Michael Lee Firkins has long been an underground favourite amonst fans of guitar-related music and its been a long while since his debut album hit the shops – I remember listening to it on tape as I took the train down to GIT and being very impressed by his tone, feel and chops.

Now, a lot of this video concentrates on his vaunted (and these days underused) pseduo slide/pedal steel licks that he whipped out at the drop of a hat – and very tasty they are too. He covers several sorts of intervallic approaches, double stops, slides, slurs, warbles, finger picking and even the use of a capo but ultimately there’s a little too much time spent on that particular technique (IMO at least).

Thats not to say he doesn’t cover the de reiguer 80′s tapping, legato, and sweeping sections because he does, and far more fluidly than a lot of players at the time but as with so many videos of the period it feels more like a collection of licks and some basic theory but equally as I’ve said before – that sold a lot of videos at the time

Well worth watching for all that – and the demonstrations are excellent.