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Renbourn Guitar Workshops
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2011
John Renbourn's Ship of Fools in concert
Many thanks to Steve Tilston for making this available. It scrubbed up pretty well for an old VHS tape. John with Steve, Maggie Boyle and Tony Roberts in Italy in the early 1980s playing some real Folk Baroque.
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The Lady and the Unicorn
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Here's a cover of John Renbourn's iconic Lady and the Unicorn played on John's original, and equally iconic, 1962 Gibson J50. Today would have been John's 80th birthday so this is a good day to play his music and remember his genius - and, for those of us who were lucky enough to know him, the man himself. Many thanks to Remy Froissart the guardian of this amazing guitar for letting me use it. ...
My Dear Boy
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Here's another piece from John Renbourn's 'SirJohnALot' album played by tutor Mike on the original Gibson J50 which John was playing at the time. Many thanks to Rémy Froissart for graciously lending us such a precious instrument for our workshop this year. John liked to play the "Gibbo" with really light strings and action screwed right down which made it feel almost like an electric guitar to ...
Forty Eight
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This is John Renbourn's 'Forty Eight' from the 1968 'SirJohnALot' album. It featured at this year's workshop so here's a video for the guys who asked for it. (Well, you asked for it!). We were lucky enough to have the John Renbourn original Gibson J50 at our 2024 Renbourn workshop. The guitar which John played on those amazing albums and tours in the late 1960s. John entrusted it to our mtual f...
Gymnopedie No.1 by Erik Satie played by Mike Walker
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John Renbourn would have been 79 today and this is respectfully dedicated to him on his birthday. Erik Satie was a composer John admired and studied - I remember discussing this arrangement with him at the first of the Renbourn Guitar Workshops which he loved doing so much, back in 2010 and I can't play it now without thinking of him and those times.
Veronica - Bert Jansch (Cover)
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Veronica -sometimes known as Casbah because of a mix-up back in the 1960's. It's Veronica for sure though as Bert's own notes on this when it was included on a compilation (The Bert Jansch Sampler) referenced Charlie Mingus' Better Get It In Your Soul. Bert almost certainly wrote this after hearing Davey Graham's version of that. Anyway, this kind of accidentally got included in the last Renbou...
Judy by John Renbourn
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Workshop tutor Mike playing Renbourn classic, Judy. The first Renbourn piece heard by many people - Solo album 1, side 1, track 1. It's 8 years today since we sadly lost John but his music lives on.
Una Dia de Noviembre by Leo Brouwer
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OK not Renbourn but definitely shares some of the same DNA - the Andalusian cadence for a start.
I Know My Babe - Cover
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Renbourn Workshops tutor Mike with good friend (and top singer)Marco Riato playing John Renbourn's "I Know My Babe" in the Cretan sunshine. This was one of the study pieces at this year's Spring workshop.
No Exit
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Here's an arrangement of Bert and John's "No Exit" for solo guitar which falls nicely under the fingers in Am (not the original key) and is fun to play.
Bird Song
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A cover of Bert Jansch's Bird Song - well the accompaniment anyway. A student asked for it so I ran a quick version of it straight off the back of my practice amp (hence the slightly metallic quality).
MistCoveredMountainsOfHome
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John's arrangement of the old Highland pipe tune the Mist Covered Mountains of home played by Mike on the 5th anniversary of John's passing.
Medley - Song + The Lark in the Clear Air
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A medley of 2 tunes which featured at the 2017 and 2018 Renbourn workshops in Crete. The first is "Song" from Clive Carroll's Scottish Suite used as an intro to an arrangement of "The Lark in the Clear Air " (apologies to Clive).
Blues Medley - Renbourn/Jansch/Reed
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A medley which a few of the students at the 2018 workshop wanted a video of - so here it is. It's the theme of Bert's "Dissatisfied Blues" also just called "Blues" plus the main theme of "Tic-Tocative" from the Bert and John album and also a take on Jerry Reed's "JiffyJam".
John Renbourn - A Day at the Seaside - Cover
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John Renbourn - A Day at the Seaside - Cover
John Renbourn Abide With Me/ GreatDreams
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John Renbourn Abide With Me/ GreatDreams
John Renbourn Down On The Barge - Cover
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John Renbourn Down On The Barge - Cover
Beautiful
Absolutely lovely rendition of a transcendently gorgeous song. Thank you from the bottom of my thirsty soul. 😉
That's really nice
Bello! Ma non è facile farla come Renbourn 😊
what guitar is he playing here? Yamaha LS 400 ?
Yep, well LS-TA, with just a touch of reverb recorded acoustically with a pair of Rode NT5 mics.
@@RenbournGuitarWorkshops-GLUG Nice! I Just ordered me an LS-10T and I was happy to see that such a great player as you trusts a guitar similar guitar. thanks for the reply and for the Music! sounds great
@@AdamBen-Nun Cool. The one I got needed setting up (by a luthier) which made it more suitable for fingerstyle playing. The strings are Ernie Ball Earthwood Acoustic Guitar Strings 80/20 Light - 11-52 Gauge. hope the guitar works out for you.
Like to hear more of Maggie Boyle's singing
Wow, I absolutely love this song, amazing music! I’m grateful this just popped up. Greetings from Texas, a huge thumbs up and sub. like a #30👏👍🔔😊
Great video! Actually the Ship of Fools was formed in the late 80's. I saw them live at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto Canada in 1988. Thanks for providing us Renbourn fans with this fantastic video! Thanks to thewordofgord for sharing!
Heck this is pretty rare, so thanks! Plenty of Renbourn, but not Ship of Fools. Saw them In Toronto aound this time.
I❤this MUSIC!!!
Beautifully played ❤🙏
Been listening to this music for almost 30 years since a friend introduced me to it, but it's been around far, far longer. I love it.
OK so I've been doing that ALL WRONG for the last 45 years. Sheesh!
Thank you, thank you! I saw this line up, pretty much this same set, at the Iron Horse in Northampton, Massachusetts and it has always stood out in my memory as the best musical experience of my lifetime. The buildup of anticipation for Merrily Kissed The Quaker, the achingly beautiful flute duet Maggie and Tony played on the Lark In The Clear Air, all of it, really.
Just perfect; thanks for sharing.
The level of musicianship here is astonishing.
Steve Tilston's still doing folk festivals nowadays, solo or in collaborations, as amazing as Renbourn imho
I wish you lived next door so we could open the window when you practice and listen to you play.
Good to see more Renbourne group music released. I had previously only managed to find the John Renbourne Group album, 'A Maid in Bedlam' I purchased many years ago.
I've been in the music business since 1962 and have never heard of these people. I'm blown away with this brilliant little performance. So glad you could resurrect it so I could catch up. Marvelous!!!!
Jesus!! John Renbourn was one of the finest fingerstyle guitarists who ever lived. Was a founder member of Pentangle. Check them out. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few times, the last at a gig ten days before he died.
This is good but not as good as John Renbourn Group or Pentangle. Both bands with Jacqui McShee on vocals. Check out!
You must have been a one man crusade. I am of your vintage here in Ireland and John Renbourn was our Hendrix.
I saw the band around then - absolutely beautiful. Thanks for unearthing this.
When music travels through time, it's recreated, and then continues its journey carrying stories and feelings in a subjective and magical dimension... Just lovelly!❤
Wow!! What a rare treat!! Thank you for this!!💜
Beautifully executed! I have a replica, in wool, of this exact tapestry. It hangs in my office, a daily reminder of a trip to Angers, France. It is one in a series of tapestries describing the senses. The small flowers that create the background are native to the Loire and Maine river valleys, mille fleurs. Now I have a connection with a beautiful piece of music. Thank you!
I have a Ship of Fools album but had forgotten they played live.
Thanks for making this available...so nice to see!
Brilliant. Thank you for sharing.
Lovely mellow playing...
I saw John playing guitar, sitar, but never that it seems a mandola.
Not exactly sure what it is, but it's a five-course cittern in an octave mandolin scale length. I had a six-courser in more of a mandola scale, longer than tenor, for a while. Five course is more common, but the six-course can be tuned in 'alternative' guitar tunings, without becoming a sort of 12-string guitar. I never saw John with this instrument but if I had around the end of the 1990s I'd surely have asked him about it. Never saw Ship of Fools and if this really was early 1980s I know why, work meant not going to anything for a while!
@@daviddkilpatrick thanks for your explanation.
@@daviddkilpatrick Could it be a Sobell cittern, perhaps? The shape of the headstock and the soundhole look like his work. We get a decent look at it around 9:05.
@@plattwurm Looks like a Sobell and at that date would be a natural choice. I had a Fylde five course shorter scale for a good few years, and despite being a good instrument not in the same league as Sobell.
Great great!!! Thank you.
Amazing Mike! Rare and beautiful!! Thanks so much for sharing! Be well
Un gran disco Ship of fools. Otro excelente proyecto del maestro Renbourn
Nice!!
Ασύλληπτη ομορφιά!
Ah.....so many fond memories here.
beautiful¡¡ please string lenght?
Strings used were Ernie Ball Everlast - 50-10 with the first string replaced with an 11. John always said that most sets were "too heavy in the middle" i.e. the 4th and 3rd strings. The Everlast 50s have a 28 and a 20 at 4 and 3. They sound pretty good on the J50.
Mike, It is beautiful. John is still with us due to your talent love and dedication. Be well my friend. Peace🌠
WOW!!!
Beautiful Job! 🎉
Superbe ! A very nice rendition of this huge tune
th-cam.com/video/LKSxRDlmcwo/w-d-xo.html Hey Mike, I caught that: "whew!" and everyone knows what you mean! A great tune & thanks for the info on the strings; it still sounds so good whatever was done to the setup! When you gonna do "Faro's Rag"???
Very inspiring! Thank you for sharing your talent and huge knowledge of John’s music. Take care and be well my friend
John's Gibson still sounds quite good. Is it still strung with very light strings as was his preference?
Wow! Great!
Thank you for this, it sounds wonderful, light, and jangly. My friend uses .9 to .48 strings on his acoustic, and I just can't get the feel of them, even though I only use .11 to .52 on my Lowden, a small difference in number but a big difference in feeling.
Yep, string gauge is a very personal thing. John used to use (6-1) .48, .38, .28, .18, .14, .10. He felt that the middle 2 wound strings - D & G were too heavy in most sets. He later favoured .11 instead .10 on the first course because .10 sounded a bit thin. The strings I used here weren't that light 50 - 11 but tuned down a semitone (again something John (& Bert) often did.
@@RenbournGuitarWorkshops-GLUG Very interesting, many thanks.
Hi, just a further note on JR'S strings. He stayed with us here in the Isle of Man in November 2006 ( with Clive Carroll). After a lovely weekend of nice food, drink and great music, he delved into the depths of his little green canvas shoulder bag and very kindly put together a set of strings for me from all the loose ones in the bag. Of course I've treasured them and never used them, and have them in front of me now. They are: Rotosound 52,40,28,20 D'Addario 15,12. Great times! Keep up all the great work.
The sound of this guitar is so nice and unique it puts on shame the homogenized modern acoustic guitars sound. Lovely playing, too 💫
Bravo Mike! Immer ein Genuss, dir zuzuhören!
Beautiful Mike! Miss you. Hope we’ll meet soon Take care my friend
👌
Nice playing; you're definitively a fine guitarist, and John would have been proud of you.