Buc McMaster Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Just wow. Under every rock there seems to be some player you never heard of that can just flat out play guitar. Nimble fingers on this one....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLIZ3liWPLs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemaster03 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Wow! That was really good, thanks for posting it. Effortless playing and a great sounding guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyrider Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Great!.... Now I think I'll go throw all my guitars in the river... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Yep, this guy sure can play a bit ... nice tone from that Collings also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 The guy is very good. Might be some guy who goes to work everyday and just enjoys playing. If you ever go to any bluegrass jams, you're likely to meet-up with some people that simply play-the-hell-out-of guitars, mandolins, banjos. Just awesome pickers. They're not on TV or the radio, but they are truly talented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 The guy is very good. Might be some guy who goes to work everyday and just enjoys playing. If you ever go to any bluegrass jams, you're likely to meet-up with some people that simply play-the-hell-out-of guitars, mandolins, banjos. Just awesome pickers. They're not on TV or the radio, but they are truly talented. No, pokey lafarge is a proper act, as in fulltime doing this stuff, on tour etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Never heard of him before, Parlourman, but since you supplied the name I found him on YouTube. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiloMinderbinder Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 He took his guitar teacher's advice when told to learn his scales... Very nice. Nice guitar from down the road here in Austin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merseybeat1963 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR GIBS Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 The guitarist is veeeery good, really! The guitar sounds fantastic. But tell me, why I DONT like the white tuners on this instrument? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemaster03 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 CARL MINER A bluegrass competition veteran at the ripe old age of 25, Carl Miner placed second in the famed National Flatpick Championship in Winfield Kansas when he was only sixteen, won it a year later at 17, and placed second again in 2007. This seeming step back from the top of the victory podium belies the inherently problematic nature of artistic competition: Winfield judges, who listen in by microphone from a sequestered location, are saddled with the frequently arbitrary task of narrowing a 40-person field over the course of nearly six hours of playing. It's also an injustice to the invariably greater harmonic wisdom that comes with experience. For the 2007 competition, Carl put together a program that displayed exactly such wisdom by including, among other things, an elegant bluegrass reworking of the 1924 Gershwin classic Oh, Lady Be Good. In light of the staunchly traditionalist sensibility of the Winfield festival, the choice of a song made famous by Fred Astaire and Ella Fitzgerald was as unlikely as any competitor could have made. And yet in Carl's hands it became an apt vehicle for his consummate blend of lyricism and athleticism, both evocative of its jazz roots and deferential to its bluegrass context. And for that reason it was easily the most sophisticated musical performance of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiloMinderbinder Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 CARL MINER A bluegrass competition veteran at the ripe old age of 25, Carl Miner placed second in the famed National Flatpick Championship in Winfield Kansas when he was only sixteen, won it a year later at 17, and placed second again in 2007. This seeming step back from the top of the victory podium belies the inherently problematic nature of artistic competition: Winfield judges, who listen in by microphone from a sequestered location, are saddled with the frequently arbitrary task of narrowing a 40-person field over the course of nearly six hours of playing. It's also an injustice to the invariably greater harmonic wisdom that comes with experience. For the 2007 competition, Carl put together a program that displayed exactly such wisdom by including, among other things, an elegant bluegrass reworking of the 1924 Gershwin classic Oh, Lady Be Good. In light of the staunchly traditionalist sensibility of the Winfield festival, the choice of a song made famous by Fred Astaire and Ella Fitzgerald was as unlikely as any competitor could have made. And yet in Carl's hands it became an apt vehicle for his consummate blend of lyricism and athleticism, both evocative of its jazz roots and deferential to its bluegrass context. And for that reason it was easily the most sophisticated musical performance of the day. I'm relieved that he's not just some dude sitting on his couch (like me!). Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guth Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Nice. Very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Cripe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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