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- Not sure if this will last or if will get pulled due to any copyright issues. I'm just uploading because I bought it years ago and thought it would be nice to share. I am making no money on this video - it is for the pure love of Phil.
No other musician has added as much joy, hope, instruction, tears (except for maybe Debussy), and pure enjoyment consistently over the past 41 years. When I get to heaven, King David will be second on my list to hug to Phil Keaggy. Thanks be to God, to Phil, and to you for sharing
Phil is still touring dude so you can hug him now LOL :)
The wetness of the 80s.
Dudes had just invented good digital delays, chorus and reverbs.....and they friggin USED them.
Well, if nothing else, I didn't know this guy 3 minutes ago, and I'm still watching despite TH-cam's relentless attempts at making me see commercials so... you've accomplished at least that much. Thank you very much.
I know all these old tapes are long out of print and it'd be a real shame for all that wonderful material to simply disappear without all the new generation of young musicians having the chance to check them out and learn from them. Once again thank YOU very much.
Wait, youre just discovering him? Dude, you've got a treasure of stuff to dig into. Tell me what genre of music you are into and I'll recommend something from him. He hits on all of it.
wow. nice find! been a fan since the 70s...
Got to see Phil decades ago at my brothers Church in Long Island , NY
Primarily acoustic gig.
Fantastic player
Makes me cry. One of my favourite anthems…
I met Phil about 20 years ago when he came in the restaurant I used to manage. Such a nice guy and great player.
I met him a few times too - totally cool guy.
It only took me half the day to learn the lick at 25:30! By 2030, I'll have it all down, baby! What a monster.
Love His Music .....and His Guitar playing ..... and His Heart
I LOVE this video so much... thank you! I have a VHS I got in 88, Phil Keaggy... but it's not playable anymore... so this is a blessing!
Let's re-store that priceless and legendary VHS! ❤️
Thank you so much for the love of Phil ❤ I hope it does last 🙏👍🏻
oh my gosh i've been looking for this for years! can't even find a physical copy so thank you
Nice!
Not even on eBay?
@@kickstar1 been awhile since I had looked for it. But now I don’t need to find it at all- here it is!
The Wind And The Wheat is where Phil started showing his heavy Holdsworth and Hedges influences. His Master and the Musician album was inspired by Anthony Phillips' The Geese and the Ghost. And frankly, I think Phil's album contains stronger material. But the second track on the Phillips album with the Phil Collins vocal is a beautiful song.
Interesting. I don't know who Anthony Phillips is. I know Keaggy was really into Holdsworth but I've never heard him mention Hedges.
@@kickstar1 Oh, he's mentioned Hedges in the past. Where do you think all that acoustic fretboard tapping came from? Phil started doing that all the time after Hedges released his acclaimed album, Aerial Boundaries, in 1984.
Anthony Phillips was an original member of Genesis. He left after their first album and he doesn't tour so he's mainly know to guitar enthusiasts and old Genesis fans for his many studio releases over the years. The Geese and the Ghost was his first major release back in 1977. And of course, Phil released The Master... the following year.
@@reidwhitton6248 Yeah that's weird I've never seen him mention Hedges. Similarity is obvious though. I saw Hedges in 91 and he was pretty amazing.
@@kickstar1 Well, Hedges has be dead for 26 years but back in the 80s and 90s he had quite a bit of influence.
I have really enjoyed this, thanks for posting. Btw, Phil gave me that ebow he is using, about 8 yrs ago I think. Thanks for the video!
He gave you that actual ebow? Like he said this is the one he used in the video? Very cool.
@@kickstar1 He sure did. Over a lot of years, running into each other allowed us to become friends, which is pretty crazy because he is the reason I started playing guitar and my guitar hero. Long story short, someone stole my ebow when I was playing a show in Nashville. I was going to play Let everything else Go at church and didn't have an ebow and was fairly broke at the time. I emailed Phil and asked him if had a used one he might want to sell. They last for ever but I thought he might have one not in use. He told me to come over to his house, that he had one. I showed up next day and he gave me the one he has in this video, which is the first ebow he's ever owned. He used it on the Master and the Musician and a bunch of other records. I used it that Sunday and immediately retired it to a nice spot on the mantle. That dude is such a humble and sweet person. He even played a ripping solo on one of my songs, which is over on my youtube channel. I think you'd dig it.
What a Jem. I've been looking for this video for a long time on TH-cam and only found excerpts from it. Thank you for uploading this video.
You're very welcome!
I think, One Of Phil's Best covers, was " When will I ever Learn to Live In God" on the Crimson and Blue Album. was Written By Van Morrison, or should say Played By Van Morrison .
This guy a too-often unknown monster player....
Love Follow Me Up!
I'm really liking his guitar playing. Thanks for the video!
Are you just discovering him?
Wow. Thank you for sharing this Bro. Your too cool. I didn't realize all the electronics and you really really know your equipment. Outstanding. Gee I bet you have a DMM and a spectrum analyzer. Your incredible.
Cool! Met Phil years ago in Virginia. A master of the trade no doubt. Still have his autograph in a Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Thank you for sharing this! 🙂👍
Class player 👏
Playing a Zion!
Definitely an 80's vibe guitar when it wasn't cool to play classic guitars for awhile. I like the fact he's gone back to the classics although this guitar seems to have been what got him that sound that captured the ethos of the Wind in the Wheat era.
Wish he was my roommate or something to learn from him
ha yeah don't we all
I always liked Phil because he was the only player I knew back then that sounded like Allan Holdsworth. I used to attend church at a place in Southern California called Mount Soledad Presbyterian and one Sunday evening I brought a friend to church with me and lo and behold, Phil was there and was going to play that evening. I met him and we chatted for a while. He's a very nice man and a great player. Unfortunately, the pastor I liked left the church for another opportunity and the guy who replaced him was flakey and prone to superstitious "laying on of hands" where he physically "encouraged" people to feint, or fall over like there was some power in his hands. It was bogus. I left that church. I didn't hear from Phil Keaggy again, I don't know what happened to him.
The Christian music scene flopped really hard after the Amy Grant incident, and many of the artists I listened to disappeared. Twila Paris, Margaret Becket, Will McFarlane, Benny Hester and Koinonia were on my short list of Gospel groups, along with Amy Grant. I saw DC Talk play at a show in South By Southwest in Austin in the late 90s but it did not go down well. The opening act was a group from New Orleans that was a blues band, and clearly not a Gospel act. They were African American "Negroes" and I think the crowd was "uncomfortable" with them. Some of the audience raised a huge protest and they came in and shut down the beer taps and alcohol sales at the venue. They band was out of there soon after. I was embarrassed for the New Orleans group and the horrible booking they got. DC Talk was pathetic that evening, jumping around like they were "rock stars" and I realized something that had been on my mind for a long time. The Gospel scene does not cross over well with secular music in America and most of the Christian community is narcissistic, hypocritical, and racially prejudiced. They are also mostly ignorant of world history if it is not mentioned in the Bible.
Phil talks here about Pat Metheny and Eric Johnson, both great players though not Gospel based. I have always thought Phil sounded like Paul McCartney meets Allan Holdsworth. I'm sure he was influenced by both. At one point in time I was in a Gospel group and wanted to play for a living. It was not meant to be and I eventually gave up on various Christian churches and their desire to raise a lot of money and build big, expensive compounds to support preachers and their lackeys in their "Mickey Mouse Club" social organizations. These days I try not to throw the baby out with the bath water, and realize I only wanted to be decent, play guitar well, and not fall into the "Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll" dumpster fire of the eighties. I love Jazz, Rock, Blues, Reggae, and Surf-Western. I just don't care for lyrical content and ideology that is ignorant or dangerous. There were so many anti-Christian groups in the 80s. I fell into the huge battle going on in American society at the time which was the Christian community (right wing) wanting to control lyrical content during the Reagan era. These days, most of the evangelicals seem content with Trump and Q-anon and other nonsense, thanks to a long string of Evangelical prosperity teaching television ministries that have gone down in flames. No thanks. Adios Christianity, do some research. Investigate world religions and world history. God is bigger than that crap. Religion was made for man, not man for religion. But good luck Phil! it was great to meet you! I love "The Wind and the Wheat"!
Wow dude that is a seriously stream of consciousness comment! Phil is/was amazing. He's still playing and recording although he's backed off on touring.
@@kickstar1 Lol. Truly. I guess I still have some bottled up issues. I hadn't seen Phil since 1987 and I suppose I have been through a lot since then (35 years). Twenty years of it was a struggle to disassociate with the Christian religion after trying to take it seriously. Thanks for reading my post anyways!
@@Scott_works So you were a Christian and are no longer one? How did it take 20 years of struggle?
@@kickstar1 I tried a number of different denominations. If one didn't work, I tried another. Try re-organizing your entire thought process. It is some serious de-programming.
@@Scott_works I did reorganize my entire thought process and it led me to Christ and continues to. I'm sorry the various denominations let you down. One thing for sure is Keaggy is the real deal. Organizations have a tendency to corrode and corrupt.
Phil is my God! Is there anything more to be said? ❤️
I'm pretty sure that would make Phil uncomfortable and he would say your God needs to be Jesus :)
He Vince Gilled the end.
Phil Keaggy is, without question, a brilliant guitarist and a genius. However, that doesn't make him a great teacher. Even his slowed down passages are nearly impossible to decipher. He could perhaps teach at Juilliard to students who already have a professional skill set. That said, if you don't expect to really learn from this video, you can still appreciate his mastery of his instrument and his music.
It's important to keep in mind this was released long before TH-cam so any repeatable video was massively instructional. But yeah, if somebody is looking for Keaggy to teach you how to hold a pick then this won't do much for you. But in 1989 making the jump from trying to figure out what he was doing from listening alone to being able to actually see it was huge. Still is.
Yes....
Alot if what he is doing is minor pentatonic scales mixed in with the blues scale, harmonic minors and chromatics for that jazzier outside tension.
Look through those scales and see where the bends occur. Most are whole or half step bends.
Alot if his slides or glisses are sliding in and out of the first parts of the scales.....
Not for the beginner but not something a beginner can't work up to.
Better than? ... That concept doesn't get thru the door at all with musicians gifted like him! Check out all available recordings and videos on him, especially the "Glass Harp" show at Carnegie Hall 😮 🤯😱💥 notice his Band and Solo music was almost never mentioned from the beginning?? There is a heavy message in that fact. No? 🤔😔👋
What do you think that message is?
Does anybody know the name of this song he is playing at the begging of this video?
march of the clouds
@@kickstar1Thank you
24:22
pretty sloppy isn't he? LOL
What brand of guitar is that in the intro?
Zion?
@@vladimirpoutine7522 Yes Zion
@@kickstar1 Ok thank you. The video rekindled my want for one. Another guitar to add to the collection......!
Everything was "hey, look what I can do '. Not a single worthwhile lesson.
Not for beginners so if you can't get anything from watching him play and slowing it down you should probably look elsewhere.
Yeah, beginners need a real teacher with some training, not a rock star video. But these were very popular in the 80s.
@@reidwhitton6248 Video is not for beginners although he does slow things down. There was no you tube back then so just watching someone was a huge way to learn.
@@kickstar1 I'm well aware of that fact. I started playing in 1977.
@@reidwhitton6248 Point is it's not a 'rock star' video. They had to market and sell these so they had to have some 'look how awesome this guy is' stuff. Plus he isnt really an instructor type but he sincerely attempts to break things down for mere mortals the best he can.
pure gold thanks!
You're welcome!
Kickstar, This Is Frank In upstate N.Y. . Just came Across this! I became A "Born Again" Christian in 1979 at the age Of 20. I am A Guitar player. Making A commitment to follow Jesus for the rest of My Life, led me away from Rock and Roll. Traded in My Gibson SG for A Yamaha Acoustic which I wound up Bringing to Haiti with me for A few Mo's. After coming back to the States, A brother I got to know introduced me To Phil Keaggy's music. I was blown Away at his Playing and Gift in music........ I had never gotten to see him play in Person until March 1 of 2019 At Darrel's House when he and Tony Levin and Jerry Marrata played the " Bucket List" and A Prayer Answered! I got to Meet Brother Phil! Thanks for sharing !
ALLO BRO ! I WAS BORN IN 57 , BORH AGAIN IN 1979. IVE HAD A JOURNEY SIMILAR TO YOURS. BUT HERE, IM PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CANADA , THERE IS AN AMAZING AWAKENING, ( QUEBEC IS THE FRENCH -SPEAKING REGION OF CANADA ; SO IT IS AN IMMENSE BREAKTHROUGT FROM OUR LORD JESUS -CHRIST ! SO PLEASE PRAY ! AMEN
This video should be spread by Phil Keaggy himself. It is a sample of how great he is as a musician and guitar player. Even for today the content is awesome. I was introduced to his playing through this video, a long time ago.Thank you for sharing!
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He doesnt actually show you how, you just watch him play up close. He needs lessons in how to give lessons from Tremonti. Also, I dont believe him when he says he does not know music theory.
Why wouldn't you believe him when you say he doesn't know theory?
@@kickstar1 The progressions and scales he uses are formulas learned. Not just by ear.
@@guitarandotherthings6090 Not just by ear for most people, but Phil is a different animal. Of course he is going to learn things as he goes but he does not read music, never went to school for it and never took lessons. I've been following him since 1987 and he is far from a liar or truth stretcher.