Guitar Videos: Good, Bad, Ugly

Anybody who knows me even a little bit knows I adore people playing the guitar as if it were some other instrument.  Let's start with this nameless hero, playing solo piano on a Paul Reed Smith:


No arms?  No problem.  This next guy proves that if you can kick a guitar, you can kick ass on a guitar.


Let this be a lesson to those of you who think that rocking out means playing a basic lead line on one neck of a triple-necked guitar.  More unused strings and unexploited potential does not mean more rock.  Consider this part two of my argument that it's not how much gear (or how many limbs) you have, but what you do with it:


Kind of a misnomer, calling this a "tripleneck solo," right?

...for the same reason (more ≠ better), rocking out does not mean playing a giant Flying V in Times Square...like this guy (Ralph from The Guitar Shack):


Take note:  that's the world's largest guitar for ONE PLAYER.  I can't even imagine what the world's largest multiplayer guitar looks like...BUT!  Here are two cool videos of multiple players on a single instrument - first, something a little simpler, ("Jerry's Breakdown" by Jerry Reed):


Right now, you're thinking, "Wow, that was cool!"  And indeed, Antoine DuFour is an amazingly clean player, and his glasses are sexy.  But consider that Tommy Gauthier's simple folky bassline was played by a fiddler, not a guitarist.  Give him his due credit for the crossover, and then hold onto your butts.  Here's Mozart's "Rondo A La Turk:"


Enough said.

...Or it would be, if I hadn't found this amazing piece of work from the Aranjuez Guitar Quartet, playing Danny Elfman's theme to The Simpsons: