This guy is really good. Check it out.

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/72446/Amazing_Guitarist.html

Drags on a bit song wise. But I do so enjoy this kind of acoustic playing. Justin King was the first guy i saw do it. and this guy does it just as well. very cool stuff. I can't help but think of all the stuff they could do if they used some wide delay. awesome.

This is great stuff. Didn't drag on at all for me i really enjoyed that song!

This playing style is really cool. Love the rythmic stuff. This guy is really good at it too. A great watch, thanks alot for the link! :thumb:

sure thing. :) I like this style alot too. I bet its pretty hard to accomplish. The guy does it very well.

Very cool song and video clip! There are a gazillion possibilities when playing in open tunings like this. In some ways it is easier than it appears because, due to the open tuning, even sloppiness and mistakes can sound purposeful and in tune with the rest of the song. I'm not saying what this guy is doing is easy (I certainly can't do it), by any means. But I bet it is a much easier and accessible technique than what you might think.

The first guy I knew of who played like this (percussive style exclusively in open tunings) is one of my all-time guitar idols, Michael Hedges. He was putting out albums of this style of music starting back in 1981, all the way up until he died (1997) in a plane crash (the way God always claims the great ones :) ). I keep hearing references to Justin King like he was the first to do this kind of style, but a few guitarists have been exploring this approach for a long time. Here are a few quotes about Michael Hedges from some pretty reputable sources:

“There is nobody on God’s green earth that plays the guitar like Michael Hedges.” - Steve Vai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Vai)

“Before Michael, acoustic guitar went from about right there to over here somewhere. After Michael, it goes from near the rest of us, where he found it, to out the other side of the world where he set it down for just a little while.” - David Crosby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crosby)

Check out one of my favorite tunes of his as a sample of his playing. This song was recorded in 1990 and is on his album Taproot (if you want to pick up a great intro sampler to his playing, that is a great album to start with!)...

Oh yeah, Michael Hedges was da man, you bet! Taproot is a great record, my favourite one being his live one. Deffinately one painfull lost for good guitar music. There are plenty of vids on youtube and ptp from him, check out his live stuff. AMAZING!

The dude is incredible!!! And this....:thumb:

http://www.youtube.com/v/f27megLOleQ

The dude is incredible!!! And this....:thumb:

http://www.youtube.com/v/f27megLOleQ
OMG! John this guy plays great! But I tend to believe it´s a sort of rip off from Because it´s there,...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC7kPZZmuM

OMG! John this guy plays great! But I tend to believe it´s a sort of rip off from Because it´s there,...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC7kPZZmuM
I agree completely. It is discouraging that so many people are being hailed as these new innovators of alternative acoustic guitar when Michael Hedges was doing it as far back as the early 80s. He obviously has influenced many players to further pursue his style/approach (since his unfortunate death), yet he is being forgotten. Don't take that the wrong way...I think it is really awesome that others are carrying on and further developing such unique acoustic styles, but it is too bad that so few knew about Hedges before this age of YouTube and instant internet exposure where it makes it seem like others are the ones who started it.

In a bit of a strange side note, regarding the link that John posted...is it just me or does this guy look like one of the guitar players from Slayer??? :p

I just found out that this guy lives in Topeka, KS, about 30 miles from me. My buddy Mike (a luthier who used to work in a guitar shop about 30 minutes away from me, and 30 minutes from Topeka) says he used to come in the shop a lot and buy strings. Small world, eh?