This guy is the every ready bunny, he is 63 and still touring around the world, amazing. And still finds the time to do all these videos and guitar camps and have a family . WOW ! My hero.
Tommy I got to see you in State College ,PA a couple years ago. I was setting about 20' from you and all my guitar playing friends asked how many pointers I picked up ? I said"NONE HE WAS GOING TOO FAST "!!! Thank you Tommy for all the wonderful music all these years and GOD BLESS YOU !
Great hearing how he weaves the clearly Kottke patented bass riff into a Jerry Reed tune as if they were always meant to be together...such a bag of skills Tommy has... there is no guitar idiom he doesn't borrow from..
Tommy I'm so happy that you're making more of these instructional videos. With you tube you're reaching out to so many people who appreciate & respect your guitar virtuosity...the best way to connect! Please keep em coming mate!
Seems to be an amazingly beautiful human being...I'm going out to burn my last guitar today...HOW can anyone give him a thumbs down ??? I don't get it...What an amazing talent.
Who are the Ass Hats who thumb down this? Tommy is simply AMAZING. I have watched several of his videos and what a gift it is to get tutorials from a master!
Tommy is as usual a fantastic player, and he is also a good teacher. Among other things he recalls Leo Kottke extraordinarilly technique and groove at 3:55, a recognition of Leo's genius. We can hear this stuff for instance here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gJthGsBB5YQ.html
Wow. Ill stick to basic Knopfler patterns for now, (he has some hard ones too!) they were hard enough to learn. No way ill be getting my head and hand coordination around this any time soon.
I just burried my guitar in the garden. You did well my friend but now ist time to say Goodbye. I put some roses in it as a memory of wasted 50 years of struggle for pleasures...Thank Tommy. But I can take it any 30 years more 🤣🤣🤣
Luckily when earth was getting ready to be invaded by aliens they watched this video first....they never headed back to their home planet as fast as they did that day! Thanks Tommy!!
Here are the originals: The Unbelievable Guitar and Voice of Jerry Reed (1967) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vtmb-m4eG6w.html Sneakin' Around (1991) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GEIDKCW_qso.html
You're not wrong, and it's not a coincidence, a lot of Roots Music very intentionally incorporates sonic elements that mimick other sounds, generally as a narrative or mood-setting device. Given that this type of music really (in terms of guitar music) got started in the US, which was built out on the back of the Rail Lines, it's natural that such a distinctive sounding machine as a Locomotive would find its way into "Hobo Music" (lots of Locomotive sounds in Hobo Harp/Harmonica tunes, too), Delta Blues, etc.. But, as to the first response, yes, Tommy is also a fantastically talented guitarist :D
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the comment may be connecting Jerry Reed the musician to Jerry Reed the actor, then connecting that a quote from Waterboy where Adam Sandler quips after one of the running backs for Jerry Reed's team is yelling at Sandler that he "sounds like a choo choo train."