I just saw Walter @ Yoshi's in Oakland CA. 5th time. He just dropped his 31st CD in March. A true beast of a blues guitarist. I've followed Walter over 25 yrs. A must listen to is Marie's Mood written as a show of love for his wife. Beautiful, soulful, unmistakable statement of the depth of his love for Marie. Long live Walter Trout 💕💕💕
This is why I love this community, Michael! I came in here with a vague recollection of Walter Trout, and 6 minutes through this, I am a super fan. Holy shit...this man is just dripping with it....
Got to love Walter. Getting it done for years and only electric blues players really know who he is, although he does get accolades from the industry on occasion. They LOVE him in Europe.
Walter is one of my absolute favorites. If you ever get a chance to see him live, he plays with this level of dedication the entire time. Live trout 1 "Reason I'm Gone" is a great place to start as well as many of his older albums with the Free Radicals. He's a classy guy too. At a break during one of his shows, I asked him how he does the volume knob stuff, he grabbed his guitar and showed me right there.
Walter is worshipped here in England. I've seen him on eight occasions live and he is amazing. The most memorable gig (for the wrong reasons) was in 2013 when Walter was seriously ill and in need of a liver transplant. Despite being very ill and playing some of the performance sitting down he still put on a great show. Thankfully he had his transplant in the nick of time and has made a complete recovery. He's back playing and singing as good as ever, and releases a new album in March with the great Beth Hart guesting on one track. He always does a meet and greet after each gig, because he genuinely loves his fans.
Walter used to play a local bar near me about once a year. I’ve been about 10 feet away from him watching him perform and it’s incredible every time. Great video!
Walter is one of those guys who learn his craft directly form the guys that did it in the first place,very underrated I had the privilege of seeing him live once, we are lucky he's still with us he almost died from liver failure several years ago.if you get a chance go see this man live.
Fifth of your 5 chord just clicked for me. You've mentioned that and mentioned that and I've always favored the 2 in a 1,4,5 without even really realizing it. But when you played that 2 and then played the 5 chord it was like a light bulb went off in my ears. So awesome thank you Michael
You and your content tick EVERY box of what an ideal(my opinion) video should be. Educational. Fun. Digestable. Insightful. Honest & Pure. Engaged. It honestly feels like I've known You for years from watching many of your videos. Keep up the fantastic work! You're crushing it my friend.
Walter Trout live is just unreal...jaw dropping solos, great stories, so cool and just a lovely bloke...when Walter is in town, treat yourselves to his Masterclass of a gig folks! 🎸
Amazing song, had the pleasure of seeing Mr Trout play this live a few years back - an inspirational story behind it with having to relearn to play after a quite serious illness - and this is the result -amazingly played
His Liver completely failed and he was very lucky to survive if it were not for a fundraiser supported by his fans . Couldn't walk or talk, or play guitar, which he had to relearn.
@@Guitargate I saw him play in Holmfirth UK and he must have lost 100 pounds - had to play sitting down as he didnt have the strength to stand up. I dont know how he got through the gig. His insurance company refused to pay for his medication or liver work because he was an alcoholic 30 years ago. We all thought he would die. There were benefits and auctions etc and eventually enough to get the surgery. A true legend and I have never seen anyone of any genre give as much as he does on stage.
RU-vid has opened up the access to all manner of great music. In the era in which I grew up it was word of mouth and radio air play that was really our only access to great artists. There were no doubt countless artists in the 60’s and 70’s who I wished I would have been exposed to but unfortunately was not. Thank you Michael and RU-vid.
Walter Is one of my favorite bluesmen. His early stuff with John mayhall is great too. Popa chubby rocks also. Couple videos with the two of them together that are amazing
OMG! I have just gotten to this and nine minutes later I am a fan for life. 😮👂 Thank you as always for the Introduction and the breakdown. I will be trying this on my ukulele tonight. Sound crazy, but really true love. Thank you Michael for all you do. 💕🙋🎶🙏🔥
17:40 he's controlling the dissonance between the two bends to give it that rawness. that's an absolutely incredible level of skill. His deviations from pitch are perfect.
I always loved minor blues. We used to sit and talk all the time in So Cal the Bashful Bagel about how at the time it was Country Rock. OMG for two blues purists (well he did get the rap for too many notes). I just talked to him. His birthday is coming up 3/6!!!
very great review and analysis!!👏👏. I saw him live in Germany in 1990. unbelievable ever since. volume nob „floating in“ is nice. Roy Buchanan did this, too. thanks for sharing Blues through your channel and for your excellent reviews and playing !!❤❤👏👏🤘🤘
👏 high time Walter got the recognition he deserves .. been digging into his music in recent years . Imho , he is one of the best . Being more R&B , " Playing Hideaway " should have been a hit . So many great blues , plays from the heart . 👌
18:06 - you nailed it. I call them "trainwreck" bends. Sounds like metal screeching along metal. Nothing sounds like it, except perhaps someone doing it on slide. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tbome2_Xk5k.html
Man, Walter is a special guy. I remember watching him when i was 26 with my dad who introduced me to the r&b. Walter is such an amazing player. Btw, i heard Walter was very sick (almost died) and had to re-learn to play guitar. Is this performance before he got sick or after? Rip dad! React more to him!
I was honored before he went with Mayall that he would let me carry "The Baby". Of course I carried it with the latch next to my leg!!! One time his band was playing this club owned by Michael Harrah and there was NO ONE in the place and he was pissed. And Walter says "Well I called all my FRIEND and he didn't show up. Circa 1980's
I used to always request Red House OMG he would go for 25 and keep going AND STILL had the dynamics. Wait until he using his little finger on the volume button that is how he gets HIS little sound there.
There's many a player that have never drawn blood from a Strat. Cĺapton for instance, has been cajoling a sound from his for decades. Walter makes a Strat wail, and there aren't many sounds like it.
Funny true story, I am in Guitar center and they are playing something on their in store sound system and all i hear is this incredible, emotional, fiery playing that literally stopped me in my tracks asking in disbelief 'WHO IS THAT PLAYING GUITAR?" the store clerk say's that's WALTER TROUT. Here i am a guitar player of over 25 years and have not heard of this guy? WTF? something is really wrong!😡 Needless to say been a major fan since! I think it is safe to say Walter is the most underrated Blues rock player ever!
I wonder of Walter really knows himself that he is 'bending towards the fifth over the V-chord' or whatever, or that he just has blues running through his veins and this music comes pouring out as soon as he picks up guitar!
Newbie here, is there something that i can google to learn the theory he is talking about. Things like 'the 6th degree is the 3rd of your 4 chord'. Is there visual presentations of that somewhere, not sure where to begin learning this.
Subscribe to Guitar Gate and you'll get all the answers you're looking for. Michael describes all of this in detail within his online teaching courses.
Been following Walter for 7 or 8 years now. Besides being a phenomenal musician his life story (and almost death) is very inspiring. I highly recommend reading up on his battles with addiction, battles with music executives stealing from him, to a life saving organ transplant that forced him to have to relearn the guitar all over again. My man, Walter!
Like the other guys said - Subscribe to the FREE section of Guitargate - Lesson 13 Music Theory 102 is a great start. Quick lesson using C as the root. C=1, D=2, E=3, F=4, G=5, A=6, B=7... 6th degree of C is A. The 4 chord (or 4th degree) of C is F. When F is the root - F=1, G=2, A=3, therefore; A is the 6th degree of C AND the 3rd of the 4 chord. Hope this helps, Cheers!
No pedals. Boogie on channel 3 gain right up. Controlled with vol by his pinkie. One of my all time fave players. He’s honest. Talking of which…. How do I know this? RU-vid vid!! Loving the channel Michael. Thank you. Rob Northern Ireland
Hey people I KNOW he only took ONE guitar lesson and the teacher says "Oh ah uh. You don't need lessons." People to play LIKE THIS OR STEVIE RAY OR MIKE BLOOMFIELD ERIC you can't take lessons. NOT AT THAT LEVEL. They are above ALL. You will NEVER be able to play like this. trust me. I watcjed the jealousy. And Walter is so sweet.
