Leo Kottke - The Driving Of The Year Nail

[watertonrivers]

I saw Leo Kottke perform as a warm up for Foghat in 1973, Colorado State University Field House. Foghat was really good but Leo Kottke was Outstanding!!

[PoetryHound]

You can tell the cameraman isn't a guitar player. He focuses on the right hand because that's where the fingers are moving, but what the left hand is doing is just as important, if not more important. Hey cameramen, just focus on BOTH hands at the same time.

[fdjondal1]

He sings great with Emmylou Harris on Here comes that rainbow again.

[stillwaterjames1]

aaahh the testosterone of youth

[goodbyezachry]

Holy Bejesus

[ryan9600]

And the most useless information award goes to - The BBC !!

[Scottie1152]

@arjunbanerjee

This is the original Kottke album note on the song:

1. "The Driving of the Year Nail" (From an old Etruscan drawing of a sperm cell) 1:54

[arjunbanerjee]

does anyone know what the title of the song means?

[MilkOfSuccess]

People talk about how they hit their primes, but... Leo has just kept goin'. I saw him last year; he's better than ever I'd say.

[Kargaroc]

How old is he in this video

[maretranquility1]

Dancin´of the fingers ;-)

[watertonrivers]

I saw Leo Kottke for the first time in 1972, warm up for Foghat in Colorado. So he had been on tour quite some time before he got to Britain. He was an absolute genius!!

[rowdymax1]

i thought he was from Minnesota..and where can i get more of this Guitar Heroes series?

[sunshineqsg]

i just love leo kottke. he signed my boobs, once, no twice. hehe

[GitarrenTV]

Fein, fein!

[1madeintheimage]

@GitarrenTV Fein? What 's that?

[GitarrenTV]

@1madeintheimage

It means "super", "brilliant" ... simply great!

[1madeintheimage]

@GitarrenTV Awesome, bitchin', kick ass!! LOL! He's been one of my favorites since Jr. High School!

[alshouse]

This is faster than the album version.

[RKCEnterprises]

CLASSIC Leo Kottke, simply amazing!!! Thanks, Leo

[giorgiopicker]

tnx

never seen him with the bozo before xept x a few pics.

did i miss this.

found out at least we do share something

the electronics placement style

[jasondlane1]

leo kottke is from minnesota

[DaddyTwoFoot]

@jasondlane1 He was born in Athens, GA.

[treetoptop]

This was the first Kottke track I ever heard, in 1989. I was hooked from then on, and am now an addict of Kottke and Fahey. I saw Leo in 1992 up close in a small club, amazing! Although I admit it was just slightly intimidating ha

[DougJustice91]

SO AWESOME

[HannibalOrJustRex]

I keep rewinding back to about 0:22. He plays with a handfull of claws, and each one has more talent than I could only hope to have.

[oceanplanet602]

Wow....1973...how long it has been that Leo has been blowing us guitarists (and everyone else) away! This is a great find, this live cut is even better the one on the Armadillo album.

[tabber87]

I love how they mention that Bubba Sparxxx is from Athens Georgia, like any one cares...

[4eyedCyclopes]

@tabber87 ..I heard Leo and Bubba Sparxxx and doing an album together..theyre calling it "The best and the worst of Anthens."

[Kargaroc]

@tabber87 Who the hell is Bubba Sparxxx?

[warlocksarewatching]

Best guitar player ever

[JesseMathews]

Thank you for this rare video ! hes a monster ! :D

[Scottde420]

im so glad i have this album

[skaterboyz1198]

Just Amazing..What tuning do you think he's in ?

[aarossell]

standard tuning, EADGBE

[Tman4000]

C# Standard

[aarossell]

oh yeah, I don't know why I said that... you're right

[Tman4000]

Even Leo makes mistakes.....

when we're not looking....

:D

[benstewarthelm]

standard tuning indeed, but there is a catch, he's not tuned to eadgbe, he's tuned down 2 whole steps.

[bigred1524]

Good question.

[blufire70]

Has he got a pickup TAPED into his guitar with cut-up shipping material? Epic.

[1crow]

The editor did it again! They cut away to the right hand. It's the LEFT hand where the action is you morons!

[royiscool88]

He's known for his finger picking style so most people probably want to see his right

[Rev2k5]

I disagree.

[benstewarthelm]

and i would say to you, how long have you been in al qaeda..... just kidding with you rev. i think leo is great but their are alot of great players out their it's impossible to say one certain player is "the greatest."

[warlocksarewatching]

I really think he is the best guitar player ever

[krumeneimer]

+1 !!!

[RichardStieltjes]

Today it was confirmed that Leo played in Holland on the 6th of November 1973 (as a true Kottke adept he remembers this by heart). Indeed Leo played here in 1975 also.

[Joekaf2724]

This video makes my insides happy like only Leo Kottke can.

[RichardStieltjes]

Great, great, great!!

First time to see Kottke playing this tune.

Theo, thanks a lot! BTW: I do think that Kottke played in Holland in 1973, but I would have to verify that with a friend who told me once he had been at that concert.

Will come back on this soon.

[susita33]

Great to see a clip of Leo K on a Bozo,I wonder (re -Discussion below) if there is anything out there with L using "the" B-45.Also wondering how many views this will of "driven" in a year...or so from now

[somewhere59]

...and let a few more seconds pass before you stop the video-sequence, otherwise we cannot see Leo's boy-like face when he lifts his head after the end of the tune.

[tmjcbs]

Yes, there is probably more on the shelves of the BBC, where this came from, and the archives of American TV and radio stations. But we'll just have to wait until they care to share something else. As for the ending: this was just about the last frame of Leo before the next artist came up.

[somewhere59]

Does this mean that Leo has performed in Europe already 1973 (he told me once that he toured here for the first time with Procol Harum in 1975)?

[tmjcbs]

Good question. Your guess is as good as mine. Although it is of course possible that he only travelled to London for this recording session.

[maharg11]

On this OGWT show, after Driving of the Year Nail, Leo then played Last Steam Engine Train and Stealing as a medley. He also did a Sight and Sound concert for BBC2 several years later.

[murrmac]

@tmjcbs Just toi confirm that Leo did in fact tour Britain in 1973. I saw him play in the George Square Theatre in Edinburgh that year (the tour was sponsored by the Arts Council btw).

He revisited these shores in 1975 and played the Cambridge Folk Festival that year, but I don't think he has been back here since , although I could be totally wrong about that..

[alernerful]

@alernerful

I first saw Leo in 1975 at the Albert Hall in London. Now, I have tickets to see him in Annapolis MD!

[Bulletguy07]

@alernerful How I wish i'd seen him ANYWHERE in the UK! He seems very reluctant to tour outside the US compared to other musicians. BB King is over here in the UK almost every year and at an amazing 86 years of age is a full twenty years older than Kottke, so Kottke cannot use age as an excuse.

[somewhere59]

There must be more of this early high quality-performance somewhere! Please deliver it!

[JadedJen777]

More please.....

[6K6R]

Great performance 5*****

ClaudeSirois