♫♪  Kawaii Boys (Dustin Wong, Mark Mcguire, & Ken Seeno) - “Japan Tour 2013”

From May 8-18, 2013, Dustin Wong’s tour with Mark McGuire united two of the free world’s dopest live-looping guitarists — the young men behind this and this — on the same stage for a series of dates in front of Japanese fans who better know how good they had it, because — WHAT — Ken Seeno is the third member of this posse, and the two halves of Ponytail’s rainbow guitar assault have reunited — all three of these guys together — awww daaaamn!

If I were at Unit in Toyko on May 10, I would’ve been up front trying to witness the click of every pedal, the well-timed turn of every volume knob, every lead whammy’d into a shriek, every loop recorded and played back — BUT luckily someone filmed it from way up close and and synced it to high-quality audio so I can pretend I was there and appropriately nerd-out here in my own home. When confronted with these dudes shredding pentatonic melodies through heavy delay for 15 minutes and looping the output of three guitars into a giant glistening cloud of like 30-guitars-worth of ecstatic soloing, 95% of you will be at least somewhat-to-totally all like “Yeah! Fuck yeah! かわいい ボーイス!!” The other 5%, the ones who consider this “wanky” or “overblown” and sneer and namecheck The Edge derogatorily, I don’t know what to say to you.

• Dustin Wong: http://twitter.com/dustinwong
• Mark McGuire: http://mcguiremusic.blogspot.com
• Ken Seeno: http://kenseeno.com

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