Greetings, First off, 'Tater - you rock!! My fav-o-rite Gnashville roots philospher!! Second, I'm on that over 50 curmudgeonly train and I love it. Don't know everything, but getting close to doing everything wrong twice and still learning. Adding to the "list" - Tommy Emmanuel - he can do it 50 times better and it is clear concise and believable.
Seasons Greetings! On Dec 8, 5:55 am, Steve Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a difference between playing some music and performing an exhibition. > This is an exhibition, pure show. He could be juggling chainsaws, or lifting > concrete blocks with random, painful-looking piercings. I'm not saying I'm > not impressed, because I certainly am...it's pretty wild stuff...but I'm also > saying that I'm not content to watch the exhibition. I'd rather listen to > someone who might slide his chair over and ask me to pick a few. > > ________________________________ > From: Robert Feivor <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, December 7, 2009 11:35:51 PM > Subject: Re: Check out this guys technique > > 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curmudgeonly and out-of-date as I am.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]. > >>> > > > 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]. > >>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]. > >>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]. > 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. 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