sandeep chowta presents Bunny Brunel and Frank Gambale

[dewycatt2112]

ALEX LIFESON! now theres a guitar player!

[Vasauron]

"Gypsy sound"? as so stupidly stated earlier. Well there are other racially derogatory terms that you could say. Al Di Meola Is a Genius. Mr. Gambale is good. If it was not for "Gypsy sound" there would not have evolved such a things as jazz and the Latin music. Flamenco can in terms that you would understand "kick your ass". Al Di Meolas' music is vibrant and not generic. He still looks the same. The other two Italian guitar heroes Satriani and Gambale are bald.

[Akshay8585]

frankly this particular play by p;ayers are great as these pretty sloppy sucks to be at this show

[kibbles1053]

This video has terrible quality. I heard this same song live last Friday, at it wasn't nearly this bad.

[GoNoRdEaTh]

@kibbles1053 fuck off scum

[rgomes1959]

You really cant compare Al Dimeola with Frank. To me, Al's tone blows Franks tone away bar none end of story. Frank is a great player. But this video his tone is garbage. I dont care about harmonics if the tone is sloppy like this!

[HarryBallbag]

Does anyone masturbate, just out of boredom, at these events? I'm trying to convince myself of the benefits of going to one.

[MrvlZmb]

@HarryBallbag Learning is a decent benefit, if you're into that sort of thing.

[27adry]

podria tocar eso un millon de años mas por favor

[jtryde]

Cool music. If you make mistakes, no one notices. Odd wankerism.

[MrvlZmb]

@jtryde As opposed to other styles where if you make mistakes, no one cares.

[GFY19545]

Donati replaced Chambers in CAB.

[petar870602]

donati didnt replace chambers!

dennis was asked to go for the recording only because virgil was on tour

[afrotension]

No I think CAB is mcalpine an Chambers....

[Lydianshadow]

CAB!

[tastefulphrasing]

Oh NO! Frank, you are like one of the best guitarists of all time, but that tone has got to go my man.

[DiegoDuranPinto]

Frank Gambale is a genius. But I don´t like it all the sound of his yamaha guitars...

[dhrubajitgogoi]

sandeep u r a gr8 composer n at the same time u r a gr8 jazz fan,i appreciate ur love fr jazz,thanks fr metro concert,dhrubajit gogoi.

[jeffygmusic]

viva gambale!!

[kevbo67]

Gambale is a fat scientologist. I guess All that I'm saying is his fingers are too fat to play the right notes all the time.

[pythonflying]

He uses his Carvin TN100 Tone Navigator for the awful sound.

[guitarguy10000]

His tone is appalling.

[Hologhoul]

It's a rasping tone but perhaps that's all part of the fun! V. good player though. How long's he been egg??

[persini]

awesome vid, virgil (L)

[cjcdrums]

Donati for the win

[Modes9]

Frank plays figure 8's around Al DiMeola. I want to hear intervals and arpeggios in the lines. Al just plays scales up and down at a million miles an hour-YAWN!

[McMinnManiac]

Right. Al Was WAY before Gambale . DiMeola is one of Gambale's influences . DiMeola can substitute some very interesting scales and actually plays using intervals quite a bit . There is a version of DiMeola playing JJ Flash on You Tube. he rips.

[progjazzfusion]

@McMinnManiac - dimeola doesnt have a fraction of the harmonic knowledge that frank has and doesnt substitute. frank does. al uses the same 3-4 scales all the time cant play over real jazz changes without resorting to his gyspy sound all the time. his tunes are simple harmoncally. frank surpased al LONG ago. al is a novelty technique speed player and cant play real jazz. frank has the harmonic chops to go with his awesome speed+technique, but it's not all he has going for him, unlike with al.

[doodle202]

frank gambale struggles. ha ha. seen him live too many times to go there.

[agipony]

I don't think you can call it struggling, but I admit I rather hear someone like Henderson with great tone and phrasing over a vamp like this, and that Frank shines more over chord progressions.

[doodle202]

I know what you mean. he really rips up changes.

Scott does that to, but in a more organic style. I really dig them both.

[bally28]

Al Di Meola is GOD.

[brandysboi]

Man, the fusion fans are the worst! Man, you guys are funny as hell. I would like to put together a youtube fan jam session. All of these "know it all" guys would probably sound like crap!

[Kapteinar]

This song is meant be easy listening and kind of dreamy, which in this short clip makes it seem boring. If you buy the album CAB2 you'll understand. There's a great theme in the beginning, and the rest i just easy listening soloing throughout the song. One of my all time favorites.

[StovoKhor]

is there anything wrong in Frank's solo ??

[georgeontherocks]

Lol, I have that keyboard

[DT570]

Frank has allways struggled with modal tracks, Give him some serious changes and he's unbelievable.

[05rsx]

FG struggle on modal tracks yea he only DID a instructional video about playing modally lol

[DT570]

You're a tool even in your own retarded logic, MODES (plural) no more mystery, have a look at the changes in the solo to the opening song "high five", if the DVD was about playing modally that was a poor song choice.

[stonepolismusic]

Its not that he "struggles" with modes because I wish I could "struggle " like Frank does, it that his playing is geared more towards complex harmonic structure like all the great JazzRockFusion guys. Sixtyfour bars later you start letting your fingers do the walking...its the nature of the beast!

[DT570]

You're probably right, jazz is harmonic by nature and things like this lack any underlying harmony to work with, but it is still possible to make a vamp interesting ala Corea, hancock, Coltrane, Davis, and I think Frank lacks that ability.

[osensei2987]

He uses modes just fine! The problem is that he's not using them in the fashion that you perceive as "normal" or approve of! Your personal preferences stand in the way of your reasoning here. Modes are simply an improvisational tool. There is no rule that says you should be able to pick them out and readily identify them as a critical listener. There all sorts of possibilities beside the standard noob ass Rock application of modes isn't there?

[osensei2987]

You call this shit struggling? You must be accustom to listening to wankers that just play endless streams of 16th notes throughout their solos and play the same old dorian mode shit over again! There is a concept called "phrasing" you know! There is also this little symbol in music called a "rest"! Learn before you speak!

[DT570]

Let me rephrase, what I meant is "Frank struggles to make vamps sound interesting". D you really think this is on a par with the other 99% of his music?  Stop being a fanboy and jumping at every critisism, Frank isn't god and I'm sure he's the first to admit it.

[frikij]

Great! You hit it on the head. It is the inability of players (I hesitate to call them musicians) to use "rests" that shows how limited their approach is. Imagine Wayne Shorter's playing without space.

[ibanezcassidy]

It's a small excerpt of a song, a simple vamp for Gambale to solo over. I don't know what people are complaining about.

[GalacticWolf]

Prandtastic has got the idea right....These guys have amazing skills which they ably display here, but the tune itself is really uninspired. Dat's all.

[GalacticWolf]

No thanks. This just isn't my cup of tea. Not saying it's awful or anything. Virgil, Frank and Bunny are all monster players, but this tune is seeeeriously limp.

[xegan6t]

define limp!!

[prandtastic]

I am kind of seeing what you are saying Mr. Wolf. This songs seems kind of flat and 2-D, not much depth. It seems redolent of a jam. I'm not saying it is bad or anything. It's kind of boring in terms of a song. But FG is blistering as usual and that is a sweet bass line. But it doesn't speak as much as it could. We'll just say it has potential.

[GalacticWolf]

They all look like they're waiting around for the bus.....They may have chops but this music just isn't very appealing at all.

[GFY1954]

..maybe you should play with them?

[cjcdrums]

What a line-up! Thanks for the video.

[StanDuppenshout]

Frank indeed is amazing, as always. But you just can't go wrong anytime you have Bunny and Virgil playing together. For me, those two just go way beyond...

[roydio]

Frank is truly amazing, I have seen numerous times with CCEB and with Rick and Ray at La Ve Lee Jazz Club in Studio City, California, can't get any better than this for guitar players. Keep on playin' Frank.

[GuitarArt]

Increible. Un 10 Frank.

[localpm]

My favourite guitarist of all time thanks man!

[fcubic]

thanks bro for getting these monsters to visit. Just a glimpse of the magnificent Frank Gambale in full flight, I was there that night and these guys smoked the shit out of Hyderabad