Chris Thile and Michael Daves live at the Crocodile in Seattle playing Fisher's Hornpipe, an improvised Crocodile Hornpipe and finishing off with Sailor's Hornpipe.
I usually scoff at folks recording concerts on their phone but whoever took this video is a saint! To think this improvisation would have just been lost to history otherwise.
I am finally comfortable expressing myself on Jessamyn's reel and being able to improvise a bit. So I go back and check out the ad he did for daddario playing that track... and I feel like I am trying to climb from a small hill (that is my current progress) to the moon. I just put the damned thing away and enjoyed.
It has inspired me to go on to master something beyond my current mandolin repertoire, which consists of ANY tune, as long as it's in G. And is "Oh, Susannah."
No matter how many times I watch this I am always grinning by the end. I just love how into the music these two get. They are both so incredibly talented, and such an inspiration! I can't express my love of this enough!
@@bobriddle6068 It's clearly a twelve hour clock format. The music begins in the afternoon. I work nights so am unable to listen to this a lot as I am in bed when it starts.
I am smiling and laughing, my head goes up and down! What a joy to see them play but realizing how much work I have to do o my mandolin playing potential.
I am taking bluegrass vocal lessons from this guy named Michael Davis, no Daves on ArtistWorks. Being new to bluegrass I had no idea who I was (am) dealing with. Holy moly! I had no idea I was brushing with greatness.
He's a great teacher! Taking his vocal lessons now, have also done some guitar. How'd yours go? Do you recommend artistwork? I've had the luxury of doing them in person in NY but would love the flex of artistworks
Amazing!!! If music is your religion, then Chris should be your Pope. His channeling of sound must come from some kind of higher power? As an apostle of music, I am his disciple. Thanks for the wonderful post. It made my day.
TRuly awesome! If I could play half as well as that it'd be a miracle. Yeah, I know, I know ... practice, practice .... and I do, every day, without fail. Maybe, at 70+ I've left it a li'l late? Wotevah ... I ain't giving up yet, plink, plank plonk ....
I bought my mandolin at 63. I've played through around 350 Celtic and old time fiddle tunes one after the other probably 6-8 tunes a night 3-4 nights a week since. I'm getting to about 2/3 the speed and accuracy as Chris, but enjoy it just as much. That's the important bit...
This is one of the most disgusting displays of musicianship I've ever seen. I feel like I just received a lifetime supply of humility in an 11 minute video.
How Michael can stay so steady holding on to the basic tune while Chris goes nuts improvising is a wonder to me. Two great musicians . To me Crocodile HP sounds like the Irish reel Drowsy Maggie shoehorned into Hornpipe rhythm, any way very nice.
