Lowell George explains and demonstrates basics of slide guitar playing (1977)
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2021
- "China White" (backing vocals by Little Feat members).
"Is that difficult?" - Slightly ignorant German TV folks ask Little Feat's Lowell George backstage Gruga-Halle Essen to explain and demonstrate basics of slide playing and open tuning.
0:35 China White
1:49 Ry Cooder style
3:35 Open tuning demonstration
0:35 China White
1:49 Ry Cooder style
3:35 Open tuning demonstration
Just a brief cameo of Lowell singing and playing sends a chill down the spine and memories of classic Lowell-era Little Feat come flooding back. True genius.
I'm sad I spent so much time around him but was too young to know his talents
He could take a simple note, or two and with his skill give them depth, rhythm, and more. That is an artist!
Depth, rhythm and most importantly, FEELING!
I can listen to him talk and play all day. This is great clip.
Full voice even with cigarette in his mouth. RIP Lowell. ✝️
Such a treat to watch Lowell demonstrate his wonderful slide playing here - and great vocals! His guitar playing had such a great sound, instantly recognisable as his own… his early passing was a huge loss to us all.
Sounds trite to say "gone too soon", but in Lowell's case, it's true. I love this little snippet. His tiny demonstration of just what a virtuoso slide player he was is wonderful. To go from primo Lowell George to a Ry Cooder style lick is just too small a taste of his abilities.
when they start singing...the greatest moment in rnr history
Fucking amazing. It sucks that he’s been gone so long.
The Master of the Caster. At least Bonnie Raitt credits LG for teaching her a few things. Thank goodness she's still playing.
I've never heard china white before, bitter sweet listening to it,it could have been his funeral song, very amazing grace, like a hymn
Grateful to have seen him play from a few feet away, leaning on the stage at his feet at College of William and Mary Hall, opening for Dave Mason, November 1975. Pure Magic!
Lucky you!
A few feat away*
@@shanksmcnasty6650 actually, yes. There was no seating on the floor and no barrier in front of the stage separating the audience from the stage. We were literally leaning on the stage. A guy next to use was cutting lines of cocaine on the stage. Can’t make this stuff up.
@@ancientfifer I guess you missed my joke. A few FEAT* away. Instead of ‘feet’
Get it?
@@shanksmcnasty6650 Doh, sorry for the miss 🙏
A musicians favorite group back in the day. Lowell the best slide player in that period of time.
Lowell has that weeping south in that slide finger! What a talent.
It's unfortunate that we dont have too many films, clips of him explaining his technique... what an amazing musician
Incredible! And when he explains Ry Cooder style... WOW
Lowell was a purist. The cat knew his craft.
Lowell George created some phenomenal music that is well worth exploring. It is sheer joy to see a video demonstration representative
of his unique stylings. The German vibe ist
Super.
Great blues! I know it is an instructional video but it touches my soul. I am so grateful to hear this video. Thank you! Blessings!
🍻🍻🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Hello Carol, how are things going with you?
Unbelievable that just two years later Lowell would pass away. Just an enormous loss of an enormous talent.
I saw this interview as it aired in 1977. He explained that he used a 5/8 socket. Later in the program Roger McGuinn made a snide remark about using a 5/8 socket .
@Hublocker - Wow! I've HEARD that "Audio snippet" about the socket a zillion times! Never knew about the McGuinn snottiness!! Ha ha, well, ROGER MCGUINN COULDN'T TOUCH "Lowell on his WORST day on Roger's BEST F'ing day! Imma Player & singer. Prolly why Rog was being a snotty lil' bitch! Ha! Cool, Thx man. 🥰🙄✌❤👍💔
A true master of his craft who left the building way too soon! Wow.
He had SO MUCH MORE to gives us... sad he's gone
His daughter Inara is great to listen to.
IMHO the most underrated guitar player of all time.
No - one of the most "overlooked" guitar players of all time. The people watching this video know how good Lowell George is. And what a superb band of musicians he had around him. Lowell George, Richie Hayward and Paul Barrere may you all Rest In Peace.
And you know nothing about music.
Many thanks for this. A nice intimate interview with some very cooperative interviewees.
There's a sound clip on the Hoy Hoy album where he explains (to a German journalist, I believe) that he uses a Craftsman socket wrench socket.
Miss ya Lowell! Thanks for the jams!
Wow listening to Lowell talk is so similar to listening to Jerry. Two true geniuses
Such a cool guy!
Little Feat baby!!!!!!
Boy oh boy, I wish someone somewhere would find the rest of this footage and post it.
What a great voice!
Im a rookie, but i love singing this and i wanna learn it, i was looking for a turtorial......this clip is what i foung :D Praise Jesus!!
"Can you play Earsplitenloudenbomer?"😅🤣😂
That's steppenwolf different band dude
Thankfully Jim Jeroy introduced me to Little Feat and Dixie Chicken I'll be your Tennessee Lamb 🌞🇨🇦😎✌️🇹🇭🌴
Lots of double entendre on this one. After this interview the lads all went to bed at around 9pm exactly lol !
@Kris Scanlon. Always liked Lowell's sense of humour! After Lowell spelled out the open tuning on his guitar, someone says "B flat?", LG comes straight back "No, not you (U)"!!! And later LG drops a little naughty quip about someone's sister "Getting it in the A". Plus, he dropped in these subtle "double entendres" all over his lyrics. And Lowell was the Master of Alliteration and putting in the right amount of playing, production, everything. Had he lived, what could he have done with his talents in one these new - fangled digital studios and Pro - Tools? Stay safe and well.
Just posted this on TikTok and pasted your UA-cam page.
Lowell is the fucking MAN!
3:47 what songs is that he starts playing? And the rycooder tune?
I don't think that these are specific tunes - probably it's only a demonstration of styles.
Off Camera "My sister used to B Flat", Lowell: "Yeah until she got it in the A" 🤣🤣🤣 3:22
Holy shit
He was amazing. What a loss.
He says he's in open G but he's actually in open A!
Only a true Blues man can play the slide,sing, and smoke a cigarette at the same time!
This is Open A tuning despite him saying it's open g. Unless there's a capo I don't see or they sped the tape up but I doubt it
That's right, he's playing Open G tuning with all strings a whole tone higher, so it's kind of Open A tuning.
@@bobbynoe1 Not "kind of", that IS open A. They are the same tuning just a whole step apart. Pretty sure Open E and Open D are twins too, but laid out different from Open A and Open G
Yeah yeah yeah!@@mr.yellowstrat3352
Goddamn why'd he have to leave us so soon?!
after a verse of " china white "..
interviewer asks " is that difficult ? " no .. not if you're lowell george ..
imagine if no musicians ever used heroin, rode motorcycles, or helicopters? We could see their growth, enjoy so much more of their music.
This shit wouldn’t exist without heroin
Sounds like you're describing a large amount of Americans this day period.
But then... they wouldn't write such interesting songs.
Just play your own music and enjoy it my friend ❤
Musicians, even those who live long lives, don't always create greatness throughout their entire lives. I'd hold up Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones and REO Speedwagon as dinosaurs living off their past(s). Great artists have flamed out at a seemingly young age for a variety of reasons, such Mozart dying at 35 from an undetermined illness. My favorite jazz saxophonist, Eric Dolphy, died at 36 from untreated diabetes. In fact, the hospital where Dolphy died assumed he'd had a drug overdose and ignored his diabetic symptoms. Lowell George died from smoking and being morbidly obese, which made his prodigious coke habit (mixed with heroin on occasion) even more deadly to his heart. I mourned his death at age 34 in 1979, but there were already signs he was floundering from his health threats. There has never been another Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin or Moon, which is maybe as it should be. But to have death at such a young age be the reason is tragic.
WTF? He couldn't even remember the strings of an open G? He pauses and says the high E string is G--when of course it's a dropped D.
I'm confused - when he strikes the open strings (at 2:58) it's clearly an A major chord. Then he's talking about using a G tuning ...?
Interesting. Perhaps he's in the open tuning but up a whole step, so his strings from low to high, EBEAC#E...??
@@bobbynoe1 Confirmed. He's in A, but he's using the open G tuning, but up a whole step--EBEAC#E. And yes, he seems perfectly confused, though sounding great as always.
He jacks the traditional tuning up that’s why he can’t remember what the notes of the original are cuz he doesn’t use them .
He really pioneered this tuning . It is very tight and your neck and bridge should be adjusted to handle it . Also watch out of u break A string . But you can hear here how well the tuning supports their vocal blend . Chills .
Until she got it in the A
Until she got it in the A lol
unpopular opinion.. He was a great musician, singer and a good slide guitarist.. But as a slide player only, just OK and overrated... and sockets suck for slide guitar.
Horseshit....
you must not have heard any little feat tunes
,,,,,,,,,and that's why you will always be anonymous "stringslider" not to mention irrelevant.
I suppose your so much more a better player than Lowell but you'll just keep that to your bedroom huh?.
That's like saying banjo strings suck for guitar. Obviously now that we are all spoiled with unending paraphenelia one would think these things, but that's what makes their time so much more interesting and everlasting. I wouldn't say he's overrated, since most people don't know him. I wouldn't neccessarily say he's a virtuoso, but he's one of the most lyrical and individual slide guitarists to my ears. And he's the only one I know to rock that false A tuning he uses except for Rory Gallagher and Jimmy Page on their cover of In My Time of Dying. Considering he taight every country lady from the 70's how to play, I'd say he's earned his place in he slide hall of fame.
@@laurakain1524 Astute.....Bravo
@3:27, "yeah right, until she got it in the A" - dropped that like a Boss 😎
What a voice! If I didn't know better I would swear they were all from Memphis.
Genius talent