[JoshK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iLIhLv8LuY

A very different performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons Summer

[Nels Ferre]

Damn! 

[ooheadsoo]

Heavy metal artists of the 80s deliberately copied and studied techniques of baroque composers like Vivaldi and Bach and it's well documented in old heavy metal magazine articles.  I think it's written (academically) about in this book: http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/6422/rev0369.html

I think it's in that book, at any rate.

[galyons]

Heavy metal artists of the 80s deliberately copied and studied techniques of baroque composers like Vivaldi and Bach and it's well documented in old heavy metal magazine articles.  I think it's written (academically) about in this book: http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/6422/rev0369.html

I think it's in that book, at any rate.

Yeah, but having the talent to "pull it off" didn't come from the books! Pretty Amazing!

Cheers,
Geary

[gitarretyp]

Yngwie is the one that really popularised neo-classical shred.

[ooheadsoo]

Heavy metal artists of the 80s deliberately copied and studied techniques of baroque composers like Vivaldi and Bach and it's well documented in old heavy metal magazine articles.  I think it's written (academically) about in this book: http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/6422/rev0369.html

I think it's in that book, at any rate.

Yeah, but having the talent to "pull it off" didn't come from the books! Pretty Amazing!

Cheers,
Geary

Why the rebuttal?  I'm just stating that metal and the baroque have deeply intertwined roots. 

[galyons]

Not in any way meant as a rebuttal. Sorry that it was taken so!
Cheers,
Geary

Heavy metal artists of the 80s deliberately copied and studied techniques of baroque composers like Vivaldi and Bach and it's well documented in old heavy metal magazine articles.  I think it's written (academically) about in this book: http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/6422/rev0369.html

I think it's in that book, at any rate.

Yeah, but having the talent to "pull it off" didn't come from the books! Pretty Amazing!

Cheers,
Geary

Why the rebuttal?  I'm just stating that metal and the baroque have deeply intertwined roots.

[ooheadsoo]

Sorry, dunno why I was feeling touchy and sorry for taking the thread off track.

Here, check out Randy Rhoads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhgIuPcRIAE&feature=related

2:44 is pretty clear.

Edit: Sorry, wrong link.  2:44 on this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS8c0DWqIEI&feature=related

[lonewolfny42]

Here's an interesting comparison......Paganini's 5th Caprice...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFs02bJlH6g

Here's Jason Becker solo....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jK978921Yw

[Scottdazzle]

How about the national anthem played on a baseball bat violin...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9LXHrzOVYA

[Ericus Rex]

This link is not Vivaldi, I think Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the Flight of the Bumblebee.  Watch the first go 'round then fast forward to 4:40  and be blown away!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXCi3H3NzM