Just had to share this electric guitar playing...

[emb123]

I download quite a bit of music from Usenet (aka 'newsgroups') it's one of the oldest parts of the internet. Most ISPs operate a news server but keep quiet about it as it can increase the load on their network if heavily used.

There has recently been a load of transcriptions posted of various classical works, mainly Bach, performed on classical guitar, mandolin, harp and lute and quite a few on electric guitar and electric bass.

Never heard of this guy before, Alex Masi (but that's probably because I'm a keyboard player) but I know (sadly I can't play, it's too difficult) the Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue BWV903 in Dm. It's fiendishly complex and stunning just to hear it played well on a harpsichord, but to hear it screaming out on a solo electric lead guitar kind of blew me away!

I seem to recall that the 1986 movie Crossroads (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090888/) features this piece in the final battle between the kid and devil

I found a link you can listen to bits of it here:
http://www.legaldownload.net/dotNet/artist.php?artist_id=2665

it's track number 13

Certainly a dazzling guitarist :)

found a youtube link of some young lad playing it too, sound is a bit muddy, but you get the idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx865IlC0HA

[Phoebus_Apollo]

Crossroads features a piece called "Eugenes Trick Bag" played by no other than Mr Steve Vai...It`s a mixture of classical arpeggios, a bit of stolen Paganini, a sliding polyrhythmic line, a position changing Vai "Roth era" pattern, bit of palm muting and finally an A harmonic minor scale with optional pickup fretting...eh voila....it can be seen here:) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0QKbnCDW94)