Aaron Loesch wins GC King of the Blues.

[BigShred]

Aaron Loesch, one of my best friends, won the Guitar Center King of the Blues competition.

All the contestants were playing fancy guitars and dreaming of endorsements, etc. He refused and from the auditions to the finals insisted on playing a $35 Wal-Mart acoustic fitted with a DiMarzio Super Distortion and won.

http://www.gckingoftheblues.com/blog/entry/112

I'm super proud of him. Aside from being super creative he's a great guy.

[ibanezcollector]

dont want to sound like a jerk but how did that win king of the blues?

there were at least 30 mistakes I heard, where strings were ringing when they shouldnt have, etc.

Again no disrespect but I just dont see it.

[BigShred]

Originally Posted by ibanezcollector

dont want to sound like a jerk but how did that win king of the blues?

there were at least 30 mistakes I heard, where strings were ringing when they shouldnt have, etc.

Again no disrespect but I just dont see it.

Yeah, of course there were mistakes as there are with most contestants and he fully acknowledged that. He himself didn't understand how he won and just attributed it to the One Upstairs. I didn't enter because I suck at the blues otherwise I would have whooped everyone's a$$es lol j/k

From what I understand, the judges based most of their decision upon originality because they go through literally hundreds of people playing pentatonics really well, but not really sounding any different from the other.

He has one song that was on the King of the Blues website early on in the competition where he sings and you'd never guess that he wasn't a Cajun (or a drunk one at that).

Anyways, I'm sure there were lots of players technically better, but I feel he won based upon the spirit behind the playing. Either way, I'm just glad he won

[taracatac]

I love the attitude of taking a flaming POS guitar and winning! It just proves that it is all in the fingers!