I try not to be a hater, but I don't know what the judges where thinking. Non of his bends are in tune nor his speed runs. I know there had to of been better contestants.
But from what I see anymore, that seems to be the dividing line with musicians, especially guitarists. There are those who play what they know, and then they're are those who play what they feel.
He's better than I am, in technique. The acoustic portion was for the most part pretty nice, but from what I've seen from all these King of the Blues videos, they're all about showing off and shredding. I'm not as efficient in technique, but as a heavy blues player, I FEEL what I play. It might be simple, but it's got my feeling behind it; it's not about melting someone's face off and looking like I'm trying to take a giant shit on my instrument.
3.53: Not only does it sound shitty - dude is actually taking a dump a la forestier - on his own guitar. I had to avert my gaze. Too much like the time my old labrador who, late in life, sitting flat on her considerable butt, lifted her hind legs from the floor, pulled up in a crunched position and pulling forward using only her front legs - sporting a strangely surprised look of accidental genious, on her face - drew the route from the sunny spot on my rug to the water bowl in the kitchen.
This is a disgrace to the blues..what a freaking joke...And this guy won ! I would hate to see and hear the other contestants if this was the best they had to choose from...My God !!
@bluesboy747 i cant belive that this guy is a winner!!!! wow.. is all i can say... wonder who the judges are!!??!?!?!? freaks w/o a musical ear @ all...
@LesterPaul01 Your right my friend, but this guy is far from doing anything that has to do with the blues...You must be a friend or relative of this clown
@bluesboy747 Well I tend to agree somewhat. I believe we are all artists and how we choose to paint the canvas can and is most always controvercial. His tone was way to overdriven, raspy, and compressed. Over playing can be and issue too. Hitting people with a ton of notes can bore them real fast. I found that a couple slow soulful bends can get their attention and keep it. Playing tastfuly and not over the top makes the crowd wonder what you are going to do next. I love the blues too. Rock on
I no likem this all that much neither...................Not that there is definetly not talent there, but a little much to be able to feel any blues out of it............
Gino had this in the bag. I feel nothing special coming from this guy. Although I respect his ability to get up on stage and play. He is nothing special to me. Gino is.
I'm not going to trash this guy,,,,, but he must have paid off the judges. He choked on lots of his riffs to the point of the solo being a screwup. Laith Alssadi smoked this guy with his style, phrasing, sound and creating that chill factor that hot blues can give you! Goose bumps dont lie. The judges were high...LOL
There is so much injustice concerning King of the Blues. Gino Matteo and Laith Alssadi clearly had it over you. It was a crime to see you win. Did you pay off the judges? Did you have a connection?
Who are these judges? Where do they come from? Do they know what blues is?
Back to you Matt Oree - You are a take off on SRV. Not a very good one at that.
No originality, a ton of mistakes..very sloppy! Leg over the guitar, hopping around.
i thought he was going to do a Megadeth solo. thought he was going to pop out a steamer on his LP. oh nice transition to slide..not. someone find this guy a woodshed before he cuts off his own head. it was inspiring but not from his inspiration.
All SOUL, all skill, all the time! Extraordinary musician. His band is incredible! The full greatness can't be garnered from a video. See Matt LIVE, he is SMOKIN'. Incredible bunch of musicians, led by a superb incredible talent!
Gino Grimace was a load, guppy face faked expressions, Matt is SMOKIN! Incredible and his entire band is incredible. there ain't nutin they can't do, and do it perfectly every time. It's in em, talent and ability, dedication to the craft!
@cengeb ...hey douche bag...Matt is really good at jumping around tho...he has no soul in his playing, that is not the blues..AND..he is sloppy as shit
@VideoFuzzBox Yeah, and you probably think Chuck Berry didn't do blues. Somehow your knowledge of facts is poor. Matt smoked em! Leith, needs some style some ability to entertain and generate some energy1
yeah what the fuck is everyone hating on him for? you think most of these guys are real blues players? of course not, theyre all just like every other guitarist who thinks theyre going to make it and do it the sell out way by entering a contest, im going to enter it becuase im the same way, but i just wana be able to jam on this stage becuase im not old enough to go to any bar jams. but anyways youre all just jelouse idiots
I don't know, the guy seems pretty humble. The whole playing through the legs thing is weird and unnecessary but then again I think blues music is boring repetitive music.
Gino Matteo should have won this by far...guess he should have played between his legs or hopped on one foot...gimmicky BS should have nothing to do with this contest..GC always seems to find a way to give it to the wrong guy...this guy is an embarassment to the blues AND was sloppy AND played with NO feeling...how the hell can you be this sloppy with THAT much distortion and win this
@ZakkHendrix666..... can only recommend one for you man. look into the Sheptone pickups.. . i have the sheptone Brian Kahanek Signature set PAF pickups. FANTASTIC. just go to google and type in sheptone pickups, for whatever reason it wont post the comment with a link in it
Holy crap, the dude is a terrible rip off of SRV, not only that but he took a shit on his guitar at 4:10. OMG That was amazing indeed. How did this guy win?
This fuckin guy would be best motherfucker to portray SRV on a movie BIO. All you motherfuckers with the money fuckin get started already. Your welcome!!
ive listened to all the videos on here from this contest and only came across two that didnt immediatley make me cringe.if this is the finals id hate to hear all the other guys
He's not a bad guitar player. Maybe a little sloppy but from what i've seen in all these competitions is lack or originality. Sure they can regurgitate licks like any other blues player(one thing that discredits the genre), but all of them do it and it's lame. The key to being a good guitarist is a mix of speed, finess, technic, and melodic placement. And sorry but the other guys were worse than matt. He was the only one pushed the bounderies alittle everyone else.
I hate how as soon as you learn the pentatonic scale, and you start playing it, you can call yourself a blues guitarist nowadays. Half of this act was scratchy and splotchy notes, he sounded really friggen amateur for a contest winner. He could play circles around me, but I can say I know skill when I hear it, and that was some damn bad playing. I know blues is all about evolution and your own style, but this isn't blues. Pentatonic soloing isn't blues, no matter how much you use it.
damn right man, the best blues players can play the blues with soul, emotion... buddy guy can kill with one note. that guy played hundeds and didnt move me at all.
The problem I see with this competition is that it's all pretty jumpy blues. I haven't seen any slower tempo pieces. That's part of the blues too. I want to see something like Since I've been Lovin You or Blues Deluxe, something with some raw emotion and power and not just fancy tricks and fanfare. They don't really judge these guys on heart or soul.
y in gods green earth did this guy win?honestly this whole competition is filled with a bunch of lunatics beating the crap out of guitars with no real originality at all.a bunch of srv clones.with the possible exception of gino matteo and laith alsaadi
Hey man, tasty playing! My name is Stëv Skye and I'll be performing in the 2nd round of KOTB at the Phoenix, AZ store (9/10/09 :) I actually posted my preliminary round performance here (my first youtube post)... I also fell in love with the rock/blues when I first heard "Are You Experienced" and I branched out from there...
He did definatly. This guys stuff aint that good i tabbed his acoustic part already just by remembering it from the vid which is not good. i should have to watch him and listen multiple times before i can figure it out, at least thats what i would want when i play. Id put my soul into it and give it all i got and make it a hell of a preformance.
I never said BLUES was always about the difficulty of a preformance, but since its a competition for the best blues player, difficulty should be implied you dumbass. Dont talk to me like your gonna school me in blues you faggot.
thats exactly what he did. But he did that because he hasnt taken time to develope the skill using his right hand. he only worries about licks as you can tell in 3:10-3:15.
thats exactly what he was doing. he can barely do anything else other than one string solos, thus he compensates for the half-beat upstroke slopply rythm. laith alsaadi dominated when he played acoustic.If Laith wanted too, he could play something exactly like this guy did but he didnt he did slow 4/4 progression for more feeling rather than the same old fast blues licks, then on the acoustic he showed his true roots and played with his fingers..
this guys right hand is underdeveolped. thats why he is playing like stevie so much. thats all he can do with his right hand. I guess the judges failed to look at the most important part of playing blues, your right hand. my votes for lath 100 percent.
So pretty much you have to be flashy to win this thing....well this year i going to wear a speedo while riding a unicycle and play in the style of srv!! hopefully that will do the trick =)
Yeah you know he's much better than me at guitar, but it's pretty apparent that the judges were looking at stage performance rather than tone, skill, feel, etc... The leg lift turned me off. I've seen so many guitar heros live and I'll tell you that 99% of the players with the most stage presence don't do anything like that. Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton, B.B. King all own the stage without cheesy show off moves.... The only one that does it and it works is Buddy Guy.
It was really gay watching him play under his leg.. Plus the tone and licks were all wrong for the blues. He did some Malmsteen sounding licks, which is a def no no in blues. I dont know how he won.
I heard this guy got the sympathy vote. from EVERYONE! nah, im kidding but seriously? This guy won? The moment I would have seen him do that leg lift thing on stage, I would've told him, "NO, HELL NO!!'
I just have a hard buying the sound on this one. Too sterile. Needs a strat, or any reasonable single coil sound. The walk around 3:45 is so AWKWARD. And I agree with oggi3, way overplayed.
i don't understand why a competition exists for music that all sounds exactly the same? how does playing extremely fast or the same pentatonic fifth 50 times in a row using the same trills, pulloffs, bends, and whatever make for creative progressive music? i'm sure it's important, but someone needs to remind me why. i feel like an idiot for feeling this way. somebody school me...
When the electric guitar was first used in a barbershop in 1926, I bet there was some kid walking down the street skipping class and When he heard the sound of ripping pentatonic fifths, that instant, that moment, he knew all he wanted to do was to play rock and roll music for the rest of his life. There isn't any other music in the industry, pop, motown, punk, you name it, which features soloing and soulfulness, and appreciates the improv and rythem orientation. The Jonas Brothers can blow me.
almost all these guys with a gibson have horrible tone. and they all overplay. hubert sumlin should give all these guys a guitar lesson, he makes a les paul sound good.
Gary Moore is another guy who has great control of a Gibson. Moore's secret is that he rolls the volume knob constantly to take the bite of the humbuckers out untill he really needs it in a solo, then lets it rip. It's cool to watch him play. I have never seen anyone else use that the way that Moore does.
he sucks hard
TheInboil 13 hours ago
you can win a conpetition with standards in a row??
WEISSERZWERG 1 day ago
this is a fuckin joke
Ghostrider7973 6 days ago
is this the best they can do it must have been poorley subscribed that year
DeadDogHowlin 2 weeks ago
I try not to be a hater, but I don't know what the judges where thinking. Non of his bends are in tune nor his speed runs. I know there had to of been better contestants.
JTAMARIN100 2 weeks ago
But from what I see anymore, that seems to be the dividing line with musicians, especially guitarists. There are those who play what they know, and then they're are those who play what they feel.
MrZSBadger 2 weeks ago
He's better than I am, in technique. The acoustic portion was for the most part pretty nice, but from what I've seen from all these King of the Blues videos, they're all about showing off and shredding. I'm not as efficient in technique, but as a heavy blues player, I FEEL what I play. It might be simple, but it's got my feeling behind it; it's not about melting someone's face off and looking like I'm trying to take a giant shit on my instrument.
MrZSBadger 2 weeks ago
3.53: Not only does it sound shitty - dude is actually taking a dump a la forestier - on his own guitar. I had to avert my gaze. Too much like the time my old labrador who, late in life, sitting flat on her considerable butt, lifted her hind legs from the floor, pulled up in a crunched position and pulling forward using only her front legs - sporting a strangely surprised look of accidental genious, on her face - drew the route from the sunny spot on my rug to the water bowl in the kitchen.
whynottalklikeapirat 2 weeks ago
ah ah ah ah ...ah ah ah
The bottleneck.....ah ah ah !! The acoustic "show" ah ah ah ah !
King of Blues... ah ah ah great stuff.
geordie54 3 weeks ago
man, fuck
don't like his sound
don't like his showing off
this guy shouldn't be king of the blues, man fuck off, he should be called king of most irritating guitarists..
wernerkonings 3 weeks ago
@wernerkonings TOTALLY agree!
MrTommySullivan 5 days ago
That was horrible
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this clown is a joke!
no licks that would stick in your head, very sloppy playing and just tries to shred thinking its the blues by playing bluesy scales.
plays out of key...yes he did many times and he was not playing for effect!
seriously, these are the kind people that wins in this event and real blues prodigies like josh gooch loses???
i wish buddy guy went up onstage and smash this circus clown in the head with his guitar!
hellwoman92 3 weeks ago
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hellwoman92 3 weeks ago
Was tha Blues?
KonstantinosYo2 1 month ago
this guy needs a strat,bad
matchoow2004 1 month ago
fukken yanks
alofislide 1 month ago
I've seen him and his band around NJ multiple times,and say it was the 60s or 70s, they would be a supergroup...but this? cmon Matt!
Trademark691 1 month ago
Looks like he's going to take a dump on his guitar! LOL!
trs4ever 1 month ago
take it eassy dude dont brake that leg u stand on cus u might hit more bad notes!!!!!!
cisco2fun1 1 month ago
This is a disgrace to the blues..what a freaking joke...And this guy won ! I would hate to see and hear the other contestants if this was the best they had to choose from...My God !!
bluesboy747 1 month ago 2
@bluesboy747 i cant belive that this guy is a winner!!!! wow.. is all i can say... wonder who the judges are!!??!?!?!? freaks w/o a musical ear @ all...
cisco2fun1 1 month ago
Dudes, he was there doing his thing, and we are leaving comments on youtube. There are those who watch and there are those who do. Rock on!
LesterPaul01 1 month ago
@LesterPaul01 Your right my friend, but this guy is far from doing anything that has to do with the blues...You must be a friend or relative of this clown
bluesboy747 1 month ago
@bluesboy747 Well I tend to agree somewhat. I believe we are all artists and how we choose to paint the canvas can and is most always controvercial. His tone was way to overdriven, raspy, and compressed. Over playing can be and issue too. Hitting people with a ton of notes can bore them real fast. I found that a couple slow soulful bends can get their attention and keep it. Playing tastfuly and not over the top makes the crowd wonder what you are going to do next. I love the blues too. Rock on
LesterPaul01 1 month ago
He suck, terrible..
bluesmaster94 1 month ago
Obligé d'arreter la video a 4:15 tellement c'est mauvais....quel nul se gars....que des fausses notes....lamentable!!!
phak74 1 month ago
he shits on the guitar?
GuitarLessonsLegends 2 months ago 2
I no likem this all that much neither...................Not that there is definetly not talent there, but a little much to be able to feel any blues out of it............
CarlthebigT1 2 months ago
ugh
akakoalaby 2 months ago
This sucks.
Funkyryno 2 months ago 2
This guy sucks
chrisr7 2 months ago
Go Fender!... What a cloen. Keep shoplifting. Thats my advice.
stevierayDOM18 2 months ago
@stevierayDOM18 What's a cloen?
imola23 1 month ago
@imola23 I think I meant to say clown.
stevierayDOM18 1 month ago
3:14 and on has this guy playing totally out of tune. This guy won? Wow...
davidbrucemusicvideo 3 months ago 3
Gino had this in the bag. I feel nothing special coming from this guy. Although I respect his ability to get up on stage and play. He is nothing special to me. Gino is.
GimmeSomeOno 3 months ago
If this is the winner, I wonder about the other competitors. They were definitely short of talents in 2006.
rodmpereira 3 months ago
THIS DUDE IS SO FUCKIN LAAAAAAAAAME!!!
evanskyle44 3 months ago
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skybluestratocaster 4 months ago
:-/
skybluestratocaster 4 months ago
you know how many contest there where?
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laiholapso 4 months ago
"my parents came home with Hendrix Experience album" hahaha..were you 13 yrs old back in 68 or did they just bought the album within the last 8 yrs?
FrnkEzee 4 months ago
this is bad...
jammyjoe8425 5 months ago
reminds me of Blues Hammer
FahQposeurfag 7 months ago
i don't think he has enough distortion
FahQposeurfag 7 months ago
Wow tuff for this guy to stay in key??
kevykev38 7 months ago 2
I'm not going to trash this guy,,,,, but he must have paid off the judges. He choked on lots of his riffs to the point of the solo being a screwup. Laith Alssadi smoked this guy with his style, phrasing, sound and creating that chill factor that hot blues can give you! Goose bumps dont lie. The judges were high...LOL
guitarjunkie7 8 months ago
The acoustic part of it too!!! That really sucked. Gino and Laith crushed you.
guitargirl761 8 months ago
There is so much injustice concerning King of the Blues. Gino Matteo and Laith Alssadi clearly had it over you. It was a crime to see you win. Did you pay off the judges? Did you have a connection?
Who are these judges? Where do they come from? Do they know what blues is?
Back to you Matt Oree - You are a take off on SRV. Not a very good one at that.
No originality, a ton of mistakes..very sloppy! Leg over the guitar, hopping around.
What's that all about? I don't get it. bogus!!
guitargirl761 8 months ago
i was expecting to see some amazing player,this guy has no BLUES FACTOR at all ive seen better players in my local pub!!! average at best sorry
mdhem04 9 months ago
woah, you would think watching last years winners would discourage you, but it just got my hopes up. i could own this guy head to head any day.
gibbie31 9 months ago
i thought he was going to do a Megadeth solo. thought he was going to pop out a steamer on his LP. oh nice transition to slide..not. someone find this guy a woodshed before he cuts off his own head. it was inspiring but not from his inspiration.
Iror2012 9 months ago
Lots of dressing, no burger.
GlenDoll 10 months ago 2
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mrGUITARO999 10 months ago
this guy really is a bad example of a blues player.
Under the leg PLEASE>>>>>>>>>>>>
WANKER
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@mrGUITARO999 they said that about Stevie Ray Vaughn too..."behind the back' thingy...lol...to each his own...lol
WyldeMagiK 1 week ago
he kinda looks like srv
acdc94sg 10 months ago
@cengeb all soul? I think not
joskam092 11 months ago
please someone tell his he's playin' a Les Paul, not a Strat
terzolilu 11 months ago
Is this the circus??? this about playing blues not doing acrobatic stuff with the guitar...
uva2323 11 months ago 11
@uva2323 so many people do the same blues stuff, what ever it takes to stand out
mikeketlo 1 week ago
All SOUL, all skill, all the time! Extraordinary musician. His band is incredible! The full greatness can't be garnered from a video. See Matt LIVE, he is SMOKIN'. Incredible bunch of musicians, led by a superb incredible talent!
cengeb 11 months ago
this is seriously the dumbest shit ever...this guy won?...he is awful and has NO soul
VideoFuzzBox 11 months ago
bad!! (N)
TheArtOfMusic 11 months ago
Why is he shoving his guitar up his butt at 3:35?
here4thedonuts 1 year ago
This is sad!
jimmy5634 1 year ago
Gino Grimace was a load, guppy face faked expressions, Matt is SMOKIN! Incredible and his entire band is incredible. there ain't nutin they can't do, and do it perfectly every time. It's in em, talent and ability, dedication to the craft!
cengeb 1 year ago
@cengeb ...hey douche bag...Matt is really good at jumping around tho...he has no soul in his playing, that is not the blues..AND..he is sloppy as shit
VideoFuzzBox 11 months ago
@VideoFuzzBox Yeah, and you probably think Chuck Berry didn't do blues. Somehow your knowledge of facts is poor. Matt smoked em! Leith, needs some style some ability to entertain and generate some energy1
cengeb 11 months ago
@cengeb is this guy your brother or something?...he is average at best and that is all..nothing to see here
VideoFuzzBox 11 months ago
yeah what the fuck is everyone hating on him for? you think most of these guys are real blues players? of course not, theyre all just like every other guitarist who thinks theyre going to make it and do it the sell out way by entering a contest, im going to enter it becuase im the same way, but i just wana be able to jam on this stage becuase im not old enough to go to any bar jams. but anyways youre all just jelouse idiots
gromshit101 1 year ago
how many guitar players does it take to play a blues? Answer: 100....... 1 to play, and 99 to sit around and say they could do it better!
samickz12 1 year ago 2
He is technically good but WAY too smug, and kill it with the fucking tricks unless its a spur of the moment kinda thing once and a while!
Gotta admin though, he has skills, shame it goes to his head!
Chris180Z 1 year ago
FUCK YOU ALL HES AMAZING!!
MenaPaws21 1 year ago 3
wanker!!!
flamethroa 1 year ago
I don't know, the guy seems pretty humble. The whole playing through the legs thing is weird and unnecessary but then again I think blues music is boring repetitive music.
mozartfx1 1 year ago 2
These winners have no feel, I guess in the industry it's all about technique and that is not at all true Blues!!!
Galacti23 1 year ago
Matt is INCREDIBLE! There is nothing him and his group can't do, and do to perfection!!! He is the WINNER, always.
cengeb 1 year ago
Gino Matteo should have won this by far...guess he should have played between his legs or hopped on one foot...gimmicky BS should have nothing to do with this contest..GC always seems to find a way to give it to the wrong guy...this guy is an embarassment to the blues AND was sloppy AND played with NO feeling...how the hell can you be this sloppy with THAT much distortion and win this
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cengeb 1 year ago
@VideoFuzzBox Gino grimace is faked, forced, and poorly tailored phoney looking load. the correct guy won it. MOB. Smokin.
cengeb 1 year ago
Sad but true. I thought Laith Al'Saadi blew this guy away. And he is getting better. Sad because the best man did not win..................
wieviele 1 year ago
@wieviele Al-Sadididid, is even worse than Gino, are you high?!!! Matt is smokin'! Incredible talent and soul. Wake up[.
cengeb 1 year ago
this is aweful. how did this guy win?
lipfishin 1 year ago
kind of a smug dickhead a little bit. like look at me im so badass i stole a stevie ray vaughan tape, im so hardcore blues. psych.
themusicman1973 1 year ago 4
did they pick him cos he would win a joe bonamassa lookalike contest? phenotpically of course. talent-wise he should not have won.
jessaamur 1 year ago
Hey guys, could anybody recommend a good humbucker neck pickup with a smooth bluesy rock and roll sound?
ZakkHendrix666 1 year ago
@ZakkHendrix666..... can only recommend one for you man. look into the Sheptone pickups.. . i have the sheptone Brian Kahanek Signature set PAF pickups. FANTASTIC. just go to google and type in sheptone pickups, for whatever reason it wont post the comment with a link in it
kristofferpence 1 year ago
this guy is annoying as hell.
and a bad stevie imitator.
LedZeppelinisgod100 1 year ago 2
i think that jimi hendrix leg trick was awesome!
thenamesfrancisco 1 year ago
haha this guy is one of the greatest guitar players i have ever seen... i could trash this guy at blues and i dont even play blues
cordpool 1 year ago
What an awful performance. If I saw a guy wanking it like this in person I would walk out...so here i go...bye bye
iceman10129 1 year ago
Holy crap, the dude is a terrible rip off of SRV, not only that but he took a shit on his guitar at 4:10. OMG That was amazing indeed. How did this guy win?
revolutionarybaby 1 year ago
damn. he looks like an idiot
diminishedlogic 1 year ago 2
that lead up at about the 3 miniute mark was kinda eh, but i really dug the intro
f16pilot92 1 year ago
This fuckin guy would be best motherfucker to portray SRV on a movie BIO. All you motherfuckers with the money fuckin get started already. Your welcome!!
crazyindiandb9 1 year ago
3:10-3:14 Wtf. So not blues. If I were a judge, I would have docked him at least 10 points for that. This is a blues contest. Seriously. What..?
KellyIsMusical 1 year ago
this guy is nothing like stevie ray.
DALE97DSM 1 year ago 2
psh wow no man Gino should of won this
Diaz123ism 1 year ago 16
@Diaz123ism
Fuckin A right man!!!
UFCfanboy7898 1 year ago
HE sounds too much like Stevie Ray... unoriginal.
citidwellerzinc 1 year ago
He probably practiced that guitar-under-the-leg thing more than actually playing lol
ovneb 2 years ago 2
Laith should have won this competition....
ldprince 2 years ago 3
i agree with rocket i could solo better than that and i am 15.
LongLiveTheBlues 2 years ago
@LongLiveTheBlues seriously dude i'm 17 but there's TONS of people who could play A LOT better. more kids should try out
Karpeinskis 1 year ago
This is not even good.
Rokket 2 years ago
king of blues? are you serious? HIM?
alsgh422 2 years ago
too much of a "look what i can do" for me....
no emotion...he picks all his notes with the same...attack..
lol.....
ughthisisgay123 2 years ago 2
ive listened to all the videos on here from this contest and only came across two that didnt immediatley make me cringe.if this is the finals id hate to hear all the other guys
evhvampire 2 years ago
PLASMA GRENADE TO THE FACE
rPandaZ 2 years ago 3
wow, all these winners r pretty bad, i think ill try out sumtime, haha
YAZZ69er 2 years ago 19
@YAZZ69er I felt the same way haha
jlevinson100 1 year ago
@YAZZ69er i'm actually going to. gonna blues the shit out of some douchebags!(see above example) =)
tofuhamster983 9 months ago
Oh and slow blues is the most cliche thing about the blues.....thats when the mosts licks are puked up.
disturbedheritic 2 years ago
He's not a bad guitar player. Maybe a little sloppy but from what i've seen in all these competitions is lack or originality. Sure they can regurgitate licks like any other blues player(one thing that discredits the genre), but all of them do it and it's lame. The key to being a good guitarist is a mix of speed, finess, technic, and melodic placement. And sorry but the other guys were worse than matt. He was the only one pushed the bounderies alittle everyone else.
disturbedheritic 2 years ago
I didn't see anything great . Not a Rory Gallaher in the bunch
Michiganman2cali 2 years ago
I hate how as soon as you learn the pentatonic scale, and you start playing it, you can call yourself a blues guitarist nowadays. Half of this act was scratchy and splotchy notes, he sounded really friggen amateur for a contest winner. He could play circles around me, but I can say I know skill when I hear it, and that was some damn bad playing. I know blues is all about evolution and your own style, but this isn't blues. Pentatonic soloing isn't blues, no matter how much you use it.
rhalmasy 2 years ago 2
damn right man, the best blues players can play the blues with soul, emotion... buddy guy can kill with one note. that guy played hundeds and didnt move me at all.
MrSiggi2000 2 years ago
The problem I see with this competition is that it's all pretty jumpy blues. I haven't seen any slower tempo pieces. That's part of the blues too. I want to see something like Since I've been Lovin You or Blues Deluxe, something with some raw emotion and power and not just fancy tricks and fanfare. They don't really judge these guys on heart or soul.
sirsteven88 2 years ago 2
y in gods green earth did this guy win?honestly this whole competition is filled with a bunch of lunatics beating the crap out of guitars with no real originality at all.a bunch of srv clones.with the possible exception of gino matteo and laith alsaadi
evhvampire 2 years ago
Hey man, tasty playing! My name is Stëv Skye and I'll be performing in the 2nd round of KOTB at the Phoenix, AZ store (9/10/09 :) I actually posted my preliminary round performance here (my first youtube post)... I also fell in love with the rock/blues when I first heard "Are You Experienced" and I branched out from there...
StevSkye 2 years ago
yeah gino matteo definately should have won
squireguyjet 2 years ago
Great video Checkout vickrules1
jimd5377 2 years ago
so this guy talks about putting all enotion into his playing and stuff but watching him play, I see very little eomtion, this guys all show man
rabidfreak12 2 years ago
gotta be fuckin kidding me..
did they forget the whole point, "KING of the BLUES"
pfergonise666 2 years ago
this blows
guinnessontap86 2 years ago
why did he win and am i bored ?
kyle9371 2 years ago
wow.. what garbage
monkeyssj1 2 years ago 2
Why have the intro? Just say simply " I am just another SRV wannabe, down to the beard.?
Boring as hell.
jp79652 2 years ago 3
im pretty sure a srv wannabe would play a strat..
ohchaaase 2 years ago
He did definatly. This guys stuff aint that good i tabbed his acoustic part already just by remembering it from the vid which is not good. i should have to watch him and listen multiple times before i can figure it out, at least thats what i would want when i play. Id put my soul into it and give it all i got and make it a hell of a preformance.
Snakepit4321 2 years ago
since when was blues about the difficulty of a performance? get of your ass and go listen to some B.B, T Bone, Muddy Waters..
dd1yr 2 years ago
I never said BLUES was always about the difficulty of a preformance, but since its a competition for the best blues player, difficulty should be implied you dumbass. Dont talk to me like your gonna school me in blues you faggot.
Snakepit4321 2 years ago
thats exactly what he did. But he did that because he hasnt taken time to develope the skill using his right hand. he only worries about licks as you can tell in 3:10-3:15.
Snakepit4321 2 years ago
thats exactly what he was doing. he can barely do anything else other than one string solos, thus he compensates for the half-beat upstroke slopply rythm. laith alsaadi dominated when he played acoustic.If Laith wanted too, he could play something exactly like this guy did but he didnt he did slow 4/4 progression for more feeling rather than the same old fast blues licks, then on the acoustic he showed his true roots and played with his fingers..
Snakepit4321 2 years ago
this guys right hand is underdeveolped. thats why he is playing like stevie so much. thats all he can do with his right hand. I guess the judges failed to look at the most important part of playing blues, your right hand. my votes for lath 100 percent.
Snakepit4321 2 years ago
So pretty much you have to be flashy to win this thing....well this year i going to wear a speedo while riding a unicycle and play in the style of srv!! hopefully that will do the trick =)
goldenbudai 2 years ago
5:15-5:20
Around the world(RCHP) Intro -_-
Or Breadfan intro too I guess lol.
TOsmusic 2 years ago
it's just a SRV copy....
nothing creative man...!
i know he can play..
but not play like this on a champion
stupidcompany 2 years ago
Whoa If he won buy playing like that, then perhaps i am entering this year.
thisplacesucksbig 2 years ago
what a mess. lath won by far 1000%
vaiboy55 2 years ago
it should have been clinton moon who won......this guy has no skill what so ever thats some bullshit............
2black75 2 years ago
his tone is shit for blues on both electric and acoustic
ozzy4pres 2 years ago
Lame choice.... Laith BY FAR was the best.
wde4 2 years ago 3
Horrible - This guy sucks
At least the fat guy could play the acoustic
AZmaxblues 2 years ago
This is terrible. Lol.
alexrempel12390 2 years ago
Yeah you know he's much better than me at guitar, but it's pretty apparent that the judges were looking at stage performance rather than tone, skill, feel, etc... The leg lift turned me off. I've seen so many guitar heros live and I'll tell you that 99% of the players with the most stage presence don't do anything like that. Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton, B.B. King all own the stage without cheesy show off moves.... The only one that does it and it works is Buddy Guy.
claptonhendrix1 2 years ago 2
It was really gay watching him play under his leg.. Plus the tone and licks were all wrong for the blues. He did some Malmsteen sounding licks, which is a def no no in blues. I dont know how he won.
kevinonaroar 2 years ago 2
the whole blues click is full of dick sucking losers
tttt252 2 years ago
I heard this guy got the sympathy vote. from EVERYONE! nah, im kidding but seriously? This guy won? The moment I would have seen him do that leg lift thing on stage, I would've told him, "NO, HELL NO!!'
kikster93 2 years ago
srv prodigy
OwensMusic1 2 years ago
really? this guy won? what the hell were the judges smokin?
Phillyguy0202 2 years ago 2
100% laith alsaadi should have been the king of the blues.
JazzMonkey17 2 years ago
i tshould have been gino mateo. but laith is good too.
brownbigb 2 years ago
I just have a hard buying the sound on this one. Too sterile. Needs a strat, or any reasonable single coil sound. The walk around 3:45 is so AWKWARD. And I agree with oggi3, way overplayed.
chromaffin 2 years ago
i don't understand why a competition exists for music that all sounds exactly the same? how does playing extremely fast or the same pentatonic fifth 50 times in a row using the same trills, pulloffs, bends, and whatever make for creative progressive music? i'm sure it's important, but someone needs to remind me why. i feel like an idiot for feeling this way. somebody school me...
locoindio 2 years ago
When the electric guitar was first used in a barbershop in 1926, I bet there was some kid walking down the street skipping class and When he heard the sound of ripping pentatonic fifths, that instant, that moment, he knew all he wanted to do was to play rock and roll music for the rest of his life. There isn't any other music in the industry, pop, motown, punk, you name it, which features soloing and soulfulness, and appreciates the improv and rythem orientation. The Jonas Brothers can blow me.
PeterVadim 2 years ago 3
his guitar sound is extremely crap
slowhandxx 2 years ago
That's no blues!
Sooooo shred!
TheArtOfMusic 2 years ago 2
Sucks!! suckss!! pour men
ycaro81 2 years ago
almost all these guys with a gibson have horrible tone. and they all overplay. hubert sumlin should give all these guys a guitar lesson, he makes a les paul sound good.
PageandPlant4Life 2 years ago
@PageandPlant4Life
Gary Moore is another guy who has great control of a Gibson. Moore's secret is that he rolls the volume knob constantly to take the bite of the humbuckers out untill he really needs it in a solo, then lets it rip. It's cool to watch him play. I have never seen anyone else use that the way that Moore does.
xdomhnallx 2 years ago
@xdomhnallx
Roy buchanan mastered the use of the volume knob. Not only did he roll the volume or tone down for rhythm, his volume swells are legendary.
PageandPlant4Life 2 years ago
This guys good.. except for those mess ups.. but eh everybody messes up... but was it really necessary to hump and shit on your guitar at 3:50
clapt0n0wnz 2 years ago
hes good but it wasnt the best from that year
JVuott13 3 years ago
Why shredd?
oggi3 3 years ago
the blues doesnt need shred that is why it is soo good, nice comment
dirtjumpbandit 2 years ago
laith should've won
ScottieS28 3 years ago 2
Although I do think Gino had more heart...
muzzickman 3 years ago
Who do you think should have won? Nobody had a flawless performance in '06
muzzickman 3 years ago