John Renbourn - Great Dreams From Heaven

Live in Italy, Sept 2005

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Renbourn
• Dickinson
• Theessink
• fingerstyle
• guitar
• Joseph
• Spence
• Ry
• Cooder
• Bert
• Jansch
• Stefan
• Grossman
• Pindar
• Family

[ValerioMansueti]

this is video was shot in Ancona,Piazza del Papa,....where I live,..last summer...I was there,..

[VanDeFields]

Sorry Valerio, this video was taken in Pavia back in 2005.

By me.

[tei1990]

=) i don like it ........ it is boring

[VanDeFields]

Well, my friends ElvenDane and Safuna surely didn't like your comment. I have a deep respect for any kind of music taste, even far away from mine. Nevertheless.. why put a comment? Just watch it and leave after a while. Simply you can't understand this music.

[zerkalo2]

Pure touch! This man is the master jedi of fingerstyle, yoda himself, wisdom and grace ... Look and listen, his fingers don't even touch the guitar. Sublim cover of a Joseph Spence's song, if i dont mistaken. Thanks for posting it

[VanDeFields]

You're absolutely right! I had the same sensation of John's barely touching the fretboard, yet playing wonderfully that "standard" of his live repertoire.

The song is actually one of Spence's classics basically intended to be a spiritual, with strong blues and calypso influences. While playing it, Spence made so many variations to melody that his wife Louise used to complain about its excessive complexity.

John's version is capturing very well the spirit of the song.

Cheers

Van

[autodane]

How can people talk over this performance!?

[ElvenDane]

Because people are stupid and ignorant

and full of themselves ? LOL

Well, some of them at least :-)

[SteveMcBill]

@tei1990 Each to their own But truly not liking this is plain stupid - listen to it - it is amazing playing and pretty good singing too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pwsouth]

Came looking for Ry Cooder and found something awesome and different. The last 100 views are probably me.

Don't worry, @tei1990 will figure it out later. These things can take more than 21 years.

[bigislander2]

Now I remember why I spend my time trying to play guitar.

[KanXibChaac]

@VanDeFields That kid was born in 1990, what can you expect? He probably listens to Justin Bieber and Kate Perry.

[ValerioMansueti]

@ValerioMansueti oh,..yeah,..I didn't know adrian legg,..thanks a lot....!!!!absolutely impossible guitar...!!

[Rikk303]

@ValerioMansueti Check out Adrian Legg on YouTube. Also real good and for free! I think you'll like him if you've not heard him before

[ValerioMansueti]

@Rikk303 oh yes,..it was a beautiful summer night,..he played in a nice old square of my town...and he played real good,...for free....!

[Rikk303]

@ValerioMansueti did the English ragtime go down well there?

[ValerioMansueti]

I am sorry,..you are right,..,..!! the back scene really looks like the square where he played in ancona...last summer....(and he wears also the same hat!)