As a student in London in the 1960s Davy was THE folk blues guitarist. Bert Jansch and John Renbourne were disciples. Anji became the Right of Passage for us aspiring guitar players. I played and sang folk music with a friend and we were fortunate enough to get a gig at the Troubador, on a Tuesday night. Back stage, in the worst WHS cellar, we were getting ready and then Martin Windsor called us on stage. First thing I saw was Davy sitting in the front row. Chris said to me "He's not there". Here is the greatest guitarist that I had ever seen and whom I idolised and there is me with my C,F, G and Am and G, C, D and Em and a capo! We did the first bracket and when we went backstage Davy put his head around the corner and said "I liked that boys" and then left. "Thank you Davy" we replied . By the time we started the second set Davy had gone. I was 22 then, I am now 77 and that memory is always there for me and will never be forgotten. Thanks Chris and a special thanks to the great DG.
On a very bleak Tuesday morning in the 1980's, I had the misfortune to be in a very large queue waiting to sign on the dole in the Camden Job Centre. Not a fun moment. But then like in a strange dream a man walked in wearing all white carrying a lute. He proceeded to play some absolutely beautiful music , like an angel dropped out of the sky. It was Davey Graham and he played for about 20 minutes and then left. It was an amazing thing to see/hear. Cheers Davey whatever realm you are now in
+Dave Coe Absoltely marvellous !! I knppw the feeling..I used to sign on at Hammersmith, Glenthorne Road is forever etched in my mind ! Well done DG !!
you have to remember davy graham was the composor of this marvelous piece long before bert jensch and paul simon got hold of it great guitarists as they all are
Nearly fifty years ago when I first learned this tune I thought it was supposed to be played at about half this speed.....I didn't realise at the time that the the bloke I learned it from had only just learned it himself and couldn't play it any faster! Blew my mind when I heard Bert Jansch's lightening speed version!😁😁
Been seriously into music all my life (i'm 45) and i have just this minute heard Davy Graham for the first time ever. How on earth has this great music passed me by all these years? No-one has ever mentioned him to me, ever. It was a complete accident that i came across him. I was actually looking for "Windy Day" by Telltale, the band from the kids tv show "Rainbow". Amazing.
+Jase-ville Same here...came here by way of reading about Jimmy Page being influenced by Graham around the time they were making Led Zeppelin III at Bron-Yr-Aur...
+Jase-ville I was around 35 the first time I heard the pianist, Herbie Nichols, I asked myself (and some of my friends) the same question. If you like this, check out Herbie Nichols "Terpsichore," "House Party Starting" or, really, anything by him. Composer/percussionist/producer Kip Hanrahan is another musician who came to my attention later in life than the beauty of his music merits; I was around 45. If you're still with me, everything he plays is great but his masterpiece from 1983, Desire Develops an Edge, is what I'd recommend.
+Jase-ville At a few of the folk clubs in sixties Belfast I used to hear this being played and the name Davy Graham mentioned. Only now have I finally heard the man himself ! I know the feeling..I only heard the Velvet Underground for the very first time in 1989 !! ( those ^^^^ Dj's would not play them ).
+Jase-ville, I'm 24 and feeling as though I've missed out for only recently learning who Davy Graham is. I'm a die-hard Zeppelin fan and I've heard the name but never bothered to look into his music. I came here while researching the song "Cry Me a River," of which "Taurus" by Spirit, of which Stairway to Heaven is supposedly a rip-off. One thing is for sure: Cry Me a River is a great song!
it's strange and surreal that today I hear the original Anji by its composer. In 1965 I have worn out the Paul Simon version and soon after heard Bert Janch do it. Now today I am in touch with where Anji started. And it's the best one!
It is wonderful to hear this. The best...I heard Davy Graham perform live twice, and I have a quirky story to tell in relation to the first (one of my worst embarrassments) and a sad one in relation to the second. The first time was in about 1970. He was pally with a friend of mine who one day asked me to come along with him to see a friend - he didn't say who. So off we went to a flat in Notting Hill (thank you Max RIP). There were no introductions and no conversation, just this wonderful guitarist who played and played. Eventually I remarked: "You are really good, have you thought of playing professionally? You remind me of Davy Graham" The added absurdity to this comment (which Davy received with a quiet smile) was that I actually had one of his vinyls and was an ardent fan - but his appearance had so radically change from that shown on the cover, and it was so awesome and absurd that I could actually be in the private presence of this genius, that I did not recognise him. The second occasion was at a gig in High Wycombe not long before his death. Although then not well, and a shadow of his former self, the genius still shone through at times. The evening culminated in something shocking, even tragic, when one disgruntled punter vociferously (and idiotically) demanded his money back, and there was a rumpus with the roady. I still have two of his first vinyls, which I am embarrassed to say I asked him to sign at the Wycombe gig. Anji is on one of them. Davy, great and lovely guy, rest in peace.
You don't even understand your own story ! " You remind me of Davey Graham " is the most brilliant line you could possibly have come up with, " I've never heard of you and that was shite " would be embarrassing. The only time I heard the dreaded line was in 1974, from a lad in the row in front of ours, Beefheart at the Empire. Being Liverpool, after the next track the lad got up again and shouted " I want my money back - TWICE ! " . Back to Davey.... As it was the lick from Angie that caused me to shoot over to Hessy's and swap my bass for a nylon string in 1972, I was pleased that Obo had told Hawki to book Davey to support Roy Harper at the Phil, 1991. DG came over after the gig, and eventually that led to the release of Playing In Traffic. The album was put together on cassette first, and eventually put onto CD. At that point DG was playing a folk club somewhere in the wilds of Cheshire, and I was given his copy ( singular ! ) to deliver. The driver and I were standing at the bar, surveying the scene, and a duo were at large on the stage. Then I spotted our man at a table, with the other three seats empty. He looked like he was studying his hand ( of imaginary cards ..... ) , head down. I went and sat next to him, not opposite, and laid my card on the table. In front of me. Considering the cover was the same as the cassette, I was surprised that he didn't respond. Having nothing left to lose, I slid the CD over in front of him, and said " Have you seen this ? " - crude but effective. He looked at it, then me, and shouted " Paul ! ". I just uploaded Davey doing The Birth Of The Blues the other day, from my ghetto blaster recording of the first time he came over. It's actually a brilliant example oh how our pal is justified in demanding his money back. Davey's playing is too far out for your average rubberneck, and in their terms he has got a cheek charging admission. The comparison with Beefheart is also interesting. The lad who wanted his money back obviously heard Bluejeans and Moonbeams and took Beefheart for a white soul act, not an incompetent madman. But in reality, although Don himself was fairly slack, his bands were always frighteningly slick, and the whole mad image was in fact a magnificent example of showbiz given the psychedelic edge - totally contrived and rehearsed. Davey was just an obsessed musician who was too spontaneous to polish " a show " .
In the 1980s I picked up Guitar Magazine and in the back it had guitar teachers listed. I knew Davey Graham by reputation cos I was into folk blues and Bert Jansh and anyway I went up to Camden and had lessons at his place on a Saturday mornings. Wonderful Guy! - and an amazing musician he could could pick up and play anything from obscure classical italian pieces to any jazz tune. Truly fantastic experience.
@@rjlchristie to me it isn't, do you ever experience a particular feeling to a certain piece of music that you wouldn't get with any other? I think this song is economical in all the right places. I don't think other versions of this song give me the same pleasure. To me it tells a story and has mystery. I don't like the Bert Jansch version it's very angular and almost impatient, like Jansch is trying too hard IMO.
This is so much more than just a piece of great music and inspired playing. It is short but is of the very fabric of existence. Understated but undeniable is the sad beauty and melancholy within it and within ourselves, recurring, again and again.
@@mrstokes6580 we were his neighbours in Lyme Street in 1981. Davy and Angie were a great couple - you never knew what to expect. He had a huge collection of string instruments, as you must remember. We had a solstice party at our place which he came to and tried to persuade us all at 3am to drive to Stonehenge for the sunrise - no one was in a fit state to drive, but it was a great idea. Our place at 13 Lyme Street was actually owned by Ruth First, a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique, where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police. I still have a copy of her book "Power in Africa", very tattered, that I took with me when we moved out. A township in Cape Town is named after her husband - Joe Slovo.
I am just now discovering this tune after reading an interview with Nancy Wilson of Heart. She said the intro to Crazy on You was inspired by this song and after listening to this song I can hear the similarities. Great tune!
Just gone back to playing this after many many years. Looked at many covers and they are good. But this is special .the man had a great touch and this is special.Love it.
I decided to track this tune down having learned a version of it when I was a teenager oh so long ago. Once I found the correct spelling I discovered that what I had been taught was just an approximation of the actual tune. My version sounds pretty nice but the variations I have been playing for so long are hard to unlearn. Anyway nice to hear the original and wish me luck in re-learning it the correct way.
Yes - I have been playing slightly 'wrong' variations now for 50+ years. Now, with the aid of TH-cam and speed variation playback, I am trying to get it to sound more like Davey Graham's original...
I first found out about Davy Graham in the mis 60s listening to Bert Janch play his song Angie (sometimes Anji) on his first album. (Paul Simon made a good version too). Graham was a massive influence on Renbourn etc at the time due to playing his guitar in various different tunings....DADGAD is probable the most common now. Try Graham's album "The complete guitarist" for some real variety. Sadly he succumbed to drugs and alcohol but at his peak he was an innovator.
First time I heard this song was as the intro and break on "Somewhere they can't find me" by Paul Simon. The next time it was a very pretty girl who played it for me to get my attention . . . mmmmm . . . I was young once. Lately, I saw a video from Japan of a local guy covering it . . . and his version was very close to Paul's. Today, however, a friend linked me this original version and I am glad he did. Nice stuff. Fills the musical soul better than Classical Gas.
Funny you should say that; I heard Classical Gas in my head, out of the blue today, and went looking for it on youtube, Have just listened to it again, and then thought of "Angi"....spooky.
When I was at collage in Brighton in the mid 60's this piece was the measure of wether you got a gig at the Stamford Arms or not - still a great venue for folk/blues etc. I learned it and went along as a floor singer, and sure enough I got a gig a few weeks hence! He was a great pioneer of the folk blues scene and never got quite the recognition he deserved, Long live DG!
I'm a guitar player from that era, and you're exactly right. If you could play Anji, you could get a gig. I had learnt a fairly basic version of it by ear, and indeed joined a group in SouthWales on the pub/club circuit. For a while I also dated an ex-GF of Davy's called Judy. She had a kid that I suspect was Davy's. A girl. Interestingly I got a professional transcription of it a few years ago, and now see alot of the subtleties that I missed playing it by ear.
When I first learned this in the late 80's I had never heard the song. I was about 13 and I learned it from watching my guitar teacher. It wasn't until years later that I heard simon and gfunkles version. Years after that I finally heard the original and it's my favorite version, although others are very good. It's nice to know it hasn't been forgotten. This song still impresses the uninitiated after all these years.
Recently discovered davy graham after hearing it was one of john martyn's influences, when i heard this song it instantly reminded me of another song, nick drakes "been smoking too long", makes me think he may have been influenced as well. Such an awesome artist and still holds awe in this day and age. Edit: nick drakes been smoking too long is originally done by robin frederick so i may be wrong about his davy graham influence but wouldnt be surprised if he was.
Surprised nobody's responded to this. By 1968 when our boy started recording, every acoustic guitarist in Britain knew that DG was the man, and that Angie was the passport to cool. The folk club scene was really strong by then, and most of those guitarists will have seen DG do Angie live. Those guitarists who lived down south , within travelling distance of London, will have seen DG regularly. It is extremely probable that Angie is the first thing Nick ever learned, in terms of fingerpicking - that's just the way it was ........................
If you can imagine I was learning this and Boureè in Em at the same time. A friend of mine swapped the key of Boureè in Em to Am and combined them. Took him a year to perfect it. He was a great player.
this is jimmy page's "white summer" from the yardbirds "ten little indians" right before LZ. i am a big fan of LZ but credit goes where it's due. i just found out about Davy Graham and he is one hell of a guitar player...rr
If you're open to fantastic recent versions, check out YT's by Rainer Brunn and Dave Morgan - true to the original but very inventive. Brunn's grooves, Morgan's is fun.
I'll stick my neck out and say Nick Drake stole this for the verse section of "Been Smoking Too Long" (collected on the Time of No Reply/Fruit Tree albums)
Anji was my aunt Angela Vlasta Bukacek my grandpa didn’t approve of Davey-now that I see photo here I’ve seen others -I wasn’t sure what he looked like except he was fairly dark skinned-half Guyanian I think
They hit Morocco in the early 60s or even late 50s and my aunt was busted at Amsterdam carrying hash and had to be bailed out by my Grandad in about 69. She was young and never really grew up-she had 6 kids in tow she. She died. I met her late on and we got stoned together in the night after my granddads funeral. Love you Angie.
@@SniffMyDeadwax Used to work with a guy called Jim McGeehan and he gave me the LP of Midnight Man by Davy Graham. Jim talked often of Anji.. I still have the album and happy memories ...
Rainbow, weather series 1 episode 4. UK kids tv show. A beautiful song called "Windy Day" by in-house band "Telltale". The 7" is better but it's ace in any version. Trust me. Starts at 5:50.
Can y’all just imagine this being played by a few saxophonists? Or just a small jazz band? Make a few changes and additions here and there and you got yourself a swaggering dirty New Orleans tune. Be a helluva time.
Why the hell would you want to? This is a guitar tune, written and played here by one of the all-time greats. Some things just aren't meant to be mucked about with, & Anji is one of them...
@@chambeetI don't disagree. But come on! Anji is a piece on which generations of guitar players have honed their craft & by which they have measured their worth. It is up there with the very, very best. It would be arrogance of the first order to mangle it with an orchestral, or - God forbid - a New Orleans jazz treatment. I ask again, why on earth would you want to?
What on earth does that mean? I'm as open-minded as the next man. I still don't think Anji is anything other than a guitar tune. You can play it on what you want.
I was reading this man could be very nasty to people for no reason, when the guitar player from Jefferson Airplane Jorma K went to talk to him for the first time to say how he loved his guitar playing Davy told Jorma to go Fuck himself. lol and many other stories like that ? Oh well, what ever
LOL, Bert was so butthurt that Page "stole" Blackwaterside (which he didn't, Page significantly changed the song)... But he doesn't seem to have a problem to reproduce, almost 1:1 this song and let people identify Bert Jansch and Angie as father and daughter:)
+Todor Kolev You're talking nonsense here in several respects. Firstly, having attended many Jansch gigs down the years, I can tell you categorically that Davey was invariably name-checked by Bert prior to the playing of 'Angi' on practically every occasion he performed the song. Indeed, he habitually extolled the virtues of both Davey Graham & Jackson C. Frank as artists and musicians of huge talent, often encouraging audience members to go and seek out their back catalogues. Secondly, Graham rightly received credit for 'Angie' on Jansch's 1965 debut (in stark contrast to Page crediting Black Mountain Side solely to himself). Thirdly, you can't have it both ways, claiming Page 'significantly changed the song' Black Water / Mountain Side' yet levelling the accusation that Bert reproduced Angie 'almost 1:1'. Page played his in DADGAD as opposed to the original in dropped D & the song's certainly modified to some degree, though the essential riff, pull-offs, hammer-ons and bends are all plucked from Bert's own arrangement. Janch's Angie similarly retains the guts of the original, though the feel is noticeably wilder and looser, differs in tempo and contains rolls and flourishes that set it apart from Davey's more refined original.
+rhymeocerous Thank you for bringing facts into the discussion (which are often sorely lacking in this debate). In summary, Jansch made plain his indebtedness; Page did not.
+Bubblez Beano Page I think did pay the debts - I've known for 30 years that the root riff on Page's White Summer is She Moved through the Fair by Davey Graham. A lot of people (americans certainly) wouldn't know about Graham or Jansch if it weren't for Page. And I agree with Todor - Page (as was typical) changed things around so much that the final pieces were mostly his. White Summer (like Dazed and Confused) becomes an excursion into all sorts of passageways and realms. The main reason we know what some of his starting points were is the largess of Led Zep, which brought on a lot of intensive scrutiny of every note he played. Nobody jumps on Paul Simon's guitar playing, you know?
As a student in London in the 1960s Davy was THE folk blues guitarist. Bert Jansch and John Renbourne were disciples. Anji became the Right of Passage for us aspiring guitar players. I played and sang folk music with a friend and we were fortunate enough to get a gig at the Troubador, on a Tuesday night. Back stage, in the worst WHS cellar, we were getting ready and then Martin Windsor called us on stage. First thing I saw was Davy sitting in the front row. Chris said to me "He's not there". Here is the greatest guitarist that I had ever seen and whom I idolised and there is me with my C,F, G and Am and G, C, D and Em and a capo! We did the first bracket and when we went backstage Davy put his head around the corner and said "I liked that boys" and then left. "Thank you Davy" we replied . By the time we started the second set Davy had gone. I was 22 then, I am now 77 and that memory is always there for me and will never be forgotten. Thanks Chris and a special thanks to the great DG.
On a very bleak Tuesday morning in the 1980's, I had the misfortune to be in a very large queue waiting to sign on the dole in the Camden Job Centre. Not a fun moment. But then like in a strange dream a man walked in wearing all white carrying a lute. He proceeded to play some absolutely beautiful music , like an angel dropped out of the sky. It was Davey Graham and he played for about 20 minutes and then left. It was an amazing thing to see/hear. Cheers Davey whatever realm you are now in
Dave Coe Very cool experience for you and everyone else there!
Lucky you mate! Cheers
+Dave Coe Absoltely marvellous !! I knppw the feeling..I used to sign on at Hammersmith, Glenthorne Road is forever etched in my mind ! Well done DG !!
+Dave Coe Turned out to be the opposite to bleak, yeah?
Unfortunately for all of us, Davy passed away in 2008. RIP Davy, you created something amazing that influenced a ton of people.
I'm 71
Miss my pal's so much
This piece lads and lassies is simply superb
Night all
Sorry to hear you miss your pals, Patrick. We will all be there some day, if we're lucky enough.
Hope you are being AWESOME!!!!!!!
To wake up one day and hear this for the first time is truly a blessing.
you have to remember davy graham was the composor of this marvelous piece long before bert jensch and paul simon got hold of it great guitarists as they all are
I sold my first Sarode to Davie, he took me around to play at some clubs in London. Wonderful guy.
one of the most beautiful acoustic piece of all time
Nearly fifty years ago when I first learned this tune I thought it was supposed to be played at about half this speed.....I didn't realise at the time that the the bloke I learned it from had only just learned it himself and couldn't play it any faster! Blew my mind when I heard Bert Jansch's lightening speed version!😁😁
Been seriously into music all my life (i'm 45) and i have just this minute heard Davy Graham for the first time ever. How on earth has this great music passed me by all these years? No-one has ever mentioned him to me, ever. It was a complete accident that i came across him. I was actually looking for "Windy Day" by Telltale, the band from the kids tv show "Rainbow". Amazing.
+Jase-ville Same here...came here by way of reading about Jimmy Page being influenced by Graham around the time they were making Led Zeppelin III at Bron-Yr-Aur...
+jjbarnone That makes perfect sense, i can hear Bron-Yr-Aur all over this. Wow.....
+Jase-ville I was around 35 the first time I heard the pianist, Herbie Nichols, I asked myself (and some of my friends) the same question. If you like this, check out Herbie Nichols "Terpsichore," "House Party Starting" or, really, anything by him.
Composer/percussionist/producer Kip Hanrahan is another musician who came to my attention later in life than the beauty of his music merits; I was around 45. If you're still with me, everything he plays is great but his masterpiece from 1983, Desire Develops an Edge, is what I'd recommend.
+Jase-ville At a few of the folk clubs in sixties Belfast I used to hear this being played and the name Davy Graham mentioned. Only now have I finally heard the man himself ! I know the feeling..I only heard the Velvet Underground for the very first time in 1989 !! ( those ^^^^ Dj's would not play them ).
+Jase-ville, I'm 24 and feeling as though I've missed out for only recently learning who Davy Graham is. I'm a die-hard Zeppelin fan and I've heard the name but never bothered to look into his music. I came here while researching the song "Cry Me a River," of which "Taurus" by Spirit, of which Stairway to Heaven is supposedly a rip-off. One thing is for sure: Cry Me a River is a great song!
it's strange and surreal that today I hear the original Anji by its composer. In 1965 I have worn out the Paul Simon version and soon after heard Bert Janch do it.
Now today I am in touch with where Anji started.
And it's the best one!
It is wonderful to hear this. The best...I heard Davy Graham perform live twice, and I have a quirky story to tell in relation to the first (one of my worst embarrassments) and a sad one in relation to the second. The first time was in about 1970. He was pally with a friend of mine who one day asked me to come along with him to see a friend - he didn't say who. So off we went to a flat in Notting Hill (thank you Max RIP). There were no introductions and no conversation, just this wonderful guitarist who played and played. Eventually I remarked: "You are really good, have you thought of playing professionally? You remind me of Davy Graham" The added absurdity to this comment (which Davy received with a quiet smile) was that I actually had one of his vinyls and was an ardent fan - but his appearance had so radically change from that shown on the cover, and it was so awesome and absurd that I could actually be in the private presence of this genius, that I did not recognise him. The second occasion was at a gig in High Wycombe not long before his death. Although then not well, and a shadow of his former self, the genius still shone through at times. The evening culminated in something shocking, even tragic, when one disgruntled punter vociferously (and idiotically) demanded his money back, and there was a rumpus with the roady. I still have two of his first vinyls, which I am embarrassed to say I asked him to sign at the Wycombe gig. Anji is on one of them. Davy, great and lovely guy, rest in peace.
You don't even understand your own story ! " You remind me of Davey Graham " is the most brilliant line you could possibly have come up with, " I've never heard of you and that was shite " would be embarrassing. The only time I heard the dreaded line was in 1974, from a lad in the row in front of ours, Beefheart at the Empire. Being Liverpool, after the next track the lad got up again and shouted " I want my money back - TWICE ! " . Back to Davey....
As it was the lick from Angie that caused me to shoot over to Hessy's and swap my bass for a nylon string in 1972, I was pleased that Obo had told Hawki to book Davey to support Roy Harper at the Phil, 1991. DG came over after the gig, and eventually that led to the release of Playing In Traffic. The album was put together on cassette first, and eventually put onto CD. At that point DG was playing a folk club somewhere in the wilds of Cheshire, and I was given his copy ( singular ! ) to deliver.
The driver and I were standing at the bar, surveying the scene, and a duo were at large on the stage. Then I spotted our man at a table, with the other three seats empty. He looked like he was studying his hand ( of imaginary cards ..... ) , head down. I went and sat next to him, not opposite, and laid my card on the table. In front of me. Considering the cover was the same as the cassette, I was surprised that he didn't respond. Having nothing left to lose, I slid the CD over in front of him, and said " Have you seen this ? " - crude but effective. He looked at it, then me, and shouted " Paul ! ".
I just uploaded Davey doing The Birth Of The Blues the other day, from my ghetto blaster recording of the first time he came over. It's actually a brilliant example oh how our pal is justified in demanding his money back. Davey's playing is too far out for your average rubberneck, and in their terms he has got a cheek charging admission. The comparison with Beefheart is also interesting. The lad who wanted his money back obviously heard Bluejeans and Moonbeams and took Beefheart for a white soul act, not an incompetent madman. But in reality, although Don himself was fairly slack, his bands were always frighteningly slick, and the whole mad image was in fact a magnificent example of showbiz given the psychedelic edge - totally contrived and rehearsed. Davey was just an obsessed musician who was too spontaneous to polish " a show " .
Lovely story - thanks for sharing!
In the 1980s I picked up Guitar Magazine and in the back it had guitar teachers listed. I knew Davey Graham by reputation cos I was into folk blues and Bert Jansh and anyway I went up to Camden and had lessons at his place on a Saturday mornings. Wonderful Guy! - and an amazing musician he could could pick up and play anything from obscure classical italian pieces to any jazz tune. Truly fantastic experience.
I love the music of Davy Graham..... We used to go see Davy perform at Edinburgh College of Art Fok Club in 1966!
Edinburgh was great in the mid 60s. So much going on in the folk music scene.
How can anyone dislike this, it's beautiful.
Yeah, suppose so, but it's pretty limited in its scope.
@@rjlchristie to me it isn't, do you ever experience a particular feeling to a certain piece of music that you wouldn't get with any other? I think this song is economical in all the right places. I don't think other versions of this song give me the same pleasure. To me it tells a story and has mystery. I don't like the Bert Jansch version it's very angular and almost impatient, like Jansch is trying too hard IMO.
Such an addictive piece to hear and to play!
This is so much more than just a piece of great music and inspired playing. It is short but is of the very fabric of existence. Understated but undeniable is the sad beauty and melancholy within it and within ourselves, recurring, again and again.
Miss my dear friend Davy and our jams in his Lime st studio/flat. Such a long time ago but fondly remembered.
So lucky to have jammed with him! What was he like to hang around with?
@@mrstokes6580 we were his neighbours in Lyme Street in 1981. Davy and Angie were a great couple - you never knew what to expect. He had a huge collection of string instruments, as you must remember. We had a solstice party at our place which he came to and tried to persuade us all at 3am to drive to Stonehenge for the sunrise - no one was in a fit state to drive, but it was a great idea. Our place at 13 Lyme Street was actually owned by Ruth First, a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique, where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police. I still have a copy of her book "Power in Africa", very tattered, that I took with me when we moved out. A township in Cape Town is named after her husband - Joe Slovo.
Best version. Have known this tune all my life
Still got the 33 somewhere .Was it 3/4 AD from memory .This has long been my party piece.used to go the Cousins but always missed Davy .
martin feldwick,
45 not 33,3/4 AD is an ep with 3 tracks(including anji) about 10 minutes long.
I have it somewhere .too lazy to check it out as I know every note .
Have known this tune for most of my life. Always the best version ever.
Jeez how have I missed this man????
I am just now discovering this tune after reading an interview with Nancy Wilson of Heart. She said the intro to Crazy on You was inspired by this song and after listening to this song I can hear the similarities. Great tune!
Just gone back to playing this after many many years. Looked at many covers and they are good. But this is special .the man had a great touch and this is special.Love it.
I decided to track this tune down having learned a version of it when I was a teenager oh so long ago. Once I found the correct spelling I discovered that what I had been taught was just an approximation of the actual tune. My version sounds pretty nice but the variations I have been playing for so long are hard to unlearn. Anyway nice to hear the original and wish me luck in re-learning it the correct way.
Yes - I have been playing slightly 'wrong' variations now for 50+ years. Now, with the aid of TH-cam and speed variation playback, I am trying to get it to sound more like Davey Graham's original...
Such a beautiful tune. What a player.
lovely to hear it again and be reminded of him and his guitar generation xx
Guess I was just lucky to have heard him live at The Pink Flamingo in London in the mid 60's
I first found out about Davy Graham in the mis 60s listening to Bert Janch play his song Angie (sometimes Anji) on his first album. (Paul Simon made a good version too). Graham was a massive influence on Renbourn etc at the time due to playing his guitar in various different tunings....DADGAD is probable the most common now. Try Graham's album "The complete guitarist" for some real variety. Sadly he succumbed to drugs and alcohol but at his peak he was an innovator.
Still The most creative and innovative acoustic guitarist to this day. Always remembered Davy.
First time I heard this song was as the intro and break on "Somewhere they can't find me" by Paul Simon. The next time it was a very pretty girl who played it for me to get my attention . . . mmmmm . . . I was young once. Lately, I saw a video from Japan of a local guy covering it . . . and his version was very close to Paul's. Today, however, a friend linked me this original version and I am glad he did.
Nice stuff. Fills the musical soul better than Classical Gas.
Funny you should say that; I heard Classical Gas in my head, out of the blue today, and went looking for it on youtube, Have just listened to it again, and then thought of "Angi"....spooky.
Hypotonic stuff. Beautiful.
When I was at collage in Brighton in the mid 60's this piece was the measure of wether you got a gig at the Stamford Arms or not - still a great venue for folk/blues etc. I learned it and went along as a floor singer, and sure enough I got a gig a few weeks hence! He was a great pioneer of the folk blues scene and never got quite the recognition he deserved, Long live DG!
I'm a guitar player from that era, and you're exactly right. If you could play Anji, you could get a gig. I had learnt a fairly basic version of it by ear, and indeed joined a group in SouthWales on the pub/club circuit. For a while I also dated an ex-GF of Davy's called Judy. She had a kid that I suspect was Davy's. A girl. Interestingly I got a professional transcription of it a few years ago, and now see alot of the subtleties that I missed playing it by ear.
When I first learned this in the late 80's I had never heard the song. I was about 13 and I learned it from watching my guitar teacher. It wasn't until years later that I heard simon and gfunkles version. Years after that I finally heard the original and it's my favorite version, although others are very good. It's nice to know it hasn't been forgotten. This song still impresses the uninitiated after all these years.
i saw and heard davy playing at cousins... greek street.. soho.. mid 60s...he remains the main man... he was a natural... could play anything..
Recently discovered davy graham after hearing it was one of john martyn's influences, when i heard this song it instantly reminded me of another song, nick drakes "been smoking too long", makes me think he may have been influenced as well. Such an awesome artist and still holds awe in this day and age. Edit: nick drakes been smoking too long is originally done by robin frederick so i may be wrong about his davy graham influence but wouldnt be surprised if he was.
Surprised nobody's responded to this. By 1968 when our boy started recording, every acoustic guitarist in Britain knew that DG was the man, and that Angie was the passport to cool. The folk club scene was really strong by then, and most of those guitarists will have seen DG do Angie live. Those guitarists who lived down south , within travelling distance of London, will have seen DG regularly. It is extremely probable that Angie is the first thing Nick ever learned, in terms of fingerpicking - that's just the way it was ........................
At the very heart and soul of beatnik-land.
when your supremely talented and produce a beautiful tune and are as cool as fuck you can only ever have been davey graham
Wow. I ❤️❤️ music. Gorgeous. 👏🍀
If you can imagine I was learning this and Boureè in Em at the same time. A friend of mine swapped the key of Boureè in Em to Am and combined them. Took him a year to perfect it. He was a great player.
Pure genius.
So good!
Hard to believe that there's no live cuts of Davy playing Anji 🤔
graham was just 21 when he recorded this stunning instrumental, later covered by both jansch and paul simon.
Beautiful
Wow I didn’t know the bert version was a cover.. a truly amazing song
OMG WHAT A GREAT SONG TO PLAY
Best version ever.
amazing. he's like jansch and renbourn in one
Davi....de Argentina 🇦🇷🎸🔥👏julio 2020 ...
this is jimmy page's "white summer" from the yardbirds "ten little indians" right before LZ. i am a big fan of LZ but credit goes where it's due. i just found out about Davy Graham and he is one hell of a guitar player...rr
Richie T name checked him in his book. Thats what brought me hear . Nice
Brilliant.
What More can I say Davy.. uhhhuh!!!
We keep coming back.
THEE O.G.
If you're open to fantastic recent versions, check out YT's by Rainer Brunn and Dave Morgan - true to the original but very inventive. Brunn's grooves, Morgan's is fun.
If any amateur guitarist can play this you know they’re top notch
That black and white photo at 12 seconds is the SPIT of Oleksandr Usyk.......
Reminds me of the “Friends” riff by jimmy page wow
I'll stick my neck out and say Nick Drake stole this for the verse section of "Been Smoking Too Long" (collected on the Time of No Reply/Fruit Tree albums)
You're not really sticking it out very far. Try "Cocaine Lil" and "Hit the Road Hack" as well.
Hi, james! Actually ive been smoking too long is a Song written by a Nick drake's friend!
@@Zoevandyne Came here to write this, Robin Frederick i believe, a prolific writer for sure
Anji was my aunt Angela Vlasta Bukacek my grandpa didn’t approve of Davey-now that I see photo here I’ve seen others -I wasn’t sure what he looked like except he was fairly dark skinned-half Guyanian I think
They hit Morocco in the early 60s or even late 50s and my aunt was busted at Amsterdam carrying hash and had to be bailed out by my Grandad in about 69. She was young and never really grew up-she had 6 kids in tow she. She died. I met her late on and we got stoned together in the night after my granddads funeral. Love you Angie.
@@SniffMyDeadwax Used to work with a guy called Jim McGeehan and he gave me the LP of Midnight Man by Davy Graham. Jim talked often of Anji.. I still have the album and happy memories ...
If you can find it listen to his covers of Bach
You can never escape from beautiful music..realy happy finding this guy.(what type of genre is this? blues or jazz? or something else?)
Yes.
Can anyone link me a recording of Davey Graham playing this live?
Here because Graham Coxon play this
Where does he play it?
@@ShaykoFinds from BIMM's youtube video or you can search Blur's Graham Coxon - Masterclass. Minutes to 2:54
Underbar!
Wunderbar
Can anyone else pick up the Victor a Hugo theme song elements!!!
He's the daddy.
RIP, Britan Folk
Rainbow, weather series 1 episode 4. UK kids tv show. A beautiful song called "Windy Day" by in-house band "Telltale". The 7" is better but it's ace in any version. Trust me. Starts at 5:50.
Wonderful and here it has been correctly labelled 'Angi' (not 'Angie' or 'Anji')
Windy & Warm?
This guy influenced and was ripped off by so many, sad that he was unknown outside of the UK for most of his lifetime.
RIP Davy Graham
cymballine1 people were influenced. Davy had a million influences. Would you saw he "ripped off" Cocaine blues? A classic blues tune
cymballine1 Playing someone's composition is not ripping them off
Thought sure it was Dave VanRonk.
Can y’all just imagine this being played by a few saxophonists? Or just a small jazz band? Make a few changes and additions here and there and you got yourself a swaggering dirty New Orleans tune.
Be a helluva time.
Why the hell would you want to? This is a guitar tune, written and played here by one of the all-time greats. Some things just aren't meant to be mucked about with, & Anji is one of them...
fouldsie1 there’s nothing wrong with adapting music to different genres and styles. Doesn’t take away from the original.
@@chambeetI don't disagree. But come on! Anji is a piece on which generations of guitar players have honed their craft & by which they have measured their worth. It is up there with the very, very best. It would be arrogance of the first order to mangle it with an orchestral, or - God forbid - a New Orleans jazz treatment. I ask again, why on earth would you want to?
@@fouldsie1 If only you shared the same open-mindedness as Davey Graham...
What on earth does that mean? I'm as open-minded as the next man. I still don't think Anji is anything other than a guitar tune. You can play it on what you want.
This is the orginal of angie
DAVEYS MOTHER WAS JAMAICAN AFRICAN.HIS FATHER WAS WHITE FROM UK
dadgad
No, standard
Rory Gallagher could play this when he was 19!!
But i bet he can't create this, all that talent wasted for nothing, he coul only create shitty 2-3 chord songs. NO SOUL
Jimi Hendrix was asked what’s it’s like to be the best guitarist. He said I dunno ask Rory. 🤷
@@jorgelimon964 harsh
BE FREE
I was reading this man could be very nasty to people for no reason, when the guitar player from Jefferson Airplane Jorma K went to talk to him for the first time to say how he loved his guitar playing Davy told Jorma to go Fuck himself. lol and many other stories like that ? Oh well, what ever
Sng did it better tbh
LOL, Bert was so butthurt that Page "stole" Blackwaterside (which he didn't, Page significantly changed the song)... But he doesn't seem to have a problem to reproduce, almost 1:1 this song and let people identify Bert Jansch and Angie as father and daughter:)
+Todor Kolev You're talking nonsense here in several respects. Firstly, having attended many Jansch gigs down the years, I can tell you categorically that Davey was invariably name-checked by Bert prior to the playing of 'Angi' on practically every occasion he performed the song. Indeed, he habitually extolled the virtues of both Davey Graham & Jackson C. Frank as artists and musicians of huge talent, often encouraging audience members to go and seek out their back catalogues.
Secondly, Graham rightly received credit for 'Angie' on Jansch's 1965 debut (in stark contrast to Page crediting Black Mountain Side solely to himself). Thirdly, you can't have it both ways, claiming Page 'significantly changed the song' Black Water / Mountain Side' yet levelling the accusation that Bert reproduced Angie 'almost 1:1'. Page played his in DADGAD as opposed to the original in dropped D & the song's certainly modified to some degree, though the essential riff, pull-offs, hammer-ons and bends are all plucked from Bert's own arrangement. Janch's Angie similarly retains the guts of the original, though the feel is noticeably wilder and looser, differs in tempo and contains rolls and flourishes that set it apart from Davey's more refined original.
+rhymeocerous Thank you for bringing facts into the discussion (which are often sorely lacking in this debate). In summary, Jansch made plain his indebtedness; Page did not.
+rhymeocerous Thanks for your polite and elaborate response.
I still, respectfully, disagree :)
+Todor Kolev Cheers TK. Curious to know however which of the points I made above you still find yourself in disagreement with?
+Bubblez Beano Page I think did pay the debts - I've known for 30 years that the root riff on Page's White Summer is She Moved through the Fair by Davey Graham. A lot of people (americans certainly) wouldn't know about Graham or Jansch if it weren't for Page.
And I agree with Todor - Page (as was typical) changed things around so much that the final pieces were mostly his. White Summer (like Dazed and Confused) becomes an excursion into all sorts of passageways and realms. The main reason we know what some of his starting points were is the largess of Led Zep, which brought on a lot of intensive scrutiny of every note he played. Nobody jumps on Paul Simon's guitar playing, you know?