Pink Anderson She Knows How To Stretch It

[bluesborn]

I like the guitar Pink is playing.It looks like a Martin to me.Does anyone know about this stuff?

[spacebrain1991]

i love this!

[shannonandsheila1]

anyone who dont think that guitar sounds completely great should fall and break a arm

[dylanfx67]

I'm doing a jazz combo for my high school and I think I want our name to be The Anderson Council Sound. Hahahha

[Themaddprof]

Pink Anderson is my homeboy from South Forest Street, Spartanburg, SC. We're proud of him. To the trash talkers, consider that he suffered a stroke a few years before this was filmed, so he is not in his prime here. Pink Anderson and his recordings preserved a lot of folk songs that were once common knowledge but are mostly forgotten today, except for his records.

[ridovem]

That little closing lick he does... one of Rev. Gary Davis' favorite turn-arounds, too. This is the only other place I ever heard that... & I have a feeling it started here... ^..^

[valtermel]

The legend Pink from Pink Floyd.

[Bipolarbear13]

does anyone have pink Anderson singing "aint nobody home but me"? if so...pleeeease post it! i cant find it anywhere!

[tbag010]

Does someone has a date for that vid?

[LeeVaiM]

Keep it simple stupid

[gallanttimmy201]

Nice job

[madFlam1]

i love these fun songs

[Veizata]

thay had a graet video that days' way now the its shity

[GavinS1965]

Blues is real,its playing your song on the kit you have,you can play blues on any old guitar,its working mans music,you ain't got 9 million quids worth of kit.Sounds better for it to me..

[fngrpkn06]

This is great !!

[dbonfa555]

I like the blues, but it seems that the sound of it didn't changed a lot in all these years... It's just so predictable. Does anybody else agrees with me?

[JRobson1955]

@dbonfa555 I agree; the differences between songs are more subtle. That's what makes them fun to play. There's a system, a science or an art. You can cut , transpose and paste licks all over the place. You find yourself doing so unconsciously. Then guess what? You're playing the blues! The musical similarities makes subsequent song so much easier to learn.

[edslides1]

@JRobson1955

yep. everything you said.

miss the subtleties, it aint blue no more.

[cyrus138]

@dbonfa555 This comment reminds me of this scene in Ghost World.

Dana: I am so excited to see this movie. Dustoff Varnya is such a brilliant director. Did you see his last film, "The Flower that Drank the Moon"? It was simply glorious!

Seymour: I guess I must have missed that one. But then what do I know. I like Laurel and Hardy movies.

Dana: Really? I never really cared for those. I mean, why does the fat one always have to be so mean to the skinny one?

[YoussefFishere]

@dbonfa555 That's because there's a chord progression that gives you the blues sound. So, it's very hard to use the same chord progression, and still sound different.

[dbonfa555]

@YoussefFishere It's just that sometimes it irritates me. So what do people like BB King did that made them famous? What do you do when you play the blues that makes you different from the other?

[amusia111]

@dbonfa555 Well, kid, the thing about the blues is it's basically just a five-note scale. It's what you do with it that counts, as in other things...

[MrBuk86]

@dbonfa555 There's many different types of blues, not all of em are your standard 8 or 12 bar blues. it's not all I-IV-V. Most blues players use recycled riffs or words, but what they DO with them is what makes or breaks them, there are many original players, and some that aren't. Blues is also a feeling, and I for one always go back to the blues all the time because of the feeling. Not to sound cliche but I have the blues, they're there. Last thing I'd ever call the best of them is predictable.

[lynettekomidar]

@dbonfa555 There are subtle differences that make the blues addictive

[bobtheoven]

@dbonfa555 your an idiot!

[songpatch]

Do you not realize this is Pink Anderson? These are North Carolina Blues. He's old here, but the awkward guitars weren't always like that. He is an icon... He played music w/a friend.... that friend died and Pink Anderson stopped, wouldn't play no more. He was begged by thousands to record. He did some rare mono recordings in his latter days.

If you're making fun, you have so much to learn. don;t juke about these players...This is why YOU have rock & roll now.

[songpatch]

I'm surprised at what I'm reading. Do you not realize this is Pink Anderson? These are North Carolina Blues. He's old here, but the awkward guitars weren't always like that. He is an icon... He played music w/a friend.... that friend died and Pink Anderson stopped, wouldn't play no more. He was begged by thousands to record. He did some rare mono recordings in his latter days.

If you're making fun, you have so much to learn. don;t juke about these players...This is why YOU have rock & roll now.

[aberdown]

What a genius!

[needianame]

Thumbs up if Pink Floyd brought you here!

[sheilapatrick1]

the sloppy sound comes from playing on homemade instruments when he was young some impoverished man on a homemade guitar taught him to play half his songs hes really trying to just recreate the old sound of the old bluesmen

[DoubleVisionandco]

Thank you, Mr. Pink, master of the blues, for your influence on a young man named

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett. Amazing, he`s doing a 4 fret stretch with his first and third finger.

[minorkatminor]

@DoubleVisionandco Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12, 1900 – October 12, 1974[1]) was a blues singer and guitarist, born in Laurens, South Carolina.

[kirkpatrick321]

By the way, which one's Pink??

[TheAlanExperience18]

Pink Anderson not only is part of the origin of the name pink Floyd but generations of blues

[luizsix2]

lenda!

[dukernr]

gracias syd barrett ....

[sayyes2bull]

hahaha! mistakes? hell, i wish i could play guitar JUST LIKE THIS.

[sayyes2bull]

haha! mistakes? i WISH i could play JUST LIKE THAT. love you, pinky.

[rvz77]

whats he singing about a vagina???

[PJB1775]

R.I.P, Pink.  I'll make sure your grave is kept.

[magikster01]

BB King with an acoustic guitar. great !

[BadComedyFakeLaughs]

haha PInk Floyd brought me here. Love Pink Floyd

[sweetlana6]

@BadComedyFakeLaughs Pink Floyd brought me here too! :)

[JRobson1955]

To tinojams, There were quite a few slopy blues players. I think it's allowed.

To tokyohalogen and others, lets try to refrain from namecalling.

To blues lovers as a guitar teacher with a lot of young students it's almost a shame that som many of these great picking songs are so crude. It doesn't offend me personally but maybe a little too much stress on the "pee-pee dickie"

[songpatch]

@JRobson1955

Do you not realize this is Pink Anderson? These are North Carolina Blues. He's old here, but the awkward guitars weren't always like that. He is an icon... He played music w/a friend.... that friend died and Pink Anderson stopped, wouldn't play no more. He was begged by thousands to record. He did some rare mono recordings in his latter days.

If you're making fun, you have so much to learn. don;t juke about these players...This is why YOU have rock & roll now.

[JRobson1955]

@songpatch Don't know why you'd think I was making fun. I did an arrangement for this song and it's on Ultimate Guitar. This is my kind of playing.

[dawgwarz]

@songpatch I think Pink would agree that he was singing South Carolina blues considering that's where he's from. People here in Spartanburg, that remember him when he played with Peg Leg Sam, will tell you that Pink would soak his harmonica in the toilet all day, because he knew he was gonna play the sh!t out of it that night.

[dcwilson72]

@songpatch This is SOUTH CAROLINA Blues. Everything else is right on. Preach it brother songpatch!

[Delta1]

@JRobson1955 This is not sloppy it's casual. I only wish some of our modern musicians could groove in the same way sometimes. I certainly miss the old time feels in our machine genertaed era. And about the lyrical content, if you are chagrined by the sexual references, go to the wonderful catalog of gospel guitar music from 1926-1936. You will find the same music with a different textual orientation. Good hunting.

[ASouthernRag]

@JRobson1955 nope. feels good right where it is

[va804richmond]

i dont know about most of ya'll but i came for the piedmont blues. pink was probably the best piedmont player with the exceptions of blind willie mctell and blind boy fuller

[EverybodysSenator]

For those that don't know PINK ANDERSON is where the first half of the name PINK FLOYD comes from because Syd Barrett liked his blues beat.

[sables9]

true music

[vivamissvega]

Awesome!

[pinkpigsheep1977]

I like him

[dongtingwong]

I take it playing the blues did not come with a dental plan.

[tinojams]

@dongtingwong you think?

[PearTree37067]

He did some shows in New York, I think, and made enough money to get a flight back home to SC and buy a set of false teeth.

[kidtheskid]

does he play with his teeth?

[floydsp]

Pink Anderson+Floyd Council= PINK FLOYD

[ThisisPunk]

@floydsp damn right

[busessuck1]

@floydsp Barbecue Bob + John Lee Hooker= BARBECUE HOOKER

[BuyYourOwnBombs]

@floydsp O RLLY?

[brilleaben]

That dirty old mofo!

[Evansharma]

sexy song

[JRobson1955]

That is a "fun fact" and I am glad to know it. I have tabbed this song. It is on UG. I have aslo tabbed a Tiny Tim song "We Love It" fyi "Tim" fan.

[JustinParizisViary]

@JRobson1955 pink anderson put the pink in the floyd , floyd council made the floyd.

[515742617000027]

@JRobson1955 LOL! Tiny Tim is pretty cool. :D

[epicmeade]

this is a great song and a great piece of film. thanks for posting it. by the way,heres a fun fact. the mega huge rock band

Pink Floyd were named after Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. they were big blues fans in the early sixties.

[bigals1000]

am glad that someboby knows that FACT

[CuuijqyMuruqdte]

I bet you over 60% of the views on this video are precisely because of that, Pink Floyd fans. XD.

[omgfreakay]

@CuuijqyMuruqdte Honestly, I came for Pink Floyd.

[Gold753]

I was in the kitchen

Seamus, that's the dog, was outside

Well I was in the kitchen

Seamus, my own hound, was outside

Well you know the sun was sinking slowly

and my own hound-dog sat right down and cried

[MyUtopiaII]

@CuuijqyMuruqdte

hah, you're right ;p

[mocorod]

@CuuijqyMuruqdte jaaajajaja you're so right dude

[gatoreloaded]

RAYOS!!!! que buen blues!

[pablitodericota]

BUENISIMO! GRACIAS YOU TUBE! =P

[JuanPreciadoComala]

@pablitodericota El agradecimiento debería dárselo a quien se tomó el trabajo de cargarlo en la página. No a YouTube. Qué aburrimiento tener que gastar energía en confrontar gente como usted.

[pablitodericota]

@JuanPreciadoComala PEGAte un tiro flaco

[miryallerdyce]

this is great!!

[tinojams]

its not a perfect performance, or anything over the top lyricall, but you feel what he is trying to say musically, almost the way guthrie did where somehow a simple chord change told you everything you needed to know

[bigcyhutch]

@tinojams I think sometimes there is something very wonderful about a "non perfect" performance...it's more gritty, real and almost magically impromptu. Especially if the artist has soul that shines through. When an artist focuses on being too technically perfect it can sound a bit stale and antiseptic to me. For ex, the Beatles recordings has many imperfections, and I love hearing them! They were just very into creating the art, not perfecting the notes.

[pinkstarburst95]

Tiny Tim?

[tokyohalogen]

This is not Tiny Tim. This is Pink Anderson motherfucker.

[juegas]

hahaha.....you said it brother.

[urbanpeacock]

Thanks for posting this.Great!

[filiphopo]

Very nice! From when is this?