Michael Hedges - Baal T'shuvah (and stolen guitar story)
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- From the Artist's Profile. Put it up finally as I have come to understand that it is essentially impossible to get now. Tacked on is the nice story of how he regained his stolen guitar. Tuning: Bb1F2Bb2C3F3Bb3
Song for Alex (written for Alex deGrassi on Michael's duBourg guitar) was later rearranged and renamed Baal T’shuvah, as a track on Michael’s 1997 Grammy Award LP - Oracle {released OCT 1, 1996). Mysteriously returned in late 1995, the duBourg guitar inspired many of the songs on the Oracle-LP. 🎻"and, yes, it reacquainted me with myself; isn’t that a blessing :) " Michael handpicked the guitar in 1978, while in Baltimore. He wrote Eleven Small Roaches, Two Days Old, and Baby Toes with it. In 1982, it was stolen from his van outside the Keystone Club, Palo Alto, where he opened for the Jerry Garcia Band. Baal t’shuvah -Hebrew "master of return" > one who has "returned" to God.
I had the pleasure of producing a small college show with Michael in about 1996... I am a guitar player but had only tertiarily know his music (fancying myself more of a blues man at the time, but anyway) and I knew little about him as a person. I was BLOWN AWAY by him personally and even more so by his performance. I honestly feel blessed for getting to spend a day and a half with him when he visited us to perform here in Bend Oregon. I am still haunted by his playing in that little COCC auditorium such a wonderful and personal performance, gift really, that he gave us all that night.
CavalierX thank u for sharing
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I love how Michael just dove into the music every time he played.
One of our contemporary guitar geniuses of all time...fortunate to have heard him live TWICE!!!
Me Too! Shank Hall!
Me too. Both times with Leo Kottke.
It really took me about 6 months for Michaels death to sink in and one day when I was listening to Baal T'shuvah the final chord sounded like Michael peacefully floating into the next realm and the tears flowed.
He had a stunning gift for melody. This tune a perfect example.
He embodies all the great and beautiful things about music
From 2:23 through 3:00, you will see a simple, casual display of absolute and pure talent. Unfiltered, unhurried, astoundingly beautiful. Amazing gift he had, and we are lucky to see it.
How any one can stoop so low steeling someones instrument I cannot imagine. So happy that some concerned person did notice and put the broken-instrument back into its masters hand. I know they were blessed for making sure Michael got his beloved guitar back. For the master-guitar restore-er I personally thank you for we got to hear the Master play his fave' instrument with such beautiful memories. Most fantastic share of a tune and the story. :-)
I'll never forget getting blown away hearing Michael for the first time on local a college radio station back some time in the 80's. He was playing Arial Boundaries, and I was sort of mesmerized. CD's were still sort of a new thing back then, but I knew a great store that had everything that was available on CD (vinyl was still pretty much the main thing then). This was my introduction to Windham Hill and it's been a wonderful journey since.
I've been watching this video every night for the past two weeks. There's something special about this live performance .He literally puts his body into the notes. I love watching him talk afterwards. Thank you type3 for posting all these vids, I have really come to know MH far more than when I was young, just listening to my parents' old windham hill sampler with aerial boundaries over and over!
that's one of the best songs that I have ever heard in my life
how can that be soo damn good!!!!
we miss you michael
5 stars
Thank you for uploading this. Michael continues to inspire new generations of acoustic guitar players.
Such great sense of melody. It amazingly told a story.
he seemed like a very happy man. He really loved life and music, to the point where other people felt happy when they were around him or listened to him play. Also consider that this was around the time he was getting divorced
This needs to happen so badly. I'd travel the world for a concert like that.
As Jeff Beck re-defined the electric guitar..Hedges did the same for the acoustic.
beck did what?
AHAHAH! Beck re-defined nothing at all. Man WTF, it's just too much. He had a good voice and was a good musician, but there is a lot of good singer and musician out there.
I don't know what all the hate here for Jeff Beck is about. A bit childish. But not going into any idea of redefinition, he has done some highly imaginative and beautiful work over the decades, and has taken it to places different than most. As for allegations of racism and "hating" Jimi Hendrix, I'd be interest to see a reliable source on that.
@joshuadery6865 you confused Jeff Beck with Beck. Worlds of difference.
@@charlesbyron9709 uh…..you’re confused….I know exactly who Jeff Beck is…..
Excellent. I had the great privilege of spending time with Michael a few weeks prior to his passing. I received him at the airport in Houston on his Oracle tour in October 1997. We spent time in his hotel room talking (& smokin' out) and he made me this fantastic apple/ginger juice (he traveled with a juicer).
Around that time the G3 tour was coming through Houston featuring Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson & Adrian Legg as the acoustic opener. Michael told me he was offered the opening slot of that tour, but he turned it down because they would not let him headline.
We also discussed Pat Martino’s album ‘All Sides Now’ which Michael was featured on. Michael told me he’d had Joe Satriani (also on that CD) and Pat Martino at his home studio for some recording sessions prior to the release of that album.
In December 1997, I remember sitting in my office and the secretary walking up to my desk and handing me a fax from Michael’s agency SRO Artists. I was deeply saddened when I read the fax announcing Micheal’s passing. I immediately left work, went home, and played guitar to honor Michael and drown out my sorrow.
I was incredibly moved by Michael during our brief meeting. I’m grateful for his presence then and now
Michael's sense of melody, harmony, and rhythm were absolutely unique, and beautiful. I don't compare him to any contemporary musician, I see him as being on the level with the likes of Johann Sebastian Bach. Of which there are EXTREMELY few people in history.
Such a mix of skill and emotion, played by such a spiritually powerful individual, its the closest you can come to a true perfect masterpiece in music. And people today they tend to just put the emotion in music without adding the technicality of the instrument in the mix. Which creates Mcdonalds music which is pretty much the only thing present popular today in the mainstream industry. Remember guys ALL of music could be like this, too bad we live in a savage capitalist thats taken control of this music industry, and creates bullshit artists with bullshit music sending out bullshit emotions and bullshit messages.
Ooo 🎵🎶❤️🇳🇵 dear lord. The greatest one...❤. Greatest ever
how can there be a dislike is beyond me. i have nevewr heard someone put their heart into music as much as michael hedges.
Omg. U haven't seen u somce the 90s and 2000s. U look great and sound the same. I mean that as the highest of compliments. I hope your career was as well as u wished for, and u still have many more to go.
Best eishes always,
Robert zeligson
that's the craziest lost [ & found ] guitar story i have ever heard !
Beautiful in every way !!!
Lovely, 🍃
Very Talented ☘️. ❣️
Man ! 🍃
You Are So Missed !🌿
Thanks for this beautiful song.
I saw Arial Boundaries live many years ago
@RafalNitkaBialek That is an excellent point. I hadn't thought about that. Thanks!
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Sometimes the impressions I get of people are correct. There isn't too many people that, you could steal their guitar, and they wouldn't be enraged, even when you told them you were bringing it back. I don't even know if he asked the lady that brought the guitar back, any back story.
I wish someone (e.g. Will Ackerman and Michael Manring) would organize a commemorative concert featuring the many different musicians (and other artists) that Hedges influenced.
it happend this fall, search youtube for the tracks
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Woodsongs 861 - ruclips.net/video/kv_P3ly0Tfo/видео.html
Listen to that Lowden!!!...
Thanks for putting this up! I have been watching and waiting and hoping for this to come out on DVD. Do you have the rest of it posted or is it available somewhere else? I have been checking out nomadland, and tried to contact them, but I haven't heard back.
I've been waiting years (at least 10) to hear the story of the stolen, regained, and restored guitar story. Only once had I heard the story when I was traveling and a friend showed it to me on his VCR. I had completely forgotten that so many of his early compositions were composed with that guitar.
Does anyone know what has happened to Hedges's guitars since his death?
RUclips is a strange place... I am just curious to know who has been fool enough to put those thumbs down.
Maybe people who missclicked the button
freedom of choice is important and sometimes inexplicable?
@@MilesBellas
I am disliking your reply,
just to prove I agree.
He was, indeed, from Mars
This is track 3 on Oracle.
The real question is where is this beautiful instrument now
Ikr, at least the guitar is still alive...
What tuning is this?
From Low to High:
Bb F Bb C F Bb
I consider this song a masterpiece - how he did it I don't know - I think he has thicker gauge strings tuned down low to achieve this - then the strings are tuned way way down
I just found my new study project now that I finished Children's Dance...
Crazy how his Guitar was stolen in Palo Alto way back when… and now there is a major theft problem in Frisco. You would think only ghetto places have that problem. Did not know palo alto was ghetto.
Ίσως να χρησιμοποιούσε και τους πνεύμονες του... όμως κατά κύριο λόγο νομίζω πως ανέπνεε μέσα από τη κιθάρα του. Εξάχορδη διανόηση...
Does anyone know what make the guitar is in this video? It has a warmer tone so wondering if it's a Cedar top....great performance!
It's a Lowden. Probably F or O series. And yes, it has a cedar top. The great DADGAD guitarist Pierre Bensusan plays a Lowden; you should check him out; you won't be disappointed
@@ron88303 Thanks Ron, makes perfect sense....and yes, Pierre is a treasure!
Nice Lowden !! (^8
What model of Lowden is it? Ah it's probably on nomadland, I'll check there :)
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the thief was angry they ethically had to return it, so they smashed it up?
The thief thought the power was in the guitar. After years of trying, finally forced to admit that the magic was all Michael. So they smashed away. In pure jealousy.
I wonder what gauge those strings are? i use a lot of down tunings for my own writing and i always get that damn fret buzz when i tune my E to like a B or an A. so upsetting.
Get a fanned fret guitar with a longer scale on the bass and you’ll be able to reach those low tunings well. I dunno how Michael did it with those short scale guitars though. Maybe he raised the action higher to reduce fret buzz
único
very interesting title..... that's all I'll say..
Pretty cool right?!?
The old man luther very carefully.....peeled..... the sticker off the badly damaged guitar
and then very carefully stuck it on another duBourg guitar just like it