SRV, Hendrix and Others on the Gayageum

[BlindBoyGrnt]

What is a gayageum, you ask? Check out Luna on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPtBdY5i8BA&list=UUQASKpYeiD7Eh_mfhaTrS0Q

 

[LordOfTRings]

Cool.

 

[BlindBoyGrnt]

Scuttlebuttin' and Voodoo Chile are probably the best.

 

[withmusic]

That is the most annoying and agonizing instrument in the world and perhaps the universe, but that girl is just crazy being able to play a song like that on it! Give her a gold star!
I could only listen for a minute and a half because it was giving me a headache.

 

[freeman5]

nice post

Thanks for a cool post, I never would have never stumbled across that. She as a really refined right hand picking style. It really shows in the 2:20-2:40 section. As for annoying though....ok, maybe it dosen't caress my "western ears" the way a stratocaster does, but the talent speaks for itself. And whats up with that thing strapped on her head, is that a hat?

 

[tunz]

Thank you for posting this. Very very intertaining!

 

[Gang-Twanger]

Sick bends, dude... That thing needs a whammy bar.

She knows those songs better than I do... I wonder if she can play that thing with her teeth.

Listening to Hendrix right now, actually...

 

[benindavis]

Yeah.. uh......... ok.. I could take about a minute of it.. Props on the performance but..... that sound is... er.. uh.. interesting.. and.. whats with the HAT?

 

[Naptown Rob]

Yeah.. uh......... ok.. I could take about a minute of it.. Props on the performance but..... that sound is... er.. uh.. interesting.. and.. whats with the HAT?

Dude. The hat is the best part. I'm gonna git me one.

 

[mr.jones]

Here is a link to her playing Voodoo Chile....she definitely nails it.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOHjeI-Bns&feature=player_detailpage#t=1s

 

[epifanatic]

Amazing, I could not stop watching.

 

[starcycle]

Love those! Just goes to show the blues are universal - or should that be pentatonics are universal?

Axis: Bold As Love is great, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id8iu2GadKs&list=UUQASKpYeiD7Eh_mfhaTrS0Q&index=5

 

[musichal]

Awesome, somebody hand her a guitar!

 

[Gang-Twanger]

I wonder if she can do "Hocus Pocus" by Focus.............. "Children Of The Sun" by Billy Thorpe, maybe? ..... No?

I knew it...

 

[Gang-Twanger]

Yeah.. uh......... ok.. I could take about a minute of it.. Props on the performance but..... that sound is... er.. uh.. interesting.. and.. whats with the HAT?

I know what you mean... That instrument always sounded to me as if the strings desperately-needed to be tightened...

Still, she's a virtuoso on that thing. If there were a place for that kind of instrument in popular music, she's probably be a session-player, and you'd see her credited on the back of album covers... You know, "So And So" on lead-gayageum...

 

[BlindBoyGrnt]

I know what you mean... That instrument always sounded to me as if the strings desperately-needed to be tightened...

Still, she's a virtuoso on that thing. If there were a place for that kind of instrument in popular music, she's probably be a session-player, and you'd see her credited on the back of album covers... You know, "So And So" on lead-gayageum...

Yeah, toss in a banjo and a theremin, and you've got yourself a band.

 

[John James]

Wasn't she in one of the Gorillaz's videos?

 

[Northwinds]

Does not sound quite as good as it does on my Les Paul but she is truly a virtuoso. To be able to pull that off well on that type of instrument is incredible :thmbsp:

The hat rules :yes: