Ori is very talented, just wait til you hear her new blues release .............. or you can head over to Norman's Rare Guitars and take a listen. I was floored, thought all she played was rock stuf
You're right, she doesn't "have to" ... she does it because she WANTS to and that's her choice. So, where is your YT video killing the guitar dressed all subdued like?
Poor quality, but a nice groove anyways. I love Orianthi. She can play better than most people in the spotlight nowadays. She is comfortable playing anywhere on the neck. She handles her guitar like it's her bitch.
I used to mix bands, including many you would recognise. A depressing number of places they have concerts sound like crap and there is only so much you can do. With both the guitar and keyboards buried in the mix, it seems the mix engineer was not paying attention to the guitar level or was otherwise distracted. There are also a lot of backstage politics and sometimes the headliner will tell the crew attached to the sound system to sandbag the opening act.
