@sonhouse saidNo, I had not, but thank you for what seems to have been a recommendation.
@Arkturos
Ever hear of Ida Presti and Alexander Lagoya?
ABSOLUTELY outstanding classical guitar duo, they met at a concert where both were playing and they soon got married.
This in the 1940's and in the 70's Julian bream and John Williams did a record called Julian and John, a direct shoutout to Ida and Alex.
Word on the street is Ida NEVER made a mistake playing guitar ...[text shortened]... if you can tell which one is Ida and which is Alex🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeeE7w1a9GU
@sonhouse saidThank you for the recommendation, sir. I promise that I will give it a listen, soon. (adds that to the to-do list)
Ida and Alex were among the very best classical guitarists of the 20th century.
Hope you take a listen.
[It's just that in recent times I have been oscillating between Windows 11 and Linux and have been reinstalling my OS, sometimes twice in the same day due to chronic indecision.]
@sonhouse saidNow I have listened and thank you again.
@Arkturos
Ever hear of Ida Presti and Alexander Lagoya?
ABSOLUTELY outstanding classical guitar duo, they met at a concert where both were playing and they soon got married.
This in the 1940's and in the 70's Julian bream and John Williams did a record called Julian and John, a direct shoutout to Ida and Alex.
Word on the street is Ida NEVER made a mistake playing guitar ...[text shortened]... if you can tell which one is Ida and which is Alex🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeeE7w1a9GU
Something I thought the other day when you first posted the link is that in the next few years or maybe even this year we might even more appreciate such human skill.
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@Paul-Martin saidSomehow I never liked that song, but I'll not shun you over that. 😉
Once a week I listen to this
White Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4
@Arkturos saidWell I have adored such skills.
Now I have listened and thank you again.
Something I thought the other day when you first posted the link is that in the next few years or maybe even this year we might even more appreciate such human skill.
I hear such genius on guitar and I think, lets see and AI robot do THAT!
https://www.tiktok.com/@moonsong4444/video/7559614802310761746?_r=1&_t=ZP-90Ss3Xgz3Nf
six minutes of sweetness
i think i admired the tortoise reaction the most
my horses in kentucky used to do much the same to me, but they knew i had apples in my pockets
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@rookie54 saidAnd you didn't have to sing to them🙂 What a great video! I play guitar, compose tunes for fingerpicking guitar and mandolin and send them to Sound Cloud, up to 506 tracks there now.
https://www.tiktok.com/@moonsong4444/video/7559614802310761746?_r=1&_t=ZP-90Ss3Xgz3Nf
six minutes of sweetness
i think i admired the tortoise reaction the most
my horses in kentucky used to do much the same to me, but they knew i had apples in my pockets
So I go outside, plop down on a chair on our front porch and start noodling and the birds seem to respond, almost call and response. Pretty cool.
https://soundcloud.com/user-399104119/rememberance-of-george-cromarty
This is one of my tunes, composed in honor of George Cromarty, great folk guitarist. RIP.
@sonhouse saidAlong those lines, I loved Beck's much later verse: "She had tofu the size of Texas" -- oh! and after a few more moves I ended up in somewhat of a hippie town (which doesn't exist anymore).
My band wrote a parody of that, the Age of Asparagus🙂
But as for "Age of Aquarius" -- that would have been in darkest fall or winter in 1972, before we moved from Monroe, MI to Winter Haven, FL -- I remember the female art teacher complimenting me on my long and pretty eyelashes*, the scent of mildew on my gym clothes**, and the racial tensions -- with junior-high students arranging "rumbles" after school -- which were so completely absent in Winter Haven the summer after.
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* Obviously she tried to find one thing about me which she could offer as a compliment, and nowadays she'd be arrested just for that.
** When I was young we moved around a few times, so I learned at least three abbreviations for "physical education": P.E., Phys. Ed., and Phy. Ed. In any case, I was usually one of the last chosen for any team. And unfortunately, as time went on, I ended up being too near-sighted to appreciate the developing physiques of the other guys in the showers.
@Arkturos saidFall of 72, just coming back from 3 years in Thailand working communications.
Along those lines, I loved Beck's much later verse: "She had tofu the size of Texas" -- oh! and after a few more moves I ended up in somewhat of a hippie town (which doesn't exist anymore).
But as for "Age of Aquarius" -- that would have been in darkest fall or winter in 1972, before we moved from Monroe, MI to Winter Haven, FL -- I remember the female art teacher complim ...[text shortened]... d up being too near-sighted to appreciate the developing physiques of the other guys in the showers.