Check This Dude Out

Sorry for the unusually long silence here at GNABB. I've got some good stuff in the works for you. But in the meantime, check this out. This is Michael Hedges, one of my favorite guitar players of all time, reworking one of my favorite songs of all time, "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones...



Impressed? If you can ignore the strange dancing, the guy was an amazing guitar player. He died in a car accident several years ago. Most of his work is instrumental, but he occasionally throws in fantastic covers like this one (if you watch enough of the clip, they show his whole setlist from this show, and it shows he also did The Who's "Eminence Front" here as well. Another favorite song of mine). I picked this tune mainly for the fantastic groove, but his recorded work can be jawdropping at times on a purely guitar technique level. If you are interested in checking out more of his stuff, I would highly recommend Live on the Double Planet.