hey you kknow this vid is cool and all but you kno w what is better? phish and widespread and shit like that really has a groove to it. you gotta think man this guy just isnt on there level of tightness
Actual true story far more badass than the silliness cropping up in other comments-- Django was trapped in occupied France for much of WWII. He played in a Paris club frequented by Nazi officers. This Rroma jazz musician played his way to surviving the war AND avoiding Porajmos by strumming for Third Reich top brass in Paris! Opre Rroma!
I've been playing guitar for 35 years (I'm 47 now), and I want to learn the theory and play Gypsy Jazz, if only to please myself... I've only been listening to Django for a couple years, but I fell in love with his style- and he ONLY USED 2 FINGERS TO PLAY HIS LICKS! Amazing... Just. Amazing.
@dann3th3manni3 THOSE "CRAPY" SOUND RECORDINGS WERE NOT SO CRAPY,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,distinctive sounds from the past can never be replaced, or improved by todays standards, and technologies,,,,,,,,,,,it's an era of true musicianship
@davem12758 I was referring to the quality of the recording (the audio is poorly mixed and there is a lot of feedback). The quality of the music is undoubtedly top notch!
@dann3th3manni3 I'm talking about the quality of the recording as well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it goes hand in hand,,,,,,,,,,,the art of recording should not be limited to how good a mix is,,,or how well EQ'ing facilitates response,,,,,,,,,,,your too young to understand that right now probably,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,if the same musicians were in these times right now
recording,,,,,,,,,,they would be just another group in the mix,,,,,,,,,,,the whole thing defines an era,,and a style,,and a quality of listening
Nobody have had the thoght of making a film based on the life and history of Django Reinhardt.that would be really interesting,,,So,Hollywood,tell us about Django...
@jan1080 Yes, Opeth is a fine example of such. the bands Cynic, Exivious, and Atheist are very jazz-influenced too. Exvivious actually has many purely improvised songs. Giant Squid, although not jazzy, has a very diverse musical palette. Some songs are your classic headbanger songs, while other are very orchestrative and drawn-out.
my musical interests have changed so much in the past 2 years, and for the better. I used to listen to todays modern pop crap. Then i got into 90's grunge rock(ex. Nirvana). Then 70's rock (ex. Led Zeppelin). I leanred how to play guitar. I got into rock's roots in blues guitar masters (ex.buddy guy). And now the masters of jazz guitarists. Throughout all of this, i enjoy classical music, opera, and moroccan beat music. at btm, i'm 14.
@1234abcd113 I love how you add "I'm 14" at the end of your self serving reply summing up your ascent from filth to an ability to enjoy tasteful aesthetics. Then you named the most ubiquitous poster children for each genere you discovered. A teenager's "discovery" of Nirvana and Led Zeppelin is about as much a discovery as it would be for a fish to "discover" water. A discovery of 70's rock genius would be The Mahavishnu Orchestra--needle in a haystack. Led Zeppelin--radio syndication.
@1234abcd113 And Buddy Guy? You had to actually exert effort and embark upon a mission to discover Buddy Guy, the inventer of Chicago blues? Sorry but people who've never heard Stone Crazy!, Hot and Cool or the name Junior Wells know Buddy Guy. Nirvana, Zeppelin, and Buddy Guy are Jesus, the Knights Templar and Martin Luther King Jr. You don't discover iconoclastic giants of music history or history of religion, etc. They're unavoidable musical archetypes nearly impossible not to know.
@1234abcd113 You left out one sentence amidst your boastful comment--"I'm 14 and I'm still too young to realize I'm at that phase in life where I talk (and probably behave) like a textbook egoist". Your comment reads almost like a singles ad. But you think you're trying to impress strangers, which is classic teenage shortsightedness. You're trying to impress yourself. You didn't need to indicate your age explicitly. It shows clearly enough.
@1234abcd113 I'm not trying to put you down. But people like you who lack humility and modesty have an affinity for "showing off", for demonstrating your false sense of superiority to compensate for a buried fear of inferiority or a jealousy complex. Unchecked it can develop into Machievellian ambition-a trait sought after by multinationals in their CEOs. If you want to really transform and become a genuine lover and conessiour of music close your mouth and open your ears.
@1234abcd113 Ask yourself: Do you enjoy classical music? Or do you enjoy telling people you enjoy classical music? A deaf person could tell you that Kurt Cobain played guitar (left handed) in Nirvana. That's no discovery. I'm sure you'd say you like Beethoven or Motzart--posterchildren of the baroque period. But have you listened to Stravinsky's 'The Firebird" on repeat for hours on end? Have you deconstructed the Moonlight Sonata? Can you play Segovia's rendition of Bach's Chaconne?
@1234abcd113 How about Francisco Tarrega and his use of harmonics in Themes on "La Traviata" played in drop D tuning? Did you know Fur Elise was actually a private composition of Beethoven's meant as a gift for a woman named Therese and is actually called Fur Therese? Do you ever just watch old videos of Andres Segovia for hours performing or teaching master classes in Spain? One of my guitar students who's 13 plays Nirvana, RHCP, Metallica, etc. What's so impressive about that?
@1234abcd113 I got into The Doors, The Beatles, The Band, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkle, Mamas and Papas, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix, Janis, Jefferson Airplane, Smashing Pumpkins, Bush and more than I could ever name as early as six or seven years old. What's so impressive about that? Nothing. As Tim Kasher from Cursive would say, "Your ego's like your stomach, you keep shitting what you feed it." I'm writing this because I'm bored, but also...
@1234abcd113 ...and more importantly, I've noticed that the younger generation is more egocentric, less intelligent, less curious, creatively naive and so many think they're something special because they know this fact, or this person, or like that brand, or any other given triviality that should never define the parameteres of the human condition for any single being. That's why I'm writing this. It's sad that you felt compelled to indicate a couple generic interests and an activity...
@1234abcd113 on a webpage where no one knows you, no one cares, no one's impressed thinking what exactly? I mentioned the "young generation", mind you I'm only 26, so I'm not some old jaded fool ranting out of spite. I hear pure ego in those words and I know where that disposition leads a life, so more than anything this is a warning to you. Your mind's probably not prepared to assimilate these truths. You sound thick headed and disingenuous. Instead of telling shadows on the street that...
@1234abcd113 you listen to Nirvana and Zeppelin, why don't you grab your guitar and learn every Nirvana and Zeppelin song. Play every one of Page's solos. If there exists within you even a minutiae of wisdom, you take what I'm saying to heart. You want to discover music? Listen to Radiohead when THEY were transforming grunge into something absolutely novel. Listen to the Pixies, Elliott Smith, Neal Young, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Local Natives, John Butler, Sergio Belluco, Jets to Brazil...
@1234abcd113 you listen to Nirvana and Zeppelin, why don't you grab your guitar and learn every Nirvana and Zeppelin song. Play every one of Page's solos. If there exists within you even a minutiae of wisdom, you take what I'm saying to heart. You want to discover music? Listen to Radiohead when THEY were transforming grunge into something absolutely novel. Listen to the Pixies, Elliott Smith, Neal Young, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Local Natives, John Butler, Sergio Belluco, Jets to Brazil...
@1234abcd113 The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Coheed and Cambria, Dillinger Escape Plan, John Coltrane, Modest Mouse, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Jaw Breaker, The Locust, Horse the Band, Animal Collective, MGMT, Murder by Death, Thrice, Thursday, Cat Power, Imogen Heap, Psychedelic Furs, Joy Division, Townes Van Sandt, Guided by Voices, Poison the Well (Opposite of December), The Killing Tree, 88 Fingers Louie, The Cure, Phish, The Postal Service
@1234abcd113 That's it, I'm done giving you freebies. You know how I discovered music when I was 11 all the way up to this day even? I'd go to the record store and rummage through the used CD section and pop in anything and everything from the time they opened until the time they closed sometimes. When I was 14 Napster JUST came out, so by then I had access to free music. YOU are 14 in 2011! And you listed Nirvana and Zeppelin! Get yourself into a record store, download albums, whatever
@1234abcd113 And instead of coming on YouTube and typing "I leanred how to play guitar", first learn how to spell learn, then STOP CARING what other people think about you! Especially shadows on the street, faces you'll never meet, internet zombies, like me. Except I have my own recording studio, I'm self employed teaching guitar, bass and piano lessons, I perform in front of audiences and I don't have to say anything. I'm too busy doing it. Today's Sunday and I haven't preached randomly...
@1234abcd for years, so I'm doing my part to try and get through to one naive young mind who has twice as much yet to learn than I. Admittedly I have an infinite amount of things yet to uncover, that's why I don't EVER post anything on youtube. I've complimented some people a couple times, but have you noticed that 95% of these people here are judgemental, envious, bitter pricks? For a lot of these poor souls YouTube is their life. Don't be one of them. You talk like them. Don't be that.
@1234abcd113 You didn't criticize anything though, so I'm not implying you're necessarily anything like most commentors on YouTube (talentless critics starving for attention and bitter and resentful over the fact that despite their best efforts they can't get anyone to care about them). And its contagious because now I'm the one judging and I need to clean my hands of this. There's actually a lot of well deserved statements made here by people. But why make them at all? Go outside. Live.
@KaputtSchino Yeah he didn't deserve it. I WAS stressed...out of my mind at the moment. A sorry display indeed. I'm a guitar instructor, so I guess I let it all out on an invisible person. Seemed convenient. Plus I didn't think anybody'd really read this it's so far down the comments page...but, oh well.
@epicroque This little tirade of your's has to be up there with some of the saddest shit i've seen on the internet, mainly because it came from someone who is obviously an intelligent person. Youtube cast's a strange spell over some people it seem's. On the other hand it may have been tongue in cheek and it's sailed completely over my head :p
@trapiatapioca Totally mind-blowing. I once came across a street busker who played the accordian like no other I had heard before. Pure genius. I went up to him and asked if he gave lessons. He smiled and then with a broad grin he said "I can't read a note of music". That just blew me away!
People will talk about Django's technical ability, and that's to be lauded, but it's what he does with it that counts. I've never heard anyone who played original guitar music who was able to combine technical virtuosity with melody and expression as well as Django. Even when he was practically "shredding" and sweep-picking, the melody and expression was always intact.
Interesting note since there is, for some reason, a discussion about metal going on here:
Tony Iommi, guitarist for Black Sabbath, lost the tips of two fingers in a factory accident. He was contemplating giving up music when his boss encouraged him to stay in the game by playing him a Django album and explaining his finger-woes.
Tony crafted himself new fingertips from plastic, re-strung his guitar with light-gauge banjo strings and went on to be a pioneer in the metal-world.
Django eventually lost all of his fingers at a bizarre "gypsy jazz, skiffle and rhumba" barbecue he was hosting. Still carried on playing using his 3 remaining toes and his left ear, and believe it or not he got even faster! True story
@andyguitar99 Then in the year 2450 Django lead the Gypsy's to freedom in the great caravan war, using his laser beam belly button to fire super heated banana's at the evil mutated vampire robot zombie Attila the Hun! Totally true story!
Okay. I'll admit it. I just went to listen to a couple of Slayer Tunes. Gawd. Just awful (and yes, this old fossil does like a lot of what I hear in modern rock), but that metal stuff is about as abominable as disco and doo-wop. I think I prefer Hip-hop to metal. Heaven help me. They even took a rock anthem like "Born to be Wild" and turned it into a shrieking obscenity. A bunch of hirsute posers Meanwhile, I love listening to a two-fingered player who died the year I was born. Go figure.
Duke Ellington said that there were only two types of music: good and bad. I've got to admit I have never heard ANY genre where I didn't like SOMETHING of what I heard. Even though I generally despise disco, doowop and hiphop, I might like say ten percent of what I hear a lot. Whereas when I listen to gypsy swing, I like ninety-eight percent of what I hear. I wouldn't doubt for a second that there are at least SOME great metal bands and players out there that I would like a lot
Listen to Sun of Nothing by Between the Buried and Me ( watch?v=kmpqydhf_dI ). Just make sure to listen to the entire thing (yes all 11 minutes of it) because otherwise it won't make sense :) it is metal but it is extremely sophisticated; you'll probably have an easier time handling it compared to Slayer haha
i do not see why people say that django is goos but also say that slayer is also good and then people give them thumbs down... i like all music but people who think it doesnt take talent to make metal music are quite ignorant to me. but the people talking about slayer should also be talking about likeing slayer in a slayer video.
lifeisgummo is also an ignorant fool. just because he doesnt like that style he thinks it doesnt take talent?
if you cannot respect all music genres then just quit..
I had a huge metal phase about 2 years ago, and after a few months I'd felt like I heard it all. In most modern metal there is no variation, after a while it just starts to sound the same.
I respect it takes alot of technical skill to write, but technicality isn't everything - phrasing is important. What's a really technical shred solo when nobody else besides yourself can understand it?
It doesn't take talent ot write a metal song. I could write about three metal albums in a day, and I'm not even that good a guitarist / lyricist. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but y'know.
they would be horrible metal songs that no1 would like... and they would have mediocre solos(if any at all) you cleary do not know much about other genres my friend, maybe you shouldnt be putting down other genres but putting down the guitar?
I laugh at you, sir. I wasn't putting it down... However I will now. all metal is horrible. And their 'solos' are pointless. So No, I haven't taken the time to learn alot about it. But now that you're telling me to give up playing guitar I definately will. It doesn't matter that I've only ever gotten good feedback from people who have actually heard me play, no, it's an internet bound stranger who's going to make my life's decisions.
@mrgooders Oh really? Can you write a song as good as something from Megadeth's Rust in Peace? You people basing metal off Slayer is like someone basing jazz off Kenny G, totally off-color.
@goldenchopsticks I'm sure I could, but you wouldn't think the same, because you like metal, and I like the music I like. Some of my friends like metal, so I listen a lot. Not just Slayer or whatever.
im a metal head and still think slayer isnt that great....anybody can just strum a string really fast but stuff like what this guy does is just amazing
@Samfisherofwoe totally different styles of music and time periods sir, slayer isn't supposed to as introspective and as about virtuosity as django. slayer do some pretty technical things (their tremolo picking as an example) but their music is more riff based and its more about the groove. you are only limiting yourself by not acknowledging their talent, everybody should keep an open mind and admire all art forms.
@Samfisherofwoe yes but only generic thrash bands do nothing but trem pick. if you look at bands like the faceless, you can't deny the talent needed to play most metal
@Samfisherofwoe I grew up on this with a musician for a dad,i love rock from Ian Dury to AVS'fold but this stuff just hits the spot whatever my mood Django and Stephan are top of any list ,we owe any modern music to them!
@ohnoezitsus You said it for me,a musician for a dad raised on this i love Dury to Pearl Jam,Floyd,Stranglers,Rush you name it but whatever my mood Django and Stephane raises me so high and to top it all my 17yr old son loves it,the magic goes on!
@Samfisherofwoe well jimmy page is a huge django fan and django inspired tonny iommi to pick up his guitar again after he lost the tips of his finger on his fretting hand
@Samfisherofwoe I hate it when metal heads think that because of the style they play, when they comment on things like this, that it 'really puts it into perspective for everybody' fuck off you cunt.
@Threepwoodist I know... The General "Metalheads" that do this are the SlipShit self Defined "Maggots"
They Ruin the Name of Metal... Honestly, The Prog Metal Fans Don't do this.... (Generally ;) )
Or the Tech-Melo-Death-Weird-Crazyshit Fans.
And sadly the Slipknot fans are coming on to "djent" (Technique not Genre...) and ruining the Original Bands... Soon "Djent" will be the New MetalCore....
his fingers were crippled in the stupid worlwar, but with that handycap he created a completly new style, and allot of guitarists had problems in playing like he did!
Slayer is great too, but their trash metal style got limits, even for their most talented players, they should move onto prog metal, they got what it takes to play it
No known guitarist approaches Django Reinhardt on any level. His technique is unsurpassed in creating a sweetness of tone and impeccable rhythm. His improvised embellishments are played with amazing speed, yet he can carry a tune to the ear's satisfaction. His soulful lines are all original signature compositions and his playing is a pleasure to listen to. He played to both the dancers and the listener. There may be thirty-odd great guitarists, but i believe they all studied Django.
I first heard Django when i was about 6 yrs old. (over 50 yrs ago) I've heard/seen hundreds of guitarists since but i could dispense with them. Reinhardt said it ALL.
thank you, taildragger, and for sharing your memory of his guitar. my mother once had a 78 RPM recording of "Blues for Ike". i played part of the riff for years without realizing that it was Django's. thankfully, Jocopoj keeps his memory alive! cheers!
CrackerJackLee: Your mum has exquisite taste in music. You have the same gift. It was my dad who bought me my first Django EP. There's something mystical about DR's playing. I always has made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. ( Robert Johnson has the same primeval effect on me) The warmth, emotion and sheer intense sincerity...and that killer finger vibrato used on slow ballads. He never once repeated himself. Django was from another Planet.
Beautiful. And yes, what he played with two fingers, most guitarist with 5 fingers can't even play, one of the best and most influential guitarists, hands down.
p3945u5: True...and most players hide behind 300 watts of electricity. I once saw Django's original Maccaferri back in Ivor Mairants shop. By todays 'low action, light string' standard it was almost impossible to play. The bridge was held together with match box covers & Sellotape. Add this info to his disability and it becomes even more hard to fathom.
Django Reinhardt is definately no stranger in the land of rock either. Many metal artists and rock artists alike (most if not all of them HUGE names and highly regarded) regarded him as one of their biggest influences. Definately beautiful music by an amazing musician.
InsanityRerun: I recall when Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore, Keith Richards,Peter Frampton all said that for someone to be "as great" as Django ''you'd have to be playing ALL day, everyday''.
No rock artist is ever as flamboyant or nonchalant as Reinhardt.
In guitar world or some other magazine like that they were interviewing Page and Beck and they were talking about Django talking about how amazing he was. This guy could do more with the two functioning fingers he had on his fretting hand than most guitarists could ever dream of.
hey you kknow this vid is cool and all but you kno w what is better? phish and widespread and shit like that really has a groove to it. you gotta think man this guy just isnt on there level of tightness
geeteeslow 2 weeks ago
pausing every second..every half a second. gotta figure this solo out exactly! for the hell of it.
blackhighpanther 1 month ago
masty of simplicity
guillotinedeath 5 months ago
Magical. Simply magical. I'll remember this song when I'm old.
BasementBeginnings 5 months ago
Django was sweep picking before it was cool!
rockerdude29 6 months ago
less gypsy trash talks guys the man's a rom. Like most men are supposed 2 be >.>
JMPrudomTube 6 months ago
hehe, googled "gypsy chords" and found this, what a lucky day
hombreg1 6 months ago
el duo reinhardt grappelli es el mejor sin duda =)
theafrogirl1 7 months ago
2 people are hearing static in the backround... i hear magic
kapillie 7 months ago 11
Actual true story far more badass than the silliness cropping up in other comments-- Django was trapped in occupied France for much of WWII. He played in a Paris club frequented by Nazi officers. This Rroma jazz musician played his way to surviving the war AND avoiding Porajmos by strumming for Third Reich top brass in Paris! Opre Rroma!
floogfexo 7 months ago
Ojlololo. J'ai eu peur au début.
VietnamAirForce 8 months ago
Anyone whos one of those gloating, moronic guitarists who thinks they're better than anyone needs to listen to this.
He plays better with 2 functioning fingers than anyone with all 4 ever has.
NicholasGreen91 8 months ago 2
@NicholasGreen91 Amen bro
elcalamarense 8 months ago
I've been playing guitar for 35 years (I'm 47 now), and I want to learn the theory and play Gypsy Jazz, if only to please myself... I've only been listening to Django for a couple years, but I fell in love with his style- and he ONLY USED 2 FINGERS TO PLAY HIS LICKS! Amazing... Just. Amazing.
connberkshire 8 months ago
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i love the way he keeps at that phrase
aslekay 9 months ago
i the way he keeps at that phrase
aslekay 9 months ago
eeeeeeeeeepic
carrrmen16 9 months ago
2 dislikes, by 2 idiots
LilJazzer1 11 months ago 41
@LilJazzer1 It's pretty amazing that over 177 000 people have listened to this, yet there's only 2 dislikes! It shows just how amazing Django was! ;D
LiberoMan 7 months ago
@LilJazzer1
for django two finger s
guillotinedeath 5 months ago
epic!!!!
Django5198 11 months ago
Very nice!
SelectCircle 1 year ago
I NEED MORE!!!
punkjazz87 1 year ago
Someone asked about a film about Django - see "Sweet and Lowdown" directed by Woody Allen (1999)
alydar42 1 year ago
opinions are like buttholes everyone has one
BlindedinChains444 1 year ago
Those arpeggios in the beginning. awesome
newyearsprayer 1 year ago
Wow. This is my first time hearing Django and I gotta say that his sound is very distinctive. It's so hard to find distinctive artists these days.
Android2137 1 year ago
It's such a shame that Django lived so long ago in the days of crappy sound recordings...
dann3th3manni3 1 year ago
@dann3th3manni3 THOSE "CRAPY" SOUND RECORDINGS WERE NOT SO CRAPY,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,distinctive sounds from the past can never be replaced, or improved by todays standards, and technologies,,,,,,,,,,,it's an era of true musicianship
davem12758 1 year ago
@davem12758 I was referring to the quality of the recording (the audio is poorly mixed and there is a lot of feedback). The quality of the music is undoubtedly top notch!
dann3th3manni3 1 year ago
@dann3th3manni3 I'm talking about the quality of the recording as well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it goes hand in hand,,,,,,,,,,,the art of recording should not be limited to how good a mix is,,,or how well EQ'ing facilitates response,,,,,,,,,,,your too young to understand that right now probably,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,if the same musicians were in these times right now
recording,,,,,,,,,,they would be just another group in the mix,,,,,,,,,,,the whole thing defines an era,,and a style,,and a quality of listening
davem12758 1 year ago
@davem12758
i agree
it just wouldn't be quite the same without it
XD
thrilllex 1 year ago
putin94 but the french might and it will be awesome (if it happens)
Wigof99Flowers 1 year ago
Nobody have had the thoght of making a film based on the life and history of Django Reinhardt.that would be really interesting,,,So,Hollywood,tell us about Django...
renemill 1 year ago
@renemill
If he wasnt a drug user or a killer, then hollywood wont make a movie about him :D
putin94 1 year ago
@putin94 but the french might....
Wigof99Flowers 1 year ago
it's hard to believe that this is one of Synyster Gates' main influences :')
tomngaz 1 year ago
@tomngaz And Tommi Iomi from Black Sabbath too!!!
bombaymatt 1 year ago
i feel like people who listen to metal have small dicks and just pissed off at the world about it
gmcwhir 1 year ago
@gmcwhir Metal is a pretty wide genre, dude. My main genre for guitar playing is jazz manouche, but I listen to a fair bit of metal.
Try out Opeth's Lamentations album. Sounds pretty emo, but it's loaded with really nice ballads :)
Not to mention Derek Sherinians solo projects with Brett Garsed and Allan Holdsworth.
Not all metal is straight forward minor scale Metallica or leather'n'nails Immortal, haha.
jan1080 1 year ago
@jan1080 Yes, Opeth is a fine example of such. the bands Cynic, Exivious, and Atheist are very jazz-influenced too. Exvivious actually has many purely improvised songs. Giant Squid, although not jazzy, has a very diverse musical palette. Some songs are your classic headbanger songs, while other are very orchestrative and drawn-out.
screamjyser 1 year ago
@screamjyser I'm impressed that you know of Exivious! I was the 234th to buy their album, hahah.
Cynic and Atheist are two of my favourite bands too. Never heard of Giant Squid.
Exivious has excellent songs!
jan1080 1 year ago
@screamjyser Where are you from btw? We seem to share pretty similar tastes in music! You play drums, I play guitar. Online band, much? :P
jan1080 1 year ago
@jan1080 Check your channel! I posted on there to not spam the comment feed of this video XD
screamjyser 1 year ago
a gift is a gift a thing that can't be sold or bought
and no TV or RADIO make you a gifted one
larrycascolaloca 1 year ago
Still can't believe he wasn't in the top 100
Django5198 1 year ago
My God, just his rhythm playing in this is a masterpiece-never mind the impossible lead!
FortiniIII 1 year ago
my musical interests have changed so much in the past 2 years, and for the better. I used to listen to todays modern pop crap. Then i got into 90's grunge rock(ex. Nirvana). Then 70's rock (ex. Led Zeppelin). I leanred how to play guitar. I got into rock's roots in blues guitar masters (ex.buddy guy). And now the masters of jazz guitarists. Throughout all of this, i enjoy classical music, opera, and moroccan beat music. at btm, i'm 14.
1234abcd113 1 year ago
@1234abcd113
just like me:-P
MrSanktjakob 1 year ago
@1234abcd113 Cool story bro, but personally I like the fiber in wheat bread more than that wonderbread crap
Vntripper 1 year ago 19
@1234abcd113 you suck shut up no one gives a fuck go home
garciahouse8 1 year ago
@1234abcd113 I love how you add "I'm 14" at the end of your self serving reply summing up your ascent from filth to an ability to enjoy tasteful aesthetics. Then you named the most ubiquitous poster children for each genere you discovered. A teenager's "discovery" of Nirvana and Led Zeppelin is about as much a discovery as it would be for a fish to "discover" water. A discovery of 70's rock genius would be The Mahavishnu Orchestra--needle in a haystack. Led Zeppelin--radio syndication.
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 And Buddy Guy? You had to actually exert effort and embark upon a mission to discover Buddy Guy, the inventer of Chicago blues? Sorry but people who've never heard Stone Crazy!, Hot and Cool or the name Junior Wells know Buddy Guy. Nirvana, Zeppelin, and Buddy Guy are Jesus, the Knights Templar and Martin Luther King Jr. You don't discover iconoclastic giants of music history or history of religion, etc. They're unavoidable musical archetypes nearly impossible not to know.
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 You left out one sentence amidst your boastful comment--"I'm 14 and I'm still too young to realize I'm at that phase in life where I talk (and probably behave) like a textbook egoist". Your comment reads almost like a singles ad. But you think you're trying to impress strangers, which is classic teenage shortsightedness. You're trying to impress yourself. You didn't need to indicate your age explicitly. It shows clearly enough.
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 I'm not trying to put you down. But people like you who lack humility and modesty have an affinity for "showing off", for demonstrating your false sense of superiority to compensate for a buried fear of inferiority or a jealousy complex. Unchecked it can develop into Machievellian ambition-a trait sought after by multinationals in their CEOs. If you want to really transform and become a genuine lover and conessiour of music close your mouth and open your ears.
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 Ask yourself: Do you enjoy classical music? Or do you enjoy telling people you enjoy classical music? A deaf person could tell you that Kurt Cobain played guitar (left handed) in Nirvana. That's no discovery. I'm sure you'd say you like Beethoven or Motzart--posterchildren of the baroque period. But have you listened to Stravinsky's 'The Firebird" on repeat for hours on end? Have you deconstructed the Moonlight Sonata? Can you play Segovia's rendition of Bach's Chaconne?
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 How about Francisco Tarrega and his use of harmonics in Themes on "La Traviata" played in drop D tuning? Did you know Fur Elise was actually a private composition of Beethoven's meant as a gift for a woman named Therese and is actually called Fur Therese? Do you ever just watch old videos of Andres Segovia for hours performing or teaching master classes in Spain? One of my guitar students who's 13 plays Nirvana, RHCP, Metallica, etc. What's so impressive about that?
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 I got into The Doors, The Beatles, The Band, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkle, Mamas and Papas, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix, Janis, Jefferson Airplane, Smashing Pumpkins, Bush and more than I could ever name as early as six or seven years old. What's so impressive about that? Nothing. As Tim Kasher from Cursive would say, "Your ego's like your stomach, you keep shitting what you feed it." I'm writing this because I'm bored, but also...
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 ...and more importantly, I've noticed that the younger generation is more egocentric, less intelligent, less curious, creatively naive and so many think they're something special because they know this fact, or this person, or like that brand, or any other given triviality that should never define the parameteres of the human condition for any single being. That's why I'm writing this. It's sad that you felt compelled to indicate a couple generic interests and an activity...
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 on a webpage where no one knows you, no one cares, no one's impressed thinking what exactly? I mentioned the "young generation", mind you I'm only 26, so I'm not some old jaded fool ranting out of spite. I hear pure ego in those words and I know where that disposition leads a life, so more than anything this is a warning to you. Your mind's probably not prepared to assimilate these truths. You sound thick headed and disingenuous. Instead of telling shadows on the street that...
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 you listen to Nirvana and Zeppelin, why don't you grab your guitar and learn every Nirvana and Zeppelin song. Play every one of Page's solos. If there exists within you even a minutiae of wisdom, you take what I'm saying to heart. You want to discover music? Listen to Radiohead when THEY were transforming grunge into something absolutely novel. Listen to the Pixies, Elliott Smith, Neal Young, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Local Natives, John Butler, Sergio Belluco, Jets to Brazil...
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 you listen to Nirvana and Zeppelin, why don't you grab your guitar and learn every Nirvana and Zeppelin song. Play every one of Page's solos. If there exists within you even a minutiae of wisdom, you take what I'm saying to heart. You want to discover music? Listen to Radiohead when THEY were transforming grunge into something absolutely novel. Listen to the Pixies, Elliott Smith, Neal Young, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Local Natives, John Butler, Sergio Belluco, Jets to Brazil...
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Coheed and Cambria, Dillinger Escape Plan, John Coltrane, Modest Mouse, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Jaw Breaker, The Locust, Horse the Band, Animal Collective, MGMT, Murder by Death, Thrice, Thursday, Cat Power, Imogen Heap, Psychedelic Furs, Joy Division, Townes Van Sandt, Guided by Voices, Poison the Well (Opposite of December), The Killing Tree, 88 Fingers Louie, The Cure, Phish, The Postal Service
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 That's it, I'm done giving you freebies. You know how I discovered music when I was 11 all the way up to this day even? I'd go to the record store and rummage through the used CD section and pop in anything and everything from the time they opened until the time they closed sometimes. When I was 14 Napster JUST came out, so by then I had access to free music. YOU are 14 in 2011! And you listed Nirvana and Zeppelin! Get yourself into a record store, download albums, whatever
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 And instead of coming on YouTube and typing "I leanred how to play guitar", first learn how to spell learn, then STOP CARING what other people think about you! Especially shadows on the street, faces you'll never meet, internet zombies, like me. Except I have my own recording studio, I'm self employed teaching guitar, bass and piano lessons, I perform in front of audiences and I don't have to say anything. I'm too busy doing it. Today's Sunday and I haven't preached randomly...
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd for years, so I'm doing my part to try and get through to one naive young mind who has twice as much yet to learn than I. Admittedly I have an infinite amount of things yet to uncover, that's why I don't EVER post anything on youtube. I've complimented some people a couple times, but have you noticed that 95% of these people here are judgemental, envious, bitter pricks? For a lot of these poor souls YouTube is their life. Don't be one of them. You talk like them. Don't be that.
epicroque 5 months ago
@1234abcd113 You didn't criticize anything though, so I'm not implying you're necessarily anything like most commentors on YouTube (talentless critics starving for attention and bitter and resentful over the fact that despite their best efforts they can't get anyone to care about them). And its contagious because now I'm the one judging and I need to clean my hands of this. There's actually a lot of well deserved statements made here by people. But why make them at all? Go outside. Live.
epicroque 5 months ago
@epicroque
you seem stressed
KaputtSchino 5 months ago
@KaputtSchino Yeah he didn't deserve it. I WAS stressed...out of my mind at the moment. A sorry display indeed. I'm a guitar instructor, so I guess I let it all out on an invisible person. Seemed convenient. Plus I didn't think anybody'd really read this it's so far down the comments page...but, oh well.
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BasementBeginnings 4 months ago
@epicroque This is surely the biggest post I have ever seen you youtube. Nice one.
maccrazyg5 3 months ago 3
@epicroque This little tirade of your's has to be up there with some of the saddest shit i've seen on the internet, mainly because it came from someone who is obviously an intelligent person. Youtube cast's a strange spell over some people it seem's. On the other hand it may have been tongue in cheek and it's sailed completely over my head :p
TheamazingM 3 months ago
ty n stuff.... :)
squarepusher645 1 year ago
You know what's really amazing about him?
He was totally illiterate! he didn't know anything about music. He couldn't even read!
He was able to do all those amazing tunes because he was able to express his feelings using a 6-strings.
You're not listening to music. You're listening to Django's spirit!
trapiatapioca 1 year ago 5
@trapiatapioca Totally mind-blowing. I once came across a street busker who played the accordian like no other I had heard before. Pure genius. I went up to him and asked if he gave lessons. He smiled and then with a broad grin he said "I can't read a note of music". That just blew me away!
expat1250090 1 year ago
People will talk about Django's technical ability, and that's to be lauded, but it's what he does with it that counts. I've never heard anyone who played original guitar music who was able to combine technical virtuosity with melody and expression as well as Django. Even when he was practically "shredding" and sweep-picking, the melody and expression was always intact.
TenTonHorse 1 year ago
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli changed my life. I never heard music the same way again.
lydmantheincredible 1 year ago 2
Interesting note since there is, for some reason, a discussion about metal going on here:
Tony Iommi, guitarist for Black Sabbath, lost the tips of two fingers in a factory accident. He was contemplating giving up music when his boss encouraged him to stay in the game by playing him a Django album and explaining his finger-woes.
Tony crafted himself new fingertips from plastic, re-strung his guitar with light-gauge banjo strings and went on to be a pioneer in the metal-world.
Vaishino 1 year ago 2
men who made this music are genius
b4m1as 1 year ago
@b4m1as From what i know, HE invented this style
Kpro4 1 year ago
django is the best!
pcmaranha 1 year ago
And dont forget, Django danced all the same moves as Fred Astaire, but backwards and in high heels
andyguitar99 1 year ago
Django eventually lost all of his fingers at a bizarre "gypsy jazz, skiffle and rhumba" barbecue he was hosting. Still carried on playing using his 3 remaining toes and his left ear, and believe it or not he got even faster! True story
andyguitar99 1 year ago 5
@andyguitar99 Then in the year 2450 Django lead the Gypsy's to freedom in the great caravan war, using his laser beam belly button to fire super heated banana's at the evil mutated vampire robot zombie Attila the Hun! Totally true story!
swnzpd 1 year ago 3
@swnzpd i cant stop rolling on the floor, that was the funniest thing ive ever heard.lololo, hahahahahahlololohahahah
2112dan2112 1 year ago
@2112dan2112 Awesome. Thanks dude! :D haha
swnzpd 1 year ago
Zhe jest muzika bala trozhju!!!!!!! Ja nje odit'je muzika taki dobru i kaptividantje u tvo moi trazhnu! Edzhe Django, Edzhe terazna i sempreza!
sc2man13 1 year ago
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"did he lose 3 fingers on his left or right hand?"
On his left hand !!
pacha75005 2 years ago
did he lose 3 fingers on his left or right hand?
bucketheadmyhero 2 years ago
@bucketheadmyhero
when he was 18, his third and fourth finger of his left hand were badly burned, when there was a fire in his caravan.
Yngwie9284 2 years ago
not really. he got badly burned in a fire:(
dexter81195 1 year ago
@bucketheadmyhero left. he couldnt move em there
SirEnte93 1 year ago
D j a n g o , go for E t e r n i t y
BERTRAMCAT 2 years ago 5
Gelukkige Verjaardag!joyeux anniversaire!
Happy Birthday!Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!feliz cumpleaños!
buon compleanno!feliz aniversário!
tillykke med fødselsdagen!Grattis på födelsedagen!
Ouroboros010110 2 years ago
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Happy Django's 100th birthday, to all who appreciate how much he gave to music ...
SiGmund63 2 years ago
mon maitre c'est Django il a marqué l'histoire de la musique merci Monsieur Reinhardt
lebossduVar 2 years ago 5
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easy everybody. it's only music.
finnholger 2 years ago
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so if you take away the distortion
and slow down the songs what is slayer essentially?
obviously lacks the feeling django did but its not talentless
MetalMessiah625 2 years ago
Okay. I'll admit it. I just went to listen to a couple of Slayer Tunes. Gawd. Just awful (and yes, this old fossil does like a lot of what I hear in modern rock), but that metal stuff is about as abominable as disco and doo-wop. I think I prefer Hip-hop to metal. Heaven help me. They even took a rock anthem like "Born to be Wild" and turned it into a shrieking obscenity. A bunch of hirsute posers Meanwhile, I love listening to a two-fingered player who died the year I was born. Go figure.
zalman595 2 years ago 3
@zalman595 there are a lot of amazing metal bands out there, slayer wouldn't be the best one to choose for someone to listen to...
i am completely perplexed as to how slayer and metal come up on a django video anyways..but whatever, youtube is a pile of shit
followthehatecrewild 2 years ago
Duke Ellington said that there were only two types of music: good and bad. I've got to admit I have never heard ANY genre where I didn't like SOMETHING of what I heard. Even though I generally despise disco, doowop and hiphop, I might like say ten percent of what I hear a lot. Whereas when I listen to gypsy swing, I like ninety-eight percent of what I hear. I wouldn't doubt for a second that there are at least SOME great metal bands and players out there that I would like a lot
zalman595 2 years ago 4
@zalman595
Listen to Sun of Nothing by Between the Buried and Me ( watch?v=kmpqydhf_dI ). Just make sure to listen to the entire thing (yes all 11 minutes of it) because otherwise it won't make sense :) it is metal but it is extremely sophisticated; you'll probably have an easier time handling it compared to Slayer haha
superunknown7786 2 years ago
@superunknown7786 still it's not that complicated..
asphixa 1 year ago
@superunknown7786
lol...its horreur
SirEnte93 1 year ago
@zalman595 Listen to Megadeth or Metallica's first 4 albums.
goldenchopsticks 1 year ago
i do not see why people say that django is goos but also say that slayer is also good and then people give them thumbs down... i like all music but people who think it doesnt take talent to make metal music are quite ignorant to me. but the people talking about slayer should also be talking about likeing slayer in a slayer video.
lifeisgummo is also an ignorant fool. just because he doesnt like that style he thinks it doesnt take talent?
if you cannot respect all music genres then just quit..
ibanezxiphos700 2 years ago
I had a huge metal phase about 2 years ago, and after a few months I'd felt like I heard it all. In most modern metal there is no variation, after a while it just starts to sound the same.
I respect it takes alot of technical skill to write, but technicality isn't everything - phrasing is important. What's a really technical shred solo when nobody else besides yourself can understand it?
mythicaljake 2 years ago 6
It doesn't take talent ot write a metal song. I could write about three metal albums in a day, and I'm not even that good a guitarist / lyricist. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but y'know.
mrgooders 2 years ago
they would be horrible metal songs that no1 would like... and they would have mediocre solos(if any at all) you cleary do not know much about other genres my friend, maybe you shouldnt be putting down other genres but putting down the guitar?
ibanezxiphos700 2 years ago
I laugh at you, sir. I wasn't putting it down... However I will now. all metal is horrible. And their 'solos' are pointless. So No, I haven't taken the time to learn alot about it. But now that you're telling me to give up playing guitar I definately will. It doesn't matter that I've only ever gotten good feedback from people who have actually heard me play, no, it's an internet bound stranger who's going to make my life's decisions.
mrgooders 2 years ago
@mrgooders Oh really? Can you write a song as good as something from Megadeth's Rust in Peace? You people basing metal off Slayer is like someone basing jazz off Kenny G, totally off-color.
goldenchopsticks 1 year ago
@goldenchopsticks I'm sure I could, but you wouldn't think the same, because you like metal, and I like the music I like. Some of my friends like metal, so I listen a lot. Not just Slayer or whatever.
mrgooders 1 year ago
"Prog Metal"
Like that makes a musician. Musicians should be well rounded with good improv skills. Something good old Django had.
lifeisgummo 2 years ago
I'm seeing SLAYER in January!
AKMETAL666 2 years ago
Slayer, and Django both have amazing styles, and music...
astaire2012 2 years ago
im a metal head and still think slayer isnt that great....anybody can just strum a string really fast but stuff like what this guy does is just amazing
Samfisherofwoe 2 years ago 109
@Samfisherofwoe totally different styles of music and time periods sir, slayer isn't supposed to as introspective and as about virtuosity as django. slayer do some pretty technical things (their tremolo picking as an example) but their music is more riff based and its more about the groove. you are only limiting yourself by not acknowledging their talent, everybody should keep an open mind and admire all art forms.
countvoncount123 1 year ago
@Samfisherofwoe jazz = classical riffs + chromatics + "swing"
metal = classical riffs + chromatics + "dogshit"
hah
skibblebiscuits 1 year ago 4
@Samfisherofwoe Herp. Obviously you've never tried "strumming a string really fast" in order to make music.
Although slayer aren't great and Django is, so yay.
MrJuico1337 1 year ago
@MrJuico1337 i primarily play metal dude >.<
Samfisherofwoe 1 year ago
@Samfisherofwoe Your terminology makes me think otherwise.
Are you referring to alt picking or trem picking?
Either way, neither are easy techniques to master and you shouldn't be so quick to trash talk them.
It's the music written that makes a good tune, not the technique used.
MrJuico1337 1 year ago
@MrJuico1337 i was talkin about tremelo picking. idk im just not a fan of it its really not even hard.
Samfisherofwoe 1 year ago
@Samfisherofwoe yes but only generic thrash bands do nothing but trem pick. if you look at bands like the faceless, you can't deny the talent needed to play most metal
ShimoOwnzU 1 year ago
@ShimoOwnzU you clearly can't play an intrument so stop talking aboout it
BLUEGENE13 11 months ago
@BLUEGENE13 Bass, guitar, euphonium. you're right. I can't play AN instrument… but 3, yes. douche
ShimoOwnzU 11 months ago
if youre gonna get back at someone,please,not that corny. and i guess you're the one with the fault
giroalvaII 9 months ago
@Samfisherofwoe django could play kerry and hanneman's solos backwards with his 3 fingers.
IMBACHABRI 10 months ago
@Samfisherofwoe I grew up on this with a musician for a dad,i love rock from Ian Dury to AVS'fold but this stuff just hits the spot whatever my mood Django and Stephan are top of any list ,we owe any modern music to them!
ohnoezitsus 8 months ago
@ohnoezitsus You said it for me,a musician for a dad raised on this i love Dury to Pearl Jam,Floyd,Stranglers,Rush you name it but whatever my mood Django and Stephane raises me so high and to top it all my 17yr old son loves it,the magic goes on!
Bikinbest 7 months ago
@Samfisherofwoe well jimmy page is a huge django fan and django inspired tonny iommi to pick up his guitar again after he lost the tips of his finger on his fretting hand
smokeyman1 8 months ago
@Samfisherofwoe I hate it when metal heads think that because of the style they play, when they comment on things like this, that it 'really puts it into perspective for everybody' fuck off you cunt.
Threepwoodist 7 months ago
@Threepwoodist I know... The General "Metalheads" that do this are the SlipShit self Defined "Maggots"
They Ruin the Name of Metal... Honestly, The Prog Metal Fans Don't do this.... (Generally ;) )
Or the Tech-Melo-Death-Weird-Crazyshit Fans.
And sadly the Slipknot fans are coming on to "djent" (Technique not Genre...) and ruining the Original Bands... Soon "Djent" will be the New MetalCore....
Djent shall be
pooluke41 7 months ago
@pooluke41 I don't care for the childish sub-culture irrelevancies.
Threepwoodist 7 months ago
@Threepwoodist Fair Enough.
pooluke41 7 months ago
@Threepwoodist lolz you said fuck
Samfisherofwoe 6 months ago
BO du jeu MAFIA
datatreck 2 years ago
can plz stop desecrating this music by comparing it to slayer, if your so retarded to actaully do that your not worth to listen more elevated music.
vFluX 2 years ago 5
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i like this one... and SLAYER!!! :)
ksbksb 2 years ago
his fingers were crippled in the stupid worlwar, but with that handycap he created a completly new style, and allot of guitarists had problems in playing like he did!
pejote666 2 years ago
Uh, 1928 actually in a fire in has caravan.
alex9868 2 years ago 10
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@alex9868
The Singing is so CUTE/COOL, like solid, Daddy-O, anyone that judges the singing as a waste of time is a SQUARE.
SavageHazels 9 months ago
he actually burned his fingers at age 18, in ww2 he was protected by "Doktor Jazz", a german officer who was a jazz fan, so he survived unscathed
rodcrippler 2 years ago
would be a nice story, but unfortunately, django lost his fingers in age of 18, so in 1928 - eleven years before or ten after the WW...
mitharath 2 years ago
Wes is my favorite, but there is so much to learn from Django and Charlie C.
RJSeserling 2 years ago
very beautiful, cant help but 2 get ouuta ur seat and dance
actionbastard1er 2 years ago
Truly amazing...and dont forget the THUMB!!!!
flamencodiablo007 2 years ago
Can't believe he isn't more popular these days, truly a king of the 6 strings
altfreak2 2 years ago
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Yea, to bad SLAYER!!! is popular these days.....
Vintexen 2 years ago
Django is awsome, but SLAYER is pretty fuckin awesome too...Its Lady Gaga i hate!!!!
astaire2012 2 years ago
Slayer is great too, but their trash metal style got limits, even for their most talented players, they should move onto prog metal, they got what it takes to play it
rodcrippler 2 years ago
(Y)
Vintexen 2 years ago
A true genius, R.I.P.
youngadge 2 years ago 13
hard to belive this man only had two fingers on his right hand. a true geinus
bigwilf1966 2 years ago 2
Left hand, that's why it's so amazing. His right hand was his picking hand and he used a pick like most Gypsy Jazz players.
pdasaro 2 years ago 18
Left hand, not right.
windowmaker90 2 years ago 3
two fully functioning fingers, that is
StopTheMoti0n 2 years ago 4
He still had all his fingers, but 2 of them were partially paralized due to burn injuries, And this was on the left hand ( fretboard )
He still used them in chords though....
And you're absolutely right, he is a genius!
Theologic 2 years ago
Jacopoj; Many thanks for reminding me about how great Reinhardt was!
taildragger51 2 years ago
No known guitarist approaches Django Reinhardt on any level. His technique is unsurpassed in creating a sweetness of tone and impeccable rhythm. His improvised embellishments are played with amazing speed, yet he can carry a tune to the ear's satisfaction. His soulful lines are all original signature compositions and his playing is a pleasure to listen to. He played to both the dancers and the listener. There may be thirty-odd great guitarists, but i believe they all studied Django.
CrackerJackLee 2 years ago 4
CrackerJackLee: Bravo! You said it perfectly!
I first heard Django when i was about 6 yrs old. (over 50 yrs ago) I've heard/seen hundreds of guitarists since but i could dispense with them. Reinhardt said it ALL.
taildragger51 2 years ago
thank you, taildragger, and for sharing your memory of his guitar. my mother once had a 78 RPM recording of "Blues for Ike". i played part of the riff for years without realizing that it was Django's. thankfully, Jocopoj keeps his memory alive! cheers!
CrackerJackLee 2 years ago
CrackerJackLee: Your mum has exquisite taste in music. You have the same gift. It was my dad who bought me my first Django EP. There's something mystical about DR's playing. I always has made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. ( Robert Johnson has the same primeval effect on me) The warmth, emotion and sheer intense sincerity...and that killer finger vibrato used on slow ballads. He never once repeated himself. Django was from another Planet.
taildragger51 2 years ago
Beautiful. And yes, what he played with two fingers, most guitarist with 5 fingers can't even play, one of the best and most influential guitarists, hands down.
p3945u5 2 years ago 2
p3945u5: True...and most players hide behind 300 watts of electricity. I once saw Django's original Maccaferri back in Ivor Mairants shop. By todays 'low action, light string' standard it was almost impossible to play. The bridge was held together with match box covers & Sellotape. Add this info to his disability and it becomes even more hard to fathom.
taildragger51 2 years ago
Django Reinhardt is definately no stranger in the land of rock either. Many metal artists and rock artists alike (most if not all of them HUGE names and highly regarded) regarded him as one of their biggest influences. Definately beautiful music by an amazing musician.
InsanityRerun 2 years ago
InsanityRerun: I recall when Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore, Keith Richards,Peter Frampton all said that for someone to be "as great" as Django ''you'd have to be playing ALL day, everyday''.
No rock artist is ever as flamboyant or nonchalant as Reinhardt.
taildragger51 2 years ago
In guitar world or some other magazine like that they were interviewing Page and Beck and they were talking about Django talking about how amazing he was. This guy could do more with the two functioning fingers he had on his fretting hand than most guitarists could ever dream of.
thierryman 2 years ago