Yeah, certainly the Byrds, Joe. That whole early-sixties scene centred around Pete Seeger's Lamplight club in Greenwich Village - Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, Roger McGinn (who later formed The Byrds) Joan Baez, Barry McGuire, and that couple who started The Mamas and The Papas (name escapes me right now) plus Langhorn and a load of others were all hanging around The Lamplight. There was also an aspiring jazz singer, who hung around there because she was too fat to have any appeal to the jazz scene. She hated all that 'folky' stuff but eventually fell in with a few of them because she had nowhere else to go - 'Mama' Cassie Elliot ! That Lamplight crowd were the only Americans who were able to meet the 'British Invasion' (Beatles, Stones, Animals, &co) and eventually gave us a whole new mid-60s scene. Do I ever want to put the lights out and just remember? - No, I had a fantastic '60s, but don't want it twice. People, even today, hold '60s nights', but I've never once been to one. Like anything else, if I looked at it again, it might not be so good as I'd like to think it was. Sleeping dogs lie, and all that. Sod it.
So right there mate, I'm seeing YES next January and a massive loss Chris Squire. Totally forgot about James Taylor, one of the very best..
It sounds like Langhorne on both of those tracks, mate. And 'One too many mornings', 'Boots of Spanish Leather', etc. That style of guitar is called Clawhammer. Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul and Mary) was also pretty good at it.
There's no way on ****ing earth you're human Relic! Haway, fess up, lad, you were made in Japan 2 years ago. You're really not 250 years old like you make out. You were switched on in 2013!
Love this guy as well. Shame his career was ended by a road accident as he fell a sleep at the wheel driving home after a gig.
Different league now, mate. In the 1960's, I met Jansch, Renbourn, and Chapman (I don't know the other couple you mentioned). I also met Jackson C. Frank, an American who only lived in England for a couple of years, and wrote 'The Blues Run the Game' which Bert plays here. Mike Chapman, at that time, was I think living in a van with no fixed abode. He was the worst of the three - listen to the way he hammers his strings till they squeak and rattle from the force. I think it stems from his love of early blues (Robert Johnson, etc.) but, today, it just comes over as unwanted rough edges. John Renbourne was much better (and very fast with his left hand) but still there is that 'early blues' roughness, especailly with the bass strings, that, today, just sounds rough. Compare those two to Bert Jansch - smoothness itself. Right from those early days - pre Pentangle, if you like - there was Bert Jansch and the rest. He reminds me of Ossie Ardiles, lovingly carressing a ball, while some other players wellied it. He is the quietest spoken, most unassuming, likeable one of the three - and it shows in his playing. Incidentally, Bert Jansch and John Renbourne shared a flat in Soho at that time.
The only one I met was Isacc, the clip I put is not the best. Be made the most difficult things look so easy. If you can get hold of his live album, recorded in clubs in this region like the Davy Lamp in Washington, it is worth a listen . I was there sitting three feet away from him and when I hear the recording I still think that there must be two people playing even though I know there is only him.
I've seen this guy busking in Bromsgrove (he's from round here), but he was at Durham uni so some of you up there may have seen him up there too http://www.jakerigby.com/
Ian Moss and James Reyne. Great Aussie musicians with Chisel and Aussie Crawl (respectively) who went on to do some very solid solo acoustic stuff. Clapton is also an acoustic genius.
Fully Qualified survuvor was a defining album (in 1971?). I Started playing 5 years ago and Naked ladies in Electric Ragtime was my target... still ccan't play it properly lol
