His name is Kenneth Petrie 60 years old, and he plays in an English band called Mr Spankey and the Hipthrusters. Oh, by the way, he is a Catholic Priest.
I just turned 61 but think very young. This guy smokes me, but I'm sure anyone can attest, playing music keeps you young and gives you something to look forward to every day.
The guy is old enough to live and hear the legends, practiced and skilled enough to form his own style from what he's heard, practiced and learned, that he's a Neil Peart of the guitar world. The man fkn KILLS it and makes other younger cocky shredders think twice!! What a pleasure to hear and watch and what a great band for backing up this OG guitar beast!
This guy is great and his energy is infectious! My hat's off to him. Let's not forget that Vai, Satriani and many of our guitar heroes are also well into their 60s.
Kenny Petrie of “Mr. Spankey and the Hipthrusters”…Braintree, Essex Co, England. And, no, he is not a Catholic priest. That's just an inside joke with the band.
I really want to be like him in the future. So many people give up their hobbies because of „not having time for it anymore“. This man stayed dedicated for such a long time, you can clearly see that. You should never stop doing what makes you happy.
Ron Harding that’s great Brother! My wife bought me. Squire last year and said if I’d learn”Comfortably Numb” she would buy me a better guitar and amp. Well I worked on that for about nearly 4 months and got it down right. She went out and bought me a brand new Strat, a brand new Tele and a Fender Mustang3 amp! What a wonderful woman! Now I HAVE to play everyday! I’m lovin’ it though and have gotten way better as a result. Keep after it and enjoy it and you’ll be happier for it my friend. ❤️🙏🏻✌️🎸
The man has been playing since he was 15 in 1965 before most of you were even thought about. . Just shows everyone gets old and carry their skills with them through out life.
After I discovered this wonderful man yesterday, my boyfriend came home in the evening and I covered the tv with blankets. Then I turned on this video. While he was listening, I asked him to guess what musician was playing this. He said: maybe Traci Guns, or Bumblefoot (he’s a GnR fan 😄). I encourage you to do the same and see what names of famous musicians people will come up with. It was really fun. This man brightened up my day. This is music.
The more And More I lose hope on myself , The more I come back and watch this video to remind myself "Age is Just a Number" and I can be the guitarist I always wanted to be one day!
Holy Shit!!! He is fuckin phenomenal!! He was having the time of his life. There's nothing better than seeing someone do something they love and they do it incredibly well!! Wow! Just Wow!!!!!
I'm a drummer and vocalist who is almost 60 and seeing this has reignited my desire to learn the guitar!! Is it too late?? what do you think?? I think I'm going out today and buying an Ibanez X and a Marshall amp and return to what I stopped to play drums in the 80's !! Man can this man play ; it sends shivers through me !GOD BLESS him!! Octavias
Sir it is NEVER too late. Go get that gear if you haven't yet and study your butt off and play play play everyday. Have fun above All else. Life is waaaaaaaaaay too short to not go out and do what you know will make you happy!! Please keep us all posted on your progress. I truly want to hear your progress periodically please!!!!!
Father Petrie, you effin ROCK brother!!! I would normally say, May God bless you, but it's pretty obvious that He has blessed you already, and in many ways! I pray that you have a long life, and that you continue to bless us ALL, in church, and on stage! You're truly a guitar hero my friend!!!❤❤❤
What an absolute animal. I don’t play guitar and am no expert but I have only seen a couple guys play like that. He is absolutely melting faces. Imagine the time it took to Get that good and how many times he has probably played this song.
Young people people take note....there was a generation of guitarists "the baby boom generation" born in the 1940s/50s that were the kids brought up on the new rock and roll, and learned to play like this by spending all their time practicing their skills away in their bedrooms as kids, for hours on end. This is how you do it! and you never forget. That is how Clapton, Page, Richards, etc.... got were they are today.
After enough time surfing the web, I’m very pleased to have found this video many years later, when realising “Ken” who featured on Britains Got Talent today, is in fact this man! Great to see his unsuspecting passion for guitar/rock caught so many others off guard too😌🤘🏼
He's only 60 years old. Looks older. But he is the same age as all of the 80's hair band dudes. There are thousands of guys like this out there, it's just a matter of how many stayed with it. They would've all been playing about the same way. Tapping was the big thing, wah on everything, Floyd Rose, high end Suhr axe. He deserves his props. I hope he has another 30 healthy years in him. Music keeps the guy happy and he SHOULD be happy to still have good hands etc. A real "feel good" video. This dude is only 1 year older than Steve Vai.
Yes! Exactly! I love that so many fantastic players from that era are still rockin' and more skilled than ever!!! I saw a Chris Poland vid the other day where he was the older dude in a ratty t-shirt and trucker cap, looking like he just came off his shift as a line cook at the Gas'n'Go, picked up the guitar and proceeded to melt the faces off the younger dudes in the band 😊 Did my crusty, shriveled, blackened old heart some good.
Man this video deserve a million views!!! My God!! Awesome playing!! I truly enjoyed how he played the guitar! How he feels the music and the band, this video is a truly amazing diamond! I'm sorry for my English.
I've asked myself as I get older if I'll keep the fire in my hands like I do now at 63 and I have to say I'm just getting started. Ken Petrie if you ever read this your playing reignited the neoclassical fire I've had . Amazing Job..
Hes younger than vai an EVH if he was still alive. I think the fact he is bold and the way he dresses makes him seem older than he is. But that obviously went in his favour right? Taking precisely nothing away from his playing . But if he had looked younger than people perceived him to be he wouldn't garner so much attention .... maybe
You rock man!.... Loved the technique and the energy he put into it. That's the spirit that everyone should put into his work no matter what you do... Great work.
i would pay more to see him live then any current band happily what a legend you can see the passion in the playing from one guitar player to another rock on Kenneth wherever you may be
@@jimch.9961 7 no. They just can't play. They do not stick to tempo. They mask lacking in attenuation and technique with over the top distortion and everything is done in post. Even metallica went this way with st. Anger. Rock is all about showmanship, craft and lil bit of flair. And what better way to dropsome panties than sweet instrumental solo? ;)
@@wiewiorpl there are many, and i mean many new bands that have insane technical players in them, but the older generations are a bunch of elitists that nullify anything new, because "they lack in x/y, so they must be bad". Open your goddamned ears and listen to beautiful music that was created by new-ish bands in the years 2007-2016. As for "everything is done in post", live performances are rarely different than what yu hear in the album.
@@jimch.9961 yeah i know why it was made this way. After Jason had enough of blocking his creative ideas he split, james went to rehab and all of them understood they were bunch of dicks for him for all the time he was in the band. James even mention it in the interview that jason stopped talking to them, just was wandering around ind headphones. They thought they will jam out next album so everybody input will be equal. They jammed, rearranged it in protools and sent for pressing. And that's why it sucks. They had no idea for this album. They were just afraid that somebody might leave too.
He's not 60. He's 24. He's looks like that because he's melted his own face off with those solos.
ROCK AND ROLL!!!
😝😝😝😂ABSOLUTELY! Thats awesome
"Melted his own face off"! 😄Nice! Yeah! He can SHRED!!
YEEEEEESSSSS!!! Great comment
Haha! Great comment, 👏👏
He even blew his own hair off!!!
His name is Kenneth Petrie 60 years old, and he plays in an English band called Mr Spankey and the Hipthrusters. Oh, by the way, he is a Catholic Priest.
A prayer goes a long way !!!!
Guitar abuse is not a crime.
how do u know that
@@bronislawbonkala5371 prayers don't give you talent, practice does you idiot
jeramiah johnson catholic priest? Well in that case I hope that guitar was 18.
Old? Experienced. We don’t all start out old.
He’s awesome. 👍🎸❤️
It doesn't matter how old you are, when people see the pure joy you are experiencing in the moment, it's contagious.
He looks older than his actual chronological age.
Absolutely agree. I'm 60 years old and really enjoy playing guitar in a band
Good point. I was smoking the whole time watching him.
@@larryn2682
And you you give a flying single sh!t about that perception because..........?
I just turned 61 but think very young. This guy smokes me, but I'm sure anyone can attest, playing music keeps you young and gives you something to look forward to every day.
This warms my heart. I hear the dimebag, Eddie, Randy, vai, I mean it's all there. So much talent in this guys fingers. Respect sir!
I was getting a lot of Dave Murray and Adrian Smith vibes too
There was a good bit of Brad Gillis in that mix too... 😉
I didn't hear any if that, I heard Blackmore
@@silverjaw138that’s exactly right! I’m 99% positive this is 2 minutes to midnight
These comments lol
The guy is old enough to live and hear the legends, practiced and skilled enough to form his own style from what he's heard, practiced and learned, that he's a Neil Peart of the guitar world. The man fkn KILLS it and makes other younger cocky shredders think twice!! What a pleasure to hear and watch and what a great band for backing up this OG guitar beast!
Let's not forget that the Legends are this old, only they wear a wig to look cool.
This guy is great and his energy is infectious! My hat's off to him. Let's not forget that Vai, Satriani and many of our guitar heroes are also well into their 60s.
Saw Satriani in Collingswood N.J in 22...one of the greatest all time. This man reminds me of Joe.👊
Imagine hearing this live with top sound quality and not a phone capture
only imagine
Genuinely a good move to bring some good hearing protection so the decibels aren't too excessive would probably sound better that way
Who’s here after watching Stevie T?
Me
me
Chrismatorium Grill After? I had to stop watching as soon as I seen this guy play to come here.
Me
🙌
His parents: Son you are ahead of your time.
70 years later:
..."Hold my guitar strap!!"
Thank you Father Petrie! That was truly amazing!!
You don't stop playing when you get old. You get old when you stop playing.
Coolest Grandfather ever. 👌👍
The drummer is not too shabby either 😜
More like guitarfather
Are u sallu
Fuk u sallu
I wish he is my grandpa
Kenny Petrie of “Mr. Spankey and the Hipthrusters”…Braintree, Essex Co, England. And, no, he is not a Catholic priest. That's just an inside joke with the band.
@RcUniverseGuy lol
Good, because I want him!! No disrespect intended to his wife, 'cause there's no chance!! But WHOA....!!
NEVER UNDER ESTIMATE US OLD F'CKERS!, I DONT PLAY GUITAR, BUT AT 74, I ROCK THE LOCAL SKATEBOARD BARK .. WE ROCK!
When the ones that started it, grown old and grey….still, will, remind and remain the reason and the way.
I really want to be like him in the future. So many people give up their hobbies because of „not having time for it anymore“. This man stayed dedicated for such a long time, you can clearly see that. You should never stop doing what makes you happy.
I'm 53 and need to get playing again.
@@rockinron3215 59 here and been back at it for almost a year now and its so much fun! Stay with it man! God bless!
@@scottt3100 I have got back into this year. I bought 2 guitars and 2 amps lol.
Ron Harding that’s great Brother! My wife bought me. Squire last year and said if I’d learn”Comfortably Numb” she would buy me a better guitar and amp. Well I worked on that for about nearly 4 months and got it down right. She went out and bought me a brand new Strat, a brand new Tele and a Fender Mustang3 amp! What a wonderful woman! Now I HAVE to play everyday! I’m lovin’ it though and have gotten way better as a result. Keep after it and enjoy it and you’ll be happier for it my friend. ❤️🙏🏻✌️🎸
Jaysan And a Catholic priest to boot.
I really love the part at 1:00
I do too. It sounds so familiar, but I can’t figure out where I know it from...
Exact same guys I've tried learning this spot. Such and awesome harmony
@@Jahnu8 running down a dream by Peter Gabriel
@@Jahnu8 Dancing With Myself by Billy Idol?
Running down a dream by TOM PETTY ****
I FUKING LOVE THIS GUY!!! He isnt in the moment he is the moment. And what a badass. Thats the beauty of playing you can completely lose yourself.
What a smile on his young face xxxx fantastic xxxx
This guy follows Lemmy's advice. Rock till you can't go further. God bless you Mr. Kenneth ❤️
That old man just nailed the guitar shredding part!! That's epic!!
Age is just a numbers dude.......so good, simply amazing
The man has been playing since he was 15 in 1965 before most of you were even thought about. . Just shows everyone gets old and carry their skills with them through out life.
That one dislike is from the rookie guitarist he replaced!
Those were Australian youtubers liking his grind
That replaced guitarist was me brother.....
He’s not any older than many of the all time greats out there, but he definitely plays like them! This dude has the goods.
I’m 61 and have heard/seen some of the best this Kenneth Petrie dude is right up there, great work sir!
After I discovered this wonderful man yesterday, my boyfriend came home in the evening and I covered the tv with blankets. Then I turned on this video. While he was listening, I asked him to guess what musician was playing this. He said: maybe Traci Guns, or Bumblefoot (he’s a GnR fan 😄). I encourage you to do the same and see what names of famous musicians people will come up with. It was really fun. This man brightened up my day. This is music.
That's a cool idea.
Mick mars
He literally gets everything out of that guitar. Top class rock solo by Father Petrie! 🎉 🎉 🎉
Hey who you calling old I'm 62 the man rocks it's all in the heart
He is bad assed! Note for note, the best ever. All the licks! Bravo, bravo, young man! 🖖🏽
Unvelievable! He enjoys so much playing that guitar!
He must like it!
My guitar just quietly walked out the front door and caught an Uber, and it didn't even wave goodbye.
😁😁😁😁😁😁
When I grow up, I want to be just like him. I'm 61. 🤘🤘🙏
😂what a Genius!!!
Can’t stop watching😅
👊😂🤗🙏🏻👏
As a drummer, it's such a joy to play with someone like that, no better feeling
The more And More I lose hope on myself , The more I come back and watch this video to remind myself "Age is Just a Number" and I can be the guitarist I always wanted to be one day!
Who says older folk can't rock
I'm a 51 year old self taught drummer mom. Love it
Oh Catholic too?
❤
Holy Shit!!! He is fuckin phenomenal!! He was having the time of his life. There's nothing better than seeing someone do something they love and they do it incredibly well!! Wow! Just Wow!!!!!
OH DAMN! And that last high harmonic note at the end. EXCELLENT!
I can't help but smile watching this. He is having so much fun.
Fantastic Father!
Another reminder that with God ... ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!
I'm a drummer and vocalist who is almost 60 and seeing this has reignited my desire to learn the guitar!! Is it too late?? what do you think?? I think I'm going out today and buying an Ibanez X and a Marshall amp and return to what I stopped to play drums in the 80's !! Man can this man play ; it sends shivers through me !GOD BLESS him!! Octavias
Never to late, at this age pride and ego are a lot less of an issue so you can actually enjoy it more!
Sir it is NEVER too late. Go get that gear if you haven't yet and study your butt off and play play play everyday. Have fun above All else. Life is waaaaaaaaaay too short to not go out and do what you know will make you happy!! Please keep us all posted on your progress. I truly want to hear your progress periodically please!!!!!
This grandpa make me feel i suck at guitar. Just great playing. His techniques and all other stuff mind blowing
Look at the 5ime to learn to play like 5his grampa he wasn't grampa whenever he learned it himself
He’s a Catholic priest, he better not be a grandpa.
He's better than i ever was. Amazing.
Freakin Awesome!
He is phenomenal even at 60!!!
Dude is LIGHTING IT UP!!! Love this guy's shredding, tone and attack!!!
Seen him play many times,a true legend,must get to see him and the band again soon
In one word,... Damned,,..! When you got it, you ve got it, and never loose it,...! Rock on,..! Rock and roll, forever,..!
...yep....you killed it my brother...awesome job, every one in the band brought this performance home. Great job, all of you 👏
Phenomenal player! Nobody there having more fun than he is. This wins my internet today. 🏆
He's not running down a dream he's living it! DAMN!
Father Petrie, you effin ROCK brother!!! I would normally say, May God bless you, but it's pretty obvious that He has blessed you already, and in many ways! I pray that you have a long life, and that you continue to bless us ALL, in church, and on stage! You're truly a guitar hero my friend!!!❤❤❤
I wanna be like him when I'm old. Live with passion.
Holy shit, he shreds🤘 More importantly, is the sheer joy on his face...truly inspiring!!
Sounds good. I'm 64 and played since the 60s as a kid Nice to see this youngster. Lol
What an absolute animal. I don’t play guitar and am no expert but I have only seen a couple guys play like that. He is absolutely melting faces. Imagine the time it took to Get that good and how many times he has probably played this song.
Age is only a state of mind, god bless you sir and may you live forever young.
Never too old to rock!!!! Great job!!
How long you been busting chops like this for old boy you sure got your shit down buddy! What a frickin top bloke
Young people people take note....there was a generation of guitarists "the baby boom generation" born in the 1940s/50s that were the kids brought up on the new rock and roll, and learned to play like this by spending all their time practicing their skills away in their bedrooms as kids, for hours on end.
This is how you do it! and you never forget.
That is how Clapton, Page, Richards, etc.... got were they are today.
After enough time surfing the web, I’m very pleased to have found this video many years later, when realising “Ken” who featured on Britains Got Talent today, is in fact this man!
Great to see his unsuspecting passion for guitar/rock caught so many others off guard too😌🤘🏼
Mindblowing. One of the best instrumental performances ever
When you no longer have anything to prove, and just play for the pure joy of it from the heart.
Такого удовольствия я давно не получал! Браво!!!🎉
He's only 60 years old. Looks older. But he is the same age as all of the 80's hair band dudes. There are thousands of guys like this out there, it's just a matter of how many stayed with it. They would've all been playing about the same way. Tapping was the big thing, wah on everything, Floyd Rose, high end Suhr axe. He deserves his props. I hope he has another 30 healthy years in him. Music keeps the guy happy and he SHOULD be happy to still have good hands etc. A real "feel good" video. This dude is only 1 year older than Steve Vai.
@@samreynolds6181 I gave the guy a thousand thumbs up and you have to be a douche? You're a class act.
@@ed1341 LOL, my grandma had a douchebag decades ago. I haven't seen one in such a long time. Douchebags were cool.
Yes! Exactly! I love that so many fantastic players from that era are still rockin' and more skilled than ever!!! I saw a Chris Poland vid the other day where he was the older dude in a ratty t-shirt and trucker cap, looking like he just came off his shift as a line cook at the Gas'n'Go, picked up the guitar and proceeded to melt the faces off the younger dudes in the band 😊 Did my crusty, shriveled, blackened old heart some good.
This guy is phenomenal.......!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent phrasing on that tapping run! I could listen to this guy all damn day.
The hair may have gone,the skin wrinkled but guitar playing omes from thd heart ! It is always your best friend ,loved this !
Man this video deserve a million views!!! My God!! Awesome playing!! I truly enjoyed how he played the guitar! How he feels the music and the band, this video is a truly amazing diamond! I'm sorry for my English.
Man your English is pretty good not gonna lie. Just a few spelling mistakes, otherwise it's good so don't be sorry for it 😁
His guitar playing style matches to janick Gers(Iron Maiden) 🤘🏻
And Iron Maiden influenced generally
This guy is way better
@@SLAYER.APO.VOLO. i thought it was a maiden song for a minute i littte steve vai too
I also saw some of the Van Halen..
Old pops is shredding that thing..!!. 👏👏👏
I've asked myself as I get older if I'll keep the fire in my hands like I do now at 63 and I have to say I'm just getting started. Ken Petrie if you ever read this your playing reignited the neoclassical fire I've had . Amazing Job..
You know when you go to your local pub to see a cover band?
THIS is what i'll be expecting from now on.
major record label should proudly sign this guy
What an absolute legend...
Play till the last day of life!! Awesome expression!!
Legend has it hes played in the studio for every great band that's ever went mainstream and this was his coming out party
And by coming out I mean exposing himself as the true guitar legend
Simply amazing.
Fuck me.
And he's shredding on a Surh.
Hats off!
Hats off to the drummer
0:48 daaaaaaaaaamnnnnn
Makes me cry every time
Im always amazed at how amazed people are that old people can play instruments.
I can’t stop watching this video, I love it, god of guitar play 🙌🏻
This man is absolutely amazing! You rock, dude! An Oldman with young spirit!
60 isn't Old!😂!!?
Hes younger than vai an EVH if he was still alive.
I think the fact he is bold and the way he dresses makes him seem older than he is. But that obviously went in his favour right? Taking precisely nothing away from his playing . But if he had looked younger than people perceived him to be he wouldn't garner so much attention .... maybe
That mug is awesome wow he blew me away. And he made it look so easy. One of the best I've ever heard.
Absolute LEGEND .
😊😊😊😊😊
You rock man!.... Loved the technique and the energy he put into it. That's the spirit that everyone should put into his work no matter what you do... Great work.
i would pay more to see him live then any current band happily what a legend you can see the passion in the playing from one guitar player to another rock on Kenneth wherever you may be
IMPRESSIVE PLUS! Much respect to Mr.Spankey aka Mr.Petrie; almost seems as if he's been down at the crossroads.
He's great, and so are the backing band, they rock. Tight.
As a 48 yr old playing bass for 35 yrs, this just absolutely blew my mind how well he covered that Satriani song. Holy shit😮😊
Wasn't this a Tom Petty and the heat breakers Running Down a Dream Solo.
Probably the best Tom Petty cover I've ever heard.
Sounded like "Highway Star" to me. Yet now me and Del are singin' a little runaway
I NEED HIM IN MY LIFE 😂😂😂😂
O my Gosh what did I just watch happen? I was in awe the whole time. Dude was awesome. Man that drummer was too ! Killed it !
Off stage he’s 60 on stage he’s 25!..what an Awesome guitar player
the younger generation just doesn't have it like the older generation rockers...
It's because we prefer heavy over groovy
@@jimch.9961 7 no. They just can't play. They do not stick to tempo. They mask lacking in attenuation and technique with over the top distortion and everything is done in post. Even metallica went this way with st. Anger.
Rock is all about showmanship, craft and lil bit of flair. And what better way to dropsome panties than sweet instrumental solo? ;)
@@wiewiorpl there are many, and i mean many new bands that have insane technical players in them, but the older generations are a bunch of elitists that nullify anything new, because "they lack in x/y, so they must be bad". Open your goddamned ears and listen to beautiful music that was created by new-ish bands in the years 2007-2016. As for "everything is done in post", live performances are rarely different than what yu hear in the album.
@@wiewiorpl and you should actually watch the documentary on st anger to understand why it was made that way.
@@jimch.9961 yeah i know why it was made this way. After Jason had enough of blocking his creative ideas he split, james went to rehab and all of them understood they were bunch of dicks for him for all the time he was in the band. James even mention it in the interview that jason stopped talking to them, just was wandering around ind headphones. They thought they will jam out next album so everybody input will be equal.
They jammed, rearranged it in protools and sent for pressing. And that's why it sucks. They had no idea for this album. They were just afraid that somebody might leave too.
Dude this is giving me a relax vibe
You’re only as old as you feel and this man clearly feels like a Rock Star because he is one!
All I can say is OMG ! This guy really inspires me ! Wish he was my grandpa .