Tony Rice, I am a Pilgrim

http://www.tonyrice.com/ Tony Rice Unit at the Belcourt Theater, Nashville Tn on February 3, 2011. Rickie Simpkins on fiddle, Josh Williams on mandolin, Bryn Davies on bass, Tony Rice on guitar, Wyatt Rice on guitar and Rob Ickes on dobro. An evening of muscial genius!!

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• Tony Rice
• I am a Pilgrim
• Bryn Davies
• Josh Williams
• Rickie Simpkins
• Wyatt Rice
• Rob Ickes

[davnkatz]

Bryn Davies is just flat OK. I, too, play acoustic (stand-up, up right, dog house, etc) bass. My main gig is our cowboy church (Salado TX).  I don't get to solo much there so I enjoy watching-listening to good bass solos.

[blugras32]

Sorry Doc.....didn't mean to leave you out.

[blugras32]

Well, let's just put it where it's at! The Stanley Brothers and George Shuffler brought the guitar to the forefront. I dare anyone to prove me wrong!

Clarence, Tony, Wyatt, Larry (Sparks, that is)......anyone to even think anything negative about them is at stupid-ass!

[diatroptoff94]

(continuation) Listen to those Byrds records, It just fantastic how much he weaves in between melody and vocal lines. Oh and one more thing for thesameoldshit or whatever. Clarence absolutely did NOT have a rythm and timing problem whatsoever. In fact in the dvd he says he likes to fool around with time

[diatroptoff94]

I dont think anybody really gets it, clarence brought the acoustic guitar to the forefront of bluegrass music. AND okey so Doc was playing the acoustic to i know that. What I'm saying is that clarence improvised and played the melody. Before clarence doc was really just playing the melody. The best way i can describe clarences playing is weaving.

[mcdaniel01]

Bryn Davies is my new woman she is hotttttt!!!!

[ValerioMansueti]

all these dibates about who's the best guitar player seem to me just mental masturbations,..let's enjoy tha music...!!and thanks a lot who posted the videos of this concert!

[agalligani]

I strongly disagree thatsthesameoldshit. Clarene White didn't have a "timing problem". On "33 Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals" he is demonstrating how a soloist plays, so obviously, a person who is playing solo can slow down or speed up the tune as they see fit. How can you be "off" when there is nothing to be off against. If he was such a crap musician as you seem to think then why do all the best living guitarists (except maybe Doc himself) seem to regard CW as the standard bearer?

[thatsthesameoldshit]

@TheTimothyjtaylor - When you say that Clarence was experimenting with timing you are dead wrong, he had a timing problem,you can clearly hear how off he was on the CD 33 Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals for instance, his tone is terrible, it's tinny and he sounds unsure of himself, his timing even gets lost at moments. And the CD Tuff & Stringy Sessions 1966-68,,,?, enough said.

[TheTimothyjtaylor]

Clarence and Doc were not the first bluegrass lead guitar players, but they were the first really good ones. If you listen to Don Reno, on the golden guitar of Don Reno for instance, his tone is terrible, it's tinny and he sounds unsure of himself, his timing even gets lost at moments, on a recording no less. Clarence and Doc raised the bar so far that they might have well invented the bar. And Clarence especially with his experimentation in timing opened the doors for Tony Rice and David Grier.