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Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveAnji is a classic. Written by Davy Graham, and BLISTERED by Bert Jansch. I first heard the Jansch version and much much later the original by Davy Graham. That version was just a rough out for sure!
Anji - there's better versions around but this is basically the tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvK5NnWvw5E
For something completely different watch & listen to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7t4bFox8ZM
Its one area where Bert Jansch totally passed Davy! It was done later by Paul Simon which is an ok version but you need to hear the original, it will blow your socks off, even 40 years later it's a gem. A friend of mine in Tel Aviv, Shay Tochner, a real genius on the guitar I might add, said Anji, at least the original version was actually written by shay's cousin who happened to be sharing a flat with Graham at the time and Graham recorded it early on. The incredible differance between the Graham version and the absolute masterpiece that Bert Jansch turned it into is evidence for that case, it's a piece unlike anything else Graham ever played. It took me a long time to learn to play it anywhere close to Jansch's version.
BTW right now I am listening to another classic, Martin Carthy's version of 'the famous flower of serving man'. He is awesome.
Originally posted by VargMood for a Day
I dusted off my acoustic guitar last night and had fun strumming a few chords and trying to remember what I could play (I usually play electric).
Apart from "Wish You Were Here", a couple of Irish folk songs and some of my own stuff, I can't think what to play!
I don't listen to too much acoustic stuff so that doesn't help.
I was thinking "Wild Wood" by ...[text shortened]... ight be a good one to learn so I've got the tab for that.
What other recommendations?
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Originally posted by sonhouseI do believe you peaked her interest. She said she would give it a try this weekend. I'll let you know how it goes.
Also tell her to try playing the A'soalin tune on harmonics. It can be done.
2nd string, 12th f, 1st st 12th fret, 2nd st 12th fret, 2nd st. 7th fret (harmonic playing of course, she knows how.) 2nd st. 12th fret, 3rd st. 5th fret, 2nd st. 7th fret, 1st st 12th fret. The high notes are a little harder but the key is this: 3rd st. 5th fret, 4th st 3rd fret, 2nd st. 5th fret.
Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveThats funny, all those amateur's trying to do anji. They should listen a bit closer to Jancsh. It came out in the US on an album called
Anji - there's better versions around but this is basically the tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvK5NnWvw5E
For something completely different watch & listen to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7t4bFox8ZM
Lucky 13, I was blown away by it I can tell you! I try to get more copies when I can run into them, they are hard to find for sure.
On guy on that Youtube thing, a bit further down, was onstage, kinda looked like maybe Eric Clapton, not sure, there was no identifier of the player but he had a large audience, whoever it was, but he didn't even play the middle section, left it out completely. There are some interesting Davy Graham tracks going down that list, some from 1969 and one a very early black and white video with a girl dancing in front of him. Down further is a guy doing a good version of Cocaine, it's done in a fuzzy sepia tone. Not bad. Some interesting stuff there. If I could not play anji any better than those dudes, I would never let anyone actually record on camera me doing it for sure!
Originally posted by sonhouseYeah Anji is brilliant when it's done well - I like the Paul Simon version too.
Anji is a classic.
BTW right now I am listening to another classic, Martin Carthy's version of 'the famous flower of serving man'. He is awesome.
I'll check out that other one you mention later.
Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveThanks so much for finding the second Youtube. The master himself. Segovia. Sigh. What genius! I do the second half of that gavotte and now I am going to have to learn the whole thing.
Anji - there's better versions around but this is basically the tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvK5NnWvw5E
For something completely different watch & listen to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7t4bFox8ZM
Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveWell I have to say the classical dudes are better at what they do on youtube than the steel string guys, anji and all that. Did you go down the list to the other ones? It seems there is a great guitar culture in Istanbul, Turkey. One guy named Behzat Gunenc is playing his own compositions, one of which is breathtaking. The video frame rate can't keep up with his playing. Another brilliant guitar, multi-instrumentalist and his own invention, a kind of bowed banjo(!), is Hasan Cihat Orter, take a listen to "Independence of the world". The other guy, Gunenc, his brilliant piece is called 'Black sea dance #2, Cay Elinden Oteye. Great playing by those two. Dang, now I have to learn to speak Turkish🙂
Anji - there's better versions around but this is basically the tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvK5NnWvw5E
For something completely different watch & listen to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7t4bFox8ZM
Originally posted by VargYesterday by the BEatles, GREAT SONG! 🙂
I dusted off my acoustic guitar last night and had fun strumming a few chords and trying to remember what I could play (I usually play electric).
Apart from "Wish You Were Here", a couple of Irish folk songs and some of my own stuff, I can't think what to play!
I don't listen to too much acoustic stuff so that doesn't help.
I was thinking "Wild Wood" by ...[text shortened]... ight be a good one to learn so I've got the tab for that.
What other recommendations?