Saw Glass Harp at a small venue outside of New Castle, Pa. in 1971. Absolutely amazing and Phil Keaggy snapped a string in the middle of a song but never missed a note. 40 years later saw them again in Warren Ohio, original band members and were equally brilliant.
I was in a band back in the late 60's early 70's called Felix Harp from Trafford PA. We started playing some of the same clubs as Glass Harp. We thought they stole half of our name, haha. Later we found out they were together several years befor we started so it was just a coincidence. We eventually played a gig together opening up for Mitch Ryder. Felix Harp opened the show, then Glass Harp and Mitch Ryder as the top billing. That was the first time we heard Phil Keaggy. Wow! What an amazing guitar player. The rest of the band were very accomplished as well but Phil definitely stood out! Here's a fact not too many people know. Shortly after Phil Keaggy left Glass Harp to become a Christian artist. I'm not sure who exactly it was from the band, but they tried to recruit our guitar player, Billy Hricsina to replace Phil. That's how incedible Billy was, rest his soul.
I was 14 when this aired. My dad, a life long jazz guitarist who 'hated' rock sat and watched this with me and he couldn't believe Phil Keaggy....that says a lot because dad was a damn good player in his own right.
Thank you for preserving this Classic Glass Harp Concert footage! What incredible talent. Not much video out there of these guys. True they had no hit records but they were musicians musicians very much a part of Cleveland area Rock n Roll History. God Bless Phil and Glass Harp forever.
Followed Phil and Harp from their beginnings. Played locally often.. I recorded this on a portable cassette from the TV when it aired. Lent it out and not returned. This really brings back memories.
I have seen Glass Harp many times, Phil solo many times, Phil in various band configurations. I always left blessed, lifted up, edified, encouraged. There was a very positive frequency/vibration/anointing.
I was such a Phil Keaggy fan in late ‘90s, saw him live several times solo, never even knew about Glass Harp days. So now it awesome rediscovering him and his “new” music.
Same boat here man. Listening right now. I'm fired up. Days Between starts shortly after this'll end. This is my opening act preceding 9 days of the ol In-N-Out
In my mid 50s I find myself discovering classic talents and working my way backwards through their catalogs to the beginning. That can be an interesting way to trying to stop time
I first saw Phil Keaggy at my sophomore dance at Ursuline High School in the Spring of '67. You could tell he had it all then, bobbing his head back & forth like Paul McCartney singing "Penny Lane." Y-town rocks!
Just an insane trio!!! John is killing the drum set and Phil is over there just going off on guitar!!! No wonder they called Clapton “slow hand” lol😂 keaggy is on fire. Saw Glass Harp reunion in 1990 +/- in Akron and Keaggy everytime I can since 1975/6 at Wheaton College
The Slowhand name came because he only had one guitar and when one of his strings broke he took his sweet time changing it while the audience waited and clapped.
My first concert at the Orpheum was Glass Harp, Yes and Humble Pie, amazing artists, I've followed Phil for years and was finally able to see him again in So Cal solo.
Had the chance of meeting Mr. Keaggy a couple of times when our organization scheduled concerts. You could talk with the guy for a long time and not perceive any of the egotism commonly associated with exceptionally great musicians. He would rather talk about his wife and kids.
I've met him a couple of times, too. So humble and genuine. My first date with my future wife was a 1977 PK concert. Saw him 33 years later on our anniversary, and he signed my guitar. :)
I became a Phil Keaggy fan in the late 70s. I saw him live in Newburg, Oregon. But l didn't know very much about Glass Harp, until l started watching and listening to TH-cam. So l wasn't aware that Phil Keaggy was a great musician back then.
Incredible. Thanks for sharing this. What a band. What talent. (Keaggy creating sound effects with playing technique, volume swells with volume knob on the guitar, etc.) (And the bass player plays, bass, guitar and flute?) (And drums and guitar too?) (And songs written and vocals by all three.) And a message worth hearing. One of the little known bands that make you wonder how it is that everyone doesn't know the name Glass Harp and the names of these band members.
Bought the original Glass Harp album in 71 or 72. Never saw them live or heard them in conversation. For years I never thought about the religious undertones in almost everything Phil Keaggy does. Just appreciated the rocking vibes and got into the refrains and extreme jams. The fundamentalism is their own choice. I hear Phil’s unequaled guitar work and amazing finger style, John’s steady, on time drumming, and Dan’s bass linkage and unique flute playing. One of my favorite bands of all time.
He was the 1st live guitarist I saw when I was a kid in the mid 70's. He played in a local junior college in New England. I've got 2 guitars sitting over my shoulder as I type this and still play every day partly because of Phil. This video is gold! Thank you for posting. cheers lefty
Escuché por primera vez a Phil Keaggy en los 90s con su bello disco instrumental Beyond Nature (1991), había oído nombrar a Glass Harp y hasta ahora los escucho. Tremendo Super Trío.
I heard someone say Jimi Hendrix had said he admired Phils playing. Can't find that quote but I can see that Phil was one of the best at that time...the music sounds a little like prog rock at times, and sometimes psychedelic... Very creative and very talented. I ll have to read more about him
Those old PA's, so big, and a lot of bands had to carry their own around. And check out how much gear the bass player is lugging around. Phil figured it out pretty early with that combo amp.
Phil was an early idol. NE Ohio. 1972. Did "Changes" in my 7th grade band -- or tried! Attempted "Never Is A Long Time". That didn't work out as well lol.. Then Daniel shows up in the Michael Stanley Band. Thought that was cool. Never realized how long Phil's pinky fingers are.
WOW, thanks for loading up one of the best shows, In a really nice quality. I had an old VHS copy of this show but the quality was not as nice as this. PHIL with The GLASS HARP.
although the added static mike is unnecessary - I comment because the original would be worth serious money. Does anybody know the provenance of the recording?
Close, but not quite. Phil first, then John. Dan....not so much. Kinda sad really. Which as I recall is why they split. Phil going solo, (and still going). John joining him on many albums. And the only time you've ever heard of Dan since is when they did kind of a reunion thing a couple of times. Hence the Live at the Beachland ballroom album. It should be noted and as a warning to all that Dan has a website that sells the Glass Harp recordings. A while back, I purchased all three of their cds and NEVER got the cds. It was a huge fight to get my money back. I eventually had my bank get my money back as Dan wouldn't either send me the cds, or give me my money back!! So, BEWARE all of you that try to purchase cds from his website!!
I might be wrong, but I think that Leland Sklar some time after this acquired Dan's bass. He (Leland) very briefly showcased it in one of his YT vids titled .546 Phil Keaggy. As he was talking about his time recording on Phil's 2nd album Love Broke Thru.
If I didn’t already know that Jimi Hendrix’s statement about Phil Keaggy was apocryphal, I’d believe the story based upon this performance alone! Dare I say that this power trio would blow Cream right off the stage???
Sugar is sugar, salt is salt. If you ain't got the Holy Ghost, it ain't our fault. Remember Electric Ladyland???? R.i.p.mr Hendrix. God bless your home going!
Phil keaggy was and is a more technically proficient and haemonically advanced player than Clapton, but there are other attributes worth having, such as taste and songwriting. Cream had better songs, pushed the borders and created a new style of rock hybrid. The bassist and drummer are great, but not better than Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.
Those Jimi stories about him praising other guitar players are folklore. Same story with different guitar players; not true. I agree this is a great performance by a great and super talented band that should’ve been much more popular. Real talent.
Why did TH-cam put an ad for Free IRS E-File right in the middle of Phil's solo? That action made sure I'll never, ever use that tax-service. And wishing there will one day be an alternative to TH-cam that isn't run by Google.
Nobody was playing like this in 1972. Literally nobody. He was super clean and fast but also played with soul. Page was on fire at this time as well but he was very much blues based and still could be very sloppy. I say that as a huge Jimmy page fan. People like John McLaughlin we're considered 'the fastest' but they still just didn't have the feel that Phil had.
I know Phil made his own career choice and took the path he wanted to take. But if he had not gone into Christian rock, he would be considered the greatest guitar hero above anyone else.
1972 would be a pivotal year for the group. Having recently released a second album (Synergy) Glass Harp were asked to perform a live concert on PBS in February. This broadcast would become groundbreaking in that it was one of the first to be simulcast on both television and the then-nascent FM radio. While an off-air recording of this performance was heavily bootlegged on video for decades, the master tape was later located and subsequently released on DVD as Circa 72 2006.
One of my new, old favorite bands in these days of m r n a casualties in our own countries but lets not mention it. Or if we do - deny or play down. Did propaganda in the indoctrination camp work this well in the seventies?
Technically brilliant however Keaggy is not a distinctive voice on the instrument. He can play anything in any style with jaw dropping virtiousity, but he is not an instantly recognizable player. He also can be a bit dirivative, especially in his early work. When you listen to Hendrix, Page, Clapton, and I will add Ritchie Blackmore, you know who they are after hearing a few notes. To me, Keaggy can sound a bit generic, but that could be because of the sheer plether of genres he has recorded in. Glass Harp was a good band, but a bit under-developed. It sounds like a bunch of jams with vocals inserted and it gets tedious to my ear. To me, Keaggy's guitar playing is best exemplified on the albums THE WIND AND THE WHEAT and BEYOND NATURE. Vocally I feel FIND ME IN THESE FIELDS to be his most complete record. I met him after a concert I attended in Minnesota and told him how much I loved FIND ME IN THESE FIELDS, and he said that he felt at the time that it was his most transparent album. I have found that the sheer volume of material released, especially mid to later career, made me lose interest.
That story is apocryphal, and has been applied to everyone from Phil to Rory Gallagher. However l happen to think they were both better guitarists than Jimi 😊
@@LoveArt86 Very true. Rory and Phil never got that level of recognition, except certainly among other players...which gets us back to the Jimi story. There is no documentation that he said anything about Phil or Rory in a print or film situation. But, it is most likely true that he was aware at least of Gallagher (his band Taste played at the same Isle Of Wight festival as Jimi), and it is reasonable that he would have heard of Phil through the grapevine. I think perhaps this story originates from Jimi's appearance on the Dick Cavett show and Dick asks him what it is like to be the best guitarist in the world (insert apocryphal answer here)...and Jimi actually replies that he is the best guitarist 'in this chair'. Jimi was always humble about his ability and it is certainly believable that he would have said that Phil and Rory were better than he...but there is no documentation of course. To illuminate this further Walt Parazaider of the band Chicago remembers Jimi coming up to him after a gig and telling him that their guitarist Terry Kath was a better player than him. Do not get me wrong, l think Kath was a terrific player but not in the Jimi/Rory/Phil league. An instinctive player with lots of emotion but not much finesse. I think it's a sign of Jimi's honest humility (and maybe low self-esteem?), that l can imagine the Kath story was not an isolated incident. If he saw Rory as is likely, and Phil at any point, if he liked Kath either of those two would have blown him completely away. ...especially as they were both 5-8 years younger than him, and neither of them used effects pedals, like him also. And l am sure he could see that they had the same influences, like Wes Montgomery for example.
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Absolutely incredible guitarist and criminally underrated. He’s at the top of every list with Clapton, Hendrix and Page.
Like watching a Cream video with guitar player that actually deserves all the credit he gets.
This!^^^@@mikek8553
Saw Glass Harp at a small venue outside of New Castle, Pa. in 1971. Absolutely amazing and Phil Keaggy snapped a string in the middle of a song but never missed a note. 40 years later saw them again in Warren Ohio, original band members and were equally brilliant.
“Praise the Lord”, remember God loves you”…Wow, just a virtuoso serving the savior.. Amen!
I was in a band back in the late 60's early 70's called Felix Harp from Trafford PA. We started playing some of the same clubs as Glass Harp. We thought they stole half of our name, haha. Later we found out they were together several years befor we started so it was just a coincidence. We eventually played a gig together opening up for Mitch Ryder. Felix Harp opened the show, then Glass Harp and Mitch Ryder as the top billing. That was the first time we heard Phil Keaggy. Wow! What an amazing guitar player. The rest of the band were very accomplished as well but Phil definitely stood out!
Here's a fact not too many people know. Shortly after Phil Keaggy left Glass Harp to become a Christian artist. I'm not sure who exactly it was from the band, but they tried to recruit our guitar player, Billy Hricsina to replace Phil. That's how incedible Billy was, rest his soul.
I was 14 when this aired. My dad, a life long jazz guitarist who 'hated' rock sat and watched this with me and he couldn't believe Phil Keaggy....that says a lot because dad was a damn good player in his own right.
what networc did it air on please
@@soulkiss1001PBS , I believe .
@@soulkiss1001This was WVIZ TV Channel 25, Cleveland OH
Cream with guitarist who can actually play. And they can write songs.
That's amazing.
Thank you for preserving this Classic Glass Harp Concert footage! What incredible talent. Not much video out there of these guys. True they had no hit records but they were musicians musicians very much a part of Cleveland area Rock n Roll History. God Bless Phil and Glass Harp forever.
Wow l think Phil's playing in his Glass Harp days was 🔥 fire. First time I've heard this!
Followed Phil and Harp from their beginnings. Played locally often.. I recorded this on a portable cassette from the TV when it aired. Lent it out and not returned. This really brings back memories.
Phil was one of the many musicians in thev1970's who became the foundation for Christian Contemporary Music
Cool to see Glass Harp in '72! Brilliant stuff!
I have seen Glass Harp many times, Phil solo many times, Phil in various band configurations. I always left blessed, lifted up, edified, encouraged. There was a very positive frequency/vibration/anointing.
I was such a Phil Keaggy fan in late ‘90s, saw him live several times solo, never even knew about Glass Harp days. So now it awesome rediscovering him and his “new” music.
Your in for a treat… 3 Glass Harp Albums with great writing, singing and oh yea, the best guitar playing ever.
Same boat here man. Listening right now. I'm fired up. Days Between starts shortly after this'll end. This is my opening act preceding 9 days of the ol In-N-Out
In my mid 50s I find myself discovering classic talents and working my way backwards through their catalogs to the beginning. That can be an interesting way to trying to stop time
Oh, I was 15-18 in Ohio. I even snuck into JB’s in Canton to see them! Live? They were masterful!!!
@@kareledwardtaska-allabouts4114 Also Live at Carnegie hall Lp was exceptional.
I first saw Phil Keaggy at my sophomore dance at Ursuline High School in the Spring of '67. You could tell he had it all then, bobbing his head back & forth like Paul McCartney singing "Penny Lane." Y-town rocks!
Just an insane trio!!! John is killing the drum set and Phil is over there just going off on guitar!!! No wonder they called Clapton “slow hand” lol😂 keaggy is on fire.
Saw Glass Harp reunion in 1990 +/- in Akron and Keaggy everytime I can since 1975/6 at Wheaton College
The Slowhand name came because he only had one guitar and when one of his strings broke he took his sweet time changing it while the audience waited and clapped.
My first concert at the Orpheum was Glass Harp, Yes and Humble Pie, amazing artists, I've followed Phil for years and was finally able to see him again in So Cal solo.
Wow what a cool show demonstrating what was to become a great group of musicians and a powerful message to the world!
Had the chance of meeting Mr. Keaggy a couple of times when our organization scheduled concerts.
You could talk with the guy for a long time and not perceive any of the egotism commonly associated with exceptionally great musicians. He would rather talk about his wife and kids.
I've met him a couple of times, too. So humble and genuine. My first date with my future wife was a 1977 PK concert. Saw him 33 years later on our anniversary, and he signed my guitar. :)
Having grown up in N.E. Ohio this was always part of my youth and still holds up - good music will always be good music.
Great music from 50 years ago - Phil has always been inspiring spiritually and musically.
I became a Phil Keaggy fan in the late 70s. I saw him live in Newburg, Oregon. But l didn't know very much about Glass Harp, until l started watching and listening to TH-cam. So l wasn't aware that Phil Keaggy was a great musician back then.
amazing musicianship even by today's standards. I love these guys. Thanks to Billy Blues Lewandowski for the turn on in 1973
Wow! Sudden flashback to 1969-1970 Ashland College. Uncontrollable smile, thanks for sharing this gem!
Saw them several times there. They opened for James Gang once and made JG look like fools.
Incredible. Thanks for sharing this. What a band. What talent. (Keaggy creating sound effects with playing technique, volume swells with volume knob on the guitar, etc.) (And the bass player plays, bass, guitar and flute?) (And drums and guitar too?) (And songs written and vocals by all three.)
And a message worth hearing. One of the little known bands that make you wonder how it is that everyone doesn't know the name Glass Harp and the names of these band members.
Bought the original Glass Harp album in 71 or 72. Never saw them live or heard them in conversation. For years I never thought about the religious undertones in almost everything Phil Keaggy does. Just appreciated the rocking vibes and got into the refrains and extreme jams.
The fundamentalism is their own choice.
I hear Phil’s unequaled guitar work and amazing finger style, John’s steady, on time drumming, and Dan’s bass linkage and unique flute playing. One of my favorite bands of all time.
phil is no fundamentalist phil is smart to know whats metaphor as in the snake is a metaphore for satan but the Holy Ghost is real.
He was the 1st live guitarist I saw when I was a kid in the mid 70's. He played in a local junior college in New England. I've got 2 guitars sitting over my shoulder as I type this and still play every day partly because of Phil. This video is gold! Thank you for posting. cheers lefty
Big fan here, among others (from the Philippines), in the early 80s. I’ve heard of his early days and Glass Harp. Now I’ve seen it. This is treasure.
Escuché por primera vez a Phil Keaggy en los 90s con su bello disco instrumental Beyond Nature (1991), había oído nombrar a Glass Harp y hasta ahora los escucho. Tremendo Super Trío.
This brings back great memories of growing up in North Easter Ohio and seeing the Glass Harp perform. The greatest three piece orchestra ever! Eddie
Great touch and feel, Phil😊❤ talented musicians playing live🎉
Awesome performance, incredible talent, interesting wardrobe 😄 early 70's was such an interesting time. Thank you for sharing this
Thx for up… maybe best three man band ever!
Ppl x cave alair
Power power power trio...
Fantastic band...🤘🙏
🗣 Wonderfull live performance
This was a surprise! Never knew that Phil was with these guys-Fabulous!
what can I say they're aswesome Thanks for the editing and uploading
Keaggy's guitar playing is so captivating it took my halfway through the video to notice he's wearing a crocheted tank top over a dress shirt .
This is wonderful!! So much great stuff that isn’t on the live at Carnegie hall album. So much talent!
I heard someone say Jimi Hendrix had said he admired Phils playing. Can't find that quote but I can see that Phil was one of the best at that time...the music sounds a little like prog rock at times, and sometimes psychedelic... Very creative and very talented. I ll have to read more about him
God bless you all! I love that band! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Those old PA's, so big, and a lot of bands had to carry their own around. And check out how much gear the bass player is lugging around. Phil figured it out pretty early with that combo amp.
a flood of memories watching this
Love this..memories of the first Christian rock I heard.
Phil was an early idol. NE Ohio. 1972. Did "Changes" in my 7th grade band -- or tried! Attempted "Never Is A Long Time". That didn't work out as well lol.. Then Daniel shows up in the Michael Stanley Band. Thought that was cool. Never realized how long Phil's pinky fingers are.
WOW, thanks for loading up one of the best shows, In a really nice quality. I had an old VHS copy of this show but the quality was not as nice as this. PHIL with The GLASS HARP.
Extremely great and underrated guitarist
What a gem. Thank you.
although the added static mike is unnecessary - I comment because the original would be worth serious money. Does anybody know the provenance of the recording?
Used to follow every. Where great. band
@@gingiitausuas3532It was a PBS broadcast , I believe . A DVD is available on the band’s website ; & on Phils’ , also !
Good music, good times
I know this was a LOUD concert looking at the equipment.
As Great as Jimi Hendrix Experience, or Claptons, Cream, very tight band, Jesus is Lord in this Band, Very Blessed!!!
Close, but not quite. Phil first, then John. Dan....not so much. Kinda sad really. Which as I recall is why they split. Phil going solo, (and still going). John joining him on many albums. And the only time you've ever heard of Dan since is when they did kind of a reunion thing a couple of times. Hence the Live at the Beachland ballroom album. It should be noted and as a warning to all that Dan has a website that sells the Glass Harp recordings. A while back, I purchased all three of their cds and NEVER got the cds. It was a huge fight to get my money back. I eventually had my bank get my money back as Dan wouldn't either send me the cds, or give me my money back!! So, BEWARE all of you that try to purchase cds from his website!!
Excellent !
Would love to see this transfered to audio and put on a cd and/or for digital download!!!
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This is available on DVD on the band’s ; & Phils’ ; websites . 👍
You have to be kidding me they all sing too😮
Wow
beautiful music miss that
Love it! Thank you!!
Amazing 72
I watched this back in 1972!
That guitar on NIALT - wow!
Thank you for uploading!!!!
Thank you thank you thank you!
The drum solo, my band teacher used to say that was Killin' Snakes!. Lol.
Wow what a great band. Padua high school
31:33--DAN:(in thought)--"Whoa...I can't just stand here and sing...I need my bass back!"
The concert you're watching according to Google was a PBS concert recorded at WVIZ Studios in Cleveland, OH on February 25, 1972
Insane that Keaggy's only 21 in this video and already 6 years into a live music career. Such a cornucopia of musical talent.
Phil's Pedal Board is incredible!
So good.
WHOA awesome!!!
Wow!
I might be wrong, but I think that Leland Sklar some time after this acquired Dan's bass. He (Leland) very briefly showcased it in one of his YT vids titled .546 Phil Keaggy. As he was talking about his time recording on Phil's 2nd album Love Broke Thru.
John Sferra great drummer on those Ludwig drums
50 years ago 😮 W♡W!!!
Did you ever hear him do woody wood peker
How did he lose his finger
I seen him in younstown and I was in 6 grand and I Florida 42yrs go or more plus
@@ricksaiani5017 Got his finger stuck in an old well pump
What are you talking about
I’ve got one of their records!❤🎉
Badass I remember that
If I didn’t already know that Jimi Hendrix’s statement about Phil Keaggy was apocryphal, I’d believe the story based upon this performance alone! Dare I say that this power trio would blow Cream right off the stage???
Sugar is sugar, salt is salt. If you ain't got the Holy Ghost, it ain't our fault. Remember Electric Ladyland???? R.i.p.mr Hendrix. God bless your home going!
Phil keaggy was and is a more technically proficient and haemonically advanced player than Clapton, but there are other attributes worth having, such as taste and songwriting. Cream had better songs, pushed the borders and created a new style of rock hybrid. The bassist and drummer are great, but not better than Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.
@@johnmendoza7475you’re welcome to your opinions. subjective and arguable at points. Would have been fun to see both bands play and write together. :)
Those Jimi stories about him praising other guitar players are folklore. Same story with different guitar players; not true. I agree this is a great performance by a great and super talented band that should’ve been much more popular. Real talent.
Absolutely.
AMEN!!!!
Why did TH-cam put an ad for Free IRS E-File right in the middle of Phil's solo? That action made sure I'll never, ever use that tax-service. And wishing there will one day be an alternative to TH-cam that isn't run by Google.
Google and install TH-cam revanced
like Hendrix, Clapton and Beck rolled into one.
Was anyone part of that audience? I would be interested to hear your impressions.
Incrível 💯🩷
I'm from Cleveland. Love Joe Walsh/James Gang and these guys. But seriously, who gets credit vs. who "got it"?????
Par Excellence!
If this is out of sync, reload the page. I had that problem. Almost didn't watch it.
Original Prog Rock
Nobody was playing like this in 1972. Literally nobody. He was super clean and fast but also played with soul. Page was on fire at this time as well but he was very much blues based and still could be very sloppy. I say that as a huge Jimmy page fan. People like John McLaughlin we're considered 'the fastest' but they still just didn't have the feel that Phil had.
I know Phil made his own career choice and took the path he wanted to take. But if he had not gone into Christian rock, he would be considered the greatest guitar hero above anyone else.
Circa? What is this Ancient Greek history? How hard vould it be to pin down the date?
1972 would be a pivotal year for the group. Having recently released a second album (Synergy) Glass Harp were asked to perform a live concert on PBS in February. This broadcast would become groundbreaking in that it was one of the first to be simulcast on both television and the then-nascent FM radio. While an off-air recording of this performance was heavily bootlegged on video for decades, the master tape was later located and subsequently released on DVD as Circa 72 2006.
One of my new, old favorite bands in these days of m r n a casualties in our own countries but lets not mention it. Or if we do - deny or play down. Did propaganda in the indoctrination camp work this well in the seventies?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
37:35 that foot speed 😳
Why the female covering?
What female
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Technically brilliant however Keaggy is not a distinctive voice on the instrument. He can play anything in any style with jaw dropping virtiousity, but he is not an instantly recognizable player. He also can be a bit dirivative, especially in his early work. When you listen to Hendrix, Page, Clapton, and I will add Ritchie Blackmore, you know who they are after hearing a few notes. To me, Keaggy can sound a bit generic, but that could be because of the sheer plether of genres he has recorded in. Glass Harp was a good band, but a bit under-developed. It sounds like a bunch of jams with vocals inserted and it gets tedious to my ear.
To me, Keaggy's guitar playing is best exemplified on the albums THE WIND AND THE WHEAT and BEYOND NATURE. Vocally I feel FIND ME IN THESE FIELDS to be his most complete record. I met him after a concert I attended in Minnesota and told him how much I loved FIND ME IN THESE FIELDS, and he said that he felt at the time that it was his most transparent album.
I have found that the sheer volume of material released, especially mid to later career, made me lose interest.
Hendrix knew why Keaggy was better guitarist than him...
Rok Prijatelj You must be on LSD
That story is apocryphal, and has been applied to everyone from Phil to Rory Gallagher. However l happen to think they were both better guitarists than Jimi 😊
@@Rupert14 of coure, Jimi was more mainstream and that's why they said he was the best...
@@LoveArt86 Very true. Rory and Phil never got that level of recognition, except certainly among other players...which gets us back to the Jimi story. There is no documentation that he said anything about Phil or Rory in a print or film situation.
But, it is most likely true that he was aware at least of Gallagher (his band Taste played at the same Isle Of Wight festival as Jimi), and it is reasonable that he would have heard of Phil through the grapevine.
I think perhaps this story originates from Jimi's appearance on the Dick Cavett show and Dick asks him what it is like to be the best guitarist in the world (insert apocryphal answer here)...and Jimi actually replies that he is the best guitarist 'in this chair'.
Jimi was always humble about his ability and it is certainly believable that he would have said that Phil and Rory were better than he...but there is no documentation of course.
To illuminate this further Walt Parazaider of the band Chicago remembers Jimi coming up to him after a gig and telling him that their guitarist Terry Kath was a better player than him.
Do not get me wrong, l think Kath was a terrific player but not in the Jimi/Rory/Phil league. An instinctive player with lots of emotion but not much finesse.
I think it's a sign of Jimi's honest humility (and maybe low self-esteem?), that l can imagine the Kath story was not an isolated incident. If he saw Rory as is likely, and Phil at any point, if he liked Kath either of those two would have blown him completely away.
...especially as they were both 5-8 years younger than him, and neither of them used effects pedals, like him also. And l am sure he could see that they had the same influences, like Wes Montgomery for example.
Jimi never said it. These guys didn't talk about BEST. They all were.