Re: [Harp-L] Re: Doing the Impossible

[bostonmoejo <bostonmoejo@xxxxxxx>]

I don't like "Yeah, I agree, me too" posts

Nor do I like "the best" or "the greatest" monikers but Guy Van Duser is mindblowingly amazing. One of his showpieces is "Starts & Stripes Forever"  (playing the whole marching bands parts on guitar. I couldn't find it anywhere but here's a youtube of one of his admirers doing a pretty good job with Guy's arrangement:

http://tinyurl.com/y8emfm7

Guy's still alive and well and teaching at Berklee College of Music here in Beantown





In a message dated 02/11/10 09:53:45 Eastern Standard Time, ericbarnak@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Guy van Duser is a great player, and he really can sound like he's playing 
two guitars at one time. Kind of like some of your multi-part playing, 
Richard. 

Eric 

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: 

> < Interesting story I heard on NPR about an amazing acoustic guitarist - 
> <unfortunately, I can't remember his name. The story goes that as a 
> <youngster, he was taken by a guitar recording (maybe on a 45 record) and 
> it 
> <inspired him to learn it off the record, even though it sounded very 
> <complicated. Well, he eventually worked it out and it was a basis for his 
> <techniques. It was later that he learned that, on the original record, it 
> <was actually TWO guitar players playing. Since he didn't know this at 
> first, 
> <he didn't realize that it was impossible to play what two guitar players 
> <played on one guitar, therefore, he figured out a way to do it - in 
> essence, 
> <doing the impossible, because no one told him it was.... 
> 
> The guitarist is Boston-based Guy van Duser--he told me this story once 
> upon a time.  The record he copied was by Les Paul, and it wasn't two 
> guitarists playing, it was Les with an echo.  Van Duser thought Les was 
> double-picking, and that's the way he learned it. 
> 
> Regards, Richard Hunter 
> 
> author, "Jazz Harp" 
> latest mp3s and harmonica blog at http://myspace.com/richardhunterharp 
> more mp3s at http://taxi.com/rhunter 
> Vids at http://www.youtube.com/user/lightninrick 
>