Rusty Cooley perfoms Under The Influence for Young Guitar www.rustycooley.com 

I am pretty sick of the technique vs expression argument regarding guitar players. I have nothing but respect for Rusty. He does what he loves, and thats what its all about.

I love the pedal point lines he has in this song; really fun to play. Great song and phenominal guitar player.

Anyone who says that shredders have no soul in their playing obviously can't hear anything because i can hear all the melodies and all the soul going through my hears at 100 mph.

Great, man!!!! Awesome speed and feeling!!!!!

god, I love the sweep section in this, easily one of my favorite to hear and play too

Under the Influence... of total destruction. This amazing!

incredible song,,, and very fun to play too!

I love this Kind of videos awesome Rusty!! METAL!!

Love this song! Brutal technique!

He's so good

that guitar alone can handle rustys amazing powers dude you sir amazing everytime i hear a song by u it inspires me to keep playin my 7 string beyond my own limits

Amazing song!

this sounds really classicaly influenced to me did anyone else thinks so?

awesome!

Cooley's shirt should say PERFECTION

Rusty Could you tell us a bit about your home studio??

its amazing how you can strech your fingers like that.

AMAZING

Awesome ^^

I feel bad for someone trying to learn this by ear lol

BOLT ON!!! is awesome!!!!!!!

look VERY closely at 3:03 - 3:04. right after the speed picking part. it looks like a different clip or something

My head just exploded

Exelent job rusty cooley

Bloody hell, you vibrate the strings like, two tones, Rusty!

All hail Rusty!!! I'd like to know why you use bolt-on guitars as well, as well as why you prefer an 85-7 in the bridge...it's very mysterious. I. Love. This. Song. :D

Hope he practices every day! He doesn't wanna get Rusty!!!!

At 3.02 something went wrong.

When the Census comes around, Rusty has to include his hands as people living in his house.

HAIL!!!!!!

This was so insane my brother and i just bursted out laughing lol

man im not gonna lie i dig the beard

Can someone tell me the difference between this guitar and the plain black or white RC7's?

@OpulenceOfKnowledge Yep... and it looks to me like he's combining the best of both worlds.

incredible playing !!! any chance where we could getta original tablature from you or the whole of your solo debut album?

Genius!

Great idea ... and I will really like to see Marshall Harrison beeing part of this thing :)

what genre of music is this, parts of this sound very mozart, a mozart song i know, would this be neo-classical?

He played exactly 1 billion notes, I counted.

So much stamina! ;-D My hand drop dead after long sweep picking part ;-D

how does one acheive the greatness that is that neo-classical run at 1:03 sir rusty?

@SkywalkerGFZ wow well spotted...it might be 2 separate takes

under the influence again... where're your new song?

I find the 85 to be superior to the 81 in the bridge personally. Though who knows why he likes the bolt ones. Maybe so its easier to fix on the road? But that makes little sense as he is endorsed by Dean, so he should get free axes. And hes not a one to smash em either.

Hi rusty :D im a huge fan from slovakia and i have tow question for you... 1:Why is that your guitars are only "bolt on"s??? 2: why are the solos from the song Dominion from 2003 and 2008 different??? And btw i think it would be great to see you playing Dark Matter of War of Angels on a video because Dark Matter is incridible XD... cheers

i'm ur 666 like ..yeaaah shred it maaan \m/

It sure is, watch the computer screen especially. Good call

hi Rusty im a huge from Slovakia and i have 2 questions for you... 1: Why do you use only bolt on guitars? 2: Why are the solos from the song dominion different recorded since 2003? I think The 2003 version was much better XD And btw i think it would be great to see you playing Dark Matter on youtube... its unplayable

Really dig this song ... and it really reminds me of Bark at Moon but that's not a bad thing but I can see the influence.

What happened to the awsome screensaver?

nice guitar

@KARNAGE94 Yngwie Malmsteen*

Set play back speed to 0.25

@DrNubb123 +1 on Dark Matter

This has got to be amongst the hardest songs to play. I can picture John Petrucci having some troubles with this even.

il see the light tonight?

Only 30k views....

3:00 cut scene. probabily he wrong something

Rusty, how are you not much, much more well known than you are, dude? I mean, you do realize that even guys like Vai, Petrucci, and Malmsteen, who are well known and loaded with cash can't touch your speed or how cleanly you can play at those speeds, and especially not your legato, right? It should literally be a crime. If they ever bring G3 back and you're not invited along, I'm calling bullshit.

he can actually play it?!? woahhh

I was like, he doesn't look drunk or high?

You look like you're attacking the guitar... 5 stars

2:53 face melting

no petrucci likes jesus, rusty like hercules from the telefilm xD awesome rusty!

yh, he actually does look like the stereotypical jesus, beard, long hair and uber fucking shredder

2: 50 chuck norris can do this with his feets

Rusty is Jesus!!! Just look at him, he even looks just like Jesus and he plays like Jesus would if Jesus had a guitar!!!

Hey and finally you bought a flat computer monitor :P

the guitar is fucking bleeding!

The right man said the right word XD lol... but if your not satisfied with your self then go somewhere else and write your shit there... Peace!