Art Alexakis of Everclear "Father of Mine" At: Guitar Center

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  • Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
  • Art Alexakis of Everclear stopped by our Hollywood Guitar Center for this amazing performance of "Father of Mine" Check out the full Art Alexakis Podcast, and other great podcasts, at www.guitarcenter.com/podcast.
    For more info on Art Alexakis of Everclear:
    www.everclearonline.com

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  • @mattledbetter859
    @mattledbetter859 10 років тому +155

    I can't listen to this song without crying. I can't see how he can sing it.

    • @bigfranchise
      @bigfranchise 8 років тому +17

      Hey we all have our troubles. We must turn them into productivity. This song is a great example of turning negativity into something beatiful.

    • @69in89
      @69in89 8 років тому +7

      Same here, man. I grew up without my mom and even this song still gets to me every time.

    • @rVillanueva1111
      @rVillanueva1111 6 років тому +16

      I grew up without my parents. Now I’m a parent myself. This song hits really close to home.

    • @joshneill6057
      @joshneill6057 3 роки тому +3

      @@bigfranchise yes what a beautiful song!

    • @dancelifeforsure
      @dancelifeforsure 2 роки тому +3

      It's a good song. A song a lot of ppl can relate to sadly enough.

  • @millerworkman7970
    @millerworkman7970 6 років тому +151

    The part where he sings about never letting his daughter know the pain he has felt is so powerful

    • @aprilmarie4532
      @aprilmarie4532 5 років тому +6

      Agree....have a daugther now and it hits home so hard

    • @blankshell
      @blankshell Рік тому +1

      @@aprilmarie4532 Same. Listening to it now and shedding tears.

  • @LissieMatthesonLissee
    @LissieMatthesonLissee 10 років тому +202

    This song hits home for many of us, who grew up fatherless.

    • @stan_2537
      @stan_2537 6 років тому +1

      Lissie Mattheson or having a shitty father after your mother dies exactly 1 month before your 12th birthday...5 days after hers...and when youre 14 and he marries a black woman and you live in that black neighborhood. I can just change a few words and this song is totally my life from 12 to probably 25.

    • @baflange6477
      @baflange6477 6 років тому +1

      Or not spamming TMI comments on UA-cam videos

    • @claytonbrown7120
      @claytonbrown7120 5 років тому

      Sometimes dads gotta roll tho

    • @claytonbrown7120
      @claytonbrown7120 5 років тому

      stan preusser
      Who cares if he married a black woman?

    • @westwindpainting
      @westwindpainting 5 місяців тому

      Get a grip pal...I grew up in a shelter ....mom was a heroin addict

  • @YamiFunny209
    @YamiFunny209 11 років тому +37

    "I will always be weird inside
    I will always be lame"

  • @regressmenot
    @regressmenot 4 роки тому +37

    I have always loved this song, it spits in the face of the falsehood that one who suffers neglect/abuse/abandonment as a child is doomed to repeat the same neglect/abuse/abandonment in their own children.
    Art broke that cycle as did I.
    There is healing in the joy you bring to your child's life.

  • @Dorklepuss
    @Dorklepuss Рік тому +12

    This guy is incredibly underrated one of the best in my opinion
    I heard this song eight years ago on this very channel and I came back to find it
    Amazing that sums it up

  • @Caim6311
    @Caim6311 4 роки тому +25

    Damn he still has his vocals after all these years man

  • @MidniteSon
    @MidniteSon 12 років тому +9

    Great song, voice and sounding guitar. Art and Everclear still a great band.

  • @JBYORK14
    @JBYORK14 10 років тому +12

    From the moment I heard this song back in the 90s, I knew this was a poignant and timeless song that would stay with me; and that it would define his career going forward. I don't know how he feels about. He hit a nerve.

  • @TheMtnManFromTennessee
    @TheMtnManFromTennessee 10 років тому +41

    Aside from being 9 instead of 10, and not being a "black neighborhood," this song nails it for me.

  • @roywilliams1487
    @roywilliams1487 11 років тому +13

    This song hits me so close to home, it hurts. I mean it, it hurts. Wow.

  • @thaddeushoffman1954
    @thaddeushoffman1954 3 роки тому +2

    This song brings tears too my eyes, not because of my dad, but the dad i became,before i found my way back...

  • @embrywhite8267
    @embrywhite8267 5 років тому +13

    Better than the original. So much more emotion. 💔

  • @entoone
    @entoone 12 років тому +5

    met his this past friday at their show in Anaheim. Super nice guy.. and chilled after the show to meet fans that waited to talk with them. I wish them the very best in all they attempt. Hang in there ART!

  • @norejose
    @norejose 4 роки тому +19

    Now that I'm a grown man with a child on my own I swear i won't let him know all the pain I have known!!!! I love you my dear son Luka!!!!!

  • @Tonyrip101
    @Tonyrip101 11 років тому +7

    Somehow the words " this song resonates with me on so many levels " don't even begin to explain the way i feel about this song

  • @paulb.5867
    @paulb.5867 3 роки тому +2

    Hands down, the best! My life exactly! Thank you Art.

  • @tychaos1667
    @tychaos1667 3 роки тому +2

    This performance makes me cry every time.

  • @aubreyrichards7244
    @aubreyrichards7244 Рік тому

    This is literally my life. Gave me his name and walked away. Have a 2 month pld daughter who is truly the light of my life.

  • @baflange6477
    @baflange6477 6 років тому +2

    It is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE to resist telling everyone who views this TMI about my father and my relationship

  • @ArtisticRenegade
    @ArtisticRenegade 4 роки тому +1

    Such a great artist! All time favorite!

  • @rameybutler6555
    @rameybutler6555 5 років тому +4

    This song hits me hard. My oldest step daughter had a deadbeat dad. F him with a broken coconut.

  • @emhezmfe
    @emhezmfe 6 місяців тому

    Great version Art. Love a good stripped down acoustic approach

  • @navarrosgirl
    @navarrosgirl 11 років тому +18

    The other F word... Just watched it and his story touched me!! All of them did.... Some people don't deserve to be parents...is such a TRUE STATEMENT!!

    • @rVillanueva1111
      @rVillanueva1111 6 років тому +1

      Rachelle Feliciano good documentary. Fleas story really touched my heart.

    • @andrew3912
      @andrew3912 6 років тому

      Rachelle Feliciano never judge aye

  • @veronicaperez3555
    @veronicaperez3555 4 роки тому +17

    I’ve listened to this song tons of times and never knew that line “and the wife I saw you beat”. What a beautiful ode to a time in his life. So raw and painful but yet he let us in😭😭lord what a beautifully epic way to let his pain out. The writing, the musicality. I can’t listen to it without tearing up 🙏🏼😭❤️so much respect for this man.

  • @tarynsarvas604
    @tarynsarvas604 3 роки тому +3

    I must have been a weird kid. I was jealous of my friends whose fathers left. Sadly, mine stayed and made my life a living hell.

  • @thomaslippert6201
    @thomaslippert6201 10 років тому +19

    Yeah me and my brother, 6 and 5. 40 years later still a wreck.

    • @LissieMatthesonLissee
      @LissieMatthesonLissee 10 років тому +9

      I first heard of this song when my brother played it repeatedly on the radio in his room. We're in our 30s now... and we're still wrecks.... but my brother, who is a father now, is trying to be the best father to his son now.
      Being fatherless does mess with the mind, but it helps you aspire to be the parent you NEED to be.

    • @winsloe57
      @winsloe57 10 років тому +1

      hang in there

  • @willsaenz6320
    @willsaenz6320 Рік тому +6

    I think a common theme with Everclear was/is their ability to write about incredibly difficult topics while still coming off as loud and upbeat. Hearing it stripped back like this really gets to the core of the song and how much the lyrics mean to all of us.

  • @freecheese4143
    @freecheese4143 3 роки тому +4

    Its also breaks hearts of them dad's divorced that can't see their sons.

    • @warrenthegreat
      @warrenthegreat 3 роки тому +1

      Yep but no one cares. Doesn’t fit the moms are great dads are shit narrative.

    • @akat3628
      @akat3628 3 роки тому +1

      Yes but this song is about a dad who beat his wife and left. Not really the same thing.

  • @IamCatharinemme
    @IamCatharinemme 2 роки тому

    Some of the best family lyrics ever

  • @zulazlann
    @zulazlann 9 років тому +8

    remind me when i was 15..my good time with my friends..love you friends even we are not seeing each other anymore..hope one day in the future we have more time for a cup of coffee

  • @CindyMeitle
    @CindyMeitle 9 років тому +20

    So Proud Of You My Childhood friend.

    • @cesarislas9163
      @cesarislas9163 5 років тому +1

      You really know Art from when you guys were kids?

    • @Katz147
      @Katz147 3 роки тому

      No way

  • @davidplunkett5107
    @davidplunkett5107 12 років тому

    Love Ya Art, Great Version Of Father Of Mine!!!

  • @justinclark1182
    @justinclark1182 4 роки тому +4

    What a wonderful person and song. Hold on to the gift people. Don't let it go. 👍👍👍👍

  • @jules7111
    @jules7111 10 років тому +7

    wow...how poignant...my early life as a little girl.. He gave me a name..

  • @amazingaria47
    @amazingaria47 11 років тому

    love this song soo much

  • @Mattwest1985
    @Mattwest1985 4 роки тому

    That Taylor is a beauty!

  • @nicholasmurray6288
    @nicholasmurray6288 6 місяців тому +3

    My kids will never relate to this song

  • @chief_plays5482
    @chief_plays5482 10 років тому +7

    This song really hits me hard.

  • @Kamo-ve6bw
    @Kamo-ve6bw 3 роки тому

    What a great song, 2021

  • @BillyReedMusic
    @BillyReedMusic 4 роки тому +4

    Beautiful performance of such a heart breaking song. Art is one of my songwriting heroes.

  • @stayfreshvandalz
    @stayfreshvandalz 12 років тому +2

    art's the fucking man.

  • @finiswilliams5742
    @finiswilliams5742 12 років тому +14

    love this song it has so much meaning for my son . just switch the lyrics and make it say a scared black boy in a white neighborhood. Anyway this is one of the best songs you have ever produced. I saw you perform live at the Hard Rock Casino Biloxi MS I loved you . I look forward to you coming back there.

    • @dcarts5616
      @dcarts5616 2 роки тому

      He wrote a song about HIS experience, why would he change the lyrics? We’re being taught that white people have some form of privilege, where was Art’s?

  • @yereviltwin
    @yereviltwin 7 років тому +6

    this song still gets to me even to this day .

  • @revolutionday1
    @revolutionday1 12 років тому +5

    Fantastic performance!!

  • @unkljj
    @unkljj 12 років тому +2

    Just watched the documentary on showtime called 'the other F word' great film,Art and Flea from RHCP is in it and many others.Arts story is very sad.I really like him seems like a cool dude.

  • @evilonlineturner20
    @evilonlineturner20 10 років тому +2

    I don't need my dad I have beer and and a kid on the way, it didn't work with the mother but I live my kid now

  • @surfingshewolf
    @surfingshewolf 5 років тому +1

    My dad didn't even come back for me after my mom died. She was the only family I had.

  • @MedalionDS9
    @MedalionDS9 7 років тому +2

    I love the album version from So Much for the Afterglow... because it's angry and heavy... the way it should be for such a song.. The radio edit butchered it with some weird "strings" dub over the chorus.. hated it so much.

  • @Quitefornotnow
    @Quitefornotnow 11 років тому +5

    I cried my eyes out.

  • @riffalini
    @riffalini Рік тому

    This song absolutely hits home for me. I guess in some ways I'm lucky tho, because my dad left before i was old enough to have any memories of him. Also, my mom said he never hit her. But still, he abandoned my sister and I, fucking coward.

  • @triplucid3563
    @triplucid3563 5 років тому +2

    It's funny that for a long time I've been a big fan of every clear and the who and now I see the teenage wasteland reference in the chords to this song

  • @DudeOfTheState182
    @DudeOfTheState182 11 років тому +5

    Gave me goosebumps.

  • @0Heavy0Metal0
    @0Heavy0Metal0 12 років тому +4

    I love his tone. That is one kickin' 'coustic.

  • @AndyZeta
    @AndyZeta 12 років тому +2

    me too!, he never cease to amaze me... his life story and his lyrics are incredible. They helped me through out some deep shit in my life.

  • @paigelazo1513
    @paigelazo1513 5 років тому +3

    thank you for this song Art.

  • @Lolipedophin
    @Lolipedophin 11 років тому +2

    3:03 Haha, I've watched this so many times and I just noticed his powerpuff girls tattoo.

  • @carolinatimemachine6338
    @carolinatimemachine6338 6 років тому +2

    Said I wasn't going to cry and then... Dammit Art!

  • @saraduncan8310
    @saraduncan8310 6 років тому +1

    Talk about abandoning your kids... my dad offed himself when I was 16 years old. My younger sister was 13. He didn't even leave a note... I kinda hate him for it.

  • @AchtungSurrender
    @AchtungSurrender 12 років тому +1

    What is that mic he is using for his vocals? I've seen that kind often for rock vocal studio performances...

  • @channellock_garage
    @channellock_garage 4 роки тому +1

    I am 46 now but this song is just like my life when I was 10 in Indianapolis and and my father left me and my sister behind. Now we are okay.

  • @austinalexander6150
    @austinalexander6150 9 років тому +1

    I saw Art live at the Woodlands Pavilion, it really made me appreciate his acoustic versions of Everclear's songs, might just have to try my voice at on a few of them. Oh, and nice Taylor!

  • @amyarnett1000
    @amyarnett1000 4 роки тому

    💚

  • @taricalittle5736
    @taricalittle5736 12 годин тому

    His father Art Carney?

  • @kcspaghetti
    @kcspaghetti 11 років тому +2

    LOL Powerpuff Girls tattoo on right arm at 0.21. Neat!

  • @9mmlugers
    @9mmlugers 11 років тому +3

    This song describes my childhood perfectly...

  • @jammath12345
    @jammath12345 5 років тому +1

    this is a million times better than the original album version

  • @wangrowan1047
    @wangrowan1047 3 роки тому

    The female fertile lipstick controversly occur because pear worrisomely accept for a unsightly zone. spicy, obsequious language

  • @rVillanueva1111
    @rVillanueva1111 2 місяці тому

    Well I started watching this because I noticed he plays a different tuning than the studio version. It went from that to putting my guitar down and tears were just rolling down my eyes. Dealt with it all my life. For me it would be mother and father of mine.

  • @thegreycat9109
    @thegreycat9109 5 років тому

    Fuck man I can relate to this guys music

  • @stonefly69
    @stonefly69 6 років тому +1

    Genius..."I will always be lame..." Not always, Art.

  • @rustysurfer87
    @rustysurfer87 12 років тому +1

    Saw them play live for free in Raleigh at Downtown Live. Best show I've ever been to drop down.

  • @dm20422
    @dm20422 4 роки тому

  • @kaval187
    @kaval187 3 роки тому +1

    Mother of mine

  • @jmdjasonday
    @jmdjasonday 2 роки тому

    He said that he gets asked a lot to play this song. If I had the opportunity to ask for that id ask for him to just have fun and bash out some chords.

  • @jmdjasonday
    @jmdjasonday 20 днів тому

    If he played that song and no one had ever heard the original, how would it be perceived?

  • @christypizzelli4231
    @christypizzelli4231 2 роки тому

    Thank u man. Thank you for writing that song. Its the only place i had to go with all that shit.

  • @kathryncyr2923
    @kathryncyr2923 Рік тому

    As someone who has a father who has fucked off… this is my dream song. A dad who comes back.

  • @catiecatlover
    @catiecatlover 12 років тому +1

    And you're listening because then...

  • @batflash
    @batflash 12 років тому

    Looks like a Shure SM7B. Same mic Thom Yorke uses on some of his and Radiohead's songs.

  • @Syclone0044
    @Syclone0044 5 років тому +2

    Father of mine, tell me where have you been
    I just closed my eyes, my whole world disappeared
    Father of mine, tell me how do you sleep
    with the children you abandoned, and the wife I saw you beat
    I will never be safe
    I will never be sane
    I will always be weird inside
    I will always be lame
    Now that I'm a grown man
    with a child of my own
    I swear I'm not gonna let her know
    all the pain I have known!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @bubbles.bby1923
    @bubbles.bby1923 5 років тому +1

    This song hits me so hard. 😥

  • @MrBubb22
    @MrBubb22 9 років тому +2

    This song touches deep

  • @bjnwright
    @bjnwright 6 років тому

    phwoar. need a cup of tea after that.

  • @justinclark1182
    @justinclark1182 4 роки тому +1

    A perfect song.

  • @ameserole420
    @ameserole420 9 років тому +1

    mine didn't even give me that much.

  • @pts5217
    @pts5217 3 роки тому

    Powerful song...but this version is too slow

  • @erikkibler3466
    @erikkibler3466 2 місяці тому

    Still can’t get over how good this song is.

  • @timweaver9955
    @timweaver9955 4 роки тому

    The only song that speaks about disappointment and loss. We were lost didn't have a father to teach us. I saw my dad who left us 25 years later. I felt like I was an alien to him. We have nothing in common. I spoke to a real nice African American lady. I said I'm not going to his funeral. She totally corrected me and said no you will go see him on his death bed or funeral. She put me in my place she's right that what our country has lost is respect for others right or wrong. Her name is Francis please pray for her. I let my hurt over many years discourage me on what is right. God sends his angels to guide you. Francis is an Angel. Thank you God for sending a person like Francis to remind me Jesus died for our sins and asked for nothing in return

  • @andrew3912
    @andrew3912 6 років тому +1

    My dad is a hero to me. 🤫🤐

  • @oscarclarke2653
    @oscarclarke2653 3 роки тому

    Holy shit...
    Isn't he that cool music teacher from Ned's declassified??

  • @SJ_FB25
    @SJ_FB25 6 місяців тому

    hits harder when i have a 18month old

  • @audioa41
    @audioa41 11 років тому +1

    takes me back the good ol days

  • @SuperDeadRooster
    @SuperDeadRooster 2 роки тому

    A bass player mix this or what?

  • @liojunior9751
    @liojunior9751 2 роки тому

    I'm here emotional in 2022, listening to this song that made me very emotional in 2001 when I heard it for the first time.

  • @Gio-qb7uc
    @Gio-qb7uc 7 місяців тому

    I miss my Dad who I never knew

  • @genescallop3179
    @genescallop3179 4 роки тому

    It's sad not many people from my generation know bands like these. Such real songs, not just bullshit words written to sell

  • @alcaldealer8515
    @alcaldealer8515 Рік тому

    Is this the GC on sunset BLVD?

  • @christinaarredondo6512
    @christinaarredondo6512 Рік тому

    I don't get how he can sing 😢❤😢❤😢! Solo sad!

  • @DrEaMiNgHuGe
    @DrEaMiNgHuGe 12 років тому

    Why're you complaining about his tattoos? Is he hurting you by having them? Nope. Then shut up.