George Bellas Throwback Thursday From the MI Vault 11/15/2007 

George Bellas is just a beast and underated guitar player. His technique is flawless

That tone is incredibly dry and stiff. His skill shows through in his precision and hand synchronicity. No delay or reverb to hide behind. Most impressive.

incredible player, so much soul, not just tech

His picking is from another planet!!

Superb!!!

awesome video , thanks for the upload buddy

I started at MI right around this time. I remember being stoked to see him. So cool to find this video. I saw so many great musicians while I was at MI. Every week was someone new and exciting.

One of the best!

AMAZING

Flawless execution! His tone and playing are so clean und crisp! Love it!

Great Bellas!!

Superb... Thanx GB

ripped to shreds is insane!!!! can't stop watching it

¡Te amo George Bellas! ¡Siempre te amaré! ¡Dios del Tono!

Awesome stuff, hope you can play in Mexico soon. Best wishes George

Awesome!

Always an inspiration!!! thanks MI!!!

bellas style is pure

HELL YEAHHHHHHHHHH

George is an amazing guitarist. Few people will be able to play something on such a, frankly, dry and stingy sound, and George is simply impeccable here. He's one of those phenomenal guitarists who are really underrated. From the same category as Rick Graham, for example. These are guitarists who perform very little, mostly teach, but they are incredible!

Studied with George back back when he used to send cd-roms via mail. Awesome player and person. Pretty weird mix here though (a lot of the M.I videos have the same issue, sounds almost direct from the board?). I'm sure this sounded a million times better in the room. Very cool of M.I To share these videos though, spent a lot of time in their video library while studying at G.I.T in '95-96:)

he's too good

INSANE!!!! GB is an octopus... those arpeggios man!!!

Wow, I am impressed by his left hand always keeping a position to favor using the pinky finger even on the higher notes. Super efficient. And doing bends with your pinky finger is super hard but he nails it very fantastic.

Amazing stuff, Bellas in one of my heroes so far

Ineffable. Sublime.

I was there.

This guy is like Alan Holdsword. Unique and not well known to earn enough money. He is genious.

Amazing guitarrist. So much tch and Soul

Fast and Furious.. nice!

Right on......Bellas the modern master..along with MacAlpine.//Thanks for posting

This guy is good

Что скажешь??? Это очень круто!!! И без всякого темпинга!!! Мастер. Вся дискография у меня есть. Теперь увидел, как он это делает. Фантастика.

so fuckin clean

for neoclassical / shred aficionados, arguably it's currently another golden age.. or perhaps the original G/Age (arguably spearheaded by YJM & VanHalen in the early 1980's) never ended; it's popularity & exposure simply varying with the fashions & vagaries of the day (thanx Grunge...). happily, this translates to an absolute plethora of chops-monsters replete with the intangible yet requisite passion & feeling in their playing whilst penning stunningly beautiful & complex compositions worthy of Bach or Beethoven. today, audiences are inordinately fortunate & privileged to hear from Maestros of the caliber of Tony Macalpine, YJM, MAB, Marc Rizzo, Rusty Cooley, Christian Muenzner & Jeff Loomis et al. sitting rite at the very apex of the mountain (imo), is the incredible George Bellas. couldn't have put it any better than the contributor, below: 'best player in the world. no one comes close to his compositions. sorry but true.' here here. GB reminds me of Rafa Nadal: both inordinately talented, both idolized by their army of fans & yet both are genuinely humble & self-effacing. very, very cool peeps (imo)

sound here is not good. can't hear the music. i agree it must have sounded much better in the room. still a blessing to see these songs performed!

Though George Bellas is a great guitar player, and has created some amazing music, Like "Reach for the night", written by John Marshall, Mike Gingrich, Michael McCarran and George Bellas, but without notifying the writers of songs, Mr. Bellas gave the song to John West for his solo album. Mr. Bellas also falsified to BMI on the other writes on the album "Flying Through Infinity" by Palace Terrace, witch formed by Jonathan Marshall and George Bellas, the album "Flying Through Infinity" music was written by George Bellas and the melodies and story and Lyric were written and performed by Jonathan Marshall. George Bellas took the entire credit for the album, music, melodies, story concept and lyrics, Project name, album name and copyrighted under Bellas Tune Factory, not sharing any the copyrights with the other writer, Jonathan Marshall, in fact, Mr. Bellas told BMI and in interviews that he had written the entire album, the story concept, melodies and lyrics, but stolen all the copyrights from Mr. Marshall. Furthermore, George Bellas refused to give any information on what Jonathan Marshall's contribution to "Flying Through Infinity" album BMI, and still to this day he refuses. Sound like a court needs to intervene.

I know that dude!

Amazing player. Does anyone have any information on his guitars? Are his Fender Stratocasters modified in any way? Thanks.

Looks like Carl Verheyen and sounds like Yngwie.

Songs name's?

11:16

22:34 !!!

Look at his right hand, I never saw something like that.

Extreme shred ..high difficulty level

It sounds like 80%Yngwie Malmsteen 20%John Petrucci

I always loved George and his playing, never been a fan of his tone however.

What happened to the band? Fackers - where were they at? @6:50 - no drummer - wtf? Love George ... such a rocker.

🤭

when people start dissing Yngwie remember it's guys like this and a trillion more trying to be Yngwie.

best player in the world. no one comes close to his compositions. sorry but true.

I hope Geo. reads my humble suggestion, GET SOME NEW SOUNDS !!! such a great player!!! BUT that dirty raw amp sound has such a flat fucking sound! what a Shame PLEASE!! it is whats missing with the GREAT Playing A true fan, just not of the sound gear

Nice playing, but his tone here is awful. So fuzzy and thin

ギターサウンドが良くない 安っぽい ジェイソンベッカーのコピーだろこれは

yngwie style

Before all you Bellas fans come and smash me with "how about YOU do better, pal !" etc, , I want to begin by saying he's a GREAT player !.. There.. NOW, a coupla small things.. Firstly, IMHO, he plays for way too much speed all the time.. He's got some really interesting chops, and the flavour of that really comes out, when he slows it down a bit !..Playing and performing guitar, it's an Art form.. It ain't a time-trial around Le Mans !..Ask David Gilmour .. Secondly, he's another one of these irritating "Song" people (5.06 and 10.27) .. George, it's only a SONG if it's got SINGING in it, ok ?.. Call it a piece, an instrumental, a tune, whatever you fancy.. But what you're playing, they ain't SONGS...If you're going to be a pro, please talk like one , and get your terminology right.. Cheers..

Che noia, vuole suonare come il vinnie moore neoclassico senza lontanamente riuscirci