is it just a very british thing to play rotos. i play them and even when i occasionaly go onto something else, still end up playing rotos again. the majority of players i know seem to say the same.
@3steps2u are you aware that a ton of Alex's music is based on RnB? Listen to the bass and drums on some of his songs. as well as the chords. the intro song to this video even. that's an RnB backing track.
Please think before you type something ignorant like that.
lol why are people all on about rappers on this vid...there are just as many talentless rockers, pop stars, etc. if anything take a look at the rhythmic concepts in rap and hiphop and tell me there isn't something impressive there. good rappers have to be pretty gifted rhythmically to make it sound smooth. and instrumentally, same thing, the groove is usually amazing. I don't know why people have to hate on other styles of music just because it's not their thing.
Nice soulful playing Alex. I do however think those super light strings lack something, and indeed detract from the dynamics (or lack thereof) of your soloing. Your lower register has no umph, and there's not enough definition between your strings. Rock on Al.
I would love to pratice 8 hours a day. Im pretty lucky if I can get an hour on my working days to practice. On my day's off from work, I still have chores to do so I can only get about 3 hours practice on a bad day and about 4-5 hours on a really good day (days I dont have to do anything around the house). I wish I could practice everyday for 8 hours (5 hours on my own and 3 hours with a band to jam with) then I'll really be able to play up to his standards.
Not really. Every person has a different situation. Not all people have the comfort of having money to buy good equipment or good guitars or even be in the right country or place. One person could be in a third world country with no money and lives in the slum area although he may have the talent, he won't have a chance in hell. Most people in the United States or other more industrialized countries are spoiled rotten not knowing the situations of other people who can even buy a guitar.
If a person is poor and can only afford a shitty guitar that goes out of tune every 20 minutes, do you think he will be good enough? Think about it before you talk. What about someone who can't even buy an amp or have the luxury of time to practice since he has to work to support a family, do you think he will be as great as Alex or Guthrie? YOu don't know what you're talking about. Some people have talent but cant even AFFORD to buy a guitar and a small amp.
Jimi Hendrix had no money but he was showered with gifts. At age 15, around the time his mother died, he acquired his first acoustic guitar for $5 from an acquaintance of his father. In the summer of 1959, his father bought Hendrix a white Supro Ozark, his first electric guitar, but there was no available amplifier. Throughout his career, he became known and was close to a lot of musical artists who he had met while playing with various people because Hendrix travelled a lot.
While his first guitar cost $5 dollars, do you know how much a Fender Strat would cost now? If someone lives in the ghetto with no income and no influential friends, how do will he be famous and great in guitar like Jimi Hendrix, huh? Got any clue, Sherlock? You seem to know every answer to every situation. LOL.
Yeah.... about $400 bucks. Jimi Hendrix became a great player through dedication, hard work, and a shitload of natural talent. He didn't take lessons, as just about everyone knew. He worked his way up out of the suburbs. It's up to the player to decide how far he is really willing to go. I pose to you the same question: how does a basketball player with no competitive league around him and no influential friends ever become an amazing basketball player? I'll ignore your smartass comment.
There are people with a lot of dedication and hard work. I've seen people doing gigs in small bars and other places. If you read the auto-biography of Jimi Hendrix, he had friends and people who were in the music business which help him become famous and known. He played with well-known established acts already like the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Chuck Jackson, Slim Harpo, Tommy Tucker, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Tommy Chong and others. This is called connections in the music industry.
Other people who might have talent might not have the same situation as Jimi Hendrix who was lucky to have such influential powerful friends in the music industry. You could even be the best guitarist in the world now but if you live in a small island in the pacific, no one will know you and all you are is a tiny microscopic person in a world of 6 billion people. Unless you have connections and some money, you mean nothing and no one will know if you are that great of a guitar superstar.
Early in 1966 at the Cheetah Club on Broadway at 53rd Street, Linda Keith, then girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, befriended Hendrix and recommended him to Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham and later, producer Seymour Stein. Neither man took a liking to Hendrix's music, and they both passed. She then referred Hendrix to Chas Chandler, who was ending his tenure as bassist in The Animals and looking for talent to manage and produce.
Chandler was enamored with the song "Hey Joe" and was convinced he could create a hit single with the right artist. Impressed with Hendrix's version, Chandler brought him to London and signed him to a management and production contract with himself and ex-Animals manager Michael Jeffery. Chandler then helped Hendrix form a new band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with guitarist-turned-bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, both English musicians.
Go get a book about the early life of Jimi Hendrix and tell me if your story is the same then I'll freaking buy your CD because like I said, it takes money to be among those Guitar superstars nowadays. Back then life was cheaper and the cost of living isn't much. Now, try making it big will almost be impossible unless some rich entrepreneur record producer takes a liking to your guitar playing or if you happen to be lucky enough to join a successful band on the way up.
And you know how he formed those connections? They heard what he put out himself, they liked it, and they helped him get somewhere. it's not like they were his dad's old high school buddies or something. It was still "impossible" then to go somewhere without a record deal. I don't know why you are so upset over this. I was responding to your comparison of basketball and guitar superstardom. You're not even arguing anymore, you're copy/pasting a wikipedia article.
My point is he was blessed with luck and the fortune to have the right connections. There were already journalists covering the story of his greatness. He became popular in the U.K. but still a complete unknown in the U.S. The thing that made him famous in the U.S. was when he brought his act to the Monterey Pop Music Festival where he smashed his guitar at the end of his last song and burned his Strat on stage. That put him in every major newspaper and magazine in the country.
You're not even answering my question. And you already know that it takes money and or connections to make it. HOW WILL SOMEONE WITH ENOUGH TALENT TO MAKE IT IF HE DOES NOT HAVE "MONEY" OR "CONNECTIONS"? You make it sound like "Oh, it's easy to make it big if you are that good" LOL. There are people that make it without any talent at all, isn't that a fact? Name me a guitar player who isn't as good as Paul Gilbert or Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen or Guthrie Govan that became rich and famous?
Do you think the Jonas Bros. are any good in guitar? I know someone from high school that played exactly like Hendrix and Robin Trower and even jammed with Eric Clapton but I don't see his name in lights and he's not rich and famous. I know another person who can shred like Ritchie Blackmore and Paul Gilbert but he's not rich and famous. If you can prove to me like you said that anyone can make it easy if they are that good then I'll eat my soiled underwear. LOL.
My point isn't that it's easy, it's that it's doable. Guthrie Govan, in my mind, is the best guitarist on the planet right now, but he hasn't made it big, not by a long shot. He practiced for hours a day, and finally sent in a demo to a record company to see if he could get a record deal, and they extended an offer (which he declined, for whatever reason). That didn't cost money aside from a cheap mic and computer or take connections, only an active pursuit of what he wanted to do
@OneTimer1127 Guy, unless you are Joe Satriani, the guitar world is pretty much not doing that well. Why do you think these guys just do clinics and NAMM conventions? Because it's a way to make extra money. Big guys in touring bands don't do those because they don't need to. Ricky Garcia is a guitarist that has been trying to make it big. He told me that about the guitar industry. He jammed with andy timmons and he broke a string so I made a comment that he should have brought a 2nd guitar.
@OneTimer1127 Go check out "Jamming with Andy Timmons" on Youtube. Look at my comment on the first line. Ricky was the one who said that Here is his comment word for word "@MrHardrod2 man i broke a string NOT him. so you want me to bring a spare guitar and a tech on stage just for jamming on one song in a 50 person filled club? andy didnt have a tech since its not lucrative to bring on a very small tour and the guitar market is that small if you are not satriani."
The point of that is, while he's not rich and famous, he has "made it", he is making money teaching and as a session guitarist, with his solo project on the side. As long as you're not going for fame, making it as a guitarist relies on your dedication and the ability you end up with. I don't believe that the only way to make it at all is through money and connections, though it's a great way if you have both.
Guthrie has connections in the Music Industry (BluesJamTracks pursue talented guitar players as well as Suhr Guitars, RotoSound etc to market their products). That in itself is a way to make yourself rich and famous. Guthrie is also a session player meaning he's a studio musician. He lays the tracks for famous known artists. You still have not answered my main argument. How can someone dirt poor with talent find a way up that ladder? He'd be lucky enough if he can even get on that ladder.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't being clear. He got his name out as a teenager. He submitted a demo of his own accord, and was offered a deal, not now, sponsored by Suhr and whatnot. My point is that he wasn't rich when he was a musician by himself, he was very poor. But he got his name out by being highly skilled and having the dedication to show someone his work. He wasn't sponsored by Suhr at birth :P
Yeah, but he lives in England and your definition of poor probably means someone not making a million dollars. LOL. Guthrie had enough money to buy good guitars and pay his apartment and have three meals a day. Although not rich, he was comfortable enough to live even as a middle class person. My definition of poor is living in the slums, going for days with just water and a piece of bread, can't even take a shower or brush your teeth poor.
And as I suspected as well, your spoiled rotten. I saw your channel and it looks like you got all your equipment for nothing. A birthday present? A guitar kit? A fender strat? a nice house? school? LOL. Dirt poor means, no house, can't even go to school, no money for food, no medicine, no expensive guitar. LOL
Quit putting "LOL" at the end of every fucking comment, you're an annoying dipshit. I have no reason to say anything else to you. I was trying to respectfully disagree with you, and you went and made it personal. Congratulations, you've won your fucking argument.
You're the annoying arrogant "I'm rich" dipshit here. Most people with real talent are humble and thankful. Guys like you although may have the potential to make it will never make it. People who are fans do not like arrogant obnoxious self-centered concieted morons who think themselves as GOD. And thank you for proving me you are wrong. Thank god for humble yet true talented guitarists like Paul Gilbert and Guthrie Govan and Joe Satriani. In their interviews you can tell how humble they are.
By the way, if you don't know how much a Studio Guitar player makes, think again. They easily make 6 figures in the industry (that's at least $100,000 a year) Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of the Doobie Bros is a studio musician. The dirt poor guy can't even make $2000 a year if he's stuck in a little country like Cambodia or the island of Tonga or a caribbean island like St. Vincent. And as it always happens, "white" people control the industry which makes it even tougher for minorities who are poor.
As much as i don't want to join this debate, your estimations are wildly inaccurate. Most session studio musicians do not make a lot of money at all. Only the vast minority make a sizable amount. Most session musicians make a good living by doing multiple jobs, i.e clinics, performing, endorsement, sponsorships, teaching etc etc the list goes on. But to say that a "Studio Guitar player" makes 6 figures easily, is a very naive comment to make.
Not really. Just by doing Studio work, which is pretty hard to come by especially in Los Angeles where lots of musical scores for movies, screenplays, song artists, jingles for ads, etc are created, they pay pretty good money. Now if you include clinics, seminars and endorsements then you're talking really good cash. No Im not naive. I know someone from New York in this business. New York studio musicians make pretty good money but L.A. makes more.
And it actually depends which recording studio you work for. There is a Union for Studio musicians especially those in the recording industry. Your pay scale depends on your experience and versatility and what you can do. Obviously, the average starting salary is about $35,000 to $55,000 but can go up in scale depending on the years of experience you have and who you work for. If you are laying guitar tracks for Whitney Houston or Garth Brooks, it's like possibly $1000 to $3000 per session
And you are right about a salary of a musician. It's not always a glamorous life like you see on TV and read in magazines or newspapers. If you just gig small clubs, bars and occassionally do weddings, grad parties, etc, you might be lucky to make $20,000 in a year. If you happen to be lucky enough to work for a big recording studio who has contracts with big name artists like Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Madonna, Quincy Jones, etc then you might be making more.
My point is that there are always studios that do commercials or jingles for Ads or even laying down guitar or sound work for movies or plays and that also pays pretty good money. That as a studio musician bringing all that together, you can easily reach $100K a year. Being a musician is tough. Many people abandon this profession because it usually does not pay enough to have a decent life. Most of those people who do make it in the business are lucky because of a few hit singles (Vanilla Ice).
Vanilla Ice is a rapper who does not even play an instrument but got into the RAP music business. From what I have read, he made enough roughly about $3 - $4 million dollars for his hit single and a few concerts then faded away. Even still, making $3-$4 million dollars is pretty good compared to struggling musicians like guitarists, bassists, drummers, etc who barely make enough to get their teeth repaired at the dentist.
@MrHardrod2 yeah I agree its pretty rediculous, according to your figures about Vanilla ice a REALLY good and well paid studio musician could live for 30-40 years off of that kind of cash, its kind of rediculous...
This is why I always wonder why is it idiots like .50 cent and other thug rappers can make millions and millions of dollars bragging how they beat the law, sold crack cocaine and rap about it in their songs and make millions of dollars when there are lots of honest good musicians out there who are barely making enough to survive? Have Record producers gone mad? Has the public lost it's sanity? Look at what is happening now. Rappers, thug gangsters promote their lifestyle and make millions. LOL.
@MrHardrod2 That's because the majority of the American public are raving idiots. Always have been. Anyone with any intellect is left to suffer the whims of the moron majority.
@William102582 I totally agree with you. Im pretty with the choices I made in life and listening to good old Rock and Roll, blues and really good music instead of thug rap and that justin beiber gay stuff. Justin Beiber got pelted eggs at his concert in Australia. Goes to show you not everyone likes to hear that kind of fruit loop music.
@wolfman109h Who??? LOL I heard he did a concert in Australia and they pelted him with eggs. His music sucks and it's awful. It sounds like some faggot with that high pitch girl voice and his dancers behind him. They all look queer looking. When I was young at that age, we all would have laughed at that guy. Im sure if he was alive back then and went to the same high school I went to, he would have gotten beaten up for sure especially by jocks. They love picking on faggot looking guys.
@MrHardrod2 do you realize how ignorant you sound? "the all look queer looking". i would rather listen to justin beiber's music than listen to your homophobic rant about how gay he is.
@MrHardrod2 Thug rappers are promoted by the Illuminati to brainwash the masses with mindless lyrical content and occultic symbolism. They have ignorantly sold their souls to the devil for temporary earthly fame and fortune. The controllers of this world have no interest in real tallent like Alex. They are interested in people they can control to lead the zombie masses to hell.
@eternalrhythmflow I'm a pretty good guitarist myself and even I have trouble understanding what Alex is playing—what chance would a zombie fuckwit have of understanding anything about this except they might recognise it was a guitar???
Lebron James did not need money to play B-ball. Basketball is a poor man's sport and way out of the ghettos. All a person has to do is go to a school gym or community center and he can shoot baskets all he wants for free. Playing basketball does not cost people money. That's the difference.
after 20 yrs of struggling with a yamaha folk guitar with high action and medium strings, ive seen where ive gone wrong. i ve started on electric now with light strings, 9s. i notice he s on extra light 8 to 38s!. unfortunately lack of time, talent and devotion i ll never play like this alien, thats true, but guitar playing is still the best and most enjoyable hobby!
I think these people like Alex have a bit more time to practice, than average people. When I get home after work, its not the same as if I woke up in the morning and had 8 hours just for practicing...
Pulling faces whilst improvising guarantees a better solo. I thought everyone knew that. Just make sure that the wind doesn't change in the middle of a particularly horrible one or you'll be stuck with it. This happened to Gary Moore I believe.
@bluesjamtracks It is true...motion creates emotion. If a player sits there stoned faced, all serious just starring at the fretboard, chances are their playing a pretty boring solo.
I wanna see him jam with guthrie. I would love to see that. By the way, that wasn't a set up to start comparing the two. I just think it would a great jam.
This is for all those who said that you would sound awfull with light strings, !!!!!!! THIS GUY WHO USES 8'S HAS THE BEST CLEAN OVERDRIVEN TONES I'VE HEARD IN MY LIFE!!!!!
OMG that tone is so rich and pure sounding. Yet it has balls, perfect attack and weight to it. And that playing... this is the first time I've heard Alex and I am pissed that I didn't hear him 8 or 9 years ago when I first started playing.
I rarely comment on youtube videos and I hate all these crap postings about tabs, equipment and x plays better than y and so on... But Alex'playing is so good., it makes me want to practise even more.Really outstanding feel, melody, phrasing and chops.
I agree with you.I just was turned on to Alex and this sounds like the weather channels music sometimes.I am not being a smartass,because if anyone ever listens to the actual guitar pieces on twc,its simply awesome most of the time. Alex's phrasing and technique are undeniably top shelf..
is it just a very british thing to play rotos. i play them and even when i occasionaly go onto something else, still end up playing rotos again. the majority of players i know seem to say the same.
sgbigsby1989 5 months ago
@3steps2u are you aware that a ton of Alex's music is based on RnB? Listen to the bass and drums on some of his songs. as well as the chords. the intro song to this video even. that's an RnB backing track.
Please think before you type something ignorant like that.
NathanMantle 6 months ago
lol why are people all on about rappers on this vid...there are just as many talentless rockers, pop stars, etc. if anything take a look at the rhythmic concepts in rap and hiphop and tell me there isn't something impressive there. good rappers have to be pretty gifted rhythmically to make it sound smooth. and instrumentally, same thing, the groove is usually amazing. I don't know why people have to hate on other styles of music just because it's not their thing.
NathanMantle 6 months ago
I went to the store and bough 1... and I made a mask xD anyone else?:)
masnak1994 7 months ago
It's all about the 'Benjimens'! Wall St controls the Govrn't & decides what will sell & what won't to the Wall St Ad agencies! Get my drift!
TommyRocket49 7 months ago
You work with many people mate?
StephenFiorentini 8 months ago
Im sorry I had to laugh at the "green and biodegradable" bit.
1madaboutguitar 8 months ago
gay at 0:05
styu08 9 months ago
Never heard of Alex until I watched this. Great playing mate, fancy a pint sometime?
StephenFiorentini 9 months ago
You can hear Larry Carlton all over his playing. Great licks man.
francisco444 9 months ago
@francisco444 All I hear is nodding potatohead widdle.
waffIeBAM 9 months ago
Sorry dude but you are nowhere compared to me.
MichaeIAngeIoBatio 9 months ago
'The packaging is green.'
Well I'm sold.
ChucklesMginty 9 months ago 6
@ChucklesMginty This.
OddworldMusic 9 months ago
@ChucklesMginty Although the free mask sold it for me too.
OddworldMusic 9 months ago
Hi ...I'm Alex Hutchings and I've been nodding my fucking head for as long as I can remember lol!!!
wiIlianjusti 9 months ago
@wiIlianjusti Hahaha fucking a man ...noddy haha.
aIexrb26 9 months ago
@wiIlianjusti Why the fuck does he nod his head ...looks fucking stupid.
pimpuncIemo 9 months ago
hey...alex...what you are prefer 2 play on the - G&L- or - musicman guitar..??
jura3ppp 10 months ago
Does Alex work as a session musician
StephenFiorentini 1 year ago
You need balls to use 0.08 strings when know everybody will call you a pussy
MrNebelful 1 year ago 3
@MrNebelful LOL If I could make 8's spund like THAT I'd play them all day....
AtienzaLouie 1 year ago
@AtienzaLouie agreed
MrNebelful 1 year ago
Amazing guy...
Kaneetch 1 year ago 2
alex hutchings has literally reignited my passion to get better at guitar . and buy expensive boss products...
dantheman500 1 year ago 2
Looool ! cheesy shot at 0.04 !! funny commercial and the playing and control of this guy is un-fucking-believable...
NoAirPlayguitar 1 year ago
G&L Tele.
Witig 1 year ago
using rotosound yellows for years and loving it!
luiggiibanez 1 year ago
@luiggiibanez yer man same
doddydays 1 year ago
what guitar is that?
vheadfacelegs 1 year ago
@vheadfacelegs looks like a g&l telecaster
luiggiibanez 1 year ago
@vheadfacelegs telecaster fender
luis5613 1 year ago
look at him just rocking with his eyes shut like it's no damn thing
mattycount 1 year ago
Up there with Lee, Larry and Steve K methinks - awesome!
huwgethynrichards 1 year ago
if alex hutchings says its good then its good,period
Rossco602 1 year ago
This guy's a beast.
ReductioAdAbsurdum 1 year ago 2
Wow! those pack alot of fat for 8 gauge strings
666jony666 1 year ago
rotosound strings are good to play metal?
gilnest 1 year ago
@gilnest Im pretty sure mastodon and bullet for my valentine use them. So i think you should be able to.
666jony666 1 year ago
thumbs up for awesome mask !!
chaggo21 1 year ago 4
what an amazing taste of music...
GiulioTrust 1 year ago
Nice soulful playing Alex. I do however think those super light strings lack something, and indeed detract from the dynamics (or lack thereof) of your soloing. Your lower register has no umph, and there's not enough definition between your strings. Rock on Al.
gotrottin 1 year ago
kkkkk, very funny... nice..
moraisftiago 1 year ago
this dude always looks like he just took a shower....awesome playing tho
XAeolusX 1 year ago
Out of all his videos I like this tone the best. Very organic. Wonderful tasteful player as well
guitarcrazy019 1 year ago
HAHA i like the look of that mask ;-) this guy does masterclasses, met him the other day, you wuoldnt believe how good he is, he's an improv god
Mattbellmay 1 year ago
wow what a great guitar player and a great guy, this is music right here, fuck all the rappers!
krajnovic10 1 year ago
JACCKK BLACK!
rickrode143 1 year ago
thei ar rely good string but i use roto orange
osvas23 1 year ago
he sounds like a super nice guy
Rossco602 2 years ago
o yeah! q buena mierda ...... ! MAESTRO, Sir ALEX HUTCHINGS...
Trovad16 2 years ago
MrHardrod please stop posting ur lecture ffs /rolleyes
Catsincages 2 years ago
lmao what a legend
vheadfacelegs 2 years ago
MrHardrod2 gives me a hard rod, too.
samjohannes 2 years ago
Thanks. LOL
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
you and guthrie rock my fuckin socks!!
shredsam 2 years ago
I would love to pratice 8 hours a day. Im pretty lucky if I can get an hour on my working days to practice. On my day's off from work, I still have chores to do so I can only get about 3 hours practice on a bad day and about 4-5 hours on a really good day (days I dont have to do anything around the house). I wish I could practice everyday for 8 hours (5 hours on my own and 3 hours with a band to jam with) then I'll really be able to play up to his standards.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
That's like saying, well if I had the time to shoot 10,000 free throws a day and run suicides for 3 hours, then I'd be just as good as Lebron James.
samjohannes 2 years ago
Not really. Every person has a different situation. Not all people have the comfort of having money to buy good equipment or good guitars or even be in the right country or place. One person could be in a third world country with no money and lives in the slum area although he may have the talent, he won't have a chance in hell. Most people in the United States or other more industrialized countries are spoiled rotten not knowing the situations of other people who can even buy a guitar.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
If a person is poor and can only afford a shitty guitar that goes out of tune every 20 minutes, do you think he will be good enough? Think about it before you talk. What about someone who can't even buy an amp or have the luxury of time to practice since he has to work to support a family, do you think he will be as great as Alex or Guthrie? YOu don't know what you're talking about. Some people have talent but cant even AFFORD to buy a guitar and a small amp.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Tell that to Jimi Hendrix.
OneTimer1127 2 years ago
Jimi Hendrix had no money but he was showered with gifts. At age 15, around the time his mother died, he acquired his first acoustic guitar for $5 from an acquaintance of his father. In the summer of 1959, his father bought Hendrix a white Supro Ozark, his first electric guitar, but there was no available amplifier. Throughout his career, he became known and was close to a lot of musical artists who he had met while playing with various people because Hendrix travelled a lot.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
While his first guitar cost $5 dollars, do you know how much a Fender Strat would cost now? If someone lives in the ghetto with no income and no influential friends, how do will he be famous and great in guitar like Jimi Hendrix, huh? Got any clue, Sherlock? You seem to know every answer to every situation. LOL.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Yeah.... about $400 bucks. Jimi Hendrix became a great player through dedication, hard work, and a shitload of natural talent. He didn't take lessons, as just about everyone knew. He worked his way up out of the suburbs. It's up to the player to decide how far he is really willing to go. I pose to you the same question: how does a basketball player with no competitive league around him and no influential friends ever become an amazing basketball player? I'll ignore your smartass comment.
OneTimer1127 2 years ago
There are people with a lot of dedication and hard work. I've seen people doing gigs in small bars and other places. If you read the auto-biography of Jimi Hendrix, he had friends and people who were in the music business which help him become famous and known. He played with well-known established acts already like the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Chuck Jackson, Slim Harpo, Tommy Tucker, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Tommy Chong and others. This is called connections in the music industry.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Other people who might have talent might not have the same situation as Jimi Hendrix who was lucky to have such influential powerful friends in the music industry. You could even be the best guitarist in the world now but if you live in a small island in the pacific, no one will know you and all you are is a tiny microscopic person in a world of 6 billion people. Unless you have connections and some money, you mean nothing and no one will know if you are that great of a guitar superstar.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Early in 1966 at the Cheetah Club on Broadway at 53rd Street, Linda Keith, then girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, befriended Hendrix and recommended him to Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham and later, producer Seymour Stein. Neither man took a liking to Hendrix's music, and they both passed. She then referred Hendrix to Chas Chandler, who was ending his tenure as bassist in The Animals and looking for talent to manage and produce.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Chandler was enamored with the song "Hey Joe" and was convinced he could create a hit single with the right artist. Impressed with Hendrix's version, Chandler brought him to London and signed him to a management and production contract with himself and ex-Animals manager Michael Jeffery. Chandler then helped Hendrix form a new band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with guitarist-turned-bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, both English musicians.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Go get a book about the early life of Jimi Hendrix and tell me if your story is the same then I'll freaking buy your CD because like I said, it takes money to be among those Guitar superstars nowadays. Back then life was cheaper and the cost of living isn't much. Now, try making it big will almost be impossible unless some rich entrepreneur record producer takes a liking to your guitar playing or if you happen to be lucky enough to join a successful band on the way up.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
And you know how he formed those connections? They heard what he put out himself, they liked it, and they helped him get somewhere. it's not like they were his dad's old high school buddies or something. It was still "impossible" then to go somewhere without a record deal. I don't know why you are so upset over this. I was responding to your comparison of basketball and guitar superstardom. You're not even arguing anymore, you're copy/pasting a wikipedia article.
OneTimer1127 2 years ago
My point is he was blessed with luck and the fortune to have the right connections. There were already journalists covering the story of his greatness. He became popular in the U.K. but still a complete unknown in the U.S. The thing that made him famous in the U.S. was when he brought his act to the Monterey Pop Music Festival where he smashed his guitar at the end of his last song and burned his Strat on stage. That put him in every major newspaper and magazine in the country.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
You're not even answering my question. And you already know that it takes money and or connections to make it. HOW WILL SOMEONE WITH ENOUGH TALENT TO MAKE IT IF HE DOES NOT HAVE "MONEY" OR "CONNECTIONS"? You make it sound like "Oh, it's easy to make it big if you are that good" LOL. There are people that make it without any talent at all, isn't that a fact? Name me a guitar player who isn't as good as Paul Gilbert or Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen or Guthrie Govan that became rich and famous?
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Do you think the Jonas Bros. are any good in guitar? I know someone from high school that played exactly like Hendrix and Robin Trower and even jammed with Eric Clapton but I don't see his name in lights and he's not rich and famous. I know another person who can shred like Ritchie Blackmore and Paul Gilbert but he's not rich and famous. If you can prove to me like you said that anyone can make it easy if they are that good then I'll eat my soiled underwear. LOL.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
My point isn't that it's easy, it's that it's doable. Guthrie Govan, in my mind, is the best guitarist on the planet right now, but he hasn't made it big, not by a long shot. He practiced for hours a day, and finally sent in a demo to a record company to see if he could get a record deal, and they extended an offer (which he declined, for whatever reason). That didn't cost money aside from a cheap mic and computer or take connections, only an active pursuit of what he wanted to do
OneTimer1127 2 years ago
@OneTimer1127 Guy, unless you are Joe Satriani, the guitar world is pretty much not doing that well. Why do you think these guys just do clinics and NAMM conventions? Because it's a way to make extra money. Big guys in touring bands don't do those because they don't need to. Ricky Garcia is a guitarist that has been trying to make it big. He told me that about the guitar industry. He jammed with andy timmons and he broke a string so I made a comment that he should have brought a 2nd guitar.
MrHardrod2 8 months ago
@OneTimer1127 Go check out "Jamming with Andy Timmons" on Youtube. Look at my comment on the first line. Ricky was the one who said that Here is his comment word for word "@MrHardrod2 man i broke a string NOT him. so you want me to bring a spare guitar and a tech on stage just for jamming on one song in a 50 person filled club? andy didnt have a tech since its not lucrative to bring on a very small tour and the guitar market is that small if you are not satriani."
rickyggarcia 1 month ago
MrHardrod2 8 months ago
The point of that is, while he's not rich and famous, he has "made it", he is making money teaching and as a session guitarist, with his solo project on the side. As long as you're not going for fame, making it as a guitarist relies on your dedication and the ability you end up with. I don't believe that the only way to make it at all is through money and connections, though it's a great way if you have both.
OneTimer1127 2 years ago
Guthrie has connections in the Music Industry (BluesJamTracks pursue talented guitar players as well as Suhr Guitars, RotoSound etc to market their products). That in itself is a way to make yourself rich and famous. Guthrie is also a session player meaning he's a studio musician. He lays the tracks for famous known artists. You still have not answered my main argument. How can someone dirt poor with talent find a way up that ladder? He'd be lucky enough if he can even get on that ladder.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Sorry, maybe I wasn't being clear. He got his name out as a teenager. He submitted a demo of his own accord, and was offered a deal, not now, sponsored by Suhr and whatnot. My point is that he wasn't rich when he was a musician by himself, he was very poor. But he got his name out by being highly skilled and having the dedication to show someone his work. He wasn't sponsored by Suhr at birth :P
OneTimer1127 2 years ago
Yeah, but he lives in England and your definition of poor probably means someone not making a million dollars. LOL. Guthrie had enough money to buy good guitars and pay his apartment and have three meals a day. Although not rich, he was comfortable enough to live even as a middle class person. My definition of poor is living in the slums, going for days with just water and a piece of bread, can't even take a shower or brush your teeth poor.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
And as I suspected as well, your spoiled rotten. I saw your channel and it looks like you got all your equipment for nothing. A birthday present? A guitar kit? A fender strat? a nice house? school? LOL. Dirt poor means, no house, can't even go to school, no money for food, no medicine, no expensive guitar. LOL
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Quit putting "LOL" at the end of every fucking comment, you're an annoying dipshit. I have no reason to say anything else to you. I was trying to respectfully disagree with you, and you went and made it personal. Congratulations, you've won your fucking argument.
OneTimer1127 2 years ago
You're the annoying arrogant "I'm rich" dipshit here. Most people with real talent are humble and thankful. Guys like you although may have the potential to make it will never make it. People who are fans do not like arrogant obnoxious self-centered concieted morons who think themselves as GOD. And thank you for proving me you are wrong. Thank god for humble yet true talented guitarists like Paul Gilbert and Guthrie Govan and Joe Satriani. In their interviews you can tell how humble they are.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
By the way, if you don't know how much a Studio Guitar player makes, think again. They easily make 6 figures in the industry (that's at least $100,000 a year) Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of the Doobie Bros is a studio musician. The dirt poor guy can't even make $2000 a year if he's stuck in a little country like Cambodia or the island of Tonga or a caribbean island like St. Vincent. And as it always happens, "white" people control the industry which makes it even tougher for minorities who are poor.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
As much as i don't want to join this debate, your estimations are wildly inaccurate. Most session studio musicians do not make a lot of money at all. Only the vast minority make a sizable amount. Most session musicians make a good living by doing multiple jobs, i.e clinics, performing, endorsement, sponsorships, teaching etc etc the list goes on. But to say that a "Studio Guitar player" makes 6 figures easily, is a very naive comment to make.
dan2212089 2 years ago 3
Not really. Just by doing Studio work, which is pretty hard to come by especially in Los Angeles where lots of musical scores for movies, screenplays, song artists, jingles for ads, etc are created, they pay pretty good money. Now if you include clinics, seminars and endorsements then you're talking really good cash. No Im not naive. I know someone from New York in this business. New York studio musicians make pretty good money but L.A. makes more.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
And it actually depends which recording studio you work for. There is a Union for Studio musicians especially those in the recording industry. Your pay scale depends on your experience and versatility and what you can do. Obviously, the average starting salary is about $35,000 to $55,000 but can go up in scale depending on the years of experience you have and who you work for. If you are laying guitar tracks for Whitney Houston or Garth Brooks, it's like possibly $1000 to $3000 per session
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
And you are right about a salary of a musician. It's not always a glamorous life like you see on TV and read in magazines or newspapers. If you just gig small clubs, bars and occassionally do weddings, grad parties, etc, you might be lucky to make $20,000 in a year. If you happen to be lucky enough to work for a big recording studio who has contracts with big name artists like Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Madonna, Quincy Jones, etc then you might be making more.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
My point is that there are always studios that do commercials or jingles for Ads or even laying down guitar or sound work for movies or plays and that also pays pretty good money. That as a studio musician bringing all that together, you can easily reach $100K a year. Being a musician is tough. Many people abandon this profession because it usually does not pay enough to have a decent life. Most of those people who do make it in the business are lucky because of a few hit singles (Vanilla Ice).
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
Vanilla Ice is a rapper who does not even play an instrument but got into the RAP music business. From what I have read, he made enough roughly about $3 - $4 million dollars for his hit single and a few concerts then faded away. Even still, making $3-$4 million dollars is pretty good compared to struggling musicians like guitarists, bassists, drummers, etc who barely make enough to get their teeth repaired at the dentist.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago 27
@MrHardrod2 yeah I agree its pretty rediculous, according to your figures about Vanilla ice a REALLY good and well paid studio musician could live for 30-40 years off of that kind of cash, its kind of rediculous...
xelad1 1 year ago
This is why I always wonder why is it idiots like .50 cent and other thug rappers can make millions and millions of dollars bragging how they beat the law, sold crack cocaine and rap about it in their songs and make millions of dollars when there are lots of honest good musicians out there who are barely making enough to survive? Have Record producers gone mad? Has the public lost it's sanity? Look at what is happening now. Rappers, thug gangsters promote their lifestyle and make millions. LOL.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago 61
@MrHardrod2 That's because the majority of the American public are raving idiots. Always have been. Anyone with any intellect is left to suffer the whims of the moron majority.
krelbar 1 year ago
@MrHardrod2 It's their lost, you should pity them, success in life isn't determined by money!
William102582 8 months ago
@William102582 I totally agree with you. Im pretty with the choices I made in life and listening to good old Rock and Roll, blues and really good music instead of thug rap and that justin beiber gay stuff. Justin Beiber got pelted eggs at his concert in Australia. Goes to show you not everyone likes to hear that kind of fruit loop music.
MrHardrod2 8 months ago
@MrHardrod2
don't forget jusin bieber :)
wolfman109h 7 months ago
@wolfman109h Who??? LOL I heard he did a concert in Australia and they pelted him with eggs. His music sucks and it's awful. It sounds like some faggot with that high pitch girl voice and his dancers behind him. They all look queer looking. When I was young at that age, we all would have laughed at that guy. Im sure if he was alive back then and went to the same high school I went to, he would have gotten beaten up for sure especially by jocks. They love picking on faggot looking guys.
MrHardrod2 7 months ago
@MrHardrod2
hahahah thank you that's what i wanted to hear!!!!!!
wolfman109h 7 months ago
@MrHardrod2 do you realize how ignorant you sound? "the all look queer looking". i would rather listen to justin beiber's music than listen to your homophobic rant about how gay he is.
rickyjshiznit 6 months ago 2
@rickyjshiznit There you go. You're gay. hahahahaha
MrHardrod2 6 months ago
@MrHardrod2 Thug rappers are promoted by the Illuminati to brainwash the masses with mindless lyrical content and occultic symbolism. They have ignorantly sold their souls to the devil for temporary earthly fame and fortune. The controllers of this world have no interest in real tallent like Alex. They are interested in people they can control to lead the zombie masses to hell.
eternalrhythmflow 6 months ago
@eternalrhythmflow I'm a pretty good guitarist myself and even I have trouble understanding what Alex is playing—what chance would a zombie fuckwit have of understanding anything about this except they might recognise it was a guitar???
kewlfonz 6 months ago
@eternalrhythmflow somebody has got their eyes open!! right on bro!!
scottfree6 1 week ago in playlist alex hutchings
Lebron James did not need money to play B-ball. Basketball is a poor man's sport and way out of the ghettos. All a person has to do is go to a school gym or community center and he can shoot baskets all he wants for free. Playing basketball does not cost people money. That's the difference.
MrHardrod2 2 years ago
nice
1madaboutguitar 2 years ago
whats the difference with the yellows and pinks?
Ju1ceem4n 2 years ago
I often ask myself:
Are thse giutarrists from this planet?
Well, I think he is an alien.
He even shoved his real green face in this video! :-)
Most people never in their lives are going to play like this.
Its simply out of this world!
putimail 2 years ago 2
after 20 yrs of struggling with a yamaha folk guitar with high action and medium strings, ive seen where ive gone wrong. i ve started on electric now with light strings, 9s. i notice he s on extra light 8 to 38s!. unfortunately lack of time, talent and devotion i ll never play like this alien, thats true, but guitar playing is still the best and most enjoyable hobby!
chezruss 2 years ago
I agree.
I think these people like Alex have a bit more time to practice, than average people. When I get home after work, its not the same as if I woke up in the morning and had 8 hours just for practicing...
putimail 2 years ago
Incrivel, impro perfeita.
gilbertozpps 2 years ago
so sick
eighthnote86 2 years ago
The packaging is green!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saedpaadeg 2 years ago 2
i love g&l sound!
nice strings, btw
Fertrash 2 years ago 2
out of words...
xpacev2 2 years ago
those arpeggios were just awesome. He's doing root note, 9 then maj 3rd on last of each one. that's way cool.
TruthSurge 2 years ago
Mask part is funny!
skydogz1 2 years ago
greatttttttt
dockdedos 2 years ago
He should make a solo album this is a great player, one of the best that i've seen, whant an economy picking!
billycox 2 years ago
definitely! i'd buy one from him just improvising over such backingtracks! and i really envy his picking style. so playfully effortless.
e1337air 2 years ago 3
lindo demais esse solo !!! very good!!!
helltonguitar 2 years ago
The inspiration from this comes without measure... i am absolutely blow away. My new number one favourite style of music. Thanks Alex.
dscsasjs2007 2 years ago
oh got that was amazing!!!!!
guitarvibe75 2 years ago
Who replies in the bluesjamtracks acount? Guthrie? :S
derbydarky 2 years ago
rofl
UncleRob199 2 years ago
1:15 to 1:20 waaaaaaaaaw
stanguitar 2 years ago
Good to see there's some addition to tasty fusion players.
maksmail 2 years ago
that is the sweetest darn playin i ever did hear!
chrisjnz155 2 years ago
What amplifier do you use? Congratulations!
Gabaz76 2 years ago
Playing was phenomenal, facial expressions were overboard!
pepachet 2 years ago
Pulling faces whilst improvising guarantees a better solo. I thought everyone knew that. Just make sure that the wind doesn't change in the middle of a particularly horrible one or you'll be stuck with it. This happened to Gary Moore I believe.
bluesjamtracks 2 years ago 23
Then again if I could play like that I wouldn't care too much about looking like I was in pain! haha
pepachet 2 years ago
@bluesjamtracks It is true...motion creates emotion. If a player sits there stoned faced, all serious just starring at the fretboard, chances are their playing a pretty boring solo.
SJP444 1 year ago
The little trill at 1:33 was delicious...
0ftheWALLS 2 years ago
phrasing is super good.. wow.
zxcvmjg 2 years ago 3
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after watching only 2 of his videos, i really feel like his phrasing is already stale to me.
vhalen50 2 years ago
crap how nasty is his economy picking !
trauma15 2 years ago
Mucho!.. Mucho muy bueno!!!
JHNigromante 2 years ago
love the turnaround at 1:33
Uberloinvongenchler 2 years ago
Moar rlaxed than Govan's style. Alex's phrasing sounds moar natural to me, the licks always feel too prepared when I listen to Guh-3
danohrly 2 years ago 2
Awesome!
Dedalusalley 2 years ago 3
WHAT PHRASING
Greenwithevil 2 years ago 3
very good
RaunchyTarTarMan 2 years ago 3
much prefer this to 'guff-rey' govan's stuff
Uberloinvongenchler 2 years ago
I could listen to this guy play all day long!! :D
madmax200769 2 years ago 5
Great promo. Think i'll buy a set of these!
Thulle3 2 years ago
Or they both have very different styles, a factor you might appreciate if you took your head out of guthries ass for a second.
Cooliage 2 years ago 12
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Guthrie Govan is better than this guy.
GuthrieRulesBTW 2 years ago
And your a faggot
Putrefraction 2 years ago 2
I wanna see him jam with guthrie. I would love to see that. By the way, that wasn't a set up to start comparing the two. I just think it would a great jam.
tastefulphrasing 2 years ago 14
I'm glad I clicked on this! I had never heard of Alex before I watched this. This guy is very expressive in his playing style and his tone... wow!
southboundtraveler 2 years ago 4
Amazing feeling ! You're a beast
coLapsDaDude 2 years ago
so sweet
pasha355 2 years ago 2
amazing solo! Congrats!
ZioNNSP 2 years ago
karai!!! loungue!
Gustavowebstercc 2 years ago
this made my day..
nogueradv 2 years ago 3
Hither twice!!
GiJofus 2 years ago 2
aWeSoMe
Hasitsch 2 years ago
awesome!
snarfergarfer 2 years ago
Awesome!!
TheaterOfStorms 2 years ago
Great!
GuidoItaly 2 years ago
poner mas videos de este hombre porfavor!!!!!!!!!!!!
pipols19 2 years ago
Outstanding tasteful playing!
Ynger63 2 years ago 4
shittt.....
he's amazingggggggg....
thegreatgarry 2 years ago 4
I want moreeeeeeeeeeeeee
Trandofir 2 years ago 4
sweet
gunthypunthy 2 years ago 2
This is for all those who said that you would sound awfull with light strings, !!!!!!! THIS GUY WHO USES 8'S HAS THE BEST CLEAN OVERDRIVEN TONES I'VE HEARD IN MY LIFE!!!!!
Stratfan777 2 years ago 3
shut up man.... you dont know what you mean....
ellioteaston93 2 years ago
fantastic! great sound! =)
ianmusikero 2 years ago
-_-
Korvtele 2 years ago
Alex Hutchings, your playing inspires me.
reening 2 years ago
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hey man why do you use 8's? i'm using 11's on my electrics...jeez
therandomguy3 2 years ago
dood looks like brad wilk
BlooBeluga 2 years ago
OMG that tone is so rich and pure sounding. Yet it has balls, perfect attack and weight to it. And that playing... this is the first time I've heard Alex and I am pissed that I didn't hear him 8 or 9 years ago when I first started playing.
DannyBoy777 2 years ago 5
I rarely comment on youtube videos and I hate all these crap postings about tabs, equipment and x plays better than y and so on... But Alex'playing is so good., it makes me want to practise even more.Really outstanding feel, melody, phrasing and chops.
chaijen 2 years ago 2
I agree with you.I just was turned on to Alex and this sounds like the weather channels music sometimes.I am not being a smartass,because if anyone ever listens to the actual guitar pieces on twc,its simply awesome most of the time. Alex's phrasing and technique are undeniably top shelf..
petiethepitt 2 years ago 2
Toca muito!!!
Gustavowebstercc 2 years ago
Great player fantastic tone.
mraggrovator 2 years ago