Phil Collen w/ Jackson Strathead

[speed monkey]

basically stepping all over it and getting his ass handed to him by Phillip Sayce with a handful of notes Pretty classic - clearly out of his element.

cool guitar though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPyfYvcTek8

a bit of Philip Sayce playing a bit o' Hendrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MTFr3jHIk

FWIW - that guitar is a real 63' Strat that he purchased in 98' or so, and was in perfect condition when he got it...

Some more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcicI6rtJY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRSRKv2veNM

[MartinBarre]

Cool vid, nice tones there!

[sixx_ gunner]

Ended up watching a ton of his vids with Melissa Ethridge, Jeff Healey...

WOW, that cat can play!

[Endrik]

basically stepping all over it

that's exactly what B.B. King himself does all the time when jamming with other folks

[Seventh Avenged]

man, i love Phil. just going for it. phil being phil. his pc-1 looks pretty rad, too.

not a fan of Sayce's voice or tone, personally, though.

nice stuff, though! i dig this clip.

[daisp]

It was still cool...hard to step up and jam like that.

[fullmetalguitar]

I'm the biggest Phil Collen fan, but the blues seem a little out of his comfort zone. Some of his licks were cool, but the fast picking stuff didn't seem to fit in this context. I thought the other guy sounded better. Of course if they ripped into "Photograph" for the next song, Phil would have dominated!

[Guitar Lawyer]

Nice clips! Thanks for sharing. I'm a PC fan, but I was wondering what it would have been like to have Vivian Campbell jam some blues. Talk about under the radar...

[Seventh Avenged]

+1. i hear viv's blues album was real nice.

[MartinBarre]

+1. i hear viv's blues album was real nice.

Yeah, "nice". It wasn't anything near as good as the likes of Gary Moore or Joe Bonamassa.

[rjohnstone]

Yeah, "nice". It wasn't anything near as good as the likes of Gary Moore or Joe Bonamassa.

+1

I found Viv's CD to be a bit repetitive.
It was ok, but lacked creativity and "feeling".

Phil is not a blues player, period.
The fact that he even did this is pretty amazing given his playing style.

[markD]

ughhh....that was painful. sounded like a symphony of dying cats.......

[quilttop1]

As a guitar player whose gotten on stage with a band that plays music very different from my own, I've got a lot of respect for Phil for doing this. Do all the notes fit? Is his phrasing dead on? No and no...but, he gave it a hell of an effort. It's there in his face. This isn't the solo from Photograph or Rock of Ages that he's played a gazillion times. It's new, and as someone else said, it's outside where he's most comfortable. It's Phil Collen, playing something where he can't just be "Phil Collen".

If you're a blues player, imagine having to come up with a convincing solo over a death metal piece...or if you're a metal shredder, imagine having to play something thats fits over an smooth jazz groove. Those examples might be extreme, but they do indicate what happens when you "genre hop". It ain't easy...

Before torching any player, not just Phil, for stepping outside their comfort zone and stumbling a bit, just put yourself in their shoes, having to sound convincing...and having a live audience breathing down your neck...its not as simple as it looks...just my $0.02...

[shreddermon]

Phil did pretty well, considering he was well outside of his comfort zone. Takes some stones to do an on-the-fly jam like that outside of your style.

"London 1957". Year and site of Phil's birth?