MAB is amazing. This video is amazing. I can name two dozen great MAB tracks, plus he wrote one of the most famous instrumental guitar songs of the last 20 years - No Boundaries. If he was a violinist, his technique and vibrato alone would be regarded as of the highest virtuoso caliber. Haters will hate. MAB will play circles around you.
Gotta love how people resort to talking about lack of "soul, feelings, emotions" when they are not able to appreciate/understand someone's playing style.
Serously never heard of this guy and yet he has assimilated the styles of various great guitar players of our time. He is a well rooted musician, i have a feeling he is classically trained and he favors the style of Malsteem's sweep picking which he is greatly known for. This guy should be really playing along side with steve vai and joe satriani in G3 concerts.
I've had the honor of meeting MAB and talking with him in 1993. He's a very sympathetic guy, and his perfect ambidextrousness is simply not of this earth. He plays two guitars at the same time, over and under, crosshanded, tapped, picked, in harmony, chords on one and solo on the other, it's simply not human anymore. :-)
A truly fine gentleman. He takes all questions at his seminars, even personal questions. The sound is not quite coordinated with the video. The amps are indeed off, but rest assured that he is playing live. Be nice to the legends unless you can "chop his head". If you don't know what that means....you cannot play what you hear. If you admit that you don't play, leave your criticism to the experts.
WTF is with the ambient shit, the misleading title etc.... bate! Plus I dont rate batio close to satch, vai or malmsteen... Somewhere after that. There are many guitarists better than batio! Hes very good, but still many better guitarists out there.
Wow, Iam no guitar player, I'am just a drummer., And iam amazed how you have down all these famous guitar legends. I've jammed with alot of guitarist and i've never come across one who could do what did in this video. Great Job!!! I would really like to hear your own personal style.
I love what he did with the Mr. Crowley solo. Lots of people rag on Michael Angelo, but I always thought him to be a fantastic technical guitarist, and I sure as hell never heard anyone cover any of his tunes!
To all of you who commented on my "No Soul" comment, let me make myself clearer. These guys are stupendously brilliant guitarists.. We have no argument there. BUT.. With a few exceptions, there music is mostly appreciated by guitar geeks who sit cross legged in their rehearsal rooms (or bedrooms) practising till their fingers bleed. For everyone of them there are a million or two of you. Never downplay thye skill of the guy who can write a killer 3 minute pop song.
I saw this guy live back in the day with Nitro. They were so loud. he does this solo with two necks into two randall stacks and you know what the crowd was like. the first 30 feet with dudes standing with their arms crossed thinking im better than this dude. he melted the place down. he cut everyones head right off. i met him afterward and asked the most stupid question ever. how did you get so good? A:practice. his band was incredible. the best musicians ive seen live. tj racer rocked
@DrummerRF You guys can say what ever you want, i would love to understand the guitar like this guys does....he has done some amazing compositions as well .....
all i can say that i love MAB and Steve Vai. when i want to listen to nice fast good feeling guitar music i listen to MAB. when i want to listen to something more nice and not as metal but still freaking cool and much feeling, i listen to Vai. but i love them both.
What really made me feel positive about this guy is an interview at his house. He really takes a great care about all his guitars, the guy is really nice and seems like a very cool guy to talk to, although his music doesn't make me feel anything.
@msqtube I agree... he can play well as far as technicality goes, but there is no emotion, no feeling... Which is why I listen to Steve Vai, he's the best of the best when it comes to putting emotion into the strings!
Thing I like about Batio is his ability to make shredding melodic. Maybe his surgical playing doesn't leave room for much emotion but if you get an album there is some feeling in his songs. Videos just don't show the other side of him, they show only the thing he is most famous for - playing incredibley fast.
@LtWhiteWolf All are opinions. It's not embracing one style over the other, but taking those and using all of them. When you're building a house, the hammer, or the drill or the nail isn't anymore important than the other. You're going to need to use those tools in order to be a better guitar player, and some more than others, but you're still going to use all of them. Tech/skill, soul, melody, theory, improv and blues, metal, jazz, classical, fusion, etc are all needed and important.
Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen, Slash, Buckethead, etc etc etc... They all are good and i like them all BUT Michael Angelo Batio is just on another level you can´t even compare them to him. He is just phenomenal, he don´t miss a freaking note!!!!! The playing style is just perfect, he is humble, he loves his fans, and he has SOUL on his playing.
I dig the guy who doesn't make any fake studio altered video's. The guy who's 40 albums are so creatively genious he's become an underground icon. Buckethead.
The acoustic was a welcome surprise. Still, no metal/rock guitarist can equal the legendary Rik Emmett's songs in technique and composition....IMO...Rik also used a Dean flying V specially designed for him for the Allied Forces album/tour...
hes pretty technical and its cool to watch his twin neck Dean double handed crazy train, smoke on the water, Hendrix meddly once or twice, but as stated not so much feeling, thats why i like Satch, he sometimes slows it down and plays cool melodies that are good to listen over and over...
@Aztlnight but the first thing is that we feel in different way.... all this "information" we take is being proccessed in a unique way on our minds... i love his speed, i love the sound he makes, the feeling of his sound etc... and i bet it's not even YOUR style of music you like.... that means that you "educated" your mind with much different stuff than this... this isn't bad or whatever but most of them times we can't feel or understand smthing different that the one we are in...
Pretty good and I was really disapointed that not one of the G3 was there. Any how cudos dude. I'll have to make my own video and schread like the 80's and we'll all have fun.
Saw him at a Dean guitar demo, no doubt he can play damm well, he also showed a lot of humour during the showw, seemed like a real nice bloke, just enjoy everyones ability........ I cant play anywhere near as good as this, but I still enjoy what I do.
remember to roll your fingers on your left/fret hand, and mute ever so slightly with your other hand, it makes it sound soooo much cleaner...oh yeah, practice...try sweeping skills by jerry c that's what helped me!
I live in Cruzeiro in the state of Sao Paulo Brazil, my town has 85 thousand inhabitants and this has at least some 25 guitarists that do that, so I see nothing in that other guys
@VikingNightmare I think I am going to have to agree with you on this. I thought maybe because I was a teen when Eddie Van Halen or even Yngwie were at the top, that this is just a bit too fast. Nice, and I would kill to play just half as fast, But I think there comes a point when one just hangs on till the next note comes, and I missed the last one. But at say 4:20 i love that noise :))))
@fishguru73 Marty Friedman certainly has technical prowess dude! Friedman is my favourite guitarist because he can actually combine both technicality AND feeling, but I believe Vai is also VERY good at capturing both.
Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the best guitar player on earth. And it's a killer player with his own style and has created a new music genre "the Baroque and roll" Pepectm: i believe that you speak without thinking; Yngwie style is very difficult to play, it's not only a matter of scale etc... it's the way he plays. I'm a guitar player since 20 years and playing well Malmsteen music is among one of the most challenging thing for a guitarist. It's like Chopin or Paganini for the classical area.
@SickneZZ2 That's actually true for most guitarists but not all. To prove my point, there's Mr. BB King, who himself says he's got no technique, or Mr. David Gilmour, who says that he doesn't play faster because he can't. And you can't say they have no talent. But sure you can have both, to have technique it doesn't mean you don't play with soul...the thing is, you can't lose yourself doing lots of shred and forgeting about melody, and that happens a lot. But as i said, that's true for almst all
@RockMan294 what it says musicians have a broader perspective in music. not just the guitar. a good musician can play almost any instrument, making it sound good.
@streetskater03 i think skill based it's the only way to judged a guitarist because, melody soloing improvising etc it's all a matter of personal taste, it's up to the listener there's no better or worse, but i think that little melody he made there on "hands without shadows" after the main riff really kicks some ass a shame he chose to shred like crazy and leave it on the back oh well
Yea people all you there in worl thinkin MAB is makin only crazy stuff to shock people or to show how fast he is youre very wrong! he himself says that he use technic to create music wihch is in his mind, and otherwise i love these songs in this video, they are great and i love them because they sound cool in my opinion. he rocks realy!
that's totally ink-veigh,right? i mean wow! he totally schools randy rhoads and all of us...over and over and over and over with deadly precision---frickin immaculate!
@rocknrolf6 No necesito ser juez para decir quien le mete feeling a su musica o no, es algo que se nota al escuchar, para mi si no hay alma no vale la pena y si no hay tecnica tampoco vale la pena, osea lo que me gusta es un buen balance como el que esos musicos tienen. Btw si le tienes que decir que nadie es mejor que nadie dicelo a los MAB fanboys que entran a todos los lugares a decir grandesas de alguien que no importa en ese instante.
Да это же человек, который в фильме Луковые новости( 2008) США, слез с наркотиков и оседлал жизнь, а потом у него слчилась кошмарная зависимость от жизни!!
At the end of the day, there is no hierarchy or however you choose to see it of guitarists. There are the legends, & there are the virtuosos. They're all out there, there is huge varietion within them. Take your pick & shut the hell up because if you're not one of them then you're opinion won't change anyone's mind. Not you personally, but bear with me I'm trying to show the bigger picture here. Regardless of influence, technical ability or classical trainings, the truly greatest guitarist is
@Aztlnight all ppl have style m8... the point is what u like mostly to hear... another thing is how easier you can hold something on your brain... all these guys you said have "simple phrases" (not technicaly speaking but the melodies) that you can remember much easier... since something is simple to remember, you can sing it easier so you can play it easier (if you're a musician). this thing trust me... is really happening just sometimes we don't understand it :)
@25zeppelins That's the whole point of his over-under...he's a guitarist, but also puts on a show. That's the main reason why he does it - because few can. Paganini was the same way. A lot of others are the same way. Tommy Emmanuel is similar...few can play like him.
MAB is amazing. This video is amazing. I can name two dozen great MAB tracks, plus he wrote one of the most famous instrumental guitar songs of the last 20 years - No Boundaries. If he was a violinist, his technique and vibrato alone would be regarded as of the highest virtuoso caliber. Haters will hate. MAB will play circles around you.
Man brother you do one Hella tribute.....love the Randy tribute you to play alot alike wish he was still around
Most people overrate this guy but I actually think he's underrated when you factor in those other styles that he know
Great Great. please come out with your record and I will definitely buy it. You are great. Serious. God Bless. And keep Going.
Gotta love how people resort to talking about lack of "soul, feelings, emotions" when they are not able to appreciate/understand someone's playing style.
Hey I'm a teen, and I listen to everything from the 50's through to the Present, I play blues half the time I've got my gat on me.
Love MAB, not sure of the point of the title though.
+Koroar pretty sure it's not the point at all XD
+Koroar I think it's just to click bait.
holy crap man ive never seen someone shred so fst in my life... you rock man! keep it up.
He needs a composing partner. His playing is flawless, but the composition is . . . lacking.
Agree, need more harmony.
That blue guitar at riff 4 and 6 is just beautifull looking. Awesome!!!
Whats up with his hair ?
+bobbyhosweden His sister did it.
Wig not hair
Serously never heard of this guy and yet he has assimilated the styles of various great guitar players of our time. He is a well rooted musician, i have a feeling he is classically trained and he favors the style of Malsteem's sweep picking which he is greatly known for. This guy should be really playing along side with steve vai and joe satriani in G3 concerts.
He's very good, but his tone sounds like diarrhea... Too distorted, in my opinion.
I've had the honor of meeting MAB and talking with him in 1993. He's a very sympathetic guy, and his perfect ambidextrousness is simply not of this earth. He plays two guitars at the same time, over and under, crosshanded, tapped, picked, in harmony, chords on one and solo on the other, it's simply not human anymore. :-)
How to completely destroy Ozzy songs 101, horrible
A truly fine gentleman. He takes all questions at his seminars, even personal questions. The sound is not quite coordinated with the video. The amps are indeed off, but rest assured that he is playing live. Be nice to the legends unless you can "chop his head". If you don't know what that means....you cannot play what you hear. If you admit that you don't play, leave your criticism to the experts.
Michael Angelo is the Jesus Christ of the 21st century
I love the acoustic piece
WTF is with the ambient shit, the misleading title etc.... bate! Plus I dont rate batio close to satch, vai or malmsteen... Somewhere after that. There are many guitarists better than batio! Hes very good, but still many better guitarists out there.
Wow, Iam no guitar player, I'am just a drummer., And iam amazed how you have down all these famous guitar legends. I've jammed with alot of guitarist and i've never come across one who could do what did in this video. Great Job!!! I would really like to hear your own personal style.
I love what he did with the Mr. Crowley solo. Lots of people rag on Michael Angelo, but I always thought him to be a fantastic technical guitarist, and I sure as hell never heard anyone cover any of his tunes!
that was excellent..brilliant guitarist
A pleasure to watch!
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To all of you who commented on my "No Soul" comment, let me make myself clearer. These guys are stupendously brilliant guitarists.. We have no argument there. BUT.. With a few exceptions, there music is mostly appreciated by guitar geeks who sit cross legged in their rehearsal rooms (or bedrooms) practising till their fingers bleed. For everyone of them there are a million or two of you. Never downplay thye skill of the guy who can write a killer 3 minute pop song.
I saw this guy live back in the day with Nitro. They were so loud. he does this solo with two necks into two randall stacks and you know what the crowd was like. the first 30 feet with dudes standing with their arms crossed thinking im better than this dude. he melted the place down. he cut everyones head right off. i met him afterward and asked the most stupid question ever. how did you get so good? A:practice. his band was incredible. the best musicians ive seen live. tj racer rocked
Great guitar work!
I LOVE the opening riff he does from Deep Purple's classic song, Burn, always my favorite tune.
@DrummerRF You guys can say what ever you want, i would love to understand the guitar like this guys does....he has done some amazing compositions as well .....
Thank you man, glad I could help.
all i can say that i love MAB and Steve Vai. when i want to listen to nice fast good feeling guitar music i listen to MAB. when i want to listen to something more nice and not as metal but still freaking cool and much feeling, i listen to Vai. but i love them both.
What really made me feel positive about this guy is an interview at his house.
He really takes a great care about all his guitars, the guy is really nice and seems like a very cool guy to talk to, although his music doesn't make me feel anything.
The song is Burn by Deep Purple (Whitesnake too since its from the David Coverdale era)
@NicoDiMaria Burn by Deep Purple. It's the arpeggio section of the song about halfway through
FANTASTIC !!!.... Thanks !
very good!!! i salute you from barcelona -spain-
@msqtube I agree... he can play well as far as technicality goes, but there is no emotion, no feeling... Which is why I listen to Steve Vai, he's the best of the best when it comes to putting emotion into the strings!
thank you so much
Thing I like about Batio is his ability to make shredding melodic. Maybe his surgical playing doesn't leave room for much emotion but if you get an album there is some feeling in his songs. Videos just don't show the other side of him, they show only the thing he is most famous for - playing incredibley fast.
michael angelo playing crazy train and mr crowley is AWESOME!
@LtWhiteWolf All are opinions. It's not embracing one style over the other, but taking those and using all of them. When you're building a house, the hammer, or the drill or the nail isn't anymore important than the other. You're going to need to use those tools in order to be a better guitar player, and some more than others, but you're still going to use all of them. Tech/skill, soul, melody, theory, improv and blues, metal, jazz, classical, fusion, etc are all needed and important.
@dethNiCk thanks for the church lessons *falls asleep until face gets melted off and starts head banging*
i love his style is so clean
This is amazing!
Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen, Slash, Buckethead, etc etc etc... They all are good and i like them all BUT
Michael Angelo Batio is just on another level you can´t even compare them to him. He is just phenomenal, he don´t miss a freaking note!!!!! The playing style is just perfect, he is humble, he loves his fans, and he has SOUL on his playing.
I dig the guy who doesn't make any fake studio altered video's. The guy who's 40 albums are so creatively genious he's become an underground icon. Buckethead.
The acoustic was a welcome surprise. Still, no metal/rock guitarist can equal the legendary Rik Emmett's songs in technique and composition....IMO...Rik also used a Dean flying V specially designed for him for the Allied Forces album/tour...
you the best i ever see
I miss my JCM 800 ..RIP Jim Marshall
hes pretty technical and its cool to watch his twin neck Dean double handed crazy train, smoke on the water, Hendrix meddly
once or twice, but as stated not so much feeling, thats why i like Satch, he sometimes slows it down and plays cool melodies that are good to listen over and over...
gotta love the swatting flies technique!
@Aztlnight but the first thing is that we feel in different way.... all this "information" we take is being proccessed in a unique way on our minds... i love his speed, i love the sound he makes, the feeling of his sound etc... and i bet it's not even YOUR style of music you like.... that means that you "educated" your mind with much different stuff than this... this isn't bad or whatever but most of them times we can't feel or understand smthing different that the one we are in...
Son virtuosos en su género, de verdad hacen un muy buen trabajo
Pretty good and I was really disapointed that not one of the G3 was there. Any how cudos dude. I'll have to make my own video and schread like the 80's and we'll all have fun.
Saw him at a Dean guitar demo, no doubt he can play damm well, he also showed a lot of humour during the showw, seemed like a real nice bloke, just enjoy everyones ability........ I cant play anywhere near as good as this, but I still enjoy what I do.
i cant hear an entire album of MAB, but you have to admit his right hand tecnique is the best!
The arpeggios part is not Mr Crowley, it's from Deep Purple song called "Burn", same thing for the riff
there is something i agree with
probably my biggest influence in guitar playing
He is just an amazing guitarrist, very skilled one, SOUL is for unskilled guitarrists.
That hand-flip thing he does is quite possibly the most evil thing I have ever seen. LOL.
he is completly amazing... big master :D
best moment "Randy Rhoads Tribute" R.I.P Randy Rhoads
remember to roll your fingers on your left/fret hand, and mute ever so slightly with your other hand, it makes it sound soooo much cleaner...oh yeah, practice...try sweeping skills by jerry c that's what helped me!
I live in Cruzeiro in the state of Sao Paulo Brazil, my town has 85 thousand inhabitants and this has at least some 25 guitarists that do that, so I see nothing in that other guys
U see you can guitar playing like a GOD, everybody needs this vitamin C for success...
bad for somebody who haven´t this connections...
it´s my mind
he really nailed that d harmonic arpeggio
buen guitarrista ,y un gran imitador
SOUND SO CLEAN...
Wow, his hair is just as amazing as his fret work.
@VikingNightmare I think I am going to have to agree with you on this. I thought maybe because I was a teen when Eddie Van Halen or even Yngwie were at the top, that this is just a bit too fast. Nice, and I would kill to play just half as fast, But I think there comes a point when one just hangs on till the next note comes, and I missed the last one. But at say 4:20 i love that noise :))))
@fishguru73 Marty Friedman certainly has technical prowess dude! Friedman is my favourite guitarist because he can actually combine both technicality AND feeling, but I believe Vai is also VERY good at capturing both.
maravilhoso os solos de Batio... curti batante o que ele fez na música Burn do Deep Purple e Crazy Train da banda do Ozzy.
buckethead is the ultimate guitarist because he's an awesome guitarist and an awesome musician!!!!
Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the best guitar player on earth. And it's a killer player with his own style and has created a new music genre "the Baroque and roll"
Pepectm: i believe that you speak without thinking; Yngwie style is very difficult to play, it's not only a matter of scale etc... it's the way he plays. I'm a guitar player since 20 years and playing well Malmsteen music is among one of the most challenging thing for a guitarist. It's like Chopin or Paganini for the classical area.
i always tought he know only to play fast without speed but here its really nice melodies!
@SickneZZ2 That's actually true for most guitarists but not all. To prove my point, there's Mr. BB King, who himself says he's got no technique, or Mr. David Gilmour, who says that he doesn't play faster because he can't. And you can't say they have no talent. But sure you can have both, to have technique it doesn't mean you don't play with soul...the thing is, you can't lose yourself doing lots of shred and forgeting about melody, and that happens a lot. But as i said, that's true for almst all
During his sparetime, Super Mario loves to play the guitar!
@RockMan294 what it says musicians have a broader perspective in music. not just the guitar. a good musician can play almost any instrument, making it sound good.
I love the Tribute To Randy and Burn the most
30 seconds of this equals 36 hours of waterboarding.
@streetskater03 i think skill based it's the only way to judged a guitarist because, melody soloing improvising etc it's all a matter of personal taste, it's up to the listener there's no better or worse, but i think that little melody he made there on "hands without shadows" after the main riff really kicks some ass a shame he chose to shred like crazy and leave it on the back oh well
A lot of great songs and part of Deep Purple's Burn. Nice
Yea people all you there in worl thinkin MAB is makin only crazy stuff to shock people or to show how fast he is youre very wrong! he himself says that he use technic to create music wihch is in his mind, and otherwise i love these songs in this video, they are great and i love them because they sound cool in my opinion. he rocks realy!
I can't stop laughing because he reminds me of Nigel Tufnel with that hair!
that's totally ink-veigh,right? i mean wow! he totally schools randy rhoads and all of us...over and over and over and over with deadly precision---frickin immaculate!
@rocknrolf6 No necesito ser juez para decir quien le mete feeling a su musica o no, es algo que se nota al escuchar, para mi si no hay alma no vale la pena y si no hay tecnica tampoco vale la pena, osea lo que me gusta es un buen balance como el que esos musicos tienen. Btw si le tienes que decir que nadie es mejor que nadie dicelo a los MAB fanboys que entran a todos los lugares a decir grandesas de alguien que no importa en ese instante.
Да это же человек, который в фильме Луковые новости( 2008) США, слез с наркотиков и оседлал жизнь, а потом у него слчилась кошмарная зависимость от жизни!!
At the end of the day, there is no hierarchy or however you choose to see it of guitarists. There are the legends, & there are the virtuosos. They're all out there, there is huge varietion within them. Take your pick & shut the hell up because if you're not one of them then you're opinion won't change anyone's mind. Not you personally, but bear with me I'm trying to show the bigger picture here. Regardless of influence, technical ability or classical trainings, the truly greatest guitarist is
@Aztlnight all ppl have style m8... the point is what u like mostly to hear... another thing is how easier you can hold something on your brain... all these guys you said have "simple phrases" (not technicaly speaking but the melodies) that you can remember much easier... since something is simple to remember, you can sing it easier so you can play it easier (if you're a musician). this thing trust me... is really happening just sometimes we don't understand it :)
RIDICULOUS, he must be in a circus doing that child melodies and jumping
@25zeppelins That's the whole point of his over-under...he's a guitarist, but also puts on a show. That's the main reason why he does it - because few can. Paganini was the same way. A lot of others are the same way. Tommy Emmanuel is similar...few can play like him.
cara essa giannine eh boa o q toin da palmatoria ta tocando ai nesse track !! cara!! onde vc viu o satriani? ta ficando maluco ?aparece cada uma!!!
ME ENCANTA SU VERSION DEL SOLO DE MR CROWLEY
@doggyhand12 actually music is about scales chords modes arppegios all things of that nature
his sweeping kills it
the end of that solo (the first one) is so funny....
Nice chops!
He's gonna sound KILLER when he turns those Marshall's on.
he burns Crowley, though.
as the title also says its a response, you can't blame the guy that posted this video
Michael u r Great!
'Burn' Original track by Deep Purple.