John 5 - The Devil Knows My Name

Yes, this video has eccentric and questionable graphical content, but any fan of this musician knows that this video is exactly his style and what you would expect goes on inside his head. Definitely mature, adult content, but my boyfriend certainly enjoyed it, as he is a huge fan of John 5! I believe that his lessons are easy to understand and is worth having a look at this DVD.

Not a very good instructional guitar did at all, I wasted almost $40 on this dvd because I wanted to learn the whole songs on the devil knows my name album but he only shows you how to play like 2 parts of the song and that's it he doesn't even teach you the riffs or anything it's like wtf? There's also a bunch of s*** happening in the background during the lessons that actually started to hurt my eyes.

Ultimately, your enjoyment of this video will largely depend on what you think of John 5 and his music. I happen to love his inventive, technically demanding and highly creative tunes. Both rocking metal and swing'n country. If you're a fan of John 5 and a student of the guitar you won't be let down. But it's definitely not for everyone.The video is filled with bizarre imagery (mostly as background filler. There IS nudity, but it isn't of the erotic variety. It's mostly just very strange. Ex: topless women strutting about with animal heads). Seventies horror style camera work, weird lighting effects, creepy actors, disturbing sound effects and sinister makeup are just par for the course in Johns world.As a teacher, John is fantastic. He plays through each song in it's entirety and follows up with a tutorial/dissection of the more difficult or unique passages in that given song. Slowing said part down to retard speed so "we the student" can get a clear view on exactly what he's doing. John specifies NOTES on the fret board through the whole video (ie; rather than saying 4th string 6th fret, he will say play the G sharp on the D string). I thought this was great as I'm keen on fret board memorization and mastery. I really appreciated his emphasis on musicianship as well as "shredding". The majority of his tutorials regard his metal material, but there are a few country bits at the end showcasing things like banjo rolls, chickn' pickn', behind the nut bends etc. As well as some bonus live footage of John soloing.

John5 is a guitarist that manages to remain unique, interesting and truly a one of a kind talent in the guitar scene. That scene, one fraught with "artist" after "artist" who equally believe in their own superiority and artistic originality. Most fall flat at the alter of John5.

John 5 rocks!

guy's just awesome!! not much else to say.

this dvd is an excellent guitar lessons, is like a private class right in your room. very explicit in the tricky parts of all songs that john 5 performed. I like that he perform the songs live. I wish that this dvd was more extended but it worth the money! because you never see this kind of technique in others guitar player.

3 stars is kind of a stretch but 2 would be too harsh. A decent enough video but not much in the way of instructional material

If you want to know how John 5 plays so well, look elsewhere. This video is comprised of three types of content (in order of amount of time devoted to each, largest to smallest):1. Fuzzy video of John 5 playing tunes from the album.2. Dodgy soft-core goth porn and 'horror', also in fuzzy-vision.3. Instructional videos, again in patented obscuro-vision.The first you've probably heard in better stereo than this DVD, and believe me the video adds nothing. The second is just embarrassing. Obviously J5 doesn't consider he might have female fans, but I'm male and it's just tacky and bad. The third has J5 telling you, but not showing you, what fingers to use. This is unprofessional and unhelpful. And boring. Did I mention boring? I sent this back immediately - I suggest that unless you're a die-hard fan of Mr 5 you don't bother in the first place. Zero stars if that were possible. Dire.

Great seller and excellent product. Would do business with again.The dvd has some great songs, performances and breakdowns. If you've ever wanted a closer look into the strange exciting world of John 5 this dvd is for you.

Awesome.

Really disappointing ... You can not spend 20 € and not be included the miserable tabs ... A theft , in the best case