Bill Frisell~Keep Your Eyes Open

[yalebellydance]

whats so deceiving about bills playing is sustaining those notes is HARD and requires skill and smarts! its one thing to play them, but to hold them and release them musically, like on a piano, thats finesse

[portbankok]

Amazing!

[kevoishere1]

Bill Frisell is incredible.

[jiulianus]

A guitar painter!

[SSSSRRRRGGGG]

6 people closed their eyes

[skier123453]

Great tune by a great artist...I have to be in the right mood to listen to the mellow stuff but this is wonderful...question: does anybody know of anything other than Bass Desires where Bill is playing with a more intense rhythm section? Did he ever sit in with the Mahavishnu Orchestra? haha

[blackdogbite]

@skier123453

Check out Frisell with Ginger Baker's trio. charlie Haden on bass. Ginger Baker (the ex-Cream drummer) and Charlie Haden are fantastic. There are a couple of good clips on youtube and be sure and check out their 1993 album Going Back Home. Great stuff.

[baysidejack]

@skier123453

naked city ;)

[olivesandhoney]

Like dreaming and waking to a resolution of that dream and then drifting into that dream again. Thankyou for posting.

[beckypics]

pretty

[bebaslepas]

I bet he have RC 2 family from boss now.. he even do this kind of think before the RC family was born! :)

[stickkguitar]

What a beautiful song that is!!! Takes me to heaven :)

[TaterGumfries]

Needs more banjo.

[keithandrew]

beautiful



[speakvisual]

I am healed.

[chaosIsTheOnlyPower]

So I have posted this idea on a couple other threads.

If the human race faces obliteration and we can save one American guy to teach the survivors music, I vote for Bill. Clear, inventive, no pretense.

Anybody second my nomination?

[53160]

@chaosIsTheOnlyPower as brilliant as Frisell is, I disagree. No one should teach other people about music. And I even go to the conservatory xD

[chaosIsTheOnlyPower]

@53160 So how are the rest of us supposed to learn anything? I expect your response is more a reaction against a rigid academic type of indoctrination instead of a more general ability to teach by example or by direct experience. If you are suggesting that there should be no music teachers, then I am buggered if I can figure out how cool stuff gets passed on from generation to generation.

[a1gold174]

You could also argue that for everything you learn (aesthetically of course) you figure something out for yourself. So yes, while a teacher is helpful, students will learn with or without them.

[AlbusKong]

he is one of the few guitar players that really knows how to just sit down and play the song

[stickkguitar]

what a beautiful performance I can't stop watching it all the time love it completely

[adrianscally]

Masterful.

[maidoodesu]

Thanks always !

[edgluhrs]

Wow.

[wseaqyght34217]

excelent

[ALFBRI2005]

Desde Venezuela, gracias Bill por tu dedicacion a la creacion de tan profundas melodias.

Thank you Bill for your wonderfull music.

[mazuk33]

I have only one CD of him, "Nashville", and few others songs downloaded... and I always considerate his work "out of normal" ... one step ahead, if you know what I mean... great

Cheers from Brazil... ;-D

[combcard]

anyone think he looks a little like neil young?

[mpeter8]

No he looks like Brad Pritt masked old in the Benjamin Button film. For a moment I seriously thought it was Bill Frisell. But sady it turned out he wasn't... would have made the film much better though. ;)

[hallmanjon]

a little, and whenever it's not a close up he looks just like Lewis Black in this vid

[SoundPlanner]

Amazing, beautiful sounds

[kondor121]

I love Bill Frissel and Radiohead....

[CommongoodNation]

I'm dedicating this song to my friend Hendrik. I tried finding the "Will Jesus Wash the Bloodstains from your Hands" from the same album, Nashville, but couldn't find it on youtube.  So this is my substitute.

[IRTAMI]

How exciting simplicity can be, especially in times where everybody competing about speed and load noises. Bill Frisell just explores the beauty.

[cj1982]

this is a perfect example of beauty in simplicty. he's doing all this beautiful playing over a simple loop. i was very moved by this.

[queteimportaguey]

he's so cool!

[gonzalobarriora]

One pioneer of the new jazz sound...

[emgcarra]

One of the greatest...!

[cdc3j]

deluxe reverb. it's what he uses most times. I heard he rents the reissues for shows. you can tell by the mic position. only 1 12" speaker.

[ALoveEternal]

that tone is just... perfect! what amp is this guy using here?

[Junnage]

Looks like a Fender Twin Reverb. I could be wrong but it looks like it.

[Lutemaker]

Great sound as usual.

It is a bit strange that you call on of the best guitar players ever lived "this guy" )

Nothing personal but....

[ALoveEternal]

IF ONE MAN CAN, SO CAN ANOTHER

[studio1087]

Bill Frisell was just voted Best Experimental Guitarist of the year in the Guitar Player Magazine reader poll. I think his sense of time and melody are great. Nice!

[ausrotten9]

A tone that could melt rock, a sense of music (and how it travels in time and space) uneffected by style, trend, and the structural limitations of his instrument - only effected by his sense of where sound should be placed.

[TheLostTruckDriver]

Now that's an opinion from someone you can trust!

[TheLostTruckDriver]

The "j/k" means just kidding you idiots!

[finsmi]

I just got a sudden urge to buy a loopstation ;)

[robsocal]

Stunningly beautiful playing. Great tone and tastefully done.

[ngrsake]

I always hear a flavour of good American roots music in his sound.

[flamencodiablo007]

saw him at a free lunchtime jazz show last year...incredible guitar tone! love how he focuses on tasteful, sparse playing...as opposed to the insane shred of most other virtuosos (dont get me wrong, I like shred too...but this is more something I can aspire to, as opposed to 8hours a a day of practicing chops)

[urheadonastick]

Good point but it may will still take 8 hours a day practice to pick the right sparce notes also.

[cloza222]

WOW. blown side ways just discoverd this guy while sitting here with an 8 pack of caffreys as i do on a thursday night off

[kpriisholm]

Breathtakingly awesome...

Does anybody know if these solo performances are available on DVD? Would love to watch them in higher quality on my TV.

[petergabrielfan34]

Incredible melody!

[123gocat]

i love all his work, but "egg radio" has to be the best...

[kensho3]

Sick. Insane. Love.

[gummybear100]

He reminds me of Ry Cooder.

[fiddlerfart]

The 1 time I saw him was in St. Louis 3-4 years ago-w'the"Unspeakable" line-up. Great, but fairly restrained. For the encore, they did Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On";he let the flood gates open and let her rip. A potent character, no doubt.

[sebonyourtube]

an expert of time, silences , and melody. Over all a wizard of sound

[dwa8167]

A true master.

[RandyECombs]

Phenominal

[svinariezas]

So musical.... Miraculous.

[mara235]

This is amazing.

[dakcz]

thank you so much for posting this incredible beauty...

[faithz72]

His album Nashville is a miracle made of simple beauty... anyone's got him playing the song Throughout? Please post!!!!

[Shawnziez]

Devastatingly Beautiful... the sounds this man pulls out of a simple six string could make me weep.

[ssandic]

speachless

[pacogonzz]

Bill Frisell is an American treasure! Here he shows us just how devestatingly beautiful a telecaster guitar is. Wonderful. Thanks for posting this.

[GolfShoes]

just listen to :48 - :58

:)

[Duif2]

Great guitar play! Inspires me to learn some of some jazz licks :)

[On3ironaut]

One of the few contemporary players who isn't afraid to incorporate simple ideas.

[rg2027x]

that's what makes him great-he doesn't limit himself

[viz76]

fine,intelligent playin.five stars

[modernoracle]

WOOOOW!

[lionhearted99]

This was performed at the Berkeley Church in Toronto.

[DiracP]

Thsoe aren't guitar strings, they are my heartstrings. How do you do it, Bill?

[glawax]

Wonderful Bill Frisell

[Dude421]

who else can improvise like that over an E scale. Amazing.

[TheDeLi]

Again great.

What show or event was this?

[Stanleyfunkybutt]

Bill is the greatest. An incredible and original guitarist and composer.