Weddingcam you are the idiot!!! Most of the battle is played by Vai, except for Eugene's blues parts at the beginning of the duel which are played by Ry Cooder and can be heard on Vai's album "The Elusive Light and Sound, volume 1 " Macchio's fingering on the guitar was a studied acting job in itself because he didn't know how to play guitar prior to taking on the part of a guitarist. He received intensive training from classical guitarist William Kanengiser of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet to approximate playing realistically enough to hide that fact respectably well. When Butler (Steve Vai) finishes his final solo before the classical duel, he ends it with a diminished fifth (flat fifth), an interval that has at times been associated with the Devil. The classical-influenced piece played by Eugene during the climactic scene is based on Niccolò Paganini's Fifth Caprice.
A few others on here have uled this scene in portions, 2 - 3 minutes long or whatever, and they just suck compared to the full version of this scene! One has to wonder if they didn't digitally render Ralph Machio's playing of the guitar. He blows Steve Vai clear out of the water! Ty for uling this!
Simply put, one of the coolest scenes in a movie EVER. Steve Vai is the man; Ralph Macchio. . .well, he looks like he's actually playing, and playing well. Better than most action scenes (not surprising, seeing as how Walter Hill directed the flick). The straight-up assbaddest.
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Most of the battle is played by Vai, except for Eugene's blues parts at the beginning of the duel which are played by Ry Cooder and can be heard on Vai's album "The Elusive Light and Sound, volume 1 "
Macchio's fingering on the guitar was a studied acting job in itself because he didn't know how to play guitar prior to taking on the part of a guitarist. He received intensive training from classical guitarist William Kanengiser of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet to approximate playing realistically enough to hide that fact respectably well.
When Butler (Steve Vai) finishes his final solo before the classical duel, he ends it with a diminished fifth (flat fifth), an interval that has at times been associated with the Devil.
The classical-influenced piece played by Eugene during the climactic scene is based on Niccolò Paganini's Fifth Caprice.