I tthink I have a lot of musial curiosity and love the radical playing of guys like Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, E. Chadbourne, James Blood Ulmer et al, but hey, this is just bullshit.
well... I agree. but this time I, as a viewer, actually can hear that he can play a little bit. I mean... he is not totally... hmm.... how to say it... I dont know, but he can actually feel rythm and play a bit. BUT, If I want to listen to someone "who can play a little" then I´ll listen to other stuff. I do come to Henry for that....out of this world horrible-guitartone!
@@jonasstrandgard872 What you hear is an play of an amateur with an emperor's new clothes complex. Its only takes 4-5 guitar lessons to play at his level, possibly better.
The video in 2 sentences: "This is a beautiful guitar, made with some of the finest tonewoods and boutique components in the world, and I hope I can do it justice" *proceeds to spend 45 seconds making it sound like a computer having a seizure* Repeat this for his 15-20 guitars and you have this video.
He is great, controlling chaos, humor, he is skilled but bored fast. He is playing Beefheart, Zappa, McLaughlin parts here and those guitars sound fabulous! Originality and emotion above skills, which he has in truckloads. Punk rock attitude. To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave
Lot of gatekeepers here. There's not many people who can make noise on an instrument and have it sound good. Kaiser was inspired by a lot of jazz and improvisational musicians; he started learning to play at 25 years of age and didn't have that garage-band rush of playing "Louie Louie" that most of us get. His effects are as much a part of what he does as his instruments, and he obviously "plays" his effects as much as his guitars. And as far as covering up things with effects, many guitarists have used effects in the past as part of their sound. I'm sure many of us here would hear "Ibanez Tube Screamer" or "Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face" and think of Stevie Ray Vaughan or Hendrix.
When I'm feeling down, finding Henry Kaiser on RUclips always brings a smile to my lips. Like they say: "To each, his own". I just hope the cameraman is wearing 120db-cancelling ear protection... just in case Henry's definition of music does not agree with his own!
I know how you feel.. when I’m feeling down about how crap my playing is.. I listen to HK and I don’t feel so bad. Cos I’m in an even par with this guy!
Idk why everyone shits all over Kaiser. He’s a great guitarist, he just goes in some non traditional directions that your average guitarist doesn’t explore.
A truly incredible musician. For all the doubters posting here: if you're good enough to jam with Richard Thompson, it's reasonable to say you can play your ass off.
He jammed with Richard Thompson at RT's summer camp 'Frets and Refrains', where you pay 2-3 grand for a week's workshop. They have an open mic night where obviously anyone can play with RT. You or I or literally anyone can jam with him there if we have the money, as HK obviously does. Are you seriously suggesting that one of the world's finest guitarists would take Kaiser seriously? It's how HK's done everything in his life. Inherited wealth.
Around 7:00 Henry actually plays something that we could actually groove a little bit too. I think he can play, but he plays lots of things that are waaaaaayyy off of "normal".
What i am seeing is someone who has absolutely no idea how to play a guitar. Masking his inabilities with a bilion effects and some fast hand movements that have nothing at all to do with what he is actually playing.
I actually really like his music. He has an album called 'A little stroke of light' that you can buy pretty cheaply on iTunes. Worth listening to with the lights off in bed with headphones and spacing out.
He just seems like the kind of guy, that when a guitarist can't make a gig, he just shows up with a Guitar you've never heard off and takes the dudes place.
Wow, lots of traditionalists and jealous people posting in the comments. All of this stems from the Alexander Dumble video. I guess I'd be jealous too if I was a shitty player and couldn't score a Dumble from the man himself.
I love when he's talking about the Tele with the temperament neck, he says, "this is what you really need to play in tune." .... I don't really think he's the poster child for playing in tune, or in key...
Those chords where he's holding the slide on a slight angle instead of straight parallel to the frets, oblivious to how out of tune the resulting mess is. Rookie mistakes.
he is referencing his influences as he goes, when you hear just the guitar alone with no other instrumentation maybe it doesn't make sense but Kaiser is not a "shitty" guitar player. he knows what he is doing. once one of your fav musicians name checks Kaiser you can start to appreciate him then?
Thank you for posting Henry up. He's a constant reminder to me that gear does not equal talent. Makes me wanna sell all my guitars, just buy one good player and PRACTICE!
Fantastic info and display of playing - I'm guessing many of the listeners have a limited awareness of music outside of Steve Vai etc! I loved the Beefheart extracts and the Zappa "Ship Ahoy! along with your own beautiful music! Yes the effects do hide the original pure guitar sound, but hey who cares? In short I loved it all!
Welp at least I recognized the last bit of music. The ostinato from “In a silent way”. Fitting i guess because he mentioned the Pete Cosey Miles Davis connection.
Well I watched/listened to the whole vid and I am now suffering from ear fatigue following involuntary spastic ticks... good grief Charlie Brown. Very cool guitars though.
Talks about wood mentions Stradivarious mentions old hollow body Gibsons. Then he "plays" Yeah dude I can really here the "tone" of your fine instruments. Whoooo boy. Is this a great country or what? And we wonder how we got here.
Kaiser would have been a great addition to the Magic Band with Capt Beefheart. Although, of course, he probably wouldn't have been able to follow the captain's direction. Anyway, some of this riffing sounds like it belongs on "Trout Mask Replica" as part of that thoroughly unhinged music.
I am very confused. Every time I decide whether he is any good or not, he plays something that changes my opinion. When i first started watching, i thought he was absolute BS, yet i got to 12:55, and then he played something melodic and the sound actually matched what his fingers were doing. i was pleasantly surprised at this point, because in addition to his playing being heard, there was no backing track to speak of, and the guitar was played clean. Yet, I continued to 16:31 and none of the sounds i heard even vaguely resembled the way his fingers moved across the guitar. The backing track entirely engulfed whatever sounds he might have been playing at the time, and was complex and irregular enough to entirely confuse my ears. Whether or not you like his "music", i think we can all agree he demonstrated almost all the guitars in the wrong way.
Not a backing track - he uses a looper and a lot of delay effects. Also, we don't all agree it is "... the wrong way." He is demonstrating HIS guitars the way HE likes to play them. He is a ballsy player and is unafraid of closed-minded critics. Pretty cool. The world could sure use more of that, whether you dig his style or not. We got enough average-at-best guitar players playing covers of whatever that sound worse then the originals.
@@srmd22 I have seen vids of him warming up, he sounds alright sometimes. But that then means that what he plays is by choice. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but i literally can't stand to listen to his playing for more than 10 seconds at a time. I consider Allan Holldsworth a jazz guy, and I figure he cam up with most of his stuff through at least minor improv, he sounds great. I don't see why this guy bothers to name his songs, as i don't think he really knows them. Pretty sure they are different every time he plays them. For me it's his lack of structure that bothers me. "Hey guys what keys is this song in, i wanna know what keys I should avoid." sounds like something that could come outta his mouth. He's wealthy and that has gotten him where he is. If he were a street musician I don;t think he could buy lunch.
Some of what he played sounded nice, particularly the bamboo necked guitar and the guitar he assembled from parts. The song he did with the Dan Ranson guitar was GREAT! A lot of the other stuff I can do without. Seems like he can really play but he does too much oddball crap...OH well, he has still made a whole lot more money playing guitar than anyone of us.
I don't know why he's getting so much hate. Approx. 90% of comments are negative. He's the most influenced by Captain Beefheart guy I've ever seen. He's doing the same music as Beefheart (well, not the effects), but even Beefheart doesn't get half of the hate than Henry Kaiser
The last one. The last loop he played... I was hopeful it would be some kind of atonal jazz riffs. But no, crank the distortion and act like the loop behind you doesn't sound like garbage with what you're currently playing. I felt like crying on that last one. I think he's spent too much time buying and customizing and not enough learning how to actually play it.
notice how he said he bought the guitar when "he was in college" then he says he bought it in "Harvard square", leading you to believe he went to college at Harvard, he then holds a bunch of expensive guitars, leading you to believe he is a musician
Rocky Rhodes In an interview in Guitar Player many years ago I'm almost certain that he mentioned that his degree was in economics - which I believe might be the case. I also remember that he begin playing guitar in his early 20s, when he was already in college - but, again, that was a long time ago - I may have gotten it wrong.
Well I was going to say something about ends and means, but it looks like a lot beat me to it. Kind sir, your passion is admirable, but keep in mind, if you want to let us hear the guitar, let us hear the guitar. Clean thru amp and then one with dirt is all we ask!
i was like Dammit you've been playing since the early 70's and manage to accumulate way too many guitars, some with ridiculously weird fretting and still get weird (in the bad sense of the word) sounds. I don't know what you are doing with those guitars but you should give it to your boss so he can do an extensive guitar giveaway, that is the only way you can possibly keep your job.
I watched the whole video, was too intrigued to leave. Had to laugh more than once, the experience was a bit like hearing Motorhead for the first time. Never mind the guitars, this guy is some wacky player. I'm not sure I want the listen to a whole record of this racket but he sure got my interest. Zappa meets Tom Waits with extra messy sauce... "We're not in Kansas anymore" summarized it pretty well, haha.
Probably the first video I've ever commented on. This is the best thing ever. Its either the best joke of all time, or the biggest joke of all time. Hilarious either way
his guitars look like the sound great. I stopped watching when I saw him do that to that one with the sound hole. I understand experimental music and listen to free jazz myself, but everybody- musician or not-just wants something they can listen to. "free" music is often unlistenable. his is pure noise. it's not musical imo, at all.
+Doktor Jekyll van Hyde no haha! I don't know the guy, I'm judging the playing not him. There's many good people but they can't play a single thing. I am saying his playing is crap. He just plays a mish mash of notes that are just that just sounds horrible and ott to my ears. I think it's a bit crazy to tell me what point I was trying to make man. I aren't telling you not to dig this guys playing, I just wrote my opinion which you didn't get.
The lack of curiosity, ignorance and sheer conformism that exudes from the comments to this video is astounding.
Baby Microbe Music The lack of musical understanding and hipsterness that exudes from this comment is astounding.
AgentQQ8 So what? At least thats somewhat musical...
Baby Microbe Music You don't understand music, at all. neither do you understand conformism.
@@jaysonc9690 hahahaha this is so funny
I tthink I have a lot of musial curiosity and love the radical playing of guys like Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, E. Chadbourne, James Blood Ulmer et al, but hey, this is just bullshit.
The improv he did with the strat was pretty cool.
Reminds me of Skynyrd and Ween. (EDIT) Realized I was talking about a Ranson, not the strat.
I love that he points out that tele is true temperament so the tuning is perfect and then just proceeds to play the most dissonant shit ever on it
Ha ha I know. He's a great guy though, and there's something fascinating about the playing.
It's like Stevie Wonder showing you his car collection
ROFLMAO!!
@ Not_a_Intelligent_Music_Fan. From Billy Crystal via Howard Stern "You are not funny, you are not fun".
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
well... I agree. but this time I, as a viewer, actually can hear that he can play a little bit. I mean... he is not totally... hmm.... how to say it... I dont know, but he can actually feel rythm and play a bit. BUT, If I want to listen to someone "who can play a little" then I´ll listen to other stuff. I do come to Henry for that....out of this world horrible-guitartone!
@@jonasstrandgard872 What you hear is an play of an amateur with an emperor's new clothes complex.
Its only takes 4-5 guitar lessons to play at his level, possibly better.
those guitars look awesome!
i'm happy to have found this guitarist
It's nice to see how a few guitars can bring so much joy. You can see the happiness in this gentleman's face.
The video in 2 sentences:
"This is a beautiful guitar, made with some of the finest tonewoods and boutique components in the world, and I hope I can do it justice"
*proceeds to spend 45 seconds making it sound like a computer having a seizure*
Repeat this for his 15-20 guitars and you have this video.
@@deathmetaldouglas69 watch out! We've got a badass over here!🤪
I dig Kaiser. I'm glad there are players like him around.
M Carlson what?
Yeah he makes so many other people seem sooooooo much better
I think he is also very glad there are ppl like you
You mean those at Guitar Center?
!!CORRECTION!! Title should read Oddball Henry Kaiser's Dozen Guitars. GuitarPlayerEditors.
and so the Kaiser haters emerge yet again...(it's like a broken record..)
I for one, totally dig his stuff..
All a bunch of jealous nobodies. What else is new?
ahahaha..
Nice attempt at trolling, but you fail because no one is actually going to believe someone likes Kaiser.
pffftt...... you've gotta do better than that...
He is great, controlling chaos, humor, he is skilled but bored fast. He is playing Beefheart, Zappa, McLaughlin parts here and those guitars sound fabulous! Originality and emotion above skills, which he has in truckloads. Punk rock attitude. To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave
That studio looks a lot like a basement.
It's like he's playing air guitar on real guitars
I feel sorry for the Guitars, they deserve a better home.
+agony664 everyone does what they want. this guy seems to enjoy himself so your opinion is worth absolutely nothing.
+Yaman Dirik True That!, but I'm still Bleeding from the Ear.
Lot of gatekeepers here. There's not many people who can make noise on an instrument and have it sound good. Kaiser was inspired by a lot of jazz and improvisational musicians; he started learning to play at 25 years of age and didn't have that garage-band rush of playing "Louie Louie" that most of us get. His effects are as much a part of what he does as his instruments, and he obviously "plays" his effects as much as his guitars. And as far as covering up things with effects, many guitarists have used effects in the past as part of their sound. I'm sure many of us here would hear "Ibanez Tube Screamer" or "Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face" and think of Stevie Ray Vaughan or Hendrix.
He doesn't make it sound good though, he seems like a fine player but his choice of effects and tone is so bad.
My new favorite video. Amazing!
When I'm feeling down, finding Henry Kaiser on RUclips always brings a smile to my lips.
Like they say: "To each, his own".
I just hope the cameraman is wearing 120db-cancelling ear protection... just in case Henry's definition of music does not agree with his own!
I know how you feel.. when I’m feeling down about how crap my playing is.. I listen to HK and I don’t feel so bad. Cos I’m in an even par with this guy!
Honestly I jst found you tonight..and I'm inspired...love your playing your a legend I see by the old vids👍
It's like the amp is plugged into an angry raccoon.
most of his guitar playing sounds like dial up Internet connecting.
With a modem made of exotic woods
Very interesting collection of fine guitars. Was a pleasure visiting and viewing the fine specimens. Cheers.
Does it really matter what guitar u use with all that effects on?
Idk why everyone shits all over Kaiser. He’s a great guitarist, he just goes in some non traditional directions that your average guitarist doesn’t explore.
At 26:52 he makes a mistake. He hits a G flat and I think it was meant to be a C.
A truly incredible musician. For all the doubters posting here: if you're good enough to jam with Richard Thompson,
it's reasonable to say you can play your ass off.
He jammed with Richard Thompson at RT's summer camp 'Frets and Refrains', where you pay 2-3 grand for a week's workshop. They have an open mic night where obviously anyone can play with RT. You or I or literally anyone can jam with him there if we have the money, as HK obviously does. Are you seriously suggesting that one of the world's finest guitarists would take Kaiser seriously? It's how HK's done everything in his life. Inherited wealth.
@@jokermaan1 - wrong - he has made albums with him.
DUDE! If the point is for us to hear how the guitars sound then why use all the pedals to distort it?
+Rick Burrington GOOD POINT
Haha because he is truly psychotic! The neural pathways in his brain are as screwed up as the fret board on that Fender he plays
Around 7:00 Henry actually plays something that we could actually groove a little bit too.
I think he can play, but he plays lots of things that are waaaaaayyy off of "normal".
[Plays dissonant, atonal, Karlheinz Stockhausen-sounding riffs]
Five minutes later...
"Yeah, this guitar is really good for Grateful Dead stuff."
Very inspiring, thanks Henry.
I do have to say, when he doesn't add so many effects it makes children cry and dogs ears bleed, he can occasionally sound alright
Nice looking guitars most of them but they all sound the same with the same Amp settings and lashings of wah ,flange ,fuzz,so what's the point ?
He is a guitar God! One of the best.
Please, please be joking.
What i am seeing is someone who has absolutely no idea how to play a guitar. Masking his inabilities with a bilion effects and some fast hand movements that have nothing at all to do with what he is actually playing.
kyatzz not joking.Check out his recordings.
Arnie Wince This guy has a solid 200 album credits. He gets work somehow.
A rich family doesn't equal rich talent.
This is how Kaiser rolls!
I actually really like his music. He has an album called 'A little stroke of light' that you can buy pretty cheaply on iTunes. Worth listening to with the lights off in bed with headphones and spacing out.
and the entire supply of LSD for the west coast for a year.
He just seems like the kind of guy, that when a guitarist can't make a gig, he just shows up with a Guitar you've never heard off and takes the dudes place.
I bet with a non-Henry Kaiser touch, that walnut Moonstone guitar would sound pretty sweet.
Wow, lots of traditionalists and jealous people posting in the comments. All of this stems from the Alexander Dumble video. I guess I'd be jealous too if I was a shitty player and couldn't score a Dumble from the man himself.
I love when he's talking about the Tele with the temperament neck, he says, "this is what you really need to play in tune."
.... I don't really think he's the poster child for playing in tune, or in key...
Those chords where he's holding the slide on a slight angle instead of straight parallel to the frets, oblivious to how out of tune the resulting mess is. Rookie mistakes.
Very interesting collection !
he is referencing his influences as he goes, when you hear just the guitar alone with no other instrumentation maybe it doesn't make sense but Kaiser is not a "shitty" guitar player. he knows what he is doing. once one of your fav musicians name checks Kaiser you can start to appreciate him then?
Thank you for posting Henry up. He's a constant reminder to me that gear does not equal talent. Makes me wanna sell all my guitars, just buy one good player and PRACTICE!
^^^
Love the Espana and your slide playing
I liked the one with the big knobs !
If music is the expression of the mind than this gentleman is a perfect and interesting study subject..
Volume warning every time he plays something
C Barnes
Was this real?
Very bad tune
Everyone says he's a bad player he is but in some of the guitar playing there was a little that was jazz like
Very cool collection I like guitars that are different, enough strats and les pauls
Thx for sharing your cool guitars. I see a lot of people are very jealous!
All them jealous nazis! Unlike us, honest and hardworking pedophile antifas!
@@elhatarolodohod2040 Silly Kenites
Fantastic info and display of playing - I'm guessing many of the listeners have a limited awareness of music outside of Steve Vai etc! I loved the Beefheart extracts and the Zappa "Ship Ahoy! along with your own beautiful music! Yes the effects do hide the original pure guitar sound, but hey who cares? In short I loved it all!
His video with Howard Dumble slashed the prices of Dumbles in half!
I want a Les Paul.even a knock off would be awesome..my first was a harmony electric..wish I had that too...great video.
HOW??? did this guy make it as far as he did in music?
one word:
MONEY
Welp at least I recognized the last bit of music. The ostinato from “In a silent way”. Fitting i guess because he mentioned the Pete Cosey Miles Davis connection.
Well I watched/listened to the whole vid and I am now suffering from ear fatigue following involuntary spastic ticks... good grief Charlie Brown. Very cool guitars though.
Why the hell does he have a true temperament neck? He never plays notes in tune anyway.
This literally sounds like an afternoon at guitar center..
yup, a saturday around 11am
No wonder who they got their guitar playing from.
11:30 THROW AWAY YOUR TELEVISION
Talks about wood mentions Stradivarious mentions old hollow body Gibsons. Then he "plays" Yeah dude I can really here the "tone" of your fine instruments. Whoooo boy. Is this a great country or what? And we wonder how we got here.
Kaiser would have been a great addition to the Magic Band with Capt Beefheart. Although, of course, he probably wouldn't have been able to follow the captain's direction. Anyway, some of this riffing sounds like it belongs on "Trout Mask Replica" as part of that thoroughly unhinged music.
Lot of cool stuff..I'm drooling...
Wow, have you done a runthrough of those amps ?! What's that seafoam-y green tolexed one in the distance, behind you ?!
I don't know what's weirder, your guitars or your playing. This is the first time I seen you play, conciously.
So....no clean demo? We're going right to the crazy effects?
my cat loves this! 🐈💨〰〰〰
I am very confused.
Every time I decide whether he is any good or not, he plays something that changes my opinion. When i first started watching, i thought he was absolute BS, yet i got to 12:55, and then he played something melodic and the sound actually matched what his fingers were doing. i was pleasantly surprised at this point, because in addition to his playing being heard, there was no backing track to speak of, and the guitar was played clean. Yet, I continued to 16:31 and none of the sounds i heard even vaguely resembled the way his fingers moved across the guitar. The backing track entirely engulfed whatever sounds he might have been playing at the time, and was complex and irregular enough to entirely confuse my ears.
Whether or not you like his "music", i think we can all agree he demonstrated almost all the guitars in the wrong way.
Not a backing track - he uses a looper and a lot of delay effects. Also, we don't all agree it is "... the wrong way." He is demonstrating HIS guitars the way HE likes to play them. He is a ballsy player and is unafraid of closed-minded critics. Pretty cool. The world could sure use more of that, whether you dig his style or not. We got enough average-at-best guitar players playing covers of whatever that sound worse then the originals.
@@srmd22 I have seen vids of him warming up, he sounds alright sometimes. But that then means that what he plays is by choice. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but i literally can't stand to listen to his playing for more than 10 seconds at a time. I consider Allan Holldsworth a jazz guy, and I figure he cam up with most of his stuff through at least minor improv, he sounds great. I don't see why this guy bothers to name his songs, as i don't think he really knows them. Pretty sure they are different every time he plays them. For me it's his lack of structure that bothers me. "Hey guys what keys is this song in, i wanna know what keys I should avoid." sounds like something that could come outta his mouth. He's wealthy and that has gotten him where he is. If he were a street musician I don;t think he could buy lunch.
is this guy a comedian?
Favourite guitarist
Some of what he played sounded nice, particularly the bamboo necked guitar and the guitar he assembled from parts. The song he did with the Dan Ranson guitar was GREAT! A lot of the other stuff I can do without. Seems like he can really play but he does too much oddball crap...OH well, he has still made a whole lot more money playing guitar than anyone of us.
Totally hiring him to play my wedding.
How do you manage to make the strings last 2 years,,,im lucky if i get 2 weeks out of mine...
Awesome, Captain beefheart
18:25
Music from another planet, in another dimension, suffering multiple seizures.
oh god! i came here to see odd guitars, i didn't think he would actually play!
I don't know why he's getting so much hate. Approx. 90% of comments are negative. He's the most influenced by Captain Beefheart guy I've ever seen. He's doing the same music as Beefheart (well, not the effects), but even Beefheart doesn't get half of the hate than Henry Kaiser
Sounds great, man.
"This is what you need to really play in tune"
And then proceeds to play nothing that sounds like it's actually in any kind of tuning at all.
11:30 Whoa, Ship Ahoy!
Love dis guy....he is fearless and he does my favorite version of Ode to Billy Joe. who needs clean orderly studio's your is great!
hi mate the bamboo guitar is great sound i love it mate
is he Californian by any chance? that would answer a lot of questions
yes, yes he is
the mandolin looking guitar is badass
Looks more like a storage room than a studio.
The last one. The last loop he played... I was hopeful it would be some kind of atonal jazz riffs. But no, crank the distortion and act like the loop behind you doesn't sound like garbage with what you're currently playing. I felt like crying on that last one. I think he's spent too much time buying and customizing and not enough learning how to actually play it.
Odd ball guitars.....love them myself as of late into 81 bullets
notice how he said he bought the guitar when "he was in college" then he says he bought it in "Harvard square", leading you to believe he went to college at Harvard, he then holds a bunch of expensive guitars, leading you to believe he is a musician
He graduated in economics from Harvard.
yeh his dad was a billionaire shipping magnate, I read the the Wikipedia article too
=/
s. borges No, he didn't. His Harvard degree is in ethnomusicology.
Rocky Rhodes In an interview in Guitar Player many years ago I'm almost certain that he mentioned that his degree was in economics - which I believe might be the case. I also remember that he begin playing guitar in his early 20s, when he was already in college - but, again, that was a long time ago - I may have gotten it wrong.
Some earplug company should endorse this dude
Your studio looks a lot like a regular unfinished basement, I can see the water heater.
Well I was going to say something about ends and means, but it looks like a lot beat me to it.
Kind sir, your passion is admirable, but keep in mind, if you want to let us hear the guitar, let us hear the guitar. Clean thru amp and then one with dirt is all we ask!
8:55 When in doubt of what you're playing, cover it with effects. :/
i was like Dammit you've been playing since the early 70's and manage to accumulate way too many guitars, some with ridiculously weird fretting and still get weird (in the bad sense of the word) sounds. I don't know what you are doing with those guitars but you should give it to your boss so he can do an extensive guitar giveaway, that is the only way you can possibly keep your job.
Hilarious :) I love that he can afford all this gear and is having fun playing it
He is the heir to the Henry J. Kaiser fortune.
Meh... they're a bunch of partcaster's and pawnshop oddities. The most expensive thing he showed was the evertune bridge he installed lol
@@derrickharmon7980 they look cool to me, and he is definitely enjoying himself :)
@@derrickharmon7980 you should check how much a Teuffel Antonio costs ;)
I watched the whole video, was too intrigued to leave. Had to laugh more than once, the experience was a bit like hearing Motorhead for the first time. Never mind the guitars, this guy is some wacky player. I'm not sure I want the listen to a whole record of this racket but he sure got my interest. Zappa meets Tom Waits with extra messy sauce... "We're not in Kansas anymore" summarized it pretty well, haha.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MUSIC EVER!!!
for torturing? yes.
Cool guy, cool guitars, cool info, very inspiring, but I had to mute the speakers every time he plays...
Did he just play Mahavishnu Orchestra?
+Cyan Blue Yes he did
Lol
No he didn't
Mechameleon Rex he does at 6:50
@@pissnachoes That's 'Timeless' by John Abercrombie.
??? where in that song does it play that riff
6:54 hell yeah Mahavishnu!
This guy knows a lot of stuff
Probably the first video I've ever commented on. This is the best thing ever. Its either the best joke of all time, or the biggest joke of all time. Hilarious either way
Who pickups up an instrument and decides to play completely dissonant overdriven shit. all his guitars sound the same because of those effects.
I was drooling over that wenge neck and hemlock body, til he plugged it in and it sounded like a busy weekend at Guitar Center.
his guitars look like the sound great. I stopped watching when I saw him do that to that one with the sound hole. I understand experimental music and listen to free jazz myself, but everybody- musician or not-just wants something they can listen to. "free" music is often unlistenable. his is pure noise. it's not musical imo, at all.
would you call some of this guys stuff "atonal music" ?
no its called arsehole music
dave lame one
+Doktor Jekyll van Hyde what's lame? That I think his guitar playing is crap, cos that's what my comment means.
dave and because you don't like it he's an arsehole ? because that's what your comment actually means
+Doktor Jekyll van Hyde no haha! I don't know the guy, I'm judging the playing not him. There's many good people but they can't play a single thing. I am saying his playing is crap. He just plays a mish mash of notes that are just that just sounds horrible and ott to my ears. I think it's a bit crazy to tell me what point I was trying to make man. I aren't telling you not to dig this guys playing, I just wrote my opinion which you didn't get.
18:25 Captain Beefheart :)