Mike Campbell - The Guitars on YouTube

freakboy1610

Watched this last night. A series of short films about Mike Campbell's guitars that have been linked together. He seems like a nice bloke and he's got some top drawer kit. Really enjoyed it.

Teyeplayer

This is great cheers for sharing and you are right, doesn’t he come across as a really nice guy.

guitars4you

was about to watch it - but 90 mins - long - thanks for the posting and will watch it in full, in dribs and drabs

Great guy and a great guitar player - total self confessed gear junky - believe he spends more time on e-bay then @HarrySeven looking at odd ball guitars

DrBob

Wish they’d made it without the beginning and end credits every 4 minutes...

chromatuna

Very enjoyable, thanks for sharing

ourmaninthenorth

Magic.

+1 on the thanks 

IvisonGuitars

Its a great watch....but the dirt on that Broadcaster fingerboard....I'm all for vibe Mike, but before too long the bloody thing is likely jump out of the case and start playing itself with that much DNA on it!! Give it a wipe you mucky begger! ;-) 

Kylef

Paid the price for the Premium website where this was originally a few years ago just for this. There was a new clip every week. Watched it again since, worth the watch and some great gear. One of my favourite guitarists.

guitars4you

miserneil said:

Its a great watch....but the dirt on that Broadcaster fingerboard....I'm all for vibe Mike, but before too long the bloody thing is likely jump out of the case and start playing itself with that much DNA on it!! Give it a wipe you mucky begger! ;-) 

look at it again when he starts speaking about it - and on the table behind is a bottle of Dunlop Lemon Oil - ironic !!!!

guitars4you

@HarrySeven - watch the last 5-10 mins - his collection on the wall in the house and his 'man cave' 

Philly_Q

Fascinating.  But kind of sad watching it with all the references to Tom Petty.

blueskunk

Mike is such a great player and musician , it’s good he is getting the recognition he deserves. 

I remember the concert for George Harrison when these boys came on and did Taxman, pure RocknRoll/Americana swagger - I remember thinking who the fook is that guitarist. 

Great guy guy and very sad about Tom still. 

richardhomer

blueskunk said:

Mike is such a great player and musician , it’s good he is getting the recognition he deserves. 

I remember the concert for George Harrison when these boys came on and did Taxman, pure RocknRoll/Americana swagger - I remember thinking who the fook is that guitarist. 

Great guy guy and very sad about Tom still. 

I reckon Mike Campbell has exactly the same gift as George Harrison - he ‘plays the song’ perfectly - little riffs and motifs that add something, rather than showing off. Robbie McIntosh has it too - his playing on The Pretenders’ ‘Hymn to Her’ is a good example.

StuartMac290

richardhomer said:

blueskunk said:

Mike is such a great player and musician , it’s good he is getting the recognition he deserves. 

I remember the concert for George Harrison when these boys came on and did Taxman, pure RocknRoll/Americana swagger - I remember thinking who the fook is that guitarist. 

Great guy guy and very sad about Tom still. 

I reckon Mike Campbell has exactly the same gift as George Harrison - he ‘plays the song’ perfectly - little riffs and motifs that add something, rather than showing off. Robbie McIntosh has it too - his playing on The Pretenders’ ‘Hymn to Her’ is a good example.

I played with an artist for years whose first album had Robbie McIntosh on guitar. Learning his parts was a revelation - they're never just quite as simple and straightforward as they initially sound, there's always a couple of odd wee bits in there. He is an absolute master of playing to the song - which is why he's been in such demand for decades. The perfect session man.

He's also an absolutely incredible player when you sit down with him and jam - he's been playing miles within his abilities on record for many years!

impmann

StuartMac290 said:

richardhomer said:

blueskunk said:

Mike is such a great player and musician , it’s good he is getting the recognition he deserves. 

I remember the concert for George Harrison when these boys came on and did Taxman, pure RocknRoll/Americana swagger - I remember thinking who the fook is that guitarist. 

Great guy guy and very sad about Tom still. 

I reckon Mike Campbell has exactly the same gift as George Harrison - he ‘plays the song’ perfectly - little riffs and motifs that add something, rather than showing off. Robbie McIntosh has it too - his playing on The Pretenders’ ‘Hymn to Her’ is a good example.

I played with an artist for years whose first album had Robbie McIntosh on guitar. Learning his parts was a revelation - they're never just quite as simple and straightforward as they initially sound, there's always a couple of odd wee bits in there. He is an absolute master of playing to the song - which is why he's been in such demand for decades. The perfect session man.

He's also an absolutely incredible player when you sit down with him and jam - he's been playing miles within his abilities on record for many years!

Robbie McIntosh is the reason I own a Telecaster.

I saw him play with Macca in a warm up show for one if his tours - it was a fan club only event in the early 90s. A great friend was in the fan club. Anyway, all night the only guitar he played was an early 50s blackguard *Esquire* covering all the sonic bases from the Cavern club through the Sgt Pepper era, through the 1970s era to the (then) present day. Thanks to his mastery of the tone and volume control on the guitar, it always sounded perfect within the track and didn't just sound like a bloke with a Tele... and he only had a small handful of pedal between him and the amp. Plus, he played *HIS OWN* versions of the famous solos - taking elements of the originals to ensure that he wasn't fully off piste, keeping them relevant but making them his own. I went home and two days later I bought my first Tele.

As for Mike C - he's a brilliant player, and seems like a genuinely nice guy. His love of these old guitars is infectious and he really knows how to get the right sound for a given song, without overplaying but sill contributing. Thanks for sharing the vid.

longjaw

Bloody video's been deleted from YouTube, I was watching 10 mins a day :-(

normula1

I'd got about half way through.