Jim Page and Spoonman Amazing Street Performance

[zbrobbins13]

i'm 16, but luckily for me all my siblings were born before '86 and i learned everything about music from them.

[Nealleavitt]

I like the comments about how famous the spoonman is. Yes, he is, but so is Jim Page. Jim Page made it legal for street preformers in Seattle. The spoonman and Jim are great friends.

[jordthered]

its Artis

[Jiffxx]

Good vid. The first Starbucks was at the corner of Pike Place and Virginia St, a half block north of this one.

[MartinTruther]

The spoonman's name is Ardis, by the way.

[drdbones]

You were doing your best Jim...singing a song about bones...went over your partner there...Understandable I Love ya!! DrDBones

[GrowlinWillie]

Great spoon playing. I don't agree with the politics, isn't it wonderful that we no longer hear the body count every night? Too bad gas is $4 / gallon, is must be Bush's fault.

[mclarenf101]

@GrowlinWillie yep blame it on Bush.

[hanksnow2]

We now have a new Emperor & he even has a brain!! But he is sailing the same course as the old one. Will we also be eagerly awaiting the sinking of his ship?

But I agree we need more of this type of music & then some!!

[tamaraehawk]

this is bad ass

[buddyeagle]

VERY CLEVER!

[metalandhardrock911]

I've been there!!! Thats infront of the original Starbucks! A different band was playing there though.. wish I coulda seen em'

[MrCopperhead1861]

We need more music like this, instead of silly love songs

[JeanySullivan]

Jim Page got a sexy voice. :-)

[lakajd]

this is awesome........spoonman truly is one of "seattle's best kept secrets"

[alyssa982]

wonder what spoonman's shirt says

[HelenusMaximusIII]

@alyssa982 looks like a Zappa "music is the best" t-shirt to me... "Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music, music is the best!"

then again, it might not be..

[LadyMaire]

This is totally real- I have seen these two for years and years at this exact spot in Seattle, Pike Place Mkt

[me5g435rg]

that dude is like hendrix on those spoons

[Epsilon15]

That dude is like Malmsteen on those spoons.

[me5g435rg]

na fail....its gotta be hendrix.. lol

[EmotionalShredd]

the stupid britney spears and hip hop generation doesn't even know how famous the spoonman actually is. this guy was in soundagardes "spoonman" even in the music vedeo. man this guy is so inspiring

[Carlosmr1984]

Artiis the Spoonman? wow... time is like a fuse....

[darkestflame945]

How ironic, you insult other people's knowledge on the man. Yet you can say nothing more than he was in a mainstream, pop rock music video. And you call other's britney spear's generation? You realize she and members Soundgarden are all mainstream pop artists now right? Hypocrisy at it's finest.

[DethByMyIbanezAxe]

@EmotionalShredd he wasnt just in the video. he was the inpiration behind the song.

[kissochbajslovski]

What's the name of this lil' song?

[JudasAngel666]

Toobad its fake.

[scorpion1e37]

It's real, I've never seen him but I've met people who have.

[JudasAngel666]

I Know THE SPOON MAN is real but this performance is fake....You can tell.

[ribbitboing]

...It's real. Dork.

[JudasAngel666]

Its NOT The REAL Spoon Man & Jimmy Page. DICK HEAD

[a0e0roberts]

OK, friend, hang on a minute. WHICH Jim Page are you talking about? This is not the Englishman Jimmy Page of Lead Zep (no kidding); this is the American protester/songwriter from Seattle.

Is that what you were talking about?

I've seen the two of them jam often enough at Oregon Country Fair to say this SOUNDS like the real thing, my video quality sucks so bad that might be my old Dad lipsinking it, though.

[JudasAngel666]

OH MY BAD on the page part. LOL. But i don't think thats artis...My dad's knowen him for years and(at least from what i've seen) this dosen't look like him...

[ribbitboing]

No, it's him. I know him, too. It is weird seeing him with hair though.

[mclarenf101]

@JudasAngel666 no, it's him.

[Squeejee09]

This is pretty awesome - Spoonman's got rhythm, Jim's got rhymes.

[GLatnus]

Got dang! I wished I know'd how to play the jug! lol!

[Goose461]

that some mighty fine spoon playin'!

[tehawes0mesauce]

by the way -

The lyricist is an idiot. This is just the mindless repetition of propaganda. Go get your own ideas you fucking 'tard. After you get a brain, learn how to fucking sing. And once you learn how to fucking sing and you've got a fucking brain, then go perform on the street. I guess its true that any kind of idiot can write a political song. Go play in the highway, old man.

[gbain7]

You... Are, an idiot

[ANONtkakes]

Seconded. Your prize is a free bottle of 22 caliber aspirin.

[tehawes0mesauce]

the spoon dude's got rhythm, but that dude who's singing doesn't.

[windpowergood]

Go Jim nice work. The cell phone recording is not the best sound but it's good with spoons. It's very happy with George and McCain  gone.

[babka22]

So fine. Petroleum Bonaparte. Throw your shoes and count him out. Extraordinary rendition him.

Thanks guys!

[Sinjinator]

What does it say on the spoon dude's shirt? ;)

[cenotevenus]

good video thanks peace&love

[mrano11]

wtf??? do you think jimmy page would play in the streets??? and if taht happened.... would'nt all the fuckin0 press and people would be on his balls_????

[pyperiticus]

your a fuckin retard, this is jim page the amazing folk singer from seatle, not that fag from led zepplin, listen to this mans lyrics and youll respect him

[TheGhFan]

did you just call jimmy page a fag!?!?

you just crossed the line.

go bow down to the all mighty gods of rock and pray for forgiveness.

[PassionStone]

spoonman = # 1

jim page = sucks ass

[washneck2323]

dam i thought jimmy page whata waste of time

[szuperslapaj]

sorry nomospam, but you iz a retard, goodonyou

[jonathinx]

ha ha i thought it was Jimmy Page From Led Zeppelin... boy it wold have been so awesome that were Jimmy Page!

[jeffersonista]

taking it to the streets!

[jeffersonista]

they are both world-renowned artists. you have a problem with people making a living on their tallents?

[jeffersonista]

you didn't answer my question: don't you think that the whole point of capitalism is that people produce something? these people are producing a lot of art for society and with their tallents they make a living. but then they also play for free.

[fiernocht]

eh, just leave the right wing fascist alone. hes too ignorant to understand art.

[RaZiellaa]

you, sir, are an idiot...

[Spoonplayer]

Wow, one of the best spoonplayer i'v ever seen

[momo97110]

SPOONMAN ON FIRE!

[momo97110]

damn that's awesome

[crexcrex71]

Now that's what I call Spoon Playing.

[Wasoda]

I wonder how many people walking by that day ever realised who they walked past without even knowing it.

[Notofthisworld13]

I really enjoyed the song. The spoon man must be ready for a lie down after performing. Phew!

[institutionalized22]

is this in lake george?

[dannyknapp]

did he say Petroleum Bonaparte ?? clever (:

[walsham]

Y'all deserve a better audience.

Love it!

[MumboJumboTheatre]

This is the best. I got a clip too if ya want to see his most recent song at Folklife.

[loaded88]

great performance...btw, the singer with the guitar looks a bit like steven spielberg:)

[angelica14709]

So glad you caught and posted this street performance. It will be a classic, this is the real use of youtube.

[angelica14709]

In March, Norma J. Perez, the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) coordinator at a VA facility in Temple, Texas, wrote an email (PDF) to her subordinates stating: "Given that we have more and more compensation seeking veterans, I'd like to suggest that you refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out. Consider a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, R/O [ruling out] PTSD ... we really don't or have time to do the extensive testing that should be done to determine PTSD."

[BillyWalter]

Why are these people not famous?

[joshillen]

and i would love to meet the spoonman

[joshillen]

i love this one

[rusilka]

Jim Page? JIMMY PAGE FROM LED ZEPPELIN?!\didn't know he plays on the street from time to time...

[the3rdjoker]

Its not Jimmy it's just a guy with the same name, strange quiesdance though lol! Long live spoons!

[Childinyou]

Lol. Yes because Jimmy Page sings in an american accent

[Tragic2Magic]

Jimmy Page doesn't sing he plays guitar thats it. Robert Plant sings.

[DistortedDingo]

this is real music, great stuff.

[bodebliss]

Wow!

So cool, Sooo Coooooooooool!

[optimistsRUS]

It's still continuing in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Americans don't know the answer to "why they hate us"? Spreading the message of peace and liberty by carpet-bombing, by wiping out whole towns? Why wouldn't the victims of such brutality cry "Death to America!"

[ALLhere4U]

wow...you just hit the nail on the head...lol It's true that the people in the USA don't know that they are evil...simple physics prove the buildings fell too fast to have come down w/o demolition explosives, hard cold proof that the USA bombed it's own people...called a false flag operation...something common in Israel. Poor Palistianians...poor poor people of the world...I hope to move to Canada someday. Greed is not a good thing...another thing that the USA hasn't figured out.

[optimistsRUS]

Yeah, the mainstream media has just got a simple phrase to reject all that; "conspiracy theories". The American government has carried out such false flag operations before but the public does not know about it, they don't read how the CIA had planned to kill its own citizens in 1962 to blame it on Cuba, the American public doesn't read, they just get everything from CNN/Fox, they're not ready to believe how they could kill their own people.

[Graybush42104]

thats 100% true

[jacobwilkie]

wow that was wicket

[XxWaveWarlockxX]

I dropped a 20 in jim's hat at the ocf somewhere round '02 or '03. he better have done somethin good with it;p

[angelica14709]

The thing about giving is that you expect nothing in return. You received a great performance, great writing and the truth. "The emperor got no brains"

[XxWaveWarlockxX]

omg. I was ribbing, genius. get a sense of irony and learn your emoticons. winky face means not-serious.

[angelica14709]

Sorry I missed the winky face.

[RevScoundrel]

Great Video!! I really Dig Jim Page!! I'm glad I have gotten to hang out with him and listen to him play on a few occasions!! And I've heard so much about Artis. Just never have gotten the pleasure of meeting him yet! Thanks for the video!

[Hethyr]

=] i love artis. lol, seeing him in shoes though is awkward. =] i wish i knew him in his younger years.

[aphril21]

artis is my grandpa... hes a great guy.. im so proud of everything hes done... he still plays but lifes been tough for him since he lost his daughter, my mom... hes a total sweetheart and hes great at wut he does... even tho it doesnt make him much money, he chose to do it because thats wut he loves to do... one of the coolest guys i kno :)

[PatrolmanDark]

You're Artis' grandkid? Wow! We put together a big pot for Artis back around, gosh, '87 or so when he was down here working Scarborough Faire in Texas for the benefit of his granddaughter, if I recall. Is that you? I used to live in the tower above him at the front gate, good times.

[gr33nough]

haha i was born in '87 so i would imagine i fit the description haha... thats crazy, i never knew about that, but that's awesome... i was his very first grandkid... :)

[gr33nough]

by the way, this is actually aphril21 talking, im just signed into my boyfriend's sn... so yea, don't be confused haha

[Audioslave3]

Relly? Have you heard Soundgarden's Spoonman? I'm sure you have! It even took a Grammy!!!

[coolanddark]

oh man this is so cool!!!i`ve seen these great musicians down at the pike plase market many times!

[drewfuss2006]

Artis the Spoonman rocks so hard Soundgarden wrote a song bout him, wanna hear it here it goes "feel the rythm with your hands....."

[dalezak]

They were playing outside the first Starbucks in Seattle on Saturday, February 24, 2007.

[scorpiuss10]

how old is this?? i never saw him with hair in 12 yrs

[DickNixonBoy]

I'm goin' to his album release on july first!

[dalezak]

You can visit both their websites, I think both have their albums for sale there.

I bought his newest album Head Full Of Pictures while I was there...

[kissochbajslovski]

I'd drop my visa in his guitarcase.

[rasqual78]

Some great talent. Not my politics, but it's good to see this kind of quality public music. There oughta be more dollards dropping in their guitar case than I'm seeing in this vid!