From about 3:48 is just unbelievable again!!
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Ive never really been into open tunings
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Hahaha! That is a good one!
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dude has mad string crossing skills though!
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He does, but of all the videos of his I’ve seen, he’s always playing sitting down,playing alone with no band, wearing the most ordinary looking clothes and he even still has that same haircut. Why? It takes a lot more to succeed than playing flashy solos. It’s about having great original songs, image, stage presence, attitude, charisma, etc. It’s about emotionally connecting with the audience. Getting to where you have the audience in the palm of your hand.
The way you get better at it is playing shows. Van Halen, for example, played parties, then clubs, they played anywhere they could and got that vital onstage experience. Eddie was playing things on guitar nobody had ever heard before but he never would have made to where he did with only that. It was also also becoming well rounded in all the other aspects. He still had to play show after show with his band. That’s what every rock star has had to do.
@Acecrusher, Well here you have some awesome stage presence already at 14 years of age with his own band.
Don’t judge before doing some research.
Anton is awesome! Already toured the world for years doing demo’s and live performances with his band for Kramer at the age of 14.
He stepped back for a few years after getting tired of that and to think what he wanted to do.
Now he is back and has build his teaching platform .
Playing live with his brother at the age of 11!
That’s nice but he has no frontman and it’s from 2010. He needs to find his David Lee Roth, a charismatic frontman who compliments him. Even Eddie didn’t just play lead the whole show or even most of it. He had the songs, the attitude, the energy - he ran around the age non-stop.
Playing Live at the age of 8.
Van Halen still was drinking his milk at that age and had not even seen a stage.
That’s wonderful but Van Halen released their debut album when he was 23 and it sold millions of copies. This guy is 22 now.
It’s not judgment it’s simply what it takes. Face it, he’s roughly the age Eddie was when “Van Halen” by Van Halen was released and if he were doing as well as Eddie was then, he’d be well known enough that nobody would need to “research” him.
Whatever man.
Anton is doing great and has showed the world what is technically possible already at a very young age. Now is building a platform for teaching things with his own method.
he has done a lot already in live situations and also wrote own songs.
He still is in his early 20’s.
Here’s one of those own songs.
Anton has great technique. He has all the technique he’ll ever need. But this is another video from 2010. If you’ve got to go back to 2010 to find a video of him playing an original song, and it’s yet another video with no band and no vocals doesn’t that tell you that turning his focus to becoming more well rounded in the other aspects would be helpful to him? I want to see Anton have a band with a platinum album of their own, I want to see him succeed and I see these areas where he has a lot of room to grow. Yet it seems he continues to try to improve on the area that is already his main strength. If he brought up the other aspects I mentioned up to par with his technique, he’d be unstoppable!
Times have changed man!
It nowadays is all about social media precense and not about rockstars anymore; that area is dead.
You can’t make a living with that anymore, and who says Anton wants to be a rockstar?
As i said, he is building his platform for teaching through his method and i am sure he is going to have a lot of subscribers and will be able to earn a living with only that.
He keeps amazing and inspire everybody with his playing and for sure still also will do many clinics and demo’s because of that. How many of us would not want to be able to do this!
If i had his abbilties i would love the way he is going much more then being a rockstar with all the concessions you would have to do and being pushed in a certain direction.
Here he is playing some own material from 2018 together with the great Greg Howe.
I found him and his band “Optimister” on Facebook so this should be up to date information:
Genre
Classic rock
Band Members
Anton Oparin ( guitars ), Alex Oparin ( bass )
Hometown
Samara, Russia
Record Label
Unsigned
No vocalist or drummer is listed. I looked for upcoming tour dates and didn’t see any.
Who wouldn’t want to be one? What is there not to like about: Music, Fame, Money, and Women? It’s doing what you love and getting paid well for it. It’s a dream job if there ever was one.
Well, then we have a very different opinion on that.
I would muuuch more like to have the technical abillities to be able to play like Anton then to be a rockstar!
I don’t care for money or fame. Different view of, and goals in live i guess.
love VanHalen, my fave band…but there is no way to compare VH in 1978 to Anton Oparin now.
by hitting (pure luck) in 1978, VH maximized their earning potential, catching the industry at its peak and coming right into the age of MTV and making all their cash before the bottom fell out
totally unrealistic to put those same expectations on someone today
On the other hand, lets get real, VH has had 2 forgettable albums since 1998 lol
Im the biggest DLR fan in the world, but VH and Anton Oparin have something in common…they need to find someone who can sing
The music business is a cyclical business, no doubt about that. We’ve experienced the biggest down time of all down times over the last 20 years in the rock music business. Not just a recession but a depression. We’re overdue for the next big boom in rock 'n roll and I hope it’s coming soon.
In the 1970s I don’t know how many, if any people foresaw the advent of MTV but it was just around the corner. The late 70s actually were a down time for rock (nothing like now but still…) because of the popularity of disco. You could say rap is to today what disco was back then. Eventually people want to get back to the real thing - musicians who can play their instruments well and put on a great show! It could be that some new technological innovation that’s just around the corner now will do for our industry in the next decade what MTV did for rock bands in the 80s. You’ve gotta have faith!
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Don’t know what you mean with DLR, but i don’t care that much for vocals.
I like complex instrumental music more, with good improvisations
So it is not that i realy like Anton’s music or sound, no, am just amazed by his unbeleivable technical abbilities.
My influences and heroes are players
Ike, Allan Holdsworth, Pat Metheney, Scott Henderson etc…