Your Favourite VHS Instructionals

[2112]

Putting this video together made me nostalgic for the times I'd run home from school and lock myself in my room with my Zoom 707 and try to learn all licks from the VHS instructionals I was lucky enough to have.

Who else here had these, and if not these what other ones would you recommend (or not recommend )

All tones from the AX8 of course

 

[Geezerjohn]

Frank Gambale. Chop builder. Feel the burn.

 

[h.c.e.]

Many a viewing of my VHS copy of “Andy Summers: Guitar” from Hot Licks when I was a teen... recently found out it was available on DVD still and picked up a copy, still great.

 

[2112]

Many a viewing of my VHS copy of “Andy Summers: Guitar” from Hot Licks when I was a teen... recently found out it was available on DVD still and picked up a copy, still great.

I haven't seen that one. I'll have to rectify that.

 

[unix-guy]

Steve Morse
Steve Lukather
Eric Johnson
Greg Howe

I don't remember the titles... Probably still have them in a box somewhere!

 

[vinceh]

Steve Lukather
Brad Gillis
Nancy Wilson

 

[simeon]

Scott Henderson. he did a couple, but i think the one that's called "melodic phrasing" is brilliant.

 

[2112]

Scott Henderson. he did a couple, but i think the one that's called "melodic phrasing" is brilliant.

He must rank as one of the truly great instructors. Melodic phrasing has some really great licks that actually work in context rather than as stunts.

Steve Lukather
Brad Gillis
Nancy Wilson

The Gillis one is really good from memory. I didn't own the Luke one but I love his rig in it!

 

[simeon]

He must rank as one of the truly great instructors. Melodic phrasing has some really great licks that actually work in context rather than as stunts.

i think it's brilliant, because it's not about licks. it's about something much deeper than that and can completely transform the way you play....no matter what style you play in, or what your skill level is. i probably watched it 15 years ago and i still draw on it now when i'm improvising

 

[ETOLKIEN]

Jenna Jameson (very instructional)

Marty Friedman Melodic Control

In both cases I don't have the level to follow all the stuff, but see the pros in action inspires me!

 

[Indigo Hammer]

I remember as a young lad my mates all swapping soft porno VHS tapes and getting all hot under the collar

Knowing I was better than that (ha) I got a moody copy of the Paul Gilbert Intense Rock tape. Epic stuff: and inspired me not only to grow my hair and kill the ozone layer with hairspray but to try some of the licks I thought were totally impossible....


........25 years later I'm still trying to learn the Gilbert stuff but that's our little secret

 

[2112]

Jenna Jameson (very instructional)

On that little tangent, a friend of mine is moving overseas and selling his studio, and while cleaning through his stuff we found a box with over 70 of those "very instructional" VHS tapes from the mid 90's. Probably cost him a small fortune back then.

 

[Carl]

Is it really lame to still be using Gambales Chop Builder on a semi regular basis, and still not got all the way through?

Asking for a friend...

 

[bradlake]

Is it really lame to still be using Gambales Chop Builder on a semi regular basis, and still not got all the way through?

Asking for a friend...

I (I mean..my friend ,,) can totally relate...I (er, he) have a multi media library of unfinished instructionals......I’m embarrassed for m...him.

 

[Scented Meat]

Petrucci: Rock Discipline. Wish I'd had the discipline to see it through....

 

[Carl]

I (I mean..my friend ,,) can totally relate...I (er, he) have a multi media library of unfinished instructionals......I’m embarrassed for m...him.

Ha! Oh yes...a whole old skool video library of half finished instructionals, and a fair smattering of books too...

Anyway, here's one of my fave bits from one of the many.. Oh Michael Angelo, where art thou now?...



Actually, this thread had totally inspired me, so I'm gonna do it.

I'm going to get all the way through that #*&%ing Gambale video, once and for all!

!

So there.

 

[Muad'zin]

I never had much of these tapes myself, when it came to guitar instruction tapes in the Netherlands at that time you had better luck finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Maybe at some of the better stocked music stores in Amsterdam in the western Netherlands, but out in the boonies in the south, f*** all!

Now those other instructional videos with the ladies, well, my father had a video recording business at the time, so we had VCR's in every part of the house, so when I discovered my father's stash......, lets say copying was never easier.

 

[Doug Lewis]

Star Licks Rik Emmett and John Petrucci Rock Discipline

 

[2112]

Ha! Oh yes...a whole old skool video library of half finished instructionals, and a fair smattering of books too...

Anyway, here's one of my fave bits from one of the many.. Oh Michael Angelo, where art thou now?...



Actually, this thread had totally inspired me, so I'm gonna do it.

I'm going to get all the way through that #*&%ing Gambale video, once and for all!

!

So there.

Should totally set up a live stream and get a bunch of people doing it at the same time!

 

[hdcs]

I don't know if this was ever on VHS, but it has that quality too it. God bless Joe Walsh. Is he drunk? Who can tell.