Doyle Dykes shares stories, Classical Gas, 25 or 6 to 4, Medley
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Doyle Dykes at the Merle Travis Music Center, the home of the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame. He's truly a monster guitar player! I enjoy his stories too, so I didn't edit out his comments before the 2 songs.
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Think about what Doyle's brain does; it remembers the notes, sends messages to his fingers to play them, keeps track of the timing, gets ready for the next note/notes, listens to the audience and keeps him standing up, breathing, etc. The sheer volume and frequency of what he accomplishes is nothing short of amazement.
I've sat and enjoyed bands, danced enjoying bands, played in bands (just filling in while the individual member went to the bathroom and came back.), from the ripe old age of 16, on up till in my upper 30's. I've enjoy-joyed sitting in the audience, listening to Dolly Parton (one of my favorites), and a local concert at a amusement park where I was AWE-STRUCK when Imma Jean did her song, "SWEET THING," and I've been in "Boots Randolphf's club in Nashville, listening to his Yackety Sax, LIVE on stage, but when Doyle Dykes came to GraceWorks Church, Chattanooga, as a favor to his friend Dr. Dennis Newman, our pastor and did a service while Dennis was out sick, the QUALITY and REVERANCE this man showed God, was astounding. You knew God was in this man's Life! God has blessed him immeasurably.
I play the guitar and understand its concept and what it can do. Doyle Dykes pushes the limits of all it's properties...lets just say, I consider him THE best guitarist in THE WORLD! (He's right there with Roy Clark!) You can FEEL the Love flowing out of that instrument, as Doyle pours his spirit thru it !!! THAT'S DOYLE DYKES !!!!
Doyle came to our church, as he was friends with our Pastors and he gave a concert. I had the privilege and honor to meet him and spend time with him. He is a wonderful and fantastic individual. What truly blessed and gifted person God uses in a mighty way.
55 years later, I still practice at least one hour per day... guitar has been my mental health regime since I can remember...
Dont know if you guys cares but if you are bored like me during the covid times then you can stream pretty much all of the new movies and series on InstaFlixxer. Have been binge watching with my gf lately xD
@Axl Erick yup, have been using InstaFlixxer for years myself :D
Same for me JED. I know what you're saying.
@@boblee6477 same. I played at least every SINGLE day for at least the first 5 years before I went a whole day without playing for at least an hour. Now 20 some years later I can't put it down & I feel like a kid again!!
I practice Til my fingers are burned up, then I take my first break....
While George showed us how to make a guitar weep and cry. Doyle shows us how to make a guitar sing. Great musicianship and I hope to see him in a live performance someday
A lot of POWER in this man and his guitars ! Sounds like a full orchestra - all by himself !
Talent ! Talent ! Talent ! Praise the Lord !
I’ve been listening to Doyle for a long time he’s a big influence in my playing thanks Doyle and thank the Lord for calling you to play guitar.
What... the friggin' Lord again? Give it a rest.
@@grahamanswerth8979 You are a rude dude. Can't you keep your comments to yourself? Probably not since you are so desperate to be heard that you curse the Lord. You should be the one to give it a rest.
For those who might not be aware, the segue from "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams is into "25 or 6 To Four" by Chicago.
Thanks! I went “Beatles? That’s Chicago!”
This really opens up these genius pieces and offers new insight revealing more incredible artistic detailing.
I greatly appreciate this tremendously talented hard working artist .
This is the most amazing 12 string guitar work I have ever seen! I am in awe!
Phenominal player and more importantly a gracious man of GOD!
He is just phenomenal!
Im a pretty good guitarist, but man would I love to have Doyle train me for a couple of years. Hes the absolute best. And a class act. 💯
He's right - it's a gift. I don't have the gift but have been playing for over 50 years. Thanks for the inspiration.
My church too. Same time. With his brother Aubrey. I sang in the choir and snuck out to smooch at the first prayer. Came back in during altar call. Doyle remembers.
Doyle you are awesome and a great human being hopefully negative comments don't bother you, God loves you!!!!!
Doyle is as nice as everybody says he is. He treats everyone the same.......with kind respect. He owns the guitar in droves.......just super.
One of my favorite players and favorite human being!
Good old guitar player with faith in his invincible ability to entertain those of us who can only hope to find ourselves in his shoes... Thank you for making good on your seeming impossible talent brother!!!
What A guy! I could just listen to this forever. Great talent
Agreed!
I knew the same thing about myself. Music gave me such pleasure and it paid me well for a total of 37.5 yrs. I really like this man.
Music probably doesn't pay people too well these days, unless, of course, your musical chops and prowess are top notch or you're an MTV thug!
Wow! Took my breath away, and what a beautiful person.
Awesome and unbelievable! And doing Gods will. I felt that!
I still have this dude's first album (circa 1976). I could listen to him all day.
What a fantastic guitar player Doyle is.
I don't rank performances because they're always different from one another. Doyle Dykes is fantastic. I heard and saw Tommy Emmanuel do his version which was really unbelievable. But I always wondered if they can perform on a 12 string guitar too. Doyle answered that question and I'm so grateful I get to see this. Doyle nailed it. Nothing but kudos.
I reckon he has it strung with 6 strings.
What an amazingly talented guitarist!
This is guitar playing at it’s best!
25 or 6 to 4. Did not expect that. What a great musician.
Doyle is an amazing musician. So cool to hear all these classics on a 12-string. Very unique sound. He really looks like Jeff Bridges - kinda like the Big Lebowski dude killin' in on guitar.
That's not Jeff Bridges? LOL
Tony Lee Glenn -- The love child of Jeff Bridges & Ron White...
Ha - think you nailed it Nick.
I was thinking that he looks like Ron White as well... :)
I think he looks like Steve Bannon. :(
When he broke in 25 or 6 to 4 I screamed :)
yea that was freaking cool
Vandals Iii
Love Doyle, he is one of the best!
Doyle and Tommy together= MIND BLOWING!
I'd like to think I'm a good Blues player, I wouldn't have raised my hand after listening to that. "You have to work at it." So true.
Iconic performance
Love the 12 string effect on Classical Gas.
Makes the guitar come alive
Thank you Doyle. Yes - being able to learn and play is a privilege. I'm sixty and I still am playing my six-stringed wooden friend. Thanks for the performance!
Kudos must go to the original composers. It's a tribute that others can continue to make a living playing their songs.
Playing this instrumental on a 12 string makes it so much more interesting because there is no background music. Blew it out of the park
I keep coming back to this video. Love you man!
I had a strok and this DID inspire me🤙☝️!WOW!
From the Tommy Emanuel school of "playing songs as fast as possible". Great skill on display here!!
I love his guitar playing and his natural warmth, even though I lost my faith in God many years ago.
we change- god doesnt
friend you may have lost your faith in god but he has not in you he loves you and is eagerly waiting for your coming back home,he knows your troubles ask for his strength and wisdom ,hope this is helpful to your heavy burden ,trying to do the will of God , lay your troubles at the foot of the cross and walk away ,Gos speed
you may have lost your faith in GOD but he still loves you and is eagerly waiting for you to return home ,he knows your pain and suffering take it to the foot of the cross and walk away and wait on the Lord ,Gods speed time is running out
Doyle makes me feel proud to be a country boy. I learned how to eliminate my accent during college, but Doyle's voice reminds me of my Uncle's.
Thanks so much for uploading this!
I love the way went into that chicago riff.. I need to see him during his 20s and 30s. Cutting heads, Full on, no holding back. Good video!
Doyle is a wonderful human being. Met him at a Christian guitar comference where appeared and spent the weekend with us. A kind person who knows what it means to have a relationship with the Lord.
What's the difference between a christian guitar, and any humanist guitar? The former built by St. Martin?
What does a Christian guitar look like???
same as any guitar except the music focus is on God and Jesus Christ
You arrogant theists have to impose your BS on everyone and everything. Try using facts if you know what they are and you have any.
The fact is Doyle Dikes knows the Lord Jesus, and when someone knows the Lord it affects every area of their lives. How that qualifies as either "arrogant" or "BS" is a valid question. Are those "facts' or just your opinion?
Fantastic
Wow! What a player!
The sound of gas on a 12 string is fantastic.
One of the best I have ever heard. You're great, man.
What the actual......just wow.
come to Hamilton Ontario Canada after this covid -19 thing.
Hi Doyle, I don't know if you'll get this or not, I started playing when I was very young, I played Piano, Mandolin, Guitar, Tenor Banjo and Bass before I was out of the first grade. The school had a talent show and I practiced up like you wouldn't believe, I entered the talent show and it was on Wednesday night, We had church and my Dad said I couldn't go. I had to play in church and that was more important than the talent show.
Nice Picking and a good Christian to boot...hallelujah!
Doyle is an amazing one of a kind guitar player. It may not be as easy as it once was for him to play difficult pieces but he still pulls it off.
Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown tells how he started to play guitar. He saw an ad in the back of one of his parents magazine for a guitar. It said "get a guitar and make friends". He thought that was a good idea. It was a mail order,. It came, but he didn't know it came disassembled ...he put it together; he said he didn't come out of his bedroom for 2 years but when he did he could play guitar. He said it didn't really help with the friend mg making.
That's a great story! Thanks!
Regrettably..Kim passed away in 2022.
Glad I got to see him twice.
I didn't win my school talent show either. I know the feeling.
Mind you I was much more "rock" at the time. Me and my friends seen folks doing more then they were supposed to. I had been scheduled to do one song, so in a hurry we thought we'd add on too. Originally I was just going to do Eruption, which at the time, in 1985, before internet and a billion folks showing you how to play it, was pretty extreme.
So we're like whats in Em we can do to pad the set. We decided quickly on the live version of Paranoid by Black Sabbath with the "Heaven and Hell" intro. So we go on, and blow the stage away. I'd just went to Deep Purples Perfect Strangers concert in Flint Mi., and I had all my Ritchie Blackmore moves down including the cord flips and the tone knob changes. I walk off to the full auditorium of screaming classmates, and everyone that's in the show is blown away, and congratulating me, cause everyone knew I was going to win......lol....Then I didn't. And everyone back stage looked at me like "what?". The judges where from a ballet school, a country western radio station, and something else. I just didn't go over well with that crowd. But all the jocks now wanted to be my friend to play parties.
Well that's my talent school show story.....
I put together a band and we did a Beach Boys medley, and we didn't win. But before we went on stage, a beautiful girl who I had admired from afar gave me a kiss. So I was a winner anyway.
Thank you Jesus! Amen!
He played at ourchurch in Kyle tx. What a great player and inspirational speaker.
That’s the way my daddy played. I love your guitar playing.
Go big or go home.....Doyle goes big and kicks it hard....wow
The voice of the girl near the camera indicates she is enjoying the show to the fullest...
I enjoyed the full story... Playing like that on a 12string. killer
Only strung with six! Pro trick. The neck is wider on the 12, makes it ideal for finger picking. Johnny Winter also did the same with an electric. Imagine there's many others.
so likable , and real....and a Master at what he does.....
Great video. Wonderful arrangement!
Simply mesmerising!
in grade school i would plant my index finger on the desk and do forward and backward rolls with the rest of my digits...+ the spock move and the same with the pinky try it
Excellent.
Great guitar playing
Guy's a killer on the fretboard!
Come back to Calvary Chapel Philly, fantastic show.....
Amazing guitar player.
thank you
25 or 6 two 4 ...fingerpicking? Unreal!
on a 12 string with the solo!!!
general mayhem yea that was amazing!
I think he looks like a sober Ron White. Fantastic Post
You are the best guitar
Player in this world!!!
Gabriel pianoman
Zwhat a great Guy and musician, wish I could play even a little what Doyle does.
Doyle Dykes plays Classical Gas very well. When Tommy Emmanuel plays his version of the song, or any song for that matter, it's on a whole new level. You have to listen and watch him play to believe it. Tommy was self-taught playing the guitar. He turned professional at age 6. He's truly gifted and very humble about it.
They are on the same level. They play together sometimes and have a great mutual respect. I have been a sound engineer for both. They are great guys.
I personally like Doyle Dykes better in general (also like TE) and I must admid I think it is not a good thing to compare guitarists (on that level) like some kind of athletics "Emanuel vs. Dykes". It simply makes no sense to me. Music should not be about whose music is harder to play or on a higher technical level, maybe what I dislike about Emanuel are his fans and their fan-talk "whole new level"-bla-bla 🙂 reminds me of those critics in classical music.
@@2009framat You said, "Music should not be about whose music is harder to play or on a higher technical level, maybe what I dislike about Emanuel are his fans and their fan-talk "whole new level"-bla-bla 🙂 reminds me of those critics in classical music."
Maybe it's because of your need for perfection that you feel compelled to be overly critical of others. You remind me of someone whose dominance has been threatened and so you feel it necessary to regain an upper hand. Not this time, pal. You've got your opinion. I've got mine. As I said, Tommy's playing skill is on a higher level than Doyle's.
@@mikecrook8434 Don't get on the personal level 🙂 You did not understand what I wanted to say. I do not feel "threatened" and it has nothing to do "my opinion vs your opinion"! - I do not like the way of seeing everything under the aspect of competition: music, certain versions of songs (on high levels), opinions etc.. Competition in sports is ok because that's is what is all about but in music and art it is (for me) not a good idea. We can disagree about that (all that competions and auditioning in classical music - some people think there is a need for all this). Of course there are certain levels of technical aspects of music and Emanuel has proably the wider range but it makes no sense (for me) putting everything "under a microskope" in order to turn it into a competion who is the better one. Your comment would have made sense to me if you (for example) would have compared Emanuels version with someone who is playing guitar for 3 years or someone who is copying Emauel's version note by note adding nothing originality to it. Of course in these case Emanuel's playing would be on a higher level. But turning comparisons always into competions? Okay for sports but not for music (my opinion) and because of that I did not blame Emanuel but his fans 🙂
@@2009framat You said, "what I dislike about Emanuel are his fans and their fan-talk "whole new level"-bla-bla 🙂 reminds me of those critics in classical music."
Therefore, you're saying you don't like his fans and what they say, which means you don't like what I said. Then you told me not to get on a personal level. My response was a personal view as was yours, which puts whatever each of us says on a personal level. Your intense need to be right isn't going to get my respect. You have your opinion. I have mine. Live and let live. Trying to direct your influence over others is a domineering trait. You're welcome to try it, but you may not be thrilled with the consequences.
Thank you.
A great guitar player who will be remember for ever for his playing abilities and his brain washing about religion.
classical gas on a 12...hats off. He and Tommy Emmanuel should form a duo. ( : P
What a great sound. Wow.
A sober, talented and non-profane Ron White haha. Awesome guitar playing!
Gawd, and on a 12 string too! Godin.
I’d love for this musician to explain to all his young aspirants how he learned time. He’s on, all-the-time! BTW: it would be wonderful in so many ways for he and Terry Kath to share licks on 25. Kath was amazing, different styling, but Doyle gives nothin’ away to anyone.
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Terry shot himself in a bar with his own handgun. He won't be able to play with Doyle.
Kinda sounded like "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin in between switching from "Classical Gas" to "25 or 6 to 4" Edit: I ran through them both, apparently the LZ and Chicago songs do have the same chord progression. Never noticed that before.
Love Doyle!
Outstanding
Masterful great stuff thanks
Great stuff! Just discovered Doyle- NOW..due to the man to the right of the screen - Tommy E.....also just noticed the Length of both their thumbs?...wht?...ha
Simply fantastic!
Magical gass....
waited for the audio to maybe get better. 8 minutes later I wrote this and left.
Classical gas segued into 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago, very nice!
Merle Travis style picking!
Damn, he's doing this on 12 string. So hard to be that clean.
I like this guy!
Incredible!
YOU ~ Rock ! !