Mike Dawes - Everlong cover - Wow!

mrkb

Enjoy -

stratman3142

Wow indeed!

Love it.

darius

Goddamn it he’s even nailed the drum fills. 

Amazing. 

jhumber

Watched this last night. Just showed my kids it this morning…. It’s brain-melting how he nailed those drum fills. I thought I’d seen it all by now, but he’s continuing to push the acoustic guitar to new places. Incredible stuff. 

Pjon

It's very clever, and he's an astonishingly good player, but take away the visuals and it sounds like an elevator music version of Everlong.  

thecolourbox

Ah but can he do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke?

CHRISB50

Pjon said:

It's very clever, and he's an astonishingly good player, but take away the visuals and it sounds like an elevator music version of Everlong.  

I was really, really into this stuff for a while (I even bought a Lowden, and learned how to attempt (!) to do it). But I agree with this. 

Skill level off the charts. Great to watch and listen to as a performance. But I wouldn’t want an album of it.

Even someone like Andy McKee, their recorded output is an acquired taste, that I found doesn’t have much longevity. 

The only 2 guys I’ve heard do this stuff, and I can listen to, without the visual aspect; Michael Hedges and Antoine Dufour. 

Of course, YMMV. 

Musical_Mystery_Tour

darius said:

he’s even nailed the drum fills. 

And the synth in the background too, which is especially impressive on an electro-acoustic guitar.

JonnyBgoode

Yeah I heard some of this this before he released it, just awesome. Mike is a wonderful player, a nice guy and a superb showman too. I was about 2 or 3 metres away from him when I saw him live, amongst other high spots watching him nail his incredible cover of Metallica's One without dropping a note.  He can play all this stuff live, no problem and he uses those synthy type swells sparingly. 

snowblind

I just wish I had fingers like that instead of meat hooks. It would make playing guitar so much easier.