Always loved this, but only when I tried to cover it I really appreciated the genius of Robben's playing here. Getting close to that feel and touch is almost impossible!
beautiful stuff. Has a fresh, individual sound. One o' my faves. He doesn't 'shred.' Rather, he plays juicy lines that make musical sense-and that tone!
I have a Robben Ford signature model. I don't understand why I can't play like that LOL!. They were and are great guitars. Kind of rare because they didn't make or sell a whole bunch That perticular one he's playing here is one of the Made in Japan Fujigen Gakki models Somewhere between a Les Paul and an ES335. A VERY versitile guitar. Mine will never be sold.
This live version is so much better than the studio version from "Talk To Your Daughter," where he really struggles to get through the solo. He seems to have really figured out how to approach the song and it's a lovely, subtly nuanced rendition, really nice. I have to add that he looks great, so young and handsome, and although this is an instrumental, Robben Ford is one of the great singers for which he gets no credit.
By far my favorite phase of Robben’s career. And I know he’s played many guitars before and since but the Fender custom shop signature model is when he really trademarked his sound. Love this song and ‘Help the Poor’ from the Talk to your Daughter album
Louie - I bought that same model guitar. I literally played 72 Stratocasters, the guitar I thought I wanted, before I found a new copy of the Master Series hanging in Brown’s Music Store in Omaha. The moment I started playing it (through a Twin Reverb), I discovered the sound, the feel, the look, the neck that had eluded me for the two years that I’d been hunting for my forever instrument. I bought it in September 1986 and we still have it in the family AND it still plays like a dream.
Totally agree Louie. This is the best era for me that he plays the Fender signature model… sounds like this guitar was able to pull out his infinite amount of imagination.
@@hiro54st I bought one of those guitars when I found it hanging new in Brown’s Music in Omaha. Two years ago, I gave it to my oldest son as a keepsake. I don’t know if Robben’s Fenders enhanced his playing. I can tell you that mine enhance and inspired my playing. No guitar, before or since, has sounded as good as it still does. And only my Jackson Soloist is as amazing to play; for speed and versatility, only the Jackson has come close.
@@BBQ1953 Robben actually said that the guitar had some problems on mid or treble or something how it sounded like… so he is happier now I guess.. but yeah he doesn’t even need the dumble to get his tone. and interesting thing is that the thing he thinks is good and the thing we think for him is good always different… Anyway I am curious about your jackson and if I were your oldest son…. I would be the luckiest man…
@@hiro54st The Jackson is a great guitar. The neck is perfection; radius is phenomenal; the action is faster than any other guitar that I’ve owned (over two dozen in my life). The body is comfortable and a little lighter than any of my Fenders or my G&L S-500. The humbuckers are hot, even, and have great sustain. It’s supposed to be a shredder’s axe but I’ve been able to get some really warm and even Jazzy sounds out of it through my Fender amps. It’ll never be a Strat. It’ll never be a 335. But it’ll spank a Les Paul with ease.
And to think all of what he did here was improvised on the spot!!!! Robben and Larry Carlton are absolutely the most universal, most difficult to copy, and simply the best OVERALL players of all time,, and to prove it,,, ask yourselves, who sounds anything close to them?? And, who in the past, before them, sounded anything at all like them??? Case closed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[most difficult to copy] Try copying from the middle of a Steve Lukather blues solo. Then go try a Mike Stern one. Or Lee Ritenour. Maybe one from Stanley Jordan too.
@@coffinman5007 Stanley Jordan was an innovator a great player for sure, but repetition, and he WAS repetitious, with his right hand technique, which was cool to listen to, but not 60-70% of the time!!! Many other guitarists using the right hand technique become very boring to listen to! A Facty 4 U! Steve Lukather LOVES Larry and Robben both! He actually played (keyboards!) on Larry Carlton's album(s). Steve calls Larry his ~guitar sensei~!!! Lee Ritenour played on an album with Larry called: "Larry and Lee"! Lee has admitted on several occasions that Larry influenced him, and acknowledged the uniqueness that is "the Larry Carlton sound"!!! I've studied Larry's style for over 40 years, and emulate his emotional playing ( goose bumps!) and at jazz or blues clubs people ALWAYS comment on how special/emotional my playing is, to which I ALWAYS tell them about Carlton and Ford, and proud to give them the credit! If you're not a serious guitar player, you won't understand why I give them such high regard. If you knew how difficult their styles actually are,,, the string bends, their unique melodic lead lines, and expert sense of harmony, vibrato style(s), etc.... ! Larry's more than ~100 GOLD RECORDS~ especially his work with, Steely Dan, the Crusaders, Joni Mitchell, Michael Franks, Stanley Clarke, John Lennon, and hundreds more artists!
Beyond any genre... From Miles Davis through Eddie brickell, Joe Diorio and many other (as well as in his bands) he Is able to play with his style in every situation....It sounds like it's playing a wind instrument. One of my favourite .....of course
It's a coil tap, and Eastwood Guitars is making a tribute version. The Esprit Ultra is at eastwoodguitars.com/collections/guitars/products/eastwood-espirit-ultra-1
Wow! Thanks. Good to know someone saw the value in this beauty. I've since gotten into my Ibanez AR 325's so it would be redundant, but that's a fine axe.
This is good ...however check Greg Koch's version where you will hear a much more interesting harmonic development of the song Saw Greg Koch live ...he's also a very funny man !!!!
Hey man!!! DVD yeah!!! i have early vhs, jajja. You could be even more generous and share via we transfer? It would be fabulous on your part. thanks so very much!!!
@@rustywilliams2848 I have his CDs, I have gone to his concerts, my students have bought his records and gone to his concerts, I have bought that clinic in Vhs, I think I have supported and disseminated it, I never upload a clinic to you tube like you. Who supports it more hahaha pathetic?
@@rustywilliams2848 I have his CDs, I have gone to his concerts, my students have bought his records and gone to his concerts, I have bought that clinic in Vhs, I think he has supported and disseminated it, a clinic never went up to youtube like you. Who supports it more jaja pathetic?
Do you have even the slightest clue how long ago this was? This is a golden era where others are playing shocking pink guitars and wearing heavy women's make-up, so put into perspective, this was quite conservative...
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I’ve noticed with Robben Ford it’s all about the melody. He doesn’t care about showing off or impressing with his chops. He wants you to hum along.
Always loved this, but only when I tried to cover it I really appreciated the genius of Robben's playing here. Getting close to that feel and touch is almost impossible!
Sensacional
요 며칠 이 곡 계속 듣네. 넘 좋다.
beautiful stuff. Has a fresh, individual sound. One o' my faves. He doesn't 'shred.' Rather, he plays juicy lines that make musical sense-and that tone!
The Gospel (intentional!) mode surely makes this song so absolutely full of warmth and heart! Hats off to Russell Ferrante for this beautiful song~!~
I have a Robben Ford signature model. I don't understand why I can't play like that LOL!. They were and are great guitars. Kind of rare because they didn't make or sell a whole bunch That perticular one he's playing here is one of the Made in Japan Fujigen Gakki models Somewhere between a Les Paul and an ES335. A VERY versitile guitar. Mine will never be sold.
His bends are perfect. Never sharp, never flat.
This live version is so much better than the studio version from "Talk To Your Daughter," where he really struggles to get through the solo. He seems to have really figured out how to approach the song and it's a lovely, subtly nuanced rendition, really nice. I have to add that he looks great, so young and handsome, and although this is an instrumental, Robben Ford is one of the great singers for which he gets no credit.
Best of the best.
Notes from heaven.
Plus he looks so relaxed making it look so easy
Melodic mastery right there, with no fuss.
By far my favorite phase of Robben’s career. And I know he’s played many guitars before and since but the Fender custom shop signature model is when he really trademarked his sound. Love this song and ‘Help the Poor’ from the Talk to your Daughter album
Louie - I bought that same model guitar. I literally played 72 Stratocasters, the guitar I thought I wanted, before I found a new copy of the Master Series hanging in Brown’s Music Store in Omaha. The moment I started playing it (through a Twin Reverb), I discovered the sound, the feel, the look, the neck that had eluded me for the two years that I’d been hunting for my forever instrument. I bought it in September 1986 and we still have it in the family AND it still plays like a dream.
Totally agree Louie. This is the best era for me that he plays the Fender signature model… sounds like this guitar was able to pull out his infinite amount of imagination.
@@hiro54st I bought one of those guitars when I found it hanging new in Brown’s Music in Omaha. Two years ago, I gave it to my oldest son as a keepsake. I don’t know if Robben’s Fenders enhanced his playing. I can tell you that mine enhance and inspired my playing. No guitar, before or since, has sounded as good as it still does. And only my Jackson Soloist is as amazing to play; for speed and versatility, only the Jackson has come close.
@@BBQ1953 Robben actually said that the guitar had some problems on mid or treble or something how it sounded like… so he is happier now I guess.. but yeah he doesn’t even need the dumble to get his tone. and interesting thing is that the thing he thinks is good and the thing we think for him is good always different…
Anyway I am curious about your jackson and if I were your oldest son….
I would be the luckiest man…
@@hiro54st The Jackson is a great guitar. The neck is perfection; radius is phenomenal; the action is faster than any other guitar that I’ve owned (over two dozen in my life). The body is comfortable and a little lighter than any of my Fenders or my G&L S-500. The humbuckers are hot, even, and have great sustain. It’s supposed to be a shredder’s axe but I’ve been able to get some really warm and even Jazzy sounds out of it through my Fender amps. It’ll never be a Strat. It’ll never be a 335. But it’ll spank a Les Paul with ease.
And to think all of what he did here was improvised on the spot!!!! Robben and Larry Carlton are absolutely the most universal, most difficult to copy, and simply the best OVERALL players of all time,, and to prove it,,, ask yourselves, who sounds anything close to them?? And, who in the past, before them, sounded anything at all like them??? Case closed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[most difficult to copy]
Try copying from the middle of a Steve Lukather blues solo.
Then go try a Mike Stern one.
Or Lee Ritenour.
Maybe one from Stanley Jordan too.
@@coffinman5007 ua-cam.com/video/k1mtgZsZ4ak/v-deo.html
then check this....
Scott Henderson ..Case re opened!!
Hendrix? Svr?
@@coffinman5007 Stanley Jordan was an innovator a great player for sure, but repetition, and he WAS repetitious,
with his right hand technique, which was cool to listen to, but not 60-70% of the time!!! Many other guitarists using the right hand technique become very boring to listen to! A Facty 4 U!
Steve Lukather LOVES Larry and Robben both! He actually played (keyboards!) on Larry Carlton's album(s). Steve calls Larry his ~guitar sensei~!!! Lee Ritenour played on an album with Larry called: "Larry and Lee"! Lee has admitted on several occasions that Larry influenced him, and acknowledged the uniqueness that is "the Larry Carlton sound"!!!
I've studied Larry's style for over 40 years, and emulate his emotional playing ( goose bumps!) and at jazz or blues clubs people ALWAYS comment on how special/emotional my playing is, to which I ALWAYS tell
them about Carlton and Ford, and proud to give them the credit!
If you're not a serious guitar player, you won't understand why I give them such high regard. If
you knew how difficult their styles actually are,,, the string bends, their unique melodic lead lines, and expert sense of harmony, vibrato style(s), etc.... ! Larry's more than ~100 GOLD RECORDS~ especially his
work with, Steely Dan, the Crusaders, Joni Mitchell, Michael Franks, Stanley Clarke, John Lennon,
and hundreds more artists!
Robben at his finest imho. 😃
ES un grande de la guitarra desde siempre y por siempre
BEAUTIFUL!!!
Beyond any genre... From Miles Davis through Eddie brickell, Joe Diorio and many other (as well as in his bands) he Is able to play with his style in every situation....It sounds like it's playing a wind instrument. One of my favourite .....of course
Hey, don't forget Kiss!
Ops!
Ahh, the good old days.
No Esprit's no more, tho ;)
Genio,sos un maestro del jazz.Abrazo, desde Argentina..
WOW, amazing. I really love this album (and song) Tks Matt
i like this song!
very tasty mate, I like it a lot!!!
man those finger go crazy on fretboard
Sounds like the theme song to an 80s sitcom
So true!
bella!
you know it's the 80s, everyone lost the top 4 buttons on their shirts
just about shit my pantaloons when he does those quick compact runs over the B7....
Altered Scale over a pivot Dominant. Tasty stuff
0:22
I know this school )))
Nice. Larry Carlton style.
Spiritual
Yellowjackets👍👍👍
Busted blouse button
5:56..... What the actual fuck???? What a lick.
Маестро.
Great! Can you put the lesson that come after ? Its gold
0:24
Nice. Do you also have the "I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues" instruction from the same DVD?
I do I've just uploaded it.
Amazing ... Thanks!
Man, I love that axe; wish they still made them. Anybody know what the little switch behind the tone knob is?
mano a mano I think that is the switch that changes between humbucker mode and single coil mode
It's a coil tap, and Eastwood Guitars is making a tribute version. The Esprit Ultra is at eastwoodguitars.com/collections/guitars/products/eastwood-espirit-ultra-1
Wow! Thanks. Good to know someone saw the value in this beauty. I've since gotten into my Ibanez AR 325's so it would be redundant, but that's a fine axe.
1:06 나도 자주 이러는데 ..
Somebody knows the model of his guitar?
It's a Fender Robben Ford signature model; 🙂
Fender spirit
This is good ...however check Greg Koch's version where you will hear a much more interesting harmonic development of the song
Saw Greg Koch live ...he's also a very funny man !!!!
Hey man!!! DVD yeah!!! i have early vhs, jajja.
You could be even more generous and share via we transfer?
It would be fabulous on your part. thanks so very much!!!
Perhaps you should think about supporting the artist. You know, with a few dollars?
@@rustywilliams2848
I have his CDs, I have gone to his concerts, my students have bought his records and gone to his concerts, I have bought that clinic in Vhs, I think I have supported and disseminated it, I never upload a clinic to you tube like you. Who supports it more hahaha pathetic?
@@rustywilliams2848
I have his CDs, I have gone to his concerts, my students have bought his records and gone to his concerts, I have bought that clinic in Vhs, I think he has supported and disseminated it, a clinic never went up to youtube like you. Who supports it more jaja pathetic?
That Seymour Duncan JB pickup in the bridge never sounded as good as the 59 in the neck.
Maybe button the shirt up a bit and don't think about so many pentatonic layers. This is stiff as a backing track.
Dude button the shirt. And the Steven Segal hairdo...
Do you have even the slightest clue how long ago this was? This is a golden era where others are playing shocking pink guitars and wearing heavy women's make-up, so put into perspective, this was quite conservative...