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  • This Song is just like a i dream it

  • In the late 80s early 90's he was just as well known as an electric player as acoustic. He was a one time lead guitarist for a NZ group called Dragon

  • Acustic guitar tommy, electric guitar stevie ray.

  • 30 people didn't know even what's a telecaster in tommy's hands

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  • No disrespect to the other performers in the video, but I've never seen a musican literally run circles around other artists.

  • this is the ultimate vintage crime movie soundtrack

  • Tommy is the GREATEST!!!!!!!!!!!! and there are some sweeeeeeeeeet mullets in this video too

  • Playing at the 2011 L.A. Guitar Festival...check out the video!

  • on acustic guitar tommy is a master....but with the electric...is the same

  • Oxyenno )))

  • jesus on the drums and god on the guitar ..... just heavenly

  • Guys Guys... Anyone has a tab for this ? Specially for 2.47 - 2.57

    This part is ASS KICKING

  • ok guys seriously now. what the hell is going on with the john patitucci stuff in these vids...? i mean thats like definately that bass. but is it john also?

  • Shades of Danny Gatton. Dilettantes need not apply.

  • Shades of Danny Gatton.

  • All of those 'guitar gods' are certainly amazing on the guitar - all with different styles. For this reason, it can be a daunting task trying to learn from each one of them. The solution may be to just learn from Tommy. In this performance, I'm hearing different styles at random moments....Stevie Ray, Eric Johnson, Clapton, even Vai (with that flangey slapping) and, sorry to those who hate him, Malmsteen (lightning mid-neck scales with high compression). Summary: Tommy rules big time!

  • All of those 'guitar gods' are certainly amazing on the guitar - all with different styles. For this reason, it can be a daunting task trying to learn from each one of them. The solution may be to just learn from Tommy. In this performance, I'm hearing different styles at random moments....Stevie Ray, Eric Johnson, Clapton, even Vai (with that flangey slapping) and, sorry to those who hate him, Malmsteen (lightning mid-neck scales with high compression). Summary: Tommy rules big time!

  • does anyone know which fucking concert this was or anything? it's crazy!

  • and once again, my theory that you have to have a good or a brilliant rhythm and anything you play over it will sound good. if you combine tommy's skills and knowledge with that perfect rhythm under his solo, you get a motherfucking awesome piece of music such as this :D

  • @jimmyleppard6 dont forget to mention the hundreds of thousands of hours of hard diligent work! good old fashioned hard work!!!

  • this is really good but honestly its nothing compared to what he does on acustic guitar

  • @Eryan724 I agree, here he sounds pretty generic but on acoustic he's in a class by himself.

    Kind of like a modern Chet Atkins.

  • @49kasey generic in this video? fuck off... his playing is amazing here. the shit he's playing in the solo sections is brilliant

  • @racefactory900 I'm just saying I was disappointed compared to his acoustic playing.

  • @49kasey .... Generic ? lol You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  • @orbitration 'Scuse me, I used it once. I live in Boston, Massachusetts which has two of the three major music schools in the USA and this is a hotbed of guitar talent. I hear good guitarists playing on the street and in the subway stations all the time. I just meant that I'm more impressed with his acoustic playing.

    And as a guitarist I do think that it's easier to sound impressive on an electric than on an acoustic by playing loud rock and using effects.

  • oh man this is awsome!!!! how can I play 20 years guitar, listen to guitar music all my life and only find out about this guy now????

  • if i can play the later half of the solo i bet i'll know what it feels like to have conquered the world....

  • Just got my face melted

  • Great!

  • What model of Telecaster is that? Looks like the kind keith Urban plays....

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  • words cannot encapsulate how brilliant this is

  • I like him better on the acoustic

  • that guitar is a part of him

  • @noooblover yes! the guitar is his third hand :))

  • even though the bad quality that was taken tommy breaks the limit on this video and still sounds perfect

  • actually its easier to play an electric guitar than an acoustic.. so since hes so good at acoustic, that makes him one million times more amazing on an electric rather than an acoustic. :)

  • @fitek666

    Slash isn't even in the same league with this kind of talent. This level of talent and ability interprets the soul of the music and soars to places of beauty that Slash doesn't even know exists.

  • This man is a super flawless guitarist

  • 2:10 to 3:25......... one of the most powerful and beautiful solos i've ever heard in my damn life... so DAMN FUCKING POWERFUL!!!

    You cannot describe the musical genious of this man...

  • @noelmeehan totally agree... that part is fucking cool

  • Is that Jesus on drums?

  • @LeviMan2001

    no, St. Peter

  • he so does not need the band to deal with. he sounds awesome, but he stands out better alone to me.

  • Ever wonder if  players like this ever got a note wrong?

  • i absolutely love the beginning :P, from 0:06 - 0:12

  • Jajaja super contagiosa la pieza, desde entonces ya era un animal para la guitarra, ahora simplemente no hay palabras para describirlo. Grande tommy

  • can sby tell which year was this?

  • electrics probably a breeeeze for him

  • can't get any better than TE

  • tommy is a GOD!!!!!!!!

  • omg!!!!!

  • What is the name of the song pleas?

  • new shoes blues i think

  • He looks so different with his brown hair before he went grey.....but his playing chops haven't changed one bit!!

  • Is there a tab for this song? I can't stop listening it!

  • there's gotta be a better quality audio for this version somewhere! IMO, this is the best 1 compaired to the live mtv and studio versions.

  • any tabs for this song? :D

  • I do not know English so well, to express my admiration...So write, then in Polish...

    On jest qrevsko,totalnie odjechany w kosmos!!!

  • Tommy is king!

  • Wouldn't It be amazing to see a new electric stuff from Tommy with the experience he has now?

  • From where the sound cuts out slightly, to the end, is one of the greatest.. amazing.. WORDS.. THAT ARE GOOD..

  • is tommy quit electric guitar long time ago? this video seems very young, now is an old guy od :P

  • 1.46-1.52 :O :O :O

  • excellent !!! an amazing guitarist !!!!

  • I'd love to hear this guy duet with Steve Morse.

  • Awesome!!As usual...

  • his sound,his tone,everything is great!what a genius!

  • I so agree he is THE GREATEST GUITARIST EVER.

  • What the hell was this??

    Who would have thought, Tommy on electric is actually as good as he is on acoustic. Everything about this song screamed "god".

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  • GOD ! I'm in love with you !

  • THE best TE Electric song!!!!

  • This stuff is truly truly amazing buuuut.... He can do SO much better on acoustic guitars.

    Still epic! :)

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  • he is god of guitarist!!

  • TOMMY EMANUEL IS THE BEST GUITARIST THAT EVER LIVED.........so far...

  • @kuntucky123 well theres hardly guna be good guitarists coming out of this generation of music man ... :( sad when you think bout it...

  • @kuntucky123 man hendrix i way up there bro they bothe deserve respect

  • @kuntucky123 now we have  Mr.Govan

  • @kuntucky123

    Tommy is awesome but believe your statement to be quite a stretch

  • @kuntucky123 LOL, Williams, Segovia, Mangore, Bellucci and Parkening show he's not even in the top 5.

  • @snakeinthegrass20 You have just shown your bad respect about musicians and music in general. You did only mention classic guitar players, and you did your personal billboard of the "best". Best about what? Every single musician, classical or whatever, who did have the honor to collaborate with Tommy Emmanuel have shown their respect because he's surely one of the most if not the most talented and gifted musical genious of our time. On top of that he's one of the most amazing person on earth.

  • @noelmeehan You really need to broaden your horizons if you think this is 'musical genius'. He is good and I like him- but he's not in the same league as a guitarist compared to Segovia etc. As a composer he is nothing at all compared to Bach, Rach or Amadeus.

  • @snakeinthegrass20 Sorry, but I'm just returned from his concert in Rome at Teatro Tendastrisce. There was a standing ovation of over half a hour and screaming throughout the all concert, requesting him to come back after the show. Your words are nothing in my eyes. What he gives to people is just out of this world. I'll let you continue to compare him to various artists or "leagues" or whatever you want, since in music there's no competition at all, only feelings and respect. Cheers Mr. Bach.

  • @snakeinthegrass20 opinions are great!

  • @snakeinthegrass20 ....(part2) ... so if somebody wanna say from the deep of his heart that Tommy Emmanuel is the best, they got the credit to do so, just because the contribution Tommy gave and still give to music is so huge nobody on earth could say a damn shit or compare him to anybody. Just my two cents (sorry for my damn bad english).

  • @snakeinthegrass20 elitism at it's finest what else can I say. It annoys me when people do this they spout off guitarists/musicians who others may not have heard that much about in an attempt to debunk other people arguments, it's just sad. Oh and btw Tommy is a musical genius, anyone who denies it is really just bitter about his talent.

  • 1:29-1:32 and 1:46-1:55 kicks ass

  • oh...i expected this to be a rickroll

  • @tsunami2011 lol

  • but he kicks ass on electric as well!!

  • It doesn't what I plays on, he could make a $10 guitar sound awesome.

  • that tele's got three pickups! awesome

  • i want to learn how to play electric guitar any ideas for tutors or teachers

  • justin sandercoe has the best lessons on youtube... hes an amazing teacher & has lessons for all levels... hes your best bet for free lessons & good explanations

  • My favorite guitarist ever since I saw his Over The Rainbow on YouTube in 2007. Now I know what he was doing to adapt in the 80's No one can catch up with Tommy.

  • still one of my fave guitar solos ever

    they should put this on guitar hero!

  • hell yeah, that would be awesome!

    they should make a guitar hero tomm emmanuel edition!

    why shouldnt guitar hero have acoustic guitar?

  • yes i think this song would work quite well on Guitar Hero, the verse at the beginning isn't won't be that difficult, but then when it gets near the middle and end with the mad crazy solo bits and the harmonics, it would be brilliant

    i don't think guitar hero would work well on acoustic really, that game has always been the 'rock star' thing making you feel all powerful and like a god, acoustic doesn't really do it, although it is more intimate

  • But if they made a TE version, nobody would beat it cause it would be way to hard! :P

    Te is the man!

  • DEADLY!Fair Play for the post!

  • how old is the video? haha.

    WICKED....GO TOMMY!

  • he cood easily become one of the best in electric aswell if he wanted to play electric instead

  • He already is ^^,

    I mean, look at this video, he's awesome ^^

  • 3.40 min ago i never heard of the man..

    my f*ckin jaw dropped to the ground....

    I will spend the rest of the evening finding out more, i want cd's dvds, the works ...brilliant!!!!!

  • ~# THIS TUNE FTW!

  • sICk!!!

  • Best ever!!!!!!!!! I simply love you and your guitar!!!

  • this guy play with his soul and that is good to see...the best guitar player in the world in my ears! ...

  • this guy play with his soul and that is good to see.. the best guitar player in my ears!

  • So much energy! Man, that's awesome! <3

  • this song was totally awesome!!!!

    great melody!!!he rocks!!!!

  • i wonder when fender willcome up with the new tommy emanuel signature telecaster! xDD

  • Tommy Emmanuel Signature Tele?

    I guess this would be the first Guitar with 1/2"-bolts on the neck to allow for full divebombs without a FloydRose. 8-)

  • coooooool~~~

  • Kids rock at guitar.

  • kids sucks with his cover....

    but E-guitar is a great extention of normal guitar, and normal guitar a great extention of E-guitar....

    both have their nice and less nice sides...

    The reason why I play on Alvarez as well Blade ;)

  • Have you seen his aucostic?

  • yes i know him and his acoustic things and he is my favourite guitar player that's why i said it. i just don't like e-guitars =/

  • Good to see I'm not the only one that bends my telecaster neck.. =p Thank heaven for bigsby. This guy ROCKS!

  • yea ik

    i bend the neck 2

  • Me too ^^ Got that from Tommy though =)

  • Almost everyone bends the neck on a Tele. With a Bigsby there is no need to bend the neck. It's a tremolo system. It's great that you have a Telecaster though.

  • in this modern world, talent is nothing. all you need to have is the looks. and i am getting really disgusted by the thoughts of the young minds. such immature thinking. how far can you go with looks?

  • Very true. You play power chords and a minor penatonic scale and you're famous. It takes looks and no fear of the crowd. I am disgusted by our modern world and guess how old I am? 15.

  • im with you on this one and 15 too haha. btw that is an awesome telecaster tommyt is playin there.

  • Hell yeah, brotha.

  • God, that is the most true statement i've heard all day. +1 for rational thought haha.

  • Crazy thing is that he isn't that popular....Such a shame. overated players like "Jonas Brothers" getting credit while gold sits here....

  • jonas brothers are crap, and they all look gay.

  • I just left this comment on the Jonas Brothers' myspace:

    "Please stop playing music."

    That's all that needs to be said about them. Unfortunately, Mtv and modern radio still exist, promoting fecal matter, which is rather apparently the new definition of "music".

    TOMMY EMMANUEL IS THE SHIZNIT!!!!

  • Hell yeah, bro.

  • Tommy is actually very popular in Australia. He's on TV shows a lot, he was even on 'This is your life' lol

  • he is one of a kind!

    love jeff beck too! pioneers and innovators!

  • THIS IS ACE! MUSIC!

    (wonder why his axe doesnt go out of tune with all those bendings :|)

  • i don't think its sopsosed to sound like house of the rising sun?!

  • Tommy's been playing since he was a toddler and was touring as a little kid in the 1960s. He's always played electric and when in Goldrush in the 70s and early 80s, played drums in deference to his older brother Phil "The Whiz" Emmanuel. I used to live across the road from a pub in Sydney where they played every Friday night, saw them play Roy Buchanan off the stage in 82. Ask Steve Morse who he thinks is the best steel string guitarist on the planet. The Emmanuels - a Aussie national treasure.

  • Brilliant,so many different styles in this short clip,makes all the 'guitar heroes' sound a bit sad, and this was tommy years ago.Pick your Tele. up, turn this clip on full volume,and imagine it's you playing,bet you wouldn't like to take him on,Duelling Tele's, I'd walk away,head down !!!!

  • this was  nice and cool!

  • whats the year?

  • good but sounds nothing like the house of the riseing sun

  • lol. I don't know why I said I've never seen him play acoustic guitar before....I was trying to say, I've never seen him play electric guitar. lol. I wish had that guitar and tone. Amazing.

  • OMG the final solo is so incredible.

    amazing .

    thank you earth

    thank you tommy Emmanuel

    thank you youtube .

    thank you all

  • It's funny, I thought "man it'd be awesome to see him on an electric, too bad he's only on the acoustics stuff", he's an amazingly gifted guitarist man. I just thought that there aren't many guitarists good on such different styles, and seeing this is just amazing. He's shredding!

    5/5

  • Never seen him play acoustic guitar before. AWESOME!! I love the tone of that guitar.

  • i've never seen him play electric. ever. and i've seen him so many times.

  • looks like jimmy page taught him how to dance

  • this the 1st time i saw him playing an electric guitar.. He's also good at it ! :)

  • haha. i was kinda expecting something like a custom electric maton? lol

  • this guy tunneled through 500 miles of shit escaping shawshank state prison only to end up playing on this video....haha

  • you mean andy guy~??hahahaahah

  • hahayeh, tommy in this video looks alot like the main character from the movie..i only noticed this cause i saw the movie a day before commenting this video and the quote about 500 miles of shit stuck into my head hahaha

  • WOW! does anyone happen to know what guitar this is?? A double pickup tele?

  • just an old custom tele.

  • A electric guitar album by Tommy Emmanuel is one called Determunation. Ive had it for years,It is fantastic

  • Hmm well it seems simple enough to me. Bar one or two runs cos I'm not down with my scales as much as I am with chords I guess I can muddle through an acoustic cover Using standard blues scales for the runs and have it up in a few days xD.

  • love emmunael's feeling, gives me goosebumbs

  • telecaster is just magic.

  • legend

  • can anybody name a personal lp from tommy playing electric giutar??

  • This seems very 80s... Great guitar playing though!

  • he's a god on any guitar

  • I spoke to someone last week who said that Eric Clapton was better on the Electric guitar and Tommy was better on the accoustic, I think Tommy is better on both

  • Sort of a Jeff Beck,Knopler meets Eric and Hank with good old Bert WEED,and everyone else thrown in,GOD,I wish I could stand infront a band in a Pub and play like this,OK u guitar players, try and better it ????

  • Best guitar video on youtube

  • Acoustic or electric, he's still one of the best...

  • Edd VH & EricC Have both done some admirable work in a limited area.Both together couldn't lift Tommys' jock strap. How could anyone mistake a tele for a Jazmaster? I own a63 Jag( son of a Jaz), orig 61 LesPaul SG, Godin Multiac(nylon) and A Tennesee Rose. Each Has Different Qualities or I wouldn't have em. We used to rewire the PU's& swt fot distortion Effects.You had to learn how,no pedal on the floor. Reverb was the only pedal.My 64Fender Super reverb still keeps up.Tommy Plays Everything!

  • great soong, youre the best tommy

  • Anyone got a tab of that song. I'm not feeling like learning it by ear right now - lol

    Too much work :) but If I do learn it I'll tab it right away, alright?