I saw a wonderful double-billing at Sydney Town Hall, Australia in 1977 - Bert Jansch and John Martyn. Two incredible solo performances! I consider myself blessed to have been there.
Beautiful Bert. Saw him support Ralph in Woolwich London in 1977. Heard he died the day I just came to America. Davy Graham..John Martyn...Now Bert. I loved them all! God rest their wonderful souls....xxx
Bert will always be missed. I had the chance to see him a few years back in 2007. I flew down to Huston TX from NASHVILLE TN with my father to see him. It was a epic life changing experience. Even though bert is the only one of his style i listen to i will always love and respect him and of corse his main influence davy graham. YOU BERT JANSCH WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AND MISSED.
Thank you for posting this. I was privileged to hear Bert play live a few times, with Pentangle, John Renbourne, and lastly playing solo. This song brings back memories of times long ago when I first heard this album. Of all of Bert's albums "Moonshine" is the most heart wrenching and the title song, "Moonshine" is one of the most haunting songs of all time.
Only yesterday on TV they were showing Bert's 60th birthday retrospective concert from 2003, in which he and Ralph again played this song together nearly 40 years on. RIP Bert, one of Scotland's finest.
Nice to see this video. I wanted to mention that the Bert Jansch Foundation runs Workshops on Bert's style and technique, led by transcribers who made the 'Bert Transcribed - the Bert Jansch Songbook published by Music Sales in August 2017. To find out more or to attend a workshop - or to request a workshop in your area, contact info@bertjanschfoundation.org or go to www.bertjanschfoundation.org. Book available at Amazon or MusicRoom
So I'm watching the Grammy Awards Show and they are showing clips of all those that have passed...they show a clip of Bert Jansch and play a bit of his music, just a few seconds, and from that I immediately searched youtube for his music. Coming from a teen who wishes people would play more "good" music these days, this is the best thing I have found in a long time. Rest in peace Bert Jansch. Your music will live on forever. My children will listen to you.
It's pretty remarkable that the sound quality of this recording is better than the sound quality on the album cut, especially being as there's not a mic to be seen...what a damn good song 🔥
It is indeed! ;-) It's an extract from a Danish TV show called "Plush and Good Music" (1975) ("plush" for the theatre room ), which was later rebroadcast (ca. 2003) under the title "Fire Guitarer". [ NO, fire[fee-re]=four :- ) ] The other two participating were Jan Akkerman of Focus fame and Stefan Grossman (ragtime guitarist). Great stuff - AND it CAN be found on the web, if you look hard enough for long enough ;-)
This performance is so funny to me. Jansch is forgetting and mixing up the lyrics all over and ends up singing the second verse 2 and a half times. In the end you can see him smiling while singing about the owl for the third time. Also in the guitar interludes he looks really concentrated, maybe he is trying to remember the lyrics for the following verse? Anyway still a great albeit amusing version.
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer Bert only tried heroin once, and he flubbed lyrics and verse orders before, during, and after his bout with alcoholism. That was just his personality. There is also a reason why he did not often play this live. It is a technically challenging song to play (even without singing at the same time) with 5 pretty wordy verses. Someone once asked Bert to play this and he told them it was too difficult and he'd play something easier.
Jansch has been described as "the Hendrix of the acoustic guitar" I think rather it's, Hendrix is the Jansch of the electric guitar. McTell is a great exponent of Folk/blues/Ragtime as well. I saw them both in the 60's 70's. Who are today's guitar great's?
best part 2:35 Bert starts to laugh when saying "twinkling" and fights it while saying "down". What set him off? eyes were closed so probably laughing at his own embellishment right before he said twinkling, maybe a slight fumble. cracks me up to see being such a somber song. thanks for the upload, sounds beautiful!
If yer still around chasing songs and the troubadours that wrestle with 'em see Listener Reader Comment from 10 months ago by Simon Hackelsberger: Simon Hackelsberger 10 months ago "This performance is so funny to me. Jansch is forgetting and mixing up the lyrics all over and ends up singing the second verse 2 and a half times. In the end you can see him smiling while singing about the owl for the third time. Also in the guitar interludes he looks really concentrated, maybe he is trying to remember the lyrics for the following verse? Anyway still a great albeit amusing version." Note that Hackelsberger isn't playing Guitar God Gotcha as he up-voted rather than down-thumbed or tried to dismiss this particular troubadour Jansch, Z"L. He's merely a'mused at the way lyrics and time over space interact and interplay. Like the American Neo Western poet Ed Dorn, Z"L (see his book-length poetic saga GUNSLINGER) used to say about his memory: My memory is thankfully quite good, if not always dependable. Dorn liked his psychoactive herbs, plants and the fungus among U.S. I've loved Jansch's taste in music and his touch on guitar, especially his interplay with other improvisational musicians. But I don't worship any Guitar Gods (or tenor sax or trumpet gods). I've never understood the Identity component of having such gods when music isn't a competitive sport (I love competitive sports). Like any art form the rewards are first and foremost a confirmation of one's personal taste at a particular point in the time of one's life. Actual technical skills don't much factor into it. John Fahey also lacked certain technical skills on guitar. Yet his musical imagination and taste in playing rural southern Amurican blues made for one of the most rewarding recording and live performance careers of the GREAT FOLK SCARE years from the 1960's until Fahey's death here in Oregon where his diabetes and love of alcohol along with creeping poverty did him in, while his musical imagination only kept evolving and straying rewardingly to us listeners. Health and balance through our Age of Plague Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Song Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List and Looksee
Standard tuning Luigi. I bought the book of transcriptions and it's in there. The key of the song is Gm so a lot of people would have capo'd the third fret but Bert liked to play the Gm key of the song with the open positions at the nut. So it's standard tuning but in an unusual key.
do you know of any tablature books for jansch? i have only ever found one jazzier piece in a compilation? would like to remember him by keeping his songs alive but figuring them out is beyond me.
Why did he leave the last verse out? I feel that something may have gone wrong with the backing guitar... Something else though. Oh Bert. What a mysterious beautiful man.
. . . just wondering what's tickled him @ 02.43 and he can hardly keep a straight face afterwards!, lol. Doesn't stop him playing beautifully as usual though!. Thanks for this!
+greeneking77 There are a few tablature books of his songs but some might be hard to find. A dvd also recently came out on Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop imprint (although Moonshine is not included).
That's not true at all. The vast majority of Jansch songs (this one included) are in standard tuning. The only open tuning he used consistently over the years is DADGAD - and he didn't even use it that often.
This one is good, although Moonshine isn't in it: www.guitarvideos.com/Products/guitar-workshop-instructional-dvds/guitar-of-bert-jansch#.WMMHAPnhBPY Another book is also underway: bertjanschfoundation.org/projects/bert-transcribed/
if you're still on the quest, check out a site called songsterr. they have several of bert's songs, and they seem to be fairly accurate (a starting point, at least).
I saw a wonderful double-billing at Sydney Town Hall, Australia in 1977 - Bert Jansch and John Martyn. Two incredible solo performances! I consider myself blessed to have been there.
You lucky bas..... :-p
Man I wish I could have been there
Beautiful Bert. Saw him support Ralph in Woolwich London in 1977. Heard he died the day I just came to America. Davy Graham..John Martyn...Now Bert. I loved them all! God rest their wonderful souls....xxx
Feel so sad that we will never have the joy to hear him performing his magic songs. You're terribly missed Bert
Bert will always be missed. I had the chance to see him a few years back in 2007. I flew down to Huston TX from NASHVILLE TN with my father to see him. It was a epic life changing experience. Even though bert is the only one of his style i listen to i will always love and respect him and of corse his main influence davy graham. YOU BERT JANSCH WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AND MISSED.
This guy should have been huge....great guitarist
For sure.
I saw Bert open for Ralph at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr Pa in 1978 with my girl Karen. A tiny coffee shop venue. It was great
R.I.P. Bert Jansch. Cancer at 67. I've loved your music since the 60s.
I regularly return to this video. It's a beautiful song.
RIP Bert you will be sadly missed but your music will live on down the years
Such a haunting song ...great version
Thank you for posting this. I was privileged to hear Bert play live a few times, with Pentangle, John Renbourne, and lastly playing solo. This song brings back memories of times long ago when I first heard this album. Of all of Bert's albums "Moonshine" is the most heart wrenching and the title song, "Moonshine" is one of the most haunting songs of all time.
What a wonderful man to share his wonderful gift with the world and inspire. RIP Bert x
Only yesterday on TV they were showing Bert's 60th birthday retrospective concert from 2003, in which he and Ralph again played this song together nearly 40 years on. RIP Bert, one of Scotland's finest.
Fantastic! I can watch Jansch play the guitar all day. He is unique.
Thanks a lot for posting this!
Such a talented fella,to play guitar that well and then to sing with it.Jimi also had the gift.....
This and one for you jo are proberbly the most beautiful songs I e ever heard.
Now I can see where Elliott Smith got his clothing choice in "Lucky Three".
Nice to see this video. I wanted to mention that the Bert Jansch
Foundation runs Workshops on Bert's style and technique, led by
transcribers who made the 'Bert Transcribed - the Bert Jansch Songbook
published by Music Sales in August 2017. To find out more or to attend a
workshop - or to request
a workshop in your area, contact info@bertjanschfoundation.org or go
to www.bertjanschfoundation.org. Book available at Amazon or MusicRoom
Virtually the whole of this album is superb.- This clip is a very rare find. --Well done boundroundsound
The Jimi Hendrix of folk music.
For sure.
Wrong
@@unknownkingdom That is what he is known as....
The Adolf Hitler of sock wearers
@@unknownkingdomright,!
One of the best song writers and musicians that have ever influenced me so much even in Jazz.
Quelle super chanteur/musicien... J'aime énormément moonshine
Absolut fantastisch, excellent!!
Eins meiner "all time favourites"
Vieln Dank für das Einstellen...
Man!! This just puts a Big Smile on my Face.
Simply incredible.
So I'm watching the Grammy Awards Show and they are showing clips of all those that have passed...they show a clip of Bert Jansch and play a bit of his music, just a few seconds, and from that I immediately searched youtube for his music. Coming from a teen who wishes people would play more "good" music these days, this is the best thing I have found in a long time. Rest in peace Bert Jansch. Your music will live on forever. My children will listen to you.
I'm amazed they showed him on the Grammy's. Probably a quick part of rushed montage before they brought on Adele or Morron 5.
(again) beautiful.
MR
I'm so glad that i got to see him before he died.
Nine dislikes? Your ears are painted on.
Agree.
MR
Come again?
@@getbuckjones why?
@@Vingul they look like ears but hear nothing
godly
Wonderfull 👍
Thanks for the post. Great feeling.
Definitely Ralph McTell on 2nd guitar.
Great ❤
And now he is gone. Sadly, barely noticed as he passed.
tintosangre o no. he is well noticed. in life and after celebrated. bless bert jansch his music and his zeitgeist.
this is badass!
Rare clip, and fantastic.
masterpiece
amazing artist.
Wow,just found this. That was awesome. Thanks for the vid.
Wonderful, thanks :)
Brilliant.
Feeling the loss of Bert Jansch -
It's pretty remarkable that the sound quality of this recording is better than the sound quality on the album cut, especially being as there's not a mic to be seen...what a damn good song 🔥
Farewell Bert.
RIP...1943-2011...
Masterpiece
Smukt!
Love to of heard him have a sit down jam session with Blind Guardian.
Pura belleza.
It is indeed! ;-)
It's an extract from a Danish TV show called "Plush and Good Music" (1975) ("plush" for the theatre room ), which was later rebroadcast (ca. 2003)
under the title "Fire Guitarer".
[ NO, fire[fee-re]=four :- ) ]
The other two participating were
Jan Akkerman of Focus fame and
Stefan Grossman (ragtime guitarist).
Great stuff - AND it CAN be found on the web, if you look hard enough for long enough ;-)
Wow.....RIP Bert
Lovely
That was nice.
haha totally awesome when he does that :p
Cool!!!
This performance is so funny to me. Jansch is forgetting and mixing up the lyrics all over and ends up singing the second verse 2 and a half times. In the end you can see him smiling while singing about the owl for the third time. Also in the guitar interludes he looks really concentrated, maybe he is trying to remember the lyrics for the following verse? Anyway still a great albeit amusing version.
What heroin and drink does to a man
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer Bert only tried heroin once, and he flubbed lyrics and verse orders before, during, and after his bout with alcoholism. That was just his personality. There is also a reason why he did not often play this live. It is a technically challenging song to play (even without singing at the same time) with 5 pretty wordy verses. Someone once asked Bert to play this and he told them it was too difficult and he'd play something easier.
Wow!
great!
catHY!
Standard tuning. (Gminor, Cminor7, F/Dis)...but many tones on open strings
@tubeboob49 ohh right ! thanks mate :) Im totally in love with Moonshine tho.
Great song, had McTell's shirt been monochrome he would have disappeared into that nifty wallpaper.
Jansch has been described as "the Hendrix of the acoustic guitar"
I think rather it's, Hendrix is the Jansch of the electric guitar.
McTell is a great exponent of Folk/blues/Ragtime as well. I saw them both in the 60's 70's. Who are today's guitar great's?
@hassammahmoodq Sorry--they're ALL great! The song I was referencing was "Anji"--or Angie"! And I eventually tracked it down!! Thanks
best part 2:35 Bert starts to laugh when saying "twinkling" and fights it while saying "down". What set him off? eyes were closed so probably laughing at his own embellishment right before he said twinkling, maybe a slight fumble. cracks me up to see being such a somber song. thanks for the upload, sounds beautiful!
If yer still around chasing songs and the troubadours that wrestle with 'em see Listener Reader Comment from 10 months ago by Simon Hackelsberger:
Simon Hackelsberger
10 months ago
"This performance is so funny to me. Jansch is forgetting and mixing up the lyrics all over and ends up singing the second verse 2 and a half times. In the end you can see him smiling while singing about the owl for the third time. Also in the guitar interludes he looks really concentrated, maybe he is trying to remember the lyrics for the following verse? Anyway still a great albeit amusing version."
Note that Hackelsberger isn't playing Guitar God Gotcha as he up-voted rather than down-thumbed or tried to dismiss this particular troubadour Jansch, Z"L. He's merely a'mused at the way lyrics and time over space interact and interplay. Like the American Neo Western poet Ed Dorn, Z"L (see his book-length poetic saga GUNSLINGER) used to say about his memory: My memory is thankfully quite good, if not always dependable. Dorn liked his psychoactive herbs, plants and the fungus among U.S.
I've loved Jansch's taste in music and his touch on guitar, especially his interplay with other improvisational musicians. But I don't worship any Guitar Gods (or tenor sax or trumpet gods). I've never understood the Identity component of having such gods when music isn't a competitive sport (I love competitive sports). Like any art form the rewards are first and foremost a confirmation of one's personal taste at a particular point in the time of one's life. Actual technical skills don't much factor into it. John Fahey also lacked certain technical skills on guitar.
Yet his musical imagination and taste in playing rural southern Amurican blues made for one of the most rewarding recording and live performance careers of the GREAT FOLK SCARE years from the 1960's until Fahey's death here in Oregon where his diabetes and love of alcohol along with creeping poverty did him in, while his musical imagination only kept evolving and straying rewardingly to us listeners.
Health and balance through our Age of Plague
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Song Chasers
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)
Media Discussion List and Looksee
epic hands.
Thanks Faerywitchful1. I had the same experience.
Who is the ignoramus who disliked this video? Rest in peace, Bert. You will be missed.
totally :)
Im pretty sure u are right ! :)
@HeseQ :) true that !
Anyone knows the guitar tuning? sounds like standard but there is something different
Standard tuning Luigi. I bought the book of transcriptions and it's in there. The key of the song is Gm so a lot of people would have capo'd the third fret but Bert liked to play the Gm key of the song with the open positions at the nut. So it's standard tuning but in an unusual key.
What model of guitar is being played?
OMG! u played with them? Do you have recordings? Pleasure to meet u :)
@kimmehye i thought so too :)
Bye Bert.
do you know of any tablature books for jansch? i have only ever found one jazzier piece in a compilation? would like to remember him by keeping his songs alive but figuring them out is beyond me.
@tubeboob49 which song? Btw isnt THIS song MAGIC? :)
Why did he leave the last verse out? I feel that something may have gone wrong with the backing guitar... Something else though. Oh Bert. What a mysterious beautiful man.
He seemed to be struggling with staying in tune throughout this whole session...one of those nights, I guess
@@robertcronin6603 Still listen to this live version v often
nice wallpaper
I said to my wife "that wallpaper looks flocked", she replied "nah it's good for another 5 years yet".......
what guitar has jansch got here?
does anyone have the lyrics to this song? i am sorry but cannot make out all the words. thank you!
I use songsterr which is great, many jansch tabs that I found there.
. . . just wondering what's tickled him @ 02.43 and he can hardly keep a straight face afterwards!, lol. Doesn't stop him playing beautifully as usual though!. Thanks for this!
ive wondered about that for years. Someone told me it could have been the note Ralph plays just before it happens
Could be that he forgot the lyrics and sings the originally second verse for the third time.
Looks like Ralph McTell with Bert...
Why's he call the guy a schmuck at the end?
i'm pretty sure he was just reacting to the fact that ralph mctell plucked a very loud note at that point... probably just startled him :)
Unfortunately I do not have any tablature for Bert Jansch songs. I play by ear, as I skilled
Hahaha
Does anyone know what type of guitar Bert is playing in this clip?
acoustic?
A Yamaha LL11 ( see www.guitarplayer.com/miscellaneous/1139/acoustic-bert-jansch/12253 ).
+Alan Parkinson Close, but i'm pretty sure this is his Yamaha FG1500. Worth their weight in gold now.
drop d tuning?
@strongerthandeath u saw him live? wow :) lucky u
Man, I wish they would release a tablature book of his hits. I could play it but i'll be damned if I can figure it out.
+greeneking77 There are a few tablature books of his songs but some might be hard to find. A dvd also recently came out on Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop imprint (although Moonshine is not included).
That's not true at all. The vast majority of Jansch songs (this one included) are in standard tuning. The only open tuning he used consistently over the years is DADGAD - and he didn't even use it that often.
This one is good, although Moonshine isn't in it: www.guitarvideos.com/Products/guitar-workshop-instructional-dvds/guitar-of-bert-jansch#.WMMHAPnhBPY
Another book is also underway: bertjanschfoundation.org/projects/bert-transcribed/
Get the tabs here:
www.musicroom.com/product-detail/product1131859/variant1131859/bert-jansch-bert-transcribed/
if you're still on the quest, check out a site called songsterr. they have several of bert's songs, and they seem to be fairly accurate (a starting point, at least).
@faerywitchful1 I'm on here dong the exact same thing!! But I don't know the song--can ya help a sister out??
Crap, I just read in these comments someone said Bert is dead? :(
It is definitely Ralph McTell (Ralph May); noone could mistake that ugly beak anywhere.