I just checked a few Google videos, and they all still work:

http://videosift.com/video/Ned-Flanders-finally-Cracks-The-Simpsons
http://videosift.com/video/Iron-Maiden-Run-To-The-Hills
http://videosift.com/video/Andy-McKee-performs-Africa-by-Toto

loved the movie. upvote for amazing fingerstyle by Andy Mckee (at least I think it's his - can anyone confirm this?)
edit: found this extremely negative critique of August Rush. But seems to me that you're nothing more than a rational idiot if you go and watch this looking for holes in the plot of what is basicaly a fantasy movie

Some of this overlaps a bit with one of Andy McKee's song, can't remember the name though. Still awesome.

Look at those 90's shoulders!

Well done though. Of the more modern tappers, I like Andy McKee and Justin King.

>> ^Ramdust:
genious tag: I love the irony when someone misspells genius.


Screen-shot or it didn't happen.

>> ^JAPR:
>> ^slint:
Thx for the sift. I like Andy... but Don Ross is better.

Not a shot in the world, man. Don Ross plays too sloppily, while Andy's songs are both far more well-constructed and well-performed. I'm going to have to say that Andy McKee outclasses Ross by miles.


Fo Shizzle

>> ^slint:
Thx for the sift. I like Andy... but Don Ross is better.


Not a shot in the world, man. Don Ross plays too sloppily, while Andy's songs are both far more well-constructed and well-performed. I'm going to have to say that Andy McKee outclasses Ross by miles.

So let's say *obscure b/c until now I hadn't heard of him (though that of course isn't the sole reason... most people in the offline world probably haven't either).

This Wiki quote is amusing - he gets big publicity from the online world... but then turns around and bites part of it. Though I guess the bittorrent crowd isn't exactly the same as the YT crowd, so perhaps this is totally understandable:

YouTube Fame and Beyond

Self-described as "just this guy from Topeka, Kansas who kind of blew up on the Internet about a week before Christmas," McKee became an online sensation after videos of his performances were posted to YouTube by his record label. The video for "Drifting" was massively upvoted by users at Digg, spreading McKee's fame even further.[3] Since then he has appeared by invitation on Woodsongs as well as Last Call with Carson Daly, and his online store completely sold out of his various guitar tablature books; due to massive demand, sheet music for nearly all of his songs is now available to purchase and download from CANdYRAT's webstore. He has also contributed to Josh Groban's 2007 Christmas album, Noël, playing guitar on the song "Little Drummer Boy" - the album went on to become the best-selling CD of 2007, hitting #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200.

[edit] Response to Filesharing
Andy McKee comments on The Pirate Bay
Andy McKee comments on The Pirate Bay

McKee has, in the past, personally commented on BitTorrent websites hosting his music, chastising downloaders for their actions. Posting to The Pirate Bay under the name "AlteredTuning" (which is the same handle he uses on his own website's message boards), McKee sarcastically echoed other commenters' thanks to the original uploader of his album:

Yeah thanks a lot for uploading! It's not like I need to make a living with my music or anything.

8,676 thieves.

If you really appreciate what I am doing, buy my CD legitimately so I can continue to compose music rather than work at K-Mart. I'm not Metallica. I don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars, much less millions.

Andy McKee [1]

Andy McKee REALLY has a knack for beautiful melodies. I've enjoyed everything of his I've seen.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'andy, mckee, acoustic, guitar' to 'andy, mckee, acoustic, guitar, drifting' - edited by kronosposeidon

the guy is certainly super awesome... I wonder if there is more out there

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
LOL!

In reply to this comment by deathcow:
That was awesome. The only thing more awesome would be to have him play this live, in an elevator.

yeah, this is the guy that wrote that song:

http://www.videosift.com/video/andy-mckee-a-unique-method-of-playing-guitar

I think the original sounds better, a lot of it being that Andy McKee's guitar has a really really good tone.

actually Andy Mckee WAS the first time. he wrote this song and was the first one to play it but you guys just saw other people playing it before you saw him. Andy Mckee ROCKS.

this guy is okay. the song is actually called drifting by andy mckee. someone posted the vid of him doing it. just search for andy mckee and you'll find it. that guy's amazing.

The song was written & composed by this guy, Andy Mckee.