The first tapping guitarist on TV

[alfstone]

It's been a real surprise for all Italian guitarists.

Someone posted this YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmTQYquqxSY

it's from an old (1965) Italian TV program, called "Chitarra amore mio".
The guitar player is an absolutely unknown amateur self-taught guitarist called Vittorio Camardese, Radiologist in a Rome hospital. Nobody knows anything about him (he died several years ago), but it seems evident that E. Van Halen and Steve Hackett were not the first to use this technique.

Alfredo

[Geir]

WOW ... really impressive how he taps the bassline with his index finger and strums with his pinky at the same time (at ~4:00)!

[Hilary]

W O W, incredible - just to let you know, I'm doing the bassline tapping and strumming thing as we speak, whilst typing with my nose 

[steelguitar]

Great innovative unknown guitarist!!!
Really impressive
Jean-Sébastien

[Greeny]

That's amazing. Thanks for sharing. Incredibly funky for 1965 too.

[kenny mac]

Wow, mega cool,just shows you how innovative the guy was.

[Speed Demon]

He cheated!

I'm sure I saw an extra finger in there, somewhere.

[Oldrottenhead]

wow!

[alfstone]

Consider also that in 1965 classic guitars were not amplified: so, to have a decent sound, tapping had necessarily to be not only precise, but also very, very STRONG.

The only news about Dr. Camardese are actually just what he says in the brief interview, before beginning to play: "I'm just a doctor, I had to ask permission to my Director at the hospital to come here to play ( ), I don't know if someone else plays this way, it's just my way to play guitar, I've always played this way. I've never studied music, I cannot read music".

And when the interviewer asks him about the possibility to have a score of his music, he says "There's no score at all, I play what I like by ear. I couldn't write any score".

Alfredo

[Gnasty]

Yes i forgot about this. Youtube has really brought truth out in a lot of things over the years.

This guy was a monster. I can watch this all day. Very cool!!