Michael and I shared the same route home from the airport in SF on the night he died...he turned off for Mendocino and I went further north. As I headed up the redwood highway I saw a shooting star so brilliant it took my breath away...it went clear across the sky, it was incredible! 2 days later the local paper in Arcata had a front page story that Michael had died on the road, that night. I think the meteor I saw was Michael leaving...
That's a powerful story. I can only imagine what you must have felt. There are no coincidences, Amber. Did you know him, or did you just notice he started out on the same road? -Doug Pratt, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
First saw( and sadly never since nor will ever again 'Live') Michael perform at Seattles 5th Ave Theatre in Oct '86 opening up for The Jerry Garcia Band...Phenominal RIP Michael
My introduction to Michael's music was the song Aerial Boundaries on a Windham Hill compilation album. Simply phenomenal playing. Not long after, I saw that he would be performing at a nearby venue. My late wife & I saw Michael at least 3 times there.. I own nearly all his music. What a gift he gave us. His loss was more than tragic.
It's amazing what something so minimalist can sound like. It's like he employs a mass hypnosis and we can all hear the full orchestration that he hears in his head. Few can do this as well as he did.
Huge fan of Michael. I saw him in Cincinnati way back when. His head was shaved. Wearing a one piece space suit looking thing. Played the whole show sitting, rocking, bouncing on a big inflated bouncy ball. Bouncin’ and Rockin’. Gone far too soon. 💕
Who else tucks in a tie dye t shirt into dalmatian print pants? I love Mike. Forevermore. I'm sad he's gone but grateful for his brilliance. Thanks so much for the channel.
The first time I saw Michael Hedges was at a National Guitar Summer Workshop guest artist concert. An NGSW instructor told everyone in my class we would be seeing & hearing guitar playing techniques totally different. Michael was also listening to very accomplished players present their own compositions. One very seasoned “student” who played an original instrumental tune was told by Michael “that’s a stupid idea for a song”. I felt sorry for the guy and told him how much I really liked what he played (the song was way beyond anything I could do). His reply was “he’s right- it’s a stupid idea for a song.”
“Anyway~this tune…i’d like to dedicate it to my mom~who’s here tonight~it’s a Rolling Stones tune~she probably turned it down a couple of times~ tonight she can’t ☺” 🎶Gimme Shelter🎶🧡Awesome interpretation🧡 🎤🎸💃 🧡LOVE is just a kiss away😘 Michael Hedges🧡R.I.P.
Saw him with my brother in DC with Leo Kotke a million years ago. Brilliant and remember when they were both on the stage, Mr. Kotke was blown away with Mr. Hedges tuning his guitar. Also Mr. Hedges had just cut his hair and he actually said he didn't get it cut, he just "reeled it in". When someone called out, "play something old", he played Cello Suite #1
Damn. He just changed a string live on stage and made it work. He kept his composure? That's insane. An insanely self assured talent right there. My Hero. Luv and Peace.
i grew up in NW OK and was at this concert. i was 17. guitar master who redefined how the acoustic steel string would forever be played? yes, but his vocal delivery is always underrated too. seeing this reminds me of the quiet/rapt attention and focus from the audience. it was incredible.
I still canrt believe its been 25 years....missing this every day, thenk you Type 3 for keeping these available....I was listening and remembering well past midnight. The hole he left was immense, and essentially unfillable...similar to when Einstein, Feynman, etc left for other endeavors....
Walked in hal & mals jackson mississippi about july 1986 never having heard nor seen Michael Hedges. Lucky move on my part. Came off as a very humble man. Immediately ran out and purchased my very own VHS copy, and you should too. A full house and very enthusiastic crowd brought the show to another level. These thin sounding you tube videos don't do him justice.
You nailed it on the head. Before Michael, I had never heard an orchestra, band or type of performance that could both tear your head off while simultaneously being able to hear a pin drop at the same time. You didn't watch him play. You were surrounded by his soul expressed through sound. Every time I saw him perform it was like we were swimming... completely enveloped by the room that he played like a fiddle. He was a master of many things. Dynamics was his Jedi Mind trick.
He had wonderful guitar language, improvisation manner in performance, so fantastic like a fairy tale and I love this guitar wave from Michael Hedges's hands... Thank you for uploading this video.
I met Michael at the Namm show in Anaheim. I watched as he presented his only CD in his possession to Alan Holdsworth. He told Alan I knew Id have have a reason to bring this CD. I hope you like it. Two Masters....
A master of his craft like no other acoustic guitar player. He wouldn’t start a song until he was satisfied with the tuning on the guitar for that particular song. So talented...
my brother and his wife attended Philips, they both knew him. I met him myself at the benefit concert for the OKC bombing, he may have lived and died in ca, but he is okie all the way.
Questo Uomo era magnetico anche solamente guardarlo cambiare una corda. Che canale purissimo che era. Che perdita. I migliori se ne vanno sempre via troppo presto. E lui era il migliore.
GIMME SHELTER 🌩lyrics⛈ROLLING STONES mmm - yeah- ooh- a storm is threatening My very life today If i don't get some shelter Ooh - i'm gonna fade away War - children - it's just a shot away a shot away War - children- it's just a shot away It's just a shot away - yeah-mmm Ooh - a fire is sweepin' Down our very street today It burns like a red coal carpet A mad bull lost his way War - children - it's just a shot away It's just a shot away War - children - it's just a shot away It's just a shot away - yeah - mmm Rape - murder It's just a shot away It's a shot away Rape - murder It's a shot away Ooh - a storm is threan'ing Our very lives today Gimme - gimme shelter Or i might fade away War - children - it's a shot away War - children - it's a shot away- it's a shot away i say love, sister, it's just a kiss away It's a kiss away 😘 Love - sister - it's a kiss away just Love - sister - it's just a kiss away Kiss away - kiss away - kiss away - kiss away Love - it's just a kiss away - yeah ❤️
He 'takes back' many monarch prog ramming songs by making them about something else. Refused to sign. Gone too soon. His music saved my life when I was too young to know what was going on.
Keith Richards: "I had been sitting by the window of my friend Robert Fraser's apartment on Mount Street in London with an acoustic guitar when suddenly the sky went completely black and an incredible monsoon came down. It was just people running about looking for shelter - that was the germ of the idea. We went further into it until it became, you know, rape and murder are 'just a shot away'." "Gimme Shelter" is the opening track to the 1969 album Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones. Greil Marcus, writing in Rolling Stone magazine at the time of its release, praised the song, stating that the band has "never done anything better". It is on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, and is also the 33rd best ranked song on critics' all-time lists according to Acclaimed Music. Wikipedia.
He spent a long time tuning his guitar but it's perfectly in tune when he plays. I wish every guitar player would do that. I hate hearing someone play and it's out of tune which always sounds BAD.
Michael and I shared the same route home from the airport in SF on the night he died...he turned off for Mendocino and I went further north. As I headed up the redwood highway I saw a shooting star so brilliant it took my breath away...it went clear across the sky, it was incredible! 2 days later the local paper in Arcata had a front page story that Michael had died on the road, that night. I think the meteor I saw was Michael leaving...
Yes. You are exactly right. Specially brilliant people can make heaven show. Bless us all in his memory and everlasting life.
I traced his path that night months later and the ache was beyond comprehension. This is the most beautiful story - the most beautiful event.
although it took them days if not weeks to find him...but that's a small quibble with a true story
I never knew him but I can imagine what it might have been like to be his friend. Thanks for sharing your story of that tragic night.
That's a powerful story. I can only imagine what you must have felt. There are no coincidences, Amber. Did you know him, or did you just notice he started out on the same road? -Doug Pratt, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
I'll say it again, God is a music lover!
And impatient
Just discovered this guy today. Amazing. Imagine my shock and disappointment when I found out he died in 1997. Gotta find all his stuff now.
First saw( and sadly never since nor will ever again 'Live') Michael perform at Seattles 5th Ave Theatre in Oct '86 opening up for The Jerry Garcia Band...Phenominal
RIP Michael
Discovered him in 2014. Imagine my disappointment.
Streve Vai said, there are two kinds of guitarists - Michael Hedges, and everybody else. You just wait, young son. Your mind is yet to be blown.
As him play in a high school auditorium in.the late 80's. It was a awful day when he died.
Oner of the greatest musical pleasures I've enjoyed was seeing this guy in concert. One of a kind.
My introduction to Michael's music was the song Aerial Boundaries on a Windham Hill compilation album. Simply phenomenal playing. Not long after, I saw that he would be performing at a nearby venue. My late wife & I saw Michael at least 3 times there.. I own nearly all his music.
What a gift he gave us.
His loss was more than tragic.
It's amazing what something so minimalist can sound like. It's like he employs a mass hypnosis and we can all hear the full orchestration that he hears in his head. Few can do this as well as he did.
This man was feeling every note. A true musician
I love the way he whacks that harmonic every so often. Like a punctuation mark.
Huge fan of Michael. I saw him in Cincinnati way back when. His head was shaved. Wearing a one piece space suit looking thing. Played the whole show sitting, rocking, bouncing on a big inflated bouncy ball. Bouncin’ and Rockin’. Gone far too soon. 💕
Who else tucks in a tie dye t shirt into dalmatian print pants? I love Mike. Forevermore. I'm sad he's gone but grateful for his brilliance. Thanks so much for the channel.
Why are you glad he's gone? I wish, like so many others, that they were still here to marvel us with there brilliance.
Bern c. He said he was sad to see him gone. Lol. Everyone wishes michael was still here
@kwrenbeth: "who tucks a tie dye shirt into dalmation print pants?"
The same guy that wore a noodle strainer on his head to go with a black mesh tee.
The first time I saw Michael Hedges was at a National Guitar Summer Workshop guest artist concert. An NGSW instructor told everyone in my class we would be seeing & hearing guitar playing techniques totally different. Michael was also listening to very accomplished players present their own compositions. One very seasoned “student” who played an original instrumental tune was told by Michael “that’s a stupid idea for a song”. I felt sorry for the guy and told him how much I really liked what he played (the song was way beyond anything I could do). His reply was “he’s right- it’s a stupid idea for a song.”
“Anyway~this tune…i’d like to dedicate it to my mom~who’s here tonight~it’s a Rolling Stones tune~she probably turned it down a couple of times~ tonight she can’t ☺”
🎶Gimme Shelter🎶🧡Awesome interpretation🧡 🎤🎸💃
🧡LOVE is just a kiss away😘 Michael Hedges🧡R.I.P.
More sonic power than a full band. Never fails to amaze
You know a guy is talented when he turns the mere act of changing a cord and tuning his instrument into a show itself
I thought that same thing.
If I could time travel I'd go back and see all his concerts.
Yes I only saw one in Maryland
I met Michael in Baltimore
We had dinner together at a Local Health Food Store
Me too.
@@leftypick4854 awesome ‼️
@@ginajones2328 Oops. Nice. If A could time travel back and...My bad. Still have the live tape I bought in 1989 at Allentown fwiw.
So glad I got to see him at the Baltimore Inner Harbor back in the mid 1980s. Harp guitar, Watchtower, and the braids. Michael Manring joined him.
Saw him with my brother in DC with Leo Kotke a million years ago. Brilliant and remember when they were both on the stage, Mr. Kotke was blown away with Mr. Hedges tuning his guitar. Also Mr. Hedges had just cut his hair and he actually said he didn't get it cut, he just "reeled it in". When someone called out, "play something old", he played Cello Suite #1
Touch the spirit of the song, feel the intensity of the place from whence it came. This was the magic of Michael !
Damn. He just changed a string live on stage and made it work.
He kept his composure?
That's insane.
An insanely self assured talent right there.
My Hero.
Luv and Peace.
better then The Stones
BB King changed a string and n stage while playing his song and never missed a beat and was singing through it. Look up the video.
Yeah dang man, I’d be so flustered. Usually someone’s hanging out nearby with a guitar on hand.
Right!
Unbelievable!
i grew up in NW OK and was at this concert. i was 17. guitar master who redefined how the acoustic steel string would forever be played? yes, but his vocal delivery is always underrated too. seeing this reminds me of the quiet/rapt attention and focus from the audience. it was incredible.
Never has anyone ever felt the music more than Michael as he makes his guitar sing
The one and ONLY...
Michael Hedges.
Absolutely brilliant and mesmerizing. I will always miss him. Thank you for sharing this precious footage.
I still canrt believe its been 25 years....missing this every day, thenk you Type 3 for keeping these available....I was listening and remembering well past midnight. The hole he left was immense, and essentially unfillable...similar to when Einstein, Feynman, etc left for other endeavors....
Walked in hal & mals jackson mississippi about july 1986 never having heard nor seen Michael Hedges. Lucky move on my part. Came off as a very humble man. Immediately ran out and purchased my very own VHS copy, and you should too. A full house and very enthusiastic crowd brought the show to another level. These thin sounding you tube videos don't do him justice.
You nailed it on the head. Before Michael, I had never heard an orchestra, band or type of performance that could both tear your head off while simultaneously being able to hear a pin drop at the same time. You didn't watch him play. You were surrounded by his soul expressed through sound. Every time I saw him perform it was like we were swimming... completely enveloped by the room that he played like a fiddle. He was a master of many things. Dynamics was his Jedi Mind trick.
He had wonderful guitar language, improvisation manner in performance, so fantastic like a fairy tale and I love this guitar wave from Michael Hedges's hands... Thank you for uploading this video.
Exquisite and compelling in the control.
OMG what a great loss. Grateful he left us his music and these videos that keep popping up on UA-cam.
I met Michael at the Namm show in Anaheim. I watched as he presented his only CD in his possession to Alan Holdsworth. He told Alan I knew Id have have a reason to bring this CD. I hope you like it. Two Masters....
Mesmerizing, haunting and chilling. Fucking brilliant.
A master of his craft like no other acoustic guitar player. He wouldn’t start a song until he was satisfied with the tuning on the guitar for that particular song. So talented...
I still love you Michael .....
He had a sense of real charm
Love his music I just never knew he was this cool
Shelter as we go 2022 ♥️المأوى ونحن نذهب
Rest in Paradise Michael 💜☝️
Legend indeed...
What an inspiration he was I’ve worked my whole life on that instrument and he can make me want to use it as a canoe paddle so quickly.
Simply a Master.
my brother and his wife attended Philips, they both knew him. I met him myself at the benefit concert for the OKC bombing, he may have lived and died in ca, but he is okie all the way.
🔥💓🔥 such artist, we miss you
nice pants, mike ;)
profoundly epic...love you...miss the gift of your music...RIP
Say what you want... but he was a great guitar master.
Breaks a string, quickly replaces it...what a pro!
I've seen that done while guitarist kept on playing
@@bekanav common!
He was just showing of. He was genius.
I just love this! words can't describe!!! RIP Mike!
His music and legacy is immortalised
Moved to tears! What a powerful and heartfelt message💪🏻❤️🙏🏻
Excellent ears on that guy.
rhythm master if there ever was one.
awesome cover - and nice smooth transition through string break
00:00:59 para trocar a corda! Novo recorde mundial!
Unbelievable performance as usual....
You can fastforward to the song and skip the intro and tuning, but I really enjoy that part too!
This made mw so happy i liked every comment
OMG Im crying beautiful yesss
Eccellente esecuzione, voce pazzesca❤❤
Saw him in Northampton Mass in 90 or 91.
them boys from Oklahoma 💗
Was he touring with Leo Kotke during this time? I saw them together around then. Same hair. What a singular moment. Wow, yeah.
That was a great show. I bought Leo Kottke a Coke backstage. And Mike was so down to earth, treated us all like old friends. Beautiful guy.
damn, I dont know how I missed you. We were kin, somehow. One day we will meet over a beer and heavens bbq
💗
00:00:59 to change The string! Awesome!
Thanks!! In my collection, I never knew his show was documented. Early 90s TapRoot era?
O que eu Nao Daria para ir nesse show!
Questo Uomo era magnetico anche solamente guardarlo cambiare una corda.
Che canale purissimo che era. Che perdita. I migliori se ne vanno sempre via troppo presto. E lui era il migliore.
The best stage patter!
Clear voice
GIMME SHELTER 🌩lyrics⛈ROLLING STONES
mmm - yeah-
ooh- a storm is threatening
My very life today
If i don't get some shelter
Ooh - i'm gonna fade away
War - children - it's just a shot away
a shot away
War - children- it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away - yeah-mmm
Ooh - a fire is sweepin'
Down our very street today
It burns like a red coal carpet
A mad bull lost his way
War - children - it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War - children - it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away - yeah - mmm
Rape - murder
It's just a shot away
It's a shot away
Rape - murder
It's a shot away
Ooh - a storm is threan'ing
Our very lives today
Gimme - gimme shelter
Or i might fade away
War - children - it's a shot away
War - children - it's a shot away- it's a shot away
i say love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's a kiss away 😘
Love - sister - it's a kiss away
just
Love - sister - it's just a kiss away
Kiss away - kiss away - kiss away - kiss away
Love - it's just a kiss away - yeah ❤️
🩶🩶🩶💯🩶🩶🩶
0:52 “be prepared”...”troop 2, central Christian Church.” Hilarious. Boy Scout motto.
He’s got it
Didn't see this live before, particularly good ! The "rape murder" part always stuns me, but this one did more than that !
Love, sister.
This song has never gotten the respect it deserves,even by the 2 guys who wrote it.
handled that string breaking smootthly... got a new one on in no time... id have a meltdown worrying about it slipping out of tune
He actually made it interesting to watch him deal with it, with his calmness and banter - nobody got impatient.
Ridiculous, so good
I am surprised that all the strings on all Michael's guitars didn't give up the ghost after every show. "We give. We give. No más!"
🥰
This is a great cover. I would like to see the same style of guitar playing for this song but with Lisa Fischer singing it.
Start @3:10.
You're welcome.
awesome!!!!,
fav michael hedges cover,
is he playing in a different key this time round?
✌
♪♫♪~
Feel the freakin rythm... It's like dancing to the song of the great spirit...
How Old would Micheal have been when this video was taken?
this was 89. He died in 97 at 43. 35 / 36?
He could sing too wow didn't know
Chicken Skin Music! What a pity that this overwhelming guitarist is gone...
What guitar is that?
Cool
is this stones song about adrenochrome?
He 'takes back' many monarch prog ramming songs by making them about something else. Refused to sign. Gone too soon. His music saved my life when I was too young to know what was going on.
@@michellewoodson4696 🙏🏻😥🙏🏻
Keith Richards: "I had been sitting by the window of my friend Robert Fraser's apartment on Mount Street in London with an acoustic guitar when suddenly the sky went completely black and an incredible monsoon came down. It was just people running about looking for shelter - that was the germ of the idea. We went further into it until it became, you know, rape and murder are 'just a shot away'."
"Gimme Shelter" is the opening track to the 1969 album Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones. Greil Marcus, writing in Rolling Stone magazine at the time of its release, praised the song, stating that the band has "never done anything better".
It is on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, and is also the 33rd best ranked song on critics' all-time lists according to Acclaimed Music. Wikipedia.
He spent a long time tuning his guitar but it's perfectly in tune when he plays. I wish every guitar player would do that. I hate hearing someone play and it's out of tune which always sounds BAD.
Mathematically convenient yet too much soul!
Zeppelin911 this comment make me fall asleep on that stairway to..
3 and a half minutes before song starts!! Theres this thing called Editing............
Erst mal 5 Minuten reden, dann die Gitarre stimmen, danach eine schwache performance
Cool