Bert Jansch "Black Waterside"

British fingerstlyle great Bert Jansch performs "Black Waterside." From the DVD "Fingerstyle Guitar: New Dimensions & Explorations, Vol. One." More info at http://www.guitarvideos.com/products/...

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[TheDogsBanana]

I had a house once but a famous musician moved in, changed the locks and then told everybody it was actually his house and that he had always lived there. I didn't feel like he had stolen my house I felt it was more of a tribute to my ability to choose a nice house.

[OneBigRetard]

A tribute would have his name in the sleeve and massively boost the career of a man in poverty.

[Allan Cerf]

Sean Siegfried - you're dissembling. gut string guitars have been around for far longer than 200 years and dude, 200 years ago is only 1813 - very much part of the modern era.

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

[Sean Siegfried]

He cared about it a tad when someone came up to him whilst on tour in the US and said "Hey Bert listen to this new band on the radio they're playing your 'Blackwaterside'!". He never cared about it enough to bear a grudge for years and years. Although many of his fans do ;)

[Sean Siegfried]

He didn't use a capo because he didn't need to simultaneously sing it in a key suitable to his voice. The 'feel' is a fraction different because Page mistakenly thought it was in DADGAD tuning as opposed to Drop D. Ironically he probably would've done an even more thorough job of ripping it off if he'd had the tuning right.

[Sean Siegfried]

This is not a '200+ year old riff' as traditional Irish folk songs do not feature steel-string guitar (mainly because they didn't exist at the time).

[Steve Garwood]

Sir Bert's thumb pick is very low on the thumb to me. Ahh..learned again.

[RABCNESBITTT]

The master at work remember Page u heard it here first and we know!

[Laura Dhert]

If this is your sort of thing, try "Proserpine in Moscow" by James Newton Chadwick!