Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Clearly you never watched the Tudors

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What kind of placement? Regardless, DO IT.

 

Tevez to Juve got him at 9/1 a few months back, put £20 on.

 

I salute whoever did that

 

A year out from my course, in the Automotive industry.

 

Hahaha, that is excellent.

 

Just sat here with a glass of red wine. I've worked hard today and I'm enjoying this. I'm also listening to my old favourite Andy McKee. This is the one I'm currently listening to. It's fitting the mood to a tee:

[video=youtube;Cvar4ZsqsEo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvar4ZsqsEo[/video]

 

Very good.


[video=youtube;A6PEboTpcfI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6PEboTpcfI&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

I like the way the Jonas Brothers fans have continued unperturbed without questioning the sanity of their new contributor!

 

Has anyone ever noticed, when you search #Saintsfc on twitter, "FC Barcelona" comes up as the relevant people?

 

Isn't that because it's related, as in football, and it'd probably the largest football related account?

 

That reminds me of George Bush singing a mash up of Imagine and Walk on the Wild Side. Very good!

[video=youtube;vwsZzMmAFrg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsZzMmAFrg[/video]

 

THAT's beautiful TSS, you'll like this too:

[video=youtube;1U_FeOSEQvw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_FeOSEQvw[/video]

It's by a friend of my stepson's who was voted Guitar magazine Acoustic Guitarist of the Year last year (may have been the year before).

 

Videos like this remind me of how much I still have to learn. That fingerpicking style is mesmerising.

 

Percussive technique seems to be the thing in acoustic guitar playing these days. Hammer ons and flick offs abound, so that two melodies can be played at once, or rhythm and melody, or even bass, rhtym and melody if the player is good enough. At my age I'm never going to get there, but at least I can appreciate the technique. Above all, it has to sound beautiful, and that does. The lad's name is Will McNicol, yes..?

 

Well, I believe he's always been a great practiser, Joe. Although the guy seems born to play the acoustic guitar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_McKee

I may have it mentioned before, but the instrument in the video is a harp guitar.

 

Rodrigo y Gabriela is always my favourite for acoustic technique. Been trying to learn this song for a couple of months now. I'll crack it if it kills me.

[video=youtube;l-qgum7hFXk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-qgum7hFXk[/video]

 

That's right, yes. You may have noticed that the video was shot on Brownsea Island, there is one scene of him looking over towards Sandbanks.

That video together with the Andy McKee one and the Rodrigo y Gabriela one, shows perfectly why I love the acoustic guitar so much. Three completely different styles played expertly, and standing alone with no accompaniment (yes, I know there were two guitars in the R&G one, but you know what I mean). Is there any other instrument so versatile?

 

That's because they're dumb teenage girls, tbf.

 

Yep, I did notice that the video scenes were local-ish. Very nice too. As to technique, a cousin of mine was an extremely competent guitar player, but he gave the instrument up some 30 years ago [What..? I hear you cry..!] He can still play reasonably OK, but he was very good indeed. However, he can of course, still de-construct, critique and comment on technique. One of his simpler observations has always stuck with me and that is that if all you are hearing is technique and not tune, then the guitarist has totally failed. Better to have a lesser guitarist, in certain instances, in fact. Here is a video of someone who is generally considered to be one of the greatest living acoustic guitarists. This illustrates his general style of play. His technical ability is without question, but I can't honestly stand anything that Tommy Emmanuel plays, because he obliterates every tune with technique. As the old saying goes, Less is [often] More, and boy, does this bloke need to do less.

[video=youtube;S33tWZqXhnk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33tWZqXhnk[/video]

 

Steve Darcis (the one that beat Nadal) has withdrawn from Wimbledon with an injury. Shame.