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

Thats very cool, nice find can I suggest *bravo? because yeah...its like watching Rock Band but with actual musicianship and talent

Invocations (bravo) cannot be called by Zonbie because Zonbie is not privileged - sorry.

might i suggest *rocknroll?

also, TELECASTER YAR.

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Man, I just watched a few more of these, they're ALL really really good. However, this guy recording all parts himself makes it even more awesome.

The top three are by far leagues ahead of the other guys.

Moving this video to Debacle's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

^I agree.

Also, if you look at other vids of Cesar Huesca it seems strange that he's falling behind the other two in the public voting. http://gtridol.com/entries/top_rated

My humble opinion from the vids I've seen is this: Gustavo is a great ('hitting the notes') guitar player, but he lacks certain subtle techniques.. and it seems he applies the same 'style' to all the songs he plays. (Also.. the backing track used on his main entry seems to have been stolen from a cheese factory.)

MattRach and Cesar both seem to be better musicians, and I think Cesar might be the best guitarist out of all three.. I guess we'll leave it to the professional judges to decide at the live competition. (Assuming all three competitors can afford the flights, etc.)

Apparently these amazing players need to *beg for a few more votes!

Forgot my *begging licence.

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Debacle.

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by JAPR.

Moving this video to Debacle's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

*begging one last time.

A worm goes...? mieoux...


You may also enjoy http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fsV0Mvy4no4&feature=user

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I need to spend more time in Unsifted, it would have been a shame to have missed this as it is very good! I bet David Gilmour and Joe Sat would be proud to hear how they have influenced this young talent.

Awesome, it made it! I can't see how this gets any less love than all those acoustic performances we see on the sift constantly.

*livemusic

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