During COVID I stumbled upon Kent Nishimura. I can’t recall you doing a breakdown before, but you must have seen him at some point. If not he has that same uncanny ability to capture the iconic parts of every instrument in his arrangements. Absolutely remarkable to watch these guys perform. Thanks Mike!
My goodness me! Another fantastic video, Mike plays this like he’s got four hands….. and Michael your comment nailed it…. What touch….. his touch is his signature, he really transcends beyond the song, it’s like magic
Michael, I met Mike the first time he played in America, opening for Justin Hayward and then playing with Justin. Everyone in the audience was simply stunned. After he played, I raced to meet him during the intermission. We struck up a friendship, and since then I spent a week in Italy attending a guitar workshop with him-during which we jammed together (me fumbling, him being amazing). I've seen him play from 3 feet away, and I can easily say that it's hard to relay just how good he really his. I've never heard him make a mistake, never seen him have a second of uncertainty with the guitar. He's simply a talent that is up there with the likes of Hendrix, EVH, etc. A game changer. Anyone reading this- just buy his Cds- you won't regret a second of it.
Mike rakes is style from Michael Hedges and of coarse has expanded on it in many ways. Hedges was an amazing player who is not talked about enough. Check him out.
Reminds me of the late, great Michael Hedges as well. All these years later I remain impressed by the music he created. No surprise that he studied composition at Peabody.
Went straight to Spotify to listen to “Live on the Double Planet.” Been a while since I’ve listened to it. Such memorable performances and the recordings absolutely captured Hedges’ connection with his audience.
Absolutely! I saw Hedges play three times, I was very fortunate. First time I saw him, after the show while he was mingling, I said hello and pointed out that his guitar that he was still holding was really cool. He handed it to me then wandered to talk to someone else. Who does that?!?! A totally cool cat!
Nicely said about watching how he makes the arrangements and composition come alive. So very right. And seeing Hedges mentioned here, he really did pioneer this approach to guitar playing.
My favorite little touch is that the "drum" section in the chorus was about the same every time. Point is, each hit, each scratch, each tap was on purpose. In other words, as close to perfection as you can get. It wasn't something where he was like now I'm going to go crazy for 4-6 seconds, it was planned as part of the composition. Just genius.
Yeah I agree. It’s great hearing someone like him or Tommy Emmanuel play a song. They have a way of breaking it down to the basics, and like you said, letting you hear a song for the first time again.
Doesn't that Sound, his Music, even his Presence playing those notes make you smile and feel, umm the Music! Wow! Thanks for your Reaction Michael P. and the Music Mike Dawes!
I had already seen the video when it released, like within 10 mins of publishing. Now I'm here 4 mins after the reaction published. I'm happy Mike has gotten more exposure and you've been a big help in that along the way. Always appreciate your input and Mike's abilities. Edit: I totally agree with you about seeing the composition in it's purest form. When it's one cohesive sound from one player on one instrument but it's all there, it feels more organic and more woven together somehow.
I thought for sure he was going to play the rhythms, melodies, and everything else live in one take. Thats just how high of a bar Dawes has set expectations. Thanks for sharing, it sounds great and the atmosphere sounds oddly fresh even though a million people have covered it. Hope you had fun at the Jason Isbell show.
Saw Mike's video come across my feed a couple of days ago and loved it. Totally agree with your thoughts on how his rearrangements of the song make some of the structure apparent in different ways compared to the originals. He has an amazing ability to tease out the most important bits to keep the core of the song while obviously having to scale back to perform it on a single guitar.
I couldn't agree more when you're talking about how the song's are arranged and the appreciation for how the song is actually written. It's incredible, Mike's incredible! ❤
Always enjoy your Mike reactions man, he never stops blowing our minds and inspiring the guitar community. You're doing a great thing by sharing his music, hopefully more people get to recognize him.
@mikedawesofficial is a legend! His fingers are the length of a large squid, his talent is the size of a small African nation! Being some decades his senior I have to tip my hat to this young man and wish him all the success he deserves! I remember seeing him very early years where he was not so well known, today, he is a global superstart! Respect!
This is why piano was difficult for me. Trying to keep 2 or more rhythms going in my head and hands, cramps my brain. Drummers blow me away sometimes too.
That was a beautiful and amazing rendition. I thank you for introducing me to Mike Dawes. That being said, I kind of want to see a Mike Dawes/Jon Gomm battle.
I love the way you teach aswell as sharing parts of your life with us. You are always positive and your enthusiasm is so inspiring. As a non-musician I feel connected in a world I don't really understand. I love watching Mike playing the guitar.
Really like what you said about other players who sort of just “show off”. Instagram is over saturated with players posting mindless videos everyday. Mike really takes his time on the crafting of these, which is what I appreciate most about him. The master does it again!
Been watching Mike Dawes' cover of everlong on repeat since it dropped. The way the harmonics ring out at around 3:01 really just put this raw feeling and emotion inside of me, it's so captivating. Love your passion for music Michael, it's super inspiring, and I find motivation and inspiration to work on my own stuff! keep up the awesome content!
i'm a big fan of mike dawes for exactly the thing you were talking about here: what an ear he has for arranging legitimately gorgeous tunes that plays to the strength of how the, uh, acoustic fingerstyle sounds. the acoustic guitar has a real gorgeous sound to it almost regardless of quality and mike really pulls out the best of that tone and the best of the songs and melds them together in a way that only a virtuoso could.
I think it's a real Testament both to the original song and to Mike that this instrumental version still conveys the emotion of the song obviously I don't have a time machine so I can't go back and hear the instrumental before the full produce song but I think even if I didn't know the original this would still make me feel something special.
There’s so much going on technically, it’s really incredible how he can not just play the melody but also convey the emotion of the song at the same time.
I see a lot of Rolling Stone and guitar magazine articles about the all-time greats but youtube has made me aware of absolute monsters like Mike Dawes, Jack Thammarat, Alex Hutchings. So many great players are not famous. Mike Dawes and Nick Johnston slow dancing in a burning room is next level.
You nailed it with the Re-appreciate the song. We have the "lyrics" though at least if we know the song, and that comes through so well in his interpretation.
Stunning! AbsoIuteIy Stunning. What a gift. This type of proficiency on the instrument is something I wiII never achieve. But the inspiration he bestows...that's a gift too.
This is so awesome that Mike reached out and seen that you were a fan can I recommend daniel padim as another great fingerstyle player you should definitely check out :D
You make an interesting comment about how in this version you feel like you see more of the arrangement. As someone who arranges music for lots of instruments, I see something totally different. What I see in people like Mike Dawes, Andy McKee and the GOAT, Tommy Emmanuel, is their ability to simplify (musically) those different instruments into a rich (and incredibly difficult to execute) single guitar arrangement with such clarity on all of the parts. They have this ability to identify all of the absolutely necessary notes across that arrangement into something that is musically more simple, but sounds far more complex. I am in awe of the skill and talent needed to do something like that.
It’s really not fair, Mike has fingers longer than my forearm! Very talented guy! Another similar player is a guy named James Bartholomew. He got in to building guitars a few years ago, not sure if he’s still posting videos but if you enjoyed this you should check out some of his covers. He does an acoustic cover of Sweet Child of Mine that’s amazing th-cam.com/video/Pm8btN0cfKk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_qcay2QTW7xmFOCY
Not my type of music what so ever! Like zero! I absolutely would never listen to anything like this!! But.... dude is completely talented in music period from playing performance to production arrangement!! Very talented young man
I don't mind saying that you referring to "Everlong" as a "Classic" really makes me feel old. While I objectively know it's true; the truth hurts. STAY OFF MY LAWN!!! or something.
Michael Palmisano They searched the Scriptures daily To see if it is true The Word of God Is what we need You and I Have all we need The peace of God And God of peace We can have these Old and young In Christ We're one For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities His eternal power And divine nature Have been clearly seen Being understood From what has been made So that people Are without excuse Jesus said Let the little children Come to me And do not hinder them For the kingdom of heaven Belongs to Such as these Truly I say to you Unless you repent ( Change, turn about ) And become like little children ( Trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving ) You can never enter The Kingdom of heaven ( At all ) And whoever receives And accepts and welcomes One little child like this For My sake And in My name Receives And accepts And welcomes Me Michael Palmisano They put a bottle of whiskey In his hands They didn't know What they did For if they knew... God forbids Acts like these So much good We can do To make this world A better place To God I pray Help us now For all to see
Ok I seen you do a old Robin Trower video, I dont know if your a hendrix kinda player but check out Frank marino, Mahaghany Rush, 5 of the greatest blues slingers talk about Marino as guys they followed back in the day, Bonomassa, Johnny Winter, Steve Vai and so on, a true master of blues rock.
This guy is amazing, no question…I’m still not sold on the whole percussion/guitar thing. Not taking anything away from the skill, but how is it really able to translate? I’ll amend this to say that it depends on your appreciation and the time and space. It’s impeccable. Just won’t translate to anything mainstream ever. And that may be just fine.
Mate you’re a legend. Thank you for your time and encouragement ❤
Just unbelievable, again, thank you Mike 👏🏼
Shit version, the original with lyrics and a band is better, never going to play this a full blast in the car
One word is all you need: GREAT!! 🔥🔥
You guys are both legends! Well done sir!
During COVID I stumbled upon Kent Nishimura. I can’t recall you doing a breakdown before, but you must have seen him at some point. If not he has that same uncanny ability to capture the iconic parts of every instrument in his arrangements. Absolutely remarkable to watch these guys perform. Thanks Mike!
💯 Kent is the absolute best. Curious he hasn't been covered here yet, surely he knows about him? He's a young legend already.
I think we can all agree. This is basically the final boss of guitar.
Mike and Tommy are playing in my town in October. I’ve got tickets. Can’t wait.
Every time I watch Mike Daws play, I keep thinking ‘what planet is he from and can we get more Mike Daws aliens here on earth’. He is so talented.
Man he's the best at combining percussion with it all, amazing.
My goodness me! Another fantastic video, Mike plays this like he’s got four hands….. and Michael your comment nailed it…. What touch….. his touch is his signature, he really transcends beyond the song, it’s like magic
Michael, I met Mike the first time he played in America, opening for Justin Hayward and then playing with Justin. Everyone in the audience was simply stunned. After he played, I raced to meet him during the intermission. We struck up a friendship, and since then I spent a week in Italy attending a guitar workshop with him-during which we jammed together (me fumbling, him being amazing). I've seen him play from 3 feet away, and I can easily say that it's hard to relay just how good he really his. I've never heard him make a mistake, never seen him have a second of uncertainty with the guitar. He's simply a talent that is up there with the likes of Hendrix, EVH, etc. A game changer. Anyone reading this- just buy his Cds- you won't regret a second of it.
What a nice and fitting comment. I have never in my whole 50 years be a fan boy. With Mike I am ❤. Cheers Lars.
Mike rakes is style from Michael Hedges and of coarse has expanded on it in many ways. Hedges was an amazing player who is not talked about enough. Check him out.
Reminds me of the late, great Michael Hedges as well. All these years later I remain impressed by the music he created. No surprise that he studied composition at Peabody.
Went straight to Spotify to listen to “Live on the Double Planet.” Been a while since I’ve listened to it. Such memorable performances and the recordings absolutely captured Hedges’ connection with his audience.
Absolutely! I saw Hedges play three times, I was very fortunate. First time I saw him, after the show while he was mingling, I said hello and pointed out that his guitar that he was still holding was really cool. He handed it to me then wandered to talk to someone else. Who does that?!?! A totally cool cat!
Mike Dawes is my favorite guitar player in the world.
Yep… miss MH. Remember hearing Aerial Boundaries for the first time. Heavy mental guitar.
look at mike dawes' ability to brighten up people's day. michael is smiling throughout.
Nicely said about watching how he makes the arrangements and composition come alive. So very right. And seeing Hedges mentioned here, he really did pioneer this approach to guitar playing.
I’ve been waiting days for someone to react to this! Finally!!!!
My favorite little touch is that the "drum" section in the chorus was about the same every time. Point is, each hit, each scratch, each tap was on purpose. In other words, as close to perfection as you can get. It wasn't something where he was like now I'm going to go crazy for 4-6 seconds, it was planned as part of the composition. Just genius.
Yeah I agree. It’s great hearing someone like him or Tommy Emmanuel play a song. They have a way of breaking it down to the basics, and like you said, letting you hear a song for the first time again.
Doesn't that Sound, his Music, even his Presence playing those notes make you smile and feel, umm the Music! Wow! Thanks for your Reaction Michael P. and the Music Mike Dawes!
I had already seen the video when it released, like within 10 mins of publishing. Now I'm here 4 mins after the reaction published. I'm happy Mike has gotten more exposure and you've been a big help in that along the way. Always appreciate your input and Mike's abilities.
Edit: I totally agree with you about seeing the composition in it's purest form. When it's one cohesive sound from one player on one instrument but it's all there, it feels more organic and more woven together somehow.
Intuition ....complete control of 2 hands and his heart & mind.
Simply put, Stratospheric
Yes Michael it is like watching the whole song unfold on one instrument. 10 out of 10 everytime with his arrangements!!!
Holy Crap! My guitar is watching this video and asking me why I can't do this! Hmmm!
Big ups to Mike! Saw him live with Periphery this year and doing a rave at an acoustic concert is a top 5 concert memory for life 🎉
I thought for sure he was going to play the rhythms, melodies, and everything else live in one take. Thats just how high of a bar Dawes has set expectations. Thanks for sharing, it sounds great and the atmosphere sounds oddly fresh even though a million people have covered it. Hope you had fun at the Jason Isbell show.
Love watching your face as you admire the video. Spot on with the comments about how Mike makes you realise the genius of the song.
Mike is amazing guitarist. You are too Michael. There are many amazing guitarists known and unknown. Awesome.
One word: Enchanting
Saw Mike's video come across my feed a couple of days ago and loved it. Totally agree with your thoughts on how his rearrangements of the song make some of the structure apparent in different ways compared to the originals. He has an amazing ability to tease out the most important bits to keep the core of the song while obviously having to scale back to perform it on a single guitar.
great take on a great player once again.
Dudes a beast!
Love to watch him play
Would love it if you reacted to Kent Nishimura, one of my favorite guitarists!
I couldn't agree more when you're talking about how the song's are arranged and the appreciation for how the song is actually written. It's incredible, Mike's incredible! ❤
Always enjoy your Mike reactions man, he never stops blowing our minds and inspiring the guitar community. You're doing a great thing by sharing his music, hopefully more people get to recognize him.
Such a beautiful take on this song
Insanely talented guitar player
@mikedawesofficial is a legend! His fingers are the length of a large squid, his talent is the size of a small African nation! Being some decades his senior I have to tip my hat to this young man and wish him all the success he deserves! I remember seeing him very early years where he was not so well known, today, he is a global superstart! Respect!
This is why piano was difficult for me. Trying to keep 2 or more rhythms going in my head and hands, cramps my brain. Drummers blow me away sometimes too.
That was a beautiful and amazing rendition. I thank you for introducing me to Mike Dawes. That being said, I kind of want to see a Mike Dawes/Jon Gomm battle.
Love watching and listening to both of you. Thanks
So impressive, holy moly!
I recognize this as a Foo Fighters song but it’s obviously a Mike Dawes version and I love it! This is so good I don’t even miss the vocals!
Phenomenal music!
he is truly amazing!!
I love the way you teach aswell as sharing parts of your life with us. You are always positive and your enthusiasm is so inspiring. As a non-musician I feel connected in a world I don't really understand.
I love watching Mike playing the guitar.
Really like what you said about other players who sort of just “show off”. Instagram is over saturated with players posting mindless videos everyday. Mike really takes his time on the crafting of these, which is what I appreciate most about him. The master does it again!
Been watching Mike Dawes' cover of everlong on repeat since it dropped. The way the harmonics ring out at around 3:01 really just put this raw feeling and emotion inside of me, it's so captivating.
Love your passion for music Michael, it's super inspiring, and I find motivation and inspiration to work on my own stuff! keep up the awesome content!
i'm a big fan of mike dawes for exactly the thing you were talking about here: what an ear he has for arranging legitimately gorgeous tunes that plays to the strength of how the, uh, acoustic fingerstyle sounds. the acoustic guitar has a real gorgeous sound to it almost regardless of quality and mike really pulls out the best of that tone and the best of the songs and melds them together in a way that only a virtuoso could.
I think it's a real Testament both to the original song and to Mike that this instrumental version still conveys the emotion of the song obviously I don't have a time machine so I can't go back and hear the instrumental before the full produce song but I think even if I didn't know the original this would still make me feel something special.
This man is a gift to us all
It's just WOOOOOOOW😍😍
Incredible!
There’s so much going on technically, it’s really incredible how he can not just play the melody but also convey the emotion of the song at the same time.
“Incredible production”, kind words man. Thanks for the lovely reaction vid 🙏
I see a lot of Rolling Stone and guitar magazine articles about the all-time greats but youtube has made me aware of absolute monsters like Mike Dawes, Jack Thammarat, Alex Hutchings. So many great players are not famous. Mike Dawes and Nick Johnston slow dancing in a burning room is next level.
I've seen Mike with Justin Hayward many times and he's always incredible. He and Julie Ragins are a fantastic team!
You nailed it with the Re-appreciate the song. We have the "lyrics" though at least if we know the song, and that comes through so well in his interpretation.
I saw this the day it dropped, and the feels i got, it's hard to explain, It brought Taylor and Dave to life in his own special way.
Freaking got goosebumps. Unbelievable
Stunning! AbsoIuteIy Stunning. What a gift. This type of proficiency on the instrument is something I wiII never achieve. But the inspiration he bestows...that's a gift too.
What a talent! Have you ever thought about reviewing a Leo Kottke arrangement?
You just know that the legend that is grohl would absolutely love this .
There are guitar mechanics, and they are good fun. There are guitar players who carry your soul. They are not the same level of play.
This is so awesome that Mike reached out and seen that you were a fan can I recommend daniel padim as another great fingerstyle player you should definitely check out :D
You make an interesting comment about how in this version you feel like you see more of the arrangement. As someone who arranges music for lots of instruments, I see something totally different. What I see in people like Mike Dawes, Andy McKee and the GOAT, Tommy Emmanuel, is their ability to simplify (musically) those different instruments into a rich (and incredibly difficult to execute) single guitar arrangement with such clarity on all of the parts.
They have this ability to identify all of the absolutely necessary notes across that arrangement into something that is musically more simple, but sounds far more complex. I am in awe of the skill and talent needed to do something like that.
Flawless 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
Please please please do Kent nishimura
The Foos are 3 guitarists (?) of which the lead singer is de facto playing the drums on his Pelham Blue Guitar….Mike Dawes: Hold my Beer. Chapeux!
Well that was pretty sick
Just watched the Dawes vid and came to your channel to recommend. Obv you got the inside track already.
Hello ❤ April Williams and brother Lee
oh...my...wow....
Bro, when are you going to react to Spiritbox????
Lets go already!
If you ever get the chance, could you do a video over Fuzz Universe by Paul Gilbert. Love your videos, man.
Killer.
This is great. I don't get much into these instrumentals, really. Marcin to me is the most interesting, exciting guys in this category.
Mike, please react to Soda Stereo - "En la ciudad de la furia" and "Prófugos" live 2007
#Like Mike - Mike wants to be like Mike...#
next, what does Dave think?
Can you please take a look at Watch You Burn by Chris Stapleton?!
What mic and DAWs are using Mike Dawes?
I like the playing. But I also like how you nerd out over it.
This is what my clocks do when 12:00 strikes
Why am I not feeling it as much as you ..just watched Bert Jansch without all the modern tec. Found it had more soul ..
What pickup is across the soundhole on Mikes guitar?
Was he really just doing harmonics in the middle of all of that at the end ? Wow
Michael
I volunteered to teach kids at the school.
The kids can not afford guitars. I need help to figure out how to guitars.
Can you help?
For me, It's hard to get through a whole Mike Dawes video, because he always makes me want to pick up my guitar and play.
Check out Beyoncé and the Dixie chick performance when you get a sec. I think you will enjoy it. If you haven’t already. I could be on the late show.
It’s really not fair, Mike has fingers longer than my forearm! Very talented guy! Another similar player is a guy named James Bartholomew. He got in to building guitars a few years ago, not sure if he’s still posting videos but if you enjoyed this you should check out some of his covers. He does an acoustic cover of Sweet Child of Mine that’s amazing
th-cam.com/video/Pm8btN0cfKk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_qcay2QTW7xmFOCY
And did the contrary motion smh!!🤟👇
I can play a G chord 😐
There's a bunch of these next-level dudes that are so inspiring, but at the same time make me never want to touch a guitar again.
This was amazing, but, I still feel like the lack of the repeated droning of the hi-hat
Not my type of music what so ever! Like zero! I absolutely would never listen to anything like this!! But.... dude is completely talented in music period from playing performance to production arrangement!! Very talented young man
I don't mind saying that you referring to "Everlong" as a "Classic" really makes me feel old. While I objectively know it's true; the truth hurts. STAY OFF MY LAWN!!! or something.
Michael Palmisano
They searched the Scriptures daily
To see if it is true
The Word of God
Is what we need
You and I
Have all we need
The peace of God
And God of peace
We can have these
Old and young
In Christ
We're one
For since the creation
of the world
God's invisible qualities
His eternal power
And divine nature
Have been clearly seen
Being understood
From what
has been made
So that people
Are without excuse
Jesus said
Let the little children
Come to me
And do not hinder them
For the kingdom of heaven
Belongs to
Such as these
Truly
I say to you
Unless you repent
( Change, turn about )
And become like little children
( Trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving )
You can never enter
The Kingdom of heaven
( At all )
And whoever receives
And accepts and welcomes
One little child like this
For My sake
And in My name
Receives
And accepts
And welcomes
Me
Michael Palmisano
They put a bottle of whiskey
In his hands
They didn't know
What they did
For if they knew...
God forbids
Acts like these
So much good
We can do
To make this world
A better place
To God
I pray
Help us now
For all to see
Check out Marcin Patrzalek - it will blow your mind
I enjoy your teachings but don't like all the videos.
"Go rest high on that mountain" by Vince Gill is my favorite.
Blessings!
Ok I seen you do a old Robin Trower video, I dont know if your a hendrix kinda player but check out Frank marino, Mahaghany Rush, 5 of the greatest blues slingers talk about Marino as guys they followed back in the day, Bonomassa, Johnny Winter, Steve Vai and so on, a true master of blues rock.
This guy is amazing, no question…I’m still not sold on the whole percussion/guitar thing. Not taking anything away from the skill, but how is it really able to translate? I’ll amend this to say that it depends on your appreciation and the time and space. It’s impeccable. Just won’t translate to anything mainstream ever. And that may be just fine.