Is this what you'd call Prog Blues Shredding? Definitely not what I think of when I think classic "Blues" but I love each of these artists and think this compilation deserves it's own niche genre.
My goodness that attack tone create by Guthrie finger is out of this world.... But here Alex was taking more Risk... It's all about balance at this level of playing... No one is better or less...
I'll take a groove like this any day, where each contributes his distinct take, over those awful jams where a bunch of great guitarists get on stage together and make a noisy mess of Little Wing or While My Guitar Gently Weeps or whatever.
I'm a firm fan of Guthrie I think he is the best period. However if you are just looking at this video then Alex wins. Not the best example of Guthrie at all. He is truly amazing this playing here is below him if you have seen his other work.
I was sure someone had already said this. Saw Guthrie live last night and he is capable of things from another dimension both technically and creatively, maybe a little too much. Hutchings looks very confident and brought out his best here tbh. Nothing wrong with that. Competing or saying that Alex wins doesn't mean that people are spewing hate.
Killer guitarists all three of them. But for the blues you have to have soul and feeling, which none of the shredders doesn't have. Imagine SRV's solo above that backing track and you'll see the difference.
I think these guys were doing what the producers of the video asked them to do...shred! They all know the difference between shredding and blues soloing very well. This is fusion not standard blues.
This is not even a competition , I dont know how you guys can be saying who won ... Firstable Must of you guys preffer Guthrie and even if he loss you'll say he won ... If we aré gonna talk about who won , my favorite is jack and Second place to me is Guthrie , but , alex kicked their ass if we look at it like that ... So to be honest i preffer to only enjoy their playing .
I love jack but in this you can contrast that jack uses very generic scales while guthrie while also using generic ones adds outside notes and some technique other than running up and down scales
imho jack playing is nice but to me he sounds more "predictable" and patterned. Guthrie and Alex can make my jaw drop with their unpredictable licks, not so much with Jack
I've yet to hear anything Alex Hutchings plays that I've just really enjoyed... Maybe tonally, or style, I just can't quite put my finger on it but it goes against my taste. Fantastic technically though!
he uses eadgcf tuning most of the time so he place the scales in fourths i think a lot more than other players also his tone is a tiny bit off cause of that wah so u cant hear all the notes being picked
Sasha H i can recognize them. do u? I said I don’t know why now is common to see comments about all are very similar etc before it’s was pretty easy etc Guthrie and all the rest etc
