Mike Dawes & Tommy Emmanuel - Somebody That I Used to Know 

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Sounds beautiful guys! Wow!🙏🏻🙏🏻🔥🔥

That’s legendary, I wish I could see Mike and Tommy playing together live someday

I've never seen Tommy Emmanuel do "so little". Mike Dawes already covers so much of this song on his own that there is hardly any room for another guitar. Yet, Tommy finds his way to add even more layers to it. He doesn't draw too much attention, he rather elevates what Mike does even further. Brilliant collaboration, two masters at work in perfect harmony. Love it!

We need a whole album as a collab between you 2 master guitarists. This is outstanding!!

Holy crap this was inspiring. 2 absolute legends!

Everytime I listen to Tommy playing with someone else, I'm blown away by how well he balances out his playing. He manages to add more to every song he plays, while also knowing to step back at the right time and let the other guitarist have their moments.

Mr, Dawes shares some great techniques with Marcin, but this is a lot more relaxing to listen to. And of course Tommy is so wonderfully musical as well.

Buttery smooth!

When two legends meet.❤️

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Wonderful when Tommy slows down a touch. The music is just…whew…wonderful. From East Tennessee

Tommy adding in the accents and motifs from Sultans of Swing made me smile so hard

When Tommy Emmanuel decides to play with you, on 'his' instrument, - you know you've reached some level of proficiency or you're still sleeping... Beautiful composition - flowed like water.

Tommy Emmanuel. Top 5 guitarists that ever lived. Seriously.

Where is the love button? That thumbs up button needs to be 100x bigger. Guys this is SO.DAMN.GOOD

Here you have it ladies and gentlemen........perfection. Bloody brilliant 👏

People talk about Hendrix , Clapton , slash tone but Tommy’s tone on an acoustic guitar is legendary. You could listen to his tone even if there’s an ensemble of guitarists playing !!

2:52 That was amazing as hell.

Wonderful vibe and ooh I'll just have to 'grab' that lick that Tommy starts at 3:14

I saw these gentlemen together live on stage in San Diego. Mike opened for Tommy, then they did a number of duets through the concert. A truly magical night to remember.

I love this so much! 💯💯

2:51 coolest thing I've heard

I can't think of a better instrumental duet: Dawes sounds like a six piece band by himself with an out of this world technique, which lays down a rich groove that has Emmanuel on a high before he plays a single riff. But the best thing, is that all of it ALL OF IT is in service of the music, the co-creation, and none of it is ego-driven showy stuff. Lots of people like the circus, but this is what it would sound like if Michelangelo and Einstein were musicians and got down to it. WOW!

FRIKKIN INSANE GUYS!

It is honestly hard to comprehend how anyone can be so talented, and also have the collective minds to put it all together, clearly done in separate recording studios. I am totally speechless, there's no compliment that expresses how much I love this.

I'm standing on the roof of my country house in Mexico, listening to this beautiful music while listening to some coyotes yipping about 200 yards away and getting bitten by dozens of mosquitos. The memories this is going to make!

The changes in tuning by Mike are so smooth...this could be one of the best colabs between two purely acoustic guitarists. Loved it!

Two weeks ago I was fortunate enough to travel to Sydney Australia and perform live at the opera house in front of nearly six thousand people. I was able to pull off an exact rendition of this performance and the crowd went nuts. Standing ovation and all. Then, my fkn alarm clock beside my little bed in my tiny apartment in Darlington SC went off and screwed everything up.

At the end of the day, you've got to hand it to Gotye for writing one of the all time most amazing riffs that this world has ever seen. Lets musicians like this show off their outrageous talent!

Beautiful work Tommy, but Mike, that rhythm, and percussion and whatever else you were doing was absurdly creative and well done. Beautiful pair. Kudos. By the way, using the Scruggs D tuner on guitar is sweet and you did it so well.

Tommy Emmanuel is the loveliest man and so very talented. Great to see you are still performing. I interviewed you back in the early eighties when I was just starting out. Fond memories of your kindness.

Lovely cover, complete with laundry basket. ❤️❤️👍

I consider myself very lucky to have seen Tommy Emmanuel perform live on several occasions- pre the ‘rona

Give me a 10 hour version of Tommy waving his hands, it's amazing :)

That change at 2:50 is the cherry

2 of God’s many great gifts to humanity - 1. The Guitar 2. Great guitarists like these two masters.

This legendary piece is soooo goooooooooudd !! 😍😍 speechless..

tommy sounds like he's playing a dire straights riff. this sounds amazing.

I don’t even know what to say except thank you both 🤘🏼

When the guitar loves you back

Beautiful stuff from both of you! 🔥

Mike presents a pristine version of the song that is almost complete in itself, simultaneously doing the bass, drums guitar comping, melody line. Tommy dances beautifully in the little space left on the music platform with such splendour, harmonising, sneakily filling in whatever little musical spaces left for him and oh my, the choice of notes and the variety of tones Tommy can coax out of his guitar!

Not only is Tommy a magnificent musician, but an all round nice person. I met him at a TV studio in Central Australia in 1998 when I worked there for a live cross to some show and he was the most quiet and unassuming person I have ever met and always very gracious in his manner.

Mike is Miraculous and Tommy Emanuel has been Avant Garde for years and years and miles and miles. This is exquisite.

So that’s what talent and joy combined looks like

Tommy can't stop entertaining and playing with the camera. So sweet 😄

Nice. Tommy is so happy in this. He deserves a break. And Mike is driving the car perfectly.

My ears are quite satisfied.

I would be blown away just knowing that Tommy Emmanuel knows my name never mind playing guitar with him.. What an honour.. Well done & great guitar playing by you both..

Absolutely smashed it! Love it guys 🔥

Beautiful doesn't even describe this magic. ❤❤❤

Tommy is a legend. Mike is a game changer. Lovely collab.

I have to agree, Tommy is deliberately playing understated here & we all know he could probably play the whole piece single-handedly without even thinking about it. It really is the sign of a master guitarist giving the platform to another unbelievable guitarist in his own right. Such class.

Just watched Rick Beato's latest vid. Heard reference of this cover. Had to check it out. FREAKING INCREDIBLE!!!🤯

A new guitarist for me to follow for my own guitar wanderings. Merry Christmas!

This performance make me think that Life Is so Beautiful

Tommy gives so much appreciation to whoever he plays with.

Wow, two of my favorite guitarists jamming together on one of my favorite songs! Fantastic!

Well if this is the quality of entertainment up there, maybe we should all go live on Mars after all.

This is some of the most amazingly beautiful soulful music that I’ve ever heard in my nearly 5 decades on this earth of being a huge music fan.

Only bad thing about this is: it's got an ending! Thank you for that little piece of magic :)

The best part about this is how much fun they’re having. Even if nobody ever heard/saw them play they would do it with the same amount of energy and passion. It’s so evident that they’re both just in love with playing this instrument. Two legends.

Making me smile lads! Thank you.

Tommy played in my uncle Graham’s band many decades ago! Sad I will never get to meet either of the legends

This really puts into perspective what a monster player Mike actually is. Imho he will be unmatched for a loooong time

Awesome performance!🎶

Tommy is a legend. Mike your name should be Precision

I have watched this video probably 1000 times and I am blown away every time I see it

When we saw the interview with potato quality we all wished you would do this. Now we have it and life is better now :) Thank you for this great piece of history.

Masterful - not just the playing but the whole video and audio production. What a combo, and Tommy's expressions are priceless! Totally enjoyed it. Who ARE those people who gave this a thumbs down?

Start my day every day with this.

This is my parallel universe. Wow wow wow! I wish I played 1/50 like that

Just ridiculous. Makes it hard to pick up a guitar after listening to this. Incredible! Tommy is so cool, and Dawes hands 🙌 look like they were designed to play guitar.

Playing with Tommy and having kudos from Rick Beato is the absolute dream! Great work : D

Wow, this younger guitar player has super long fingers! I've never had that long of fingers. Great for guitar playing.

Mike's Benjamin is an amazing guitar. On of the most reliable custom acoustics around. And relatively affordable when compared to prices thet the other luthiest of this tier are calling.

This is beautiful 💙

Hypnotic, magical , tonal mastery, explosive, harmonic telepathy, modal rapture, and just damn right brilliant! Thank you for that Mike and Tommy.

Coming to you on my Wife's tablet (Susan) brilliant, absolutely. I'm a guitarist too & man I wish I had the same masterful use of my right hand, many thanks

Both of these men have reached a level of proficiency that eludes the vast majority of us normal humans.

Tommy makes me laugh so hard every time he makes those funny faces. Not only is he a guitar genius, he's also funny as hell. Just love the guy. What's not to like, right? 🤣🤣 And yes, this guitar duet is pure magic!

Woow... Let me thank You both for this massive amount joy you are bringing night in night out to basically everyone who hears this and isn't deaf... Not many people actually realize what a blessing it is to get the chance listen to such a performance, and only few people globally can provide such a thing. I dont know how to put it in a sentence, excuse my english, I'll translate from my language couple of things I have to say, since I cant remerber when was the last time I was so moved by some piece of music: 1. The sound coming out of your instruments is so perfectly set and ballanced, minimalistic and powerful at the same time... so colorful and so beautiful. If I hadn't heard Tommy live many times, I'd be sure it was heavily mixed and filtered. But guess what, I know You would play this in the middle of the night and it would be. And Mike, you are couple of years younger than me, but sometimes it seems like you are some kind of highlander/performer/artist on tour that is lasting for centuries. I wanna live to hear your live performance when You'll be 60 years old, with double the experience compared to now? 2. Arrangement - I've been playing for almost 30 years now and I am 100% incompetent to say one single word except WOOW again 3. The flow - most people dont realize that timing the dynamics from harsh to almost silent is probably one of the hardest "intangibles" on the guitar, since it cannot be teachable... simply takes decades.... 4. Skill set - Is anyone familiar with that feeling of giving up and burning all of my guitars ASAP, but at the same time feeling motivated and hungry for the strings. Eventhough 99,99% of us mortals will never reach any level close to this, please do take credits for one more thing: You ve made so many guitarists work harder and become better players... and that is huge, and please keep that in mind Sorry for long spammer post, but I had to write this... P.S: Thank You for the music

Listening to this has inspired me to take up playing the kazoo.

Wow!!! Tommy really adds so much by, what? BY PLAYING SO LITTLE! What a great pairing this is!!! Ho Lee Fuk!!!

Mike’s playing here feels like a technical extension of Michael Hedges, almost like a more cerebral and complex version of Hedge’s style. Tommy looks on another level of visceral connection with the instrument that may not be as nuanced, but seems more powerful and expressive.

These guitars must be crying as much as I am when getting played so beautifully

one word.......AWESOME

Amazing job!! WOW Mind blown!!

This is certainly your swan song Mike 😂 feel like I’ve been watching you perform it for 37 years

I've had the privilege of see both these phenomenal guitarists in Philly...Awesome picking!

Just the skill alone takes my breath away !

Opposite to what Clapton said about burning his guitar when he saw Jimmy Hendrix play, this just makes me want to practice more! Wow!

If I had to live through this crappy day only to see this at the end.... It was all worth it. Thank you Mike, thank you Tommy, that was amazing!

Amazing talent you both have. Hats off!

Superb!!

What a brilliant pair of guitar 🎸 players

Four of the most incredible hands ever to grace a fretboard! Seen them both live, their dedication to their craft is unimpeachable, true artists!

LOVE LOVE LOVE ALL of this ... the playing the studio set up the background and the greatest talents enjoying each others presence and the music

Hi everyone this is SURELY the only way to go back in time and BRING back your YOUTHFUL ENERGY for but a few minutes. I am 80 and have just been THERE From South Africa