Posted on 09/28/2023 9:18:30 AM PDT by dennisw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Ga67EDrKI
Check out the babes sawing away on their violins. Also how Glen turns to the symphony musicians a few times to acknowledge and thank them. How gracious!
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Glen was uber-talented.
Someone once asked Eric Clapton who the was the best guitar player he ever saw.
Without hesitating he said, “Glen Campbell.”
Just watch some of his picking closely. No wonder he was part of “The Wrecking Crew” as a studio player for a time.
Thanks! That’s a favorite instrumental from that era.
Really enjoy the original Mason Williams symphony version.
Mason is also responsible for a great deal more hits than “Classical Gas”.
GLEN CAMPBELL -- In Concert In Sioux Falls (2001)
TRACKLISTING:
01. "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:50
02. "Gentle On My Mind" (John Hartford) - 2:46
03. "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" (Chris Gantry) - 2:27
04. "Highwayman" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:01
05. "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:06
06. "Classical Gas" (Mason Williams) - 3:04
07. "It's Only Make Believe" (Conway Twitty, Jack Nance) - 2:29
08. "Little Green Apples" (Robert L. Russell) - 3:28 (duet with Debby Campbell)
09."Southern Nights" (Allen Toussaint) - 3:01
10. "Rhinestone Cowboy" (Larry Weiss) - 3:05
11. "Galveston" (Jimmy Webb) - 4:00
12. "Since I Fell for You" (Woodrow Johnson) - 2:52
13. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:03 14. "William Tell Overture" (Gioachino Rossini, arr. by Glen Campbell, Dennis McCarthy) - 2:49
15. "True Grit" (Don Black, Elmer Bernstein) - 2:58
16. "Still Within The Sound of My Voice" (Jimmy Webb) - 4:00
17. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton) - 3:13
18. "Don't Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" (Lambert, Brian Potter) - 3:18
19. "MacArthur Park" (Jimmy Webb) - 7:34
20. "Let It Be Me" (Gilbert BĂ©caud, Manny Kurtz, Pierce Leroyer) - 2:16 (duet with Debby Campbell)
21. "Time in a Bottle" (Jim Croce) - 2:28
22. "Try A Little Kindness" (Bobby Austin, Thomas Sapaugh) - 4:57
Perhaps the best guitarist I've ever heard play the 12-string guitar.
The guy could definitely play the guitar. I saw him in concert in the 70s when I had a bit of a schoolgirl crush on him, and I was mesmerized by how quickly and deftly his fingers moved over the frets.
Glen Campbell was the reason I learned to play guitar. (Nowhere near as good as he could…LOL)
Damn, that boy could pick...and the only guy I can remember who used the thinline Ovation (though Feliciano used the full body version IIRC).
If you liked this, track down on youtube the various performances of
Music - John Miles 1976
Miles, John - Music (live 2006) HD 0815007-tp6VutAjEW0
Miles, John - Music (Live Proms 2001 HQ)-3Nz7gtCArOw
Miles, John - Music (Night of the Proms - Antwerpen 1991)-djzpskc933I
I have always enjoyed watching Glen Campbell play the guitar. The man had mad skills.
Clips of Glenn Campbell guitar solos throughout his career.
There are also videos from this concert such as Galveston and Wichita Lineman. Great musician and concert.
Alice Cooper said the same thing. Even towards the end, when Alzheimer's began to take hold, "you put a guitar in his hand and he was a virtuoso ..." Most likely muscle memory.
Yes. It is a great concert. I never knew, until a few years ago how great a guitarist Glen Campbell was. Very good “country” voice singer also.
Our son was a violin student of the Concert Master of the SD Symphony. The video also shows off the near perfect acoustics of the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls.
Glen is always great to watch, but to be honest, Classical Gas is better without the orchistration.
Indeed
My father loved Glen Cambell. I associate his music with my childhood. Now that my dad is dead, I can be absolutely reduced to tears by Glen Campbell songs. “Galveston,” particularly.
I remember seeing a documentary about Glen Campbell after he died. Turns out he was very good friends with Alice Cooper. Close enough to go golfing together almost every day. One day “Alice’s” phone rings, and it’s Eddie Van Halen begging for a guitar lesson from Glen. I don’t remember whether it happened or not.
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