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Post by NikGnashers on Sept 15, 2024 7:12:27 GMT
Something I stumbled on and had never seen before, quite a lovely little piece and impressive use of moving the Capo, along with some other tricks.
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Post by ocarolan on Sept 15, 2024 7:46:26 GMT
Seven Black Roses, from his 2nd LP, The Tumbler. It's fun innit?! Check out the LP version too, Nik.
Saw him play this (and the rest of the album) in 1969 at my local folk club when he was a fresh faced curly haired teenager - a revelation - never seen anyone attack the guitar like that.
I worked out how to play it from that gig and my LP - it's actually not that tricky - apart from moving the capo - then I used a Hamilton , with various bits of tape to make it work better and to stop the bar unclipping when moving it around the neck.
Haven't played that in decades! Great to see it - thanks for posting.
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Post by Phil Taylor on Sept 15, 2024 8:11:33 GMT
I enjoyed that and was probably pretty impressive back in the day. Interesting how he only uses his thumb and fore finger.
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Post by NikGnashers on Sept 15, 2024 8:42:50 GMT
Seven Black Roses, from his 2nd LP, The Tumbler. It's fun innit?! Check out the LP version too, Nik. Saw him play this (and the rest of the album) in 1969 at my local folk club when he was a fresh faced curly haired teenager - a revelation - never seen anyone attack the guitar like that. I worked out how to play it from that gig and my LP - it's actually not that tricky - apart from moving the capo - then I used a Hamilton , with various bits of tape to make it work better and to stop the bar unclipping when moving it around the neck. Haven't played that in decades! Great to see it - thanks for posting. Keith I 'think' I have heard the piece before, but never seen John play it live. Thank you for sharing the memories Keith, I was only born in 1969 lol, and didn't really discover this type of acoustic Folk until the late 1970's. I can only imagine what an exciting time it must have been back then, and I would have loved to have been old enough to have seen John Martyn, and of course my hero Bert Jansch, play live in the small Folk clubs back then. |
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Post by bellyshere on Sept 22, 2024 21:46:00 GMT
What a great player he was. A massive influence for me. I tried the moving the capo thing myself. I didn’t have the smoothness as John.
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Post by juliant on Sept 24, 2024 14:57:23 GMT
Nice to see someone else with a capo on the seventh fret! And the retuning... yer man could have done with a couple of Keith pegs ;-)
This reminded me of some of Giltrap's early hundred-note-a-minute stuff which (if memory serves) he played with a pick and his litte finger. I had a couple of lessons off him and it didn't take long for me to realize that I wasn't going to learn a lot, because he was so far above anything I could do.
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