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But listening to it afresh, it's not really doing anything for me musically. Tastes change. I no longer care for fingerpicked 12-string, either to play or to listen to, and after being primarily a 12-string player for many decades I sold my good Cole Clark 12 earlier this year, and gave my old, not-so-good Yamaha 12 to the local op shop just last week. I only have 6-strings now (counting my one and a half baritones as six strings).
None of which is to take anything away from his extraordinary skill or the dedication it must have taken to master an instrument so throughly.
PS: hasn't acoustic guitar amplification improved a million miles since 1977!
Saw him at Glasgow Fruit Market quite some time ago, when I think he played 6 string a lot of the time.
I remember him being very funny between songs & seemed an engaging gent.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I can see why I didn’t like his voice then - he sounds like an old man, even though he must have been quite young (it’s from the early 70s) and definitely not ‘cool’ in the way most of the singers and bands I liked at the time were, but I actually like it now I’m a lot older too . The playing is phenomenal as well - it always was. I think I’ll get some more albums now…
As an aside I’ve also rediscovered that I do actually like John Denver, who’s very underrated as a guitarist, although obviously more famous as a singer and songwriter - I just found his singing too cheesy when I was younger, after hearing him a lot as a child (my gran was a big fan). It’s still cheesy, but good.
Anyone who can play a 12-string with that clean a technique deserves respect - Kottke uses heavy strings and tunes down quite a long way (C# usually), but even then it’s not easy at all.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Got to love such a self deprecating attitude