ESP All Access Member Spotlights
Brendan Breakdown and Arianne Márquez: Heavy Riffs on the E-II Eclipse and LTD Axxion
1 Comment
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Community member Brendan Breakdown has taken advantage of ESP All Access more than just about any other person, connecting with musicians around the world to collaborate on new music...
MORE »
Mr. Seidel: "Within The Eyes" (playthrough)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! A reminder to everyone: the ESP All Access community is made up of all kinds of guitar players around the world. Many of you are typical musicians, playing primarily because it's...
MORE »
Jean Patton & Luis Kalil: "Master of Puppets" Cover
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! A reminder to you all: the ESP All Access community is made up of all kinds of players at all levels of skill and success. This time, we're happy to present a video submission by two...
MORE »
Daniel Kesler: "Symphony of Destruction" solo on the LTD Deluxe SN-1 HT
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! About once a year, we get a video submission from All Access community member Daniel Kesler, who also happens to be part of the extended ESP family, working as a product specialist...
MORE »
Antoine I: "Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)" (playthrough cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We knew one of you was going to do a cover of this eventually! Here's community member Antoine I with a cover of a song that electrified the world this past summer when Gojira...
MORE »
Warren H: Powerful Shredding on a 48th Street ESP Custom
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We're getting in the wayback machine for this week's All Access spotlight, with community member Warren Hughes using an ESP custom M Series guitar he recently acquired but has its...
MORE »
Flynn G: "Ardency" on the LTD JM-II
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We love it when a brand new member of the All Access community jumps in with a great contribution, as is the case with Norwich, UK-based guitarist and teacher Flynn Green. This...
MORE »
GuitarBeastKing: "You're In Love" (playthrough cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! This week's spotlight is long overdue, because All Access member GuitarBeastKing has posted many outstanding videos to the ESP community for years, and it's time for him to get some...
MORE »
Anthony Lumpkins: "A Sign of Things to Come" (playthrough cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We're really enjoying every video submission from community member Anthony Lumpkins. In his most recent one, he's using three different ESP models on a playthrough cover of "A Sign...
MORE »
Victor Kovalchuk: Brutality on the LTD Deluxe MH-1000
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's Ukraine-based community member Victor Kovalchuk using his LTD Deluxe MH-1000 for some heavy riffing. Victor's model, the MH-1000HS, is pretty cool in that it offers a...
MORE »
Anthony Lumpkins: "Trial By Fire" (playthrough cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Every time community member Anthony Lumpkins posts a video to the ESP site, it gets our attention. Maybe it's because he's a lefty. Maybe it's because he chooses killer songs to...
MORE »
Brian DeJoy: Heavy Riffs on the LTD NW-44
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Even though he's been part of the All Access community since 2014, this seems to be the first time we've featured anything from community member Brian DeJoy, but it was worth the...
MORE »
Brendan Breakdown with Darren Stroud: All Access EC Jam
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! When we say "community", this is what we're talking about! Two of the most prolific contributors of videos to the ESP All Access Community -- Brendan Breakdown and Darren Stroud --...
MORE »
Chris Mpegnis: Metal Riffs on the ESP Viper
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's longtime All Access member Chris Mpegnis using his ESP Viper to lay down some heavy half-time metal riffs. Hailing from Athens, Greece, Chris has been a steady contributor of...
MORE »
Brendan Breakdown and Darren Stroud: Coast to Coast Metal Jam
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! The greatest aspect of being a member of the ESP All Access community is the possibility of meeting other members whose musical tastes match your own, and making new music together....
MORE »
uNburst: Chunky Fast Riffs on an ESP Original Series Eclipse
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! It's been awhile since we noticed a new video posted by community member uNburst, but this one definitely caught our eye... and ear. He's doing some original riffing inspired by the...
MORE »
Eduards Lazdins: "Majesty" on the LTD Deluxe Viper-1000
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We had to do a little digging to get info on this All Access member, guitarist Eduards Lazdins of Riga, Latvia (fill out your site profiles, people!). But his video submission proves...
MORE »
GuitarBeastKing: "The Green Manalishi" (playthrough cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Community member GuitarBeastKing chose an interesting tune to cover in this video submission. First off, it's a cover of a cover. He's doing the Judas Priest version of "The Green...
MORE »
Daniel Carr: Emotional Melodic Greatness with the ESP E-II Viper
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! All Access member Daniel Carr from Ireland has been a steady contributor of great videos for the ESP community for many years, and he's also built up an amazing collection of ESPs...
MORE »
Ville Koskinen: "No Rest for the Wicked" cover
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Anyone here have the need for speed? All Access member Ville Koskinen delivers all the neoclassical shred at high tempo that you desire, doing a note-perfect cover of Yngwie...
MORE »
Joan Rockguitar: "Here I Go Again" Solo (playthrough cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! There are good examples of rock guitar playing that span every genre and time period for the past 70+ years. In this video, community member Joan Rockguitar takes us back to the...
MORE »
Tim Barnard: "A Tyrant Rises as Titans Fall" (solo playthrough)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Every time we see a video upload from community member Tim Barnard, we know it's going to be good. He was the top runner-up in our 2020 "Lockdown Rockdown" contest, and everything he...
MORE »
Darren Stroud: Single-Coil Tones on the LTD EC-256
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! All Access member Darren Stroud, whose videos have graced this spotlight on many occasions, submitted this playthrough cover of "Things We Do" by the Native American blues rock band...
MORE »
Nick Over: "Cobra" (playthrough cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Something we can all learn from ESP community member Nick Over... a song is as metal as you want it to be. In this case, he's essentially doing a live playthrough of the rock remix...
MORE »
Brendan Breakdown, Darren Stroud, Rocky Gray: Three-Way ESP Shred
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We have to note that this is a first. All Access member Brendan Breakdown connected with two other ESP community members, Darren Stroud and Rocky Gray, to do this epic 3-way...
MORE »
Darren Stroud/Space Hombre: "Astral Glide"
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Most of you have seen videos we've featured by All Access member Darren Stroud before, but they probably weren't like this one. Here, Darren assumes his alternate identity as the...
MORE »
Ruben Baculo: "Negative Weight" on the LTD Deluxe EC-1000T CTM
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's Philippines-based rocker Ruben Baculo, using his super-modified LTD Deluxe EC-1000T CTM on his band's song "Negative Weight". Why do people modify guitars? Because they want...
MORE »
Anthony Lumpkins: "In Waves" (cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's All Access community member Anthony Lumpkins doing a guitar cover of "In Waves" by Trivium, the title track off their 2011 album. Anthony is using his ESP E-II Eclipse DB in...
MORE »
Anthony Lumpkins: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (playthrough cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We were headbanging as soon as community member Anthony Lumpkins hit the first downpicked chord in this playthrough cover of Metallica's classic song "For Whom the Bell Tolls" off...
MORE »
Chris Mpegnis: "Metal Friday" on the LTD M-7HT Baritone Black Metal
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Athens-based community member Chris Mpegnis has posted tons of killer riffs and grooves on the ESP site over the years, and we always enjoy them. In this one, he's laying down some...
MORE »