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  • Both GREAT! Herb's technique is a little cleaner! :)

  • thats not fair :(

  • SENSATIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    

  • Fantastici , un gran bel anatole.

  • Herb in general doesnt inspire me like Barney does, but I will say Herb does have some excellent licks.

  • Pass is good, but I will tell you he is not in Barney Kessels league. Pass does not have the creativity or the rhythm genius and chord structure Kessel has.

  • @quailblaster Interesting opinion, but Joe Pass is actually a cleaner, more proficient player. Barney can be messy and lacks the chordal sophistication which Joe masters.

  • Could it be than Pass and Martino were quite more evolved than Ellis in musical terms... But Herb Ellis was the former Oscar Peterson Trio and I due to him my later aproach to many others as Pass, Martino, Burrell or even Kessel...

  • Fake.

  • @TaterGumfries Jealous.

  • @powerfistify haha why would it be fake?? I think you may be on to something

  • @Barnabus007 oh im not saying its fake im saying that guy who said its fake is jealous because he cant play nearly that good.

  • @powerfistify haha nono I got that I was further mocking him, I agree with what you said...sorry bout that confusion

  • @Barnabus007 oh no problem

  • lml

  • Ellis tone kind of distorted,sounds a bit sloopy. Just sayin

  • I always loved this Herb Ellis tune :)

  • Great players. And a fun video. Too bad the audio is out of sync with the video.

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  • Even the audio cant follow them in time. :-)

  • Face it ppl......this is the real thing. two great guitar masters making the flintstones

    sounds better than ever !!!!!

    and yes, fast playing should be allowed 1st with no effects just clean sound !!!!

    they both can play fast and swinging !!!

    the good old guys that we all studied from :-)

    great guitarists !!!

  • Herb Ellis is my hero

  • put that thru a marshall and add some more crash cymbals!

  • Oklahoma vs Texas

  • @univibe23 Distortion doesn't cover up mistakes! Speed metal tricks have their difficult side too. With or without distortion, a great guitar player plays every note!

  • Wonderful! Two guitar greats having fun!

  • Even MY fingers burn right now! Two of the all time greats!

  • JOYCE DANELEN FOR PRESIDENT.

    JOYCE DANELEN MS. U.S.A.

    JOYCE DANELEN IS BEAUTIFUL

  • AWESOME!

  • Rhythm changes at around 340 bpm...... amazing

  • Mr. Ellis' movement economy provides a smoother attach and more consistent stream of notes than Mr. Kessel's whole-wrist technique. Barney's tone gets rough as he tries to fly like this, with lots of noise and over-strum.

    Fantastic stuff, though. Enough to make me quit guitar!

  • @TallSomeone Kessels string action was quite high.

    Very heavy gauge strings as well ( 0.15's as i recall him say )

  • If Aria would have had their head on straight and would have put just one pickup on the guitar at the neck end, then this guitar would have been a great jazz guitar. Too much wiring and crap. Look at most jazz guitarists. They prefer just one pickup. That's all you need to play jazz. But these guitar companies think they know best. Some of them are finally waking up. The Gibson Herb Ellis model is a good one.

  • @ArkRed1 Yes, Charlie Christian & Django Reinhardt used just one p'up...plus Django's guitar neck, on his original guitar, was warped and held together with matchsticks and sellotape.

    I recall viewing it back in the 1960s.

    So much for all the switches & pedals.

  • To all the 17-year-olds that hang around youtube watching videos of Linkin' Park or some other horrible band, and think that Kurt Cobain was the greatest guitarist ever: I hope you watch this.

  • @Alembic77Series1 Well here i am :) im enjoying some amazing jazz music like this, and also i can enjoy amazing grunge music like kurt cobain's... Music is universal, those who can taste and feel it as unique compositions, without thinking about genre, or who is playing, then those are who really can say that love music :)

  • @matutino1313

    nailed it. 100% right.

  • @matutino1313: I've been looking for words like that, for quite some time now!! Thank you! If I ever use any reference to your "Quote" I'll be sure to make known the original author! Both these musicians are gods! I love Kessel, and Cobain, Not too familiar with Ellis, but it's amazing how his picking hand barely moves compaired to Kessel's! Definetly "God"ly status aswell!!!! I am obsessed with "Autaumn Leaves" by B.K.... Never seen this vid till today! Love it!!!!!

  • @Alembic77Series1 let kids be kids, they will have plenty of time to discover this music. It will be around for years.

  • bb

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  • hooray for rhythm changes!!!

  • This is Playback:}} hahaha

  • Wow this is really amazing. :D

  • Saw these two a few times in the late 70's at the old lighthouse in Hermosa Bech Ca. Best I ever saw. And yes I understand the "I quit " Guy. said the same thing hen I saw them. LOL. But I diden't. Some of the best Ax victoms out there no one has ever heard of. Best I ever saw? Hands down a man by the name of Michel Grange. Can't really find much on him. But the man could shred the tastiest licks ever. Hope yall can se something like that someday.

  • that looks like the most bored drummer in the world

  • @jippzmcghee it looks like hes struggling just to keep up actually

  • ok thats it, time to start playin rhythm xD

  • @HiImJerry8 to be fair though good rhythm playing is just as or infact harder than lead playing, specially in jazz and the proper blues styles

  • I quit.

  • @gahzeyboe LOLs

  • great stuff! too bad they won't show off a little, though! ;) LOL

  • Yeah.. Since there is nothing to "hide the mistakes".. Kessel sounds like duece....

  • Too bad they have no technique... ;-)

  • shit. that's almost 400bpm!!!

  • Too bad, Herb's guitar is too quiet. Beat it, Yngwie !

  • Great jazz players....Two of my favorites! Even if the video isnt in sync with the audio.

  • Wow. This makes me want to take a router to a Gibson L7 and slap a Charlie Christian pickup in that bad boy.

  • Herb and Barney are 2 of my favourites.

    Reading some of the comments here I shake my head at the mentality that could analyse the fun out of a bowl of ice-cream.

  • Nie and nice and more nice! 5 stars!

  • I didn't know that Heb and Barney did a bunch a coke back in the early 70's!

    Wow! Just like Carson.

  • @Tweekerhead I don't know about coke, but if I were making big bucks sitting in a studio playing guitar all day, why not? You get paid for 3hrs per session, but if you nail your part on tape right away, you wait around for the next session for 2hrs. (Tho I'm sure there was no such free time at Phil Spector or Brian Wilson sessions.)

  • This is the real deal: no distortion, compression, or other effects like in metal. you hear every single not with his full dynamic in a classy swing rhythmen!

  • Wilmaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!Bam Bam Bam BamBam!!!!!!!

    Loved it . Thanks

    Dan

  • @colonelcorn56 actually if you consider sweep picking a "speed trick" he's doing some of that after 1:50

  • @DjembeSauce These guys invented all the tricks. There was no purist attitude from them, just from their fans. They used whatever trick it took to get the job done, from keeping up with Oscar Peterson, to playing on 1,000s of Hollywood sessions of every style.

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  • Yabba Dabba Doooooooo

  • Guys like this - they hear it (in their heads) and play it nearly simultaneously. Amazing. Thanks for posting this.

  • i can just imagine DINO running like crazy here

  • Really great these two giants of the jazz guitar! Thanks a lot for posting it!

    Could you fix the small delay between the video and the audio that can be noticed in the finger movement (the audio is earlier than the video)?

  • RIP Herb, this video is among my favourites of all time.

  • Herb. My first jazz guitar hero.

  • Joe Byrd on bass. Who's the drummer?

  • Holy Guitar face!

  • RIP Herb Ellis

  • rip Herb!! one jazz giant!! thanks for your music!!!

  • Mais um tema jazzistico para lembrar a infância!

  • rest in peace Herb Ellis, Great forever !

  • Out of sync but great playing of course

  • Thank You for making The World a better place for so many......

  • RIP Herb..!!

    Now you and Barney can jamm again...!

    These 2 influenced me to play and I bet thousands of other musicians

  • Yabba-dabba-do! A perfomance like this ensures they will NEVER be forgotten. RIP.

  • so sad

  • Two of the greats now gone.

  • RIP Herb

  • r ip mr ellis ..rhsc nyc

  • So long, Herb. Thanks for the great music!

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  • i guess i forgot that the flintstones theme is just rhythm changes. weird. i guess, then, it doesn't surprise me much that these guys are killing on it - they play these changes all the time. all they had to do was learn the head (kind of a no-brainer, if you've seen the tv show a million times).

  • two all time greats.

  • WOOOO! That is some fast playing!! No heavy metal speed tricks or distortion to cover up your mistakes--these guys play every note!

  • you got that right my friend, guitar technique at its finest

  • @univibe23 Yeah, but it's far from the best playing either of them have ever done. Both these superb ballad players and accompanists, but here they're just playing licks and it's superficially impressive but not really very musical.

  • @lexo30 It's the Flintstones' theme.. light-hearted fun..thus just playing licks is the way to go..the only thing that might've been better would be to insert a bagful of quotes from other, equally lightweight pieces.

  • @lazur1 It's all about taste, and I'm obviously not knocking Ellis or Kessel in terms of skill because they were both brilliant players. If I'm criticising anything about them, it's their decisions about how to play this. I suppose that this is just not my idea of 'light-hearted fun'. If I wanted light-hearted fun, I'd probably be listening to They Might Be Giants. Or Spike Jones.

  • @lex Sure, it's subjective, but I'm sure it's intended as I hear it: I mean, really: The tastiest chord-melody ballad players 'going ape' on "The Flintstones" ? Perhaps in a more serious situation, they'd filigree the straight melody w/a few riffs on the 1st chorus, weave the melody into bop lines on the 2nd, re-harmonize it into stacked fourths on the 3rd, add counterpoint on the 4th, etc.: But it was just for fun, even if they aren't as much fun as Spike jones.

  • @univibe23 Plus with FEEL, which is the thing missing in metal licks. As Jeff Beck once said." it's like listening to guys practise scales not create spontaneous musical thoughts".

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  • @univibe23 you must be an idiot

  • @univibe23 That's kind of arrogant of you. I LOVE Jazz and think it's the greatest music alive. But having played metal guitar in the past I can definitely say that it takes a lot of effort (almost as much as these guys) to play fast. In fact, with distortion it's sometimes harder to play so fast because you are dealing with open strings feeding back. And while I'm talking, I think Herb Ellis is ridiculously overrated. Pat Martino or Joe Pass could kick his butt anytime in terms of musicality.

  • @Kaitano94 I like a speed metal too. I think Yngwie is a genius! It's just different approachs/techniques and gear really. Pat and Joe are as good as it get's along with many others too numerous to mention. But they would all give Ellis credit for being the Jazz guitar pioneer that he was. Wasn't trying to put anybody down--it's just these guys rarely get their due--unsung hero's really.

  • Guitar Hero : Herb Ellis Edition

  • @KhanShin I dare say about 90% or more of the people playing/buying guitar hero never even heard of Herb Ellis let alone could they play any of these licks...haha. I would love to see a Jazz band for XBox or PS3...or masters of jazz guitar version of guitar hero...to be honest I would rather see a guy spend time learning to play a real instrument rather than learn to play a game...

  • @KhanShin Take that, Dragonforce!

  • pls sync it up thanks!

  • this is a great video but out of sync. :(

  • Oh, man! OH MAN! This is what I call - AWESOME!

  • Insanely great jazz guitar. And can we all just try to get along re: everybody is entitled to an opinion (even the ones that seem out of line). Just down thumb it and move on. Hearing this music should cause positive vibes.

  • It would seem that in SaraTG's process to become transgendered, they cut off his ears as well.....

  • здоровски жгут)))))))

  • Every time I see a great like Mr. Ellis it makes me sad and go into like a guitar depression. And SaraTGinMD - if you don't like jazz why are you looking up jazz videos?

  • lol "guitar depression".

    I know what u mean, these guys are monsters.

  • bassist is a fucking pusher! woo!

  • Two Smokin Legends..!!

    They know how to shred...!!

    RIP Barney..! The Wrecking Crew was awesome..!!

    I would love to see Paco or Dimeola jam with these cats....

  • Oh my God! What a playing! Awesome Awesome Awesome!

  • Yep.....Barney, Herb and myself, we all play the guitar right handed.

  • who you ?! fred ?!

  • Monster guitar players. Was this a Bop version of the song or Cool?

  • jazz shredding..

  • thanks for this wonderful video, but there is an audio sync. problem...

  • Those guys really play the guitar! Not like me! I can't play anything on the guitar!

    And both were part of Oscar's band in the fifities.

  • @OscarPetersonFan Oscar is fucking awesome. Check out the Stan Getz album with Oscar and Herb. So sweet. Oscar's solo on "I want to be happy" is epic.

  • Well that was one of the first times I heard Stan Getz, and I was really amazed with Herb's intro for Bronx Blues, and I used to play it in the guitar, cause it's not technically hard. But Herb really knows how to play it!! and some years after that I found Blues for Herky...

  • Amazing!!!!!!!

  • 0:55-1:48

    Some ppl might say the guitar speaks for them. In this particular incident i think he was speaking for the guitar lol.

  • Herb's take on soloing is that if you can't sing along with it, the audience probably won't feel it - so he's singing along (inaudibly to the audience).

  • Thats a reasonable phrasing technique. I think its more popular in blues though.

  • Eddie might not have revolutionized fast playing, but if you could compare yearly income, I would say Eddie isn't doing to bad. LOL

  • ya i dont know why i can play a fast jazz lick and then play an easier lick with distortion on a jackson guitar and people think the rock lick is faster and harder. it blows my mind.!!!

  • 5 stars.

  • Great. u.u

  • uhh, why not? The melody is right there, in your face in the beginning before they take the solos. Also I'm not sure which gentleman you're referring to?

  • how about you loop from 0:18 to 0:39 again and again and if you still cant hear the fucking melody, then get lost. seriously. i even took the liberty to tell you where in the video the melody is. This is jazz. if you don't understand it, go back and read up more before you come here and talk crap.

  • Firstly, 'totally unrelated' is obviously an evidence of impairment of your ears, seeing that you can't make sense of the obvious melodies they are creating against the original melody. This is music, as an art form. So before you tell me what jazz is, or even fashion design for that matter, go do your homework before spewing your crap over here. Your statement on fashion design clearly shows how myopic you are. Epic fail.

    Understand what the music is about, before deciding you don't like it.

  • ah screw off.

  • You just don't understand it yet - but don't worry, it will come sooner or later.

  • @SaraTGinMD you're a loser

  • Sara: Yes, it's a joke, a -good- joke: Telling musical jokes is a part of jazz. The 20 secs they play theme is the entire tune. If they weren't going to improvise from that point on, the song would be over. If you meant the licks should've been embellishments around a repeated melody, I can relate to that, but even that concept is finished after one chorus. Hardly a free for all, they were strictly within the chord progression, the tempo, & the lighthearted mood of the piece.

  • good one!!

  • and they say eddie van halen revolutionized fast playing.

  • +1 for you

  • haha thanks.

  • we gotta talk

  • lol yea true, playing with speed was around waaaay be EVH

  • I think Herb Ellis is yawning through about half of his solos

  • Great!

  • It's not any one of speed, artistry or technique, When playing or listening, the success or failure of a piece of music or I would imagine any artistic venture is dependent on if it touches your soul.

    Does it make you smile, laugh or cry?

    Nothing else really matters.

  • There isn't really any failure. It's not really up to someone to judge someone elses music as to whether it succeeds or fails... just because someone doesn't get something about it, doesn't mean the artist doesn't, or some other listener. My music is success if i enjoy it. its bigger success if more people enjoy it, but other people dont define me. i play because i love music, not because i care what anyone else thinks

  • Many years ago..I wanted to get Barney's sound out of my guitar,(not talking about technique just the sound)..I would think if I only could get that sound...or Coryell..of course this people used very expensive boxes..If you like jazz guitar and never heard or seen or studied Herb Ellis start running to the record store.

  • Their guitars do have some effect on their tone in as much as hollowbodies sound different from solids. However, they'd still sound pretty much exactly as they do on almost any guitar.

  • Pardon the silly comment.... "who's fastest?"...Barney , Herb or Tal ...is fast music better music ? This video is fast,clean & cool. I've been studying "sweep picking".. goal...100 notes at 140 bpm.

  • Yeah, I think probably God would sound "clean" economy/sweep picking on a jazzbox with heavy gauge FLATWOUND strings on it, since the laws of physics might not apply to Him.

  • Regardless of the score keeping by the few commenters here, and I appreciate some of the interesting comments; this video is simply one of the most stunning playing by both of these masters. I heard later that Larry Coryell toured with these two through Portland Oregon in the late 70's ~ early 80's . . I missed it!? *Thanks for posting this excellent performance by Kessel and Ellis.

  • he looks like Donald Trump...

  • haha... That comment made my day, I just imagined Donald Trump sitting there and doing a jazz rendition of the Flinstones theme... :)

  • Bottom line: the late great Joe Pass swung circles around both of them. Kessel was always a stiff ass! He talked on the phone the same way he played, "stiff".

  • i think kessel sounds sloppy, needs to work on fingering in sync with his picking

  • 1# That is a string damper. Jeniifer Batten has a similiar device.2# That is just the way Kessel soloed and while to some people it sounds sloppy, I disagree. He is right on the edge, going for it and sweep picking like no one else and playing about three or four notes where other people might play one. He is right on the edge and contrasts well with Herb's playing, which is also great, but more in line with what people expect jazz guitar to sound like.

  • Dynamite Playing. Does anybody know

    what the mechanism is above the nut  on Herb Ellises guitar?

  • Looks to me like some sort of string damper.

  • After this event, Bedrock will never be the same!! Wonderful rendition of Jazz from "The Stone Age" era !!! Killer vid. Killer guitar players !!!

  • Amazing

  • Lousy sync.

  • fast,clean & musical.

  • wow!! cool!

  • gah I wish the audio and video matched up!

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  • Yaba Daba Great!!

  • Two hot players. Both masters!

  • I like Kessel, but not when he improvises. Sounds blurry. He always sounds the same when he does single notes solo. He is a master at chord melody.

  • "Always sounds the same"? You need to develop your ear, my friend.

  • Listen to Kessel when he improvises. Sloppy . For chord melody, he is a master. Impro is not his forte. Listen to Ellis and you will notice he is much cleaner, as was Joe Pass.

  • "Sloppy"? So what? Who cares about cleanness? If you care more about the playback equipment than the music, become an audiophile. Bottom line -- no guitarist ever swung harder than Barney.

  • i completely disagree, it doesnt take much to improvise or play but the real skill is in making it sound like you really know what youre doing, and if it sounds sloppy, which this does then he's clearly not in the same league as guitarists like ellis.

  • Nonsense, DrBlowThingsUp. Kessel was repeatedly engaged by a Who's Who of jazz, not to mention skimming off the cream of LA studio gigs. What sounds "sloppy" to you sounded like first-rate jazz to the musical elite of Kessel's generation.

  • I agree, I enjoy Barney going out to the edge and not trying to play it safe, Both are great players and Barney isn't afraid to take chances...