Posted on 19/06/2009
Congratulations to all the finalists, plenty of talent, speed and technical skill demonstrated. However I agree with David Jeffrey's comments concerning the lack of melody and melodic structure. Just another old fart's opinion.

Posted on 19/06/2009
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Posted on 19/06/2009
I wish to congratulate all the finalists in making the grade here. It must have been a massive travel hurdle for many to attend. They are all good technicians for sure, but is this what it is all about? I'm saddened to see that Jeff Beck has no contenders here. Where will the next real guitar heroes come from? Far too much time wasted by all these players on sheer, speed and technique. Melody and musical content seems to be of little or no significance with these younger guitarists. Take away melodic structure and it's then just a collection of fairly random notes and it's very very boring to listen to. I think it may have been interesting to allow all these guys play the same tune and this way see who can do something special with their interpretation and approach. No UK players in the final? What is going on, wake up UK, we have always had the world best guitarists in the past. I'm an old guy and I find this fret wizard stuff a million miles away from anything I would call music. Commercially it's also totally unsalable anywhere. These youngster are just using unnecessarily complicated vocabulary and the communication is lost to me and many others I'm sure. Gimme Dave Gilmore, Jeff Beck, Larry Carlton and the others, they may be fossils but they talk with their guitars. And music is all about communication.

Posted on 18/06/2009
Great show guys i loved watching this some real great talent out there and well done jack and also to all the others as well rock on dave

Posted on 18/06/2009
Hi guys, just to explain here.... There winner for the competition was NOT chosen by just the online votes, but instead these only formed a PART of the overall judging system as there were a number of live independent judges watching each performer at the venue. The problem with any live broadcast with a global audience is that time differences means that not everyone will be in a position to watch it live and the reason for the hour window is that the winner had to be announced on the day, but as there were a number of other events taking place at LIMS, there was not the luxury of lots of time so the results needed to be collated within the hour from both the online and independent judges.

Posted on 18/06/2009
Yeah... i really think that, the hour difference was the decision factor this time. Congrats to the contestants but... some of them had more advantage because of this. Congrats people.

Posted on 17/06/2009
¿How was the winner elected? ¿Did the jury participate or was it only the online voting that determined the result? ¿When was the online voting system for the live final introduced? I didn´t see it in the rules list that was published on the guitaridol.tv website, and learned of it only a few days before the actual live final. Considering time differences around the world, the one hour voting time lapse immediately after the webcast clearly favours some competitors over others, since in South and Central America, where half of the 2009 finalists come from, it was around 6AM Saturday dawn in winter, which means that most of their supporters were asleep. In the winner´s country Thailand it was 5PM. Maybe this should be considered for the 2010 version.

Posted on 17/06/2009
¿How was the winner elected? ¿Did the jury participate or was it only the online voting that determined the result? ¿When was the online voting system for the live final introduced? I didn´t see it in the rules list that was published on the guitaridol.tv website, and learned of it only a few days before the actual live final. Considering time differences around the world, the one hour voting time lapse immediately after the webcast clearly favours some competitors over others, since in South and Central America, where half of the 2009 finalists come from, it was around 6AM Saturday dawn in winter, which means that most of their supporters were asleep. In the winner´s country Thailand it was 5PM. Maybe this should be considered for the 2010 version.

Posted on 16/06/2009
Jeeeess Christ... That show was amazing indeed! Now that I could watch all of you guys' performances... I'm totally stunned of how good all of you are!!! I'm so happy that I could have been part of this all! I actually feel a little bit embarassed, because the others were sooooo much better than me... Really great job from the judges as well!!!!! Thanks for everything guys, and best of luck! Cheers, András Pálfi (Bandi)

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