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Awesome Electric Violin - Ed Busking Chester

submitted by Raytrace

1 decade 7 years 2 months 1 week ago

From Cognaut(youtube submitter):
Ed Alleyne-Johnson Busking Electric Violin in Chester UK - May 2006

Fantastic - This is perhaps the best street performance I have ever witnessed. Reminiscent of Jean Luc Ponte's visceral fusion sound. This is in the city of Chester near Wales. Chester has perhaps the only double decker shopping plaza streets, with a second level up off the street within the buildings, balconies running all the way down the streets. jablesj comments - "They were made by the victorians so that rich people would not get wet while out in the rain."

The sound is unaltered from the original and was emancipated at great volume in this old town.

Ed uses the looper and pedals to great effect. There are no overdubs. Incredible he commanded this fantastic show all by himself, I stood enraptured with all the hair on my body standing on end, grin stretched wide. You can see where he looked up to see my ebullient smile just before he grins and kicks in the distortion. This has been a tremendous inspiration for me. I had never heard him or heard of him before this performance. Ed is awesome! I got some albums of his from the web since hearing this. I hope I can see him again one day.

15 Comments

OK, for the love of God, someone save this if it fails to exit the queue. This is a top 15 vid for sure, minus the crappy cuts by the camcorder guy.

yes please save!

Maybe i'm just not so good at coming up with great titles for my sifts. I copied this title directly from youtube. Also it entered the dreaded 'middle of the queue' fairly quickly.

Very very good.

Lived in Chester for a few years, it's a beautiful city. Worked in a bar just behind where he's standing.

BTW, Chester's in England, don't see the point in the 'Wales' tag.

Hmm, you're right. I must have absent mindedly put in in the tags coz of the description that it's near wales. Removed the tag.

Expired in Queue - 4 day limit.

sigh...

don't sigh just yet--
*save

Saving this video from queue deletion, sending it to the top of the queue for one more try. Originally submitted on Tuesday 20th March 2007 (save called by gold star member firefly)

yay!

ant

Pigeon was there. [grin]

nice vid. Ed is a god, makes shopping in Chester a joy. If you look at his violin you'll see it's got extra string(s) - I understand he designed it himself.

that is absolutely incredible.

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