Man, I love that super digital tone he's getting out of one of the most expensive tube amplifiers known to man. Sounds like someone's raping an AM radio.
I started playing guitar at 13. Later switched to piano. But I had already written half a dozen songs way before that, starting at approx. 6 years of age - before playing any instrument at all. Most of those pieces are crap. I'm no 'Mozart'. And making 'a capella' overdub recordings with two tape recorders was awful. Also, my pieces were merely stylistic rip-offs of what was on the air back then. Since then I have become a composer/producer with a solid background in classical harmony/counterpoint and jazz. Henry Kaiser is a virtuoso - whether you like his music or not. You could put Mr. Kaiser on stage with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Bill Frisell, John Zorn or the likes of which without any rehearsals and they'd not only get along very well, but probably produce some legendary masterwork of historical significance. My personal musical preferences aside, I admire Henry Kaiser's originality, courage and resilience that keeps him going despite all the (TH-cam endemic) haters.
R.I.P. Alexander Howard Dumble. Though this video never showcased the legend of your amps, it still has become legendary in guitar culture. The crystal lattice is strong.
I watched this whole video waiting for Dumble to tackle him from behind, I really though it was going to happen. Or see Dumbles' guitar flying to this guy's head.
"They gave me access to really deep levels of programming, so I can come up with new ways to make your ears hurt and make you beg for an ice pick to impale your eardrums upon."
I love individuality, but individuality should come naturally. This guy is so forced and unlistenable. He either has no taste, or refuses to listen to it. If I need to get this to be hip, I'd rather be uncool. Too many off kilter elements at once. Outside notes with inside time: cool. Outside time with inside notes: cool. But both at the same time with god-awful tone... Too much, man.
Dear Lord, no wonder Alexander Dumble went into hiding. I hope he made a lot of money sitting through that absolute disaster of a demo? That was so bad
This guy talks and plays like he had super rich parents who never told him he was bad at anything. Smug attitude, incredibly sloppy self-taught style with no basis in musical theory, and all the money in the world to screw around with expensive musical toys. But that's just speculation on my part. Anyone who is into this style but wants to listen to an actual musician instead should listen to Adrian Belew.
I don’t know how I’ve never seen this before. I would have been ALL over this when I was 19 and buying weird pedals and trying to make crazy sounds lol
Idk, to each their own but his music taste sounds like shit to my ear. Long as he's having fun I guess, that's all that should matter with guitar. But it helps if you can actually write Melodies and envoke emotion.
LOL. To clear up confusion some might have, Henry is the grandson of Henry J. Kaiser. Most folks have heard of Kaiser Shipbuilding, or Kaiser-Permanente, that was his grandfather's legacy. Henry here, is an unemployed, self-satisfying heir to a massive fortune who actually paid to have this film made. It's much the same with his albums. He uses the Kaiser fortune to supplement his bad hearing, and creates tales about what a tough childhood he had in exclusive boarding schools. Boo Hoo. Terrible.
this comment section has made me lose faith in humanity. Henry Kaiser is a internationally respected musician and sonic pioneer who has worked with some of the brightest musicians and renowned artists of our time. Alexander Dumble is hanging out with him and probably wouldn't want to talk to any of you blues daddy's for more than a second.
Oh, this is for real? I thought I was watching a improved skit like Nigel Tufnel and his amp that goes to eleven. Both of these guys seem like total frauds. This guy probably blew his load when Digitech came out with the GNX series multi effects boards. Try actually playing the guitar and not the effects pedal.
"He needs a talent effect on his rack." is damn funny I have to admit. This is just an example of 80's guitar into the digital effects world gone far far astray
@@torreydunn2170 He is an innovator and, as with all innovators, most of his innovations fail - that's the nature of innovation. But I guarantee you that there are guitarists who've been inspired by some of his innovations to create music that you and millions of others actually consider to be fabulous. It's sad that off-the-wall creative genius like this can lay the groundwork for popular trends, yet the fruits of that popularity they never receive. It has always been thus for artists who eschew popularity for genuine originality.
Kaiser: "Let's play some blues, Dr. D!" *Dr. D plays the worst blues ever* *Kaiser plays the worst thing that isn't even close to the blues ever* Kaiser: Yeah! Far out! Dr. D: I'm hungry.
So, everyone who is bashing Kaiser found this video by searching Dumble? I found it by searching Kaiser, because I'm a FAN. He doesn't make music like this all the time (Has worked with Richard Thompson, and helped him with the soundtrack to GRIZZLY MAN), and you guys are critiquing a man you know nothing about.
Wow we live in such a great time to be a guitar player. 25 years ago, there’s no way you would have been able to find this video, save for contacting Henry yourself
The story goes that Henry disappeared shortly after this video was aired. Dumble was exonerated after an inquest but there was a good amount of circumstantial evidence tying him to the disappearance. A few tiny particles of Henry were found in a wood-chipper Dumble once owned but his alibi was solid so go figure.
No, he doesn't say "when I was a child", he says "When I was a kid", presumably meaning when he was around 20 or 21. Maybe it's different where you live, but it's common for people who are a decade or more older to refer someone in their early 20's or someone who is inexperienced by whatever as "a kid".
Clearly he isn't playing music for people who haven't explored modernist harmonic experimentation. He's not great in my opinion, but if you have a widespread appreciation of music, what he's doing isn't terrible. He is comparable to Schoenberg, Sorabji, Kaoru Abe, Coltrane before his death, and a million others. Broaden your horizons.
It's weird for the sake of being weird. Sounds like a little bit of mindless self indulgence, actually; never mind, it's narcissistic. "YoU jUsT dOn't ApPreCiate mUsIcAl eXpReSsIon! It's ArT." Yeah, it's Art, with a silent F. It fuckin' stinks, Jack. It's the biggest piece of dogshit and you know it, you stupid bastard. You just want to seem "different" or cool because you listen to weird music, y'know, it's okay to be ordinary, ya motherfuck. I'd rather fuck myself with the handle of a hair brush(no lube) than listen to another Henry Kaiser abortion, let alone any of those artists you've mentioned. Talk about a widespread appreciation of music, please. How about I widespread my ass cheeks and you can give it a little kiss, huh? WUD YA LIKE THAT HUEHUE Happy Fucking Holidays.
All of that digital shit in front of a Dumble is sacrilege. That’s like playing a ‘59 burst through a Pignose. You CAN do it, but why would you? This is what you get when your granddaddy is a VERY wealthy man and you’ve never really had to work very hard to get whatever you want. Henry Kaiser is a perfect example of why you shouldn’t give a kid everything he wants…
I think he must have some kind of staggeringly bad picking technique, he somehow gets the same kind of spastic clinky squawk out of every note he plays on every guitar.
Man, I love that super digital tone he's getting out of one of the most expensive tube amplifiers known to man. Sounds like someone's raping an AM radio.
...but...but....he's SO...."innovative"....
Thumbs up 8 years later LOL
The Anti-Hendrix has risen.
😂😂😂😂🙏🙏🙏🙏👍
Why do I laugh at this
Was Hendrix in Gesang, ist Kaiser mit Gitarrespielen
Simply. Stunning. Somehow he managed to make even a Dumble sound like Robocop shitting out a PCB. Cool rack, bro.
9:28 says "Let's have a little distortion", then steps on a duck's nuts.
Lol!!
@Van peter Has to be some time in the 80's when racks full of effects were all the rage.
Lmao
"I started playing guitar late, I was 20 when I started." "Here's a tune I wrote when I was a kid."
older people call 20 year olds kids too bc they’re still really young mainly back then tho.
In males the frontal lobe which is involved in decision making is not fully developed until age 25. At 20 you still are a kid.
@@jadaplaysguitar89 i'm 40 and to be a 30 year old is a child.
20 year olds think 30 year olds are OOOLD...
I started playing guitar at 13. Later switched to piano. But I had already written half a dozen songs way before that, starting at approx. 6 years of age - before playing any instrument at all. Most of those pieces are crap. I'm no 'Mozart'. And making 'a capella' overdub recordings with two tape recorders was awful. Also, my pieces were merely stylistic rip-offs of what was on the air back then. Since then I have become a composer/producer with a solid background in classical harmony/counterpoint and jazz. Henry Kaiser is a virtuoso - whether you like his music or not. You could put Mr. Kaiser on stage with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Bill Frisell, John Zorn or the likes of which without any rehearsals and they'd not only get along very well, but probably produce some legendary masterwork of historical significance. My personal musical preferences aside, I admire Henry Kaiser's originality, courage and resilience that keeps him going despite all the (TH-cam endemic) haters.
I read somewhere he had to pay Dumble with 10 million dollars, a 55 gallon barrel of morphine and a double earsectomy.
I love these subtle 90 degree turns he makes when he changes subjects.
After this show I finally understand hwy Dumble has been hiding all these years
bloodyfrets can't fit out the door...
PutItAway101 Hahaha yes that too
R.I.P. Alexander Howard Dumble. Though this video never showcased the legend of your amps, it still has become legendary in guitar culture. The crystal lattice is strong.
Frank Zappa would have loved this guy
😂😆😂 WELCOME TO THE FIRST CHURCH OF APPLIANTOLOGY
No, Zappa actually loved guitar players like Johnny Guitar Watson, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Jeff Beck and Alan Holdsworth.
Everyone else’s agrees bro stfu. Zappa loved beef heart, and would’ve adored this.
hahahaha i love how he asks what key. like that matters.
seriously-this is like a Saturday night live skit?! funniest shit ever!
I get the feeling like this was a “the check cleared, so I’m here” type of situation for dumble.
We’re not ready for him he’s way ahead of our time.
Henry has always been proof positive that money can't buy or substitute for talent or skill.
When I feel I suck at guitar I watch this video, and feel like the best guitar player of the world!!!!Yeaaaaahhh!!!!
For people who love Beefheart and The Magic Band this is amazing
I love you for this
I watched this whole video waiting for Dumble to tackle him from behind, I really though it was going to happen. Or see Dumbles' guitar flying to this guy's head.
Hahaha!! What key?? Like it fucking matters!!
I think we all know where his "third hand" would be if he had one
😂😂😂
Can’t be his ass because his heads already paying rent
Where do *you* want it to be? 🤔🤭🤣😘
"Make it sound like I'm playing backwards guitar"
Mate, you're already 100% backwards
"They gave me access to really deep levels of programming, so I can come up with new ways to make your ears hurt and make you beg for an ice pick to impale your eardrums upon."
i see why dumble left the business
He still makes amps.
He didn’t leave the business. He’s just lazy AF.
I don't wanna say he is the worst guitar player, but everybody I have EVER heard is better.
Lol!!!!!
I know this is old as hell but your comments just cracked me up
jesus the backwards guitar solo is insane. holy christ thats cool
I love individuality, but individuality should come naturally. This guy is so forced and unlistenable. He either has no taste, or refuses to listen to it. If I need to get this to be hip, I'd rather be uncool.
Too many off kilter elements at once. Outside notes with inside time: cool. Outside time with inside notes: cool. But both at the same time with god-awful tone... Too much, man.
He sounds out of tune on top of all that! Haha
A true sonic explorer and pioneer.
The Michael Avenatti of guitar.
Dear Lord, no wonder Alexander Dumble went into hiding. I hope he made a lot of money sitting through that absolute disaster of a demo? That was so bad
This guy talks and plays like he had super rich parents who never told him he was bad at anything. Smug attitude, incredibly sloppy self-taught style with no basis in musical theory, and all the money in the world to screw around with expensive musical toys. But that's just speculation on my part. Anyone who is into this style but wants to listen to an actual musician instead should listen to Adrian Belew.
+DickTruth That's because it's completely accurate. Henry Kaiser is a the scion of the Kaiser Permanente hospital fortune.
Perfect.
Nailed it
I don't think you understand music theory
DickTruth you made me laugh and cry at the same time.
Watched all the way through, just to make it to that sweet last phrase, "it yodels in octaves." Perfection.
lol. "If I bend a note, it yodels in octaves." Hilarious!
The last words of this segment say so much, I think: "It yodels in octaves."
Clearly Dumble takes all the money he makes from his 30K amps and spends it on Twinkies
This is nuts. Why do an instruct instructional video if you can't play guitar?
This is so wrong on so many levels...
pure comedy !! :)
exactly! you know he is fooling everyone! LMAO!
I mean he cant be serious right?
You guys aren’t serious players are you?
i love his taste in music and effects they sound so cool seems FUN to play idk what all the hate is about
The hate is coming from idiotic, creatively conservative, dad-rock style guitar nerds. They don’t know shit
I don’t know how I’ve never seen this before. I would have been ALL over this when I was 19 and buying weird pedals and trying to make crazy sounds lol
Wow.....you just made one of the best amps in the world sound like a cat taking a hard poo. Congrats.
"Backwards guitar" What an amazing piece of technology!!
Its for the yoda of guitar and the dislexics.
Great guitar players should sound great without any effects, unlike this guy, who sounds horrible with and without effects.
Henry Kaiser is awesome.
Idk, to each their own but his music taste sounds like shit to my ear. Long as he's having fun I guess, that's all that should matter with guitar. But it helps if you can actually write Melodies and envoke emotion.
LOL. To clear up confusion some might have, Henry is the grandson of Henry J. Kaiser. Most folks have heard of Kaiser Shipbuilding, or Kaiser-Permanente, that was his grandfather's legacy. Henry here, is an unemployed, self-satisfying heir to a massive fortune who actually paid to have this film made. It's much the same with his albums. He uses the Kaiser fortune to supplement his bad hearing, and creates tales about what a tough childhood he had in exclusive boarding schools. Boo Hoo. Terrible.
Standard fancy digital effects rack, that doesn't make much sense. Well I am glad these videos exist they are quite funny...
3:33 if you wanna have a good laugh
this is great..amazing. thankyou for making me feel better about my kids guitar playing..they don't actually play
he must be the guy who plays in all the guitar parody videos
great work dude
this comment section has made me lose faith in humanity. Henry Kaiser is a internationally respected musician and sonic pioneer who has worked with some of the brightest musicians and renowned artists of our time. Alexander Dumble is hanging out with him and probably wouldn't want to talk to any of you blues daddy's for more than a second.
‘Robocop shitting out a PCB’ has to be the best of a very good bunch of comments.
Oh, this is for real? I thought I was watching a improved skit like Nigel Tufnel and his amp that goes to eleven. Both of these guys seem like total frauds. This guy probably blew his load when Digitech came out with the GNX series multi effects boards. Try actually playing the guitar and not the effects pedal.
8:28 - to those who think he can't play. That was tonally beautiful. He knows what he is doing.
Agreed. Very Jerry Garcia reminiscent.
That was not good lol this guys mind is very awesome and there’s alot to learn there but his playing is not that great.
he managed to play a bunch of diatonic notes, that's it. not good in my opinion. Still, music is subjective.
That was very great imo
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
This is what happens when pure comedy takes human form.
Makes me think about the everyday newbie with a boss gt10 or whatever
"He needs a talent effect on his rack." is damn funny I have to admit. This is just an example of 80's guitar into the digital effects world gone far far astray
"Dog shit with vanilla icing is not a wedding cake. Its just a frosted dog turd."- Stephen King
What a fabulous musician! Never get tired of Henry Kaiser!!!
Please say you are joking?!
@@torreydunn2170 He is an innovator and, as with all innovators, most of his innovations fail - that's the nature of innovation. But I guarantee you that there are guitarists who've been inspired by some of his innovations to create music that you and millions of others actually consider to be fabulous. It's sad that off-the-wall creative genius like this can lay the groundwork for popular trends, yet the fruits of that popularity they never receive. It has always been thus for artists who eschew popularity for genuine originality.
Is this guy for real? I´been playing guitar for 25years and I dont think I heard anything that sux more. No timing, no tone, no nothing?
Loving that $10k Dumble Overdrive Special tone. Jesus...
This is why shame was invented, so you can realize to stop what your doing because you're doing it wrong.
Kaiser: "Let's play some blues, Dr. D!"
*Dr. D plays the worst blues ever*
*Kaiser plays the worst thing that isn't even close to the blues ever*
Kaiser: Yeah! Far out!
Dr. D: I'm hungry.
"What Key?"
Does that matter to him?
That was the best line...What key? before he starts his auditory assault.
If dumble is dead. This video killed him.
So, everyone who is bashing Kaiser found this video by searching Dumble? I found it by searching Kaiser, because I'm a FAN. He doesn't make music like this all the time (Has worked with Richard Thompson, and helped him with the soundtrack to GRIZZLY MAN), and you guys are critiquing a man you know nothing about.
I bet Alexander regrets these videos. RIP Alex.
Wow we live in such a great time to be a guitar player. 25 years ago, there’s no way you would have been able to find this video, save for contacting Henry yourself
Mr Dumble is pretty good though.
I would submit that there’s no reason for Henry Kaiser to ever be doing anything. Ever.
What’s Dumble thinking during this?
The story goes that Henry disappeared shortly after this video was aired. Dumble was exonerated after an inquest but there was a good amount of circumstantial evidence tying him to the disappearance. A few tiny particles of Henry were found in a wood-chipper Dumble once owned but his alibi was solid so go figure.
what even???????
0:36 It's the 80s... The land of chorus... And he manages to have a chorus that sounds shittier than a fucking $10 danelectro pedal.
He probably thinks it's the most badass sound ever
PSA: This is NOT a "shred" video. I repeat, this is not a "shred" video!
Sounds like bats being exterminated.
No, he doesn't say "when I was a child", he says "When I was a kid", presumably meaning when he was around 20 or 21. Maybe it's different where you live, but it's common for people who are a decade or more older to refer someone in their early 20's or someone who is inexperienced by whatever as "a kid".
Is that Mr Dumble playing through a Kaiser Overdrive amp?
How was that like bagpipes?!
Fuck me, that is just horrid.
Clearly he isn't playing music for people who haven't explored modernist harmonic experimentation. He's not great in my opinion, but if you have a widespread appreciation of music, what he's doing isn't terrible. He is comparable to Schoenberg, Sorabji, Kaoru Abe, Coltrane before his death, and a million others. Broaden your horizons.
It's weird for the sake of being weird.
Sounds like a little bit of mindless self indulgence, actually; never mind, it's narcissistic. "YoU jUsT dOn't ApPreCiate mUsIcAl eXpReSsIon! It's ArT." Yeah, it's Art, with a silent F. It fuckin' stinks, Jack. It's the biggest piece of dogshit and you know it, you stupid bastard. You just want to seem "different" or cool because you listen to weird music, y'know, it's okay to be ordinary, ya motherfuck. I'd rather fuck myself with the handle of a hair brush(no lube) than listen to another Henry Kaiser abortion, let alone any of those artists you've mentioned.
Talk about a widespread appreciation of music, please. How about I widespread my ass cheeks and you can give it a little kiss, huh? WUD YA LIKE THAT HUEHUE Happy Fucking Holidays.
I don't get how this guy has a stage to play on, has got someone to play with him and has somehow got someone to record him... He simply can't play.
If an actual Scottish bagpipe player made a sound like that, they'd get thrown out of Scotland.
Holy crap this guy is bad....nice sweat pants buddy lmao.
Stephen Ridsdale I heard that sweat pants manufacturers want this taken down because it's giving them a bad name
PutItAway101 sad what we find on youtube.
Hahaha
This is the musical equivalent to ‘the room’
‘Where’s my tuning, Denny?’
Keith merrow and Jeff loomis brought me here
His playing is great idk if these other guys are joking or what
All of that digital shit in front of a Dumble is sacrilege. That’s like playing a ‘59 burst through a Pignose. You CAN do it, but why would you?
This is what you get when your granddaddy is a VERY wealthy man and you’ve never really had to work very hard to get whatever you want. Henry Kaiser is a perfect example of why you shouldn’t give a kid everything he wants…
All those effects through a Dumble? Seriously?!! Well 1987 go figure
Remember those guys who couldn’t play for shit, so they compensated with gear.
They hate you if your clever and they despise a fool.
If you believed they put a man on the moon. 😝
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!?
I heard Dumble would not build you an amp till he heard you play, what happened here ?
I wondered the same thing.
Greatest guitar player alive.
Do I need a Dumble Overdrive to sound this bad?
This guy is a trip, man.
Alexander Dumble must be like "KILL ME, NOW!"
" I'm lazy I'll have a machine do it for me" words of a true musician
Does he listen to himself play?
Fascinating. How does Kaiser manage to to get such a scratchy, tinny, chickins--t sound with so much expensive studio gear?
I think he must have some kind of staggeringly bad picking technique, he somehow gets the same kind of spastic clinky squawk out of every note he plays on every guitar.
Wow these actually sound like music. Not a spaceship exploding.
I can't believe I watched this. This guy probably uses the sound of his boyfriends nuts slapping his face for rhythm tracks.
🤣😂
If Alan Partridge played guitar....