Mason Williams performs in 13WHAM studio
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- From 2008: An interview and performance by guitarist Mason Williams, accompanied by John Doan. They were in Rochester to perform at the German House, celebrating 40 year anniversary of "Classical Gas."
In 100 years people will still be playing and loving Classical Gas.
This man is a genius, I am so glad I was a young person when this man recorded this song.
I was a freshman in high school. Loved it the very first time I heard it on AM radio!
Thomas Edison was a genius; Mason is a good songwriter.
Me too!!
Mason is a fellow Oregonian. He lives not far from my home. Incredible talent and he is dearly loved up here in the PNW.🪽
How lucky you are! I’m in Washington State. Where in Oregon?
My all-time favorite song to listen to. Vividly remember seeing and hearing it on the Smothers Bros. Show. Drags me through the gamut of emotions. This clip is fantastic!!
Same
Classical Gas...AWESOME guitar...NEVER gets old!
Arguably the most beautiful guitar song ever.
Love this song, so many memories.
I've been playing Classical Gas note for note the same on stage since it was released. Love it and so does everyone else.
Hes still got it!!!. This is one of my all time favorites
Amazing how his playing takes me right back to the first day it was on the radio.
I picture myself dancing to Classical Gas and on the picture screen is life as it began w/God creating the beauty of creation, the birds, animals, fish in the waters and Adam and Eve and then the Fall. The Good News is that God sent his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have ever lasting life: John 3:16.
It premiered on the Smothers brothers comedy hour!I was there!
No way!!!!
RIP Tommy
Yep... I remember that Smothers Brothers airing very well. A one second video montage of classical works of art accompanied the instrumentals. Made an impression in me that's lasted over 50 years!
Loved the duo!
Great entertainers and we hear Classical Gas after all these years. Can’t ask for more.
And today, June 27, 2023, I heard Classical Gas in Marcin's version, in a UA-cam short. I had to dive on the net and I got here and found that I knew this from my youth, but not the artist.
Life has many turns. Best regards from Chile ☺️💖🇨🇱
My god is Mason Williams is the very best!
Just love this! Brings back so many memories.
The man can be on his head playing his wonderful song, and still be great!! ❤❤❤❤❤
😎👏👏👏👏 Amazing!! Love the song and the music!! Classical gas is one of my favorite guitar pieces!! And I really enjoy the old time Middle Ages sound. 🎵
Love it!! I want to hear the rest!! Love the mouth trumpet.
What a cool guy too.awesome
Looks great! Sounds great!
Mason Williams was a comedy writer for the Smothers Brothers. He had a pretty good side gig composing this piece of great music.
I love this song Classical Gas with one of my idols, the great Glen Campbell..
Best musician and creative genius ever!
I hope they recorded an album together, this is my favourite version I have heard.
Some music is timeless.
This song is from 1968. It's been 56 years. One of my favorite songs from the 1960s. From 1968.
It was this song "Classical Gas" that forced me to become a guitar player...I had to learn that song.
Now, I'm a songwriter and a member of ASCAP, also, that song also introduced me to one of my favorite radio programs of all times; "Coast to Coast with Art Bell".
Thank you Mr Williams for writing one of the greatest songs ever written
I have the 45 record...its such a great song... classical gas
I was 16 that summer of ‘68, and his recording was played frequently on the radio, and I bought the 45. Loved it.
John Doan is a great guitarist and teacher. I contacted him in 6/1983 about lessons at Willamette, but was referred to another very good teacher, Walt Lawry of Salem. 8:32
Thanks y'all, that is awsome
Mason Williams went on to be the head writer of SNL!
A friend in our neighborhood that played a classical guitar was pretty good picker 4 years older than me. Influenced me. In playing 1969’ into early 70s. Mason Williams was his cousin
Maestro ❤❤❤
So beautiful I started crying
One hit wonder.... But damn what a hit....
Best version of this, for me, by Mason is when he recorded it 100% solo with no other instruments.
got to know Mason over the years he was my mentor and still is
My favorite ❤
I loved hearing Classical Gas on Frazier.
the great Mason Wiliam's
Its gorgeous, but the "B" side, Long Time Blues, is also good! 😊
Legend
Very nice to see! 👍🏻
like the close ups of Mason playing...so I'm inspired to finish learning it...I learned the first few bars many years ago and then got side tracked....I'm going to leave out the horn part🤪
...... almost 60 years ago 🎵🎤🎶
GREAT!!!!!
The harp/guitar could be an acoustic version of junior brown's electrical!
I would just add that if you like this song, you would no doubt enjoy the version Glen Campbell does live while backed by an orchestra. And as for me, I really favour the guitar tones from Ovation CE guitars that Glen favoured later in his career.
Love the gas!!!
Awesome 😊
Mason did some other fun songs too. 🙂
How about them lunch toters?!
😆 love the movie mouth trumpet!
Mason has aged well....
Is it just me, or is the harp guitar terrifying looking?
Just you
Listen to glen Campbell’s version, it’s amazing!!
Saw him with Ian and sylvia in a little coffee house in tustin. He played moose goosers
"I get to blow my own horn now..."!
WELL I GUESS IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE GAS IT MIGHT AS WELL BE CLASSICAL. 😂😂😂
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Let's make it all about the two women
The women interrupting them for the sake of hearing their own voices.
😊
How about the Prince’s Panties. Great song
WTAE News Channel 4 Pittsburgh used it as their news theme.
Cool
Is that a Hauser that Mason plays?
OMG - If ANYone "redefined" the guitar - that would have been Django Reinhardt and/or Julian Bream - who I saw in concert in the late 1960s.
like harp guitar - never heard or seen anything like it
Except for these two dopey women I really enjoyed
the upload . Thank you.
This was the opening to Big Time Wrestling the predecessor to WWE.
First major song I learned.
I’m a DeadHead….me and Jerry loved this set🤡
The worst part of being famous for one great song is that you have better songs inside. Your skill is more advanced 20 - 30 year after that song that catched on. Time is a bitch thow. He made gazillion dollars of this song but i reccon its an anchor hanging on his neck.Then you get old, its not working anymore and your stuck with the old stuff. Still making gazillions thow. Yeah i envy him.
These girls,not women stayed at the "bakery" chewing a pull apart!
Too bad this song will be banned in California and the EU after 2035. Interesting to hear the story about the original title.
What?
@@NothingHumanisAlientoMeC'mon, Man. Classical Gas(oline)!
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Great rendition but nothing as amazing as the Glen Campbell version !