Members Jkater Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 [video=youtube;DQHn5fkH0AM] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 I passed up seeing him in 97 because I was a little low on cash. One of my biggest musical regrets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rog951 Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 I got drug to see him at the local community college by some friends and I was SO glad I went! What a great show he put on. He was dead a few months later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lonnie99 Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 Ok I give, who is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 Ok I give, who is that? Really? No problem if you haven't heard of him, but he was one of the top premier acoustic guitarists of the early 80s who was often categorized into "New Age" with Windham Hill artists. This is his most well known piece. [video=youtube;XqGHE5GqZ44] But a much better acoustic guitar player than car driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BryanMichael Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 I saw a video like that where Bruce Springsteen was "busking" on the street in like Denmark or something, just playing guitar and harmonica and singing. Some people would drop a dollar into his case, but very few people recognized him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OldGuitarPlayer Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 I saw a video like that where Bruce Springsteen was "busking" on the street in like Denmark or something, just playing guitar and harmonica and singing. Some people would drop a dollar into his case, but very few people recognized him. This? I think the 100 or so people standing around and singing along recognized him. [video=youtube;EQzpefkdPl0] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xStonr Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 I remember being at Seaside Heights in New Jersey in the late sixties with my girlfriend and another couple. We walk past a small club and the marque says Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. My buddy says no cause we never heard of him yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 I saw a video like that where Bruce Springsteen was "busking" on the street in like Denmark or something, just playing guitar and harmonica and singing. Some people would drop a dollar into his case, but very few people recognized him. I saw one video from back East, I think it might have been in the DC Metro Station, where one of the Country's top violinists was playing down in the train station. Most everyone walked by not paying any attention to the beautifully played Classical music he was performing, except a young child who was staring at him in awe as the child's mother dragged him along. It's odd how many people (most) have to be stopped and told "hey, this is great stuff here - stop - listen". I had years of working at an Opera House and would see the town's upper class turn out in droves for the local Symphony. But you could tell that for most of them they were just there themselves to be seen out - supporting the arts. They were the same people who would walk right by something like that or leave another performance at the hall only half full if it wasn't pre-programmed on their season tickets. hmmm - found it [video=youtube;hnOPu0_YWhw] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BryanMichael Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 Might have been this video, perhaps the memory had it differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RogerF Posted November 27, 2011 Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 another legend busking [video=youtube;n4k91WmedLc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4k91WmedLc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HanSolo Posted November 28, 2011 Members Share Posted November 28, 2011 Haha. He even brought his guitar tech along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lonnie99 Posted November 28, 2011 Members Share Posted November 28, 2011 Really. Who is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Will Chen Posted November 28, 2011 Members Share Posted November 28, 2011 This was a fantastic experiment. Well worth reading the article written about this at the Washington Post as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted November 28, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 28, 2011 Really. Who is it? I thought Gas Man answered your question in a satisfactory way but I'll say that Michael Hedges was a guitar hero to every fingerstyle acoustic guitarist on the planet. He had a technique impossible to emulate and as a jazz educated musician knew what he was doing harmonically. He died too young like so many geniuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretmonster Posted November 28, 2011 Members Share Posted November 28, 2011 Kinda forgot how great Hedges was. Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jersey Jack Posted November 28, 2011 Members Share Posted November 28, 2011 I think there's an old video of Neil Young busking "Old Man" on a banjo--I want to say in Scotland. Not sure.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted November 28, 2011 Members Share Posted November 28, 2011 That's kinda funny. Michael was never really a household name. His music was more challenging to listen to than your average pop tune, so he never drew throngs, anyway. He and I grew up in the same town. He was/is known there, but not to a huge extent, as he didn't use fiddles. I had the pleasure of seeing him once before he died. That was, and will probably always be, the greatest single guitar performance I've ever seen. The guy was one of a kind. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Strenge Posted November 28, 2011 Members Share Posted November 28, 2011 Loved the album with this on it:[video=youtube;YaIN13aDbCc] [video=youtube;h3RvhLt9x0c] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted November 28, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 28, 2011 The only two tunes I ever learned from M.H. are Layover and eleven small roaches (a fun one to play)[video=youtube;cQhpgjkxoyI] [video=youtube;38xjrmdZNBY] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GCDEF Posted November 29, 2011 Members Share Posted November 29, 2011 This was a fantastic experiment. Well worth reading the article written about this at the Washington Post as well. That's been discussed before. If you know anything about living and working in DC, the results aren't surprising at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JohnnyDD Posted November 29, 2011 Members Share Posted November 29, 2011 I saw Hedges with Liz Story (a Windham Hill piano noodler whom I was there to see) in 1983-ish in Boulder.Liz Story was kinda boring. Hedges was crazy good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretless Posted November 29, 2011 Members Share Posted November 29, 2011 Hedges was so talented and let's not forget Manring was with him all those years[video=youtube;ETZZyXmJr98] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lonnie99 Posted November 29, 2011 Members Share Posted November 29, 2011 Jkater, nobody answered my question until you. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoneNut Posted November 29, 2011 Members Share Posted November 29, 2011 I seriously enjoyed this man's playing. So sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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