Reb Beach (Winger / Whitesnake) Guitar Clinic Brampton Ontario April 3, 1992

[Amelierosesprague]

Holy shit!

[bingefeller]

Anymore of this clinic? Reb is amazing!

[fireinthepentagram]

Cool video! That shows when you´re a good musician, you don´t talk too much, you just get the fuck up there and play!! :D

[lotagu]

Hey do you have the full video?  I was at that clinic im the guy that fixes his mic

[BartSmith85]

Amazing! I hope you have filmed all the clinic? I'm just curious what other stuff he showed.

[carvindc400]

"It`s like having another toe or something" ROFLL hahahah this guy is fun! And Winger is coming to Brazil, man i cannot wait. :)

[CurbsideLife]

GREAT VID

[shoegooguru]

no one can play this good unless they have sold their soul to...ZAAAATON!!!!!!!

[timstar1]

I went to see one of Reb's clinics in California in the fall of 1991, right when I started out playing guitar. He was amazing...great player and great guy.

[Shawn72Chu]

This clinic was done in Brampton, ON, Canada. Is this the town that all the East Indians live in?

[kaboom6899]

yeah brampistan

[modepet]

@kaboom6899 : ROFL

[ErlendoWH]

It's sad how underrated Reb Beach is as a guitarist. :(

[0ua8]

If he played power chords in the Who or Nirvana,and sacrificed his technique would he be more popular?But...It seems to me that ppl prefer a good song to a technical guitar player,but...if you can combine the two then your in business,just my opinion.

[rocketaxe]

@ErlendoWH Reb's name is still spoken with great respect and awe around my parts. He may have been underrated but he was never under-appreciated. Long live the talent of these guitar Masters. I dare say that true talent may be poised for a come-back...I dare say...

[C861986]

@ErlendoWH True but Steve Vai sent him a guitar. That says alot.

[bodomfan1]

Fuckin' Reb...

Haha he (next to Criss Oliva #1) is FOR SURE one of my top influences guitar-wise.

Awesome musician and person. =]

[phantomofguilt]

Ohh i love that tapping intro to Baptized by Fire that he played at the end. Reb you are a god!

[ubershredder1989]

the tone of that 7string is godly

[ScaryPery]

Reb has agreat sense of humor, he's a comedian sometimes!!

[KullHull]

Hey, I was born that very day!

[parkersvx90210]

That tapping piece is pure music, not shred, not wankage, it's actually melodic and beautiful. Don't get me wrong, I love shred and wankage as much as the next guy, but who we have here is hands down THE BEST tapper in guitar, someone who can put melodic sense to something so simple is a pure genius.

[bigbigsound]

he does blatantly slip into midnight by satch a couple of times..i thiught joe invented that shit but go check stanley jordan.

[MoCatt]

true - Stanley is a beast

[brizzlestick]

if music is crap, then don't listen to it.. and shut the fuck up about it!

[BlackAxes]

Awesome! Reb used his pinky!!!

[Ichron]

I look at videos like this and see someone like Reb dicking around, and it's good. Then I see videos from popular music today and see someone like Synister Gates, and I have to wonder how we got to the point we did in music. There's no reason why anything like this should have faded to the point it is at and the horrible stuff passed off as music today is selling. Even the screams of the 80s era metal were at least melodic and musical, not brash and unintelligble.

[bodomfan1]

I COMPLETELY agree!

There is so much "music" out nowdays that is just flat out CRAP.

All the members of a band could be complete musical geniuses, but the music they make as a band is completey unappealing to the ear.

De-tuned guitars and some guy screaming with a drummer just kicking the shit out of his set on the bass pedals, altogether sounding like a bunch of noise.

Not to mention a ton of those guys are dicks in person.

Not all, but a ton.

[andysharifi]

What your referring to is not really music. It's more of a statement delivered with a thunder of noise, aka heavy detuned guitars, and aggressive drumming; not musical at all in my opinion. It would be different if it sounded good.

I don't blame it on the artists or bands. I blame the producers, the record labels, and the recording industry. They stopped looking for talent long ago, and are just signing anybody now these days hoping to make some money. Greed has ruined music!!

[djDookun]

Bach? Mozart? Elvis Presley? Michael Jackson? People gravitate to what they like. Much of it is "Folk Music" which the "plain folk" enjoy. Greed has ruined some things but it is still the fans who decide what is best for themselves...and Reb Beach has tons of fans!

[canadianshadowrider]

YOU CAN THANK THE SHITTY MUSIC OF TODAY TO ........ NIRVANA.......... AFTER ALL, IT WAS GRUNGE THAT TOOK THE TALENT OUT OF MUSIC AND THE "IAN" OUT OF "MUSIC" ... END OF STORY. I have 3 friends in 3 different bands that all had record contracts, recorded albums to have them shelved before release because of quote "we see music changing direction. we want to see this new direction" ............ NIRVANA destroyed musicianship.......... i know people will fight this.. BUT I LIVED AND WITNESSED IT

[Ibanezman426]

@canadianshadowrider: 150% agree...Nirvana destroyed musicianship....influenced a bunch of youngsters to appreciate GARBAGE..I'm so glad i had real influences on guitar.

[hxcmexi]

@canadianshadowrider

you know whats up!! Props man.

[RCstrats]

@canadianshadowrider your comment about "grunge that took the talent out of music" "end of story",,,,,that my friend is SO true. It's very frustrating to see good players be pushed to the side to honour Lady Gaga. In America ,, is very trendy.Whatever sells,Employee of the month music is what i call it. Europe and Japan,, is very loyal to great heavey music and talent. I'm sorry bro,,we have to live with this bad mentality.

[ilikehairbands]

@RCstrats You're so right. The first time I was in Europe I was blown away to meet people who were my age that were familiar with, and even liked this type of music. Hair metal never became "uncool" there and it's fantastic.

[comic1997]

@canadwriderdowrider You are a thousand percent correct!

[scarred2112]

@canadianshadowrider You sound JUST like the Songwriters and Session Musicians that said the same thing about bands like The Beatles that were writing & recording for themselves and "doing it all wrong" according to them. Like it or not, there were "talented" bands in the Grunge genre... the Public At Large were simply sick of the by-then overblown and far too many generic Hair Metal bands. I understand the feeling, I was the same at the time - but I realized that Good Music exists wherever.

[Supermonkey22]

Amen brother. We need an Uprising of sorts to bring back OUR music.

[transhuman7]

That was a very tasteful Satriani-influenced tapping sequence.

[tazmaniaco65]

Haha, I think the same. Sounds like "Midnight", but still it's pretty awesome

[transhuman7]

Vai gave him that guitar? Cool!!

[DRAGIANNI]

Oh,yeah!

[carvindc400]

Man, I hate labels. What does Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Nirvana have to do with each other? "Grunge" means nothing.

[waylay00]

The tapping part sounds like "A Day at the Beach" by Satriani.

[rguitar]

KURT KILLED HOM SELF = retard Reb is still alive and kicken who is the reall winner i think that would be Reb

[one1run1holy]

Are you really gonna compare reb and curt. A guitar player and a song writer. Funny how kurt is dead and Nirvana lives on and reb is alive and who is that band he played for?? Oh yeah - fuckin gay ass Winger... - shut up

[BeyondTheGates87]

more specifically a shit songwriter to a great guitar player. and winger was an excellent band...far superior to any of your bullshit little grunge bands who barely knew how to even tune their goddamn guitars. (alice in chains was cool...that's it.)

[waylay00]

Seconded. Reb Beach and Jerry Cantrell are two of my fav players. I consider Alice in Chains in a league of their own compared to the other "grunge" stuff.

[thecurse23]

whats important is that Reb takes pride in what he does, and his fans still love him for it.

Kurt was a loser drug addict who wrote shitty music. and the only people who care about him and nirvana are the same people who bought his crap back in the 90's. btw, Nirvana died back in the 90s with the rest of that shit called grunge.

[JESSDAN777]

emo de mierdddaaaaaaaaaa

[drax333]

thanks for posting this, i always wanted to see how he did the intro for "Baptized by Fire". I just saw him play with Winger last week and he is still amazing and a really nice guy.

[tak178]

...and this is what we lost to Nirvana. I'm ashamed to be from Seattle at this moment.

[parkersvx90210]

As am I.

[rabihz24]

Cant put it better..But good music never dies. Reb is out there touring and recently back with winger.

Where is Nirvana and all that crap today. DEAD..

[MuDvAyNw]

is that an insult to reb?

[tak178]

No, I don't think you would find anyone of the three in this thread that would do that. Reb is VASTLY underrated.

[eesloan4]

does he still do this? The opportunities for 7string playing are quite unlimited

[TheTrueFortress]

I was there! Brampton is a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I was 22. Reb is a totally badass player with miles of chops, style and class.

[KullHull]

I was born on that same day!

[BartSmith85]

He's surely a tapping master.

[Premier141]

That clean tone is fuckin awesome. Almost quacky.

[jimbojimbojimbojimbo]

friggen nice guitar playing

[thestrawhead]

Holy f-in' crap!

[Carbombing101]

holy shit. and i thought i was a reb beach fan before i saw this

[randmania]

he's awesome and cool as hell

[MuDvAyNw]

hes a nice guy too

[MuDvAyNw]

i think reb beach and that guitar sound very good

[BorahLion]

Awesome use of tapping...!

BTW.. I wonder what it feels like to receive a guitar from.. ahem.. Steve.. Vai...?

[retroboogieband]

WOW.... Absolutely beautiful

[Laneremembered75]

Well Steve Vai, Reb Beach, who would not like to reach such guitar level? After maybe Steve is far beyond all 80's guitarists (except the jedi master, Shawn Lane!)

[vai0rules]

ok, nevermind... i asked before he talked about steve vai...

[vai0rules]

is that the universe model?

[Lossaavedra]

One great thing about his playing is how diferent he makes his tapping from other guitar players, REB BEACH rulz the tapping world

[mcookrowe]

amazing...simply fucking amazing

[jose044]

why did he put his hair straigt? its more glam metal like that hehe

[SvenTwelve]

i loathe steve vai and that guitar sounds like shit.

[SvenTwelve]

don't get me wrong - reb beach is totally awesome - but that guitar is so harsh and brassy and steve vai has his entire body up his own ass.

[bartolemeo]

Mr. Beach is a real original. Beautiful tapping, and he's clearly got humility and a great personality. Thanks for posting this. One of my big favorite players.

[Archetype3]

Cool stuff, do you have more?

[oldie1001]

one of the best ever

[MuDvAyNw]

damn good, i love this guy

[latenightfan]

thanks for posting hes too talented!

[EthnHayabusa]

Great clip.Kinda funnny that he tuned it down a half step(Unless that is just the tape).

Thanks for posting it.

[vinta9e]

what's funny about tuning down half a step? ever heard of Stevie Ray Vaughan? or guns n roses, extreme, slayer, megadeth, metallica - they all did that lil' trick. and, as far as 7 string UV's go, morbid angel are the men.