I read that Glen's dementia was so advanced, but they could hand him a guitar, and he could still kick anyone's butts. He never lost it,he couldn't remember the words to the song but never lost the ability to play that guitar
At the end of his career, when his memory was gone, at a concert in Minnesota, Glen introduced the same song twice in a row, and played it twice in a row. And the audience just smiled and clapped, because they were glad to hear it twice.
I had a chance to see Glenn in the 80's and again towards the end of his final tour... The last tour, his daughter was right over his shoulder to help him in case he got confused... there was one time he was looking around like he was lost and a bit frightened. She calmly stepped up, placed her hand on his back and whispered to him. He calmed down and continued on. He missed a couple of chord changes and spaced a few lyrics, but a better show than many fully functional musicians. I walked out in tears (not that I would admit that to my band) at the loss of this giant.
Our best live concert film ever. I helped design the blue Hamer 12 that replaced the Ovation Bluebird that you saw in Ghost Riders. I'm over to the right on the red Ovation Viper. In my entire 4500 shows with him, I never once heard him flub playing on his head. We shot two nights and they picked the best takes for the final film. Great years!
The video where Glen is playing and picking one of his very first hits, "Gentle On My Mind." Glen is surrounded by a entire bevy of his fellow musicians; legends like Roy Clark; Chet Atkins; and good ole Willie Nelson! THANK YOU BRO!!
Campbell played the guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, and bagpipes (check out his rendition of Mull Of Kintyre ). What he couldn't do was read music. He played by ear much the same way Roy Clark did.
As a child of the 50s-60's it has been said that when you hear The William Tell Overture you are sophisticated if you don't immediately think of The Lone Ranger.
Glen having fun with this song is all the proof one needs that he was next level and one with his instrument. He's a musicians musician, the general public will rarely think of him when asked about the great guitar players, but when you ask (professional) guitarists, they will likely name him, Roy, and Paco de Lucia as some of the best players to learn from. They put in so much work into mastering their instruments, resulting in being completely tuned in (pardon the pun lol)
2001, Sioux Falls, SD with the South Dakota Symphony. The entire concert is on RU-vid. I've always enjoyed Glen Campbell but it's only been the last few years that I discovered how talented he was. As Bobby Bare said "Glen Campbell has more talent than anybody ought to have".
I grew up listening to Glen Campbell. I wish I could play guitar 1/10th as well as him. I read his Wikipedia information and took bits and pieces that summarized his life, then wrote a song about him. My bucket list contains visiting his grave and singing that song. It's called Should We Ever Meet. I'm not plugging my song. I really admire the man who inspires my journey. Glen was one of the greatest in music history.
You "can play the guitar but not very well", but it's more than I can do. I've always wished I could play, but never did take the time to learn. Glenn and Roy Clark have always been at the top of my list of incredible guitarists.
Glen was a very accomplished studio guitarist. He played on many rock and country records in the 60s and 70s. And if memory serves me, he couldn't read music but could duplicate and add flair to anything he heard.
A lot of songwriters had Glen cut the demos of the songs they wrote for particular artists because he could sound like anyone sp the singers could hear what the song would sound like if they recorded it.
Dave, I recommend watching *The Wrecking Crew* documentary. It was the name given to an assembly of studiio musicians in Los Angeles that played on hundreds of hit records in the '60s. Glen is probably the most recognizable name, followed by Leon Russell who famously collaborated with Joe Cocker, but also had a solo career.
Excellent suggestion! I've watched it - fantastic documentary. Highly recommended if you want to understand where a lot of the best music from the 60s and 70s came from. The volume of amazing music that came from that incredibly talented group of core musicians boggles the mind.
Finally! This of course was done maybe 10 years AFTER he started performing this. His original versions were with 6-strings and a rather traditional rock-band lineup with keyboards helping fill in orchestral parts. But he finally said, "Fine, let's get it on TV WITH an orchestra."
After his Alzheimer diagnosis, Glenn did a nearly 2 year farewell tour, playing and singing through muscle memory. He would sometime repeat songs he had just done but his kids who were part of the band would keep him straight. He sadly passed away at 81. His last recording, I'm Not Gonna Miss You, won country song of the year and was nominated in several other categories. RIP Glenn ❤
I'm an elementary music teacher, when I get to the Rossini unit, I play Una Voce Poco Fa by Cecilia Bartoli and then I play this for my kids, they go crazy! BTW this concert in South Dakota with The South Dakota Symphony.
Check out Jim Stafford... "Classical Gas"... He too is a master of guitar... As well as other talents too... He often mixes comedy in with his guitar skills...
"Johnny Lobo" by Kris Kristofferson is one of those incredibly moving songs for me. It's about a man named John Trudell, who was an activist and poet working for the cause of Native American rights.
Have you ever heard of the great bluesman Buddy Guy , I saw him a few yrs ago in Joliet ill and it was a killer show he had a woman open for him named Ana Popovic . You should do a video on both of them. I think you will enjoy them. He even brought her out on his encore and then gave her the stage.
Buddy Guy is a legend. Not quite as well known as Muddy Waters or T-Bone Walker, but every bit as talented. Ana is simply amazing with a voice that will leave you stunned
Not really. You can't pick the stings individually but the strings are so close together that it's almost like hitting (picking) one string. He was so precise in his playing that it sounds like one string. The two high E and two A strings are tuned alike and the other strings are tuned normal the second strings for each are tuned an octave higher.
You should check out "Jerry Reed & Glen Campbell Southern Nights". It's a live video in an outdoor venue by a lake. Glenn is in shorts and t-shirt, Jerry in a sleeveless top. Glenn is talking about the "lick" that Jerry taught him.
Here's another singer-songwriter to check out; Gordon Lightfoot singing the The Wreck of The Edmond Fitzgerald. There are several live performance videos, one when he was younger and another one at a performance in Reno. Would love to see what your reaction is.
@@DaveWildheart That song is a masterclass in poetic storytelling. There were many news stories at the time but none of them gave a complete story. Gordon searched to get all the accurate facts as well as the emotion of the tragedy. In some ways, it's the most complete, concise report on the incident.
Check Roy Clark playing: BLACK SAPPHIRE , 12th STREET RAG, UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE , And just for Fun: Than God and greyhound she’s gone And Folsom Prison Blues
Glen toured and played bass with them for about 3 months in 1965 when Brian Wilson stopped touring. When he left the group he was replaced with Bruce Johnston. In 1963 he played 12 string guitar with a group called The Folkswingers. I bought their album in '63 when I was a senior in high school. I think I still have it.
Glen was not just country. As a member of the Wrecking Crew, he contributed to a lot of the seminal pop music of his era. He subbed for an out-of-commission Brian Wilson on a Beach Boys tour once. I heard that he could not read music, but if he heard something once, he could play it perfectly and improve on it.
You have probably already seen it, but Queen performed an amazing live version of "Love of My Life" where the huge audience performs with him and the effect is incredible. Also "The Power of the Pentatonic Scale live performance by Bobby McFerrin. And Bobby McFerrin's full performance of his song "Drive" (live in Montreal) is great too. Another great live performance on RU-vid is Billy Strings and Tommy Emmanuel "Workin' Man Blues" 2019
IS THIS INSANE😮, INSANELYYYYYY GOOD DAVE OR WHATTT??? LMAO 💯😊 GLEN WAS A MASTER WHO COULDN'T EVENNNNN READ MUCI BUT SURELY KNEW CHORDS AND HOW TO PLAY THEM AND SHRED! 👍 YOU SHOULD TRY AND VIEW ( BACK HOME IN INDIANA ) IT'S DONE IN A ( 16 COUNT ) TAKE CARE MAN, GLAD YOU GOT TO THIS GEM! R.I.PEACE☹ GLEN!
First time watching you. Inc work. Now, look for Roy Clark play in several strings in one song. Also Clark and Glenn Campbell were friends and played together at times. See if you can find that. Good luck from USA.
I think Campbell was somewhat underappreciated and under-respected, to many he was a 'country' singer who accompanied himself on guitar, but he was much more! Oh Dave: have you viewed (in my un-expert opinion) The greatest: SRV? (Stevie Ray Vaughn) a Must Watch if you haven't already seen him - his 'blues' guitar playing and singing are incredible - another great artist who left us way too early. Please check him out😊
He did do a lot of country and pop songs but in the early and mid 60s he was playing with Carol Kaye and the Beach Boy doing some the original rock music. Him and Carol crated something that hasn't truly been surpassed. Look into it, great stuff.
Some other options for the early country, cowboy, trucker story tellers are: Burl Ives, Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, Gene Autry, (of course) Hank Williams, Chris LeDoux, CW Mcall, Red Sovine, and thats just the tiniest tip of the iceburg, but enough to send you down the rabbit hole!
Actually, Eddie Van Halen asked Alice Cooper if he could get Glen to give him some lessons. Glen was a session player with the Wrecking Crew on hundreds of albums from Elvis to Frank Sinatra, He was also a member of the Beach Boys for a short time when Brian Wilson stepped away to produce.
If you haven't done so already check out a guitar duel with Glen and Roy Clarke and Roy doing some mandalena thing whatever, don't remember what it's called but insane acoustic guitar playng.
I don't know if you've done Harry Chapin because I just recently stumbled onto your page. Find Harry Chapin I believe it's on the John Denver special. He does a song called taxi. Extremely well-crafted lyrically and musically. I think you'll like it.
I think this was filmed in the 1990s or maybe the 2000s. Glen looks pretty old here. (He died in 2017.). It’s shot in standard definition, not HD, so I don’t think it was shot any later than the ‘00s.
This might actually be the late 70's. And I believe the orchestra is The Boston Pops. They used to broadcast, I believe on PBS every week, and I suspect this is from one of those shows.
No. This isn’t the Boston Pops. The video of him with the Boston Pops with Arthur Fiedler is on RU-vid. This is from a PBS Glenn Campbell special late 1990s or early 2000s.
If it hasn't been mentioned watch Glen and Roy Clark playing the same guitar at the same time. Both are hilarious and they both absolutely shred that axe. :=3
Please look up a woman known professionally as Charo playing Malagueña. She plays it much differently from Roy Clark. She is still performing in her 70’s.
That's because most people are confusing the dance style known as malaguena within the flamenco. There are many different malaguena style songs yet none are identical
That is an amazing performance. I don't want to take anything away from it (Eddie Van Halen once asked Alice Cooper to introduce him to Glen Campbell for a guitar lesson because they played golf together). But since you were so impressed, I recommend another iconic guitar reaction video from the 80's -- Stevie Ray Vaughan performing Texas Flood live at the El Mocambo. The pinnacle of Texas Blues. Your jaw will be on the floor by the end.
