??? Ah..... " ( in 🇩🇪 we say "na ja, mal sehen..." ) later he says: "😯"
Fabulous work
Wonderful virtuosity, great stage presence and perfectly saucy; from both of 'em.
Live solo gave me goosebumps 🔥
O.M.G. that was cool that time when she play with the rock 🤟🤟🤟
underrated guitarist. she could do even much better with a great band. no chance.. yet ;)
She was with a great band at least for the HIStory Tour..
David Williams - great funk guitarist
Brad Buxer - great keyboardist
Isaiah Sanders - great keyboardist
Jonathan Moffett - amazing drummer
Freddie Washington - amazing bassist
She toured with Jeff Beck. So there is that.
underrated? certainly not in jazz world..
You obviously don't know what you're talking about, Michael Jackson's band was incredible.
@@mdnblues I'm aware Jackson's band is a bounch of great musicians.. I meant if she only could have a band like say.. Van Halen did.. her own band.. of course being Michael Jackson "special guest" is not that bad....... but I think she deserve more
This made my day!
What an amazing female guitarist!!! she is so great and has such an awesome style.
I saw along side Jeff Beck at the HoB in New Orleans. He visibly appreciated her talent as much as me, it was obvious.🎭
Awesome. Cool to see the drummer doing vocals too.
She feels the music, awesome.
I cannot stop watching it over and over unreal !!!
Jennifer batten could play that solo in her sleep. She (along with Mike Batio and Steve Lynch) took tapping to the next level and beyond in the mid/late 1980s.
Amazing incredible . Best wishes from sri Lanka
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Demoledora espectacular Jenn!!
The extended solo in the last version is a treat.
JB was and still is one of the GREATS!!!!.
jennifer batten style was always my favorite.
She 've hitted all the harminics perfectly
If she was my grandmother I would rock out with her
Jennifer Batten is great!
Eddie Van Halen is awesome. I know it's great to be able to play it passably, but how many guitarists could come up with it from scratch. Eddie rocks!
Dave gives a different account of how Eddie comes up with solos. Brilliant for sure but not so on the fly. Everyone's got their way though.
That's what separates him from so many technical shredders . It's one thing to be able to play it .. but to compose it something different all together .
The last Simply perfect
Hey you little people this is JENNIFER BATTEN!!! 👑
If you have seen a video of her in recent years she looks like your kid's 4th grade teacher. Very personable and warm. A lovely woman.
Não tem como não gosta desse solo ela toca muito caraca
Excellent!! ❤💖💕👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍🏾👏
Que honra tocar para el mejor MJ. Que Talento!
She nailed it bad!!
One of the few times Michael was eclipsed. This solo IS the song Beat It. EVH forever!
She's god damn amazing
That's something actually badass I have witnessed in my life
Where is she now? I just wanna say THANK YOU to her.. Im fans of MJ since 80's. Now im 58 yrs old. And im lost from MJ. His songs still alive. To MJ we proud of you bro. Love from me to MJ.. 🇲🇾❤️
Most underrated guitarist in world history
Fantastic 🤟🏽🎸🔥
I saw Naternet Buckethead's interview on her she's so awesome
Wow
👑Michael Jackson🎤🕺
👑Jennifer Batten 🎸
❤❤
Oh man She is BAD ASSS, YESSSS Oh I Love this!!!
Fantastic! 💚
Wow that tree shit was awesome!
Mega star...... deixou seu legado👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The veteran still remembers her moves! Nice job Ma'am!!!
Jennifer Batten Tanke You
Omg... I can't believe I prefer the second version... she is sooo talented
Beat it 기타 솔로중 제일 멋있게 연주한 연주자~! 사랑합니다 ❤️❤️
Smoke’n!! 🎸🤛
being in michaels band must be what its be like to be a bridesmaid when the bride tells you what you are wearing for the ceremony
Jennifer Batten, la diosa de la guitarra ❤️🎸
I had the pleasure of seeing her doing a guitar seminar at Wembley Conference Centre!
She's enormously underated and a class act generally!
Pete Woodroffe Music UK
The story about her teaching Eddie how to play it again is great.
Wow..
Impressed
wow mike holding her tie hehehe 0:28
no name stars part of the act.
Holding her "thigh"
she was one of my teachers when I was at G.I.T. in 86-87 before she got the Jackson gig. Great player & teacher in addition to being a very nice & humble person (she also toured & recorded with Jeff Beck after the Jackson gigs) 🤘
The drummer singer at the end lol
She knows what she's doing!!!
Woooh!!!!!!🙌
Love you Jennifer!
WOW she's the best ever
she's just got that swagger
Just wow