Tuck Andress & Patti Cathcart live in Summonte (AV), Sentieri mediterranei - Festival internazionale di musica etnica, 23-07-2011. Part 2 of 3: Up And At It (by Wes Montgomery)
Heard him play this song live in New York many years ago and I had to excuse myself from my seat afterwords because it was the first instrumental song that ever brought me to tears because of the understanding a new language of artistic communication. This is beautiful.
I've been enjoying Tuck's work for years. I play his music at work and other guitarists pretend not to be impressed, stating that it's not their style. I've been playing fingerstyle for years and can't do 1/4 of what Tuck does. Tommy Emmanuel is my other fingerstyle hero, but he uses an acoustic. Check out his channel.
i bought the cd with this song more or less 23 years ago, and i used to think "up and at it" was incredible. And nowadays i still find it incredible !!!
One of the all time greats, i still dream Tuck, Paco de Lucia, & Tommy Emmanuel doing a once in a lifetime classical flamenco/jazz fusion/bluegrass collab concert album like when Paco did the "Meditarranean Sundance" with Ai di Meola & John Mclaughlin in '77. Would have been "The End Game" for which a virtuoso's bar is set for centuries to come.
Always end up just using your hands it will come naturally if you use everything everyday at your disposal lol TUCK thanks I have learned much from you and Joe Pass
I once played a cover of a Jimi Hendrix song and someone told me that it sucked and that Jimi played it way better. He asked me who it was and I told him that it was Stevie Ray Vaughan. He sure showed what a complete idiot he was by making such a comment. I was shocked that he was so stupid that he didn't even know who Stevie was.
Tuck rarely plays open tunings. He occasionally drops the low E to a D. Other than that, he plays in standard tuning. He informed me of this when he gave me a lesson.
