Taiwan live 2003 part 3 - Andy Mckee

[MarkThisWayAfter]

I see KG, but where is JB?

[13mdark]

is it maasaki kishibe the 1st guy?

[bathory1234567890]

Don't matter how he looks like! He's a brilliant guitarist and he makes fantastic music! Ignorant people! Just lookin on how people look like!

[mattdcs15CORK]

It's insane how much better he's gotten, but more to the point, how unreal he was he started playing professionally 0.0

[killingj0ke23]

lol he sorta looks like kyle grass

[pacificaspieler]

@killingj0ke23 dude its gass not grass..

[killingj0ke23]

@pacificaspieler my bad

[deejay74shredder]

He messes up at the very beginning! Must have been an early show in his career.

[badassdrummer699]

that was fucking sick

[rooflee]

Bald or not, still plays like a mother.

[E1878F89C]

If I tried to play Drifting, I would knock the guitar on the ground without fail.

[Trcls]

is that a lakewood guitar?

[plateaujapan]

NICE LIVE /hard music→drifting is nice FLOW

[SuperGamer87]

He looks like Jack Black or a LOTR character with hair. LOL

[uidsea]

Fuck I love common ground. I've been trying to learn it for like 6 months lol.

[ckfootballman]

Is that a wig??

[korgL3]

andy looks like if tenacious d had a kid, this would be it. hahahahahaha

[MrBananenmensch]

how is this sing called? iwanna play it !!!

[stebbifreakout]

@MrBananenmensch The first one is called Common Ground and the second one is Drifting.

[Diartoo]

He kinda looks like Mikey Teutul!!

[HarmPoy]

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC - WHO GIVES A SHIT WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE?!

[Xxexcaliburr51xX]

He mastered the short hair, and the bald look... but this is far from good looking.

[Tekunikaru]

Does this song have a name? I love it. And yes, I too like the short haired version better.

[leahjane26]

@Tekunikaru common ground

[Tekunikaru]

@leahjane26 Thanks!

[dodomaximo]

he liked simple red...

[gomdffa]

he looks way cooler bald and with beard

[AndreasZimmerman]

does his face remind any1 else of kyle for tenachious D?

[Cyberbob182]

Always amazing...

[byange821]

is that andy?really?hahahaha...i can't believe!!he look like a doll..

[byange821]

is that andy?really?hahahaha...i can't believe!!

[ragerpez]

he should never have had his hair cut, just think of how much more awesome his playing would be now

[666jaymes]

the song common ground has grown on me sooo much, i love it more than drifting nowdays :) very good performance :)

[musicforlife57]

he has hair O.o

bld is better hahah especially for this time of music hahah

[edwdixon5]

He's okay. Not bad. Decent. Passable. Pretty good. I've heard worse. Irony anyone?

[prashantkarade]

S**t!!! it sounds like a dozen of guitarists playing together..COOOOOOOOOL

[VilleSkateKrewRep]

Andy Mckee is the only person in the world that can have this hair and i still want to look at him. For anyone watching this video who's thinking 'damn, my hairstyle isn't so bad, andy rocked it' please, go cut your hair.

Now thats out of the way. Its incredible that andy mckee has been THAT good at guitar for at the very least seven years. Endless respect for him, with or without a furry creature living on his scalp.

[GarretsShadow]

3:05 haha different hair maybe but same old Andy

[u2brr1]

If there was no caption, I wouldn't have known it was Andy. I prefer him with short or no hair. You can tell he was good back then. Hope he doesn't show the bottom of his shoes to anymore in Muslim countries cause its a sign of disrespect. In one of the big U.S. cities, I can't remember which, there was a Asian-American comedian who was sitting during his routine and two visitors from a Muslim country somehow thought he was disrespecting them and killed him.

[jucaosexo]

wonderful!!

[speaker3600]

holy shit I did not ever expect to see andy with hair

[OverAndOut91]

kyle gass

[Jouwl]

Whatever haircut Andy has is the most awesome haircut available on this planet.

[lawrenceofidaho]

Thank gawd he shaved his head!

The old "michael bolton" hair is just too distracting....

[joethepro3]

amazing : )

[jumboshrimp42]

rad

[GULIHIPPY]

now thats literally destroying your guitar, in a good way :D

[xXxGoyexXx]

Yeah, my guitar cannot be calibrated and to put into practice Art of Motion will eventually damage my guitar, but I dont care!

[Rael0505]

why can't your guitar be calibrated for different tunings?

[xXxGoyexXx]

no man, my guitar can be tuned thats obvious! The thing is that the arm of my guitar cant be adjusted, so by playin art of motion im damagin my guitar, and I cant do nothing about it

[Rael0505]

I think you're saying Art of Motion is tuned so high that it puts strain on your guitar's neck. This can be fixed by downtuning the ARt of Motion tuning a step - ie instead of the 6th string being an F#, tune it to an E, and do that with all the other strings too. It's essentially the same tuning, just transposed a step lower.

[IdealogicalComplex]

@Rael0505 Isn't that just standard tuning? lol. Use a capo.

[Rael0505]

Only two of Andy McKee's songs are in standard tuning - Heather's Song and Ebon Coast. Most of his songs use open tunings.

[HandreyAlex]

@Rael0505 ebon coast is in baritone tuning =)

[Rael0505]

@HandreyAlex Yes, Ebon Coast and Heather's Song are in "baritone tuning" but that is just standard tuning dropped a little lower. The definition of "baritone tuning" is flexible anyway. Some baritone guitars are in B (like Andy's), some are in A (even lower), and I've even seen some in D (only a step below standard E). Baritone is still standard - I was comparing it to open tunings, which Andy uses in the majority of his other songs.

[TylerChrusciel]

@IdealogicalComplex In the original tuning the 6th string is stuped up 2 half steps, 4th string down a step, 3rd string up a step. So what Rael is saying is take the tuning from Art of Motion and tune it down a full step to reduce strain on the neck.

[IdealogicalComplex]

@TylerChrusciel Ahh ic.

[xXxGoyexXx]

Hippie Andy!!!!

[Rael0505]

Common Ground is so fucking manly.

I still can't get how he drums while strumming in the chorus, it's crazy!

[RiouxItsMe]

There is Erik Mongrain also that hes drumming on Equilibrium around 1min. you should check him out hes great either ;)

[robb666xxx]

I hope he won whatever competition this was!

[thomasharman14]

he came silver in it

[Junpei1313]

i prefer him when he was 'round'.. hahaz.. he look weird with the hair..

[semanray]

lol that´s so bizare he looks like some sort of metal virtuoso

[tiwariification]

this song actuallly suits him here right now...with longhairs...n the stuff he is wearing..tht actual andy mckee... i suppose. whereas in the main video he is bald...n looked more tense....thts just my observation....

[incubusmun]

This man was created to play guitar

[benzie101]

awesome, but is he wearing pajamas? haha

[CrazyKing89]

WoW I mean His voice makes sense now, calm gentle hippy guy with long flowing hair... not gruff need to go out and cut trees with my bold head and beard lol, still his new look is a good look, just this look does make sense for some reason,...oh yeah talk about music erm fair to say expectedly good? (as I've seen him playing before)

[braderrick]

2003? Looks more like 1983 haha! Nah he is still the best, and I agree, better off bald...

[xCARN4GEx]

Drifting makes me want to run through a field of flowers and catch butterflies lol no really this kicks ass

[eggrollrocks]

haha love it

[TransAmFormulaV8]

Common ground fucking rocks!!! I stole that chorus rift and integrated it into one of my songs. Everytime i hear that chorus i can not help but headbanging so hard that my neck hurts the next day.

[wilkiemart]

LONG HAIR

[00251494]

wow

[Thedeirrah]

hail hail hail andy.....marry me even were both "man".. : )..you complete my day andy

[hammetthead]

Drifting must be a bastard to play with long sleeves without muting the strings by accident. Hats off Andy! :)

[Xanaden]

its actually not so hard to play when you have a guitar with lower action. common ground is way harder to play.

[Curzixx]

lool andymckee with long hair :D:D

he lokk like a hippie or something else :D:Dbut he can play so fucking amazing the guitar!

[fiddlnbanjo]

is this contemporary or what category do these guys belong

[VeritasAlienari]

fiddlnbanjo, I don't mean to sound like a 12-year-old child here, but these guys don't belong to any category that exists today. Until they touched the strings, the category they belong in didn't exist. It's called: Unbe-fucking-lievable.

[TransAmFormulaV8]

@VeritasAlienari LoL! very well said, i could not agree more.

[CrazyKing89]

@VeritasAlienari just lol yes yes...yes! That's probably the only way to say it.

[crafterbustamante]

whoops! accidentally gave you a thumbs down for your comment...sorry didn't mean to!

[wilkiemart]

hmmmmmmm CRAZY STYLE

[Coolaidman6411]

This is how I remember Andy from High School, even though is is about 6 years later. Still an amazing dude Andy, keep on rocking.

[feriz12]

he's better of bald

haha

he looks like the buddha of guitars! ^^

[ESPalexi92]

@feriz12 he IS the buddha of guitars

[gable454]

listening to him play is a religious experience.

[Equilibrium998]

anyone have a better quality version of this song? and or the name? this is my favorite and it isnt even high quality.

[guitar4794]

thank you so much for posting this. It's like going back in time to see andy before he was so famous

[xbernicex94]

wow im so glad i clicked on this...it's amazing!!!!!!

[Yerbanzia]

i liked him better bald

[summonersheenax]

me too

[c4nuck80]

@Yerbanzia liked? this was back in 03...

[comeon454]

@Yerbanzia I think he read your commented and shaved his head rigt after

[Wastedcum]

Genius with a guitar, nothing else to say about this genius guy!!!

[Youlessness]

best live performans of this song by him.

[twichyrain]

right hands skillz to the max

[mutley2209]

hard to believe he's even better now =D the new way he plays it is better i rekon love this song! the new version's gunna be on his new EP out 25th August!

[bputubebp]

His appearance went through some extremes over the years. He looks like a hippie cult follower in this edition. Regardless, he's my favorite guitarist.

[ehenry0915]

hes 30 and he was 24 in this vid

[corndl]

Is that McKee ??? Ahah long hair it's hard to believe

[TheCriminal2334]

Definately better bald O.o

[martbeeftink]

omg, long hair xD

[bananas700tas]

which is the name of the first song?

[Tellytubbiesgolarge]

Common Grounds.

It says in the description.

[softguitarr]

oh, so this is what you like about six years ago? you had long hair then...nice:) for how many years are you playing the guitar?

[VeritasAlienari]

I believe Andy is 26-27 now and he has been playing for nearly two decades. I haven't proof of this, however.

[ObesityDude911]

how old was he ? when perform there .

Young andy mckee XD

[smith77777777]

Everytime i see Andy Mckee vids, he's always got a different guitar!

[beefy172]

Probably because he beats the hell out of all of them!

[L4zyG33zer]

He just makes sweet musical love to them, and then they just move on to guitar heaven

[Palomee16]

lol=)

[neomuttley]

Holy SH*T, look @that hair! Thank You for shaving it, Andy. Bald is beautiful ;-D.

[Rael0505]

It's not shaven anymore ;) He let it grow back, but it's really short.

Seeing him live tonight! Can't wait.

[neomuttley]

Seeing him this Sat, too ;-P

[Rael0505]

I just got back from the show, and it was simply phenomenal. I filmed the entire hour and a half of it. I'm gonna upload the whole thing in segments.

Enjoy the show on Saturday!

[Joet80t]

this video is the first time i heard andy talk lol.. didn't really expect him to sound like that. in face i almost expected him to be a mute

[lip333]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AsafPeten1992]

OMG!!! thats a long haired Andy XD

[jkshoujk]

Now I know he went to Taiwan; the applause there is amazing and well deserved!

[Tman4000]

Description.

[roehee1234]

andy mckee shoul dbe famouse i dont know if he is or not but comic guy or whatever who said its nto andy is dumbbbbbbbbb

[just6822]

Drifting has 14,000,000 views

Rylynn has 6,000,000 views

Last time I checked those were the view counts anyway. He's pretty internet famous, and anyone who knows any of the players from this show know Andy Mckee.

[roehee1234]

yeha i guess this is like a live performance but yeah there are some stupid videos out there that have millions more views than that videos about cats falling and shit lol but THIS is the guy who makes those cats drop music will tame the beast

[just6822]

It's actually the 2003 Fingerstyle competition. He has a new album coming in September, I'm stoked for it lol

[Tman4000]

Me too dude. I'm gonna buy like 9 of them. :D

[igehring]

locomotive guitar

[warkidhellfit]

hes looks better with a bald heed and beard.Like a monk thats never been away from his guitar.

[whouston33wh]

Humble beginnings

The only thing that has changed from now in then is his hairstyle. The skill and musical voice are still as amazing as they were before, perhaps even more amazing!

[JeffBuckleyFanHalle]

humble beginnings? If this was a video of him messing up every other note and had a tuner out checking his strings then I'd say that lol!! This is past humble beginnings, that is when (talking about fingerstyle guitar) you find out about people like andy, ross, laughlin and study their videos not knowing really what you are doing but absorbing in every finger movement of it ;] This is the fruit he now reaps

[kevinbollers2]

oh, its the first time i ever heard him speak.

I always thought that he never knew how to speak english

[ryushiRj38]

lol. awesome. andy with rockstar hair.

[comicmaker2]

Never mind. I heard him speak. I hate my slow internet.

[ikh29]

how can he not be andy when before performing drifting he said its from his album!! he is andy mckee..n u r the retard..

[Wolfparade51]

The first guy is andy....

[Hobejo]

he did a michael jackson, but went from yellow to white instead of black to white.

[roehee1234]

hahahahahahah your dumb

[seanmurray90]

he looks like he played WOW bak then.. hahahaha ... jk

hes so good tho,,,  omfg

[Corrosive1]

wow, i like this ! Never heard common ground before =)

[sunmakesmehigh]

this is the most impressive fingerpickin i ever did see

[cernacerna]

is that Andy? wow, what a change :)

he's great

[kadoff2565]

goog

[cmatthews926]

It doesn't get better than that.

[F8DeleteR]

You sound Brilliant Andy! I had no clue you used to have a mop on your head lol :) Much love brotha, keep on keepin on!!

[drunkpunk55]

wtf... where did his hair come from???

[mspumperer]

Are you retarded? This video is 5 years old...maybe he cut it and grew a beard since then? Duhhhhh lol.

Incidentally, awesome playing as always from Andy.

[handypantz]

anyone know the name of this song?

[CaptainBohnenbrot]

1st song: Common ground

2nd song: Drifting

[canucktheclown]

I bet it wouldn't hurt to read the description. :-/

[thisischavez]

This is the first time I can say anything bad. The hair is goofy. The rest of him is just briliant, though.

[dobledinc]

A total music prodigy !

[LcdNunes]

he spoke!!! thats the first time I ever heard his voice!

[RileyBrady]

I met him in person. :) shook his hand and talked to him. Pretty cool guy.. I hadn't heard his voice up til then so it was weird.

[LordKenny1]

He kinda reminds of Kyle from tenacious d when Kyle wore the wig, lol.

But besides that, man this guy is one of if notthe best song writer and guitar player i've ever seen.

[romaneberle]

the sound quality massively sucks here.

close to waste of bandwidth.

PLEASE, PEOPLE, encode with AT LEAST 160 kbps!

apart from that andy's music is beautiful. :-)

[sjwimmel]

normally I don't like superspeed music. But this Common Ground sounds nice :D

Drifting is great as always.

Btw. How did he get the hair all the way down?

[Markiiieeee]

:O He had hair on his head!!

Now on a more serious note, this is pure awesomeness yet again!

[starryeyedjo]

at i think 3:07...he makes the cutest lil face...dude i would marry this guy just for composing the songs he has written...every song is perfect...i listen to him EVERYday.

[orochiThing]

omfg

[TheGodOfPez]

Andy is the modern day GuitarBach [courtesy of my fantastic friend Thad]. Otherworldly comes to mind. His technique is 100% unparalelled. Wow. Nuff said!

[Marc4360]

Andy Mckee kicks ass I love his songs...he looks like a zen buddhist in this video with his clothing and his HAIR!!! he has hair!

[pairashoot]

I would enjoy owning this CD...but I think the true beauty of Andy's talent is best seen & heard, both. I can watch & listen to "Drifting" endlessly. It reminds me of the beauty I can see when I am skydiving. Everything looks perfect & beautiful & the world is right from 13,000ft up...nothing else matters. Watching & listening to Andy...nothing else matters.

[strang3r0309]

the 1st song is common ground ^^

[falln2chaos]

whats the 1st song he's playing?

i kno the 2nd is drifting but i can't recall the first...

[RickChimera]

Read the description, friend. :)

[jakthelad12]

aching hands much? lol

very goood

[gozin]

OMG Andy with a full head o' hair!?!?!?!

[Fittfan]

Reply to ATripp86:

Of course you can "achieve to express youself as well as this" without lessons. Who gets good by taking lessons? I've heard from all my friends that play guitar and that HAS taken lessons that it sucks and you learn nothing at all. I've passed all of them and I've been playing 1 year and six months. They've been playing for 1-5 years (depending on which one om em').

[bigbluechevy12345]

about lessons... I took lessons, from a guy that taught himself and I can still express myself very well, what makes the difference is who the tacher is, not the fact that you take lessons.

[ClaudioTuck2113]

man you cant say you dont learn anything from lessons thats a load of shit if I must say so... they are boring as hell usually but you actually learn quite a bit of shit that you wouldnt learn by yourself

[RedLester47]

He reminds me of Kyle Gass... 'Sept Andy's better.

[ATripp86]

How many think its possible to get to a point on a guitar without lessons, to ever achieve expressing yourself as well as this?

[aleajactaest4]

Its an incredible sound

[mokakashi]

is that....is that Andy??