These days hearing diatonic sweeps with high E taps is like someone gnawing a chalkboard with their teeth. But there were some great clips here outside of that.
whole video I'm looking in the background and seeing dated electronics thinking, dang this is older than the 13 years ago it was originally posted. Then the last guy having his MySpace page advertised sealed the deal.
Sadly I think that was someone else on the 2nd clip didn't look like him in the face and Chris has tattoos on his fingers and stuff, he can still do stuff like that though.
he's a really great player but he just cant resist the urge to do the same thing again and again... when he's not trying to be the fastest player in the world he actually sounds good
now if only rusty used those chops to play charlie parker and sonny rollins tunes... some bitches brew... some love supreme... some mahavishnu... some weather report... some RTF... some headhunters.... because truly great improv needs CHANGES... some ii-V-I... a little bit of SWING... and Llastly: a bit of funky groove. wait, did i just describe Allan Holdsworth? maybe 😊
Idk why people don't like him, but love Shawn Lane. Shawn would bust out exotic scales from his ass and Rusty's musicality is more melodically recognizable. However, I could have sworn from some of these clips that Rusty was mirroring some of Shawn's hardest shredding. Personally, I prefer Shawn because I love jazz/exotic shredding, but Rusty can shred like him too when he wants to. You need to tap licks that both can do with ONE hand.
yeah idk man people have such a boner for pretending that fast playing = brainless and "emotionless", whatever the hell that means. The difference is probably just that Lane was a jazz guitarist and Cooley is a metal guitarist. People (especially musicians, which, let's be real, are 99% of the audience for both these guys) view jazz as a more elevated/sophisticated style of music than metal, so Lane got a pass for being a shredbot 9000 when he wanted to be because he was playing in a more "intellectual" genre.
@@blahkaw98probably because Rusty Colley knows only one speed. It's obvious knowing what he's doing. Lol. Very impressive though. Takes a lot of hard work. Respect. Just not my cup of tea. Fusion players like Mateo Mancuso are more interesting to me. To each their own.
Times past so much now since all of these....the amount of dean guitars! No one touches them anymore these days really apart from the odd die hard dimebagt fan, weird that.
Hi,we might get a lot of negative comments b'cos of our honest views about him(Rusty's).But honestly again, i don't find him that much musicality or technically gifted but rather like Malmsten's playing that focuses only on one genere of fast that we'd get bored off so listening to the same style of solos in every albums of his.I'd rather dig Nuno,paul,petrucci,steve and even the great lt. Shawn lane for their versatility of languages of music. Peace to you from, NAGALAND INDIA .
It's not an insult. Jazz musicians have been calling each other "motherfuckers" as a compliment for decades. When a musician calls another musician a motherfucker they're calling them a great player
u had no pulse in you ... not even his stethoscope dectected a pulse ...he could not let you go ... there your body lay, wounded and wraped up...cold ...cold as ice... even your hands were bruised... i said he needs blood and i said we should turn up the heat to your room. and should u not make it ... i put quarters on your eyes. before i left i painted your guitar a lil bit ... we both had talked about how cool it will be if it were painted a certain way ... then i placed the guitar on top of you i prayed for you...so much 😣 then .... you came back brother... you actually came back! to us... to the world ...to your family...
Emil gave me guitar lessons in a little music shop in Dothan Alabama 20 years ago when I was 12.. I still play, and he was playing like this then, as a senior in high school
He used to work at Elite Music in Montgomery back in the mid 2000’s when I lived there and they would host open mic jam nights. I went a couple of times and he was there just wiping the floor with every ego that walked in the door. It forced me out of my comfort zone though and pushed me to play better and take more risks than I usually would in front of other players. He was super cool and humble though and gave me help with a midi controller I bought from him LOL.
The riffage at 00:32 is so incredible because there are so many goddam elements in there. It's like bluegrass, jazz, classical, prog, blues, and metal had a baby and it's just this monstrosity which should sound like garbage but ends up being perfection. It's like a combination of all the best bits from Shawn Lane, Guthrie Govan, Yngwie, Gilbert, and even Holdsworth for fuck's sake.
