Glen Campbell - Gentle on My Mind (Chet Atkins, Willie Nelson, Roy Clark get a guitar lesson)

youtube ^ | awhileago | Glen

[FlJoePa]

Same youtube link here

What a room full of legends...and yet they knew what they were watching.

[uncitizen]

Thanks for that! It was great.

[Utilizer]

Right then, ah... first off, I really was not aware of him until you mentioned his name so I had to do a quick search on ixquick to find out more about him. While he does appear to have some impressive credentials to bear, so far what I have heard is... not problematic from a professional guitarist's point of view. My initial viewings on YouTube were not all that great, but I must admit that I have not heard all that he can do so there is that.

I think I do not have enough experience of him to make a valued judgement about his skills at this point in time.

Pink Floyd's "The Wall" album came out on a two-CD set some time ago, and I can play all of the first CD pretty much note-for-note, entirely by ear, with certain exceptions so that I hope will serve as proof of My abilities as far as guitar-playing is concerned. The exception is that the lead guitarist uses an axe that has a longer neck than the guitar I normally play on and so I do not have the range needed to play exactly one or two numbers on the album -but I can fake it quite well.

I would need some more time to listen to the object of your question before I could give an honest opinion as to his capabilities.

Cheers.

[Ace's Dad]

Lindsay credits his playing to John Stewart (not the fake Jon Stewart). Stewart was the first replacement singer of the Kingston Trio.

[dayglored]

Thanks for posting that jam session. Truly inspiring.

[MurrietaMadman]

It does though have the counter culture anti-marriage ethos.

There is that, but if it was a widower's song a whole new understanding of it emerges.

[FlJoePa]

Add in the fact that Glen doesn’t/didn’t read music. He’d have someone hum it to him, then he’d play it. The reason he never wrote many songs probably stems from his inability to read songs.

This actually makes his talents that much more remarkable - including his vocals.

[tallyhoe]

Man he was great!!!

[Steve_Seattle]

"What do you think of Lindsey Buckingham?"

I think he is one of the very best rock guitarists. Underrated. And Mick Fleetwood is an underrated drummer.

[Yaelle]

I don’t know this song but reading the lyrics makes it sound like the guy had a wife and he up and leaves her sometimes - and it’s that wife who went crying to her mother. But this free spirit who asks nothing of him is the one who is gentle on his mind.

[lysie]

Mark

[gunsequalfreedom]

“Gentle on My Mind” is a song written by John Hartford,[1] which won four 1968 Grammy Awards. Hartford himself won the award for Best Folk Performance and Best Country & Western Song (Songwriter). The other two awards Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male and Best Country & Western Recording, went to American country music singer Glen Campbell for his version of Hartford’s song. It was released in June 1967 as the only single from the album of the same name. It was re-released in July 1968 to more success. Glen Campbell’s version has received over 5 million plays on the radio. Campbell used “Gentle on My Mind” as the theme to his television variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour between 1969 and 1972. However, Dean Martin’s version, recorded in 1968, was more successful in terms of chart-position. The song was ranked number 16 on BMI’s Top 100 Songs of the Century

https://youtu.be/_pdzFaGg-4M

[pallmallman]

Glen Campbell was a masterful guitarist...and a great overall entertainer....and John Hartford’s Gentle On My Mind is a MASTERPIECE of a song...a lyric masterpiece.

[sushiman]

Glen was great , but NObody gives Chet guitar lessons .

[dforest]

Thanks, I really enjoyed that. A great early morning mood lifter too!

[Dick Vomer]

Not mark knoffler. He went there and became friends with Chet Atkins. They played some amazing sets together.

[elcid1970]

It’s a hobo’s ballad. I was in college then & thought that’s not how I want to end up.

Liked “Wichita Lineman” much better. Glad that Glen Campbell is still with us.

[smalltownslick]

That’s what I get from the lyrics, too. I recall when Dinah Shore had her TV show she once remarked she thought it was the most chauvinistic song she’d heard.

[Bodleian_Girl]

This is a good example of his style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-KJvR_JWs8

But wait, you never heard of Lindsey?

[AppyPappy]

He started as a studio musician IIRC

[Bodleian_Girl]

Thanks for your Linsdey comments!

I recently heard from an old friend that I worked with in the early 80’s. He was and remains a big fan of Stevie Nicks and we had a discussion about who needed who more to be a viable artist.

Chart hits would indicate that Lindsey needed Stevie more, but mentally, I think she needed him more. She always needed a strong producer to reign her in and Lindsey was always her best producer.

Agree about the underrated-ness of LB and love his early roots with the Kingston Trio.