This Town Needs Guns - 'Pig' (live) at the Cellar

[sinksinkswim]

This guy is so underrated. Put aside your squabbles over whether it's easy to play or not and listen to the melodies he's playing - it sounds fucking beautiful. I couldn't really give a shit about technicality with songwriting this good. And to the guy who mentioned Tosin Abasi, I bet if he saw this video he'd love it!

[Tcoz86]

@sinksinkswim Nicely put my friend.



[fizzgigify]

he probably uses some form of open tuning, eh?

[abarbar06]

yes. amazing guitarist, unbelievable in fact.

[ehwilson]

this sucks.

[ilovegibsons1]

@ehwilson you suck

[prettyboy7xxx]

This is just mind boggling good! Allan Holdsworth's long lost son.

[deathacus]

is he picking with all five fingers?

[TheRooster456]

Jesus christ, I love you Math Rock

[pip121982]

damn

[deathacus]

Math rock is probably the most underrated form of music out there, next to SOME genre's of metal.

[paulloveslyd]

how on earth did a discussion about tosin abasi get on this page? i listen to this stuff once in a while to get away from all that lol. guess the whole "djent" thing is getting too big lol.

[ifrozetodeath]

Pig is my all time favourite song. absolutely love TTNG ^_^

[gangstermosh]

Those fingers!

[ilovethesechords]

Well, this is pretty cool. I think that everyone here who likes this style of guitar would greatly appreciate Victor Villarreal of Ghosts and Vodka, and Owls. Almost identical style.

[liberatordoc]

tim collis is not insane... have you dopes ever heard of American Football? They are a complete rip off. The singer isnt even half the singer mike is.

[jheapss]

@liberatordoc they are very different from AF. you obviously know very little about this sort of music...

[alcapwn180]

@liberatordoc Your logic is terribly flawed. Any band can sound like any other band.  You know why. Because there is a lot of bands. Nice try at being cool tho! Also, Tim is awesome.

[ANIMVL]

Being in This Town Needs Guns and not being a Collis is like being in Oasis and not being a Gallagher. You get next to no recognition. Stuart Smith is a great lyricist and Jamie Cooper is a brilliant musician. I'm looking forward to hearing more of the new stuff since it will have Jamies creative input as well.

[guitarboydustin9]

He deserves to have his singer play better live.

[BlurredVisi0n]

is he using a PRS?

[Henners982]

@BlurredVisi0n Yeah he is. He uses two of them in rotation (while he has the other one ready in the next tuning) which I think are the same.

[ahadyama69]

fucking good stuff

[nosoup4u551]

sucha beast. sucha nice dude too. met him at a show when they came to bkl.

[reggietheporpoise]

tim seems so modest about his guitar playing. it seems like he could easily get up there and play in a "show off ish" way, but that's not at all what he does. a lot of people focus on his guitar playing, but the entire band is equally as awesome. and i've gotta say that not enough credit goes to stu... his lyrics are crazy good.

[ThatOneHxCKid]

This guitar makes me smile.

[q94sucks]

I'm usually not into this type of music, I'm more into heavy metal, but this guy is good.

[000surfin]

man they must have been on acid cuz i culd never play this

[CallitSane]

He kinda reminds me of how Sam Zurick plays the guitar

[shmegshmeg1]

this is honestly one of the sickest songs i have ever heard. his guitar skills are just mind blowing.

[rohnjeadling28]

love that quick harmonic, adds so much

[collectallfive]

I love his hand movements from 0:28-0:32. So fluid and quick. Reminds me of a gazelle.

[brandaddy0]

no need to cry throwup. :]

[Pantera411]

hahahha good comeback dude, in otherwords you have no idea what your talking about whe it comes to guitar playing. first off its not in stadard 2nd off you could never for the life of you write something this beautiful

" its soo easyy" wow you are fucktard

[brandaddy0]

it's easy to do that in open tuning. still good tho.

[HeyWannaThrowUp]

if its soo easy post a video you dumbass

[Christiantodd1]

@ brandaddy- cool, if its that easy just post a video on YT showing us how easy it is. By the way, if you're a non musician claiming that what you're seeing is easy, then you should stick to what you do know which is probably playing your PS3 in your parents basement.

[brandaddy0]

i've been playing guitar since 7th grade you fkn idiot, i don't even own a ps3, i have a 360. and i didn't mean it to be offensive to the guitarist. i'm just stating a point that it's pretty easy to come up with cool licks when its open tuning, it's hard to sound bad like that. and u called me brandaddy haha you're a gay.

[dontutremble]

@brandaddy0

hahah it's funny how people always condemn those who utilize certain "tricks" to, as they say, make it easier. 360? i'll bet you play MW2; yeah, you're probably one of those dudes who gets pissed when people drop-shot you. anyways yeah i'm just gonna say you'll likely never write anything that compare's to tim's work. yeah.

[RENN357]

@brandaddy0

your youtube name IS brandaddy....fucktard.

[brandaddy0]

a lot more creative then renn, dumb bitch.

[RENN357]

@brandaddy0

HAW HAW HAW!!! AREN'T YOU SO CLEVER!!!!

just shut up...I love this band and so do you and thats what this comment box is about, so just deal wi it....i mean, whats gonna happen? your gonna show up at my front door and try to fight me?

please....

[brandaddy0]

@RENN357

dude why are you even writing back, those comments were from like months ago. and i never threatened you with going to your house? and yeah i do enjoy this band. cheers.

[Pabbles123]

wow so good

[woahgandhi]

this is actually unbelieveable. so so good!!

[mitchprotheroe]

yeah noodleplaying is the best

[Pantera411]

thats not noodleplaying.. do you have ANY fucking idea how hard 10 seconds of that is to play?

noone plays like he does, 2 capos, fucked up tuning's

tim collis is insane

[mitchprotheroe]

hahahah i think you misunderstood what i was trying to say...

believe me, i know they are amazing and i know how good he is. =]

[IsThatAPerson]

fuckin capos and fucked up tunings rule

[thedivinesuicideof]

@Pantera411 Not to mention, his own finger technique. The guy is wicked.

[dirtyjerzzzz]

@Pantera411 you've never heard of tosin abasi, thats why you still think this guy is good.

[levipearl2112]

@dirtyjerzzzz They are 2 completely different styles, how dare you compare them, don't get me wrong TA is fucking sick but you can't compare them

[Ivhobbs23vI]

@Pantera411 What songs played with two capos? I know he does it but I can never figure which?

[denzl11]

@Ivhobbs23vI

baboon

[WhytRabbits]

@Ivhobbs23vI

baboon and lemur :3

[ashlathelight]

@Pantera411 no one can touch his shit.

[Crayo99999]

@Pantera411 you fucking tell him man. the complexity and theory behind the shit tim writes is just pure amazing

[playswithpassion]

so glad it just focuses his on him the whole time...I've always been really drawn to the guitar playing in this band.

[leviedman]

Hopefully this will help someone tab the song out :D

[IsThatAPerson]

i think i will do just that

[keganpwns]

ugh, i wish i could play like that. i play tapping-style math rock but sometimes that gets really old even if it sounds good and looks cool, and i feel like if i could play like this i'd be a lot happier :[

[goradcore]

thats cool, i try the tapping but as dumb as this may sound it never occured to me to play but with a classical stayle finger picking, its sooo cool

[ANIMVL]

Yeah heard the candyrat guitarists? Check out them, it will help your guitar playing a lot. My favourite is Antoine Dufour.

[vbaldude7]

such a sick band.

[junkyhunkyman]

his guitar skills.......it silky smooth! Like snake. hehe