Tags for this video have been changed from 'andy, mckee, acoustic, guitar' to 'andy, mckee, acoustic, guitar, drifting' - edited by kronosposeidon

It's important to address Johnny's comments.

The attracting of rubberneckers is a risk but not a given. This will basically come down to how strong videosift is as a community to deal with it if it happens. It is my belief that it would strengthen the community. This concern can be addressed by having a trial period after which we run this discussion again and see what we've learnt. That is how a community, real life or web based grows and learns and becomes stronger.

Defining the clips for tagging etc. comes down to human judgement and you just put your faith in the person doing it, based on what you know about them.

As for being narrow minded about focussing on Iraq & Afghanistan, I actually think that focussing on these wars is a direct response to what we are being fed by mainstream media. We hear 'war on terror' every single day on TV, so let's damn well show the war on terror.

And do we need to show people the same graphic 'stuff' that has traumatised soldiers on the ground? Well if it creates some empathy toward what we are asking these guys to go through for what we are told is *our benefit* then absolutely yes.

And finally - if this goes ahead I hope that it occasionally shows a human element. I watched a clip on liveleak recently, a young soldier playing 'all along the watchtower' on his acoustic guitar. It reminded me that these are real people down there and brought home the reality of what is happening outside of the abstract debate of the necessity of this war.

We should show what is happening and keep showing it every single hour of every single day until every serviceman and woman serving in Iraq & Afghanistan are home.

upvote for awesomeness. - not my sort of acoustic guitar music, but i recognise its excellence.

Got the link from here - http://www.tonypierce.com/blog/2007/06/matt-played-10-songs-tonight-here-in.htm

Additional comments from said blog:

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matt played 10 songs tonight here in vegas. to a crowd of about 30 people, many of whom flew in from Connecticut, Frisco, and various locales in Canada. and for a few who were big fans but had never had the chance to see him play, this was their first gig.

the gig was the living room in the huge house that ive been stayed at with matt here in the suburbs of sin city.

matt told his fans through his site that he was going to be in vegas and he was going to be playing to a few dozen people and i guess people emailed in and he gave invites to the "winners" and they all came here and oh yeah apple was here too.

and its really sad that a lot of americans dont know about matt because seriously how many musicians of any stature let alone one who is currently #2 on amazon.ca for a record that doesnt even come out for a month, invites friends fans his favorite computer company and the press to come into his vacation and listen to what hes about to tour with on an acoustic guitar barefoot while wearing shorts?
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Tags changed from "acoustic,guitar,instrumental,don,alder" to "i've been banned and i'm whining" by gold star member silvercord.

From Wikipedia:

While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a rock song by The Beatles from the double album The Beatles (also known as The White Album).

It was written by George Harrison, who originally performed it with a solo acoustic guitar and an organ; a demo version, longer than the officially released version, can be heard on the Anthology 3 album and in reworked form on the Love album. Eric Clapton played lead guitar on the album version of the song with a Gibson Les Paul guitar. On The Concert for Bangladesh, he performed it on a Gibson Byrdland guitar, and later acknowledged that a solid-body guitar would have been more appropriate.

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I'm with your hubby. Girls with acoustic guitars and no makeup do it for me.

This is one of my favorite songs from my favorite Swedish band Opeth. I saw them live several times and they honestly make other musicians look like amateurs.

Opeth is a progressive death metal band from Sweden. Opeth adds several lighter elements to their music, such as acoustic guitar interludes, influences from jazz, 1970s progressive rock, blues and folk elements. Vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt performs both clean singing and death vocals.

Due to their unique blend of melodic and progressive elements, they are said not to conform to any specific metal sub-genre. Opeth have also been influential in the doom metal genre and have attracted a lot of doom metal fans. The name Opeth was taken from the novel Sunbird by author Wilbur Smith, and was originally spelled Opet. In the book, Opet is the name of the location for an ancient empire which translates to "City of the Moon".

- More @ Wikipedia

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Wow, great! She's channeling Aretha. Who's the young guy with the giant acoustic guitar?

From Wikipedia:

“There is nobody on God’s green earth that plays the guitar like Michael Hedges.” - Steve Vai

“Before Michael, acoustic guitar went from about right there to over here somewhere. After Michael, it goes from near the rest of us, where he found it, to out the other side of the world where he set it down for just a little while.” - David Crosby

“Michael Hedges is the guitarist from another planet.” - William Ackerman

"In Michael's hands, a guitar was a living, breathing extension of his deepest parts. It's almost as if he got so inside its body that the instrument was reborn. His passion for creating those exquisite melodies and technique was as focused as it was abandoned. There was simply no one like him." - Bonnie Raitt
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Sadly, Hedges was killed in a car accident in 1997. If you want to know who influenced Eric Mongraine (and countless others) here he is.

I had the pleasure of seeing him perform in the Napa Valley several years before his death and I must say this brought back many memories.

....hey, good call on the Twin-lens reflex....I've had a Yashica, and a Hasselblad.....incredible difference with the larger format film....

...now you gotta decide where to set your darkroom up....
In reply to your comment:
"Here's my list:

Yonex tennis racket
Epiphone acoustic guitar
Yashica Mat 124 G Medium format camera
light meter
some clothes
a subscription to Aperture magazine
and a new fan for my computer

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Here's my list:

Yonex tennis racket
Epiphone acoustic guitar
Yashica Mat 124 G Medium format camera
light meter
some clothes
a subscription to Aperture magazine
and a new fan for my computer

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cool. almost as good as Simpsons theme on acoustic guitar.
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=796

Jake, your playing is beautiful and inspiring. I don't have a huge musical knowledge: is the the strutting a scaled miniature of an acoustic guitar? I've been thinking of learning to play, but my fingers have limited strength. The ukelele's neck looks to be a more comfortable stretch than that of an acoustic. All that aside, you play remarkably!

Wow! This guy is incredibly talented! Quite a flawless rendition of The Simpsons theme song on acoustic guitar. Quite amazing, actually!