Davey Graham "Blame It On My Youth" Documentary
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- čas přidán 4. 01. 2016
- I still wonder if I was right to upload this. It's nice that people enjoy it, but does its presence here reduce the chance of a DVD release, as remote as that might be?
Channel Four 1999. Aspect ratio strangeness is how it was broadcast, or at least how it was recorded to VHS. - Hudba
I remember having a jam with him back in the late 60s and the early 70s in his flat in Camden Town after I came back from India along with Jim Moyes (guitar) who introduced me to Davey and Keshav Sathe, Tabla, who I think played on a couple of Davey's songs. He had a Sitar hanging on the wall and when I occasionally popped by for a cup of tea we would jam a bit. I last saw Davey just before he died trying to keep warm in bed in the middle of winter. Bit sad really.
Privaledged to have seen him play one of his last gigs in Kendal. He started off playing his known 60s stuff really badly, and he had a reputation for turning up off his rocker and playing badly. About 50% of the audience left after the first 30 minutes. Hed taken a break, came back on, sat down, picked up the guitar, looked at the crowd and said “Now weve removed the non-believers, lets get down to the real music” He went on to play about an hours worth of amazing lost eastern european / roman folk music.
I had no idea this guy was English wow what an inspiration I am humble to this man's musical talent never herd or seen a guitar played like that
English! Half Scottish, half Guyanese.
Daveys album Folk Blues and Beyond was my introduction in the late 60s. I was lent it by a friend who considered it his most treasured album. I collected as many of Daveys albums as I could find during the early 2000s ans finally saw him live at the Junction Cambridge thanks to my friend Clive Carol. Sadly just before Davey passed away.
Davey wandered into my restaurant -Manna in Primrose Hill -it was like God had walked in ! he played a few songs for us, Loved him ... Rod in London
Anji ran a coffee bar called 'The Farm' in Monmouth street with her friend Dodi Farr - the daughter of Tommy Farr the boxer. Her brother was Gary Farr. Anji and Dodi had a first floor flat opposite to The Farm. I was a friend of both Davy and Anji. Anji, small in stature, had a beautiful smile and a personality that matched the smile. I was never particularly into the folk scene - jazz was my thing - but we did jam occasionally down at The Gyre & Gimble. For a time I lived in the same flat, 26 St Charles Square, with Davey and various others. I remember my good friend, who also lived in the flat, the late Sydney Katzenell, who was also a very fine guitarist, saying about Davy " He can do things do things on the fret board I could not do even if I wanted to". What happend to Anji? I heard that she had died at a fairly young age. But of this I am not sure.
Thank you for sharing that fascinating insight into the history of where the title of that piece came from.
Wondering if you knew my mother - Sandy/Sandra who knew Davy and used to play guitar there too...?
@@golden1789 Hi, It is possible, but I regret I have no clear recollection about meeting your mother. It was a great time to be in London and the number people drifting in and out of this particular obit presented a veritable panorama.
@@korngroot3649 I thought that would be the case, honestly after 4 years did not even expect a reply! Thank you. X
@@golden1789 My pleasure. Regret I was not able to be more informative. Dodi Farr who ran ' The Farm' would have perhaps known her. She will, if still alive now be an elderly lady. The last reference to her, more than ten years ago, was that she was living in Mallorca. Gary Garr, her brother, who was an RB musician, died young in the USA.
New to Davey’s mercurial and phenomenal music/story and ‘blown sway’s an understatement!!
Really enjoyed watching this - one of my long time guitar heros...
The master who handed so much to all of us ✨
Many many thanks for uploading this, Davey Graham is my favourite guitar player.
"it's no good being centre of attention without knowing how to handle it" - davy graham
amen
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@@citygasbatteryriot964 , "you never truly appreciate anonymity until you lose it". Sorry, can't remember the author of that one....
Wonderful; thank you so much for uploading this! I love this quote: "The way to make an audience quiet is to play quietly. If you start playing loudly, you do it badly--because you're irritated--and it shows." Sage advice.
God Bless You Davey! RIP
At last this surfaces!!! Fantastic.
+Chris Parkin No problem - I've binned the videotape now, so you might want to download this video just in case it gets taken down.
@@DPF1 imagine binning this =/
Thank you for posting, missed this when first shown, and having been kicking myself since!
Cheers for putting this up, man.
Very relieved this is online at last. So many thanks.
some where back in London 60s i first heard of davy graham... saw him live in cousins folk club.. totally blew me away..
Davey was a genuis blues/folk/jazz/Celtic musician, but lost to drugs and drink for a large part of his life. Unfortunate for him and for us. In this documentary he is a shadow of his peak.I remember visiting Collets back in 1975.
thanks so much for this, it's a shame there's not more video of this great musician
Brilliant human and artist, who should teach us all how to act.
Thank you for the fantastic upload, mate!
The show startes with a woman going into an underpass and the presence of a Bee. I do recall this series called 'The Other Side' I think these were very late night on ITV or C4. I knew Davey and had no idea he was the subject of this excellent series. I am pleased to find it.
Wonderful. Thank you much for uploading.
Brilliant! .....
Thank you for this
Thanks for this....really enjoyed it.
This is priceless. Thank you for uploading this video :)
OMG, I just discovered this mini-doc. I am a huge DG fan since I first heard him in 1985 when a like-minded old school vinyl junkie told me to buy the new compilation 'Folk, blues and all points in between' on CD, which I was loathe to do at the time. I hated the advent of CDs. But this CD blew utterly blew me away in the same way my first hearing Johnny Winter blew me away ca. 1970, thanks to my older brother playing me the album Second Winter right when it came out. It was just astonishing stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks guitar playing. Being a long-time Johnny Winter and blues fan in general since 1970, when I heard Davey's version of 'Leaving blues' I flipped my lid he was so good. Johnny covered Leaving blues and I LOVE his version. The next song on the DG CD was Cocaine blues. Equally good. Then his cover of Broonzy's 'Rock me baby', every bit as original as JW's cover on Still Alive and Well. I was already mesmerised and hooked. By the time the CD got to track 5, 'Skillet', I was in ecstasy. He is that good. I later bought a rare EX copy of the original LP by Davey, 'Folk, blues and beyond' at a record fair in Europe. Even later, still being a vinyl junkie, I sought and found a Mint copy of his non-LP 45 cover of 'Both sides now' by Joni Mitchell. This is just pure ear candy, blending folk, jazz and blues stylings in one 6 minute single. This is not the single version, but close, and gives you an idea of his utter mastery of the guitar and the whole trans-folk-jazz-blues idiom. czcams.com/video/oa9PXESJINQ/video.html Actually, I would say he IS the master. I saw Pentangle live, as well as John Reborn and Wizz Jones in respective solo shows. I just wish I had seen Davey. Thanks to whoever uploaded this! I hope it leads to more people discovering Davey's music. Here is a cool link to see Davey in action as a young man: czcams.com/video/tWeejHJxGjs/video.html
***DAVYS MOTHER WAS FROM JAMAICA, AND HIS FATHER WAS FROM STORNOWAY ISLE OF LEWIS OUTER HEBRIDES , FROM A VILLAGE, ON THE ISLAND.,, AND HIS FIRST LANGUAGE WAS GAELIC..2nd, WAS ENGLISH, ..* " WE BELIEVE HE GOT HIS TALENT FROM HIS MOTHER'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY. BUT THE GAELS HAVE DEEP, MUSICAL ROOTS ALSO..***********
I saw davey and john Renbourn play up stairs at a brewery in York...I think kay Thompson who ran his fanzine midnight man had helped organise it...great night and davey commented on a cartoon I had drawn of him in the fanzine...
A Big Thanks!!!! ;-)
Thanks a lot!
The thing is now though, i was born in 91, you go into a guitar shop and almost everybody knows a good tune, so i suppose its about knowing a whole repertoire of good tunes. I love the simplicity of music back then though, one guy walks into a bar and plays a song in a funny way and everyone's impressed and he makes a name for himself, i love that. I know a place in Donegal where myself and my dad go for trips and its a late night early 18th century wine bar and you can walk in at 10 and he'll close the doors after a while and theres a band there or someone playing the guitar and he'll close the doors and you could be there until about 5 in the morning, and this guy spent a lot of time in London in the 60s, he's got good stories. So i suppose there are still places like this but are there any: Davy Grahams?, Donovans, Bert Jansches, John Rebourns and so on?, because if there are its very hard to find them, and there wasn't that dominant chart crap that we have now.
And these guys could barely make a living. There was bad as well as good. There may not be a cultural movement for this kind of folk at the moment that's _visible_ . But youtube will show you that there are many more young people who are into this stuff and can play it than existed back then. It's easier to learn, and decent instruments are more affordable.
thanks for sharing this, original doco apparently made 1999
Hopefully this stays up and doesn't disappear like Davy's 'Guitar Blues' video did.
Great post :)
***VETERAN SCOTS GUARDS**** " I MET DAVY IN TENERIFE, HUNG, OUT WITH HIM FOR A WHILE, HE PLAYED AND SANG * YELLOWMAN* AND THE WHOLE HOLIDAY COMPLEX. CLAPPED..IT WAS JUST AWESOME, BUT DRUGS, WERE THE RUIN OF DAVY, HE .....LOVED SPEED , AND W!AS AN ADDICT..BUT A LOVLY GUY. !!****
The opening shot after the credits is the gold blocking on Davey's scrapbook. He made 2 large volumes..there was a great photo of Frank Zappa in a clipping. I think the scrapbooks are now lost ..
Aspect ration is because digital video de-interlacing, the content is the thing. Analogue, prescient film making, and fairly priceless.
His last song at the end is a cover of Ray Charles - You Won't Let Me Go
But does anybody know if he got an studio version of this?
The Half Moon /Les Cousins Stalwarts -Bert Jansch, John Renbourne , MC Carthy .Last saw at Buxton Blues Festival supporting reemergence of Led Zeppelin. Ask Bob Dylan & Paul Simon NB BBC4 & Leonard Cohen around at same time NB Greenwich Village cafe society & Irish /Dust bowl connection?
Anyone know the piece at 15:54? Love it
To be honest I don't think that it would compete with a DVD release those are usually driven by financial interest and not by the will to share great musician to the public
Anyone know the name of the tune at around 28:30? Been trying to find it for a while now and still no futher forward
Someone has already named it in this comment section: "It's "Blues in My Heart," by Benny Carter; it dates to 1931. Davy makes some significant changes here to the chord progression."
Does anyone know the name of the song at 3.24?
It's "Once I Had a Sweetheart," a traditional English tune, also covered by Pentangle.
Thank you!
Curious as to why the "She Moved Through The faire" /// "White Summer " similarities-issues weren't looked at (???) great documentary
***AT 47 MINS in the music sounds discordant and he sings OUT of tune, but DAVY did tune, his 🎸 in a weird way ,when he sang* **YELLOWMAN. "* HE WAS MY PAL, *******
what song is that on 28;40?
checked, every known nr there is on the internet..
could't find it
Me too. Anyone?
It's "Blues in My Heart," by Benny Carter; it dates to 1931. Davy makes some significant changes here to the chord progression.
@@Trombonology Thanks very much for that.
hey does anyone know the ID of the track at 28.40?
It's "Blues in My Heart," by Benny Carter; it dates to 1931. Davy makes some significant changes here to the chord progression.
all those shots of cigarettes, which killed him, make me wince. I know 8 million die every year of the drug's effect, but when you think about this one genius being taken down by them, it really hits you. What a bloody waste.
Cigarettes, alcohol, drugs. They don't kill people. Being born kills people.
DADGAD
song at 29:35?
It's "Blues in My Heart," by Benny Carter; it dates to 1931. Davy makes some significant changes here to the chord progression.
publicity and motiation and promotion is why these uys never made much