tommyemmanuel210 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

clearly never held an axe have you dude.... fuck off twat! tommy is GOD!

dotanoob2k (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Dude, I'll never take anything away from Chet's masterful skills...but Tommy is equally great and probably even more versatile in some departments. Chet knew that and he would probably agree if he was still with us. ANother one we should not forget is Jerry Reed, listening to Chet and Jerry picking is just awesome!

3439ra (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

hes better than most, but far away from chet atkins. not many can play a guitar for sure! chet did. use a thumb pick or no pick for proper use of a guitar! u have 6 strings and 5 fingers! have em mobile as chet said. the bass strings and adding the melody. no one else picked a guitar like that. so dont get up in the air here.

1080kemi (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Legend. What more is there to say?

claptonwannabe (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is obviously very late - but initiation is not played on an electric. It's an acoustic-electric which is obviously essentially an acoustic.

omdunet (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Tommy Emmanuel will be playing in Oslo Konserthus 4. april 2009... :-D

TheUnforgivenTo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

love the songs, Tommy have fans all over the world, hope hes touring to norway agein!

LudieProductions (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

actually the amazing thing with this video isnt the speed or technique, its the way he uses the speed and technique that looks so freakin easy to him :D

wilhorstman (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Maybe compare yourself with something/one else This man is a lifetime player. He's good, ain't he? Quickly I learned not to find out how he does it, just enjoy it! Somewhere he gives you great ideas in playing...But the speed and tenchnique!..It's insane! Greets from over here!..Wil

GironBarr (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Well, technically, since Tommy Emmanuel has been playing quite a bit longer than Van Halen it would be more accurate to say that Van Halen is Tommy Emmanuel in electric form. Actually, Tommy Emmanuel used to play a lot of electric guitar himself, there's at one album of him on iTunes that's almost entirely electric, and he's amazing in that as well. One song in particular, Initiation, is a very interesting and creative use of electric. I think there's a video of it on here somewhere.