James Blood Ulmer : Geechee Joe

[MrMatthewsullivan]

Heard of the man, of course, but never realized I'd been missing out on genius for way too long. A kind of folk, blues, funk..? I don't know what to call it. I'm still mesmerized by these videos. Moved. Please post more if you have them.

[timmcgoo]

the unison tunings come up later, his use of hammering over a barre suggests an open tuning (tuned to some chord of his own masterful design)

[breakingthe4thwall]

The Velvet Underground had done the same thing.

[subvert47]

I think he tunes it unison — all the strings to the same note

[breakingthe4thwall]

@subvert47 Yes, all his strings are tuned to A.

[BlaxisDuende]

Pure genius.

[adeart7]

How is he getting that drone effect?

[aballballball]

he calls it harmolodic tuning" .you can tune your guitar so that each string sounds like part of a greater "chord" and almost any pattern you play resonates. strange and cool sounding, isn't it.

[adeart7]

How would I do that? For example, I thought that standard E tuning represents an E chord, and Open G represents a G chord etc.

[evolverstudios]

THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU

this man is a musician of the highest order!

[KoolaidAcidKat]

Thank alot, man! I was dying to see the man playing. If you've got more - upload it without thinking :))