If you watch any of these vids on YouTube, it's hard to not notice there's a Guitar Idol 2008 competition going on!

Here's a selection of a few of the other competitors (in vague order of current public vote rank):

http://www.gtridol.com/gustavo-guerra
http://www.gtridol.com/mattrach (The posted video - Dark Paradise)
http://www.gtridol.com/cesar-huesca
http://www.gtridol.com/chris-feener
http://www.gtridol.com/celta
http://www.gtridol.com/muris-varajic
http://www.gtridol.com/v%C3%ADctor-de-andr%C3%A9s-x-plosion
http://www.gtridol.com/mark-gibson

Some are youtube vids and some are only audio; they all have info on the artists themselves. As far as I can tell, these are all original pieces of music.

A little bit about the competition http://www.alloutguitar.com/feature/guitar_idol_the_story_so_far

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I was working a show a few years back- Celine Dion headlining, André-Philippe opening. At the catering line, they refused to serve him until he sang for his supper, so we got treated to a little impromptu performance with dinner. He was a good sport, and a nice guy. Upvote despite thinking his act is a little stale.

Blacks folks can do nerd for real, is the difference-this guys' more black or white than anyone can ever be.....Andre, you d' man...

I wouldn't want to eat him. After evading capture (and consumption) for such a long time, all I could do is look at him with a squint and whisper in a rough voice, "You win, Andre... You win," before dropping him back in the sea and walking off toward the sunset.

Anyone see The Departed?
*Spoiler alert*

It'd sort of be a bummer similar to Billy Costigan's demise. Such is life, yes, but if there's something you can do about it, do something about it.

Update! (From, oh...back in August)
Andre is on his way to the aquarium after the two women managed to miraculously raise as much money as many Americans spend on coffee in a month.

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Man he totally nailed Andre Aggasi

Andres Segovia would destroy him with a few plucks, shattering his reality, to the point that every time he so much as looks at a guitar he would smash it in sheer frustration before collapsing, wailing in a pool of tears...

I am very strongly against the rage against the machine "riff" on this list. On the basis of the riff itself it's garbage. I am not familiar with the track, so maybe it is totally rockin'- but it's not rockin because of a so-cool-best-ever-omg-killer guitar riff. One chord and a wah-wah pedal do NOT a "riff" make.

That having been said, I would also scrap Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, and Lynyrd Skynyryr from the list. Mr. I have too many ys in my name is a very very catchy riff, but DAMMIT that's not rock- it's country!!!

... what's that? Oh this isn't just for rock?

Shit, well that opens up a whole new bag of cats now doesn't it?

What about
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Django Reinhardt - Minor Swing
Andres Segovia - "Asturias"

Or even programmed guitar- how about Ministry - TV II, or Nitzer Ebb - Murderous?

OK, so nobody will ever pick those, I agree. I'm just saying, if you want to have a list, you've got to pare it down SOMEHOW. Just rock, or just metal, or something.

But whatever, as was pointed out, nobody will ever agree with a list, and while there are GLARING deficiencies with this one (in my opinion), my strongest beef with with rage against the machine. That isn't a riff. It's a chord and a wah pedal. argh.

Other than that, the list needs Metallica (Enter Sandman or Master of Puppets), probably at least one more beatles (Come Together, or birthday), some CCR (Suzy Q), and some floyd (Another Brick in the Wall, the trippy trippy floaty guitar riff at the beginning of shine on you crazy diamond, money, any of a dozen more), and probably at least one doors and one santana track.

Then change the Jimi to Voodoo Chile (slight return), and AC/DC to highway to hell (or just get rid of ACDC altogether) and we'll have a much better list.

OK!

Oh, A Grade awesomeness there, just brilliant. He can sing, the Andre Bocelli really demonstrated his control, and then to chop and change as often as he did... brilliant.

John Williams is better technically, but Andrés Segovia has much nicer energy.

John Williams throws down vs Andres Segovia!?

Ta mate, it's looking more respectable now!

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
Just for you Deano, a thanks for pulling Andres Segovia through to a 100.

Just for you Deano, a thanks for pulling Andres Segovia through to a 100.