Finger pickers, look here.

[Cliff Rogers]

Grunt found this..... You have to see it.

I am totally blown away by what he can do on 4 strings.
He is touring in Oz in 10 days.
http://www.jakeshimabukuro.com/
http://www.jakeshimabukuro.com/home.php
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8395698617458049023&q=label%3Ajake+shimabukuro
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=829401773913198414&q=ukelele+gently+weeps

Edit: this is not him on guitar…. in his bedroom.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7949904946459764238&q=label%3Ajake+shimabukuro

[Harry72]

The boy's got talent.

You sure thats him in the bedroom?

You ever listened to an aussie called John Butler.
He plays like that and sings at the same time... awesome to see live.

[Cliff Rogers]

This one?

http://www.johnbutlertrio.com/

Umm, yeah, umm, like you know, arr, arr, umm, like, you know, so anyway, like, umm, you know, hugely historic thing, an' arr, umm, umm, when, you know, when you, how do you say suck ass?

If that is who you mean, he is a totally, like, umm, faq'd, out of it, slide guitarist. :D

& his 'Peaches & Cream' sounds like Joni Mitchell trying to do a Bob Dylan impersonation.

[Cliff Rogers]

...You sure thats him in the bedroom?.....

Nope, I'm not sure but the search says it is.

But.... then again, maybe not. I don't know for sure.

Looks like his name is Jeong-Hyun Lim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funtwo

[Harry72]

Obviously you've heard a little of him, the only person he sounds like is himself...
Yes he plays slide... and any other style thrown at him... dont be fooled by his looks and persona!
I've been around guitarist's, this guy is good.

[Cliff Rogers]

More versions here.

http://blog.pebcak.de/archives/351-Funtwo-and-Carl-Fernandes-playing-Canon-Rock.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8590308394895590930
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7868809565494698452

(bit ordinary, wanker but I'm not that good)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8238287225233787476

Short girl version. (she isn't short, the version is)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4795473371730696963

Good but boring version.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=888563459895608343

Acoustic version played with a lot of 'hammer on' very different.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8047427709603617597

Lost it version.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1509267985429965197

[Cliff Rogers]

Obviously you've heard a little of him,
Just a snip of an interview with Andrew Denton.

[bitingmidge]

Damn and Blast Cliff!

I went through my "Jake" phase over Christmas this year, and sifted the web pretty well. Somewhere out there there's a clip of him doing van Halen, and I just can't find it again!

Maybe tomorrow!

He made it to number one in Japan last year, so it's not as if he's completely undiscovered!

P

[bitingmidge]

Ha!

www.ukuleledisco.com

Now I know not everything in the archives is Jake, and I know that there's a fair bit, errr... a lot of ukulele.. um.... other stuff, but if you sort out the Jake bits, there's some great stuff there!

Cheers,

P

[Bleedin Thumb]

Cliff,
Tiny Tim did it better, I mean... you have to have a sence of humour if you choose the ukulele.. surely!

[Rossluck]

He's brilliant, Cliff, but I wish he'd move to the guitar. I've been listening to Clapton all day, and the ukulele has some limitations compared with good guitars.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Ukulele or guitar it doesnt matter because without vocals or accompaniments straight guitar is as exciting as watching grass grow I recon ...Leo Kotkie(Sp?) fantastic for 5 minutes, John Williams...gag
Its not an instrument that is suited to solo, it need a bit of vocals to break it up.:cool:
Long Live Roy Buchanen, George Harrison, Frank Zappa ...damn all my guitar heros are dead:(

[Iain]

Its not an instrument that is suited to solo, it need a bit of vocals to break it up.:cool:(

Could be a red launch soon, what a load of hot cock, classical is an extremely difficult instrument to play and until you have heard the masters you will realise, that to make the analogy, it's like comparing a grand prix rider to a 3 old on a trike:mad:
Julian Bream plays in a style that sounds like three guitars, and it is not over recording, Segovia was brilliant as was Yepes and the Romeros are nothing short of brilliant and any accompaniment would kill a magnificent instrument like the guitar.
Probably in yee haaa land, singing (and I use that term very loosely) about 'I woke up this morning' and that god awful wailing sliding geeetar, jesus, such talent, it needs something to hide the incompetance of the string twangers, who even have inlaid numbers on the frets so they know where they are.
And what do you call counterpoint? two rock guitarists playing in unison.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Iain, Iain, Iain,
You just have to get out more. :cool: Or turn that radio dial.:eek:
I like my guitar muffled with a slight blue note (think Muddy Waters).
I take it the blues does nothing for you eh?
Your signature mentions "The Mother of Invention" :-I thought you would be Zappa fan at least.:p
Oh well different strums for different folks.:D

[Iain]

Spent many years gaining my AMEB 8 in classical guitar, performed, taught and did a TV series on the subject.
Once immersed in classical you have a true appreciation of music in it's purist form, both theory and practical and even start to enjoy the writing of such people as Fux with his treatise on counterpoint as well as the inventor of music (written) as we know it today, incomparable J S Bach.
Take away the electronics from some performers and they are nothing.
Must admit though, I do not like John Williams, did a mster class with him and found myself in front of a caustic self opinionated prick, who can play, but not as well as he thinks he does.
Bream on the other hand is a true gentleman.
Sorry, I don't like Zappa and even the writer of stairway to heaven (forgotten his name) now writes Spanish madrigal full time.
Ukelele does nothing for me I'm afraid, in fact the only way I would own one would be as a series of stuff ups resulting from building a Viola de Gamba.

[bitingmidge]

Ukelele does nothing for me I'm afraid.
straight guitar is as exciting as watching grass grow I recon
wish he'd move to the guitar
you have to have a sence of humour if you choose the ukulele.. surely!

You're all a bunch of self opinionated stuck up snobbish musical morons! (There, I've said it!) Not that I know anything at all mind you!:rolleyes:

Some of the most fantastic music I've heard wasn't played on guitar or ukulele, nor for that matter on instruments that I'd even recognise.

I've seen drums and sticks and tin cans and single string make-shift violins and heaven forbid even the hammond organ played in a way that made me feel happy, or even something else. Have you ever seen James Morrison on the fly sprayer, or Ted Egan playing his Beer Carton?

The instrument doesn't matter at all. How does it make you feel? You don't care for it? Fine. That doesn't mean it wasn't played with joy and passion (and in Jake's case a tad of talent one might add!).

Just cut the "it would be better on..."

Iain you of all people!:eek: , I thought you were above "that awful wailing sliding geetar" stuff (as I am sure did Ry Cooder), I've heard some shockers on classical guitar too, but that doesn't devalue the instrument.

I hope I have the right artist here. I think it is Tommy Emmanuel who won't sign a cheap crappy guitar owned by a young autograph hunter without first playing it. His point? Any instrument can be made to sound fantastic if you know what to do with it.

So cut out the "that instrument is crap" stuff, and recognise that all instruments are crap in the wrong hands (mine!), and anything can be made to sound incredible if just a bit of talent is added.

I own some of the most godawful instruments ever invented (pray that you never hear a banjo mandolin in full flight!) but I am fascinated, even mesmerised at how they sound in the right setting with some talented players!

So there!

P (Friday - between lunches!)
:D :D :D

[Rossluck]

I don't disagree with what you've written, BM, but instruments are a horses for courses thing. The Ukulele sound a little strained and restricted in some of those pieces. As I said, I was listening to Clapton today, and he just so rarely produces an extraneous sound; it's so pure.

The ukulele is good for Hawaiian music, ditties, and people like Tiny Tim.http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon12.gif

[E. maculata]

Hear Hear Peter, musical snobbery is hilarious.

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?p=267699&highlight=tribal#post267699

:p :p :p :p :p :p :p :cool:

[martrix]

Just a snip of an interview with Andrew Denton.

Maybe you need to see the whole interview.
"Quade.....open your mind"

[Harry72]

"Hear Hear Peter, musical snobbery is hilarious."
Isnt it just!

[Lignum]

I posted this here about 5 weeks ago in another thread and its my fav version of the cannon rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYtQ1M6qE_4

[Harry72]

What about these two... who needs vocals!
The best rendition of a classic I've ever heard!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNc5o9TU0t0&mode=related&search=


They're called Rodrigo y and Gabriela, they use guitars as percussive instruments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8dPso79Z9I&mode=related&search=

http://www.rodgab.com/ check out their version of a Well written instrumental piece(Iain you should like it!)originaly preformed and written by Metallica... "Orion" Hell the ABC even used the original for fill in music video with some surfing!

[Iain]

May come as a surprise but I like Rick Wakeman.........
He doesn't play a keyboard, he makes it sing.
As J S Bach said, playing music is easy, it is just a matter of touching precisely the right key for precisely the right time in precisely the right order, or something like that, and who said Germans had no sense of humour.

[Cliff Rogers]

I posted this here about 5 weeks ago in another thread and its my fav version of the cannon rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYtQ1M6qE_4

The kid is good but his crappy guitar lets him down a bit.