I don't care how good of a guitar player you are...you weren't playing with Ozzy when you were 12.

[pepperbear]

http://www.wimp.com/yutomiyazawa/

by the way, wimp.com (not my site) seems to have awesome random videos of things you don't see every day.

;)

[grace0418]

1. Not just playing, but playing well.

I saw that kid on Ellen (I think) and he was amazing!

[Common Sense Party]

2. I think he's only 10. Maybe 11 now.

I've been following Yuto on Facebook for a while now. He was 9 when he first got to play with Ozzy on Ellen DeGenerous' show.

[pepperbear]

3. even scarier ;)

[Common Sense Party]

10. No kidding. Yes, he's 10

born on February 21, 2000

Yuto Miyazawa (Japanese: 宮澤佑門 Miyazawa Yūto) is a Japanese child prodigy in music. Miyazawa was born on February 21, 2000, in Tokyo, Japan and currently lives there with his parents. Miyazawa was named "The Youngest Professional Guitarist" by Guinness Book of World Records in August, 2008.
Since his discovery, Miyazawa has performed with numerous music legends over the past year including G. E. Smith, Les Paul, Galactic, Deep Banana Blackout, and Ozzy Osbourne.

He has appeared at Madison Square Garden, the famous B. B. King's, Chris Noth and Steve Walter's The Cutting Room, Rodeo Bar in New York City, and at the Gathering of the Vibes festival this past summer.
In May 2009, Miyazawa appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where he performed "Crazy Train" playing guitar and singing lead vocals. He named his musical idols as Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads, and showed his guitar to be an official Rhoads edition polka-dot Gibson Flying V.<1> After the performance, Ozzy Osbourne came on stage to give words of encouragement and awarded him a plaque framed in gold. Yuto appeared on stage at Blizzcon 2009 with Ozzy to play "Crazy Train" as the first encore performance. <2> In 2010, Yuto came back on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and played "Paranoid." He also played "Crazy Train" with Ozzy Osbourne at Ozzfest 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuto_Miyazawa

I don't even have a Wikipedia entry, and I'm over FOUR TIMES his age!

[Kablooie]

4. I played with Harriet when I was 12 though.

[pepperbear]

5. wookie

[jmowreader]

6. And Crazy Train isn't an easy piece, either

[RandomThoughts]

7. I actually noticed they weren't that random.

[old mark]

8. Les Paul talked about this stuff in an interview...how you can be feeling so good

and walk into some little music store and find a 12 year old kid who is so good he makes you want to just quit playing and put the guitar in the closet.

Several years ago, there was a band near Philly made up of 12 year olds...I heard a CD of theirs and they kicked ass...
I will see if I can find more on them.

mark

[mitchum]

9. A friend, who is a fellow guitarplayer, says this proves how the bar is set lower...

for guitarplayers. Y'know, when prodigies are 12. Most other areas have prodigies of a much younger age :)
The kid is very good.