Anji (Davy Graham)

[stefk123]

Well this blows my version out the water! I need to practice more haha

[SmallDays1]

Nice version - loved it! Couldn't resist a video response, I hope that you like it. Best wishes, Dave ('Small Days')

[Taintless101]

Sungha brought me here!

[bbcradioroo]

Davey would have loved this. And now take it on further.

[furorelondon]

I love your intro to this, very nice way to start.

Beautifully played. I think it would sound stronger though if when you hammer on the first fret during the main riff, you could quickly pull off and sound the open string again before picking the next note. So the hammer on becomes a rapid triplet, like in Bert Jansch's version. Although I appriciate it's personal preference.

[furorelondon]

I love your intro to this, very nice way to start.

Beautifully played. I think it would sound stronger though if when you hammer on the first fret during the main riff, you could quickly pull off and sound the open string again before picking the next note. So the hammer on becomes a rapid triplet, like in Bert Jansch's version. Although I appriciate it's personal preference.

[skullamus]

very good indeed - thanx

[10oder5]

Interesting version, well played. Heard the song itself just in the sample.

Greetings

[MADManicGuitarest]

The second i heard the begging little intro it was five stars already!! brilliant!!

[neutralgray]

Bravo!

[dravidwake]

You are right - he has got hands like shovels and it still sounds great. I am fed up of the young kids with fingers like octopusses. It's not Bert Jansch - It's not Davey Graham - I saw him do this live in a small folk club in the late 1960s - but it is a good interpretation.

[bally1020]

that was fucking amazing!!!!!!!!1

[dogsbreath101]

He has got a marvellous plucking technigue, even with hands like shovels.........No offence meant.

[weirdsome]

janscbert is using a capo to play this, at least in some versions. and well you are a way better player than i am i suggest. but have you tried to play with your right hand at the very end of the strings? i like the sound much better for this piece :-)

[sockenfrank]

respect.

[MartinGuitarLover1]

very very nice!!!

[coade123]

Haha we seem to have about 20 people here who all play Angie a different way. We should do a concert...

[arnikki]

ANJI !! harry sacksioni and not ANGIE stones

[coade123]

Wrong, man. Look back through these comments, the orginal D.G. title was Angie. I think Jansch changed it, guess it sounded more oriental.

[arnikki]

grinn ok ...they should forbid it ;-) changing and so ;-)))

[thefishdontswim]

@coade123 If you do, it should be called Anji Anjie Anjy Angy Angi Anshi anshie Anshy Anjoo Amjoo Amju Armju Armunk Armjoonk Armkook Almkook Almgie Algie Alkookum Alkookumduke Almkookumjookie Almurkookumdukie Alemerkookumjookie Almerbumsquatkookumjookiefunbo­x Albermelterkookumjookiefunboxd­onkeyfinktanksmelterjonkiefunn­ysavvymonkfishfingerssquattybu­mcheese. Or something.

[golden381]

really nice man! a few nice touches in there, awesome

[neohip]

This fellow is very good,but you have to wonder,if he has the talent to do this fantastic but obscure song so well,then why isn't he composing his own?Why isn't he at least trying to better it?

[TheDruidKing]

I'm glad you asked that! There are links to my own original stuff from my channel. They are multi-tracked songs/tunes on myspace pages and there are about 15 of them.

[savagerabbit]

I would hardly call "Anji" obscure.

[neohip]

It is sadly thus in the real world.

I doubt that I have met more the three people in my entire life that have ever heared it,but nearly everyone I know from the 1970's on, can at least hum the theme to M*A*S*H.

[dogsbreath101]

Do you know the words?

[subterranean47]

there are no words

[weirdsome]

this is an acoustic piece, no singing. and this version is beautifull! but i would alsou mention bert jansch... hes the one who really mastered this piece

[ponynose]

I can play a very good cover of berts version along with many other good instrumentals, I can't compose for shit though.

[coade123]

Aint obscure mate, its the number one piece that said it was possible to be "just" a guitarist and is the fingerpickers standard. This is in fact very original, its nothing like the way I play it.

[neohip]

I actually respectfully disagree.

I love this,and it is timeless,but like I said, I'm the only person I've ever met that has ever heard of it!.

I do however know many people who learnt to appreciate and play folk guitar by playing Jimmy Pages "Black Mountain Side".

I get a real giggle out of those thumbs down ratings,so 'keep em coming'!.

[coade123]

Never thought of Jimmy as a folk guitarist. Where can I hear that?

[neohip]

All music is actually folk music.

If you are going to be picky,then from the very first Zeppelin album,and lots of Zep III.

As I have mentioned, he does this lovely thing called Black Mountain Side.I should not need to spell it out,but in case you found this clip by accident,after searching for "Bert and Ernie", Black Mountain Side,and Bert's Backwaterside are the same song,so if you are going to say that Jimmy cant do folk (as I think you are sadly implying),then you are wrong.

[coade123]

Strictly speaking, folk music is music played by folk, for folk, on folk instruments and is non-commercial. However, it was also a genre and a movement, which as far as I know Jimmy was no direct part of. Unlike say Mark Knopfler who got his early training in folk clubs, and it shows.

However at one stage in his career Page was influenced by the Pentangle guitarists Renbourne/Jansch who were a core part of the folk movement - and I do think this comes out somewhat in Zeppelin music.

[neohip]

I ain't gonna declare defeat,but when you mentioned Knopfler,I understood where you are coming from.'Making Movies' is one of my favourite albums,but should he be called folk because he name checks Romeo and Juliet?.

If so then you are wrong.

All music is folk music,and not just played on a folk instruments. what is a folk instrument?

A mandolin 17th c,

a banjo c1880,

a ukelie c 1920?.

Electric guitar c1942?,

A flute and drum c 30000 bc?

Free your mind and your brain will follow!.

[coade123]

Neohip, the folk movement was a philosophy and a way of life. In particular, that songs were created incrementally by the contributions of a chain of people who learned them directly from each other. Most of those still in it were born into it, as I was.

A first test for a folk instrument - can you carry it around and play it by a campfire?

Im not putting down Page in any way, in fact he's my favourite electric guitarist after Knopfler and maybe JJ Cale.

[neohip]

I guess I will concede then.

I suppose you've got it right, and folk music has nothing to do with attitude,time or people,but the ability to sing Waltzing Mathilda at a Rugby game ,and not the actual music of my ancestors who once used it to define and make sense of themselves and the world around them.

[jugeyedjoe]

been playing this tune for a couple of years. you've added some nice touches that hadn't occurred to me. seeing this stuff really makes a difference to just reading the tab and listening. opens yer eyes to other riffs you can do. thanks.

[TimWatson1984]

I like.

[BillNeilan]

Very cool beginning!! The whole piece sounded great.

[HammyBlingBling]

Beautiful.

[Videoobserver]

Awesome!

Beautifully played.

[markedsa]

Mindblowing!

[Lord57150]

amazing ! even more than paul simon !

[Rigbyband]

Keep up the good work! :)

[edgar587]

great!!!!!!!!!!!

[fiendishfreddie]

Nice version man. Keep it up!

It's crazy that there's not been much notice paid to the death of such a huge influence. There were times you couldnt get a folk gig unless you could play this tune!

RIP Davey...

[ptalex1976]

nice. i pretty much copy bert's version (except for the real flashy parts of course *g*) but you do it in your own way which is good!

[jmccfff]

Davy Graham died yesterday - RIP Davy.

[dogsbreath101]

God Bless him.

[muddedin]

fair play fella!

[Domytar]

this vi is wicked man

[taylor355]

Good stuff! I'm just starting learning John Renbourn's version of this.

[dunderheed]

I too do my own version of Anji, which is different to both Davey's & Bert's - I may post it at a later date. Even Bert says "Davey Graham always tell me I play it too fast". It's not all about playing it exactly as the original. Tubeehead, who says TheDruidKing should go back to the drawing board has it all wrong himself and maybe needs to visit his own YouTube drawing board. This is a nice interpretation of the tune (I would agree it could flow a bit more but it's a great effort). Well done.

[TheDruidKing]

Thanks mate. Let me know when you post yours. Paul Simon has his version of it too.

[marKism69]

Excellent version man! I just posted my version of this classic - but yours is much cooler.

[Jamied837]

shut up tubehead ur a boobhead its not meant to be the xcact tune.

[theboycalcoen]

By far the best personal interpretation of Angi on youtube. Nice to see someone not just doing a carbon copy of Bert's version, instead making it their own as Bert himself did.

[tubeehead]

i think you better go back to the drawing board!!!!!!

you have got it so wrong>

i live just around the corner from davy and he showed me a long time ago how to play that,

and that is not how it is done

[AppetiteForRoses]

Fucking unreal dude

[plyzorba1]

Great version. Keep up the good work.

[Isuszhivyot]

Ilove your version of one of my favourite tunes: brilliant!

[ponynose]

Faultless in its execution. My favorite version is Berts which has this awsome feel to it. You need to let it flow a bit more

[electricitycomesfrom]

i like ur guitar, ur poloshirts ok too, but ur angi is rubbish mate.point well and trully missed, davy would be turning in his grave if he was dead.

[BobJJ9999]

Love it! Just learned the basic tune myself now I need to get better at the flashy bits! Well in

[sgdp]

Ya know? I usually HATE when people mess with songs, especially instrumentals, but this is groovin'! Rock on!

[MyCar18]

Heh nice intro.

[chilepine]

very nice

[BBqsaucesnax]

great work love the run at the begginig

[SimPotts]

Very Nicely Done. Thanks.

[asabadastra]

Fantastic work I can only second the sentiment of your previous commenters...and possibly not play anji out any more hehe!

[Peejington]

Awesome mate, my life's ambition, however sad, is to learn this song... :-)

[Ronanan]

Brilliant

[bunnichello]

I loved it...well done. Amazing to watch at close quarters. By gum there's some ace talent around....

[YurtleTheTurtle]

this is the best version on youtube, all the other stray too far the from the original

[bangerLV]

well done!

[mellk]

wtf...incredible

nice guitar btw

[Waggonerslad]

Cracking version.

[jbarry471]

I've heard almost every version of this song there is to hear. I even have my own version I play. But this composition is by far the best I've heard!!! Well done....

[TheDruidKing]

Thats really kind and thanks very much - you should get your own version on!

[skully9523]

Wonderfully played. Well done!

[SHIZWAZ]

Very very good :)

[procyoncmi]

Excellent version. Very solid, shows you've worked for this. Your dynamics are great... probably the hardest part about playing this tune. The only thing it needs is a litte more fluidity. I think you need to relax your picking hand while you play. But wow, stellar version.

[theblindpew]

Hi S, enjoying the tunes. We should get together again and do some more stuff! Have a look at my bands vids on this 'ere site. Cheers. Andy

[TheDruidKing]

Cheers. Well up for doing another Chanting Buddha's number.

[evilpigeon4life]

kwl

[chudnovsky]

very nice bro :))

[MuNkYBizNess]

Top notch!

[TheDruidKing]

Thanks very much. I know it's not very fluid but I'm sure that it improves with a few beers down so I might do it again.

[bazboo]

Nice rythm, great feeling on your strings Man !

[AnnieCanada]

Holy.. you play very Well~ Beautiful Feel.. amazing finger work! Love this~

[caterinanotte]

very well!

[macduff06]

Gaun yersel fella. I've seen both Bert Jansch and Davy himself playing that live, and they weren't any better. Brilliant guitar work. Look forward to seeing more of your stuff.

[thefishdontswim]

Excellent work, beautifully played with gusto and precision. Rythm is bang on and the pick style carries the tune along. More of the same please...