Phil Keaggy - Live - 2002 - Here Comes the Sun

[theeasybeats]

The Messiah was originally rejected by the church because it was an Oratorio which was considered worldly music, there has never been a better musical and spiritual (because it's all the Word) score written, Mozart and Beethoven agree

[VinnasBR]

No matter my many electrics, I NEED an acoustic right NOW!..

[oboogie80]

They're laughing at him in the beginning when he "oohs" the mellotron part. Even he cracks a smile.

[StereoLightz]

Why do people laugh? I dont get it

[meglaw69]

@StereoLightz I don't get it either.They seem to laugh as if they are somehow above this song.I find it annoying.

[lareno04]

Keaggy truly is a master guitarist and one of the greatest guitarist ever. He is an extraordinary musician. What a blessing he has been to me and my family. May Adonai bless him and his family and may all who have ears to hear also be blessed by Phil's message of eternal life and transforming hope in Yeshua.

[1964pbw]

Here Come the SON!! Nice touch Phil!! I am also a believer and a Beatles fan. Would love to see him in person!!

[nutritionistEsUK]

eeeergh........  oh man. Phil this aweful song! It's what everyone over here sings when it's peeing it down outside.

[crankyfrankification]

keaggy is a local guy(youngstown ohio)used to go see him play in the bars back in the day...he got into "religious"music...and somewhat disapeared from the mainstream...i prefer to think of it as spiritual...but thats my take...however you choose to label it...he is still one of the best gutarists...ever...some guy named hendrix once said just that..dunno...

[JudyismToday]

Thanks for this song...I'm sending it to a lovely lady and her man...I hope it will cheer them up, as they have been having a really tough time. I love Phil's version and have never heard it before now. Thank you and Blessings to you~*

[Steve94560]

Thanks for sharing this info. At some point I have a few more clips to upload from this event on digital tape. Phil is a great musician indeed!

[flashback96]

On Phil's website you'll find a pic of him and Paul McCartney in a hotel room playing their guitars. Phil played for Linda McCartney's sister's wedding. Phil is the Christian musical answer to Paul McCartney.

[sexyfatbastid]

I'm sure Phil was influenced by The Beatles.

They influenced everyone, even Hendrix,...

Who, I bet, also had an influence on Keaggy.

I've loved Phil Keaggy since '81.

(yes,..i get the double entendre of the sun/Son)

[Frobe1357]

@sexyfatbastid Yeah and he sort of sings like a higher pitched Paul McCartney

[sexyfatbastid]

@Frobe1357 I agree.

I can easily see him singin' Blackbird or Yesterday.

[shapukoy]

very tru3...music is created by god!...and its ours to enjoy!!..god wants us to enjoy..to ehyoy his blessings..

[rowcoco]

God made the sun! Thank you, God!

[kieronmelleyzpage]

how nice 

[kb8kfm55]

Hare Hare Krishna Krishna Alleluia Alleluia My Sweet Lord

[SLRPHOTOS]

Just let live god will take care of all of us in what ever way we pledge.

[javaguitarist]

As Larry Norman used to say, why should the Devil have all the good music?

[medicinalsnowball]

What an amazing voice. I love his vocal tone: so pure. His guitar tones are pure and beautiful as well. To have that sort of sound emanate from an instrument is a testament to forty plus years of dedication and practice. Phil Keaggy makes my jaw drop to the ground every time I hear him.

[witchdoctor66]

George would smile if he heard this, beautiful!

[rjconnolly64]

R.I.P George Harrison from Blighty ;)

[Nash1a]

I forgot how much he sounds like Paul. No, on the apostle... The Beatle.

[powerlifter501]

@Nash1a That would be George

[Nash1a]

@powerlifter501 Ooops...  I mixed up my Beatles.

[BenShotts]

wish more of this concert was posted

[takamine98]

The laughter from the crowd is partly due to the irony that George Harrison sang of the created sun and Phil sings of the Creator Son of God.

[zaoribah]

who else loses their finger?so they can play like this...thats devotion

[ryanz06]

django reindhardt did

[grnegsnmam101]

he lost his finger in a water pump accident when he was a kid

[THEshotwell7]

no he cut it off because he was in a band and the started doing bad stuff so he quit but the rule wqas to quit you had to cut your fingr off

[zaoribah]

who else loses their finger?

[lamiarstigootan]

i dont think i've ever seen a guitar look so natural in someone's hands... beautiful

[ddram65]

When I saw Phil I thought the same thing...it seemed it was just hovering in the air and both hands were just going up and down that guitar!

[tkdrocks66]

I have always thought of Phil as an amazing talent. I just wish he would adopt rational thinking and escape the superstitions.

[Kojow7]

tkdrocks66, not sure what you are talking about. As far as I know Phil is not into superstitions.

[tkdrocks66]

That superstition is known as Christianity. Any other belief that included talking donkeys, 900 year old men, and invisible beings would be deemed as such.

[Kojow7]

tkdrocks66, you have a strange view of what superstition is. It is all the working of God. The real delusion is in believing that God and His works are superstition.

[tkdrocks66]

I never said anything about believing in God, my beef is with Christianity and other revealed religions. I find the Bible to be unbelievable for the same reasons that you probably to not believe in the Book of Mormon or the Quran.

[Kojow7]

tkdrocks66: Now you are playing a game of semantics and trying to dance around the issue. You mentioned both the talking donkey and invisible being(s). The Bible clearly says it was God that opened the donkey's mouth. The only being described in the Bible as "invisible" is God. Lastly, you seem to indicate that I mentioned something about "believing in God". Clearly you must have misread something in my post.

[SprDrumio64]

I think this is awsome because i love the Beatles, but whats with the laughing????

[ruckerd2324]

The laughing is because Phil is 110% "Jesus" oriented so obviously he refers to "The Sun" as" The Son" thus the humor from the crowd that knows him

[mcconja]

Huh? It's because it was funny that he used his voice, in a sort of comical way, as an instrument to fill the pause. As a musician I too found it funny. Now at the start of the song.... the laughs may have been from the suprise that Keaggy played a Beatles tune.

[JRR951]

And that's also why he isn't as popular as he should. He's a little TOO religious for the majority of the people's tastes. Nonetheless great guitarist

[Khazanah]

Greatest acoustic/folk rock song ever made!

[Benjaminvv93]

Awesomee :)

[DonPiano81]

GREAT!!!

[wmsharpe]

Jesus said," Narrow is the road that leads to eternal life." Our minds should not be so narrow and judgmental.

[jbaby1129]

if you really appreciate good music and especially great guitar playing check out a band called stone descendant...i saw them open for rusted root last winter...they were great!

[Kojow7]

Have you seen some of Phil's other guitar solos?

[jbaby1129]

wow, i just checked them out! theyre GREAT! awesome call, thanks ill be watching for new music from them in the future!

[JustAnotherPers0n]

just me or only 4 finger right?

[jbaby1129]

yeah he got his middle finger sliced off or something like that...kinda like jerry garcia.

[mav616]

He lost a finger in a childhood accident....

[pastorogre1]

In his song, "Way Back Home", he explains how he lost his finger in the old water pump when he was only four years old.

[duffer29]

well, three fingers.

[kutzbill]

He lost his finger when he was 4 or 5 years old. Chopped of by a water pump on a farm, according to him. (See live in Denver at the soiled Dove)

[fushYEAmangs]

i cut off a part of the same finger as keaggy, roughly 2 cm down, i look to keaggy as inspiration. if he can play this beautifuly with a missing finger i know i can play just as good (not really lol) with most of my finger left.

[kutzbill]

That's great that your not letting a missing digit stop you! I am missing my legs, but I still play... ha ha... I do have a hard tapping my foot though... lol

[curtogawa]

Those who dog Christians for playing "non-Christian music" are ignorant. Our God is a God who is able to redeem music and other things of this world for His glory. Where did the tunes of the hymns originate? They were once bar tunes. When the revivals came, the outdated chants were replaced by music of that day. Now we have worship bands. Even John took an old Greek concept of God, "the Logos" and ascribe it to Jesus. So if Phil wants to reinterpret the sun as the Son, we should celebrate it.

[emt1605]

@curtogawa hear hear I'm a Christian...I love Beatles Ac/DC etc and I dont do dugs

[marieowitzski]

@emt1605 as in dig dugs....i love video games...you christians are so judgemental. lalalalalalalhhahahahahahahha. have a nice day unless you dont do those either.

[emt1605]

@marieowitzski ????????? ooookay

[biggggslick]

@emt1605...you're a moron...wait...I take that back...calling you a "moron" would be an insult to morons...

[65buickriv]

great music and u gotta love the HUGE MONSTER guitar stap.

[gene12sis]

Actually I think Phil might be covering a beatle's song, and what's wrong with that! He has always been a big fan of the beatles and so am I ! Christian's dont have to sit around and read their bible's all day. They can enjoy life and music if they're free and not tied up with religion.. It's like Larry Norman use to say,"Why should the devil have all the good music"! "I still like listening to the radio"!

Not all of it is wroth listening too but there's a few good secular songs out there!

[outdoorsbound]

Good = secular? I dunno. I thought only God was good. Maybe you meant pleasurable or enjoyable...

[EilertPilarmDM]

some are slagging off Phil for playing this tune?

lighten up Francis!

oy vey.

[kc7fys]

I like Phil Keaggy a lot, and respect his playing. He is a legend.

The song is not about Jesus, nor will it ever be. It's an excellent song without ever being punned with sun/son. In fact, that is a bit crass on Keaggy's part.

Again, Phil's music is enough on its own without playing this particular cover.

[Keltic32]

I met Phil while he was warming up for a benefit show for Mercy ships. I talked to him briefly as he set up and listened to him practice, then had to go get ready for the show and he STOPPED in the middle of his practice set and asked if there was any particular song I wanted to hear! Later on that night he asked me by name if I liked the show and this lady next to me goes "You know him?", and I said, "We've met" ;) It was one of the coolest moments of my life.

[joeydelange12]

this is amazing

[musicappreciate]

I sometimes say he sings like Paul and plays like George.

[food1010]

I'd have to say he plays better than George but I do agree.

[nightmarecinema33]

most guitarists pay better than george to tell the truth. especially phil keaggy.

[Howlinblind]

George Harrison, thou was a great guitar player

[musicappreciate]

Na, I was just referring to the some of the guitar sounds, not overall quality or innovation. Phil obviously takes the cake there.

[mudeye]

Its a song after the beatles.Listen to what the man says after the end of the song.

Great song!

[Rob50strat]

He's actually talking about when he got his first amplifier.. which happened to be a Sunn!

[Xtreme1F]

In the Bible -the Old Testament - Jesus Christ is called "The SUN of Righteousness (Malachi 4:4) so either way it can go!

[bilgerburg]

It is actually in Malachi 4:2(KJV). However, your contorting the verse to fit your preconceived beliefs. To do this you have to assume that either there was an error in the scriptures or that the author didn't know the difference between "Sun" and "Son". Either way, you are making a leap and none of the contextual verses support this....None the less, Phil Keaggy is a fantastic musician and this is a great song. I don't think it needs to be justified..

[blueleaftuber]

couldn't it just be a play on words by george harrison. i dont think Xtreme1f was inferring anything about the Word.

[bilgerburg]

It is actually in Malachi 4:2(KJV). However, your contorting the verse to fit your preconceived beliefs. To do this you have to assume that either there was an error in the scriptures or that the author didn't know the difference between "Sun" and "Son". Either way, you are making a leap and none of the contextual verses support this....None the less, Phil Keaggy is a fantastic musician and this is a great song. I don't think it needs to be justified..

[mwagnerch]

Dude, it's just a good song and Phil likes it, so he played it. Stop trying to analyze everything. The Beatles were awesome, and so is Phil Keaggy.

[dalle211]

Isnt it supposed to be "here comes the sun"??

[greengtrs]

When Phil plays it, I can picture The Son instead of the sun. It makes sense to me anyways.

[egamorf2]

sOn makes sense to me as well.. look up Keaggys bio and it will make more sense dalle  :)

[dalle211]

It doesnt really matter does it? :)

its a beatiful song no matter what.

[mixmasterlees]

wow your an idiot

[iwebber88]

It's Son. Just search the lyrics in a Google search...

[hike99]

Time for some education... It's SUN. The song Here Comes the Sun is written by George Harrison and is on The Beatles album Abbey Road, which was released in 1969.

[iwebber88]

Well Woopty Friggn do-dah-day! Google failed me.

[sammanzhi]

We all fail sometimes...

[davidaaronmusic]

Agreed. But Phil Keaggy is a proclaimed Christian and he always uses this song as a reference to here comes the Son (Jesus). But ya, written by George Harrison.

[drbcook]

Your right he does !

[Elias5Barnes]

He looks just a little like Paul McCartney. Olson guitars are amazing!! He met Paul McCartney and gave him one as a gift!

[carpethead1]

Wow, I also have always thought that he looked like Paul McCartney!

[sashoot]

His voice is similar to Paul's

[rsp196607]

Starting about 15 years ago, I used to imagine him playing this song in concert. Does anyone know when was the first time he did?

[OMM06]

Lovely musical performance. So nice for an evening repose....

[thenauga]

Thanks again Phil for Fighting the Good Fight!!!

[nunezvalverde]

I always think of that song as 'Son' as well. Thank you!!

[andriesk]

I was there. Great concert.