Check his myspace link that I posted. He is playing with the band and it is alot more listenable. The reason I posted this is because I have heard great, fast, strong pickers on everything else, as far as Martins, etc, etc. They were all playing other makers. This is a d1a.
That is cool for sure. The myspace piece entitled improvisation is really nice.
Another great Collings player, at least until Bourgeois signed him up, was Cody Kilby. Go on woodsongs.com in the video archive and look up the Andy Leftwich band..Cody burns a D2HA a new one..pretty sure its a brazilian.
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Posts: 594 | Location: Monroes Country | Registered: August 29, 2004
Paulcat, I am a hardcore flatpicker,and I love em fast, but those two clips were just showboating silliness. I could'nt finish watching either one. 12 notes per second, for every second of a half min solo is plain obnoxious to me. "Just cause you can, does'nt mean you should". It's like trying to listen to a tone adjustable machine gun. God help me if I ever find something like that interesting. I will never be able to hold a candle to the playing in those two clips by the way...... Redevide, now THAT was a Terrific clip. I always have the hardest time watching something like this and NOT dropping everything for two hours and learning it note for note. Sigh. Thanks for posting it.
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Posts: 2212 | Location: Prince George British Columbia | Registered: November 04, 2008
Kenny Smith is definatly 1 of the best in the bunch, and I know he endorses Collings, but you never hear him really playing one. He is always with a Martin or a Lucas or something. I think Amanda Smith plays one all the time, but she is mostly rythm. Anywho, I think the style in those clips I picked are called Newgrass, or to me it just sounds like jazz. What I like most about those clips is the intruments power and clarity. More often than not you see and hear that guitar player,he or she is drowned out by everybody else, beads of sweat on his brow from pickin away, and no one can hear a third of what he is playing, it is ridiculous. Grant Gordy is showcasing the raw power of this instrument, and you can hear every note on that guitar, especialy when he is playing with David Grisman.He really turns it into a lead instrument that almost sounds like a piano. The clip of Kenny Smith was great and traditional, but I think most people could play that, but to play what Grant is playing is another story. I think I should have worded the post, my favorite D1a clips of all time. Anyway, I love all the criticism.
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This is a really great fiddle series that everyone should check out. Here is a clip of the musicians and bands in it. Notice how Grant Gordy is in the series with David Grier and many others. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSg792wK90
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