I never saw him play in concert and now regret it. The days after he died I was amazed to not see more articles in the press. He was, in my opinion, the greatest electric melodic, Celtic-based guitar player who ever lived.
Yeah, we’ll I’m the best acoustic, harmonic, Prussian guitarist born on a rainy Friday afternoon in February 1977 who ever lived. Bro, so I guess what you’re saying when you categorize it like that is you prefer him to Rory Gallagher right
@@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185 I know that the lowest common denominator often emerges in online commentaries. Being precise in my stylistic references results in sarcasm for you but I think that they are accurate and a compliment to Gary Moore. Rory Gallagher has other qualities.
Saw him live in a 2009 and expected a bit of a lower key blues performance. He totally took the roof off. Blazingly loud with great feel and so articulate in his playing.
I saw him back in the day when i was just a teenager (52 now) when he was still rocking and already one of THE BEST players in the world. RIP mr Moore. Must be a hell of a party in heaven!!!
My heart literally aches because he is gone. I know it seems cheesy but there it is. His advice about putting feeling into the notes to get your own unique sound is quite profound.
I remember seeing a pub band doing a Deep Purple (Richie Blackmore) cover. It was all speed, but zero feel. Same with an AC/DC covers band, not the remotest bluesy note anywhere! Completely missing the point.
00xanawolf00 it’s not cheesy at all I really miss him too he went way before his time and for me he really is in the top three great blues/rock guitarists of all time.
And echoes what the great Bobby Womack RIP said about soul music - its got nothing to do with colour, if you feel the song and the music in your heart it shows in your performance. All the greats display this intuition and feeling, including Gary Moore.
Always missed..and never forgotten, by anyone who truly hears the notes..and the soul behind them. What he says about learning to play not just the notes..but the inflections and feelings behind them, to make them yours alone, is a lesson all guitarists MUST learn to become something more..or in this case..Moore R.I.P. Gary, you are missed.
I played his live version of parrisienne walkways in my car everyday on my way to work. I'll never get tired of them. It's like listening to it for the 1st time everytime.
No one in the world could play like this he was one off a kind and he made every other guitar player that has been playing for 30-40 years sound like beginners.
Eric Presley - I love Gary’s playing,too, but your statement is a bit over the top. He did not make Johnny Winter sound like a beginner. Or Guthrie Govan or Uli Jon Roth or Michael Schenker... I could go on and on.
Yes , I play his music every day, a lot from his 'Skid Row' days, very raw stuff but I love it. I honestly dont know what I'd do without it to look up to.
i listened to Gary here and watched his absolute mastery of the stringed instrument .i applied what he said now and from now forward because it makes brilliant and perfect sense .im suddenly better and more aware of making notes count instead of counting notes. god,i miss Gary Moore
You're so right. There must be millions of pretty decent guitarists out there, me and you included, who despair of not ever getting our sound together, yet part of playing is finding our own unique sound, bringing our own thing to the table. I now firmly believe it's far better to play something really beautifully well, instead of trying to be the best or fastest or most articulate etc. Those things come with practise, but I want to make beautiful music first. 😎🎸
His tone was so intimate. I miss Gary. You can tell by listening to him speak, what a nice man he was. Anyone who listens to him play is moved by his music.
have followed gary ever since he released wild frontier album and have everything he has produced and undoubtedly for me the greatest ever his feel his tone the power of his playing made me feel like no other musician could
I can barely believe what he could do with a guitar, it almost defies logic? mindblowing, speed, power and dexterity?? just unbelievable, and surely THE best guitarist EVER?
If you do not relax and spend less energy executing each movement as you play faster you can't reach higher tempos, but will level out at some point and then tire out. That's like a given of fast playing. Besides notes played at speed do not necessarily sound good if played simply as a faster version of the same way of playing that note at a lower speed.
exactly, it seems he even wants to shred the slower blues stuff, also the way he attacks the string makes him look and sound more like a heavy rock player than your gentle blues soul ;)
That look on his face when handing him the Explorer. Like handing him his old vices and he is thinking 'i do not trust myself with that thing, it makes me want to party'.
It was bob geldof who said that gary's playing is so "exceptionally beautiful". These words got stuck in my head and I still think thats what its all about in his playing. Each time I saw a video of him, he just explodes with ideas, variations and notes, because he just loves to make it sound sweet or sour, right for his taste at that specific moment ... thats what he was mastering perfectly.
Gary was incredible, but that sustain comes from his equipment. It’s nothing he did, except to make it part of one of his signature songs. I can do it, too, and - trust me - I’m no virtuoso.
@@SK-kb2wc - It’s a combination of gear, starting with the wood the guitar is made of, pick-ups, a saturated tube amp and most likely a compressor or sustainer of some kind. The proximity of pick-ups to the amp can also be a factor. I’ve got a couple of videos of Gary playing Parisienne Walkways and that one long note dies far sooner than it should and he has to hit the string again. If it was all Gary’s technique that allowed him to sustain that note for so long on most occasions, that would never happen.
@@SK-kb2wc - You’re welcome. I want to be clear about Gary, though - he’s been one of my three favorite guitarists since the 70s, along with Uli Jon Roth and Michael Schenker. Take care, man and happy new year!
AuH2O - I don’t view it as a problem. That’s the thing about opinions, they’re personal. I didn’t say the other guys suck - they’re all great and I grew up on their music; I just happen to like more stuff that Gary played on. No need to be a dick.
My brother went to see thin lizzy in the 70s. Brian Robertson had been in a fight and couldn't perform. My bruv thought the gig was gonna be cancelled but no, they had a replacement at short notice. MR Gary moore. What a stand in!!
What a Great Guy and friend Neville Martin was to Gary Moore , Why has it been so quite since Gary's Death he was just as important as Brian May , Slash and Jeff Beck , Eric Clapton etc . No documentaries about him , not even half hour on BBC about his life , I don't think there has been any tribute gigs for him , if any of the above Pass Away we will be inundated with News and Tributes possibly Films to. He needs to be recognised . R.I.P.
Oh man this guy was a master of all styles on the guitar. I'm just discovering his music. I thought Gary was just blues player but then I saw some of his 80s concert footage.
quit293 Enjoy your journey, Gary Moore is my favourite by far. He can do metal, rock, blues and singing ballads like no others. His "Blues for Jimi Hendrix" is worth a watch too.
I've always had trouble placing musicians at a specific "number" in terms of great to better to best I honestly cannot say that "so and so" is the second best of all time and so on but it saddens me so much to see one of the greatest guitarists ever to have been and still be so underrated. I sincerely believe that Gary is easily, and I mean easily among the Top Ten best guitarists ever and it's so sad...believe me that if he'd been born American it would not be the case....bit he was Irish so that's how it works which is sad.
This fellow was one brilliant musician, we've enjoyed his music for decades and it's a big and sad loss that we aren't gonna listen to all those songs that was to come,,,, noone like this will appear ever.
AS far as I know that is not true. That sophisticated "big wave"surfer sound is still going strong...talk about when you need to Chill- If you listen to 1971 LOVE, Brian Mclean mastered the spanish /rock thing as his mother was a (where you shake beads together- cast??? and (OK? I know i am reaching!) I think he would of so enjoyed the official Western Music Castaway Dwight Yocum. OCD type professional. I just thought of a great Contest!! On the same song, say Nils Lofgren who has mastered the strat in his style (no respect!!) turns his strat over to Gary and Gary gives Nils his best killer Les Paul and hear them play the others most well know songs. "the neck size may be an issue) I am going to post with two songs. One that is a minute of the greatest living guitarist who never had a lick of a competitive spirit. And the other where Nils is on a boat, NO PRISON WARDEN aka SPRINGSTEEN"a particular venue that I expect you will like. So I hope I am not disturbing your thread. One other fantasy- I am a huge Johnny Rivers fan (no boos please) and at 75 still has 90 percent of his talent. He played blues with the cajun voice thing in the late 50's. My wish- Secret agent man is not my favorite- Why no bluesman or otherwise has not made that a nasty new version ??? ELECTRIFIED!
Being kinda young and dumb. I only found out about Gary Moore 6 months ago or so and the first month I didn't know he died. that was a very sad day. He was such an amazing guitarist and his songs speak to me like no other. He inspires me to play guitar again and stop playing metal music and go by head first into the blues. I want to write a song inspired by that sad day called all my heroes are dead.
Moore's playing can make me cry, sweep my legs away, mindblow me, inspire me, make me angry and happy all in a matter of minutes. I LOVE his music! Hendrix is the best ever, but the choice between a gig with one of them Moore will be the one for me.
chances are, if you are not happy in your current state, you wouldn't then either. Happiness is not something to attain by reaching a certain goal, happiness is the way. It's internal, not external
the comment was more of a salute to Garys guitarist skills, not really a confession about my well being, but I suppose if I did have issues I don't really think I'd seek advice from my throw away comments on youtube, but thanks for your concern. just to clarify: if I could play just half as good as Gary I'd still be a very good guitarist.
lop00pollop00pol - I knew what you meant, bud - and I couldn’t agree more! Everyone thinks they’re freakin’ Yoda these days. Your point was obvious to anyone with half of Gary’s brain!
He was amazing! If you put the speed setting on .25 you can see how he's playing these incredibly fast licks. 90% or more is done with just two fingers, his index and middle finger. In the passage that starts at 7:15 I counted only three times he used his ring finger. It's a bit like Django. The middle finger is the largest and strongest finger and many guitarists don't tap into what it can add to their repertoire.
Explorers and flying V have absolutley anazing middle postion tones which make them great for blues and thats why you see blues players using explorers and V's quite often . Its the middle position tones of those guitars that appeal to blues artists.
Once things had soured between Brian Robertson and Phil Lynott in Thin Lizzy, there were several great guitarists who stood briefly in Robbo’s shoes. Snowy White was ludicrously good and Midge Ure’s heroic musicianship should never be forgotten, but I do think Gary was perfectly match. At the time, Scott Gorham said of him “Gary is a guitarist so good that if he gave it up for 10 years and I practised every day, when he took it up again he’d still be better than me!”
The interviewer is Neville Marten (Guitarist/Guitar Techniques Magazine Editor). He is one of Britain & Irelands foremost blues Guitarists himself (and historian) and an incredible player in his own right!.
I have many idols who play Gibsons, but Gary is the reason I got a Les Paul. It sure sounds great, but now the challenge is to try and play like the man himself which is an impossible yet fun task. Truly one of a kind.
Yes sir. Speed with definition, clarity and intention..Gary was just untouchable when he went into pentatonic domination. I can't think of any other guitarist being able to do that.
You got that right! when I watch him play I just want to quit playing lol, Just kidding the inspiration and I love how when I ask the young generation about Gary and most respond Gary who? And I say let show you who Gary Moore is!!
chief wiggums I don’t know you but that has to be the most dumbest comment I’ve ever seen on RU-vid. Gary was-sloppy, that’s like saying Lil Wayne is the greatest guitar player ever! Dude his picking from a Chord pattern to a fill or a scale run is so fucking smooth! Who Gary influenced Randy Rhodes, Vivian Campbell, John Sykes, Me, and many others they would tell you ur fucking crazy
last time i saw him was 2003 7:40 monsters of rock tour last two shows Glasgow Scotland live cd and Newcastle got the band to sign a dressing room sign that was on the dressing room door in Scotland also got a Gary Moore Pic from Garys gtr tech vary cool.ynt was the opening act then gary and white snake was the headliner.gary opened his set with shapes of things the classic yard birds tune r.i.p.gary was second to none killer tone and great feeling straight from the heart so much emotion.clapton said gary was the best gtr ever comings from him that's quite a complement check out evil love on the jim capoldi tribute at the round house 2007 he only played that one song and brought the house down with it thanks for all the great music over the years you rock buddy cheers to you my friend you are the best
What Gary Moore Didn't Know About Guitar Just Wasn't Worth Knowing........He Has To Be Up There With The Best Of The Best There Has Ever Been...He Could Have You Spellbound And Open Mouthed By His Jaw Dropping Playing......R.I.P Gary Moore....The Bastard Who Glassed Gary Just Made Him A Better Player.....Just Shows You The Caliber Of The Man That Was And Still Is Gary Moore......Massive Part Of Future Influence.
Saw him twice, both very different gigs. One was an invitation only gig in a tiny venue on Tottenham Court Road for people that had bought tickets for a bigger show he was doing a month later in Hammersmith. Tottenham Court Road gig several people were saying he was In a bad mood, they had approached him for autographs and he'd looked them up and down, turned and walked away without a word or snarled "no" at them etc. His playing was un-fucking-real though. Tiny intimate venue and I was about 10-12 feet away from the great man and I didn't take my eyes off the fretboard for two hours, he was as great as you could ever imagine him to be. A month later at Hammersmith and he just kind of phoned it in. Note perfect, but no passion or fire. I went to the bar after still got the blues (about 5 songs in) and stayed there. Maybe I was spoiled with the first gig, maybe it was just an example of Gary being his contrary self that I've read about... Still, a bad Gary Moore performance is a masterclass in skill all the same. And I still think he is the greatest ever. RIP