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  • Does anyone know what kind of violin he plays? I've seen similar chin rests on some violins, but I don't know his exact one.

  • I can here some of Paganini in this, very wild

  • If I ever see this guy in person I know I'll become a crazy fan girl and throw myself at him.

  • Influences? A bit of the "Ludewig Van?"

  • Andrew Bird's socks- forever love.

  • this is interesting, bc this is 2006, and this is kind of early stages of the end of Carrion Suites; my favorite from Useless Creatures

  • Very Bach inspired 

  • Transcendental. 

  • I know it doesnt matter, but for those wondering, he's said in an interview that he's not a believer

  • Great performance. What song is this? I am pretty sure it's not by him. Would like to hear a different version.

  • lol i love how just because he's playing at a church everyone has to bring up religion... you people and your lifelong fights about religion makes me lol

  • of course he is religious, he's God.

  • te amo

  • does anyone have the tabs for this? :D heheh

  • hmm... played a bit of Paganini there I believe! Awesome vid! Thanks!!

  • wow, look at his hair. and look how young he looks! whoa!

    (sorry, it seems kinda obvious to me that his playing is completely out of this world.)

  • wow.

    that looked amazingly effortless

    especially at 1:25

  • Whether or not Andrew Bird is religious or not has nothing to do with his reasons for deciding to perform in a church.

    In fact, I'm sure if you asked him he would tell you that he played in the church because the sound projection was amazing, like in most churches.

    Why does his religious practice matter anyway if we can all agree that he is a stellar musician?

  • Took my breath away...

  • Isn't Andrew Bird an atheist?

  • who cares

  • Well... Me. Duh. Thus the question I asked. I was just wondering, because I've read before that he is. Yet, here he is performing at a church. And that's fine with me, but it does seem unlikely. Sort of like Richard Dawkins giving a lecture at the Vatican.

  • This was recorded from a set during the Wordless Music series, and it's always well-noted that churches have wonderful acoustics. Not believing in conventional or subscription religions myself, I still find myself in them now and then.

  • Andrew Bird is a gift to mankind. For god's sake don't stop making music Andrew! Here's to a prosperous and productive career so that I can continue to enjoy your music, hehe :)

  • He is so wonderful.

  • holy eff

  • I think I could listen to nothing but him the rest of my life and never get bored. Seriously!

  • i dare you to

  • try it (:

    i've been doing so for the past 2 weeks, and haven't got bored yet.

  • just damn.

  • He's so wonderful!!

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  • Thank God I found Andrew Bird.

  • This guy's insane :)

    How on earth is he human???

    this is just...gorgeous.

  • Simple: he is not human. He's a nightingale with rays of sun insted of his wings captured in a perfect body.

    Right?

    I love Andrew Bird, srsly. <3!

  • THIS is how I want to play!!!! oxoxoxox

  • This makes me NEED a Violin. Perhaps when I'm 60 years old. I can make a violin sound like he does. I doubt it though.

  • i wish he would come play at my Church thatd be insane

  • It hurts my soul that I couldn't see him because of a stupid exam. Ah! I love his music.

  • The blob is an idiot... and doesn't know what he's talking about.

    I've seen Andrew Bird live and he is sensational. This video isn't that great to be honest...

  • is there a recording of this anywhere? IT IS THE BEST thus far live i have heard of him.

  • a wise man says "we will never know"

  • oh please. don't kid yourself. the mainstream is terrible, but that makes artists like andrew bird so much more precious.

  • i like how musicians these days are actually starting to be musicians again... rather than just rock stars. almost gives one hope.

  • @regalkidney  agreed. rock stars have and always will be beat.

  • @regalkidney because they aren't playing guitars? that's a VERY narrow view haha. you probably just listened to radio 1

  • andrew bird

  • acoustics... churches have good acoustics... ive never known buildings to have harmonics, let alone good ones, but yes i agree. beautiful....

  • This is so very inspiring...

  • Beautiful

  • he's christan?!?!?! didnt see that coming!

  • this was a concert, just happened to be held at a church.

  • churches have good harmonics :)

  • Um....Scientologists are idiots. Read up on the religion and see what I'm talking about.

  • Please, don't feed the trolls.

  • like Sufjan?

  • @buddah374 Do you know who a christian is? not necessarily someone who plays a violin in a church.....

  • @buddah374 acoustics, buddy

  • @buddah374 warlock.................

  • lovely video

  • The most entertaining thing about any bird video is the arguing back and forth about how bad bird's videos are. The videos aren't bad except for all the people in them. The music is a term used loosely in this case, I agree with all the cons about this, I can't find anything of any value whatsoever.

  • Of course you agree with all the cons about this. Since you are the only one to attempt to list the cons, why would you disagree with yourself?

  • this song is beautiful, i dont know what your problem is

  • Whoa...same time comments...

  • aww how cute you two are flirting here too. ♥

  • Yeah, unku, he is definitely flirting and stalking me around by barking up the wrong tree all the time. I don't appreciate or encourage him, he won't leave me alone. And do you hear how he speaks to me? The cad!

  • Okay, calm down buddy.

  • Thank you for your thanking advice wellsungvillain. I don't find it possible though that Andrew Bird could be good or bad by a matter of fact. I find this whole conversation/ arguement entertaining because neither one of us can be right or wrong, we are just expressing opinions. Is that the entire point?

  • All you are trying to do is stir the pot

  • Go find a hobby other than bashing other peoples' opionions. It would be good for you.

  • Flabby, who is bashing what onions ?

  • Bird is amazing. If you don't like him, than simply don't waste your time watching something you don't like.Its a shame that life is so short, but it's a tradegy that we only get one life to live.

  • thank you!

  • You are trying too hard to say that you don't like his music. I respect your opionion actually, as I allows me to see different ideas, not bad ones, but different ones. why is "person" in quotations? I exist.

  • I'll take mine with a wedge of lemon thank you.

  • Lemon won't help !

  • HAHAHAHA. Hey man, you're so right. I've been living a lie.

  • About time !

  • To whoever gave me the -1: A+ at detecting sarcasm.

  • I can't believe how much you don't knnow what you are talking about.

  • why are you guys agrueing?

  • What does 'agrueing' mean?

  • it means i cant speel okey

  • .....honesty......such an underrated quality

  • If you really don't like him as much as you say you do than why do you keep coming back to his site. Regardless of wheather or not you enjoy his music, you would have to be blind to not see the years of professional training that went in to his work.

  • The level of conversation is going down really fast. But thanks for the laugh.

  • The level of conversation is directly proportional to the subject it is aimed at. Bird's product is dropping all over the place just like bird-droppings in my opinion.

  • How pathetic. giggle

  • Heh, a new 'iggery' has been born. giggle.

  • You giggle too much, are you a baby?

  • This has been a poor attempt to try and cover up my true feelings towards Bird. I really am infatuated with him and want to be him. His talent makes me realize how pathetic my life is and how I will never amount to anything. I have no friends and women laugh as I walk by. I am sorry for saying these things about the genius that is Andrew Bird. No bird can make music as beautiful as Andrew. I am a sad, sad excuse for a human being.

  • What is waywardbrigand trying to say, I'm confused ?

  • Maybe you want to go back and read what you typed.

    You leapt from ugly and spindly to rough.

    You call me thick for reading that as a perfectly logical conclusion (which it is).

    Well done troll, well done.

  • Yeah, bird is ugly and spindly: which is what women hate.

    The other thing was 'a bit of rough' , which is a manly quality bird can never have, he's very girly,which  might explain why you like him so much.

    What's the problem?

    Can't you read properly?

  • No, the problem is that you can't express yourself properly.

    You jumped from ugly and spindly straight to rough.

    Any intelligent person would say you were talking about the same person.

    So go back and read what you said while I sit here laughing at your stupidity.

  • I clearly defined what bird is: ugly and spindly and followed that with the comment that most women don't like that in a man. Then I carried on with the qualities some women have told me they do like such as ' a bit of rough, which is a manly attribute that bird doesn't have. There I've re-capped it saying exactly what I said before slightly re-worded.

    What is the matter with you?

  • Having fun trying to get past a mistake?

  • Gorgeous. even better in concert...

  • Shronshron, music is not a beauty contest, anyway bird is the ugliest bird I've seen! Gorgeous means girls, girls are gorgeous, guys are not gorgeous especially not bird the third.

  • Ever think that shronshron is a gal?

  • All the gals I spoke to told me what I've told you, ugly, ugly, ugly. And spindly with it. Real girls like a bit of rough.

  • So girls want ugly and rough?

  • No, wayward, do you misunderstand on purpose or are you really that thick? Girls find bird ugly and spindly and prefer guys with more substance and rough and ready once in a while,so they tell me, don't ask me why. You, on the other hand like bird, maybe your feminine side is not very choosy, not a fussy eater.

  • biggeryash/piggeryash/or whatever name you are using today, your youtube hate campaign against Andrew Bird is pathetic. You are clearly a very bitter individual, and your tiresome comments underneath every Bird video make you look like a complete nutjob. Please give it a rest before you end up choking on your own bile.

  • I don't hate anybody. Bird is too pathetic to warrant such a rich emotion as hate. It's pity. I am far from bitter. I am a very happy and gregarious not to mention generous person with a deep and caring attitude for all. I regret that bird's music is so garbage. My bile is where it belongs doing it's little job perfectly well you'll be sorry to note, as your hate campaign against me isn't going your way is it?

  • I don't hate anybody, anger is too rich an emotion to waste on bird. It's pity. I am far from bitter. I am a very happy individual who's gregarious, generous and optimistic. Sadly, bird's music is very crap and it's not my fault. My bile is where it belongs doing whatever job it's supposed to be doing so your little hate campaign against me isn't going very well is it?

  • Yes, you do sound like a happy fellow with a very generous spirit. I look forward to reading more of your kind words on this site. Your real name isn't Ignatius J Reilly, by any chance?

  • You sound like you are gargling your own sick. Go whine elsewhere pathetic little wastrel. I have no anger towards bird, hate is too rich an emotion to waste on such insignificance.

  • wow...dude. can you say anything else. i swear i've read this same comment like 5 times. it sucks you hate andrew bird, but why do you whine so much?

  • Bombast is nothing more than a tool for the pseudo-intellectual types, who are often self-conscious, which would lead to such attitudes as you have given us a fine example of. You can flaunt your vocabulary and masturbate your own ego all you want, but everything you say looks the same. You're a very limited person with no direction in your words.

  • When someone makes a good point and defends it, of course it will look the same because if it isn't broken it doesn't need fixing. I've heard many sides of this argument and I disagree with the self-appointed lawyer and all his collaborators on this.

  • No, you can carry on ranting and raving about bird over the internet all day and night if you wish (and I know you will). But, nothing you say is ever going to stop Bird from doing what he does and you can't stop him. You just spend your days loathing his every breath because you are completely powerless in stopping his career. I'm not even a die-hard bird fan, I'm just telling you how it is...sorry if you can't digest the naked truth, tiggeryass.

  • we're the same person asshole, let's go rape each other like we did in the ol' country, le france, last night i was le tired that's why i didn't use the le tele to have kinky le phone sex with you, sorry i'll make it up to you by making out with you, cause we're le homo

  • No reply possible to such nonsense except : get help!

  • That last comment, for the record was aimed at wiggeryash, possibly aka the other iggeryash with a prefix I'd rather not repeat as it is an extremely racial reference.

  • It is a felony to make an effort to damage or ruin someones carrier. Both a criminal and civil procedure are possible actions you might have to face if they take your threath seriously. So despite I regret that you seem to be harrassed by some other users, you might have to reconsider your own role in the discussion as well.

  • Myonetrickponey, I am starting to doubt your credentials as a lawyer. First you say everyone has the right to their opinion. My opinion undermines bird's success, you think that is against the law? Rubbish! My opinion about bird's music is can't be considered to be slander.Bird's career will be ruined when fans hear how superior my music is and will cease to be bird fans.That is not a felony. The felony is the assault on the ears from out of tune instruments and lack of musical content.

  • It would not your opinion that is a felony but the fact that you make an effort to be a catalist to make the damage happen that would be definitely a felony, 'making an effort' these are your own words, not mine. What you think about my credentials as a lawyer is completely irrelevant to me.

    The official complaints have been filed and that is the only thing that was of any importance to me. The opinion are just what they are, opinions. I only look at facts.

  • Also, bird is his own downfall you will witness. His little niche (or nest) of fans is quickly running out of favour with him and HE is quickly running out of steam. I don't spend my days loathing, bird fans spend THEIR days losing their taste. Bird can play the violin to a certain degree and he should stay away from guitar until he can reasonably play. But that violin of his doesn't cut it in pop music. Better if he played for free to invalids. Oh..he's doing that already.

  • With statements like this last sentence I would be really careful if I were you, I am in a wheelchair and quite touchy if you use people with a disability in a downgrading way. I won't hesitate to file a seperate complaint about this as well when I think it is opportune.

  • I play for free to places where invalids go to recuperate and other such places. There is no slur against invalids there, I meant that most bird fans are mental invalids if they can like that crap.

  • If you say that someone is a mental invalid, that is slander, and a disgrace for all the people who have serious mental disabilities.

    Look, I do credit you for it when you play for disabled for free. I completely don't understand even more than that you use those words about mental disabilities so easily

    When you seem to feel so involved.

  • My opinion that someone lacks intellect is not slander, it's my own view of bird. His mental deficiencies can be seen in his lyrics, I read his lyrics and they are mental.

  • your original words were invalids, not lack of intellect. Mental defficiencies is also going more towards the definition of slander again. But why should you use these words that refer to mentally challenged?

    Do you have so few words to your exposal that you have to express yourself in this way?

  • It's the same thing.Lack of intellect is a trait of mental deficiency, so is: " words to my exposal " don't you rather mean: 'words at my disposal'. Now you are trying to insult me by saying I have no words. There are numerous mistakes in your postings I've galiantly ignored but now I mention them so you will see the error of your ways.

  • look, you cannot attack me because English is not my native language. Oh you are going to try some more flaws in my English, well you will probably find them, be my guest. I don't care biggeryash. You ignore often the core of the question, and what is not an insult for me is suddenly an insult if I say somthing to you, by the way it was a question, I don't have to see the errors of my ways, I have never stated I was perfect.

  • If you feel you will get me away here because you are now going to 'prove' how flawed my use of language is. You have used slanderous words in some of your entries and have used mental challenged and disabled to strengthen your opinions which is contemptible conduct. (to use official and proper language of your liking} You are trying to get me irritated or angry which will never happen.

  • You are not superiour becuase your English is better, or if your debating techniques are more fluent. I know when I see slander, and and I recognize inappropriate talking about disabled. You can mention anything you like, say to me what you like, insult or not, nothing will change what you have said.

    And nothing will change what the law tells us about that.

  • everyone hates biggeryash, LOL

  • So original: LOL ETC.

  • Does it matter?

    LOL : laugh out loud

    I was laughing out loud.

    what am I supposed to put, GSH?

    Gigglin` So Hard.

    The problem is, that doesn't make sense to anyone reading it.

    Mr. Biggeryash, why have you chosen the path of Ultimate YouTube Troller?

  • Nadine, in spite of trying to cover your tracks many of us have figured out that you are the "iggeries". You did it to spite one who bested you in the wits department and you couldn't let it go. "Laughing out loud" How ELSE could one laugh? What a stupid expression. You are trying to raise a posse and villagers with torches and pitchforks to serve your wounded ego. Grow up!

  • Mhmmmmmm....?

  • LOL !

  • Stupid?

  • Are you?

  • Are you really? Good for you for admitting it.

  • You suck.

    And everyone who views these comments agrees.

    GeT A LiFE, BuD.

  • Not everyone agrees with you and I know you are the iggeries even if I have no proof yet. If onetrickponey is really a lawyer and can find out, he should do it . I will even go to court and testify because what you are typing as the iggeries is racist and disgusting and you should be stopped. Telling someone to get a life is so 'passe'. You are unoriginal.

  • Ohhh, 'get a life' . Does that old saying merit getting dragged out from it's hole and dusted off to be used on special occasions. " Get a life " what a fresh and original put-down.

    As if YOU have a life. Ask Alanis about me, if you see her. Miss Morrissette will surely tell you whether or not I have life in me. You know: Alanis Morrissette of Ottawa and international fame.

  • I don't believe you were laughing out loud. You may not care what I believe but you KNOW you weren't even laughing quietly. You WEREN'T laughing one bit! You were sulking. Because you have been discovered to be hiding behind screen names. And you couldn't take what you dished out yourself.

  • I'm a litte lost here...

    explain?

  • You are behing all the iggeries that have posted nasty stuff and you did it in the hope of getting someone's account closed again. Aww.....bitter defeat for you, aahhh... sweet success for ????

    Anyway, nice try playing dumb and conning everyone, not a one believes you.

  • Wow... you really are stupid.

    And speand way too much time on this site.

    You can't accuse me of something you have no proof for.

    Your life really is pathetic.

    Nice try.

  • Guess what nadine? Myonetrick is setting the dogs on all the iggeries and they will conduct a big investigation on all your nefarious doings. They can dip into all accounts without compromising the innocent and find out all about you. Beware.

  • You continue to insult Bird fans because of listening to Bird despite more than one of us bringing it up that we listen to tons of other better bands, which is something you have continued to ignore.

  • That comment doesn't scan or make sense.

  • It makes sense to those you have sense.

  • Bah

    It makes sense to those who have sense.

    God I hate it when I do that.

  • Badly constructed sentences with no point of reference to guide the reader leads to confusion, especially since the content didn't make any sense and was wrong for a start.

  • Yes.

    And?

    The comment makes sense to those who have sense.

  • That comment is nonsense even to those without sense.

  • If they have no sense then they wouldn't know what was sensible and what wasn't.

    Let's see if I can simplify it for poor little biggeryash.

    You insult Bird fans because they listen to Bird.

    Bird fans don't only listen to Bird.

    Whenever someone states this, you thumb your nose to them and ignore the statement.

    Better? I'm sure someone possessing as little sense as you can understand that now.

  • Ouch, MAN that hurts. Whew! You don't mess around do you? You can't even make sense to those without sense is what you said. You can't type properly. If you typed worse maybe you'd come up with some sense by accident; a million monkeys on a million typewriters for a million years will eventually type all the works of Shakespeare. That is a prolific poet. I don't insult bird fans, I try to guide them to the right path.

  • Yay, more stupid rambling from the lord of such.

    And no, you blatantly insult Bird fans simply for listening to Bird. When they mention that they listen to other, probably better, musicians, you continue to insult them because OMG THEY R BURD FANZ THEY DEZERV TO DI!

  • Hey, what's your problem? He says right at the beginning that it's just a sound check!