My oh my! Tater's post got me (another middle aged #$%^) to watch the video; pardon the term but what a "pile". Talent, yes but maturity of the style is seriously lacking. At least IMHO. I suppose the style itself is about due to come back around but why butcher a song like that? If you like technique like that look to Michael Hedges, Stanley Jordan or Tuck Andress (please!)
RF in MN On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Alexander, Jeffrey < [email protected]> wrote: > Amen Tater, amen. > > -----Original Message----- > From: mistertaterbug [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:39 PM > To: Taterbugmando > Subject: Re: Check out this guys technique > > Thanks Neal, for your helpful and open-minded comments. I am curious > what your age is? Let me tell you how I see it, beings I'm the one > that started this curmudgeonly message board... > > Sure, the kid has chops. Nobody can deny that, nobody has. There's no > telling how much time/effort/money he's spent getting to this place in > his artistry. Yes, he is following his muse and probably engaged in > doing what he thinks will sell his face to the festival circuit. The > techniques the kid uses are not new. Even I know that, as old and > curmudgeonly and out-of-date as I am. I don't possess the kind of > chops this kid has. Hell, I can barely do what I do. But I think the > one thing that is missing in this presentation is believability. The > next link was a version by Howling Wolf. Howling Wolf's version is > crude, even simple-minded by comparison(if I were to be so stupid as > to compare the two as being remotely the same thing), but the Wolf's > version has something in spades that the kid doesn't have and that's > believability. Howling Wolf's lived on the hard road and you can hear > it in his voice, in his presentation. He has nothing to prove. While > the kid is brilliant and obviously gifted, he needs to live a while > before he's got anything but flash to give the rest of us. Once he > does, I'm sure he'll be hard to ignore when he has something to say. > Right now he's throwing everything he has into the mix all at once. To > him, it's about the show, not the message. > > A real serious thing happened to me when the first of my two kids was > laid in my hands just a few minutes after birth. It became readily > apparent that the wet and wriggling kid was something very serious and > real and that I had surrounded myself with a lot of superficial > bullshit prior to that event. So, pretty much right then my attitude > changed from being overly apologetic and worrying about pleasing > everybody to seeing a narrow corridor lined on both sides with things > that aren't useful to me or don't support my way of life, my religious > beliefs, my moral code, my artistic tastes, ad infinitum. It has been > hard for me to start being more open to what other people have to say, > musically or otherwise, but I do make the effort. I listen to a lot of > music from all over the world because I want to know what's out there. > Seems most every other person on the planet is getting along real fine > without my way of doing things. That's cool by me. But even with the > wide array of styles, most unfamiliar to me, I can hear some purpose > there, something real. > > I also know that on this list of what you so freely call "middle-aged > curmudgeons" are quite a few men and women who have taken a lot of > really hard knocks and are still standing, still dreaming, still > striving to live good lives. It takes something real and honest to get > a curmudgeon's attention. No flash will do it, no shallow words. > Speaking strictly for myself, gimme something real I can bite into or > don't waste my time. I don't have as much time left as I once did and > I don't choose to spend what I do have left indulging in activities > that don't speak to me or deal with people who have a continuing > negative impact on my days. So, while young Mister Champagne is loaded > with licks, right now it comes across to me as gimmicks. Maybe if I > sat down and talked to the guy and got to know him I might find he's > really cool and sincere and I might understand what he's up to and I > might even "hear" what he's trying to say, but right now all I get > from him is, to quote you again, a bunch of noise. And that, without > apology, is fine too. > > > Mistertaterbug > > On Dec 6, 12:50 am, Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > > don't apologize. my god, sounds like there's nothing but a bunch of > > curmudgeonly 50 year old men on this board. a bunch of noise...ha. i > > mean, it's not my style either, but don't act like this kid doesn't > > have talent. thanks linda. > > > > neal > > > > On Dec 5, 10:43 pm, Linda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Now my face is red... > > > ha > > > I could have put a link to one the young man wrote himself...would > > > have been a better idea. > > > Thanks for this link...now that is a tune!! > > > Somebody needed to tell me..thanks.. > > > linda > > > > > On Dec 6, 4:04 pm, Tud Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Here is Spoonful: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TwEYuues6Y&feature=fvw > > > > > > On Dec 5, 6:39 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > > Thank you very much for sharing. Thats some mad skillz. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Linda <[email protected]> > > > > > To: Taterbugmando <[email protected]> > > > > > Sent: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 5:46 pm > > > > > Subject: Check out this guys technique > > > > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwbBGL8cFJw > > > > > > > Its great to see young people like this fella. > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > > Groups > > > > > "Taterbugmando" group. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > [email protected]<taterbugmando%[email protected]> > . > > > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Taterbugmando" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<taterbugmando%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Taterbugmando" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<taterbugmando%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. 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