To be honest, I don't care if this guy has "emotion" and all that other random stuff that has no relevance. I clicked to see the fastest guitar player, not a melodic song, and I assume you guys did as well, so why criticize him for irrevelant stuff? I'm sure this guy plays other styles and stuff, and if he wasn't "passionate" about his instrument, why would he spend hundreds of thousands of hours perfecting his technique? Learning heavy bends, phrasing, vibrato, pentatonic scales, etc. don't take 1/100 as long as it takes to learn how to play 16th notes clean at 250 BPM.
Look at Yngwie Malmsteen for example. People always criticize him because he is extremely fast (out of jealousy, I assume). Yet he has written many "emotional" pieces like Blue, and Black Star, but people refuse to take those into account, because they would rather look at a guitarist that can't play fast but does the same "emotion" thing like Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Dimebag, etc. (no offense) because their level of playing is something that anyone can reach and have fun doing it, whereas playing as fast as shredders takes tons more boring hours of just running up scales to a metronome over and over and over, which no one but extremely dedicated players want to do.
And if it really comes down to who is the most "emotional," classical composers defenitely knock out all 20th century guitarists. Listen to Beethoven's 9 symphonies, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, etc.
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This post has been edited by shellshock1911: Dec 11 2007, 10:40 PM