There are a lot of great guitarists out there, from chicken picking maniacs to metal shredders, and jazz greats. But nobody could make so much beautiful music come from 1 guitar like Micheal did. He was truly a unique musician and is certainly missed
For 15 years, I would book my multi--state sales territory trips around Michael's Fall Tour schedule, just so I could see/hear him at various venues. I told him that one evening, after he recognized me from the last couple nights. We kicked hackey sack on the lawn and chatted for about 30 minutes until his equipment was set up. He was so blown away and flattered that I cared enough to put forth the effort. Very humble! What a gracious, gifted and talented man he was! I miss his live performances so much! Always looked forward to hear what new cover songs he was attempting. He was to the acoustic guitar, what Hendrix was to the electric, a total innovator! You can hear his influence in so many guitarists today.
I saw him at a venue in Indianapolis and he played no expectations off the Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet. I was the only one in the crowd that spoke out and knew What song it was after he asked us
I wouldn't compare him to anyone, or if I must I would rather compare him to Mozart and Beethoven. He was special, genre of its own, story of its own, the guitar was just a communication tool to him, he was a true virtuoso, genuine musical talent, one in 10 billion.
I loved listening to Michael met him when he first left home for music school in Baltimore Yes a gem of a person and a virtuoso.....his music is smooth and love and passion in his voice
Devon Kelts. That is a fantastic way of putting it. You nailed it. It taps into a depth of spirituality. Don't know how, just does. Whoa. Those clean riffs and harmonics. How the heck?!! Another thing: watching & listening to such genius inspires me to spend a bit more time honing my own (different kinds of) gifts/talents. He brought such light & joy to the world by developing so beautifully his inner gifts. Thanks Michael. When I get to heaven I want to hear one of your songs at least a few times a week. Til then!
I saw a guy at wickerman in about 2005 that was as into it as hedges and about as naked in his performance. Really really good and Passionate. He was called frogpocket. Never saw him again. Luv and Peace.
I am happy that some people are attempting to play the guitar the way Michael Hedges invented playing the guitar. I think those people help keep Michael's spirit alive. R.I.P Michael Hedges.
i think hedges was exceptional in composition and performance. this unique, sometimes almost agressive style to play the guitar, these mixtures of tapping, different tunings.. so beautiful and also scary somehow. one of the most polarizing guitar masters i ever listened to... almost gone now for a quarter of a century. what a loss..
Thank you for posting this. It's funny how watching the immortal percussive passage at 1.20 onwards does not at all explain how he did it. He spoke many times about being not a guitarist, but a composer who writes for the guitar, makes you wonder what it sounded like in his head. I saw him at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA, in the mid-90s. He danced on stage while playing Ritual Dance -- flawlessly. It was hard to believe I was watching it happen.
I'm so jealous of everyone who got to see him play live. He was a brilliant composer and a truly amazing human being. And this song, like most of his, takes me on a voyage to a place I love to be. Thank you so much for posting this.
It takes me to a space I'd love to be, but can no longer be in. Ironically, I'm grieving for the amazing human being who brought Michael Hedges' brilliant music into my life. It's sad and comforting at the same time. I'm grateful to these two beautiful souls
I saw Michael performance as a man in the park.playing at City fairs in Baltimore to a College stage there He was a graduate of Peabody Conservatory of Music. Michael played at Joes organic Juice Bar in Fellspoint Maryland / Baltimore where' Edgar Allan Poe lived off and on and Hedges played at the Horse you came in on....that had the game of one of Baltimore s oldest Taverns 1786 I think.
I’ve seen him live twice. The second time I saw him he took a set break and went to the bar for a drink. I went over and he shook my hand and signed my cd. He was such a genuine and easy to talk to person. It was truly a sad day for me when I found out he passed away 🙁
After a performance in a small Ann Arbor venue in 1997, Michael tracked down my partner who is visually impaired (a condition apparent from his appearance) and asked him about his experience of the concert without any visuals. He wanted to know if he ought to describe or add anything to be accessible to those unable to see the show. I was so impressed with that artist!
@@josettebergeron I was also at that show. The Ark , yes? Third row . And afterwards, the one I was with, was talking to him, she waited for the long line to clear out, so she could have an actual conversation, and he invited us backstage to hang out for a little bit . Very casual. It was grapes, cheese, and crackers on the table. He said help yourself.🤣
For Lin Albert : "DADGAD was popularised by British folk guitarist Davey Graham. Inspired by hearing an oud player in Morocco, Graham experimented with detuning some of the guitar's strings from standard tuning (E2A2D3G3B3E4), arriving at D2A2D3G3A3D4 or "DADGAD". He employed the tuning to great effect in his treatments of Celtic music, but also the folk music of India and Morocco. The first guitarists in Irish traditional music to use the tuning were Mícheál Ó Domhnaill and Dáithí Sproule; today it is a very common tuning in the genre. Other proponents of the tuning include Andy Mckee, Russian Circles, Rory Gallagher, Luka Bloom, Stan Rogers, Jimmy Page, Artie Traum, Pierre Bensusan,[2][3] Eric Roche, Midnight, Laurence Juber, Tony McManus, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson, Dick Gaughan, Alistair Hulett, Imaad Wasif, Mark Kozelek, Jeff Tweedy, Masaaki Kishibe, Paul McSherry, Sevendust (although downtuned),[4] Kotaro Oshio, Ben Chasny, Al Petteway, and Trey Anastasio. English folk musician Martin Carthy now mostly uses a related tuning, CGCDGA, whose explicit evolution from DADGAD he describes in his book." Jimmy PAge used it in the years 60/70 !
I feel lucky, I got to see Michael lots in the early days and met him back at the Varsity in Palo Alto - he even popped in at a gig I had, even in the early days he was incredible and last gig I saw him, at half time he was reciting jabberwocky and walking around the stage like a yoga master w his legs over his shoulders almost - an advanced posture most never can do - he was a singular inspired genius of acoustic guitar -
I got to see him live in Ann Arbor in late 1997. I called the hotline listed on the CD to find out when his next tour dates would be, and got a tragic recording with the news that he had passed. 💔
great to have you back and finding more material T3! This is the best ragamuffin vid yet! Your dedication to preserving his legacy is admirable and brings much happiness to my life, my friend. Thanks again.
Saw him January 22, 1987 at the Carolina Theater in Durham, and I think at Memorial Hall at UNC in 1988. I remember him being absolutely on fire in Durham. Listening to this video takes me back to those shows, and to shopping in used bookstores and health food co-ops in the 1980s.
Mr. Hedges demonstates the musical artist at play and at work with creating romantically provacative, engaging images of artistic expession. The alternative tuning likens to the guitar to the piano keyboard controlled sustain device. His mastery of rendering musical portraits of the dance displays the soul of those who received a stranger as a fellow man during the love/peace magical 70's. His nurishment is greatly needed today to calm the hearts of those who wake to the cereal box.
Alot of folks here crediting his style as original. Make no mistake Michael Hedges was a great and he brought his own uniqueness to this style. But if you think he was the first or even the best -- I would say look around. If you like his stuff, check out someone in our time like Mike Dawes "The Impossible" or Stanley Jordan. And don't forget others who helped develop this style of playing like Phil Keaggy or even before either Michael or Phil, there was the legendary Italian, Vittorio Camardese (b. 1920s) or even Jimmy Webster (b 1908). You like this stuff? Go deep and be encouraged that many incredible talents were doing it before Michael and are doing it today with equal or greater complexity!
What amazes me is the incredible skill. This was play live and not a finger out of place. I've been to many live show and even BB King occasionally flubbed a note. Michael was just perfect.
I remember, eons ago, early 80s, he played in san antonio, and blew away the friend that saw it. We all bought the albums and studied hard. Great stuff. Thanks, amigo.
To Lin Albert: No. Jimmy Page uses DADGAD, also David Gilmour, Neil Young, to name three out of the multitude... It's one of the standard alternate tunings. So to answer your question, no Hedges didn't invent it.
What a magical experience this was, a frozen in time concert that most attending may have not known the significance at the time. Powerful lake tahoe and legendary Michael at his prime, a combination for the ages.
i've got some Hedges covers on my channel, search "drumjack ragamuffin fusion of the five elements..." difference is: i figured them all out for standard tuning so no retuning is required... maybe i'll send you my tabs?
No. What I know is that DADGAD dates to the India/sitar inspired rock music so I would guess may be the Beatles started this. Led Zeplin’s Kashmir is on a DADGAD tuned guitar.
even though ur saying this with good intention , ur comment attracted that 1 disliker to ruin it , next time just focus on the song and write something more constructive such as how wonderful this piece is.
There are a lot of great guitarists out there, from chicken picking maniacs to metal shredders, and jazz greats. But nobody could make so much beautiful music come from 1 guitar like Micheal did. He was truly a unique musician and is certainly missed
For 15 years, I would book my multi--state sales territory trips around Michael's Fall Tour schedule, just so I could see/hear him at various venues. I told him that one evening, after he recognized me from the last couple nights. We kicked hackey sack on the lawn and chatted for about 30 minutes until his equipment was set up. He was so blown away and flattered that I cared enough to put forth the effort. Very humble! What a gracious, gifted and talented man he was! I miss his live performances so much! Always looked forward to hear what new cover songs he was attempting. He was to the acoustic guitar, what Hendrix was to the electric, a total innovator! You can hear his influence in so many guitarists today.
French Fowler What an awesome memory! Thank you for sharing.
I saw him at a venue in Indianapolis and he played no expectations off the Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet. I was the only one in the crowd that spoke out and knew What song it was after he asked us
I wouldn't compare him to anyone, or if I must I would rather compare him to Mozart and Beethoven. He was special, genre of its own, story of its own, the guitar was just a communication tool to him, he was a true virtuoso, genuine musical talent, one in 10 billion.
Thanks for sharing this!
I loved listening to Michael met him when he first left home for music school in Baltimore
Yes a gem of a person and a virtuoso.....his music is smooth and love and passion in his voice
Jesus there is no one else like this guy. His performances are some of the greatest translations of human spirit into music.
Devon Kelts. That is a fantastic way of putting it. You nailed it. It taps into a depth of spirituality. Don't know how, just does. Whoa. Those clean riffs and harmonics. How the heck?!! Another thing: watching & listening to such genius inspires me to spend a bit more time honing my own (different kinds of) gifts/talents. He brought such light & joy to the world by developing so beautifully his inner gifts. Thanks Michael. When I get to heaven I want to hear one of your songs at least a few times a week. Til then!
I saw a guy at wickerman in about 2005 that was as into it as hedges and about as naked in his performance.
Really really good and Passionate.
He was called frogpocket.
Never saw him again.
Luv and Peace.
@@ianedmonds9191 froggpocket love the name. Awesome guitar Love
Men who love their wooden Ladies
Deeply moving..another realm...you enter a portal when his music 🎵🎵 plays.❤ Saw him in 1985.
I am happy that some people are attempting to play the guitar the way Michael Hedges invented playing the guitar. I think those people help keep Michael's spirit alive. R.I.P Michael Hedges.
With 35 years of fingerpicking under my belt to go by, I can say that he was a truly talented player. Really had total control and touch.
I was thinking. If he had been born 400 years ago , he would have been the Mozart of the guitar. Or he would have been burned at the stake.
i think hedges was exceptional in composition and performance. this unique, sometimes almost agressive style to play the guitar, these mixtures of tapping, different tunings.. so beautiful and also scary somehow. one of the most polarizing guitar masters i ever listened to... almost gone now for a quarter of a century. what a loss..
Wow, that’s just an amazing piece of work by a true Legend RIP
So many copycats of his style these days, but none have his feel.
Thank you for posting this. It's funny how watching the immortal percussive passage at 1.20 onwards does not at all explain how he did it. He spoke many times about being not a guitarist, but a composer who writes for the guitar, makes you wonder what it sounded like in his head. I saw him at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA, in the mid-90s. He danced on stage while playing Ritual Dance -- flawlessly. It was hard to believe I was watching it happen.
I'm so jealous of everyone who got to see him play live. He was a brilliant composer and a truly amazing human being. And this song, like most of his, takes me on a voyage to a place I love to be. Thank you so much for posting this.
It takes me to a space I'd love to be, but can no longer be in. Ironically, I'm grieving for the amazing human being who brought Michael Hedges' brilliant music into my life. It's sad and comforting at the same time. I'm grateful to these two beautiful souls
I got to see him several times and met him once. He was so humble and polite I almost started crying. A true "artist".
I saw Michael performance as a man in the park.playing at City fairs in Baltimore to a College stage there
He was a graduate of Peabody Conservatory of Music. Michael played at Joes organic Juice Bar in Fellspoint Maryland / Baltimore where' Edgar Allan Poe lived off and on and Hedges played at the Horse you came in on....that had the game of one of Baltimore s oldest Taverns 1786 I think.
wow watch him change at 2:00 .... it's like he's in another dimension while he's playing
You really couldn't ask for a better rendition of such an intensely emotional composition. Thanks for posting, the sound quality is great.
I’ve seen him live twice. The second time I saw him he took a set break and went to the bar for a drink. I went over and he shook my hand and signed my cd. He was such a genuine and easy to talk to person. It was truly a sad day for me when I found out he passed away 🙁
After a performance in a small Ann Arbor venue in 1997, Michael tracked down my partner who is visually impaired (a condition apparent from his appearance) and asked him about his experience of the concert without any visuals. He wanted to know if he ought to describe or add anything to be accessible to those unable to see the show. I was so impressed with that artist!
I saw him twice as well. Both times with Leo Kottke. Will never forget it.
@@josettebergeron
I was also at that show.
The Ark , yes?
Third row .
And afterwards, the one I was with, was talking to him, she waited for the long line to clear out, so she could have an actual conversation, and he invited us backstage to hang out for a little bit .
Very casual.
It was grapes, cheese, and crackers on the table. He said help yourself.🤣
Makes my hair stand on end every time
For Lin Albert : "DADGAD was popularised by British folk guitarist Davey Graham. Inspired by hearing an oud player in Morocco, Graham experimented with detuning some of the guitar's strings from standard tuning (E2A2D3G3B3E4), arriving at D2A2D3G3A3D4 or "DADGAD". He employed the tuning to great effect in his treatments of Celtic music, but also the folk music of India and Morocco. The first guitarists in Irish traditional music to use the tuning were Mícheál Ó Domhnaill and Dáithí Sproule; today it is a very common tuning in the genre. Other proponents of the tuning include Andy Mckee, Russian Circles, Rory Gallagher, Luka Bloom, Stan Rogers, Jimmy Page, Artie Traum, Pierre Bensusan,[2][3] Eric Roche, Midnight, Laurence Juber, Tony McManus, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson, Dick Gaughan, Alistair Hulett, Imaad Wasif, Mark Kozelek, Jeff Tweedy, Masaaki Kishibe, Paul McSherry, Sevendust (although downtuned),[4] Kotaro Oshio, Ben Chasny, Al Petteway, and Trey Anastasio. English folk musician Martin Carthy now mostly uses a related tuning, CGCDGA, whose explicit evolution from DADGAD he describes in his book." Jimmy PAge used it in the years 60/70 !
I envy anyone who got a chance to see Michael live in concert. Seeing him play in person, must be 10 kinds of awesome
I feel lucky, I got to see Michael lots in the early days and met him back at the Varsity in Palo Alto - he even popped in at a gig I had, even in the early days he was incredible and last gig I saw him, at half time he was reciting jabberwocky and walking around the stage like a yoga master w his legs over his shoulders almost - an advanced posture most never can do - he was a singular inspired genius of acoustic guitar -
I got to see him live in Ann Arbor in late 1997. I called the hotline listed on the CD to find out when his next tour dates would be, and got a tragic recording with the news that he had passed. 💔
It was!
great to have you back and finding more material T3! This is the best ragamuffin vid yet! Your dedication to preserving his legacy is admirable and brings much happiness to my life, my friend. Thanks again.
I think I was at this show. Was this Mondavi Winery? Michael Manring and Shadowfax opened?
Totally Inspired
saw him in chapel hill nc....all those years ago. He was in this world but not of it.
Saw him January 22, 1987 at the Carolina Theater in Durham, and I think at Memorial Hall at UNC in 1988. I remember him being absolutely on fire in Durham. Listening to this video takes me back to those shows, and to shopping in used bookstores and health food co-ops in the 1980s.
2:00 one of my favorite acoustic outros ever
This is what you call leaving it all on the stage. WOW!
Heaven speaks...
Mr. Hedges demonstates the musical artist at play and at work with creating romantically provacative, engaging images of artistic expession. The alternative tuning likens to the guitar to the piano keyboard controlled sustain device. His mastery of rendering musical portraits of the dance displays the soul of those who received a stranger as a fellow man during the love/peace magical 70's. His nurishment is greatly needed today to calm the hearts of those who wake to the cereal box.
Music just poured out of him.
A Super Human by any modern standard.
Had a chance to see him in Tallahassee the year he died. I didn’t go. What a regret.
Alot of folks here crediting his style as original. Make no mistake Michael Hedges was a great and he brought his own uniqueness to this style. But if you think he was the first or even the best -- I would say look around. If you like his stuff, check out someone in our time like Mike Dawes "The Impossible" or Stanley Jordan. And don't forget others who helped develop this style of playing like Phil Keaggy or even before either Michael or Phil, there was the legendary Italian, Vittorio Camardese (b. 1920s) or even Jimmy Webster (b 1908). You like this stuff? Go deep and be encouraged that many incredible talents were doing it before Michael and are doing it today with equal or greater complexity!
I wonder if he ever picked up an electric?
Just amazing....and I do that same left hand flick...but less pronounced...and I play bass... 😂
The world shall never know his kind again. And be ever the lesser for it
Ah, the master! No one like Michael Hedges...truly brilliant!
What amazes me is the incredible skill. This was play live and not a finger out of place. I've been to many live show and even BB King occasionally flubbed a note. Michael was just perfect.
Amazing the video and audio on this one, perfectly synced.
Magic fingers
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watching hedges with not sound is like watching a person play air guitar. Impossible creativity.
That Harmonics!!!
Wonderful. For me it sounds like he tells a story in a story in a story.
Healing music..
One of his most beautiful and emotional pieces. type3 is the real deal.
this harmonics gives me chills everytime
wonderful Michael!!!
I remember, eons ago, early 80s, he played in san antonio, and blew away the friend that saw it. We all bought the albums and studied hard. Great stuff. Thanks, amigo.
DAGAD tuning meets excellence.........MH = the real Deal !
Was a real genius.
To Lin Albert: No. Jimmy Page uses DADGAD, also David Gilmour, Neil Young, to name three out of the multitude... It's one of the standard alternate tunings. So to answer your question, no Hedges didn't invent it.
No one like him.
Outstanding performance
2024 and still amazing
What a magical experience this was, a frozen in time concert that most attending may have not known the significance at the time.
Powerful lake tahoe and legendary Michael at his prime, a combination for the ages.
a one man orchestra
i've got some Hedges covers on my channel, search "drumjack ragamuffin fusion of the five elements..." difference is: i figured them all out for standard tuning so no retuning is required... maybe i'll send you my tabs?
Plays a damn good guitar
+Doug Dodd fucken A right he does
No dislikes, I'm not surprised at all! :)
En donde estés Michael te admiro profundamente...nadie como tu guitarra... Paraná Entre Ríos Argentina
One the first modernist guitar artistic players.. and remains one of the best.
Unique with a touch of the Renaissance Era. Very nice.💗💗💗
guitar monster
I was wondering, was Michael Hendges also the one that first established the tuning "DADGAD"?
No. What I know is that DADGAD dates to the India/sitar inspired rock music so I would guess may be the Beatles started this. Led Zeplin’s Kashmir is on a DADGAD tuned guitar.
Awesome!
No, Davey Graham of England is most often credited with popularizing that tuning but at the very least he was using it in the 1960s.
How?...wha-....
MICHAEL THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUU
Thank you...
this soo good wahh
he's like if robots had souls. they wouldn't need us anymore.
Got the motivation to sell my guitar.. 👌🏾
That hameroff was more like a throw off awesome.
@2:35 terrible memory must have came into his head at that moment, look at his face
No, it's the resolution of the piece, a beautiful, poignant tangent.
demigods walking among us.....
Why can't i sound like this...sigh
I will surely try cause you're right! :)
even though ur saying this with good intention , ur comment attracted that 1 disliker to ruin it , next time just focus on the song and write something more constructive such as how wonderful this piece is.
divino,oltre la chitarra!
Top of the tops...
john butler's dad
ha
Keep 'em coming!
thanks