Leo Kottke - Last Steam Engine Train - Stealing - Airproofing

[methodinsane]

Surgical and Soulful. Everlasting Leo!

[XLIVwhodat]

If God played guitar, he would play like Leo.

[DrBromiAndufEwd]

Antoines rag is bigger....:-D

[camtate11]

What could a self respecting person do with himself for claiming to be a music connoisseur and just this very moment having found this artist and song? I am so lost right now. How did this happen?

[guitar8166]

What a beautiful vicious attack on a 12 string guitar!!!!

[antoinevojage]

@guitar8166

yeah.... this is pure magic

[guitar8166]

Are you kidding, what a guitar playing machine!!! Oh, I forgot to thank for this video, Thank-You!!!

[guitar8166]

Are you kidding, what a guitar playing machine!!!

[MeatCloud]

Fucking hero, it's like he's done over-dubs there's so much going on.*

*Please don't reply, I know he actually hasn't.

[watertonrivers]

A genius, a savant, a top-level master of the masters...I saw him at Colorado State University(Ft. Collins) field house, he was a warm-up for Foghat...

[DenvishNG]

Great stuff, I agree totally with the grandmaster comment - very few people can get so many notes out of an acoustic. Looks like an E or B broke early on near the bridge, you can see it waving around from the nut end at 6:10 and flashing near 7:30 and 8:26

[Raven12321987]

9 minutes of this virtuoso picking, are really exhausting, even for a master like him.

[cgcgce]

WHAT PLANET IS THIS MAN FROM ????????

[ManganeseMan]

wow he opened up the throttle at 5:55 and really started shredding.  One for the ages....

[yolchie]

If I played like that for 9 minutes straight, my hand would snap off and fall into the freaking soundhole and I've been playing forever! What the hell?!?!?!

[goody1white]

he usually give's John Fahey his due credit when he plays this song, such a class act.

[martinaxman]

I'd love to hang around with him for a month. Imagine the storeis and the tips you could learn. lol. Love Leo. Interestingly 1974 was the year a friend turned me on to him. I have a lot of vinyl and no disrespect to CDs or iTunes, I truly miss the packaging with all the information. I miss albums. How would I have ever known the story of smiling feet? The man's a machine!

[member805639]

Divine? Monumental? I'm struggling for words to describe this playing.

[terrisonb]

I do not remember ever hearing this guy before. I cant imagine why, he is great. You have collected some really good music on your channel.

[2Mo0N1maN2]

That transition into stealing is godly

[Grouchomx]

How he could play for almost 10 minutes straight at that pace and not have his arm fall off still amazes me!

[eddieschweihs]

Back when Leo-played his 12 stings too the max... Those were good days, and Leo was never better !!!

[2Mo0N1maN2]

he doesn't even need to look haha grandmaster level 3

[bikerchopra]

soothing,uplifting music

[MrJojogun]

Hey jpiir How come I never get to see his greatest Wake Up in the morning song called Buckaroo on any of these vids???? Toad Hall from KDKB fm in Phoenix used to get me up every morning in 1973 by playing it...I 'd put on my fatigues and drive to Luke AFB and protect my sector of the world.

[olen3105]

Thanks for posting. Never saw this performance. Been listening to Leo since my roommate when I was a college freshman introduced me to his music.

[shanefischler]

Is he blind? I've never heard of this guy since like an hour ago.

[YakkaFoobMog]

No, you're thinking of Doc Watson.

[Mark9309]

This is why he is considered a master. Actually, I would call him a grandmaster.

[goody1white]

kottke is class act,........ did he start to fatigue around minute eight? oh no never mind just my eyes drying up from not blinking

[1crow]

Great addition jpir. Didn't know he could still play like this in '83. When did the tendonitis get him?

[somewhere59]

The tendonitis got him in the following year - 1984.

[novice841]

I remember recording this clip on an audio tape during the early 1980s, when it aired on public TV; unfortunately, it was a cheap tape that broke after a year or so. THANK YOU for bringing this back.

[somewhere59]

Sorry, you are right: From 1983 ("1974" is worse...).

[somewhere59]

This take is from 1981 (Night times varieties).

[somewhere59]

The only song that makes me shiver after all these decades - and therefore also my all-time-favourite.

[JesseMathews]

this is also fantastic but in the 1974 version you posted jpiir he really tears it up ! :)

[susita33]

super duper and super fast!,but I dont recognize the guitar?

[Solidrosewood]

Probably a Gibson B-45.

[1crow]

Thanks for posting this since the 1974 video is cut. Stealing in its several variations is my alltime favorite Kottke piece.

[1wiesehoefer1]

thanks for posting