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God damn this is the most based comment on KZfaq!

Add a bunch of distortion and it's a Nirvana solo

@@Subieghost ong 😂😂

Sometimes, comedy writes itself.

And he was kinda right

No they think it is awful too

@@kpax45 not a film fan?

this is about what i am churning out with a g-10 tonight

Just because you're aware of how you are doesn't exempt you from the reality of criticism.

And what he's doing is interesting and good.

@@CultureFusionSite it’s definitely interesting. Not so much the good part as you say.

and for sure... he's not the worst guitarist ever, since I'm the worst guitarist ever...

​@@CultureFusionSite You're a liar if you say this is good

They were all holding you back, Scott. You have chosen… wisely

Yeah I did the same thing too actually

Right on mate...you can't wrap your head around this man's brand of genius, I wanna find him and hire him to play my daughters 2nd year birthday party !!!

I hired him for my kids bar mitzvah, and it was amazing!

The secret is turning all the knobs on the pedalboard all the way up

DUDE SO TRUE! Frusciante is literally a god to people on the internet. This reminded me so much of some niandra ladies stuff with that crazy tone

@@CoreReactorMusic exactly the first thing I thought too

@@CoreReactorMusic he is

@@CoreReactorMusic he is a god, he was going thru some serious shit when he was playing like this and recorded niandra, this guy is just laughing and screwing around by the looks of it, John was actually struggling and feeling these harsh emotions that led to him playing like this, a bit different

@@lonewanderer958 the irony of you commenting here is incredible

The thing is.. you're wrong about the first part.

Nope.

The flyin' f*ck?!

Lol sounds like a bit of a stretch, the lengths people go to just to get likes 😅

To intentionally suck is an art in itself !

He can play for sure

I call bullsht. Tone deaf is tone deaf…let him FO with his FU money.

So why play this then? That was terrible.

⁠​⁠@@keithskegwinso why didn’t he play here instead of doing whatever that was?

@@ViaticalTree bc he can. He already has money and doesnt need to constantly play popular hard riffs. He is 100% allowed to screw around and experiment with his guitar

lol that's a good one, I laughed

Yes none of us have ears like you do.

Don't care.

could always join THE SHAGGS....

And the guy playing something low down is Alexander Dumble FFS.

This is Alexander Dumble, probably the best guitar Amp builder and modifier in the world.

He deserves a medal for that.

fr lmao

He is and sounds completely awful. Sucks!

@@mikesimonian484 he knows how to play, its just experimental fun in this video

@@hello-9285 But I am and he still sounds terrible.

@@hello-9285 There's nothing about his finger movements to indicate his level of guitar ability. Maybe he can play well but you're not going to be able to tell by this awful mess so you're probably not a guitarist.

Come on man, that's what Joe Biden hears in his head 24/7

fr fr he spittin fax no cap

Syd was on-key and in-tune. His alphabet soup meant something. I gotta hand it to the rhythm guy. He really tried to make his lead look good.

If this was on a Pink Floyd album, hardly anyone would know who they are. Just like this guy.

It only sounds like straight ass because it's being played over this top of boring-as-shit blues lawyer groove. This sounds almost identical to some classic Jonny Greenwood solos.

You should ask yourself why there's no solos like this on a Pink Floyd album.

So you mean he was tasteful and melodic with his phrasing?

Exactly, it's really new sounding to be honest.

Not difficult to sound like this. The pedal is doing all the “experimenting” while he plays sub par blues box licks. There are great experimental guitarists out there who use their hands, not stomping a pedal. This guy isn’t one of them.

Nope. He doesn't know what he's doing. When he's not faffing around with that weird vibrato, he's off key and playing the kind of pedestrian caterwauling "I'm-a-genius" licks you play in your first year of learning before you meet someone who can actually play and you realise how much you suck. This is the king's new clothes of guitar licks.

@@el.blanco8961 You're obviously not a guitar player.

@@XXjg_ but this is just a demonstration, and the effects were probably throwing him off because of how off time they are. It's just wild how you guys make a quick judgment call with a demonstration of a weird uncommon effect and use that as proof that he's not good. Are people even claiming he's a great experimental artist? I think most people are impressed with the pedal not the guy.

H is the note B in the German notation system, so something akin to Van Halen, Vai or Govan I suppose

G# - B would indeed be one of the bends of all time.

@@marksulkanon2363 you haven’t heard of a joke I suppose

Doooooooood. 1am and I'm laughing to almost shittin myself at all the way to an H hahahhahaha

😂

>I have never played a guitar in my life Yeah, you instantly lost all credibility. He doesn't know what he's doing. When he's not faffing around with that weird vibrato, he's off key and playing the kind of pedestrian caterwauling "I'm-a-genius" licks you play in your first year of learning before you meet someone who can actually play and you realise how much you suck.

Yeah just a shame it sounds absolutely shit.

@@LordHighness that's why it's short, he clearly wasn't trying to make something that sounds good just showing off the effect

You are correct. Glad a non-guitarist could make that observation. This is an experimental clip with a showcase of an experimental guitar effect (similar to what a ring modulator does), taken somewhat out of context. This is clearly a clip from a longer showcase of various effects Henry is having fun with. Here, he's choosing to do exactly what he wants to do.

@@RothBeyondTheGravehe’s choosing to suck? If he’s such a good player why wouldn’t he try to make the pedal sound good?

Is this what Alexander had in mind when he started making his own amps? I heard he moddled The Overdrive Special on a Fender Baseman he saw Robben Ford playing though at a gig in the early 1970s. I associate the Dumble sound with Robben , Larry Carlton, Eric Johnson and Carlos Rios. Needless to say, this is very different.

@@davidsheriff9274 bro its a demo not a real performance

Hahaha, the first 5 seconds I saw the Dumble and was like yeah the guys def legit...this bit may be bad but.

Just the ebow missing

Jonny Greenwood used a similar sounding effect on the recording of Go To Sleep. But I thought the effect was created using MAX MSP. I would be interested to know what Henry is using here. Need to see more of this clip.

I thought the same

is this a diss?

@@coryleblanc No, quite the opposite infact.

🤦‍♂️ Let me guess, you think Yoko Ono is a great singer too? Here…have another 🤦‍♂️

No, she is objectively horrible. There is no clip, song, etc of her doing anything remotely well. This guy has lots of great work that is very likable. ​@@ViaticalTree

@@ViaticalTree do not speak its name

lmfao

"Now I know you may be intimidated, but trust me, you'll love Henry Cow's 'Ruins'" I'd get punched in the face when they get to that Oboe-Violin duet part.

@@greenbeangreg2552 Very interesting song. I've heard some strange bangers and this was one of them, thanks for the recommendation.

@@greenbeangreg2552 Just listened to it, oh my god thank you SO much for putting me on to this, this is incredible.

Don’t know about “endless”, but all the profits from his most popular album with David Lindley and musicians from Madagascar go back to the African musicians. I think it’s well worth the effort to at least give an open minded listen to boundary pushing musicians (of both conventions and your own current taste). It’s not too hard to see that many currently well respected musicians often started in that context. Any number of Rock, Jazz, and musicians of many other genres were originally perceived that way.

@@marksulkanon2363 Well, it's quite easy giving profits from a few album sales away when you're stinkin' rich.

hey stop being so nice and supportive! :)

@@clancykobane9102 lol

'' quite a weird one '' he confessed at the end haha

He is a fucking awful guitar player. You clearly are not a good musician either LOL

@@bloodsports94 rather ironic… Sure he might be a bit sloppy, but he’s clearly using that “glitch” pedal (like the Catalinbread CSIDMAN) that loops/repeats whatever you’re playing randomly at different speeds and lengths

No he sucks..

He should’ve done the bagpipe solo from Let There Be Rock.. 😆

Amen bro.

Also check out Fred Frith and Derek Bailey

He's not the worst, but for those who generally dislike avant-garde like me, it does sound like shit. He's obviously a competent player, I just don't like his style. It's certainly a step above noise music for me, though. lmao

OH IS A REAL SHIT....

@@Tomislav_B. On the French, Frith, Kaiser, and Thompson record, Richard Thompson commented (something like) "You know you're in trouble when I'm the most commercial artist in the group".

Well then he needs to keep experimenting, practicing whatever. Another 40 years should get it.

Bullsh|t. A "guitarist" is a person who makes music with a guitar as their instrument. Music however, is not *just* an expression. It also involves craft. Neither pure emotion, nor wrote technique alone, is "good music." An "excellent guitarist" is someone who has a) mastered the manipulation of the guitar to b) sufficiently convey emotion to their audience. Henry Kaiser simply does not excel at actually playing the guitar. His technique is, and always has been, awful. Through all of his years of playing, he hasn't cared to - or been able to - improve his technique. He's happy just making noise. Infants are also happy making random noise. We don't however, refer to them as "excellent" at whatever item they are banging on the floor to make a racket. This emperor never had any clothes.

Troy Funk I hear you; I used to catch him playing with all these downtown free form improvisors (Frith, Cora, Zorn, early Golden Palominos etc.), at the dawn of his career - but you're casting pearls before swine, trying to explain to the brain-dead low-brows here.

This guy goes into coffee shops that say worlds best coffee and is like. Wow, this is what the worlds best coffee tastes like. Get it together Starbucks.

Grateful Dead inspired weirdness that I've heard is good. Just not everyones cup of tea. This video ain't helping his cause.

The problem to me seems like he is mainly visible to the metalhead crowd.....people obsessed with sounds stale since 89 with their head far up their ass. The ones who made most of it stagnate.

....I'd complain.

If Fred durst did this they would give him a Grammy. 😂

This actually sounds a lot like something Tom Morello would play. Only difference is that he plays it over heavier, less gentle music, so it fits the tone of the song in a whole different way.

Interesting point AO. You made me think about that for a little while. I would still say that it stunk even if Morello had incorporated this into Rage or Audioslave, and I definitely see the similarities from this to Morello's solos. I was never a fan of Morello's useless staccato like solo's in either project. It always sounded to me like he was trying to do something haphazardly techno - like he wasn't sure what he was doing (and I really can't see why Chris Cornell went along with them)! But I agree with you that many would have accepted something like this just because it was Morello, or simply because it was coming from Rage or Audioslave. What really disturbed me about this player here is that he is playing this experimental static over top of a cool ZZ Top rhythm from their early song "Just Got Paid" (or previous artists who did this song before ZZ Top). This kind of thing (refined) would have been a better (though still not good) fit into Rage's or Audioslave's harder edge music (than ZZ Top or Johnny Paycheck). I'm not offended by the mix. Hell, he or anyone else can fart on their guitar for sound if they want to for all I care. What disturbs me here is the dissonant and out of step rhythms with the other guy's song part. Obviously this guy has talent as a guitar player. It is clear that he could play a more conventional guitar style with a great degree of competence. This just doesn't work for me though(see my own post from about 5 days ago if you like). Very good point made by you here though.

His phrasing is terrible, technique is terrible, tone is terrible, note choice is terrible. Everything is terrible.

in what way? Timing? Phrasing? Harmony? Tone? Fashion Sense?

​@@RobFeldkamp yes

​@@RobFeldkamp yes

​@@braddotson3429 Nope. None of those

You can make weird sounds sound amazing (like David Gilmour early Pink Floyd) but this guy just doesn't have it in him.

its horrible. do you know what music is? im a musician i play saxophone guitar a number of instruments. this is pure noise playing guitar is barely music anyway.

Welcome to the Internet: the place where, the less you know, the more of an authority you are.

he's literally faking being able to play. you dont make noise you don't play random notes with weird glitchy sounds this is just him improvising some crazy non-musical sounds. he may be able to actually play guitar but this isn't music this is garbage. i have a hunch he doesn't know any theory and can't figure out what note or key he's in. its not music.

@@truescotsman4103 ikr

True! He's just being a little warped and having some fun with it. Kind of like what you might get when you listen to someone like, say, Arto Lindsay, Eugene Chadbourne /Shockabilly, etc. Not for all tastes, to be sure! Fun for screwball so like me, though! (Wave dat freak flag!)

+Glenn Hecker Sorry; meant to say "screwballs like me" -- this Autocorrect function is really annoying sometimes!

+krelbar I've heard a lot of Kaiser's work. If he doesn't use effects he's pretty pathetic. Quite sloppy and limited in his knowledge of the guitar neck.

+ekpil What do you consider pathetic...because he cant shred? Listen to his album 'Those who know history are doomed to repeat it'...he is a more than competent guitar player. Not saying he is amazing or anything, but he is far from pathetic. There's a reason Mike Keneally plays with him...unless you think Keneally is pathetic as well. Well, you haven't proven it, but if its true that he has a limited knowledge of the guitar neck, and that means he's pathetic, that would mean a whole slew of world renowned guitar players are pathetic. Stevie ray Vaughn only knew pentatonic scales...is that pathetic? When Eddie Van Halen improvises it is blues licks mixed with trademark licks he's been playing for years. Give either one a song with changes more complex than the usual I IV V and they're lost. There are many that say Yngwie has a mastery of the neck, but he knows blues scales, harmonic minor and minor/major. That's about it.

He's sloppy .

really not that good, you clearly aren’t familiar with skilled guitarists… Always a shame to see people thinking this is so hard, you do realize people were playing stuff more complex than this in the 80s right.

@@heavenshound6775 this is way more interesting to listen to than any long haired, fretboard tapping cock rocker from the 80s. the guy is doing the same thing without any effects that it would take years for jonny greenwood from radiohead to get close to, and he was using a digitech whammy and coded an audio processing program on his macintosh just to get anywhere close to these sounds. this is incredibly impressive, far more than, idk, fucking thunderstruck or eruption

In tune if your ears are broken

​@@heavenshound6775 It's not about complexity, my friend, it's about the sound itself. Yes, some can strive to be Alex Lifeson, but does every track NEED an Alex Lifeson? Some tracks could use more of a Henry Kaiser, at least in my opinion.

Ok, but it sounds like a mosquito that needs to be squashed.

If you could say actually and actual a few more times it would really tie this all together quite nicely.

@@frankcastle5294 fuck off punisher wannabee

@@frankcastle5294 Yea... I really went overboard 🙄

@@frankcastle5294 he just said it twice, you’re reaching. He’s actually valid about this.

@@Ar1music Actually, I might actually be reaching.

I bet it could be done actually but replicating is alot easier than being the original creator

hahah

Best comment ever

lmao

I do recall learning about Varese's belief regarding modern composers. Just curious, how's the old chap doing? Haven't heard a peep out of him in 55+ years. Nothing to fear though, modern composers and all that. Pip pip, cheerio!

@@johangambleputty7658 I never thought of it that way! That is the best!

Mark Fisher is tone deaf...

@@markusaurelius777 Maybe. The clip isnot just tone. There is rhythm and more basically some unique motion.

@@vootee1 Of which there is ZERO of in this clowns playing.

Of which ZZ top composition is this an extract of?

Green Pretzel Just got Paid

vibrato6 Thanks

Sorry...audio and video really don't match up...it's a shreds parody...end of story... Unless you think "Clapton Shreds" is real too...

FreakCream dude, i bout fuckin lost it

+FreakCream Bwwwhahahaha!!

+FreakCream its the hidden death track from pokemon cover

rofl

lmaoo

As a deaf person myself, I totally agree

let's be real man. it has some cool moments for sure but also completely absolutely terrible stuff

It's chopped- it doesn't match the fingering at all

​@@hazardeurThrow enough darts at a dartboard and you're bound to hit a bullseye eventually. 😂

Sounds like Polyphia!

+FaZe Illuminati No he doesn't

Mason Gaine No, he's on not on the right distortion level.

+FaZe Illuminati Your mom's on the right distortion level.

john papple Mom jokes? What are you 9?

+FaZe Illuminati "he can play" what are you deaf?

It wasn't bad in my eyes, I'll grant you.

Some? 😂😂😂😂😂

I agree, and it doesnt have to be a guitar solo for one of those obscure black metal, black midi, contemporary, jazz, math rock, grunge indie band either (basically I mean those bands that sound like toilets that are really obscure and sound like white noise). This would fit well in a nirvana or rage against the machine song. It's not meant to be good, it's not meant to stick to a scale, its *MEANT* to sound like that. People dont get it.

@@judejude433 So it was meant to sound like someone who's never played guitar, and completely out of key, with absolutely no musical quality to it? Riiiiiiiiiiiight! And no, this wouldn't even fit with a shitty Nirvana or Rage song either. 🙄

@@HighestPower If it wass played the notes in key and tom morello was the one using the pedal its be good I mean

Some of the Crazy Backwards Alphabet is actually good stuff.

Yea, if you like corrupt broken demonic sounding guitars then yea i would get why.

@@ensar4115 ...demonic?

@@thescatologistcopromancer3936 yes, demonic or in other words, corrupted

@Patrik Givens If its "objectively bad" then why some people including me thinks it's alright? please use your brain before typing, objective and subjective are two different things.

You can pull of unique sounds and techniques whilst playing good. This one, is just bad.

@@princemjbp695 disagree. Acclaim comes from playing mild shit with showmanship. Exciting music is exploratory

@@jameswilson807 It's terrible tho.

I haven’t listened to any of his music but in this vid he’s literally just playing a generic dad blues solo with some gross and kinda fun rack effects going on

@@jameswilson807 It still has to sound good though. If you want experimental done right, look at Primus, Devo, Ween, etc. This is a decent amount of skill put to awful use. Just because it’s considered avant-garde doesn’t mean it isn’t shit.

it is a good performance.

People that like this are the same ones that get duped into buying expensive abstract art. They will pretentiously say “you” just don’t know art while knowing it’s shite themselves. It’s about projecting this air of sophistication to quell their own lack of self importance and self esteem.

@@deadlyoneable you are stupid.

@@deadlyoneable this is funny because this comment is the most pretentious shit ever. is it hard to accept that people like different things? is it? are you retarded? do you see the irony yet?

@@deadlyoneable you’re going to accuse me of being pretentious but I can tell you don’t play guitar. He literally did give an idea for a certain tone. It’s literally about the tone. The notes he’s playing are completely irrelevant. Hes not trying to show that he can play guitar, he’s demonstrating the tone. If you were actively involved in the world of music and musicians you would know that most guitar players are nerds about tone and will spend ridiculous amounts of money on gear to achieve certain sounds. What you see in this video is a tone nerd demonstrating a tone that he’s stoked about lol Edit: spelling

It does, it reminded me of that video where she’s screaming “why” while John’s playing slide guitar

I was going to tell a time-traveling joke, but y'all didn't like it.

@@sydnayallen6762 it's like DatuMan said it's subjective, sounds nice to me

@@sydnayallen6762 dude….. you completely contradicted yourself in that sentence. Music is objectively an art form. you can’t not call it art while also calling it music

@@niiiiiko Who are you? Get out of my bathroom I'm trying to shit

jonny greenwood from Radiohead basically uses this same effect in the solo from go to sleep

But he never even came close to any type of "mastery" of the guitar. Link to anything he's done that shows technical proficiency and a deep harmonic understanding.

I don’t know what a “deep harmonic understanding” is. I’m not a fan of his, I just know what he is because I’ve been a guitarist and bassist for 35 years.

@@jayssonblack3179 If you don't know what a “deep harmonic understanding” is, then you've been a mediocre-at-best guitarist and bassist for 35 years. Some places for you to start: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdpirdiTrcmpgmg.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p-Cqf81i2ci6nnU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/faxpoZym08emiJ8.html

😂

@@emanemantsal9789 stfu you music theory nerd. Most music theorists have no soul

Ya, it's pretty deep. Like, laid to rest. He intentionally fooled around and wtf is this lol

@@rickleblanc8900 I was tryna be funny 🤣

More like a deep fart.

do you share the same sentiments towards yoko uno and ryosuke kiyasu's "art" because if not you are inconsistent.

@@jefrix01 Who's Yoko Uno?

That's who this is? Oh interesting, why did he play with such a hack? Yes, yes, I know, the guy is famous but c'mon, this is utter crap he's doing.

WTF - you sonofabitch! I had no idea he died. This is Fucking Bullshit. Goddamn it! Fuck you, Fuck the world - This SUCKS!!!!

It's a zz top riff. Just got paid

Trust me, it's better if you don't

Don’t sell yourself short. Trust your instincts

It isn't that bad. It's the worst !

Yes It Is.

@@rickvenlo1362 nah

"Hast thee a smile stuck and hath been exiled from thine frownland?"

My only regret is that I had but one like to give to this comment

Captain Beefheart: Enter the Zappaverse

Exactly I'd hold his big toe!!

Exactly. That actually sounded like "Elephant Talk" solo.

Adrian doesn't just make "noises" like this person did.

So sick you saw Discipline tour

@@jivadaya6439 The difference is, "this person" didn't practice with this effects pedal. When Adrian gets on stage, you can be certain he's not trying out a pedal for the first time; it's all well rehearsed.

@@rookmaster7502 didn't practice yet made video lol

It’s garbage

@@ProudCommiego listen to interesting music or smth do something valuable with ur time

ya man , i think he inspired all of curt cobain's solos, lol, it sounds like nirvana's engineer said , "ready curt ? go, and then turned off the chanel going to curts headphones and let him just rip, and they put that on the record, lol

This has _clearly_ been altered to make him sound "shitty". I'd like to see the original unedited clip. 👍

​@@TheGgreen100 That's a whole lot of words to say that you're just not personally a fan and don't see it. That's fine. This is ultimately a matter of personal taste, art is subjective. If you're a musician you should know that. Some people hear genius, some people hear garbage. That's just how it is man.

It's out of tune and out of time. It's shit.

LOL

that's the effect, not his playing.

Nope. Thats his playing. Watch his other stuff

Hahahahahhaga

I think it was titled like that for satire purposes. Idk if it is but it's a guess

@@BraydenM014 i think more out of ignorance but that's just my guess

Really?How so?what did he play here that is suppose to catch my ear?Id rather put on some cardi B god forbid me,than this horse shit…

@@djuka7566 hey that's your problem if you can't appreciate art

@@timofeie i can appreciate art,but this isn’t art…far from it.

@@djuka7566 Define art.

@@djuka7566 you surface dwelling , and pretentious "guitar" musicians seem to be so fucking narrow-minded.. The entirety of his performance belongs to avant-garde conventions , no wonder it doesn't sound as "apt" you as you wish it did. Shut the fuck up if you can't acknowledge how boundless and free musical composition is , take your narrow-minded standard of music and shove it up your arse. You're the exception here, you're getting brainwashed by formulaic and generic music

It clearly is! Not as funny as the Kirk Hammett one and less people fell for that. Crazy world

Thank you. Holy shit, so many stupid folks took this at face value 😂

The whammy pedal gave it away for me. The licks being played don't even match the audio. Any seasoned guitarist would know this is a troll video. lol

So many people can't tell reality from fiction

I just wanted the original full video, and you are not correct, this is the actual solo he played. I know it looks like one of those "shreds" videos, but it is not. Watch the full video again.

think hes using a few different ones, not entirley sure, but I've got a Zoom G5, and its got a specific effect on there like the one he plsys at 0:19 But yeah I thinks its pretty sick too, fuck musical knowledge and conformative note construction.

It's not hard for someone to edit the video and alter the pitch in certain parts to sound "shitty".. You don't see him rocking a Digitech Whammy pedal back & fourth, so it's obviously been done in editing as a joke. I'd like to see the original unedited clip.

@@R3TR0R4V3 I was wondering why it sounded like that. How it sounded like that rather.

For goodness sake, no it wasn't. He was playing the wrong minor pentatonic, overbending and had no control over his effect. It isn't difficult to make something that sounds that off at all.

@@kirkhunter146 You say all this as if you know it for a fact but the video was literally edited haha.

its been overdubbed.......@@R3TR0R4V3