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

[KNJpd]

Im throwing my money to the screen but nothing happens...

[skmit07]

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

[TheBertieW]

@gidgetsdigitalgadget

What matters is that this musik touches me.

Its a matter of taste about which one cannot argue.

You cannot judge about the taste of other people

Taste is never stupid.

I have a friend who plays classic violin for his profession in a orchestra.

He is quite good so they say, bud I don't like his classic musik.

[TheBertieW]

Played it for the third time in a row and it made me cry.

Wonderfull.

[TheBertieW]

Whow, this brings shivers down my spine and tears to my eyes.

[gidgetsdigitalgadget]

@lofwenmark, of COURSE it's about the feeling, but there isn't any in this. Feeling HAS to come from ability too. Without ability, no feeling can be transmitted. It's like if you had something important to say but couldn't speak properly: nobody would understand you.

But really, using those effects masks his bad playing.

Nobody should be encouraging this kind of mediocrity (at best) due to the problem of engendering more of the same. A good violin player wouldn't need those effects.

[lofwenmark]

@gidgetsdigitalgadget It's never about the skill level, it's about the feeling and the music... You should know this :/

[wilkiukstis]

HE IS AN ANGEL......

[gidgetsdigitalgadget]

@Mickster2233 Sorry, but don't be so fucking stupid! This is NOT an 'awesome violinist'. This is childish playing, BUT, with several loops making it 'sound' more than it is. This is very simply quite amateurish playing. And...all he's doing is waffling around a couple of scales following a stupid bass loop.

All that's amazing about this is the electronics that can SO fool those who know nothing about violin playing. Really, he's less than one of my 10 year old students playing for 1 year.

[staaab11]

part at 5:48 is moving because his non chelant face;

if only this person would stop showing random clips and other things on the street

[FunkyDay000]

what's that pigeon doing up there?????

[Ragueras5]

Fantastic