i dont understand why people want to give up guitar when they hear a great player like this. it inspires me beyond belief.
i think about it like trying to climb mount Everest. when you start at the bottom all you see is the path at your feet. the peak seems so far away. but all you have to do is start pushing forward. men like doc have been to the summit, they let us know that its a hard strange journey but it can be done.
@daraghkinch I reckon eyes are just a distraction when it comes to music- most musicians who aren't reading the dots seem to stare blankly into the middle distance or close their eyes completely when they're concentrating hard on playing.
goddamnit...theres too much information i cant get any better..arrgghhhhh.is he in standard tuning?...........fuk i didnt even hear the second part.....mmmm i play drums see ya
@screamingbabypro Wow I am so sick of justin bieber mentioned in every video. Hint this video says "`1991" Justin Bieber was not even born in 1991. My advice to you before making a joke actually make sure it makes sense or if you got nothing to say about Doc get off of his videos
@barscotch Not his son. That's Jack Lawrence playing with Doc. Doc's son, Merle, played with Doc from age 15 until his death in an accident in the 80s.
here in the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia electrics are no no. maybe in Kansas they'd let him bring a Les Paul but here at real festivals like Wayne Henderson and gals...electric is a joke.
In 1975 or '76, in the rain, I had the privilege of sitting about 3 feet from Doc and Merle Watson at a small bluegrass festival in the Cumberland Gap (not sure if we were in Maryland, West Virginia or Pennsylvania)! All my friends were damp and irritated and they went back to our camp, but I stayed with just a handful of people as Doc played his heart out for us for 45 minutes. It was one of the great musical moments of my life - they were both just full of joy and so talented.
Doc Watson is a living National treasure. If you clicked dislike, you just insulted every guitar player in America, including every recording artist, they all revere Doc.
Its been so many years since I listened to Doc Watson I had forgotten how much joy it brings to listen to him play.He is the eternal pioneer of the the best of flat pickers!
to all rock and roll listener, dont be ashamed to listen to bluegrass,there is one lead singer of a rock band seeing alison krauss. robert plant knows bluegraass music is great .
woah! HEY bro, lay off my friend Eddie! He is a guitar hero and a half. You don't like 80s metal, fine. Bluegrass is great and so is Rock and Roll! Eddie is a pioneer and stared a whole era. Just like Doc Watson did. They are just 2 different styles. I can appreciate both.
@jmurphy914 ironically, it is Clarence White who brought guitar to light as a true lead instrument and affected bluegrass as well as rock. White was around lonnnnng before Van Halen.
yeah I grew up listening to thrah metal and hardcore punk music, I quess my ears got the better of me and drawn me into Bluegrass and Doc Watson..Never say Never Folks..
@wisesatyr72 haha same here!! I use to be all into arpeggios and metal, but now all I wanna learn how to play is bluegrass!! I mean this is the true spirit of music, and only a select type of person truly dedicated can master this amazing type of music :)
i really do admire this guy even though he is BLIND he such superb talent. no wonder he has won 7 grammys and a lifetime achievment grammy.!!!!! i take my hat off to Doc Watson.
Doc plays a Gallagher Guitar, made in Wartrace, Tennessee.. I don't know if this is a Gallagher, but he played one on "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" record in the '70s.
@rrtodd95 same thing for me man, sabbath and the rest name it! when you love guitars and see WHAT IS GOOD GUITAR PLAYER! sorry for my ''poor english i speak french! martin.
@rrtodd95 I would say that bluegrass can really hold it's own against country as well. I seriously LOVE bluegrass but at the same time I am not a huge fan of traditional style of country music, by that I mean like garth brooks, trace adkins, etc. If you could even consider what they do as that traditional style of country. People like Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and so many others have so much influence on artists and should really be recognized as some of the best in music history.
@HarryCaray3000 Garth Brooks and Trace Adkins music isn't country, it's wussy pop music.
Country is Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Sr. and the III. Country is Ferlin Husky, Jimmie Rodgers the yodelling brakeman, Roy Clark, and the guitar god playing in this video.
@rrtodd95 Sure, try to convince people to appreciate the same kind of music as you do. I tried that some time ago, and it had pretty much no effect whatsoever. If you grow up in a city, you're not gonna listen to bluegrass and you'll have a distaste against it because it comes from swampy hillbillies and not motorized, iPad loving hipsters.
hahaha..no offense to you, bluegrass musicians definitely have some dexterity, but American guitarists don't touch the Spanish.
Look up Andres Segovia or Paco De Lucia or even Julian Bream (who is European) and they all blow any bluegrass picker outta the water. On top of that - they dont have to use picks to make the same sounds. I personally believe plastic picks to be a handicap to the guitarist.
@SqueezeMyLemonBabe I give definite and made props to the Spanish for their undeniable talent, but as far as I know, the Spanish are known first and foremost (And almost solely) for their Flamenco style picking, which although insanely difficult and pleasing to the ear, is only one genre. Though when one says guitar and American in the same sentence, a multitude of genres come to mind: Rock, Country, Folk, Bluegrass, Punk, Alternative...though to be fair I'm rather ignorant with Spanish artists.
Very very well put, GREAT responses you guys. Great is great and this guys GREAT!
And lets not even get started on how great Chet Atkins was.
Posted by Jimmy Page Fanatic! :) How do you think he got be so versatile and great? Never being a hater and absorbing great music from everywhere and everything!
@zelyx01 What do Slash and Doc Watson have to do with each other? Appreciate people for who they are and stop trying to compare those who don't even play the same style.
hey guys, fans of Doc Watson should definitely check out Kent Gustavson's new book, "Blind But Now I See, The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson " @ his Facebook page, "Doc Watson Book".
went to see doc 10/15.2010 at the midland theater in newark ohio , 87 years old and was still amazing and was a treasure and a treat to see him and sad to see a national treasure like him and many others not in the spot light for there talent and more for there image
@jtnor1975 He is really underated..I've loved him all my life, and the sad part is, I didn't even know he was still alive. He SHOULD be in the spotlight.. what an amazing gift that is being overlooked
@Mandotwang Oh, okay - thanks. Mr. Arnold makes a fine dreadnought. Lately, Doc often plays a Brazilian Bourgeois that Ricky Skaggs gave him on his 80th birthday. Doc supposedly said, "This is the dreadnought I've been looking for all my life." Wow. Bryan Sutton plays one, too. So does Ricky Skaggs and Scott Fore, and a host of others who have eight or ten grand to spend. I don't play a Bourgeois : |
@inky960 The first guitar that made my jaw drop was a Bourgeois Slope D. I'd love to own one in my lifetime. I couldn't get the Slope D so I settled for an HD-28LSV. Now I've got a really nice J-45 but the Bourgeois' keep calling me!
@fodera6 Holy moly - you have the guitar I want most, the Martin HD-28LSV. I had a bought-new 1981 HD-28, which meant more to me than any earthly possession ever should; I'd bonded with it, as with a child, almost. But some fine person decided he or she wanted the benefit of my thousands upon thousands of hours of wood-shed scale fingerings, swing chord comping, fingerstyle playing, fiddle tune practice -- the neck finish was GONE after ten years, as was the guitar after eleven. Hey-ho. : (
@inky960 Well I no longer own it but it was a great bluegrass guitar, that's for sure. The J-45 I have now is way more versatile. What happened to your HD-28?
oh, and freddieboy and super chef should just get a room! lmao I have not heard such spouting of language since the last time I lost my thesaurus. lmao
when I typed in "what a showoff", I was being sarcastic.....I have listened to Doc since I was a little girl....he IS a national treasure, too bad the nation doesn't know more about him.
@superchef78 Well, I guess I'm being a smartass. Actually, I should have started with a comment on the tube. We use to use tubes to amplify sound. Then we had the transistor and the synthesizing of music became more indepth. Do I need to go further? My comment is on the modern day synthesizing of music and a lack of artistry. I only meant that without the modern day manipulation of music, where would we be? I mean that; ain't it good to hear someone produce a sound and it be a real, true sound.
I concur. Excuse any potential misinterpretation on my part (as I'm not fully acclimated to much of the contemporary, or even archaic, techniques of music), but it should be rather noted the sometimes general absence/deficiency of any real 'soul' or 'effort' put into music (almost as if the artist in question went into the recording studio with a general idea of what he/she/they wanted and added and subtracted musical aspects/elements as the heart and mind dictates, in an improvised manner).
@superchef78 I think we are in agreement. I like good artistry. I just mean to say that what Doc Watson has done is just what he did and nothing less. I like a lot of different styles of music. But it has to be art, not what a publishing or money making company or fashion has produced thru some "teen star" & tells me that I am supposed to listen to. If I am old fashioned, then I was from the start. Art is art, and BS is BS. What is this demand that we follow what is put out for fashion's sake?
True. I don't think anyone can deny (some) music both as a qualified and viable artform and as an incalculably flexible/fluid medium (unless they've never been exposed to 'good' music).
I too slowed down the lps to learn black mountain rag in the early 70s. It was a must learn and after a couple of years I got it down pretty good. I still use it as my first solo at jams and it still gets everybodys attention. I even bought myself a Gallagher guitar as a retirement gift ( Doc is not playing one in this Video). I still try to mimic Docs unique picking and had seen him and the late Merle in Manhattan quite a few times back in the day. Thanks Doc!!!
i dont understand why people want to give up guitar when they hear a great player like this. it inspires me beyond belief.
i think about it like trying to climb mount Everest. when you start at the bottom all you see is the path at your feet. the peak seems so far away. but all you have to do is start pushing forward. men like doc have been to the summit, they let us know that its a hard strange journey but it can be done.
lastwave235 3 days ago
and this is how you stop believing you're a good guitarist
dLoLe 1 month ago 5
ok......
timtipton5071256 1 month ago
what's the plural or genius?
cwwiss1 1 month ago
Amazing! And he doesn't even have any eyes!
daraghkinch 1 month ago
@daraghkinch I reckon eyes are just a distraction when it comes to music- most musicians who aren't reading the dots seem to stare blankly into the middle distance or close their eyes completely when they're concentrating hard on playing.
jojoUK120 2 weeks ago
3:10 !!! fuuuuu ---- !!!
RubinMusician 1 month ago
Doc was born just about 20 miles from me :)
Thelonesniper101 1 month ago
is that merl watson?
zamelch 2 months ago
goddamnit...theres too much information i cant get any better..arrgghhhhh.is he in standard tuning?...........fuk i didnt even hear the second part.....mmmm i play drums see ya
BerkLeeDrm 2 months ago
whose justin beiber?
davebob65 2 months ago
this is the right way to play it
butchd18 2 months ago
A giant of country guitar.
andreiradtcenco 3 months ago
classic DOC an American treasure
jbdmed 3 months ago
A true musician.
johnwboston 3 months ago
Love the guys Bill Gates specs...
SepticX 3 months ago
@Squeezemylemon why do people always try to quantify music/musicians?
SepticX 3 months ago
i just started playing guitar but i will not stop till i can play this song perfectly
swedesruleallothers 3 months ago
@swedesruleallothers thats whats up man
sledog26 3 months ago
@swedesruleallothers
Best of luck, But my guess is that you will not make it. Sorry, but the bar is set a little too high for mortals.
misskelsie58 2 months ago
Gotta love it ! Great talent !
MichaelJ317 3 months ago
Just shows you how far we have come since 1991.
Technology -- 3 steps forward
Everything else -- 20 steps back.
gangstoner 4 months ago
Where has this talent gone?
laxattack444 4 months ago 2
That was amazing.
vol245 4 months ago 6
yeeeehaaaw
RebelRouserMC 5 months ago
justin bieber taught him this
screamingbabypro 5 months ago
@screamingbabypro Is that pro-bieber? Because he sucks and has little musical talent.
MadnessOfMarmots 4 months ago
@MadnessOfMarmots No, I'm not pro-bieber. I'm happy for the little feller for his sucess, but I prefer artists like Doc Watson.
screamingbabypro 4 months ago
@screamingbabypro Wow I am so sick of justin bieber mentioned in every video. Hint this video says "`1991" Justin Bieber was not even born in 1991. My advice to you before making a joke actually make sure it makes sense or if you got nothing to say about Doc get off of his videos
kmart127 3 months ago
@kmart127 I can see I have messed with the wrong fellow here. This battle of wits is over. Well played sir!
screamingbabypro 3 months ago
@barscotch Not his son. That's Jack Lawrence playing with Doc. Doc's son, Merle, played with Doc from age 15 until his death in an accident in the 80s.
ntreloar 5 months ago
I know that Doc played Martins and Gallagher guitars...but what's he playin' in this vidio??
blueturtleman1 5 months ago
@blueturtleman1 ~ A Gallagher, a very special made Gallagher. He hasn't played a Martin since the 1960s.
SerendipitousSojourn 5 months ago 3
Does anyone know the name of the young guy playing with Doc?
flippyg111188 5 months ago
@flippyg111188 It's his son. I don't remember his name, but I thought he called him Jack at the beginning.
barscotch 5 months ago
Simply Awesome! Would love to see Chet Atkins and Doc Watson "dual"-ing it out! :)
ReligousTruth 5 months ago
@ReligousTruth ~ That would be hard, Chet's dead. But there are a few duets of Chet and Doc on here.
SerendipitousSojourn 5 months ago
Send for the doctor
yodasodaskoda 5 months ago
here in the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia electrics are no no. maybe in Kansas they'd let him bring a Les Paul but here at real festivals like Wayne Henderson and gals...electric is a joke.
samuraiathletic 5 months ago
I like how at the end, they look at the crowd like "why the fuck are you not clapping?"
2Balls2Furious 5 months ago
Saw doc at the Ryman auditorium in Nashville Thursday night and he is still splendidly amazing at 88 years old.
thebwrobertson 6 months ago
This man is better at playing guitar than you are at eating food. Bam.
cujo131 6 months ago 47
13 guys didn't watch untill 1:07
benjamincrouzier 6 months ago
In 1975 or '76, in the rain, I had the privilege of sitting about 3 feet from Doc and Merle Watson at a small bluegrass festival in the Cumberland Gap (not sure if we were in Maryland, West Virginia or Pennsylvania)! All my friends were damp and irritated and they went back to our camp, but I stayed with just a handful of people as Doc played his heart out for us for 45 minutes. It was one of the great musical moments of my life - they were both just full of joy and so talented.
digeratidesign 6 months ago
awesome! is that paul brady playin' with doc?
kylethompson4 6 months ago
Doc Watson is a living National treasure. If you clicked dislike, you just insulted every guitar player in America, including every recording artist, they all revere Doc.
mackdaddie222 6 months ago
I'm sure someone must have clicked thumbs down by mistake. Only a nut case would not like this.
txmacartist 6 months ago
Who keeps disliking these videos? Damn Commies.
MrKALSTEAK 6 months ago 3
he's blind?
feverhood 6 months ago
Its been so many years since I listened to Doc Watson I had forgotten how much joy it brings to listen to him play.He is the eternal pioneer of the the best of flat pickers!
GregDrayGregDray 7 months ago
I believe that if Doc showed up to Winfield with a Les Paul no one would even enter against him.
devilmatt 7 months ago
a true master nuff said
truckindadd 7 months ago
Doc Warson RULES O.K.!!! da best!!! an a verk kind soul!
dodgehotel75 7 months ago
right on
bigjohnfl 7 months ago
His hand is moving so fast at the end it looks fake. He is absolutely unbelievable.
wslalom 7 months ago
3:04 rhythm guitarist went (look of consternation): even faster ?!
milleribsenalbeefan 7 months ago
To think he started out with Rock-a-Billy and electric. At least according to his Fresh Air interview. He is a virtuoso.
pablpfanque 7 months ago
what cappo is he using in this video , anyone know
vestaxvestax 8 months ago
I watched him perform at hippodrome in North Augusta last night at 88, he's still got it!
UberBassMaster 8 months ago
wow.
mrsnigly 8 months ago
13 dislikes to 1042 likes s about the statistical rate of people clicking "dislike" by mistake
burgercide 8 months ago
Two of the finest guitar players on earth, right there!
greggg0259 8 months ago
This is the embodiment of off the chain
LAballin24 8 months ago
holy shit.....!is that george bush.....!?
samsungsamseng 8 months ago
anyone know the tuning?
bill4long 9 months ago
@bill4long tuning is standard. he has a capo on the second fret.
tatemus1 9 months ago
to all rock and roll listener, dont be ashamed to listen to bluegrass,there is one lead singer of a rock band seeing alison krauss. robert plant knows bluegraass music is great .
cwalk2028 9 months ago
Beautiful
tredshift 9 months ago
wow
spamstoper3 9 months ago
Van Halen went to my High School.....He was loud (and awful)....drove me away from guitar music till I was married and had kids.
Then I went to a Bluegrass Festival and heard the banjo for the first time in a bluegrass group!!
That's music!
plucknpick 9 months ago
@plucknpick ".He *ie:Eddie VanHalen*was loud (and awful)"
woah! HEY bro, lay off my friend Eddie! He is a guitar hero and a half. You don't like 80s metal, fine. Bluegrass is great and so is Rock and Roll! Eddie is a pioneer and stared a whole era. Just like Doc Watson did. They are just 2 different styles. I can appreciate both.
jmurphy914 9 months ago 2
@jmurphy914 ironically, it is Clarence White who brought guitar to light as a true lead instrument and affected bluegrass as well as rock. White was around lonnnnng before Van Halen.
godscall2006 9 months ago
Guitar Rags are incredible!
yanis3 9 months ago
well this man has to be one of the all time great acoustical guitar players including classical player He is an absolute master
3Spikes2glry 10 months ago
yeah I grew up listening to thrah metal and hardcore punk music, I quess my ears got the better of me and drawn me into Bluegrass and Doc Watson..Never say Never Folks..
wisesatyr72 10 months ago
@wisesatyr72 haha same here!! I use to be all into arpeggios and metal, but now all I wanna learn how to play is bluegrass!! I mean this is the true spirit of music, and only a select type of person truly dedicated can master this amazing type of music :)
joedrummer2 10 months ago
i really do admire this guy even though he is BLIND he such superb talent. no wonder he has won 7 grammys and a lifetime achievment grammy.!!!!! i take my hat off to Doc Watson.
lcy779deehy 10 months ago
Doc plays a Gallagher Guitar, made in Wartrace, Tennessee.. I don't know if this is a Gallagher, but he played one on "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" record in the '70s.
vbowker 10 months ago
Wow! Superb duet! Now, those look like jazzy 'flat or semi-flat wound strings of some sort (12-52?)
daonfpe 10 months ago
True gift to all who ever heard the man TCGB!!
fngrpkn06 10 months ago
i guess there are 13 people who are disappointed that this song wasn't 19 minutes long.
smp156 10 months ago
deep to the roots of usa
markino1963 10 months ago
what kind of guitar is that?
djkade9 10 months ago
@djkade9 God's own...
widdyhabb 10 months ago
@djkade9 It's a Martin.
graybeard420 10 months ago
How can 13 idiots not like this?
okie358 11 months ago
@okie358 Because some idiots are so blinded by their hate of country music that they're hate blinds them to hearing genius.
Country, more specifically bluegrass has produced some of the greatest guitar virtuosos the world has seen.
And I grew up listening to Black Sabbath and the Circle Jerks.
rrtodd95 11 months ago 44
@rrtodd95 AMEN!
okie358 11 months ago
@rrtodd95 same thing for me man, sabbath and the rest name it! when you love guitars and see WHAT IS GOOD GUITAR PLAYER! sorry for my ''poor english i speak french! martin.
ozzandmadman21 10 months ago
@rrtodd95 country and bluegrass separate things i actually love bluegrass myself and i dont care for country
Neal9443 9 months ago
@rrtodd95 bluegrass sounds amazing while country sounds like crap
Neal9443 9 months ago
@rrtodd95 I would say that bluegrass can really hold it's own against country as well. I seriously LOVE bluegrass but at the same time I am not a huge fan of traditional style of country music, by that I mean like garth brooks, trace adkins, etc. If you could even consider what they do as that traditional style of country. People like Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and so many others have so much influence on artists and should really be recognized as some of the best in music history.
HarryCaray3000 8 months ago
@HarryCaray3000 Garth Brooks and Trace Adkins music isn't country, it's wussy pop music.
Country is Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Sr. and the III. Country is Ferlin Husky, Jimmie Rodgers the yodelling brakeman, Roy Clark, and the guitar god playing in this video.
rrtodd95 8 months ago 3
@rrtodd95 as if listing those bands makes any one care about your opinion
preston9019 6 months ago
@preston9019 I know you're mad at your mom, but you don't have to lash out at the world online.
rrtodd95 6 months ago
@rrtodd95 ...there's a band called the "circle jerks"?
Haha!
busessuck1 6 months ago
@rrtodd95 ... man ...you can only love this music ..
unripevocal 5 months ago
@rrtodd95 Sure, try to convince people to appreciate the same kind of music as you do. I tried that some time ago, and it had pretty much no effect whatsoever. If you grow up in a city, you're not gonna listen to bluegrass and you'll have a distaste against it because it comes from swampy hillbillies and not motorized, iPad loving hipsters.
cannabisabuser 4 months ago
@cannabisabuser Not true, I grew up in the "hood" of a major city.
I've found that as a musician becomes more skilled they hear the genius in other genres and can't resist it.
You're right about not turning someone who's musically naive onto other forms of music.
rrtodd95 4 months ago 2
@rrtodd95
hahaha..no offense to you, bluegrass musicians definitely have some dexterity, but American guitarists don't touch the Spanish.
Look up Andres Segovia or Paco De Lucia or even Julian Bream (who is European) and they all blow any bluegrass picker outta the water. On top of that - they dont have to use picks to make the same sounds. I personally believe plastic picks to be a handicap to the guitarist.
as for the tune - this is great!
SqueezeMyLemonBabe 4 months ago
@SqueezeMyLemonBabe I give definite and made props to the Spanish for their undeniable talent, but as far as I know, the Spanish are known first and foremost (And almost solely) for their Flamenco style picking, which although insanely difficult and pleasing to the ear, is only one genre. Though when one says guitar and American in the same sentence, a multitude of genres come to mind: Rock, Country, Folk, Bluegrass, Punk, Alternative...though to be fair I'm rather ignorant with Spanish artists.
Vlatheron 4 months ago
@SqueezeMyLemonBabe
Do you listen to bluegrass or are you here to be jerk?
lizzyvance 3 months ago
Very very well put, GREAT responses you guys. Great is great and this guys GREAT!
And lets not even get started on how great Chet Atkins was.
Posted by Jimmy Page Fanatic! :) How do you think he got be so versatile and great? Never being a hater and absorbing great music from everywhere and everything!
Substudio 3 months ago
they always show the left hand....it is ALL IN THE PICK!
rearrangio 11 months ago
I'm actually related to this guy and found out the other day haha
xDevonxStonex 11 months ago
OH Dear Allah ,, what a talent , genius man O.o
DeeroHQ 11 months ago
Meh.
HotChick69000000 11 months ago
no applause?
tonytwotoes9 11 months ago
the best!
jbdmed 11 months ago
Jack Lawrence is a great player as well.
MrBasilGanglia 1 year ago 2
he plays a mean fiddle.
wafferz 1 year ago
That part around 2:40 is great, what a funky breakdown.
ingeniousblues 1 year ago
A bluegrass rag with an irish hillbilly scent, what a fine tune!
Lehrerblues 1 year ago
just checking, this is all picked right?
MrDelete360 1 year ago
@MrDelete360 yep
pongo817 1 year ago
Doc has forgotten more than I would ever know on a guitar and I have been at it since 1962
tmf945 1 year ago
i have been listning to doc for 55 years,hesatation blues is my favorite
LW2335 1 year ago
fo shizzle?
746c 1 year ago
@746c : you bet ...my nizzle?
truthisaquestion 1 year ago
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troycoughlin 1 year ago
I agree Joshman. It made me shart.
leedsber 1 year ago
Last part blew my fucking mind. My brains were scattered against the inside of my skull
joshman071888 1 year ago
If you don't smile inside or out while listening to Doc then your plugged in wrong.!
MrIBGB 1 year ago
I think there are only 3 people in the world that can play like this, and they are all 3 named Doc Watson. No one is better!!!
SSchus87 1 year ago
I have seen DOC many times and still can't get enough!
pgamblin01 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you think Slash's playing sucks compared to this..
zelyx01 1 year ago
@zelyx01 Don't be silly... you're talking apples and oranges.
FullMetalTrucker 1 year ago
@FullMetalTrucker A golden apple to a decent orange, yeah.
zelyx01 1 year ago
@zelyx01 What do Slash and Doc Watson have to do with each other? Appreciate people for who they are and stop trying to compare those who don't even play the same style.
NothingSacred27 1 year ago
@zelyx01 These guys were masters before Slash was shitting in his diapers
DrRedhawk 1 year ago
simply amazing.
headandarm 1 year ago
One of the greatest of all time. Fantastic!!
Djd714 1 year ago
hey guys, fans of Doc Watson should definitely check out Kent Gustavson's new book, "Blind But Now I See, The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson " @ his Facebook page, "Doc Watson Book".
phyzionzero 1 year ago
went to see doc 10/15.2010 at the midland theater in newark ohio , 87 years old and was still amazing and was a treasure and a treat to see him and sad to see a national treasure like him and many others not in the spot light for there talent and more for there image
jtnor1975 1 year ago
@jtnor1975 He is really underated..I've loved him all my life, and the sad part is, I didn't even know he was still alive. He SHOULD be in the spotlight.. what an amazing gift that is being overlooked
rhiktor 1 year ago
masters
tifredic 1 year ago
Anybody know what kind of guitar Doc's playing here? Doesn't look like his Gallager (sp?) -- not a Martin either... Anybody?
inky960 1 year ago
@inky960 I am quite certain that this custom guitar was made by luthier John Arnold.
Mandotwang 1 year ago
@Mandotwang Oh, okay - thanks. Mr. Arnold makes a fine dreadnought. Lately, Doc often plays a Brazilian Bourgeois that Ricky Skaggs gave him on his 80th birthday. Doc supposedly said, "This is the dreadnought I've been looking for all my life." Wow. Bryan Sutton plays one, too. So does Ricky Skaggs and Scott Fore, and a host of others who have eight or ten grand to spend. I don't play a Bourgeois : |
inky960 1 year ago
@inky960 The first guitar that made my jaw drop was a Bourgeois Slope D. I'd love to own one in my lifetime. I couldn't get the Slope D so I settled for an HD-28LSV. Now I've got a really nice J-45 but the Bourgeois' keep calling me!
fodera6 1 year ago
@fodera6 Holy moly - you have the guitar I want most, the Martin HD-28LSV. I had a bought-new 1981 HD-28, which meant more to me than any earthly possession ever should; I'd bonded with it, as with a child, almost. But some fine person decided he or she wanted the benefit of my thousands upon thousands of hours of wood-shed scale fingerings, swing chord comping, fingerstyle playing, fiddle tune practice -- the neck finish was GONE after ten years, as was the guitar after eleven. Hey-ho. : (
inky960 1 year ago
@inky960 Well I no longer own it but it was a great bluegrass guitar, that's for sure. The J-45 I have now is way more versatile. What happened to your HD-28?
fodera6 1 year ago
oh, and freddieboy and super chef should just get a room! lmao I have not heard such spouting of language since the last time I lost my thesaurus. lmao
dressagegal 1 year ago
when I typed in "what a showoff", I was being sarcastic.....I have listened to Doc since I was a little girl....he IS a national treasure, too bad the nation doesn't know more about him.
dressagegal 1 year ago 31
what a show off....lmao
dressagegal 1 year ago
You need to learn a little about Doc before you go spoutin off
stormchaser6871 1 year ago
@Poppa150 that'd be Tommy Emmanuel
microflex22 1 year ago
Who the F is TE?
Poppa150 1 year ago
Gadzooks!
rogerstill71 1 year ago
bubba like
omahabee 1 year ago
DAMN!
TheMahagoni 1 year ago
Doc should be President; he's a hell of a lot better to listen to than any politician.
Brilliant post.
MissRosie89 1 year ago
Waoow... Genious!
staccato35 1 year ago
OMG my head is spinning!
eslmc 1 year ago
wow, so that's what real talent looks like!
YouT00ber 1 year ago
WOW! Gotta LOVE Doc...
OMGWUNSIU 1 year ago
Phenomenal playing and great listening to each other. Thanks for this.
dingoswamphead 1 year ago
Ilove it.............applachian string band fest 2010 come check it out wv.
byan70 1 year ago
docs playing is mindblowing
keithk1947 1 year ago
Kinda makes you wish the transister hadn't been invented. No?
Freddieboy44 1 year ago
What does that even mean? What are you talking about?
superchef78 1 year ago
@superchef78 Don't know, do ya?
Freddieboy44 1 year ago
No, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you. I surmise you should know, considering you were the one who made/posed the original assertion.
superchef78 1 year ago
@superchef78 Well, I guess I'm being a smartass. Actually, I should have started with a comment on the tube. We use to use tubes to amplify sound. Then we had the transistor and the synthesizing of music became more indepth. Do I need to go further? My comment is on the modern day synthesizing of music and a lack of artistry. I only meant that without the modern day manipulation of music, where would we be? I mean that; ain't it good to hear someone produce a sound and it be a real, true sound.
Freddieboy44 1 year ago
I concur. Excuse any potential misinterpretation on my part (as I'm not fully acclimated to much of the contemporary, or even archaic, techniques of music), but it should be rather noted the sometimes general absence/deficiency of any real 'soul' or 'effort' put into music (almost as if the artist in question went into the recording studio with a general idea of what he/she/they wanted and added and subtracted musical aspects/elements as the heart and mind dictates, in an improvised manner).
superchef78 1 year ago
@superchef78 I think we are in agreement. I like good artistry. I just mean to say that what Doc Watson has done is just what he did and nothing less. I like a lot of different styles of music. But it has to be art, not what a publishing or money making company or fashion has produced thru some "teen star" & tells me that I am supposed to listen to. If I am old fashioned, then I was from the start. Art is art, and BS is BS. What is this demand that we follow what is put out for fashion's sake?
Freddieboy44 1 year ago
True. I don't think anyone can deny (some) music both as a qualified and viable artform and as an incalculably flexible/fluid medium (unless they've never been exposed to 'good' music).
superchef78 1 year ago
Got to see him live last Thursday. Awesome experience.
SOSwerebear 1 year ago
Doc is far and away the BEST
biggerturtle 1 year ago
I honestly think this might be the best duel flatpicking that has ever occured on the face of the earth. This is absolutely WORLD CLASS.
IBG67 1 year ago
love yiu Jimmy, but he's a INTERnational treasure!! greets from holland
harold6013 1 year ago
Just damn
thegreatpumpkin1313 1 year ago
OMG, it that the freakin hillbilly kid that did dueling banjos on Deliverence?
MrBoombalitsy 1 year ago
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PunkCajas 1 year ago
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PunkCajas 1 year ago
@MrBoombalitsy OMG , No ! Your Sister picked that diddy you refer to
JazzBlaster69 1 year ago
Doc Watson is one of my favorite pickers. I've listened to him since I was a kid. Thanks doc for a great performance!
Check out my video of this.
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TheMtneer56 1 year ago
I listen to Doc and Gene Watson frequently. Are they brothers?
bobbiejo9000 1 year ago
my god
southcoastdub 1 year ago
Awesome!!! THIS is real Bluegrass!!
proverbs2221 1 year ago
I too slowed down the lps to learn black mountain rag in the early 70s. It was a must learn and after a couple of years I got it down pretty good. I still use it as my first solo at jams and it still gets everybodys attention. I even bought myself a Gallagher guitar as a retirement gift ( Doc is not playing one in this Video). I still try to mimic Docs unique picking and had seen him and the late Merle in Manhattan quite a few times back in the day. Thanks Doc!!!
flatpick60 1 year ago