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Here are some that I like from George Harrison:



The image quality on this next one is really weak, but the performance is great. I remember seeing this air when George made one of his only appearances on Saturday Night Live, and he played with Paul Simon (how cool is that)!
 
How about some foos?





EDIT: Ok for some reason the times like these video is really off sync. My bad:thwap
 
Great posts. The SRV, Pride and Joy, on a Guild 12 is a killer. Love the variety of styles posted. One more from one of my favorite songwriters.

 
Some of the O.F.C. Fretters like me may recall this wunderkind of the acoustic 12'er...making the most out of open tunings, slide & fingers...

WARNING: The following material is not recommended for the faint-hearted or self-contented player:

On TV flying solo in his younger days...


On Garrison Keilor's TV 'Radio' show... with a pretty decent sideman, this time with a 6, putting a twist on an old 'back seat baby-maker'..


...older, but never better, doing an old tune prob'ly more familiarly credited to Bonnie Raitt...one-on-one:
 
Nice thread here, SVL! (Being so acoustically enamoured as I have been these past months.) Some truly GREAT songs and talent in these posts! Thanks to all for some wonderful videos, and, in some cases, some wonderful memories! :applause

Alas, I have nothing to add vid-wise at this time...:nope
 
Ok, I am moved to keep this going. The thread is now aka The Weekend Unplugged.

Not too many females represented, so here is a new comer I like, who performs acoustically a lot. Her guitarist and bass player are pretty good too, and hale from the Seattle bar scene as former punkers.

EDIT: Embedding is disabled so click the links underneath each vid please.

Here is a simple song I want to learn, though I am not sure I can do her yodeling at the end.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eju5AuLFew&feature=channel

Here is another nice one with some cool, mellow acoustic guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIxr5C_Rah0&feature=channel
 
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Nice guys! keep it coming. I didn't even think of picking up some unplugged Alice. Good catch Kris! That Keaggy stuff is cool too!
 
Way back in the era of beehives and crewcuts, a young guy from Queens, NY, with his unknown brother Eddie in the foreground, before rising to fame & glory as a songwriter/singer with his singing partner in the next clip...overlooked and uderrated as an acoustic guitarist, IMHO...


...and recently, with Artie, that singing partner, for a nostaligic reprise of a timeless moment of song...

 
Good one Wingsdad! The Boxer is a particular favorite. S&G will forever remind me of "The Graduate" which I did not see until the '80s while in college. That early clip is very cool. Nice guitar work! :AOK :AOK
 
Wingsdad - thanks for the great choice of Kottke! He was the first acoustic player who grabbed me as much as any electric player and remains an all-time favorite. If you ever get the chance to see him live, don't miss it. It was my gift of the first Kottke LP to my then 14 year-old brother when he got his first guitar that fired him up for a lifelong guitar playing habit.
 
A band I've been getting into



Not exactly a good video but good sound quality

 
Has anybody gotten more mileage and great tunes out of three major chords than John Prine?? Don't even need the minor 6.



And one more from the geezer folk archives.

 
tjcurtin1 said:
Wingsdad - thanks for the great choice of Kottke! ... If you ever get the chance to see him live, don't miss it.
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You're welcome, Ted, and oh, yes...I saw him live many times in the Cambridge/Boston/Greater New England area when I was plugging away in your neck o' the woods from '78-'81. The band I was in even opened for him once at Jonathan Swift's (Cambridge joint). But, I digress..

SVL said:
Good one Wingsdad! The Boxer is a particular favorite. S&G will forever remind me of "The Graduate" which I did not see until the '80s while in college. That early clip is very cool. Nice guitar work!
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Big Fave of mine, too, Steve. 'Anji' was actually included on their 1st or 2nd LP. There's many more clips on YT, I've got many bookmarked, but they're easy to find off that one. But here's one that pairs him with an old redhead and his pal, Trigger':


To address this comment of yours:
Not too many females represented...
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When Heart's 'Dreamboat Annie' came out ('76), I was enraptured by the marvelous acoustic guitar work throughout. The first 2:30 of this particular live clip of 'Crazy On You' (there's a boatload on YT) from back then is the relevant part for this thread, as it shows Nancy Wilson at her best...extending and improvosing her solo intro, and positively launching the remainder of the song. Her acoustic work drives the whole song.


An Ovation Custom Balladeer was her tool at the time. While a lot of 'wood purist' folks today scoff at Ovations, but back then, it was revolutionary for what it made possible that today is taken for granted. Nancy would become thier original poster-child for their radical (then) carbon/resin topped Adamas.
 
Heck yeah Mick! Good catch on Nancy and Heart! Although I am a PNW'er, I consistently forget about Heart, and all the great work they did.
 
Wingsdad,
That post of Nelson and Simon doing Homeward Bound is spectacular. The vocal phrasing is wonderful and although fairly simple the guitar work is terrific. Great stuff. :AOK

The Kottke post are great. His playing is just jaw dropping. Open tunings on a 12'er just seems crazy, but it sounds so good in his hands.
 
'PNW'er'?:confused: Whazzat?

OK...I'm digging this thread you started, Steve, and the range of stuff that folks have tossed up to enjoy.:AOK

So here's an S&G chestnut spun for a purpose by (I suppose...) an unlikely pair. once you get past JBJ's intro comments, it's actually an excellent, simple guitar treatment with fine vocals by the 2 of them. Sambora's another often-Ovation player.

And here they are doing one of their own, same '96 fundrasing gig:
 
evenkeel said:
Wingsdad,
That post of Nelson and Simon doing Homeward Bound is spectacular. The vocal phrasing is wonderful and although fairly simple the guitar work is terrific. Great stuff. :AOK
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Isn't it, though? Beats me how I got led to it by YT, but the audio really makes Simon's cheap :drool Martin (isn't it?) sound great.
The Kottke post are great. His playing is just jaw dropping. Open tunings on a 12'er just seems crazy, but it sounds so good in his hands.
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I can't remember, exactly, but a Stella 12'er played open/slide was the tool of an old Black bluesman ...was it Hudie Ledbetter (a/k/a Leadbelly)?

I'm really surprised that this guy hasn't shown up in this thread yet:

 
Evenkeel - a John Prine album accompanied the Kottke that I gave my brother that birthday long ago! I love his songs and his lyrics - even when they're sad there is somehow a streak of sweet along with.
 
wingsdad said:
'PNW'er'?:confused: Whazzat?

OK...I'm digging this thread you started, Steve, and the range of stuff that folks have tossed up to enjoy.:AOK
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Mick, I meant Pacific NorthWesterner. :poke :AOK I am glad you are enjoying the thread. Me too! I like the mix of boomer and post boomer artists, and the different styles as well, and seeing how they relate or differ.
Thanks for all the contributions, Mick, and everyone else! We still have some time left this weekend to add some more! :AOK :AOK :happy

Here are a couple of post boomers to add to the mix.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Z5Ai3J1ug&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK0LWsEcSjM&feature=related

And a good ol' boomer I listen to now and again. :applause


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqeQgCt-6eg
Shaky vid again, but it is just him acoustically.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8qSl2RWMoY&feature=channel

A couple of different generations of beach music.
 
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