Andy McKee on Random Acts of Music (R)

[KingKoboldMcMarco]

give this man some NOOOIIISSEEE

[Rael0505]

Man, Andy's sound used to be awful. Glad he has good gear now!

[fifthletteris]

@Rael0505 Andy is FOH, he has no control over how his amplified audio sounds.

[McBoothie94]

Its like just by playing that hes saying i can compose the most beautiful songs with breaking a sweat

[Ironfungus]

Dude scared the crap out of me. HIs voice is all quiet...then screams "NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[ValorJiuJitsuDad]

I would love to have been there! He is truly one of the greats.

[RiouxItsMe]

teacher always think they're superrior hahaha

but most of the time they're fuckin mind closed with they're music conviction =.=''

Lets use theory!....

hmmmm

[mobbbosss]

@RiouxItsMe

hey man, jsyk, i'm quite sure Andy uses theory, even if he didn't study it in a class room ...

[RiouxItsMe]

@mobbbosss i'm sure andy doesnt. you dont need music theory at all to create music.

[mobbbosss]

@RiouxItsMe

well, "need" is a strong word, of course you don't ... but, I've heard Andy talking about different tunings and chord patterns, and thats theory :P ... hell, knowing the names of your notes and chords, is theory, and its theory that helps pretty massively when you're making music, especially when you want to express to someone what you're playing...

[sticky43]

lol 1:00 to 1:08 the guy in the background look really depressed. probabally like i want to play like him :(

[dfvxc]

so what if he made some mistakes? Classical guitarists who train for decades still make mistakes routinely in live performances.

[ox0Jason0xo]

ur talking to me asif i know nothing of music im a year away from being a teacher myself and was just saying how he messed up his timing and afew notes its just funny because players like him and antoine are famous for nailing everything more antoine than andy as antoine is a taught guitarist where andy is self taught and thus has lots of bad habbits ie the whole resting little finger on the body of the guitar thus losing a finger for playing with!

[IIIISolidSnakeIIII]

1:30, the way he strums the guitar fuking awesome

[ox0Jason0xo]

he messes up alot y is he so nervous he has no need to be what so ever i think the only reason he messed up so much is cause he started the song at such a higher tempo than usally played and he dident wanna slow tempo mid song or it wuda sounded weird

meh i cud jus b making exuses for him but its gotta b sumfin like tht hes amazing

[lip333]

he is shy kind of guy...

[jaffijoe]

It's called "liver performance". Humans aren't always in perfect tempo and rhythm. If you are comparing this to the recorded version, please don't. Recordings are usually done strictly, and are done either to a metronome or a backing track. But, that misses what live performance has to offer; the human aspect of feeling, emotion, dynamics and decision-making. Also, stop with the Orwellian new-speak. You are conspiring to dumb down the world and you don't even know it.

[ox0Jason0xo]

im not dissing him in any way just this is the worst iv ever seen him play and iv seen him alot i really think nerves got the best of him for once what a rare sight =P

[jaffijoe]

Hey, diss him or not. I really don't care. But, I am just trying to instill into you that musicians are not robots. We do screw up, we do miss a note here and there, and yes, we do have bad days. Actually, most of our best days are when there isn't another ear around but our own. I would not call his playing as screwing up, I prefer to know that he is just in a different groove on this particular day. He nailed all of the parts, he just decided to change up the tempo on a few parts.

[crescentridge]

@ox0Jason0xo Got any videos of your performances up on YT?

[Hobejo]

goddamn, he's so sweet ^^ i hugged him and Don Ross when they played in Gothenburg, Sweden in november.

[buried2]

hahahaha that emcee went from stale and boring to loud and hip in like 2 seconds.

[hardputty]

you lot criticize but diss G's got mad skillz =]

so untill you can play like he can shaahaat ya mouf !

[jaaanson]

mistakes or not, he is, and always will be one of the best guitarist.

[spiderpig9870]

the other two guitarists on the stage are like wow ill never be that good lol

[trenthalliday]

Wow - he realy starts fast - maybe that's the reason few the occasional errors

[kinslayer120]

he seems very nervous..so guess that the problem=/

[PaddyBhoy91]

I like this performance very much. Andy makes a few mistakes here and there but hes only human after all and he looked a little nervous.

[FG365SE]

I've never really thought of him as Human?!?

[GaM3rDarriN]

I think he sounds much better alone.

[KurtSandford]

Wow he looked nervy. He even had a tremble in his voice at the begining.

But holy crap he can play...

[tutorialsformagic]

and he wiped his hands off like the sweat.. ive never seen him nervous haha

[electrostatic1]

Heh, Just think.. Someone had to follow that...

[goneadrift]

the guy is right. Tremelo is one thing, emotion is one other. there's nothing bad or crazy if your hands tremble when you play in front of thousands of people. and it's more honorable when you tremble and then you play that perfectly rather than not trembling at all. he is a human being and he is like us all. that's what makes him great

[Osmun79]

Very complex.. I have much respect for his crazy style

[andyfedel]

thats not trembling. thats tremelo.

his hands are doing a lot of things, its his own special complicated technique.

i would'nt say a bumble bee trembles. he is simply doing his technique faster than the eye can follow, thats what andy is doing. he's not human. he's not like one of us. andy does'nt tremble. the cameraman may hsve trembled in his awe of andy's guitar playing skills. now evough of this trembling stuff.

i'm going back to watch andy

[megoy435]

best ever!

[unopiuuno]

In some parts, you can clearly see his hands trembling... I guess he was feeling like frozen by fear and emotion.. but he still kicked ass.. he's a human being, and he feels pression and whatever... but he rocks... he definitively rocks...

[gotmyfingerrscrowsed]

WRONG

[spandy22]

One thing you have to remember is that if you have watched a lot of the vids where he is wearing his red t shirt in the studio its gonna be a perfect take where he can replay it if he misses a note. Playing live is different but he still kicks ass. Check him out on the woodsongs - he plays some great versions on those vids.

[lip333]

he screwed up a little bit... but its ok

[augdog188]

Maybe he had a few drinks before he went on stage?

Ahh hell he still kicks major assage.

[iloveguitars00]

pretty shabby performance

[gake]

Is that Patrick Woods and Michael Kelsey on stage with him?

[hjptv]

That is Patrick Woods

[rockstarsouth]

Good shot Andy, See ya in Ocala.