He is incredibly talented...I just visited his website and I love that little bit of acoustic sweep-picking he does at the end of Waltzing Matilda....it really caught me "off guard"..! I was watching it thinking "this is not impressive.....this is not impressive........this is not.....[end bit].....ok THAT was impressive!!!!!!" lol!!
Madformac, I haven't got a ticket for the show (yet)...I was just looking at the prices...the "Bali" show is a bit pricey at £23.50 for an "admission only" but I'll check out how much the other gig is tomorrow, the one on the 28th.
(Doesn't beat Bon Jovi's "general admission" tickets for Hyde Park next summer....£45...!!...!?? Compare that price to the seated Row 2 tickets Madformac and I have for the Mark Knopfler gig in the Royal Albert Hall in June..£30 a ticket
)
Big Love...I know a lot of people think that this is Lindsey Buckingham at his very best acoustically...but it really isn't (I'm talking strictly
technically, sure as a
song it's absolutely awesome!) . It's a relatively simple piece of Travis picking....that "fast" middle part where he always gets the applause is nothing compared to the work of other Travis picking / fingerstyle artists (like Tommy Emmanuel). In fact, the method used to play that part is
permanently used for songs like Try For The Sun and Say Goodbye....two songs that I would just LOVE to see done live on this coming tour.
