Thread: What are you listening to?

Tonight at the Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEsii6Bz0M0

You may or may not recognize that one but this one should ring some bells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3pltmw6cmI

The last night for me at the Festival for me was Sat, and we had these guys,,, It is so nice to watch real pros at work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay9gtOzcA7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br98ad469og

After a great morning shave, was off to the gym, then doing my usual walk around the track, and enjoyed the advanced women's aerobic class....Lord Thunderin' Jesus, Yoga pants and spandex...and doing there warm down to this old classic....California Dreamin' - The Mama's and The Papa's:

Lately it's been some vintage jazz, such as Miles Davis & Louis Armstrong. And then of course there's my steady rotation of Circus Maximus: Nine, Subsignal: Paraiso, and a little Gregory Porter. All are some of my favorites.

If technology ever evolves so that a talent can simply be downloaded from one person and uploaded to another (through a stick drive or something) I'd like to play guitar like this guy. Good Lord what a beast! What is that thing he does with the neck of the guitar at 3:18?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33tWZqXhnk

Man's got talent.

The neck bend has been around a while.

Originally Posted by Siguy

Man's got talent.

The neck bend has been around a while.

While I simply 'strum some cords' I would presume that there is enough 'flex' in the neck to allow the strings to be either slightly loosened or tightened to change the pitch for the desired effect. Similar to using pushing the strings or using what some of the guitars have as a handle to so something similar?

What I simultaneously love and hate about guys like him, Stevie Ray, Dicky Betts, Duane Allman, Pedro Javier Gonzalez, etc. is that they do just jaw dropping stuff and look like they aren't even trying. In my dreams I'm about 19 or 20 years old and go to a party with many young lovlies in attendance. Someone comes up and asks me,
"So Mike, you play guitar?"
"Not really but I do know a couple chords" I say with perfectly executed modesty
The guy hands me a guitar and I play Classical Gas just like Tommy Emmanuel. Needless to say, it's going to be a good evening for me.
But then I wake up. I'm 52, I can't play guitar. the room is completely dark. The time on my watch says 04:45. My back hurts and I've really got to pee

Originally Posted by cudarunner

While I simply 'strum some cords' I would presume that there is enough 'flex' in the neck to allow the strings to be either slightly loosened or tightened to change the pitch for the desired effect. Similar to using pushing the strings or using what some of the guitars have as a handle to so something similar?

See Whammy bar or tremolo bar found on, say, Floyd Rose bridges. Far superior to bending the neck... but, if you want to get radical on your vintage Gibson flying V or something... have at it.

Leave the guitar around some moisture and extreme heat or cold and you can bend the neck permanently.