Jan 04, 2007 09:37 am 
and whats that!?
amazing guitar skills
Posted on Jan 04, 2007 09:27 am
pixelpixie
Member Since: Apr 24, 2003
some of you probably know him already, i didn't until just now... truly amazing... andy mckee...
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Jan 04, 2007 09:38 am dunno what it's called, I've seen it before tho...
Jan 04, 2007 09:51 am Probably more than you want to know about harp guitars can be found here:
www.harpguitars.net/
Jan 04, 2007 12:19 pm yeah he's pretty good. you should check out a guy named justin king. he does a lot of taping.. its amazing aswell.
Jan 04, 2007 07:44 pm IF you like Mckee then you will really like the guy whom he learned from. Micheal Hedges. He wrote many of the songs that Andy plays now. He also was one fo the major players how brought the Harp guitar back from its days as a baroque style instrument.
Check out this from his younger days, he is playing the harp guitar and the song is one that Andy plays as well.
Justin King is good as well. But most owe it to the likes of Leo Kotke and Micheal Hedges for that style of playing.
Jan 04, 2007 07:51 pm I found a bit better description of how important Hedges was to bringing the harp guitar back and his major contributions to the guitar world with the styles he pionered. It is a pity he had to die so young.
www.harpguitars.net/players/month-player,2-06.htm
Jan 04, 2007 08:03 pm Oh ya, and how lame of me to forget. You know that VanHalen guy that does the tapping thing. Well we can thank Hedges for that as well. Just thought I'd toss that one in.
Jan 04, 2007 10:27 pm What an amazing sounding instrument ! Huge lows on that beast !
Can ye fell it ? 8 p
Jan 04, 2007 11:44 pm I saw Kaki King play like that on David Letterman a few years ago
Pretty cool stuff!
Jan 05, 2007 09:31 pm Hue, I have seen him live many times before he passed away. I was lucky enough to be in the front row when he played Darth for the first time. That thing has 11 bass strings and is the loudest thing you would ever have heard. But the way he played is absolutely stunning and really brought the harp guitar back into the lime light, sort of anyway. The first time I heard Because its there I was in absolute awe of the sound. If you get a chance to scan a few of the video's try to catch his version of All Along the Watchtower. There are several versions, one of which is a slower version from later in his carrier but there is one with him in his pigtails and is kind of trippy lighted. He gets very would up and is literally beating the hell out of that old guitar. You can see all the smach marks on it pretty clear in that vid and a couple of others. I think they burried him with that one.
Jan 05, 2007 10:10 pm Very nice ! Really some beautiful work there . I think I like the slower one better, but I dun'no . Too bad the guy isn't around anymore... what happened to him ?
The couple of versions that I was able to see by your link, reminded me very much of my friend who wrote most of Metaphysical Engineers(my last band) stuff . Funny how some songs just open up when you take away all the clutter a band provides . As was the case with Michael, we as a band, defeated his songs... not because of bad musicianship, merely by performing them with him . After the band broke up, he went into rehab and I'm still waiting to be able to produce him... solo, like his works should be done .
Oh, and thanks for the linkage !
Jan 06, 2007 12:57 am Ya, that is actually the piece that turned me onto his work.
He died in a freak car accident in 97'. I was lucky enough to have seen him many times live, here and on the road.
And ya, he would occasionally play with maybe a synth player or a bass player. He was also a very accomplished flutist. Not very often you could listen to a 4 or 5 minute piece of just a flute, but he managed to make it mesmerizing. He had some funky mouth flute thing that was actually part of a wireless headset. In those days they were huge and cumbersome. He wore it either on the big bolder hat or a friggin helmut looking thing. Odd that boy was, indeed odd.
And indeed to bad he has passed. I wonder just how far he would have taken the harp guitar. Most say he was really only beginning to explore the depths he could really take it to. He apparently had written a piece for several harp guitars to play together.
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