Who is FretKillr??? - Page 5

Dogsnax · #61 11-03-2008, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Bevelman

Very nice but sounds like a samba to me.

Bevelman...I agree. I love the guy's playing and his right-hand comping is very impressive. Buuuuuttttt....The Girl From Ipanema is meant to sway in a gentle, slow manner. His arrangement is impressive, but way too fast.

Obrigado Fretkllr!!

Glennwillow · #62 11-03-2008, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave_N

Watching this guy always makes me want to go out and buy a Taylor dread. His style makes it look so easy that I think if I had a Taylor dread with a decent setup then I could play like that.

Does anyone else have this delusion ??? I have a GC3 that really doesn't get much playing time. I'm thinking of selling it for a DN3...

Dave,

Fretkiller and I must be about the same age because a lot of the stuff he plays, I play. However, when he does play something I don't know, I AM motivated to sit down and learn from him right off the computer. It's very cool and fast to learn this way!

And yes, after a while, I find that I need to pull out my Martin D-35 dread to play many of the songs he does. Not all, of course. But, BOY, a dreadnought is a pretty darn versatile guitar for this kind of music.

Regards, Glenn

outsidenote · #63 11-03-2008, 09:30 PM

C'mon guys. Everyone knows he's really Elvis and he's just beaming into youtube from his home planet.

rockinrebel · #64 11-06-2008, 06:11 AM

I was listening to a CD I burned of 20 of his songs last night and riding into work this morning. Really good eclectic mix of music.
Man, I wish I could play like that.
The man has a great feel for the soul of so many different types of music.

langerr · #65 11-09-2008, 12:06 PM

I just officially wanted to thank you Fretkillr for posting all your GREAT stuff on YouTube for us to enjoy. Many is the time when you have brought me to a better place by your playing

Rather than leave you a comment on the Youtube site, I thought I'd let you know here for all to see, Keep up the clean, pure, playing, fine vocals, and how about some more Jim Croce, or some more acoustic blues, Life by the Drop, or . . . You decide,
just keep on keeping on Frekillr, whomever, or whoever you may be,
long may you play!!

cryingshame · #66 11-09-2008, 06:12 PM

He is a decent guitarist, but didn't blow me away. I thought his voice was a John Hiatt type of thing on one of the songs.

gtr4me · #67 11-09-2008, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by cryingshame

He is a decent guitarist, but didn't blow me away. I thought his voice was a John Hiatt type of thing on one of the songs.

We must not share the same vernacular. I have heard a lot of guys that play decent and very few sound anything like FretKillr. I suppose all thing are relative. I would put FretKillr in the decent category if compared to someone like Tony Rice or Rick Ruskin. I think relative to the rest of the folks that play guitar, he is pretty much killer.

For me, I don't share his style, but if I did, I would want to do what he does exactly like him...voice included. Very expressive, nice percussive attack, and soulfully articulate. That voice is one I could sit in an intimate room and listen to for quite some time.

weatherford · #68 11-10-2008, 06:13 PM

Have you noticed he has several guitars?

I recognize the Taylor and one that looks like a Martin. There there is the one with no pick guard (or an invisible one)...

And one that looks like an old Washburn or other turn of the century instrument...

Name those guitars!!

nova290 · #69 11-10-2008, 07:19 PM

He has a National Steel for his backdrop pic on his site. Looks like my old college roommates guitar.

biggs2 · #70 11-10-2008, 07:35 PM

Personally, I think Fret Killer is a musician that plays in some obscure, hole-in-the-wall bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. I'm sure he is getting a big laugh from this thread but, regardless, I'm a fan so please, keep 'um coming.

rcadian · #71 11-10-2008, 11:18 PM

Be nice if he dedicated his next video to AGFers...

C'mon Fretkillr, show us you're reading your press....and keep up the inspiring work...

Rc

jdstep · #72 11-14-2008, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by stratokatsu

I don't care if it's 12 people. I love listening to the videos. I wish he would put out a cd because I really love some of his arrangements and vocal phrasings, but when I wrote to ask, the reply was that he was only doing the videos.

You can download all of his videos using the "YouTube Downloader" (you can find it online) and then convert them to MP3's and IPod videos. I have about 50 of his tunes on my IPod already and listen in my car! Once converted, you can then burn CD's as well.

maikenvl · #73 12-31-2009, 05:11 PM

www.fredkoller.com buy his music!

choffman41 · #74 12-31-2009, 05:42 PM

Well, while we're on the subject of great guitarists on Youtube, does anyonr follow Tonedr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RiWw...eature=related
or Doghouse Dave?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNhyQ...eature=related

Both have zillions of songs on the tube in all flavors.

jeastman · #75 12-31-2009, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by maikenvl

www.fredkoller.com buy his music!

It is going to take a lot of evidence to convince me that Fretkillr is Fred Koller. Their voices, vibrato, way the form words and transition phrases are completely different. Not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying doesn't sounds even close to these ears.