Joe Walsh and ?

[M29]

I ran across this and can't figure out what the guitar player on the left is doing playing with his thumb. Any thoughts? Some sort of barre chords?

 

[bigG]

Yep. He's barring an open-tuned guit. Didn't watch the vid, so don't know what key they're in. I've seen a few players barre open tunings this way.

EDIT: just watched the vid. He seems to be in either open G or open Em tuning. From what these old eyes can make out, he's barring the 7th fret when Joe's playing a D chord, which means open G tuning...I seem to recall that Mick Jagger plays thumb-barred open tuning on some songs live...

 

[M29]

I see thanks bigG!

 

[bigG]

You are very welcome, M29! Glad I could help.

 

[Zip]

Cool vid. That's Jules Shear on guitar, Dr. John on piano. Can't see the bass player enough to make out who he is...