Doyle Dykes at the Merle Travis Music Center, the home of the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame. He's truly a monster guitar player! I enjoy his stories too, so I didn't edit out his comments before the 2 songs.
Think about what Doyle's brain does; it remembers the notes, sends messages to his fingers to play them, keeps track of the timing, gets ready for the next note/notes, listens to the audience and keeps him standing up, breathing, etc. The sheer volume and frequency of what he accomplishes is nothing short of amazement.
I've sat and enjoyed bands, danced enjoying bands, played in bands (just filling in while the individual member went to the bathroom and came back.), from the ripe old age of 16, on up till in my upper 30's. I've enjoy-joyed sitting in the audience, listening to Dolly Parton (one of my favorites), and a local concert at a amusement park where I was AWE-STRUCK when Imma Jean did her song, "SWEET THING," and I've been in "Boots Randolphf's club in Nashville, listening to his Yackety Sax, LIVE on stage, but when Doyle Dykes came to GraceWorks Church, Chattanooga, as a favor to his friend Dr. Dennis Newman, our pastor and did a service while Dennis was out sick, the QUALITY and REVERANCE this man showed God, was astounding. You knew God was in this man's Life! God has blessed him immeasurably. I play the guitar and understand its concept and what it can do. Doyle Dykes pushes the limits of all it's properties...lets just say, I consider him THE best guitarist in THE WORLD! (He's right there with Roy Clark!) You can FEEL the Love flowing out of that instrument, as Doyle pours his spirit thru it !!! THAT'S DOYLE DYKES !!!!
Doyle came to our church, as he was friends with our Pastors and he gave a concert. I had the privilege and honor to meet him and spend time with him. He is a wonderful and fantastic individual. What truly blessed and gifted person God uses in a mighty way.
While George showed us how to make a guitar weep and cry. Doyle shows us how to make a guitar sing. Great musicianship and I hope to see him in a live performance someday
My church too. Same time. With his brother Aubrey. I sang in the choir and snuck out to smooch at the first prayer. Came back in during altar call. Doyle remembers.
This really opens up these genius pieces and offers new insight revealing more incredible artistic detailing. I greatly appreciate this tremendously talented hard working artist .
@@grahamanswerth8979 You are a rude dude. Can't you keep your comments to yourself? Probably not since you are so desperate to be heard that you curse the Lord. You should be the one to give it a rest.
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@@boblee6477 same. I played at least every SINGLE day for at least the first 5 years before I went a whole day without playing for at least an hour. Now 20 some years later I can't put it down & I feel like a kid again!!
Thank you Doyle. Yes - being able to learn and play is a privilege. I'm sixty and I still am playing my six-stringed wooden friend. Thanks for the performance!
Good old guitar player with faith in his invincible ability to entertain those of us who can only hope to find ourselves in his shoes... Thank you for making good on your seeming impossible talent brother!!!
Doyle is an amazing musician. So cool to hear all these classics on a 12-string. Very unique sound. He really looks like Jeff Bridges - kinda like the Big Lebowski dude killin' in on guitar.
I don't rank performances because they're always different from one another. Doyle Dykes is fantastic. I heard and saw Tommy Emmanuel do his version which was really unbelievable. But I always wondered if they can perform on a 12 string guitar too. Doyle answered that question and I'm so grateful I get to see this. Doyle nailed it. Nothing but kudos.
Only strung with six! Pro trick. The neck is wider on the 12, makes it ideal for finger picking. Johnny Winter also did the same with an electric. Imagine there's many others.
Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown tells how he started to play guitar. He saw an ad in the back of one of his parents magazine for a guitar. It said "get a guitar and make friends". He thought that was a good idea. It was a mail order,. It came, but he didn't know it came disassembled ...he put it together; he said he didn't come out of his bedroom for 2 years but when he did he could play guitar. He said it didn't really help with the friend mg making.
in grade school i would plant my index finger on the desk and do forward and backward rolls with the rest of my digits...+ the spock move and the same with the pinky try it
I didn't win my school talent show either. I know the feeling. Mind you I was much more "rock" at the time. Me and my friends seen folks doing more then they were supposed to. I had been scheduled to do one song, so in a hurry we thought we'd add on too. Originally I was just going to do Eruption, which at the time, in 1985, before internet and a billion folks showing you how to play it, was pretty extreme. So we're like whats in Em we can do to pad the set. We decided quickly on the live version of Paranoid by Black Sabbath with the "Heaven and Hell" intro. So we go on, and blow the stage away. I'd just went to Deep Purples Perfect Strangers concert in Flint Mi., and I had all my Ritchie Blackmore moves down including the cord flips and the tone knob changes. I walk off to the full auditorium of screaming classmates, and everyone that's in the show is blown away, and congratulating me, cause everyone knew I was going to win......lol....Then I didn't. And everyone back stage looked at me like "what?". The judges where from a ballet school, a country western radio station, and something else. I just didn't go over well with that crowd. But all the jocks now wanted to be my friend to play parties. Well that's my talent school show story.....
I put together a band and we did a Beach Boys medley, and we didn't win. But before we went on stage, a beautiful girl who I had admired from afar gave me a kiss. So I was a winner anyway.
Hi Doyle, I don't know if you'll get this or not, I started playing when I was very young, I played Piano, Mandolin, Guitar, Tenor Banjo and Bass before I was out of the first grade. The school had a talent show and I practiced up like you wouldn't believe, I entered the talent show and it was on Wednesday night, We had church and my Dad said I couldn't go. I had to play in church and that was more important than the talent show.
Saw the Country Family Reunion Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting a few weeks ago and wondered "Who is this guy and why have I never in my 62 years heard of him?" Incredible guitar player.
