Grateful Dead Music Forum

PostPosted:**Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:15 pm**

You guys know much about this guy? Clicked on a youtube link of him out of curiousity after watching that Day Tripper link. Boy am I glad I did! Great player, real impressive shit like some bass runs with melody on top. One of those guys who can really make it sound like more than one guitar is going. There's a few good clips on the but I'll leave you with the one that first caught my attention. It's Day Tripper > Lady Madonna, definitely recommend it highly it really blew my mind.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mYzajpeAWuA& ... ed&search=

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:41 am**

Wow. I'll be taking on that style once I put the finishing touches on my chewing gum while walking mastery.

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:42 am**

Check out his 'classical gas' as well.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TX0eTp7SoNU& ... ed&search=

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:13 am**

Unbefrackable, Luv it!! He is just fun to watch. Great fun

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:20 am**

When i saw the Tommy Emmanuel video I was thinking who is that guy that plays While My Guitar Gently Weeps?
Jake Shimabukuro !

Funny how that works.
Here they are together>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=J5qakFIecBU

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:20 am**

Yes Tommy Emmanuel is the king of Classical Gas. Or should I say was the king until this one surfaced.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J2SLd854SHU

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:24 am**

gr8fulbluz wrote:While My Guitar Gently Weeps?
Jake Shimabukuro !

Here they are together>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=J5qakFIecBU

Now that is some sweet stuff there.

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:50 am**

jackr wrote:Yes Tommy Emmanuel is the king of Classical Gas. Or should I say was the king until this one surfaced.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J2SLd854SHU

No way! How can he control the pitch so well? I smell

a hoax!

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:56 am**

jackr wrote:. . . until this one surfaced.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J2SLd854SHU

OoohYeah!!

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:25 am**

Ill go out on a limb here and say I dont like him. I am impressed by his playing, I guess but I see him as a cheap Chet Atkins rip off.

And many times it sounds like more than one guitar because there is more than one guitar. Usually sitting in the dark and not getting any recognition. Look closely at some of those clips.

Again thats something that Chet did too, but I cant see an Emmanuel video and not help but want to see or hear Chet Atkins.

PostPosted:**Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:05 am**

CaptainTrips wrote:I see him as a cheap Chet Atkins rip off.

I don't think Chet feels that way. From Wikipedia:

In July 1999, at the 15th Annual Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention, Chet presented Tommy with a Certified Guitar Player award, an honour bestowed on only two other guitarists (besides Atkins himself) - "In Recognition Of His Contributions To The Art Of Fingerpicking".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_emmanuel

I don't doubt you about the player in the background. I was trying to figure that out for myself but the clips were coming through a little choppy. While I suspected it, I couldn't really confirm it either.