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Then maybe one day I can be 1% as proficient!!
Liked his version of Little Wing. It was on a Guitarist cover CD and got my attention. Great player.
A simply incredible demonstration of absolute mastery of the instrument. I see what you mean @Moominpapa when you say how his guitar just seems to be part of him! Managed to bag a seat in the front row too!
Had a chat with him at the interval and he couldn't have been nicer. I commented on his cover of Slow Dancing in a Burning Room which I enjoyed as a massive Mayer fan. Turns out Robbie McIntosh played bass on one of his albums as he happened to live nearby where it was recorded and they needed someone in a fix!
He was even happy for me to nab his little handwritten setlist as a little souvenir (I explained that I was trying to start a little collection of memorabilia from shows I've been to for my guitar practice room!) - total gent.
He was playing two semis, mainly a thinline Gibson as seen in the first photo and occasionally something that looked much much older (I know nothing about these guitars!) as seen in the second. Amp wise he was using a Rift amp and a Fender 65(?) Princeton Reverb
Hope it's ok to post YouTube videos here....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka4bD4ncHo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP7VEtyzycs
EDIT - found info on the guitars from his site:
Very happy to hear you had a great time. There's something daunting and humbling about Aynsley Lister's work ethic. He's been playing these small venue one-man sets all over the country (and across the Channel) for well over a decade now, never mind shows with his band. You could either find it depressing that someone is that talented and works that hard and never gets a top ten hit or moves into 'the big time' (what ever that is these days), or you could be happy that there is at least enough of a live music scene left to allow someone like him to keep doing what he clearly loves doing. With a son of my own hoping to make it as a professional musician I obviously try to take the latter, more positive view - but it shows you the level of commitment that it takes, and that makes it all the more impressive to me that every time people see Aynsley they comment on what a friendly, down-to-earth, cheerful guy he is.
There are no end of talented guitarists and singers who will frankly never get any farther than they are now, just regularly playing small pub and club gigs. Ainsley, Papa George, Chantelle McGregor etc etc. George has an incredible voice, is a really good player, does a regular (free!) pub gig with Micky Moody but has never really got the credit he deserved. Still does it just because he loves it though.