One of the joys of life is the music of Ralph Towner and associated musicians, in particular the group Oregon. A superb performance! I wish his whole Solo Concert CD were on film. I compare "Solo Concert" to Jarrett's "Koln Concert" both will live for ever.
@michaelvaladez6570
2 жыл бұрын
When I heard Ralph Towner on a Weather Report album I could not believe what I was hearing a haunting melodic line something I never heard played on a 12 string guitar before.Having remembered his name when I saw the album Solo concert it mover me so much I was in search of a Guild 12 string guitar. It is probably one the finest live recording of a live setting for it's time.I am still amazed when I listen to that album.I agree I would have like to see that on DVD.This va very good TV recording ,thank you for this post.
@napischu
14 жыл бұрын
Saw him live last year. Mr. Towner is a very brilliant and modest man.
@loyeti71
13 жыл бұрын
Great Ralph! The magic music of Ralph and Jim chase away every sadness and negative energy
@63patzi
9 жыл бұрын
since 30 years I listen to this unbeleavable Sound and composes. This saves my life when I was laying in Hospital. Thanks skirburn1981
@Rikk303
9 жыл бұрын
I keep coming back to this despite all my messed up computers and lost memory. Ugly and beautiful. A different Umami. I wish he'd clean up the strings on the headstock though!
@tonet5761
14 жыл бұрын
First heard this tune from Oregon's Out of the Woods album..and thereafter was hooked on Oregon and Ralph Towner..
@metamorphosis67
13 жыл бұрын
@talkingwall Heavy Metal, Hard-Rock, Jazz and Jazz-fusion is very popular in Eastern-Europe. A guy like Larry Coryell or Ralph Towner or Scott Henderson that might play to 50 to a 100 people a night in the USA can go there and suddenly play to 1000 people a night. Scott Henderson told me that if it wasn't for Europe and Japan there's no way he could survive by just touring the USA.
@namtil
13 жыл бұрын
Ralph Towner + Guild 12-string + great song = Amazing
@MrPartidoalto
12 жыл бұрын
There's several reasons why majority of Americans don't appreciate or are clueless of their innovative musical heritage such as jazz, 20th century classical music and modern music in general. Radio and TV programming has a lot to do with that, education, values in life, the exposure to melody, harmony and polyrhythms and the lack of connect to what came before them. America is a young nation compared to Europe. It's going to take generations and a cyclical timeline for Americans to catch up.
@tehee-
2 жыл бұрын
This couldn't have been explained more pertinently. The absolute truth about America's lost musical heritage. Whatever 'trap' music corporate America spews out is not going to last like the folk music of our ancestors. This is the lost generation of our artistic and musical traditions as a people.
@Vektorer
14 жыл бұрын
Yo bum: Thanks for putting this one up. Towner and 12-strings is nothing short of beautiful.
@dobol52
15 жыл бұрын
BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO! Wish there was an encore.
@jamessauer806
15 жыл бұрын
I agree. The best concert experience of my life was Ron Carter quartet. They played two long sets, no breaks between songs, and I was in heaven. What about the majority of the crowd? Lost, clapped after every solo, and half walked out by the end. I wish they would have not shown up at all, not ruined every song by clapping between solos (Like every jazz concert!), and allowed me to sit in the front row when I went down there.
@icaredamnit
15 жыл бұрын
Take heart, my friend, I'm American and I'm here because I love Towner, Oregon and most of the entire ECM label. And there are lots more like me. I'd have killed to see the concert you saw in '75, congrats for getting there.
@richardwhitney7133
Жыл бұрын
I doubt very much as regards getting a response to this response....maybe if I'd been more responsive 13 years ago huh? Decades ago, Manfred Eicher somehow managed to recruit some huge talent to ECM. Apart from the obvious....sublime expertise demonstrated by all the musicians in his family....the production & sound engineering placed ECM head & shoulders apart from everyone else. So many from Eicher's "Stable of Brilliance" went on to even brighter illumination. Ralph is jaw-droppingly good. My list of ECM favourites would run a few pages! Egberto Gismonti is top of the list, if there has to be one. "Danca das Cabecas".....that was a real ear-opener for me. Nino Gasconsoles (probably spelled that wrongly) percussion is incredible. His amazing smile is better than any fancy lighting!
@elbowout
14 жыл бұрын
In 1978 I was fortunate to hear/see larry coryell top most of the posted versions.
@allanerickson5053
6 жыл бұрын
I saw him around then, touring with Jon Ambercrombie, small venue in Santa Barbara w/ great acoustics - mind blown
@frankemiliani1890
9 жыл бұрын
WHAT A Spirit round my. HEAD
@kontrapunkti
13 жыл бұрын
I was sold after 10 seconds!
@Tarabos1
13 жыл бұрын
@metamorphosis67 You are right and I agree to your comment. I wonder, what happened to the public´s perception of music at the late 70s and early 80s and since..I always said, that the political and cultural world began to change than (Reagan/Thatcher/Kohl era) and the rise of people like Rupert Murdock and Leo Kirch (in Germany) who spoiled the music world with their policy of mass media stupidity (radio, TV, movies). We can´t blame the youngsters for their taste, they can´t know better !
@Galantski
13 жыл бұрын
@metamorphosis67 - Correction: Although amazing John McLaughlin has often performed in the US with many great American musicians such as Miles Davis, Stanley Clarke, Wayne Shorter, Larry Coryell, Chick Corea and Al Di Miola, he is himself a native of Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.
@metamorphosis67
13 жыл бұрын
@Galantski Yes, England but 80% of his post-Extrapolation work happend in the USA. He was the opposite of Hendrix in that sense. He moved back to Europe later. I do not mean a specifically American culture but a 60s & early 70s culture. That's what the Irish-by-blood / North English-by-birth McLaughlin is rooted in along with the rest of those Americans. That same old 1966-1975 counterculture tree is bearing whatever leftover fruits we see today. That tree will not grow in today's Zeitgeist.
@victorhugoveraborquez2651
8 жыл бұрын
Excelente Ralph, no te mueras nunca
@homoignobilis
12 жыл бұрын
All I want to know is what tuning he used. sounds like an E maj. tuning which fits in with the stopped harmonics. I could also see that it would work with an A maj. with bass E dropped to a D. Same style as used by Robin Crowe and kind of like Leo Kottke who played a Bozo 12 string. by the way, this is, as related by Pepper, a Cree, a peyote chant and was sung to him by his grandfather. Evidently, this religious chant is ancient. Introduced in 1968 by "Everything Is Everything".
@johnwheeler4034
Жыл бұрын
what does he want the cameras to do 2 mins in? They didn't do it@! No matter!@ Great performance!
@dostfez
11 жыл бұрын
Thx for uploading...
@buddesatva
15 жыл бұрын
Wow. I know that's not very intelligent or descriptive by this is an amazing performance.
@MrHmallett
7 жыл бұрын
Remarkable!
@metamorphosis67
13 жыл бұрын
@talkingwall Well, it's possible but searching the Oregon Vanguard titles online even on LP I couldn't find it. Pepper was from Portland, Oregon & his original version came out in 1970 on the Peppers Pow Wow album with Larry Coryell & Billy Cobham. They must have played on the same gigs together or seen each other perform many times. The "Out of the Woods" version is the best version in both performance & sound engineering. It sounds incredible on a good stereo, demonstration quality.
@bluesmanalbert
9 жыл бұрын
i'd love to see some of those smart ass rock god guitarists try to play this,many of them couldn't even tune a 12 string let alone play with such dexterity and finesse .. RT rules
@aeolianharp4669
6 жыл бұрын
That's a bizzare and unkind thing to say!
@jankafka7330
6 жыл бұрын
Insulting musicians is always a great way to express your extensive knowledge & appreciation of music.
@fragmatic1964
5 жыл бұрын
@@jankafka7330 lol!
@skibum1981
16 жыл бұрын
De rien.
@skibum1981
16 жыл бұрын
i hear you on SADD. winter is esp horrible in parts of the states where it gets dark at 4 pm. how about rome? pretty nice climate...
@BKsblues
7 жыл бұрын
The Apollo 15 astronauts named two moon craters after two of his songs
@designerhell
11 жыл бұрын
reminds me somewhat of Watercourse Way, by Shadowax. 1st album.
@Rikk303
15 жыл бұрын
12-strng gutar is all well and good ,imagine the loops on a htp
@skibum1981
16 жыл бұрын
you missed the key word "often." not always. and yes, the majority is fairly musically narrow-minded, to put it politely. this is a phenomenon in america that isn't isolated to just music... ... we like our prepackaged, mass produced stuff. just the way it is. it's sad that in the case of music, this happens to be coupled with an incredible lack of quality.
@metamorphosis67
13 жыл бұрын
@skibum1981 There's no longer a niche. The American musicians still doing great stuff (ocassionally) are ones that came up in 60s & 70s, Metheny, Towner, Coryell, McLaughlin, Corea, Jarrett, Steve Smith with his Raga Bop Trio & the ones directly. Their tree was rooted in that culture & is grown and bears fruit over & over again. Trying to grow something lasting in today's Orwellian Zeitgeist is like growing a flower on the North Pole. Basically you've got insulate yourself from it or you die.
@metamorphosis67
13 жыл бұрын
@talkingwall Considering the purely technical ability of players of today, it's laughable how little artistic ability they have to use technique to express something worth expressing. The best music is from the 60s & 70s because then there was a deep trend towards self-discovery & the philosophical outlooks gained from these honest soul-searches were reflected in all the arts. In fact, the world of ideas & the arts cross-polinated each other, something that is not allowed to happen again.
@Rikk303
15 жыл бұрын
I m so off my bonce
@delaxo
15 жыл бұрын
I'm looking for a video with Witchi Tai To performed by Oregon, including Collin Walcott. Any clue?
@@joejoe-lb6bw 13 years after my question, you sent a reply. Thank you very much in deed!
@Rikk303
15 жыл бұрын
Is this in regular tuning?
@metamorphosis67
13 жыл бұрын
@elbowout Coryell is a great guitarist but there is no way, even if he was on Peruvian flake cocaine that night that he would ever top this version here. Impossible to play better than Towner here. My favorite Coryell album of his acoustic period is "Scheherazade-Bolero."
@metamorphosis67
12 жыл бұрын
America is not a young nation, it's as old as Europe. Americans were just white Europeans (90% white even up to the 1960s) in a different location where they weren't as tied down to tradition. Individuals create & only in proportion to how much individualism is protected, nothing else. Without the renaissance of Europe and the classical music that followed, none of the music in America today including all the Jazz would even exist. Only blues & basic country folk forms would exist like before
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