@@doktermobiel I'm pretty sure that the actor playing as Johnny actually does know karate, but as far as I'm concerned, it could be wrong... However, I was told so and had no reason to doubt it since as you can see in Cobra Kai, the guy gets a whole lot more fighting scenes in general...
We need a netflix show about present day Steve Vai who never got over his humiliating loss and becomes a washed up drunk. He sees a kid being bullied by his gf's bf and decides to step up and become his guitar sensei. He teaches the kid to shred and finally developes a fatherly bond until Ralph Macchio comes up and opens his own guitar dojo. Eventually they are forced to team up when the devil returns and steals all of Steve's students. The show should be called Cobra Vai. Write that shit down. (Stolen from a reddit comment)
Vai is a horrible guitar player, but he's a great actor. Maccio is one of the world's best guitar players, but he's certainly no actor. I mean I mean lol
Dude, at first I thunk it was real!!! I thought, "How'd he get ahold of Machios audio?? Great job though, laughed me bum off! This was as funny as SfSaunders stuff !!!
This is hilarious. As a Guitar player I have e to say ....Ralph is the worst I've ever heard. OMG.You would think they would have given him a few lessons or shut his sound off altogether !!
I just couldn't stop laughing because it's pretty damn accurate and just freaking hilarious with the crowd looks...just goes to show what editing can really pull off....thanx for the laugh
My stomach hurts from laughing so much, your recreation of Ralph's performance is very accurate, it's humor that only guitarists can understand, very good job!
This was hilarious af, especially at the end. The fact that is even implied that Vai isn't as good at mimicking his own play style makes it even better
Theoretically he could have circumvented this by putting the solo together, rehearsing and playing it exactly the same on film and record...but of course for some reason no one in the whole production team had the foresight to realize that nearly 40 years later, their guitar parts would be dissected and covered by dude with camera on a RU-vid.
@@sirfizz6518 I don’t think the production team cared that much. Thats not the point. The movie is one of the only movies that focuses on guitar, and I appreciate that. When you watch movies about football they aren’t usually hyper realistic either. I just suspend my disbelief for stuff like this.
Holy dooly! I'm not normally a commenter but this is by far the funniest thing that I've seen this year and I thank you for this magnificent piece of art/comedy. Your brutal yet honest recreation of his guitar parts are a gift to all guitarists. I have not laughed this hard in years. Thank you!
Hats-off to Ralph for just doing whatever the director told him to do. He must have felt self-conscious but did the job. GREAT end product. Ry Cooder did great too.
@@dime-333 Yeah a lot of people do not know that. I saw a video interview with Ralph and he said he gives all credit to Vai for getting him through those parts in the movie.
I haven't laughed in weeks, but this had me laughing out loud. Their faces of disgust matched perfectly with his playing. Excellent job! So well done. Thank you it was painfully funny. 😂
I can’t imagine how much time and effort it took to decipher the movie notes, record them, then perfectly overlap them on the original. If I didn’t know what this video was, I would have thought that was what he was playing. Well done!!!
@@BradleyHallGuitar I love that you took that into consideration. I’ll always remember ol grandpa screaming into the family television “there’s no way he played that Paganini shit in an open tuning!”
There were some parts that were closer than I expected but more which weren't even kind of close. I love the concerned looks everyone gives when he's really bad.
The lick exchange at 1:39 has to be my favorite - couldn't stop laughing 😂. I give Ralph props for miming pretty realistically for the movie, though. 🤘
Reboot: Mateo Mancuso summons the devil to rescue his uncle Steve from hell. Together, they cut heads against Guthrie Govan and, in an odd casting, Steve Terreberi. Haha
There are a million vids out there showing how to play difficult passages. This is the only one I have seen that shows you exactly how difficult passages weren't played. It's genius.
He did a hell of a job faking it in all fairness. I play and for someone who doesn't he's pretty much in the right chords and fingering. Can you do better?
The OP did not explain that two guitars were differently TUNED. Clue 1: playing with slide requires a different tuning altogether. Clue 2: Butler's inability to play last parts means his guitar was wrongly tuned for the piece, but he played by the ear and fumbled over his own ignorance. THAT was the catch; Butler was capable ear player, but uneducated, which the boy recognised & took advantage of. None of this is addressed.
I literally JUST watched this movie again and have had all of Steve Vai's parts stuck in my head now. And all of a sudden you make this video, the timing is insane god damn
The "no sound if it doesn't appear on camera" StSanders-shred-style approach is one of the best things on the internet, and I so much appreciated you using it! 🤘🏼 Also, your mimicking of Vai was killer! I didn't know I wanted to hear you playing Bad Horsie or his playing style for that matter, but here we are 🐎 🔥
Steve Vai was still relatively unknown when this movie came out, and they really picked the right guy. He's wicked good with the whammy. And learning Eat Em and Smile introduced me to some cool bluesy riffs man!
@@mishastojan I think more people knew the name Robert Johnson than Steve Vai at the time. This was a good 5 years before he made David Lee Roth famous ;)
@@mishastojan1981 you are what you is: strat abuse. 1983 the man from utopia: impossible guitar parts. Zappa did not grant such honors to everyone on the records. I was in Redecesio, btw.
@@sec9788 Yeah I googled it and Eat Em and Smile also came out in 86. I didn't see Crossroads until it was on VHS a few years later myself. But I remember in 1985 being heartbroken that Van Halen had broken up (right after the album 1984 lol, that makes dating this stuff easier eh?) I didn't know Steve Vai until he and Billy Sheehan teamed up to give Roth the usual guitar excellence he was accustomed to, and finding out Vai was in Crossroads was the reason I sought to watch the movie lol. What do I really know about Vai's popularity at the time, I admit... I was all of 16 and still in guitar lessons in 86 ;)
I never knew who Steve Vai was until I started playing guitar. Dude can play everything and add his own unique style. He’s a legend and good lord do I want a Jem still
@vincentkingsdaIle8334 imagine being a player and being around them in the early stages? Joe also instructed Kirk Hemmett... not a fan of his lead work tbh.....Joe is awesome. Him and Steve together is hilarious. They just cut up, act goofy...they literally tell jokes with their guitars.
I have played now for 60 years, studied jazz and classical guitar in college…This is one of the most BRILLIANT and FUNNY videos i have ever seen can’t stop watching and laughing!
If you haven’t seen/heard them already, you’d probably enjoy the “shreds” videos. Basically the same concept of taking live performances by various artists and dubbing them over with the **real** sounds haha. The Creed Shreds and Slipknot Shreds videos used to crack me up though I have no idea how they’ve aged.
The funniest part is back in the day there was an Arlen Roth instructional video and its main selling point was he taught Ralph Macchio how to "play" the guitar for the film.
@@russellward4624 TBF, Steve and Ry Cooder did show ralph a decent amount of guitar for the film - the first time you see him play blues in his bedroom is all ralph's actual playing for example
Yeah if you dont look close or dont understand guitar that well,it looks real...so yeah,but for nerds like me that notice somehow stuff like this during a movie its annoying
@@mrbungle3310 it's kind of like watching Ward Carroll's "21 Cringeworthy Errors in the Movie Top Gun". Most of the stuff in it you wouldn't notice unless you served in the Navy.
Mateo Mancuso is a phenomenal guitarist. He has set the bar super high at such a young age. Even Steve Vai himself couldn’t believe what he was hearing when he first heard Mateo.
Knowing that Steve Vai is one of the nicest guys on the planet, and after hearing this; now it makes sense why he was making such angry and later confused faces while Ralf Machio plays guitar in that scene.
Ralph Machio did a good job. I don’t if he played guitar at all, but the parts would have been way beyond him and it’s pretty convincing compared to other films with actors pretending to play.
You can trash this scene all you want but this movie inspired so many upcoming guitar players and is one of the best scenes of all time this is an all time favorite movie ever! They both are legends!
Had to pull over while driving and watching this vid. Folks don’t RU-vid and drive could be very dangerous. Uncontrollable laughter and driving doesn’t mix
