Micheal Hedges with a Guild?

Bill Ashton · Nov 27, 2015

He looks to be busking with a maple F50...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35gseUUyc5g

Westerly Wood · Nov 28, 2015

Great sounding Guild. Interesting the line of people waiting in line behind him, waiting to get a table or coffee. I like the tone of that Guild fir his stuff vs his Martibs. Such a sad end, died way too young. I saw him open up for CSN years later.

Rayk · Nov 28, 2015

I love me some Micheal Hedges very sad end indeed . I never seen these old vids or his younger self very cool

now I'm sad .....

lol

SFIV1967 · Nov 28, 2015

There's a second video with that F-50 (starts about after 3 seconds): http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?176182-MOAR-GUILD!!!!-Michael-Hedges
Ralf

walrus · Nov 28, 2015

And a third:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xORMix5KdSs

The most talented busker ever?

walrus

Bill Ashton · Nov 28, 2015

A preview of what would eventually come? But how would we have envisioned a collander on his head with dreadlocks sticking out of it???:grief:

For the conditions they must have been recorded under, he sounds fantastic. What does anyone guess that pickup is, "Original Bill Lawrence" (which really aren't Bill Lawrence's) ???

Bill Ashton · Nov 28, 2015

LOL "...I know one of their songs..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9guadqQ_Hs

Makes one guitar sound like three.

Bill Ashton · Nov 28, 2015

For those of you who are wondering who/what the hell are we talking about, here is the Michael Hedges that was taken away from us way too soon, tragically...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLXBABH2JuY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges

Westerly Wood · Nov 28, 2015

Bill Ashton said:
For those of you who are wondering who/what the hell are we talking about, here is the Michael hedges that was taken away from us way too soon, tragically...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLXBABH2JuY

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges
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Nice Bill, thanks for Aerial. For me, the best acoustic guitar tune ever written or performed.

Br1ck · Nov 28, 2015

Those were the days. He played many, many times at the front entrance to the Varsity theater. The line was to get into a movie. The entrance area was quite large and you could grab a coffee ,sit at a table and listen to Michael Hedges many a summer weekend evening.

Westerly Wood · Nov 28, 2015

Br1ck said:
Those were the days. He played many, many times at the front entrance to the Varsity theater. The line was to get into a movie. The entrance area was quite large and you could grab a coffee ,sit at a table and listen to Michael Hedges many a summer weekend evening.

According to the wiki, William Ackerman heard him there and signed him to Windham Hill in 1981 on a cafe napkin.

Smitch · Nov 29, 2015

So cool. Loved Michael and saw him live in Lawrence, KS (he generally wouldn't play Kansas City) several times. Never have seen such old footage though, and never saw him with a Guild. To me, he's in the same category (or beyond) of Hendrix and Van Halen; an absolute visionary on guitar that did something that had NEVER been done. Plenty of copy cats, but none that I've heard come close.

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