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This kid is unbelievable, he is like Young Joe, maybe better!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H11Sh3CugDY

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Hey Lucky, best to pick one thread and stick to it.  Thanks.

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3 Reply by Luckybear3 (edited by Luckybear3 2013-04-12 18:30:20)

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Sorry, I just got so stoked when I saw this kid.  I think if Joe saw this it would remind him of himself years before.  Really, the kids are the future.  Say nothing if you want to listen to Beiber the rest of your lives.

4 Reply by ZeyerGTR (edited by ZeyerGTR 2013-04-12 19:07:42)

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Hah, that was neat.  Pretty good for 10 years old!  Hope he keeps at it, could have a bright future.

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Pretty Good, this kid has to be one of the best ten year old players in the world.  I have seen kids who play, but nothing like this kid.

6 Reply by ZeyerGTR (edited by ZeyerGTR 2013-04-12 20:15:10)

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Maybe confusion with typed words.  I didn't intend any kind of skepticism as in "welllll, preeeeety good."  More "yeah, pretty darn good!"

That said, it wasn't a mind-blowing performance, but then, it's a 10 year old.  If it was a 20 or 30 year old I'd say "it's okay."  He did a great job for 10 year old - that's awesome.  Not many 10 year olds can do that.  It's great to hear younger kids doing blues & rock.  He's not the best player I've ever seen, but he's 10.  I've seen clips of Joe at about 13 and it was a lot better, but 3 years makes a big difference if you're practicing 10 hours a day.

I think this kid is really good, too, 11 year old Jack Montesinos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAWBdQEGYA

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7 Reply by holdemxpert (edited by holdemxpert 2013-04-13 16:31:05)

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Truthfully, not blown away. There are lots of gifted kids around.  This is a couple of years old, from an 11 year old (at the time)  San Diego kid whos more rock than blues, but he took a sidetrip to SRVHendrixville.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kGY-Eyz … sults_main

Yes, hes gotten even better since.  He's playing solo at the House of Blues (Hollywood I think) sometime soon.

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Did you see this kid's solos video,        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrRrdwfSPek

His is way more of a guitarist than one of these run of the mill blues kids.  This kid has it all, Eddie, Jimmy, JB wrapped in a 10 year old, Nuts.

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holdemxpert wrote:

Truthfully, not blown away. There are lots of gifted kids around.  This is a couple of years old, from an 11 year old (at the time)  San Diego kid whos more rock than blues, but he took a sidetrip to SRVHendrixville.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kGY-Eyz … sults_main

Yes, hes gotten even better since.  He's playing solo at the House of Blues (Hollywood I think) sometime soon.

I sure hope he got better.......

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That kid is good, but certainly not the player The "Slow Train" kid is.  The Slow Train kid looks like he has been playing out for years. No comparison.

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Nice, but give these kid bands a few years and we'll find out if they have what it takes to be real musicians. It's good to see younguns coming up with some good stuff. Even Joe almost tossed it in at the end of his teens. It is a tough business and it's one thing to gig on dad's nickle and another to make a living at it.
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The kid can play for sure but is nowhere near the best in the world. I gather you know him as I don't see why you would join another artist forum to just post about someone else.
As mentioned previously. Put a decent band around him of folks his own age and give him time. Then hopefully he will do well. He will be hindered dramatically if he does not sing. Every guitar store in the world has a player with amazing ability working in it.
You would do the kid more if a justice by simply posting 'check this young gun out' and not putting him on a pedestal as the worlds best. JB would and many others would have smoked him at 10. That is not to say he isn't good. Any 20 year old who play that well gets 5 stars in my book.


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This kid is unbelievable, he is like Young Joe, maybe better!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H11Sh3CugDY

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Dude, Joe is a Guitar God, but no way did he smoke this kid at ten.  Did you see this kids solos video someone posted.

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

Watch that and show me another kid that can do that at ten.  Aint none.  And if there is a kid out there, for sure he has a youtube video.  I am just a random dude who was blown away by this kid's skills.  I even think there is what sounds like a Dream Theater Petrucci thing he does in there.  Crazy!

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I still am looking at this kid, damn he is insane.

15 Reply by BansheeUK (edited by BansheeUK 2013-07-18 07:30:30)

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Lucky - I'd have to agree with what RickB and mbcl say - the lad, well the band have talent, certainly a spark; encourage it, nurture it and let it grow. bring it to folks attention, but watch the hyperbole.

Just as a caution, don't know how many on here remember this clip from 1988:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0onO16gmc

Does the name Tommy McRocklin ring any bells? Touted as a pre-teen prodigy, even "mentored" by Steve Vai but timing saw his band's debut smothered under the wave of Grunge, and to the best of my knowledge, Tommy just jacked it in - what if he'd stuck at it?

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16 Reply by sally12333 (edited by sally12333 2013-07-18 09:59:41)

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BansheeUK wrote:

Just as a caution, don't know how many on here remember this clip from 1988:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0onO16gmc

Does the name Tommy McRocklin ring any bells? Touted as a pre-teen prodigy, even "mentored" by Steve Vai but timing saw his band's debut smothered under the wave of Grunge, and to the best of my knowledge, Tommy just jacked it in - what if he'd stuck at it?


Holy smokes!!!!!!!!  Tom-eee, Tom-eee! 

Not a kid anymore.  Anyone know anything else about him?

(And what is it called where you play the strings on the fretboard with your right hand fingers??)

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He can play that's for sure..........I think there was smoke coming off the frets

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sally12333 wrote:
BansheeUK wrote:

Just as a caution, don't know how many on here remember this clip from 1988:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0onO16gmc

Does the name Tommy McRocklin ring any bells? Touted as a pre-teen prodigy, even "mentored" by Steve Vai but timing saw his band's debut smothered under the wave of Grunge, and to the best of my knowledge, Tommy just jacked it in - what if he'd stuck at it?


Holy smokes!!!!!!!!  Tom-eee, Tom-eee! 

Not a kid anymore.  Anyone know anything else about him?

(And what is it called where you play the strings on the fretboard with your right hand fingers??)

Root an album called Refugee by the band Tommy was in, Bad4Good - came out around 1992; produced by Steve Vai and on Interscope label.
Zac Young on Bass, Brooks Wackerman (Chad's youngest brother) on Drums and Danny Cooksey on vocals.

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