Slash plays Flamenco guitar (rare must see)

[Smoking Guns]

Guys, this just proves again that Slash is much more than a One Trick Pony Pentatonic Blues Rocker.  This shit is sick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIMSB5pJwo&feature=related

[DEAD HORSE]

THAT'S AWESOME! thanks for posting!

[lynn1961]

Nice.  Thanks! 

[D]

I never understood that criticism anyhow, he plays the Slide dobro on Bad obsession and he plays Flamenco on Double Talkin Jive.


Also, that video makes me seriously LOL at the Slash haters.

[mrlee]

hhaa cool, weird to see slash doing something like that.

[MeanBone]

that wasn't very good. besides electric guitar in a flamenco acoustic gig just sounds awful.

[Grouse]

Thanks for posting that, first time I've seen that one.

that wasn't very good. besides electric guitar in a flamenco acoustic gig just sounds awful.

Gotta love a troll

[Jim Bob]

that sucked and it made me LOL at $lash worshippers.

[*Timothy*]

Nice to see the trolls are still around .

[Grouse]

^the usual suspects ofcourse...

that sucked and it made me LOL at $lash worshippers.

Don't make me post that robin video you posted awhile back  

[Jim Bob]

this has got jack shit to do with Robin my friend (and besides that video blows this one away).  thats all you slash worshippers know, "oh no, someone doesn't care for slash, bash robin!"    get a brain and learn that not everyone is going to share your taste.

[Grouse]

Ha! I like Robin just as much as the next guy, but that vid you posted was just embarrassing. I was yanking your chain man, just chill 

Anyways let's get back on topic 

[jarmo]

that wasn't very good. besides electric guitar in a flamenco acoustic gig just sounds awful.

Gotta love a troll

Funny how you call someone who plays a guitar signed by Slash a troll.....




/jarmo

[Grouse]

Funny how you call someone who plays a guitar signed by Slash a troll.....

/jarmo

Since when does that define a troll?...
Just look at his posts and you'll know what I mean.

Anyway like I said let's get back on topic, I'd be more than happy to continue this discussion in the dead horse section since that's where this is gonna end up eventually.

[Ignatius]

I thought it was pretty cool. Slash doesn't sound "out of place" at all and that's pretty impressive considering this was a flamenco gig and I assume everything was improvised.

[Jimmy?]

Wasn't too impressed with that tbh! Maybe it's the fact he's playing on an electric....didn't sound right.

[Aero]

Can anyone confirm the date ? 

[makane]

Wasn't impressed. That was not epic (like robin finck). He doesn't have any emotion, just shreds. Guns would've been better with bumblefoot.

[MeanBone]

thanks for the support Jarmo,

But i'm not trying to put down slash in any way, the thing is i had flamenco lessons ( and i'm far from being good at it, since it is pretty damn hard to master), however along the line i have picked up some cds and talked about flamenco with people who actually play it for a living, and i can tell you, from my knowledge in the genre that was pretty lame.

of course my opinion is just that, i don't dictate what is good and what is bad, and i'm not even telling how buckethead or robin or rich would do it better. that's not that at all, i just think, from a guitar playing point of view slash is kinda lost in the mix, playing electric is a weird choice and it doesn't sound too good.

And i can only imagine what some of my teachers would say upon hearing this.

But then again, i must say i really like slash's playing and i think he is unique, however this didn't sound that interesting to me.

if i'm a troll for not loving everything slash does, so be it, but i so happen to like slash's playing but not in this particular video. actually i think it's the first time i've seen slash suck at guitar playing so it's kinda unique in a way 

He's lost in the mix, he ruins the song and all he does is very redundant. but then again, that's just my opinion, everyone is free to think for themselves and if you guys enjoy it, great. i see many people happy with what they hear, and music is subjective, wich means everyone is entitled to their opinion as long as it's respectful.

[Aero]

hmmm... he looks like scary, look at his hands... I belive he was in Spain and some Flamenco guys did invite him to play a song... look how the left guy huges him after the song.

I think it was all improvised, and flamenco is the most difficult rhytm to play