This video is a national treasure. It needs to be preserved for future generations. It shows the chrysalis of greatness, the youth of virtuosity, a look back into the history of a great American guitarist.
Not many people can do Cockburn with the same kind of boyish charm and peacefulness that Bruce had when he was young. Michael nails this! Ahhh, life is good.
i was lucky to spend yesterday with mike's family. he is loved and remembered well by you all, and the folks that remember him so closely. thanks for the sweet note.
Had a baby girl yesterday and seen her awakening today by discovering this song. Cried all way long. This comes from heaven my friends... (sorry for my English). Thank you so much for sharing, you contributed to one of the best days of life.
well to be honest the best lyricist/guitar combo is Bruce himself on both. Bruce is one of the best/most underrated guitarists ever. This is a note for note copy of Bruce's playing but still not as good.
I always enjoy listening to Cockburn's and Buffett's renditions however Michael sings this so effortlessly but passionately, you can tell he truly enjoys performing. Definitely my favorite.
I can't help but let the tears stream down my face. Hearing him sing the lines, "One of these days they're gonna sail away, sail away..." It's just getting to me. I'm wondering where you are, Mike.
I'm here. Don't know how I missed this clip. Been a Cockburn fan since '79; his version of this song is in my bloodstream. But Michael's sweet rendition is on another level. I miss him every damn day.
Really nice to know I have something in common with Michael Hedges. When I play, people ignore me. This makes me wonder how many times I have walked on by someone who would change their chosen field forever. The guitar will never be the same after Michael Hedges.
What a pure, beautiful performance. You can really feel the innocence, speculation, and musical skill all working together. The fact that he's gone only magnifies the power of it.
a friend of mine found hedges back stage as he made his way to start the second set. his shirt was buttoned crooked. she told him and he said i know i like it that way.
This breaks my heart. We all lost something in the 90’s when we lost this miracle. What a beautiful soul. His albums are still treasured 30 plus years later.
One of my all time favorite songs and never thought I'd hear anyone be able to compete with Bruce Cockburn singing this tune. Perfect voice. I could listen to him all day.
Having just seen Bruce Cockburn in concert in Boston I decided to learn this song. So I went to RUclips to research and I stumble upon the Master playing the song in his youthfull days. I dont believe these people walking by had any idea who they were listening to. A wonderful version and clip.
He's so young. I saw him three times. Twice in Boulder in the mid to late eighties and once in my home town of Mammoth Lakes in the early to mid nineties. One of my all time favorite artists.
This song has special multiple meaning for me. Another beloved musician sang this. We celebrate life. Fly free in peace. Ty so very much Randy hope you and all are well. We shall prevail
Wow!!! I never thought I'd hear a version of this song that compares to Cockburn on the world cafe recording, but damn... This is amazing!! Thank you so much
I'm with others in realizing what a treasure this is. Props for capturing. You've done the world a solid for preserving and sharing your tapes. Thank you!
Oh Michael. What an incredible talent and spirit. I hitch-hiked from San Francisco to Palo Alto several times in 1984 to see him play, because I was a budding guitarist and he wowed me. Thank you for posting this.
Incredible foresight to video tape this. I met Michael in Enid Oklahoma and followed his career and concerts through the 80's and 90's before his tragic death. I still listen to his music when I want to escape from reality and follow his music spirit into the heavens!
I revisited this vidoe a few times. Love his music. I know more about him as well. What a smile he put on my face with this song. So much life there. So cool!
Thank you so much, Randy. Michael lived well until that fateful drive in the hills. I am older than Michael, but almost 20 years has passed since he passed. I know how lucky I've been to live to hear him all these years; he is an inspiration with his little smile that pops up while he plays.
Wow.... Thank you very, very much. He is radiating joy here and his energy is missed....this helps bring it back. I have one of his broken guitar strings from a Cambridge show in '86 that I treat like a holy artifact...thanks again..
Hi Randy. I love these Hedges videos! I was there sitting in the crowd at a couple of these and in fact once I taped the whole evening. It's long since lost during my divorce unfortunately. I was a friend of Keith Adams and knew your mother and you. A few times we met. I'm the photographer friend that was always hanging around. And thanks for being a big part of getting Van Morrison to play the New Varsity inside. I also enjoyed photographing that night. These videos capture such sweet memories almost dream like seeing them now after all these years so awesome.
This is the best cover that I've ever seen anybody do!!!! Such a handsome first Nations boy, so sad that he's gone. Makes me cry knowing that he's gone. It looks like it was filmed some time in the early to mid 1980,s oh what a time those years where. Anyway Michel .H. plays and sings it with ease. I wonder if Bruce Cockburn even seen this video? If he has I'm sure he's proud of him.👍👍😇😇😇👼👼👼
He really would look so cool if he wore two native feathers sticking out from the side of his head, when I busk I wear two feathers sticking out sideways, people stop look, watch, clap, cheer, and take a lot of photos of me.😎😎😎😎⭐⭐⭐🌟🌟✨✨✨🌠
Randy, I used to see him at the Varsity around this time too. I remember that for $2 you could sit down. The covers that really stuck with me were Tomorrow Never Knows, Day in the Life and I'm into Something Good, in all of its goofy perfection. I plan to watch all of these that you have posted - but not all at once. I want to savor them. Thanks so much for capturing these moments and posting them.
this is great, i love his aerial boundaries, saw cockburn a few months ago ... he did this song and the audience got into some singing in tongues and Bruce said " that was heavenly" bruce is the only artist I know that sings in Tongues
I saw Michael about 40 years ago at McCabes in Santa Monica. The guy next to me said at the break," I've been listening to Ralph Towner lately. A friend said I should come and see Hedges. I had no idea. Incredible."
I wonder also. Great song and a great version. I am friends with Pierre and will be seeing him in a couple of weeks. I thought that I recalled him saying that he'd never actually met Michael Hedges. What a treat to find the two of them playing together amongst your archives of gold. I will need to share it with him for sure.
I certainly will! Here is a funny story. All day long I've felt as if I knew your name from somewhere imbedded deep in my subconscious or something??? I graduated high school in 1985 and I must've committed every note from that Windham Hill live and Red Rocks VHS to memory. Sure enough, William Ackerman mentions you as being the one who beckoned him to hear Michael Hedges for the first time at your theater! Crazy! I knew your name rang a bell! What an honor to make your acquaintance. It sounds like you really were a part of it all. What I would have done to have been there. I hope we can stay in touch.
Joe Roth I was a lucky guy, at the windham hill epicenter in palo alto. Will went to my alma mater, gunn high school, where i was classmates with his cousin de grassi. will exaggerates a little as i recall at red rocks. we were showing david hamilton's "billitis." The lines were long so he asked if i wouldn't comp him. I said sure, but first, please go check out the guitar player upstairs. he did and came down a half an hour later with a contract on a cocktail napkin. michael and i became good buddies. he collaborated on all of his videos here. nice to meet you! you might have to remind pierre who i am. i put micheal and pierre together for a show at the varsity, as you can see here.
Had no idea this existed Randy! I know the story of Michael performing at your theater in his early days which was so sweet. I knew he was a Cockburn fan, so sweet to hear him in this cover of Cockburn's early folky gem. Thanks so much for this memory. So wonderful you got to be so much of Michael's early coming to be. Planets aligned.
Truly lucky. He was such a wonderful person. I've always hoped that Cockburn (also a great guitarist) has viewed this. It is a really sweet cover, done like no one else could. Thanks for the note!
Randy I'd agree re nice treatment and hope Bruce might have seen or will. Like so many he touched Michael was a big influence on me for many years. I moved on in many ways on what I do but not a day goes by that I don't still think about him. He had that wild eyed sense in his eye of having 'it' figured out in some way that many of us seek. Thanks again for releasing this.
YOUR THE MAN. As soon as school is out and I can wrap up learning Jitterboogie and Ritual Dance (although I've been saying any hedges is the project of a lifetime) I will be trying to learn this. Thanks!
Wow....this made my day. I was fortunate to see Michael probably a dozen times and meet him a few as well. I really miss his music and wonder what he'd be doing now. Seeing this for the first time and am going to be forwarding it to MANY friends. Thanks so much for posting....
Always been a Cockburn fan and so I looked up this song on RUclips and found this among the results. What a great surprise to find this gem of a performance by Michael, thanks so much for sharing this.
2023 and I am still watching this video. It’s so sad yet right that we can’t keep artists like this but it’s so great to have this.
This video is a national treasure. It needs to be preserved for future generations. It shows the chrysalis of greatness, the youth of virtuosity, a look back into the history of a great American guitarist.
Amazing
Well said.
I support this intent.❤ Xoxo
Wow!! Wonderful!
Full agree !!
Not many people can do Cockburn with the same kind of boyish charm and peacefulness that Bruce had when he was young.
Michael nails this!
Ahhh, life is good.
i was lucky to spend yesterday with mike's family. he is loved and remembered well by you all, and the folks that remember him so closely. thanks for the sweet note.
Thank you Randy for keeping this page. Helps my heart a lot. I maybe said that but well again.
Be well
Had a baby girl yesterday and seen her awakening today by discovering this song. Cried all way long. This comes from heaven my friends... (sorry for my English). Thank you so much for sharing, you contributed to one of the best days of life.
Cockburn/Hedges, best lyricist/guitarist combo with my morning coffee... Michael, you are missed
well to be honest the best lyricist/guitar combo is Bruce himself on both. Bruce is one of the best/most underrated guitarists ever. This is a note for note copy of Bruce's playing but still not as good.
For sure
Michael was truly one of a kind, what a great version of this tune. One musical genius plays a song written by another. RIP Michael, we miss you.
I always enjoy listening to Cockburn's and Buffett's renditions however Michael sings this so effortlessly but passionately, you can tell he truly enjoys performing. Definitely my favorite.
I can't help but let the tears stream down my face. Hearing him sing the lines, "One of these days they're gonna sail away, sail away..." It's just getting to me. I'm wondering where you are, Mike.
2021 who's here ?? So good to hear !!!
I'm here. Don't know how I missed this clip. Been a Cockburn fan since '79; his version of this song is in my bloodstream. But Michael's sweet rendition is on another level. I miss him every damn day.
And he's got us all thinking about eternity 'cause that's where he lives...
I'm here end of 2024 coming upon us
Really nice to know I have something in common with Michael Hedges. When I play, people ignore me. This makes me wonder how many times I have walked on by someone who would change their chosen field forever. The guitar will never be the same after Michael Hedges.
What a pure, beautiful performance. You can really feel the innocence, speculation, and musical skill all working together. The fact that he's gone only magnifies the power of it.
+Forrest Pope : )
I totally agree!!!
a friend of mine found hedges back stage as he made his way to start the second set. his shirt was buttoned crooked. she told him and he said i know i like it that way.
lucky to be close to greatness.
Rest in peace Michael, You've made my life better and I can only hope that you are resting easy somewhere with your guitar
Wow. Rarely do you see one person capable of producing such a sound and with such feeling. Real talent.
This breaks my heart. We all lost something in the 90’s when we lost this miracle. What a beautiful soul. His albums are still treasured 30 plus years later.
One of my all time favorite songs and never thought I'd hear anyone be able to compete with Bruce Cockburn singing this tune. Perfect voice. I could listen to him all day.
He was so gifted, and I never tire of hearing him sing. Something was really special about Michael ..he knew how to get a hold on ya. smiles
OMG! And, this really made my day too. Thank you, Michael. May you be forever free...
What special special days.
Hope we meet again in Heaven. Xoxo hugs
Together in Eternity ❤
I could see as people walked by they had no idea how special this young man was in the mist of their lives. He was so special!
I knew him....such a lovely person and so sad that he passed so early.
Little did you know just how SPECIAL Michael Hedges is... So glad for people like you capturing history... Thanks a million!!!!! :-}
: )
FANtastic!!!
Randy - priceless video. As an open key tuner he was inspirational. What a loss. What a voice. Best acoustic version of All Along the Watchtower ever.
Saw Micheal live at Montreal Jazz Fest in 1989. I was blown away. BLOWN AWAY.
Wow! This made my day! One of my favorites covering another one of my favorites. He performed it so beautifully!
Andrew Locke : )
Exactly what you said, A.L.! So awesome to have stumbled on this.
@ Andrew Locke. Agreed.
Was he busking?
Michael, I can't begin to tell you how much joy your music has brought to me & my family!
Having just seen Bruce Cockburn in concert in Boston I decided to learn this song. So I went to RUclips to research and I stumble upon the Master playing the song in his youthfull days. I dont believe these people walking by had any idea who they were listening to. A wonderful version and clip.
This is amazing. Michael Hedges just playing and singing, like the master he is, while people just stroll past.
I've never heard this song, Simply Delightful!
He's so young. I saw him three times. Twice in Boulder in the mid to late eighties and once in my home town of Mammoth Lakes in the early to mid nineties. One of my all time favorite artists.
This song has special multiple meaning for me. Another beloved musician sang this. We celebrate life. Fly free in peace. Ty so very much Randy hope you and all are well. We shall prevail
Thank you for all the Michael videos. The world is a little better for it.
I listen to his music now and again and of course he is a stellar musician but this captures what a charming, engaging performer he was as well.
About 3 minutes in, I realized I had tears. A fantastic job on a fantastic song. This is remarkable.
Wow!!! I never thought I'd hear a version of this song that compares to Cockburn on the world cafe recording, but damn... This is amazing!!
Thank you so much
That's exactly how I feel about this take...
I'm with others in realizing what a treasure this is. Props for capturing. You've done the world a solid for preserving and sharing your tapes. Thank you!
Oh Michael. What an incredible talent and spirit. I hitch-hiked from San Francisco to Palo Alto several times in 1984 to see him play, because I was a budding guitarist and he wowed me. Thank you for posting this.
Thanks for the note, Kristin...
This song makes my heart happy. Thanks for posting it🙏🌟💙
Great! I'm always feeling happy listening to and watching Michael Hedges play live!
Incredible foresight to video tape this. I met Michael in Enid Oklahoma and followed his career and concerts through the 80's and 90's before his tragic death. I still listen to his music when I want to escape from reality and follow his music spirit into the heavens!
It so sad that we didn't get to see Michael grow old.
Very.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN EXACTLY ?
SHIT WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM ?
+BikeRidinManiac car crash. years ago.
@@mike300406 Drove his car over a cliff. Tragedy for us all.
Two of my favorite artists, Bruce Cockburn and Michael Hedges. 🎶
So lovely--a beautiful! soul
Clearly something special! Thanks for posting this and other MH songs. These are timeless
Wonderful. What a talent Michael Hedges was. Another great gone too soon. Fortunately we have youtube to see his performances.
Absolutely outstanding. I remember him at the New Varsity back in the day!
Come back to this so much
So adore it. Especially after a shit load of very strong Southern Comfort. Cheers kids xxxx
Beautifully done. Thank you for sharing Michael Hedges!
Gobsmacking rendition. Thanks for sharing Randy Lutge.Well done Michael Hedges.
I revisited this vidoe a few times. Love his music. I know more about him as well. What a smile he put on my face with this song. So much life there. So cool!
Pure clean...miss you Micheal!
10 years too late - absolutely beautiful ❤
Thank you so much, Randy. Michael lived well until that fateful drive in the hills. I am older than Michael, but almost 20 years has passed since he passed. I know how lucky I've been to live to hear him all these years; he is an inspiration with his little smile that pops up while he plays.
Wow!!! I just saw this. I saw Michael in concert way back in the early 80's. He was soooo special. Gone way too soon.
Bruce is proud right now. Absolutely great job
hedges was an absolute beast on guitar... just unbelievable.
Wow.... Thank you very, very much. He is radiating joy here and his energy is missed....this helps bring it back. I have one of his broken guitar strings from a Cambridge show in '86 that I treat like a holy artifact...thanks again..
this is beautifully done. Loved this song since it was first released in the US.
So glad to see - and hear- that others like it too.
Gods gift to us. Really special performer.
Hi Randy. I love these Hedges videos! I was there sitting in the crowd at a couple of these and in fact once I taped the whole evening. It's long since lost during my divorce unfortunately. I was a friend of Keith Adams and knew your mother and you. A few times we met. I'm the photographer friend that was always hanging around. And thanks for being a big part of getting Van Morrison to play the New Varsity inside. I also enjoyed photographing that night. These videos capture such sweet memories almost dream like seeing them now after all these years so awesome.
Nice. Hello!
Many thanks - I was lucky to have seen him at the Bottom Line a couple of years before he passed. Amazing talent.
nice venue.
it was - we saw many great performers there up close. I'm sorry it's gone.
Magnificent. A beautiful song to raise spirits.
This rendition is wonderful. Love Bruce and Michael is now a new fav. Thanks for posting.
So beautiful. 53 and adoring this still. Thank you
This is the best cover that I've ever seen anybody do!!!! Such a handsome first Nations boy, so sad that he's gone. Makes me cry knowing that he's gone. It looks like it was filmed some time in the early to mid 1980,s oh what a time those years where. Anyway Michel .H. plays and sings it with ease. I wonder if Bruce Cockburn even seen this video? If he has I'm sure he's proud of him.👍👍😇😇😇👼👼👼
He really would look so cool if he wore two native feathers sticking out from the side of his head, when I busk I wear two feathers sticking out sideways, people stop look, watch, clap, cheer, and take a lot of photos of me.😎😎😎😎⭐⭐⭐🌟🌟✨✨✨🌠
Love the music of Micheal Hedges
thank god for you and that video that night. thank you so so so so much = michael thanks you too for reminding the world of his wonder and his beauty
I've heard covers in my time,ok... this guy made this song ,HIS OWN ! Good show buddy
Thankyou...........Last night of the World, one of the best songs by Bruce Cockburn
This cover is amazing! Makes me so happy to watch him.
This is the most amazing find! My favorite song by one of my favorite acoustic artists!
Bruce's lyrics bring him so much joy wow.
A very missed artist who could play the guitar at a genius level. But what also comes thru clearly is his pure joy for performing.
Adore this track
wow this is unbelievable classic michael hedges - thanks!
Randy, I used to see him at the Varsity around this time too. I remember that for $2 you could sit down. The covers that really stuck with me were Tomorrow Never Knows, Day in the Life and I'm into Something Good, in all of its goofy perfection. I plan to watch all of these that you have posted - but not all at once. I want to savor them. Thanks so much for capturing these moments and posting them.
You are very welcome, Chris. We were at ground zero of the finger style movement. But he was also so much more than that!
I want to watch all of them too! Thanks for the recommendations
Ditto to RIP. Such talent, sadly, sadly gone. Miss you. Didn't know this clip existed. Thanks for posting.
this is great, i love his aerial boundaries, saw cockburn a few months ago ... he did this song and the audience got into some singing in tongues and Bruce said " that was heavenly" bruce is the only artist I know that sings in Tongues
Thanks for posting. I wish I could have experienced Mr. Hedge's amazing talent and spirit live, but they live on in videos like this.
Great cover miss you
Excellent, must be surely playing somewhere in the Heavens!
I saw Michael about 40 years ago at McCabes in Santa Monica. The guy next to me said at the break," I've been listening to Ralph Towner lately. A friend said I should come and see Hedges. I had no idea. Incredible."
So thankful for your treasure trove of a RUclips channel
This guy is great 👍 He nails it....no....he owns it!
Thank you michael for being a inspiration for me and thanks Randy for these vídeos
What a treat to find your videos Randy. This one in particular. He was such a baby here. Thanks for the share!
One of my favorites as well. I know Cosby has seen the Guinevere that is on the site, I wonder if Cockburn has seen this. Thanks for commenting.
I wonder also. Great song and a great version. I am friends with Pierre and will be seeing him in a couple of weeks. I thought that I recalled him saying that he'd never actually met Michael Hedges. What a treat to find the two of them playing together amongst your archives of gold. I will need to share it with him for sure.
Joe Roth Let Pierre know I hope to see him as well, when he comes to the Caspar Community Center, just north of Mendocino where we live.
I certainly will!
Here is a funny story. All day long I've felt as if I knew your name from somewhere imbedded deep in my subconscious or something???
I graduated high school in 1985 and I must've committed every note from that Windham Hill live and Red Rocks VHS to memory. Sure enough, William Ackerman mentions you as being the one who beckoned him to hear Michael Hedges for the first time at your theater! Crazy! I knew your name rang a bell!
What an honor to make your acquaintance. It sounds like you really were a part of it all. What I would have done to have been there. I hope we can stay in touch.
Joe Roth I was a lucky guy, at the windham hill epicenter in palo alto. Will went to my alma mater, gunn high school, where i was classmates with his cousin de grassi. will exaggerates a little as i recall at red rocks. we were showing david hamilton's "billitis." The lines were long so he asked if i wouldn't comp him. I said sure, but first, please go check out the guitar player upstairs. he did and came down a half an hour later with a contract on a cocktail napkin. michael and i became good buddies. he collaborated on all of his videos here. nice to meet you! you might have to remind pierre who i am. i put micheal and pierre together for a show at the varsity, as you can see here.
Beautiful, my new favorite song.
actually, yes it's drop D. A 7th fret harmonic from strings 5-2 will give you a big Dmaj9.
not to be a guitar nerd, but I watch these videos a lot :)
Had no idea this existed Randy! I know the story of Michael performing at your theater in his early days which was so sweet. I knew he was a Cockburn fan, so sweet to hear him in this cover of Cockburn's early folky gem. Thanks so much for this memory. So wonderful you got to be so much of Michael's early coming to be. Planets aligned.
Truly lucky. He was such a wonderful person. I've always hoped that Cockburn (also a great guitarist) has viewed this. It is a really sweet cover, done like no one else could. Thanks for the note!
Randy I'd agree re nice treatment and hope Bruce might have seen or will. Like so many he touched Michael was a big influence on me for many years. I moved on in many ways on what I do but not a day goes by that I don't still think about him. He had that wild eyed sense in his eye of having 'it' figured out in some way that many of us seek. Thanks again for releasing this.
thanks randy, for posting these exclusive videos. youre keeping his legacy alive
you are very welcome!
hey Michael....way to be...nice work....thumbs up .....Canada thanks you !!!
fantastic cover my friend. you really are special
Thank you for sharing this with me.
EXCELLENT cover young man!
Wow! Such a good cover!
YOUR THE MAN. As soon as school is out and I can wrap up learning Jitterboogie and Ritual Dance (although I've been saying any hedges is the project of a lifetime) I will be trying to learn this. Thanks!
Wow....this made my day. I was fortunate to see Michael probably a dozen times and meet him a few as well. I really miss his music and wonder what he'd be doing now. Seeing this for the first time and am going to be forwarding it to MANY friends. Thanks so much for posting....
Thanks Mike‼I love you❣
Always been a Cockburn fan and so I looked up this song on RUclips and found this among the results. What a great surprise to find this gem of a performance by Michael, thanks so much for sharing this.
I'm hoping Bruce has seen it, as it is truly a gem.