Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?

Subject: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: GUEST,12stringsally
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 02:22 PM

Who would you want to see perform with just a guitar and a mic? Any and all artists welcome…

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 02:28 PM

Tony McManus

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Tiger
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 02:46 PM

Dave Van Ronk, Norman Blake, Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Paul Geremia, John Hammond, Leon Redbone

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 02:54 PM

Tom Petty, Steve Earle. I've heard Dave Van Ronk (many times, as I took guitar lessons from him,) Doc Watson, Paul Geremia and John Hammond, and that's the only way I ever heard them. I kinda thought this thread would be people you'd like to hear with just a guitar and a mike who don't normally perform that way... Like MTV unplugged, here in the U.S. of A.
Jerry

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 02:58 PM

Ian Anderson

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 02:59 PM

I think I'd let go of the mic.

I'd prefer just a guitar and a voice.

Are we allowed dead people?

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 03:20 PM

I saw Richard Thompson do an acoustic show, just guitar and mic back in 1983 and found it mesmerizing. Since then, when I've seen him, it's been in bigger halls and his guitar has a series of pickups for some effects. The impact is not the same to me. It still sounds great, but I miss the guitar sound through the mic.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 03:59 PM

Just about everybody. Sorta like bein' bare nekkid. Then you can see what they've really got!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: PaulM
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 04:21 PM

Madonna :-)

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 04:31 PM

Tony Blair might be a laugh.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Wesley S
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 05:51 PM

All of the above except for Madonna and Tony Blair. I might toss in Andy Irvine.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: DougR
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 11:54 PM

Burl Ives, Hank Williams, Chet Atkins, 'cause I'm sorry they are gone.

DougR

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Kaleea
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 12:11 AM

Tommy Emmanuel, Chet(God rest his soul) Atkins, Stephen Bennett, Roy (his too) Rogers (but maybe not Trigger), Beppe Gambetta, Laurindo Almeida, Les Paul (the guy who invented recording in stereo!)& Mary Ford, Johann Sebastian Bach(performing his own works for guitarro &/or lute of course), Charro, who is a terrific guitarist in the "classical or flaminco" style,. . . well, when you get these folks on the bill, I'll add more to the list.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: GUEST,MichaelAnthony
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 12:11 AM

I'm unclear on whether we're allowed dead people.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 12:24 AM

I once saw The James Gang, The Moody Blues and Dion in a concert. First was the James Gang Last was The Moody Blues. Each behind mountains of electrical power. Dion came out with a D-41, bentwood chair, glass of water and then he stole the show.

Tom Smothers, Roy Rogers, Glenn Campbell, Eric Frandzen, Albert Lee, Jim Burton.

I've seen them all accoustically, Roy on video tape,

Tom and Roy had the best rhythmic sense. Albert Lee was the most inventive, Glenn Campbell was the cleanest, Eric Frandzen was the most solid finger picker of the bunch. But Jim Burton was the of all worlds.

Don

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 12:41 AM

I would like to see Susan Tedeshi do a solo act. I have seen her with her band a couple of times but an intimate show would be wonderful. I would also like to see her and Jonny Lang do something together. Those two have so much heart, together they would rock me all night long. I just saw Leo Kottke do a guitar and mike in a small theater, and as always he was brilliant and mesmerizing. I would see him again. Rustic

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:58 AM

McGrath in Wembley Stadium - but skip the mic....

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: kendall
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 08:18 AM

Andres' Segovia.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 08:26 AM

"Are we allowed deasd people" - I get this vision of this corpse propped up by the mike and the guitar, and an audience waiting expectantly...

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: GUEST,Scabby Doug ( no cookie)
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 08:32 AM

One that did happen in Glasgow last week and I couldn't get to -

Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle, John Prine and Elvis Costello, all onstage all acoustic, reportedly a classic all-time best.

Cheers

Steven

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: GUEST,boredwitdaradio
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 01:28 PM

Stan DeWitt – www.standewitt.com Shawn Mullins – www.shawnmullins.com David Wilcox – www.davidwilcox.com Shelby Lynne – www.shelbylynne.com Dave Matthews – www.davematthewsband.com

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 02:32 PM

I've seen the ones I really wanted to - but the one I'd have loved to see was Uncle Dave Macon. I know - he played a banjo - but I would have loved to see him.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:09 PM

Well, I heard Dyer-Bennett at New York City's Town hall with just a guitar (no mike). I'm still impressed.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: GUEST,evrybudyduzit
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 01:25 PM

I saw Stan DeWitt at a Dave and Busters in Orange County. He did a song called 'lonesome picker' that I'll never forget. He would be a good choice and I'd also like to hear; Sting Paul Simon Carlos Santana Dwight Yoakam – "give a little bit…give a little bit of your love to me…"

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 01:47 PM

Right, Dick! Richard Dyer-Bennet. Most folkies don't like him because of his obvious classical training, but there was a man we could all learn from. I've seen him five times, four times in sizable theaters and once outdoors. Just his voice and his classic guitar. No mike. His voice was small compared to other classically trained tenors, but it could ring all the way to the back wall, and every word was crisp and clear.

I know of no other singer who evoked the spirit of ancient minstrelsy the way he did. A man I truly admired.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 01:56 PM

Corey Harris, again...

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: GUEST,Pete MacGregor
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 02:01 PM

I saw Segovia about forty years ago in the Festival Hall, London. He didn't need a mike.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: Grab
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 08:19 PM

Wearing nothing but a guitar and mike? Hmm, that's a tough choice... ;-) Or a Mudcat Calendar entry anyway.

And I'm getting visions of a young sound tech turning round to his mum and saying "I hear dead people"...

What can I say, too much caffeine, not enough sleep, it does these things to a person.

Graham.

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 10:57 PM

Cat Stevens, Ian Anderson, Doc Watson, Pat Sky and Ben Harper.

cookieless khandu

Subject: RE: Perform with just a guitar and a mic...?
From: GUEST,Janice in NJ
Date: 31 Jan 02 - 04:09 PM

My top ten:

Bruce Molsky (also with fiddle or banjo, as well as with guitar)

Bob Dylan (OK, guitar + harmonica)

Happy Traum

Jean Ritchie (with guitar or mountain dulcimer)

U. Utah Phillips

Kinky Friedman

Willy Nelson

Joan Baez

Toshi Reagon

Frankie Armstrong