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I only thought he looked like Nige in the Video2 link

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Very impressive player. And the pieces are kind of decent, too.

The sweep-picking stuff he's doing in the middle bit of the second piece is quite impressive. That's something I never learned how to do. Yngvie does that, too, it sounds like baroque on a cocaine overdose.

The only thing that made me roll my eyes (well, other than the hair, the leather, and the showy guitars) was the flashy thing he does with the hand going back and forth really fast above and below the neck. There's nothing particularly musical about what he was doing there, he's mostly droning an open B or E string with a lot of flanger (or perhaps auto-wah, couldn't tell) and occasionally fretting a note. So that's more of a flashy stunt that can only work at a certain noisy/non-musical point in songs in a limited number of keys. From a musical standpoint, that sort of trick gets real old real fast.

But overall, he plays very fast, very clean, and very tasteful.

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If you look at his head movements they seem to be a bit too jerky to be natural, but other than that part I was impressed.

I thought that about the brown-haired guy in Franz Ferdinand throughout their entire set, but I was watching them live

Peter