I Can’t Comprehend What He’s Doing
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Wow guys! Honored and humbled by this. Truly.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼thank you so much for spending the time . All the best to you in all of your endeavors.💯💯💯💯💯🏅🏅🏅🏅🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️CH
Thanks for posting this! I found something to do for a while❤
Well...hats off sir. You truly are a unique talent. Nice discovery. I personnaly will stick to my bass player... not even trying to dream about matching your skills😂.
Cheers from France.
So glad to see you get this recognition. Your solo on “Molino Molero” is one of the reasons I learned guitar after being a bassist for five years.
Hearing you play changed the way I thought about guitar on a fundamental level. Your music brings me so much joy and enjoyment! You deserve all the praise!
You are the maestro, Charlie!!
Thanks for sharing his music with your following. Not enough people know the treasure of Charlie Hunter's music.
Just to let you know, Charlie came to the Panama Jazz Festival, and a drummer friend that sadly passed away, challenged him to do a foot clave while playing a tumbao, and he said "I've never done it, let me try"... effortlessly, he did it, which comes to now surprise, Charlie probably has the ability to swim and sleep like cetaceans, he can disconnect his brain hemispheres! And such a lovely person, to boot!
Warning he can play some drums a it also. hehe and a super cool cat.
I have seen him a couple of times live. He can carry a conversation while playing, too. I can’t do that 😂. And I just play like, regular-ass guitar.
@@trebleclefjones4899 Charlie is a good dude! Extremely talented!
I saw him supporting his Ready Set Shango tour, at UCSB. You’re absolutely right, it’s dizzying to watch him do his magic.
His craft is indeed magical and not just a flex.
Great video bringing Charlie Hunter some well deserved attention.
Wow, this guy is incredible. Thanks for turning me onto another amazing musician.
I'm glad you compared Charlie Hunter to an organist, because my understanding is that that's what he was originally going for-to play organ-like parts on guitar. It's what led him to committing to learning how to play in this style with that incredible instrument. And he often even plays through a Leslie cabinet as well, just for that extra organ vibe.
Yes, Sam Yahel is amazing example. He can play great basslines with his feet, play chords with his left hand and a improvise a solo with his right hand - and all three on a extremely high level.
I forgot to let you play my Hybrid 7 guitar with Charlie tuning.
I wasn't aware of Charlie until I saw John Mayer's making of 'In Repair' (One song, one day) video. The man is just amazing!
I'd like to think I beat Charlie Hunter to it with the special pickups! In the 1990s I played in a country & western/rock and roll duo, and used a two-humbucker Ibanez RS225. I wired the neck pickup to a separate output, wired in a coil-split switch, and then took out three of the pickup screws, wound the pickup into the body, and wound the three remaining screws back out. the result was that the neck pickup only sensed the three lowest strings. Next I put the B string where the E string should have been, and so on across the neck, with a very thick sixth string, and tuned the whole guitar to B standard. The neck pickup went to a bass amp, and the bridge pickup to a guitar amp. Playing fingerstyle, I could play bass parts and a bit of strumming. The other guy played a regular guitar and could play solos. If a song was in E, I'd have to transpose it as if it was in A, so we both played the right chords. This was a successful setup and more than once, other musicians came up to us, asking where the bass was coming from! I'll admit that Charlie Hunter takes it to another level though. He's an astonishing player.
Nice to see someone finally do a deep dive on Charlie. He's been doing this for so long. The combo of feel, tone, taste, and stamina is unbelievable. Thanks for this!
no kidding on stamina
What in the world? I wouldn’t at all be surprised if he was the only human ever to be able to play like that. Just astonishing.
steve vai - teeth of hydra would be one of a few who also do it right.
Listening to him for 30 years now. He is a pleasure to listen to, it's not gimmicky at all.
Truly exceptional musicianship. I asked Pete Huttlinger how he was able to play Stevie Wonder’s Superstition on finger style guitar. He said he “just wrote all the parts out on sheet music and then sight read while he played it. “. OMG, amazing brain power! RIP Pete! We miss you.
Dang, didnt know he passed :( He was an absolute legend.
@worldwyn I wanted to mention Pete Huttlinger but couldn't remember his last name. Thanks for bringing him up in the comments.
I went to school with Pete, and remember his playing really coming together. What a wonderful person. R.I.P.
That's incredible
saw him first with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. He was kind of the whole band...incredible,and gets better all the time
Here's the thing about a great big heavy guitar like. You're best off to hang it up in the playing position and make it weightless... I posted a video titled tinkerers guitar suspension... zero gravity
Doe’s Charley get payed twice. Out of this World love it
Wayne Krantz does something similar that’s dumbfounding where he has rhythm melody and counterpoint happening all at the same time.
Saw Charlie on BET Jazz Central in like 96 and his thing never gets old or less impressive. If anything he has gotten evewn better the good way, not by adding even more but by getting more concise and groove oriented .
The other thing I remember is around the same time Guitar Playe rhad a pretty in depth tutorial with him on how to go about learning what it is he does, mostly rearranged for guitar but it had tabs for 8 string too (I have no clue how many people had one yet then lol). I wasnt ready for it then but i wish I could find it now.
Thanks for bringing Charlie Hunter to our notice, Rhett & Phillip! What an awesome guitarist - Charlie displays pure magic by adding an unfathomable dimension to playing guitar that is absolutely stunning! Out of curiosity, at the 5:40 mark, you can see a white pedal at his feet. Would that be the Xotic XW1 wah wah pedal?
Charlie Hunter's instrument alone is a monster.
I had an instrument I found on reverb where it was like a guy looked a picture of Charlie's guitar and said "yeah sure I can make something like that" for the past year but was even longer scale. Super exhausting. Charlie is part of Hybrid Guitars in Hillsboro NC you can actually get one, and despite the cost, it's the nicest fret work I've ever seen. I've been on the new instrument for a couple months, and am extremely happy.
I saw Charlie up close several years back. He is light years ahead, in all likelihood a alien from a nearby dimension. It is really fun to listen to how he's evolved thru the years. Even the configuration of his guitars have changed. And unlike some jazz guys who are all about playing obscure scales at warp speed, Charlie got soul.
He's just a kid from Berkeley who took lessons with Satrinani on during his formative years.
I’m sure he’s heard this a million times, but does Charlie Hunter get paid three times at much for doing three jobs at once?! Because he’s like three band members rolled into one! Really amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Tommy Emmanuel does something similar at times, but this is on a another level. I like the jazzy Zappa feel of this, too. I'm definitely going to find more of his stuff.
Every single player does this, he just changed the lowest strings to make them sounds like a TERRIBLE bass. The actual music is CRAP.
I've seen Charlie Hunter live several times. Jaw-dropping is the only words that come to mind. I always try to sit as close to the stage and on the side where you can see his hands clearly. It's beyond amazing! And while watching him I go back and forth between thinking how is this possible? And just sitting back and enjoying the song. Very inspiring to watch, but kind of not at the same time because I know that I'll never play that good! He's beyond genius or virtuoso ... he's just Charlie!
I got to see Charlie at yoshi’s quite a few years ago..such an amazing performance.
Met Charlie a couple times up in greensboro at a house show. He is one of the most humble and kind people I have ever met. Combined with his infectious stage presence and guitar gusto, I truly cannot say enough good things about this man. A true guitar hero
Always great to see new people giving Charlie Hunter his due recognition the guitar genius he is. he has been at it for years (speaking of which....anyone catch him at the Somerville Theatre back in 2002? What a phenomenal show!).
Side note: I am surprised you guys did not mention the "Leslie" tone he gets out of the higher strings (which I am pretty sure he gets out of an actual split to a Leslie!). I always found it super unique. What a gem this guy is.
His technique reminds me of how some very advanced fingerstyle guitarists play. Super talented guy!
I highly suggest the Josh Smith interview, Charlie really gets into his process there. its super fascinating, for him its a lifetime study and it shows. Great stuff
Charlie was the first show I saw at the Georgia Theater when I tuned 18. Incredible talent all around
Return of the Candyman and Natty Dread are still in my phone. Hearing Charlie is like listening to two musicians who are respecting each other.
In the mid nineties he and Marc Ribot were my favourite contemporary guitar players.
He's like, do I want to play bass, or do I want to play guitar? Screw it, I'll just do both at the same time.😂
I don't want to admit how long I watched this until I figured out there was no other bass player. 🤯
Charlie Hunter is so badass. One thing that makes it even more impressive for me listening as a bass player is the right hand muted/ghost notes on bass. All the chops and all the feel.
I remember one of those Novax guitars being on eBay and I wanted it so bad... I didn't buy it on it I ended up getting a couple of fan fret guitars from different builders... Emerald guitars is doing amazing stuff... also the guy from ergo base sticks? Will build you an amazing guitar if you can talk him into it
Haha wow the laugh is definitely the best reaction to some of this playing. I just kind of throw my hands up and think 🧐 idk?
He is a proof there is no limit to great musical creativity. That was AWESOME!!!!
First seen him in the late 90s, and he said he was going for an organ sound, but on guitar.
Charlie is truly remarkable and I have followed him for quite some time now. He seems to never run out of ideas, he's always got that sense of humor, he's as groovy as anyone could ever be and just straightforward musical. I like Rhett's mention of virtuosity, spot on!
i would give a listen to John Mayer’s In Repair video, i didn’t knew that he played this song until i saw the making of, such a great one!!
Well, my mind is blown. I just mastered walking and chewing gum at the same time.
Wow this guy is really a next level virtuoso that last song wow !! My brain hurts watching him do it
Wow! , that’s just…wow
Ive said that even if his bass and guitar parts were separate players, they'd be two of my favorite players.
I checked out Charlie years ago because I heard about the crazy technique, but I’ve stayed a fan for life because of that sick groove. I especially love his albums where he accompanies a singer (Lucy Woodward, Dionne Farris).
he did a great cover of More Than This w Norah Jones. i'll have to check these two out
I had the good fortune to see Charlie Hunter play two nights in a row in wildly different settings and styles. The first night I saw him as the guitarist in Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy opening for Nirvana in front of 16000 people. The following night I walked down to my local night club, the Paradise Lounge just to grab a drink, and there was Charlie Hunter with his jazz trio playing to an audience of nine people. It was one of those epiphany moments a musician (me) has where you realize that for a great musician it isn’t about fame and screaming crowds. Here he was, playing for the nine of us with the same intensity he had given the night before to an arena full of people. Which is saying something, because the night before, between Hunters guitar playing and Michael Franti’s dynamic charisma as a front man,the Disposable Heroes had actually blown Nirvana off the stage.
The drummer is first class
He is a treat to listen too!!!
I was totally thinking the same thing.
Charlie has one of the all time greatest stank faces in history. He's been killing it for decades. I often put him in a category with unorthodox but soulful players, such as Stanley Jordan or Michael Hedges.
Spanish Joint is must-listen Charlie Hunter, it's what inspired John Mayer to write Neon
So happy to see someone give him his flowers and shine light to how talented he really is
Great take. I saw him live about 15 yrs ago. Absolute alien. Can't help but stank face the entire performance. So nasty and good.
I first heard about Charlie when he played on “In Repair” by John Mayer. Incredibly gifted and such a diverse artist.
What's beautiful about Charlie's style is that his approach naturally creates space for both the guitar lines and the bass lines, which naturally suits his jazz/funk fusion style, IMO
Still the only guy that can groove a convincing bass line, comp chords and play sick lead over top and sound exactly like B3 at the same time
I’ve seen Charlie a handful of times at The Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz Ca. with drummer Scott Amendola. Phenomenal.
This has been my favorite musician since 2000. I literally went to music school to try and one day play like this guy. I am now studying math lol. He is incredible!
Charlie Hunter … I discovered Charlie AFTER I thought it would be cool to develop a way to play bass and guitar simultaneously. I heard him and was like, “shit, he already did it”. He used to play an 8 string, but lately his Hybrid guitars are 6 strings. Hybrid Guitars is the name of the company, they’re out of Hillsborough, NC. I asked him about his influences in developing his style and he mentioned Joe Pass and Tuck Andress, and that he played a lot of bass and drums. I think he should get a Farmer Footdrum and just be a band.
Reminds me of a keyboard player playing bass on pedals or with the left hand. And it's as if he were born doing it.
He’s not thinking, he’s just doing. Letting it flow. Thinking is the enemy of polyrhythmic flow.
I saw Charlie in '95 on the "Bing! Bing! Bing!" tour and in '99 on the "Duo" tour - he took audience requests in '95 and I called out "Giant Steps" to be a wiseass and he just launched right into it. I got to talk to him at both shows and he said he was a frustrated organist and recommended Larry Young and "Boss Guitar" by Wes Montgomery. Great drummer, great at playing Blind Blake / ragtime / pre-war blues, just such a tasteful and inventive player.
I was lucky enough to stumble upon him in the 90’s with Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy’s William Burroughs collaboration Spare Ass Anne and other tales, and the amazing group T.J. Kirk doing a mashup of Thelonious Monk, James Brown and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Saw Charlie play back in ‘98 when he was touring with John Santos & Stefan Harris. It was such an amazing show back then and he’s just as solid a player 25 years later!
Charlie Hunter = amazing musician, who deserves to be much more widely known. Like a few others in the comments here, I first heard him with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy in 1992 (the track was called Music and Politics, if I remember correctly). Already then, it was unbelievable that so much music could come from just one guy and his electric guitar. Not sure if he had an 8-string or a 7-string back then, but probably an 8-string.
WOW so cool that Charlie Hunter saw this and commented!! I saw Charlie Hunter in Atlanta years ago and I had no idea what was going on. He is truly one of a kind. His work on That Spanish Joint on D'Angelo's album is one of the best things about humanity. He is on another level and it's just like you say, there is no gimmick, and when you close your eyes it's two instruments. Everything serves the song.
long overdue breakdown of charlie's amazing playing!! reggae, dub, montunos, tumbaos, funk and pretty much anything (incredibly challenging) he has ever done is a lesson in pocket , groove, tone and tasteful note choices. worth pointing out that he splits his signal between a bass amp (top 3 strings) and usually another setup for his sweet (mostly leslie like) guitar sound. huge thanks!! You rule!!
I've been a fan for a few years now. Charlie continues to impress me with his taste and style.
First person I ever saw play like this was Richard Thompson sometime around 1996. His song Vincent Black Lightning is still one of the most impressive things I’ve ever heard.
Guys like Charlie, Richard Thompson, Ichika, Tosin and Javier from Animas As Leaders… they’re beyond human. I can’t even begin to comprehend playing 2-3 parts at once, much less emulate it. It’s mind boggling.
Richard Thompson made a strat sound like a sitar, not just folk rock but sadly underated outside that genre
💯 Decades later I still can’t emulate guys like him and Charlie. Beyond just the raw talent, that’s a dedication to an instrument far beyond anything I was ever able to do.
I watched in interview with him a while back where he talked about how he spent a significant amount if time learning exactly how a drummer thinks and plays, and learning how to LOCK into it. he said in the interview this was a major part of his learning process how to play like this. also I think some of my favorite playing if his is with the singer Lucy Woodward. shes amazing, hes amazing and they seem to play with different drummers each of whom is amazing as well.
omg, I listened -a lot- a couple of their albums, years ago, and I never realized that the band didn't have a bass player :O ...I'm in shock hahaha
He must really love guitar and bass to develop something so complex . And actually make music .
What's amazing about CH is that even if he was playing just guitar, he would still be an insane player.
Thanks Rhett and Phillip for this excellent breakdown. I've been following Charlie Hunter's career off and on since the mid-90s and every time I check in on what he's up to, recorded or live, it's invariably something musically satisfying. As you say Rhett: the extraordinary technique is always in the service of the tune & the groove, and that combination makes him one of the most consistently delightful guitarists to listen to.
He’s also a master of Country/Piedmont blues a la Blind Blake! (as mentioned at 4:00)
It’s really cool to see accomplished professional musicians just stunned by someone doing something in a new and unique way.
I’m struggling to hear the bass side of things, but his playing certainly looks phenomenal.
How can't you hear it?
@@HeavyProfessor phone speaker probably.
Holy shit!
Charlie Hunter is amazing! Great video 👍👍👍👍😎
Love that you’ve been showcasing all these unbelievable musicians lately !!!
Really fascinating, thanks for introducing me to Charlie! By the way, what is this quirky beauty of a guitar Rhett is playing?
Edit: Charlie's Album with Silvana Estrada (Lo Sagrado) is absolutely phenomenal, some of the best music I've heard in a long while!
People like Charlie Hunter or Trey Gunn are so good
He played guitar bass on Spanish Joint 😮
Charlie has been one of my favorite guitarists my whole life. I first heard him I can't even remember how long ago when a buddy gave me a cassette tape of TJ Kirk. It blew my mind and I've been a fan since. I have been lucky enough to meet Charlie a few times and he is absolutely the nicest guy ever. Nothing but praise for the man and his playing.
What came first for Charlie? Bass or guitar?
I've seen him play with Scott Amendola and it was mesmerizing. I also saw hi play 6-string in NYC with Medeski and Martin and an upright bass player, a really small show to raise money for a new electric wheel chair for a guy who ran a label that was important to them and that did not disappoint either! He's just an endless stream of fresh, happening musical ideas with all the firepower in the world to bring them to life. His records are all so cool too - duos, trios, quintets. I really love "Gentlemen, I Neglected to Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid" which is a quintet with a drums, trumpet, and two trombones - I think one was a high C horn and the other maybe a full bass 'bone, or at least a Bb trombone. I think it's my favorite thing I've heard from him. "Recorded in Glorious Mono", lol! The writing is SO GOOD, and these horn players all kill it, especially the two trombone players.
Spanish Joint is all
First heard Charlie on the last 3 nights of a run with him and Keller Williams trading off as the closer. Charlie was putting out an album with guest vocalists, one of which was a not yet Grammy winner Norah Jones. All 3 nights were incredible.
Rhett I love when you push up these musicians to the masses that people haven't heard much about. Such a fun watch
Man how did I not know this guy until today. What an amazing musician!!
Holy shit
With all respect , Charlie Hunter looks like a great guy who is trying some new technical ideas with converging bass and guitar. However, this music sounds pedestrian at BEST and dull at its worst. Nothing is interesting or innovative in anyway structurally or harmonically that hasn't been done in the last 55yrs. I'm surprised that Rhett finds it so good. Those reading this I hope you'd look back into maybe Shuggie Otis. Be well everyone. Sorry, if you find it offensive.
this is some jimi hendrix level skills!!!
Nuts! Such a great idea for a course.
Thank you for this video, Charlie has been my favourite guitar player for a long time and probably will be until the day I die
Charlie is the best - as a musician and as a person. A true treasure to have him in central NC.
Not to mention that I believe thats legendary drummer Gregg Bissionet grooving his ass of. Who wouldn't be able to lock in with a genius like Greg??? 😂❤
I’ve been playing bass and guitar for 35 years and my brain cannot process both lines at the same time let alone throwing in any improvisation at all. I am thoroughly impressed.
Charlie is not only the best, he’s the only one 🤣 Thank you guys, thank you Charlie 🙏
Everybody seem to forget the contribution of the late Joe Beck and his alto - Cort electric on that field ,,,, His 1997 Joe Beck And Ali Ryerson - "Alto" album & 2000 Jimmy Bruno / Joe Beck - "Polarity" are great examples .....Both amazing guitar albums !
You should also check Yamandu Costa, a wonderful 7-string Brazilian guitar player.
Although this is cool.... It's really not *that different from classical guitar* and the bass lines are not that much. Very good but most classical guitarist can do that. They never had such a fusion guitar but those things can be learned in the same way you learn any other classical piece, because of them have different groves in bass and melody at times. (ex: Chopin nocturne op9 nr.2). Also you just don't know how much % improv there really is. It's cool that you can appreciate someone else and all but I think you overhype this one.