Devin Townsend - Ki (Acoustic) Live @ SoulFood Books, Redmond, WA

[heavendreamful]

Genius...

[gstevenson7781]

Amazing!

[queenofcrows]

This is one of my favorite big and beautiful songs, and this video definitely adds an aspect lacking from the CD -- namely, Devin's "demented Muppet" guitarface (eg 4:50-5:11).

[lahbl]

@queenofcrows Do you play guitar? Do you know how complex that shit at 4:50 is? I could not play that if I fucking tried. I don't blame him for the muppet face lol.

[queenofcrows]

@lahbl Believe me I know! The more intensely-focussed one is on playing, the more intense the guitarface.

And Devin does come across as a bit of a Muppet -- the secret lovechild of Animal and Kermit, methinks.

[lahbl]

@queenofcrows Haha, I think you're right.

[th3silentcircus1]

@lahbl Although I agree it's awesome, it's actually not too complex.

[lahbl]

@th3silentcircus1 It's not complex, no. Playing with dead accuracy on those arpeggios while live is amazing.

[th3silentcircus1]

@lahbl And on an acoustic too. He's great

[lahbl]

@th3silentcircus1 Exactly. When using an electric, most of your fuck ups are hidden by distortion :)

[nauroticdax]

@lahbl no shit its incredible i couldent even do it on an eletric with the distortion to hide the fuck-ups on clean its even worse devin is just literally THAT good

[dragondevel5]

@lahbl different tuning. it's not that hard once you figure out the tuning but playing at tempo, that's what makes it hard.

[lahbl]

@dragondevel5 It's in open C. I can write you the tabs right here. Also, the tempo isn't insanely hard either. When it comes to acoustic guitars, if you miss a note, everyone knows. If you're playing metal, your highly distorted guitar mistakes aren't extremely obvious.

[dragondevel5]

@lahbl yeah I know how to play it and all that such.(other than acoustic vs electric) but I'm not that prominent at playing fast (not something I am genuinely concerned about, so skills at playing even this fast is...not easy for me) but hey, you obviously know more than I do. :P

[lahbl]

@dragondevel5 I'm not claiming to be a great player either. However, when you play an electric guitar with large amounts of distortion, if you accidentally miss a note, it's not as obvious, due to the drums etc in the background. When you're playing an acoustic guitar, if you miss a note, it's obvious. However this was played flawlessly, which is quite amazing as it's not the easiest thing to do.

[bloodsling]

509 views,Justin Beiber 277 million..if that's a not a world needing a punch in the head I don't know what is

[heavendreamful]

@bloodsling world is 99% shit....

[tappman85]

@bloodsling Feel lucky, you are one of those 2082 people who still knows what music should be.

[ZarMulix]

Nice. Very nice.

Very good and nice.

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[zman84soad]

That was amazing, thank you for uploading

[ffian1]

Why does something this awesome have less than 400 views?

Devin is a God man, he deserves a standing ovation or a knighthood or something

[noza45]

I'd have literally given my left nut to have been there to see this, I'm no-where near joking.

[kurukq]

thanks for this zach, devin is the man

[corovanmoro]

Hahaha, I just heard the guy at the end. "YEAAAAHHHH!!!" I probably would've done that too...

[corovanmoro]

Devin's the MAN.