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Location: Charlotte NC | Don't know if anyone caught The Prairie Home Companion on NPR today. They had a talent contest. The winner was this 14 year old kid Brooks Robertson for his fingerstyle guitar rendition of Jerry's Breakdown. If you have Real Player, HAVE A LISTEN Again, he's only 14! |
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Location: Tampa, Florida | Thats insane |
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Location: NJ | great one more person to hate. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I just burned all my guitars......... |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | I saw the glow all the way in Fayetteville, NC. Qick !! Rescue The Country Artist!!!! :D |
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Location: SoCal | Gotta love it! That kid's gonna go places! Another Buster B. Jones. |
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Location: SoCal | I'm not threatened...I'm proud of my ten thumbs. Was that more than three chords? :eek: |
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Location: St. Petersburg, FL USA | No one likes a showoff... ;)
Almost sounded like 2 guitars |
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Location: Central Florida | WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:
Mike, can I throw mine on your fire?
BTW, did y'all catch the "Southern Nights" lick towards the end of the piece? Glen Campbell has always given Jerry Reed credit for showing him that lick, but that's the first time I've ever heard it in it's (almost) original context.
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Location: SoCal | Jeff, that lick was originally written by Jerry Reed for a tune called Stumpwater, but Jerry also used it when he recorded Bob Dylan's Baby Don't Think Twice. It can be used with a number of tunes in the key of E. If anybody wants it in tab, let me know off the board and I'll fax it out.
I've played with Jerry's Breakdown off and on for a couple of years. It's an interesting tune that's played utilizing banjo rolls and open strings (high E mostly).
Paul Yandell, who was touring with Jerry when Jerry wrote it says that it's "vintage Reed"
That kid playing it is terrific. |
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Location: Charlotte NC | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Gotta love it! That kid's gonna go places! Another Buster B. Jones.
Actually, it's funny you should mention that. I foud the bio on the kid. It appears he has only been playing for two years, but look who his teacher is:
"Brooks E. Robertson is 14 and hails from Eugene, Oregon. He is a fingerstyle guitarist and has been playing for a little over two years. As the protégé of U.S. fingerstyle champion and Nashville great Buster B. Jones, Brooks has learned the picking styles of Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, and Jerry Reed. His goal this year is to win the fingerstyle championships this September in Winfield, Kansas. He will be performing with Buster B. Jones at the Montreal Jazz Festival in July. He has performed at the Nokie Edwards Music Festival in Eugene, the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society in Nashville, the Great Woods Music Festival in Canada, and the Guitars for Life benefit in France."
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Gotto listen to the Kid!
All i can say is...
OH MY GOD!!!! It almost made me want to burn my guitars....Not Quite ...Pretty Close...But Not quite! Guess some are just blesses with more Talent! Great Sound! I loved it! |
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Location: SoCal | Talent and a lot of hard work. The kid has talent, and a great teacher (I've got one of Buster's instructional video's and he's a great teacher), but all that's pointless without putting in the work. Betcha that kid, besides going to school, just lives with that guitar in his hands. |
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Location: Central Oregon | Amazing. What kind of guitar is he playing?
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Location: NJ | Godin? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Playing for only two years....wow.
As my body is becoming as vintage as my guitars I've come to beleive that some people are just wired different coming down the assembly line. How cool would if be if they found the gene that causes spontanious fingerpicking.
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Location: NJ | The guitar pictured is a Godin Multiac.
The guitar that he played on the show (I was listening to it as well), I don't know WHAT it was, but it WAS mentioned that it was a guitar that Buster loaned him to use for the radio show.
(Personally, I thought that the violin/bass duo shoulda' won, but what the hell do I know??? . . . ) |
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Location: SoCal | Godin guitars are built by Lo Si Do, in Canada. It's the same company that builds Seagulls and Simon & Patrick. They work really hard to build a quality guitar at an affordable price. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | The Godin Acousticaster and A6 family can be compared to the electric/acoustic Vipers. They are basically solidbody guitars with a piezo and a preamp, are feedback free, and have just enough natural volume for private practice. They are well made, but not as nicely appointed as the Viper...imho.
The Godin LGX electrics are really nice, too, for those who want a guitar with both mag and piezo pickups. I have found, however, that I prefer Parkers for that kind of application. Just a preference, but you WILL see me routinely bidding on Godin guitars on eBay. I like them a lot, and they are often amazing bargains but less so as the word gets out. |
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Location: Scotland | Yep, Godin, same as Buster Jones and Thom Bresh |
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Location: Warrenton, Virginia | I haven't seen him play yet, but from all the previous comments, I would think the young fellow is using banjo rolls....if he is similar to J. Reed.
The Multiac is a nice instrument. Robert Godin is the founder and his headquarters is in La Patrie Canada. Just a little above Sherbrook (sp) Canada. He is a neat guy and as come a long way with his inovation. Godin has a factory in Berlin NH. They ship the parts over from LaPatrie and assemble them at Berlin. I think this CONOP helps negate some import/export taxes.
Getting back to the young fellow....I look forward to hearing him. I believe I understand what everyone describes he is doing with the right hand. From my experience, I was trained that way as well. It's a fast banjo roll....with some stutter licks thrown in. You move the right fingers so fast you double sometimes tripple hammer on the strings...but it happens so fast...it gives the effect of 2 guitars. Good way to practice the lick is on a 12 string. When you switch to a 6...you find your right hand (fingers) move extremly fast and you fall into double tripple licks on the strings.
Paul Moody is right. Godin owns seagul. I didn't know he owned Patrick & Simon tho'
Any way I look forward to hearing him
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Location: RI. That small State out East | His age makes him an attraction for every guitar MFG...
It sure would be nice to see an "O" in his hands.
He makes you smile.
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | Originally posted by Slap:
Paul Moody is right. Godin owns seagul. I didn't know he owned Patrick & Simon tho'
Sam
Named for Robert Godin's two sons. |
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Location: Warrenton, Virginia | dmkozak Quote "Named for Robert Godin's two sons."
Interesting. I didn't know that. Thanks |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | It's a Godin Multiac.
I have one of those, but mine is a steel duet duo model. Great guitars. Multiacs have chambered bodies...looks like a solid body "telecaster" style, but is an acoustic guitar. Has piezo in the bridge, and internal mic. On the top "horn" is a slider 3 band eq, a blender of the pickups, volume, presence knob, and 2 notch filter knobs.
Very easy guitar to play. The most popular of these have nylon strings and synth access.
I see them frequently in concerts on tv. India Arie's band uses them, and Steve Stevens (of Billy Idol fame) used them exclusively for his flamenco solo album. They are very easy to record with as well.
Robert Matarazzo, a local player, turned me on to them. He uses them pretty much exclusively, and often switches from acoustic rhythm playing to distorted lead playing within one song with much success-due to the guitar's ability to vary sound and not feedback. They typically are set up for extra light guage strings, so it's much easy to bend strings.
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Oh to play like this kid
