Ed Gerhard plays “The Handing Down”. Video Credits: Nick Stasinos 03/06/93
I shot this video at his concert at The Shade Tree on March 6, 1993 when I was compiling material to transcribe the “Windham Hill Guitar Sampler” (1994).
A little background: Ed Gerhard is playing an Ervin Somogyi dreadnought guitar in this video. My Ervin Somogyi guitar I had built in the late 1980s was the nexus for me meeting pro audio engineer Henry Austin, a client of Ervin’s and also a friend of Ed Gerhard, placing me on the path to becoming a professional transcriber producing guitar transcriptions for publication.
Upon Henry’s arrival to my house (referred by Ervin), I attempted to persuade Henry out of ordering a guitar from Ervin because my guitar was so lifeless and already falling a part due to improperly dried Brazilian rosewood. So much for being the “Responsive Guitar”, Ervin! Despite my attempt to discourage him, Henry went on to order his guitar, which actually turned out very nice. What are the odds? Was I the one out of one thousand guitar builds of Ervin’s destined for failure? Or, was he just an unscrupulous businessman seizing the opportunity to move some inferior materials in the form of a custom built guitar on a low profile customer? Either way, I got burned! Rant over!
No, wait! There’s more! I attended The National Summer Guitar Workshop at San Rafael back in 1989. I brought my newly built Somogyi guitar with me. It had a Llyod Baggs pickup installed in it. When I performed in front of the class, plugged into Pierre Bensusan’s rig., Pierre tells me my high E string is dead, it’s not being amplified! Pierre just so happens to have the amazing Ashworth bridge pickup from England with him that he sells me …. for double the value, as I find out later. Ervin’s workshop is close by. I told him the Baggs pickup is defective and he installs the Ashworth pickup for me. Now, I have a working pickup when I return to class. I never did get a refund for the bad Baggs pickup, Ervin!. I find out later on that Ed Gerhard was passing through and he stopped by Ervin’s workshop. Ervin installs my defective Baggs pickup in Ed’s Somogyi guitar. Small world! Either Ervin did not listen to me … or he is simply an unscrupulous businessman! Now my rant is over!
Here’s another tune of Ed’s that Henry asked me to transcribe. This one was can be found in the “Windham Hill Guitar Sampler” book and previous release of the audio by the same name in 1988. I remember playing this for Ed and Kelli over at Henry’s home and Kelli replied “I never heard anyone play this song except for Ed!” I was honored! Ed corrected one fingering for me and it was off to the press. Fast forward, years later, after a concert at The Fret House in Covina, I walked up to greet both Ed and Kelli and they didn’t even recognize me! It must have been all that gray hair I had accumulated from life’s little bumps!
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