exactly! in this moment, someone else is dying painfully, being beaten or grieving over a lost one. and here we are, privileged to listen to beautiful music.
Fahey is one of our greatest acoustic guitarists, he has passion, intensity and tremendous creativity. His profound feeling for the music is exceptional. His live performances were all over the map, you could never tell which Fahey would show up or what he might do, or how he might play. He is just a musical force of nature.
This song is an obsession of mine. At this point I'm just taking parts from every source I find (and playing them badly) but someday I will know this tune. RIP Rev, RIP John, RIP Dave.
Pinky, 'Candy Man' is originally by Mississippi John Hurt and appears, with vocals, on his album 'Today', which it should still be possible to buy. 5 people gave Pinky's comment the thumbs down? For god's sake, why? I'm giving it the thumbs up for the sake of balance.
I didn't give it a thumbs down but it is incorrect. Here, John is playing essentially Rev. Gary Davis's Candy Man. John Hurt had a completely different song also called Candy Man but in a different key, different tune, and different words. The ONLY thing the two songs have in common is the name. For that matter Sammy Davis Jr. had yet a third song called Candy Man, I think it was a hit in the sixties.
I first heard of John Fahey on a compilation record, yes, one of the those old, black, flat discs, oh so long ago. It was him and Leo Kottke and Peter Lang. They were so hot. God bless you John Fahey, wherever you are.
That is a wonderful record, and as far as I know has the only recordings of "Red and White" by Kottke and "St. Charles Shuffle" by Lang, two of my favorite guitar pieces. Also, if I'm not mistaken, John's version of "Sunflower River Blues" is completely different from his other recordings of that song; I'm going from memory here and can't check my vinyl, but I think he plays it in open D on that record, even though he played it in open C in every other version I've ever heard.
It's a major privilege to have heard this man. His playing approaches the spiritual. Without UA-cam, I'd have had to rely on my small collection of recordings.
Timeless masterpiece. Fahey has a kind of soul to his playing which is utterly distinctive and the likes of which you wouldn't find in more flashier picking styles like Leo Kottke for example
If you're curious, Candy Man segues into Brenda's Blues, which then segues into Spanish Dance. When I heard the last song for the first time, which the late, great Russell Vandivort turned me on to in the original rare first LP version of Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Military Waltzes, I realized this is what I had always been looking for in guitar. Fahey has been my favorite ever since.
This is interesting because I keep hearing Freight Train by Elizabeth Cotton as the song progresses. I'm no expert but my foot tapping gets more extreme at those portions of the song. Thanks for this.
I remember hanging out with John shortly before his death...he was the kind of man that would give you the shirt off his back. Miss the conversations bro. He was a well of picking knowledge.
You were lucky! I had brief conversations with him a few times but never had the opportunity to know him. I wish I had. I wonder if he had any idea of how much influence he had on so many people.
his playing style could be called too fast compared to that generation but he was playing at a different time and he's a different person. i hear it as spontaneious, emotional, and honest. it has the directness and emotional depth of all those players you mentioned. newer musicians who copy and paste from the greats lose the point of the blues.
You can’t compare Fahey to someone like Tommy Emmanuel. Emmanuel is a technician, and an amazing one. One of my favourites... however, Fahey had soul, originality, and yes, genius. His style is relatively simple, but so deep. There’s a reason he’s ranked the 35th best guitarist in history by Rolling Stone.
akvavit Comparing Fahey and Emmanuel is ridiculous. Two completely different styles. I actually prefer Fahey, though: Even though Emmanuel has more flash and technique, Fahey has a creativity and mystique that I can't explain but draws me in.
Uh... that’s why I said you can’t compare them. A lot of people don’t get Fahey because he has a simple style compared to someone like Emmanuel so they say he’s not as good. Tommy is the better player technically, but Fahey, while certainly no slouch, will always be remembered for his originality, creative genius, and ground-breaking style.
I know you said that, I was agreeing with you. Emmanuel definitely has more technique and hand acrobatics. At the same time, I could never imagine Emmanuel writing a song like "On the Sunny Side of the Ocean," just as I could never imagine Fahey writing "Those Who Wait." And you're right that nobody should sell Fahey short on his good technique: Dance of the Inhabitants of King Philip of Spain definitely showcased his technical skills
Emmanuel is incredible but sometimes I feel like he sacrifices musicality to guitar acrobatics. Fahey never did that, his playing was a direct link to . . . his soul? The cosmos? IMHO, Doc Watson was better than Emmanuel, too, and closer in style. No one could flatpick faster and cleaner than Doc, but he never did it to show off his technique -- it was always about the music. That being said, I'm not knocking Tommy -- he's a wonderful, in fact unbelievable guitarist. If I could play half as well as he can, I'd be in nirvana.
The greater Washington DC area turned out a lot of good guitarists. Jorma and Jack came from there too although most people think of San Franciso when they are mentioned.
PurpleFlyingWale - No, sorry. I have spent years learning to play both tunes down to the note, and this (or rather the first part of this) is an interpretation of the song made most famous by Rev. Davis. Davis didn't cover Hurt, he learned this song, as he tells it, in his youth, in 1905, from a man playing it in a travelling show. The version that John Hurt made famous has a completely different pattern, and the difference is most easily traced by the distinctive thumb pattern in each. Neither one of them originated the songs, both named Candyman, and each being an old-school fingerpicked tune in C means there are going to be similarities, but the playing of these arrangements is very different, and this is based on the Davis song.
William & Polly Shires yep your correct. I learned it from Boklbinder who learned fro, Rev. Gary.... Mississippi John plays a equally good one , but it is a different tune
Willie Walker was Rev Davis' Greenville mentor...I think he recorded 4 songs, one of which was the "South Carolina Rag"...The list of guys who are passing on all the old stuff they learned from Rev Davis includes Stephen Grossman, Happy Traum, Woody Mann, Jorma Kaukonen, Taj Mahal, Larry Johnson.......quite a tradition and lineage.
Not sure what album Candy Man is on, but Brenda's Blues, which starts at 1.13 is on The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, and the last song, at 2.44, is called On The Beach Wakiki, i think, and it's on Death Chants, Break Downs and Military Waltzes.
@treetoptop agree with you there some folk are so sad i mean we are all human ever the great john fahey makes the odd mistake what a sad person to even pick up on it
Yeah. To me the Gary Davis was the master of the genre. It is interesting though to see how the folks that he influenced (Fahey, Kaukonen, Kotke, etc) utilized his style into their own.
@shsnj The thing you're missing is that many of the people who consider Fahey "better" than TE are guitarists themselves, some highly skilled. TE might have had a superior technique, but that's only one part of what makes someone a great musician.Fahey is the one who changed the way people thought of acoustic guitar and who influenced generations of musicians, and he's the one who could sit down with a guitar, improvise for half an hour, and mesmerize an audience.
@ theleequa, I don't feel it does have the directness and emotional depth of those players. He is a great player, no doubt about it and from my generation, I started playing when I was nine and I'll be 60 this year. When I first listened to the blues, I didn't want to copy it I just wanted to play my guitar and make it sound something like the old blues players because the sound of the blues just struck some part of me and has never left since.
There can't be a 'best'. These statements are from big fans, are they overflow into 'facts'. 'Clapton is god' and all that claptrap. They are completely different. TE's a showman too, JF isn't (or is in an eccentric way). I think choice of material has a lot to do with it too. Also, that John Fahey started so far back, kinda gives him an historical edge.
@jeremywilson15147 they weren't mate, like the two peeps here have said, it's the soul. tommy emmanuel's amazing from what i can see, fucking ridiculously quick and precise, and he definitely feels the music to a massive degree; but Fahey's on another, extraterrestrial level. he had this cosmic understanding of music and the spirits inside and behind it. you can see it in his face and his body on this vid, and i hope you yourself will feel it in his playing, check that flowwwwwwwwwwwwww oh my
@kingsindiandefence. No, those of us who criticize him can't play that well -- that's true. But we're not highly acclaimed guitarists who perform on stages around the world. He was such a guitarist and should be held to a much, much higher standard than the rest of us. It's absurd to suggest that you can only criticize someone if you can outdo that person.
A lot of talk about him making a "mistake". It's actually just an accidental that he intentionally includes as a segue between the two different songs. This same "mistake" can be heard in another performance of these two songs, which can be viewed on youtube. But, I mean, he also could just be really bad at playing guitar...
When he was drunk, which was too often when he got older, he was not at his best, but I never heard him be "really bad" and even then, it was worth listening.
@treetoptop Agree with treetop, I understand a person can fall in love with a particular rendition of a song and every other version you hear will sound "wrong"...but I'll bet that even Davis himself played it differently over the years. Got to keep your playing fresh, yes?
+TheTinker6871 if met a couple of great guitarist who knew him and toured and played with him and the funny part is that he said him self he didn't know what he was doing half the time and just played the songs as how he felt that moment the songs had must be played. and he was a drunk indeed for a while, but so he smoked sigarettes one after the other to. but when the doctor said he had to stop he cold turkey stopped.. didn't stop him of making music because he was a true virtuoso to which I look up to and put my steps towards to as a guitarist.
Just saying, he had pretty flawless technique even ripped to high heaven.. Granted he wasn't technical virtuoso but a lot of stuff is pretty tricky to play. He was constantly tinkering with his songs, renaming them, mixing and matching diverse riffs and styles. I highly doubt all that was utterly unconscious.
+Machete Moonlight can't argue whit that, as he taken some old songs like from elisabeth cotton and made his own twist on it. but he was good no doubt on that
@treetoptop A true virtuoso wouldn't make that kind of flub. It's the impeccable quality of play that defines one as a virtuoso. Suppose I found a worm in a store-bought apple and, upon complaining, the store manager retorted with, "Hey, what about the rest of the apple? You didn't comment on the part that didn't have a worm in it!" No, a store-bought apple shouldn't have a worm in it and a virtuoso performance shouldn't contain such a bumbling moment. Sorry. He's good, but not a virtuoso.
exactly! in this moment, someone else is dying painfully, being beaten or grieving over a lost one. and here we are, privileged to listen to beautiful music.
Fahey is one of our greatest acoustic guitarists, he has passion, intensity and tremendous creativity. His profound feeling for the music is exceptional. His live performances were all over the map, you could never tell which Fahey would show up or what he might do, or how he might play.
He is just a musical force of nature.
This song is an obsession of mine. At this point I'm just taking parts from every source I find (and playing them badly) but someday I will know this tune. RIP Rev, RIP John, RIP Dave.
You learn it???
Pinky, 'Candy Man' is originally by Mississippi John Hurt and appears, with vocals, on his album 'Today', which it should still be possible to buy.
5 people gave Pinky's comment the thumbs down? For god's sake, why? I'm giving it the thumbs up for the sake of balance.
I didn't give it a thumbs down but it is incorrect. Here, John is playing essentially Rev. Gary Davis's Candy Man. John Hurt had a completely different song also called Candy Man but in a different key, different tune, and different words. The ONLY thing the two songs have in common is the name. For that matter Sammy Davis Jr. had yet a third song called Candy Man, I think it was a hit in the sixties.
Such a rare genius, to take this old song and turn it into a medley of sad beauty
I first heard of John Fahey on a compilation record, yes, one of the those old, black, flat discs, oh so long ago. It was him and Leo Kottke and Peter Lang. They were so hot. God bless you John Fahey, wherever you are.
I have that album. All 3 are good.
That is a wonderful record, and as far as I know has the only recordings of "Red and White" by Kottke and "St. Charles Shuffle" by Lang, two of my favorite guitar pieces. Also, if I'm not mistaken, John's version of "Sunflower River Blues" is completely different from his other recordings of that song; I'm going from memory here and can't check my vinyl, but I think he plays it in open D on that record, even though he played it in open C in every other version I've ever heard.
I can see those easy chords he makes with his left hand, but the sound that comes out is worlds away from anything I will ever be able to produce ...
It's a major privilege to have heard this man. His playing approaches the spiritual. Without UA-cam, I'd have had to rely on my small collection of recordings.
Saw him live in the early 80's and he was great.
Remember John well...Heard him live several times--never heard anyone come close to sounding like him!
He's not sleeping but rather feeling the music in his heart.
Thanks for posting this -- I like how he segued into Brendas Blues (his take on Blind Blake)and then morphed into something other.
Thank you!!
Not many John Fahey's in one lifetime.....
Timeless masterpiece. Fahey has a kind of soul to his playing which is utterly distinctive and the likes of which you wouldn't find in more flashier picking styles like Leo Kottke for example
this is why we should always be grateful for the gifts we are allowed to enjoy in this life. sorry for sounding so dorky :P
love how he throws Brenda's Blues in there! one of my favourite Fahey tunes
Thank you, walterneff! Truly a candy man void. Too cool to watch Fahey play!
If you're curious, Candy Man segues into Brenda's Blues, which then segues into Spanish Dance. When I heard the last song for the first time, which the late, great Russell Vandivort turned me on to in the original rare first LP version of Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Military Waltzes, I realized this is what I had always been looking for in guitar. Fahey has been my favorite ever since.
I just want to cry when I hear what his fingers do to those strings.
This is interesting because I keep hearing Freight Train by Elizabeth Cotton as the song progresses. I'm no expert but my foot tapping gets more extreme at those portions of the song. Thanks for this.
John Fahey is so original and artistic. He makes these modern Windham Hill types sound almost silly.
I admire your loyalty. Musically, creatively. not to mention in the beautiful complexity, John Fahey left the good Reverend in the dust.
Why do we need to compare, they played completely different styles. They were both wonderful and we are lucky to be able to hear them.
Thanks for posting. Everything I hear by this guy is just amazing. But I guess I never realized how big he was. He practically dwarfs his guitar.
I remember hanging out with John shortly before his death...he was the kind of man that would give you the shirt off his back. Miss the conversations bro. He was a well of picking knowledge.
You were lucky! I had brief conversations with him a few times but never had the opportunity to know him. I wish I had. I wonder if he had any idea of how much influence he had on so many people.
fahey was playing incredibly in the 70s
Jacques Witcher Yeah. He wasn't half fucking bad in the 60's either.
his playing style could be called too fast compared to that generation but he was playing at a different time and he's a different person. i hear it as spontaneious, emotional, and honest. it has the directness and emotional depth of all those players you mentioned. newer musicians who copy and paste from the greats lose the point of the blues.
good luck keeping up with this one
@kingsindiandefence - Well put - this performance is crazily brilliant, unique! He is transcendental in his playing.
great 60s memories. thanks
he says he would put himself in a "light hypnotic trance" when he played...
This "trance" was later then this concert.
@@RickyBlackwell_X yeah it was like the early 80s i think
Truly amazing.
Thanks, that's much appreciated
Very Nice!! A lot faster than Im used to hearing from Rev. Gary. but still nice.
Damn that right hand... that off beat is great....john!
Fahey takes americana guitar and moves it to some kind of transcendental raga - unspeakable
I love his hair
When you realize the video lags behind the music in some parts the song makes more sense if you are trying to learn it :)
God bless fingerpicking guitar players. It makes me want to go fishing. Check out the country sometime.listen to this or Three Dog Night
@kingsindiandefence THANK YOU for wording what I was thinking!!!
omfg he is amazing
He was one hell of a picker, “brilliant”.
i love the liner notes to his albums.
You can’t compare Fahey to someone like Tommy Emmanuel. Emmanuel is a technician, and an amazing one. One of my favourites... however, Fahey had soul, originality, and yes, genius. His style is relatively simple, but so deep. There’s a reason he’s ranked the 35th best guitarist in history by Rolling Stone.
akvavit Comparing Fahey and Emmanuel is ridiculous. Two completely different styles. I actually prefer Fahey, though: Even though Emmanuel has more flash and technique, Fahey has a creativity and mystique that I can't explain but draws me in.
Uh... that’s why I said you can’t compare them. A lot of people don’t get Fahey because he has a simple style compared to someone like Emmanuel so they say he’s not as good. Tommy is the better player technically, but Fahey, while certainly no slouch, will always be remembered for his originality, creative genius, and ground-breaking style.
I know you said that, I was agreeing with you. Emmanuel definitely has more technique and hand acrobatics. At the same time, I could never imagine Emmanuel writing a song like "On the Sunny Side of the Ocean," just as I could never imagine Fahey writing "Those Who Wait." And you're right that nobody should sell Fahey short on his good technique: Dance of the Inhabitants of King Philip of Spain definitely showcased his technical skills
Emmanuel is incredible but sometimes I feel like he sacrifices musicality to guitar acrobatics. Fahey never did that, his playing was a direct link to . . . his soul? The cosmos?
IMHO, Doc Watson was better than Emmanuel, too, and closer in style. No one could flatpick faster and cleaner than Doc, but he never did it to show off his technique -- it was always about the music.
That being said, I'm not knocking Tommy -- he's a wonderful, in fact unbelievable guitarist. If I could play half as well as he can, I'd be in nirvana.
Haha whats number one on their list?
"Hey Mr. Candy man....my nose is empty!"
The greater Washington DC area turned out a lot of good guitarists. Jorma and Jack came from there too although most people think of San Franciso when they are mentioned.
The best John Hurt cover.
I think it's actually from rev. gary davis...
Vincenzo Del Lama nah it's john hurt it was later covered by gary davis though.
PurpleFlyingWale - No, sorry. I have spent years learning to play both tunes down to the note, and this (or rather the first part of this) is an interpretation of the song made most famous by Rev. Davis. Davis didn't cover Hurt, he learned this song, as he tells it, in his youth, in 1905, from a man playing it in a travelling show. The version that John Hurt made famous has a completely different pattern, and the difference is most easily traced by the distinctive thumb pattern in each. Neither one of them originated the songs, both named Candyman, and each being an old-school fingerpicked tune in C means there are going to be similarities, but the playing of these arrangements is very different, and this is based on the Davis song.
William & Polly Shires yep your correct. I learned it from Boklbinder who learned fro, Rev. Gary.... Mississippi John plays a equally good one , but it is a different tune
Steve Jeter - That's amazing. A privilege to talk to someone who's met Roy! Just got notification of your post now, for some reason. Anyhow, cheers.
Great!
brilliant
Willie Walker was Rev Davis' Greenville mentor...I think he recorded 4 songs, one of which was the "South Carolina Rag"...The list of guys who are passing on all the old stuff they learned from Rev Davis includes Stephen Grossman, Happy Traum, Woody Mann, Jorma Kaukonen, Taj Mahal, Larry Johnson.......quite a tradition and lineage.
Don't forget Roy Book Binder! Also a student of the Rev's.
I used to listen to his records, they didn't sound like this. The recordings were clean and coherent.
This too is clean and coherent.
Not sure what album Candy Man is on, but Brenda's Blues, which starts at 1.13 is on The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, and the last song, at 2.44, is called On The Beach Wakiki, i think, and it's on Death Chants, Break Downs and Military Waltzes.
No, the third song is Spanish Dance. On the Beach is in open G tuning.
I don't see any mistakes, I think it's great. Nice variation of the Reverend's Candyman and I'm not familiar with the seconds piece, but I like it.
@treetoptop agree with you there some folk are so sad i mean we are all human ever the great john fahey makes the odd mistake what a sad person to even pick up on it
holy cow!!!
Yeah. To me the Gary Davis was the master of the genre. It is interesting though to see how the folks that he influenced (Fahey, Kaukonen, Kotke, etc) utilized his style into their own.
@shsnj The thing you're missing is that many of the people who consider Fahey "better" than TE are guitarists themselves, some highly skilled. TE might have had a superior technique, but that's only one part of what makes someone a great musician.Fahey is the one who changed the way people thought of acoustic guitar and who influenced generations of musicians, and he's the one who could sit down with a guitar, improvise for half an hour, and mesmerize an audience.
@escaflowne3 The second half of this song is 'Brenda's Blues' from The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
can someone please tabify this? struggling to pick it up by ear. such a wonderful composition
@ theleequa, I don't feel it does have the directness and emotional depth of those players. He is a great player, no doubt about it and from my generation, I started playing when I was nine and I'll be 60 this year. When I first listened to the blues, I didn't want to copy it I just wanted to play my guitar and make it sound something like the old blues players because the sound of the blues just struck some part of me and has never left since.
Wow
@tom6612 Also Henry Vestine came from Takoma Park as did Fahey.
@r4d4101 he does sing on one track, but i don't remember its title. I think that someone posted it on youtube.
He's sleeping...But his hands can't stop playing!
John had soul-something I feel is missing from some of the most "accomplished" players today-it's missing in the world, in general
yeah. it's called honesty!
Yeh, we are all dying, just live your life in a straight line first
I have Hurt's Candyman and I can here it in this, user, yes.
@Dafjalfrezi
Thank you!
There can't be a 'best'. These statements are from big fans, are they overflow into 'facts'. 'Clapton is god' and all that claptrap. They are completely different. TE's a showman too, JF isn't (or is in an eccentric way). I think choice of material has a lot to do with it too. Also, that John Fahey started so far back, kinda gives him an historical edge.
As is half of John Fahey's repertoire.
@jeremywilson15147 they weren't mate, like the two peeps here have said, it's the soul. tommy emmanuel's amazing from what i can see, fucking ridiculously quick and precise, and he definitely feels the music to a massive degree; but Fahey's on another, extraterrestrial level. he had this cosmic understanding of music and the spirits inside and behind it. you can see it in his face and his body on this vid, and i hope you yourself will feel it in his playing, check that flowwwwwwwwwwwwww oh my
@kingsindiandefence. No, those of us who criticize him can't play that well -- that's true. But we're not highly acclaimed guitarists who perform on stages around the world. He was such a guitarist and should be held to a much, much higher standard than the rest of us. It's absurd to suggest that you can only criticize someone if you can outdo that person.
Those triplets at the end..
If i have to be insane to make a guitar sound like that, so be it.
While we're dropping names, Papa Smurf, enough said.
Anyone know the name of the second part of this tune from about 1:12? Sounds so familiar but I can't place it.
I use this tune with my guitar group to teach cross-picking, but does anyone know where I can get the original lyrics that go with it?
Thanks
This series of videos is amazing with the exception that the sound is out of sync with the video. WalterNeff can you fix?
Keep practising mate!
A lot of talk about him making a "mistake". It's actually just an accidental that he intentionally includes as a segue between the two different songs. This same "mistake" can be heard in another performance of these two songs, which can be viewed on youtube. But, I mean, he also could just be really bad at playing guitar...
When he was drunk, which was too often when he got older, he was not at his best, but I never heard him be "really bad" and even then, it was worth listening.
@treetoptop Agree with treetop, I understand a person can fall in love with a particular rendition of a song and every other version you hear will sound "wrong"...but I'll bet that even Davis himself played it differently over the years. Got to keep your playing fresh, yes?
Davis never played any song the same twice in a row, as far as I can tell.
who cares about mistakes this is the way acoustic guitar should sound!
@treetoptop It's a self-esteem issue. Now this guy's got John Fahey BEAT, y'know?
Brilliant, but I wonder (respectfully) what went on in that mind
+Harry Harshimoto better drunk guitarist than Jimmy Page or Slash..
+TheTinker6871 if met a couple of great guitarist who knew him and toured and played with him
and the funny part is that he said him self he didn't know what he was doing half the time and just played the songs as how he felt that moment the songs had must be played.
and he was a drunk indeed for a while, but so he smoked sigarettes one after the other to.
but when the doctor said he had to stop he cold turkey stopped..
didn't stop him of making music because
he was a true virtuoso
to which I look up to and put my steps towards to as a guitarist.
Just saying, he had pretty flawless technique even ripped to high heaven.. Granted he wasn't technical virtuoso but a lot of stuff is pretty tricky to play. He was constantly tinkering with his songs, renaming them, mixing and matching diverse riffs and styles. I highly doubt all that was utterly unconscious.
+Machete Moonlight can't argue whit that, as he taken some old songs like from elisabeth cotton and made his own twist on it. but he was good no doubt on that
swirls hammer a divinity song, is fahey
is this track on any of his albums?
that's the cat from the movie kingpin!!!
Hey, why do you play this so fast, are you in a hurry?
the one i thought was Beach Wakiki is Spanish Dance, my bad!
Go(o)d guitarist...
@kingsindiandefence Ha, the third movement. I skip over that one because it bores me. I guess you and I are wired very differently.
@mikie8865 try james blackshaw maybe. ;-)
Nope. Mostly standard, but also open G, open D, even open D minor, open C (CGCGCE), open G minor and more.
what happened to the words?
@dodecahedron9 I do! (I'm sure you do, as well).
No to WizardBogle01 - Fahey used quite a few different tunings over the years...and masterfully.
i'll drink 2 tis
12 people are souless
he plays candy man better than Jorma..funny transition though...still ruled!
@treetoptop A true virtuoso wouldn't make that kind of flub. It's the impeccable quality of play that defines one as a virtuoso. Suppose I found a worm in a store-bought apple and, upon complaining, the store manager retorted with, "Hey, what about the rest of the apple? You didn't comment on the part that didn't have a worm in it!" No, a store-bought apple shouldn't have a worm in it and a virtuoso performance shouldn't contain such a bumbling moment. Sorry. He's good, but not a virtuoso.
Where is the flub?
It's now when I discover I don't play the guitar. I touch some strings, more or less.
Leo's birth place!!!