Awesome Electric Violin - Ed Busking Chester

Ed Alleyne-Johnson Busking Electric Violin in Chester UK - May 2006
Fantastic - This is perhaps the best street performance I have ever witnessed. Reminiscent of Jean Luc Ponte's visceral fusion sound. This is in the city of Chester near Wales. Chester has perhaps the only double decker shopping plaza streets, with a second level up off the street within the buildings, balconies running all the way down the streets. jablesj comments - "They were made by the victorians so that rich people would not get wet while out in the rain."
The sound is unaltered from the original and was emancipated at great volume in this old town.
Ed uses the looper and pedals to great effect. There are no overdubs. Incredible he commanded this fantastic show all by himself, I stood enraptured with all the hair on my body standing on end, grin stretched wide. You can see where he looked up to see my ebullient smile just before he grins and kicks in the distortion. This has been a tremendous inspiration for me. I had never heard him or heard of him before this performance. Ed is awesome! I got some albums of his from the web since hearing this. I hope I can see him again one day.

Category:

Music

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• Electric
• Violin
• Ed
• Alleyne-Johnson
• Chester
• awesome
• busking

[skmit07]

How can people just walk by? What are they? Fucking robots?

[Dravensdmf]

@gidgetsdigitalgadget Absolute nonsense! You do not have to be educated in music before it can 'touch' you. Before I could ever play an instrument I felt the emotions in many songs. I put it you that taste and emotion are purely subjective and personal and that what moves someone else won't move you. That does not invalidate their love of the piece. Assuming you are not talented painter by your own logic that would mean you have no entitlement to be moved by a work of art.

[WhichDoctor1]

@gidgetsdigitalgadget Ok then. Music is basic and fundamental to human nature. People have been making, listening to and enjoying music for tens of thousands of years before the idea of music appreciation, or taste, had been invented. If something gives me pleasure and sends shivers up my spine I dont second guess it and ask if it conforms to some arbitrary definition of "good". The point of music is to affect people and if it affects me then thats all I care about.

[gidgetsdigitalgadget]

@Dravensdmf , oh and furthermore: I know many people who have played with very famous artists. Most of those get used and thrown away like so much chaff. You have no idea who I have played with, but I can tell you this: in my early career I turned down several well-paid gigs (supporting this or that famous artist); my agent has a lot of connections. I refused to be used as background noise, which is what this Ed has done. And now his background noise has no star to make it valid. It's pitiful.

[gidgetsdigitalgadget]

@Dravensdmf, yes 'taste' can account for a lot of different opinions about genres, but as you say, even in a genre I don't follow, I can still tell if there's talent there or not. And this guy has none! He's only playing a few notes per bar (to his credit: notes that BELONG in the scale of whatever chord in the loop he's following), nevertheless, and lack of virtuosity not withstanding, he STILL does nothing artistic with those notes and is just part of the loop. Useless rubbish is the result.

[gidgetsdigitalgadget]

@Dravensdmf the Edge uses whatever skill he possesses and creates that 'tapestry' of sound as you said. That takes talent, because I've heard others try it and the result was horrible. Even those who try to copy U2 can't really do what this artist does. I respect U2 as a creative group, even though they're not my top choice for rock. The Stones I respect even more. I agree though that's it's not only technical skill, but when virtuosity isn't in question, you still need talent. This guy has none

[gidgetsdigitalgadget]

@Dravensdmf, I stand corrected! Yes, an uneducated person (in music) can be touched by what he/she hears, but only IF whoever is producing that music IS educated, talented AND especially creative. The same goes for paintings: anyone can daub colors on a canvas. Talent can splash paint and create art, untalented try the same and get rubbish. This violin-owner is of the latter category: he can only daub notes without creating music. It's rubbish.

Emotion in art affects all people similarly.

[gidgetsdigitalgadget]

@WhichDoctor1, judging by what you said, you don't have any taste in music; you just follow along with whatever crap presents itself. As long as someone is making some 'sound/noise' you're happy with that! Sad! Look, that guy has a loop going on and he's only playing a note or two per bar. Sounds worse than telephone-waiting music. There's no talent or creativity involved here. It's pure fucking rubbish. If you don't know that, take a music appreciation course.

[rednut2000]

@TrippennRazzer and what I'm saying is that they live there and see the dude everyday...

[CJEF1996]

I want one

[diepvrieskip]

search Talented Street Electric Violinist Bryson Andres

[diepvrieskip]

dumpert.nl/mediabase/1977681/c­c9796cd/straatmuzikant.html

different style tho