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There's a story that after playing his first number at a concert, Tommy asked if there were any guitar players in the audience. A loud voice from the back yelled, "not anymore!"
Tommy has earned the accolade “Certified Guitar Player” from Chet Atkins, which is probably the most profound honour a guitarist can get.
Growing up in Australia Tommy was a mainstream household name in the 80's and 90's.
25yrs or so ago I happened to be walking past the Seymour centre in Sydney and noticed the bill board "Tommy Emmanuel Tonite".
As a guitar music lover I walked in off the street to the ticket office.
The show was about to begin and they were fully booked.
Just as I was hearing the bad news Tommy turned up to check on his reserved family tickets.
He saw me and instructed the staff to make a seat available to me among his family!.
I'll never forget his first words on stage - " Hi I'm Tony Enamel!".
He is a world renowned Master of his craft and a good humoured,warm and generous Aussie bloke!.
He is a one of a kind and a great Aussie treasure and ambassador.
Thankyou mate,and thankyou Tommy!👍
Thank You so much for doing the original first
If available, Mason Williams played "Classical Gas" on the Smothers Brothers Show,
on a plexiglass guitar filled with water and live goldfish.
Love the look on your face watching Tommy. He is a one of a kind. If you met him he would sit down and try to show you how to play it.
I love the videos of him doing guitar signings and playing the guitar he is signing or playing with the owner or even repairing a fan's guitar. Just a great guy
Tommy Emmanuel is one of the best guitarists on the planet. He is the real item.
Many years ago, I saw Tommy and his brother in a band called Gold Rush. Tommy was playing banjo, ukelele and mandolin, while his brother played electric guitar. His brother was as good with the electric as Tommy is with the accoustic. RIP Phil.
Tommy has been the GOAT for years.....glad you've discovered the greatest
I’ve always liked that song but that was insane!!!! 🎸🎸🎸
I played Classical Gas at a piano recital many years ago. It's a wonderful instrumental.
Make me green with Envy why dontcha? 🔥👍
@@danieljodrey8863 Sorry about that Dont'cha know der. Oops.
It isn't a song. A song is sung.
@@brian5154, you are right. My mistake.
My dad has always played "Classical.Gas" (the original) on guitar, And I will forever love it! Always makes me think of him.
Tommy Emmanuel is an incredible musician.
You should watch Tommy play Somewhere Over the Rainbow. He has a few versions, from when he was young to one where he's an old man. All are unreal.
Tommy and his bro Phil. Learned at home by ear, from records. Not knowing how many instruments were played, he learned to do bass, treble and percussion, ALL on one guitar. He sands his guitars down to get them how he wants them, with sandpaper, when they are new. He is a bit hard on guitars. When he gets a new one, he looks for a player back-stage, to give his old one to. He plays because he loves music, all round the world, and that's all. He is an aussie.
Serf taught, amazing. You should hear Tommy on an electric, mind blowing.
HUGE hit!
It is often hard to surpass the original....unless of course you are Tommy Emmanuel putting the 'classical' guitar into Classical Gas! All the emotion of the original with an injection of caffeine.
i like the Mason Williams one i grew up with. He puts so much emotion in his version.
Oh, wow. I wish I had suggested the original Classical Gas. Looking forward to seeing what you think.
Me too!
Tommy is the most talented guitarist to ever strap on the 6-string. A guitarist nonpareil.
I've been listening to Tommy for a couple of year's I enjoy watching first reactions to Tommy Emmanuel's take on several covers. He is Chet Akins approved.
The original version run on television starts with Mason Williams sitting on what appears to be an empty stage with a spotlight on him and he begins playing. Then as the other instruments appear, the lights come up and it becomes apparent he is sitting in the middle of an orchestra. Then as the piece reaches the end and the guitar becomes the only instrument, the lights drop on the orchestra.
"Walk Don't Run" was done by the Ventures which is a band that doesn't do vocals or lyrics. They are probably best known for their massive hit "Hawaii-Five-0" used in the famous TV show of the same name.
While the cover is more like one of those jazz creations going all over the place inserting well known themes perhaps like someone on a drug trip in which the brain shorts out and randomly inserts memories of things, the original follows the systematic progression in classical music and I don't think it can be improved upon.
You’ve seen that [ right] video. It is exactly as you say. You see him playing the guitar, and you can really see him PLAY, then, as you say, as the orchestra comes in , the spotlight widens, as the camera zooms out, to see it all.
Fantastic live performance.
And I agree on the Hawaii Five-0.
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That Mason Williams original video may come from "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" TV show.
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Possibly, as he was a Comedy Writer for the show at that time.
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@@starman2337 I believe that was likely since Mason Williams was a comedy writer on that show. It would be nice if a better resolution copy would be posted.
🤣👍hey Daniel Tommy is a genius on guitar. Self taught all the way. Just years of practice 😃👍 awesome player from Australia.
👍And that's why I watch!!! To see your physical reaction. Like at the 10:30 mark when he apparently bends the strings from the end of the neck. And it takes just one second. You need to watch when his thumb comes over the neck the music gets much Fuller. But around the 9:45 Mark you'll see that thumb not move while his fingers are running all over the place what he does seems impossible. With the exception of decades of playing like being a professional musician at the age of 6. and if you notice his guitar is well worn in three places either from doing percussion while playing. kind of reminds me of trigger. (You know Willie's guitar.)
I remember when Mason WIlliams came out with classical gas it was played on the radio in between Iron Butterfly and the Doors. LOL 🙄 only to be followed up with MacArthur's Park.
And while you were listening to Mason WIlliams play and thinking how incredible that was I kept thinking just wait your mind is about to be shredded. Tommy is in the same class as Chet Atkins. Don't get me wrong I love Gilmore but Tommy and Chet are the reason I don't call him or Stevie Ray Vaughan God. There's many greats playing many styles.
By the way I wanted to give you a thumbs up, but I don't want to be the 666 person to do so. 😂
That guy is just insane. It’s crazy how good he is. Epic.
You should check out a duet he and his older brother Phil put together. Not one, but two Emmanuals in action.. Glad you enjoyed and laughed how your eyes opened wide at different occasions during the performance. Saw Tommy Live at the Kuranda Amphitheatre near Cairns Australia many many moons ago....
In, of and for its time, Classical Gas was a sort of gentle revolution, taking a folk-pop guitar sound and marrying it to classical-pop band instruments. The result was an upbeat, head-bobbing, get-up-and-go instrumental that inspired action and joy. For me, this is the ultimate road trip montage score. The "cover" (?) is all showboating. Emmanuel's abilities are legion here, except that he seems to have zero care for the actual melody. The result, to me, is the same as if one took 3-4 different covers of the song and edited them all together just for the sake of burying the core under a fuzzy blanket of irrational and inappropriate noise. To be clear, Emmanuel can play jazz guitar like a fiend (this is my first introduction to him, btw) ... but his rendition is painting bright, psychedelic colors on a beautifully hand-crafted heirloom cabinet. (Disclaimer: I loved this when it first came out on the radio station where my Dad worked at the time. I am biased AF.) Cheers for your always-excellent reax. :)
got to see Tommy Emmanuel in person at a concert once (a.k.a. Tony Enamel). he's a charming and down to earth guy, and needless to see extraordinarily skilled with the guitar. As was his brother, God rest him.
Yes, the Mason Williams original was a big pop hit. It was on his first LP, "The Mason Williams Phonograph Record." (Once the album was put on other media like 8-tracks, each medium had to have an alternate title.) It helped that Williams got to perform the song on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a show for which he was a writer. He later wrote for The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and for Saturday Night Live.
We had such good radio. So much variety. The Herb Alperts, the old Marty Robbins songs.... it ran the gamut.
I did not know about his connection with Glenn Campbell.
( I have seen Glenn Campbell’s version is excellent.)
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Yeah, Classical gas is a sweet song by Mason Williams...
...I noticed Tommy didn't try "Toad lickers" or "Moose Goosers" Real Mason Williams classis!
lol
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Not sure what you meant ❓
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@@jeffking291 Most of Mason Williams songs were fun/funny songs (writer for the Smothers brothers...) It was a joke...
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Had almost forgotten this song then a couple of months ago it played in a segment of the Netflix show "The Queen's Gambit". Great music always seems to come back. Never heard the cover so thanks for doing both. 👍👍
Queen's Gambit was incredible. The soundtrack, and also the cinematography, which leaned heavily on Kubrick.
One of the greatest guitarists to ever live.
In the 2nd version he added parts of other songs. The Ventures " Walk Don't Run " was one. An instrumental guitar band, The Ventures were very popular in the 60's and I believe may be the highest selling instrumental band ever.
I have "Classical Gas" tonight. Peewww!
Chet Atkins handed out the honorific award "Certified Guitar Picker" only four times during his lifetime.
Tommy Emmanuel is one of them. Don't need to say much beyond that, really.
Other world famous players, such as Knopfler and Clapton for example, all regard him as one of the greatest ever. Is he especially world famous? Not really. Famous to players, especially great players in their own right? Absolutely.
As many no doubt will have mentioned in the comments, however, Tommy is also legendary for being a remarkably kind, generous, sweet natured person. I don't know of a single story about him being difficult or unpleasant, but there are thousands of him being generous with his time and vast knowledge with fans, and players regardless of their skills.
I've heard him say in an interview something along the lines of "There's no ego, it's not about me. I'm trying every day to be the best player I can so I can channel whatever the universe has to share with everyone through my playing". From a lot of people you'd think that sounds like pretentious twaddle. Not from him, however.
He's the sort of person you might just want to clone so there's ALWAYS a version of him alive on the planet. How many people can you think of who fit that profile? I don't have many.
I've watched a lot of reactions to this song and I like how you played the original first,so you can see how well Tommy does
Thanks for playing both versions together in the same video -- that was a great idea! I remember the original well, and I still prefer that one as a piece to listen to. But for sheer impressivness, it would be hard to beat Tommy Emmanuel's version.
I saw Tommy Emmanuel on Woodsongs a number times back when I used to watch that program. He was always amazing.
You just got introduced to Tommy Emmanuel, you may never be the same
The song was written for a very short film. It had pictures of classical paintings which were shown for a half second each. That is why it is called Classical Gas, that was the name of the film. It was originally shown on the Smothers Brothers comedy show where Mason Williams worked.
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As another Australian said 'you've been thunderstruck!' Good on ya for subscribing to Tommy. He lives and breaths guitar and loves to teach. For a young player he is Yoda. Peace and practice hard young Jedi.
Tommy was on stage one night and he asked if there was any guitar players in the audience and a little voice popped up and said, "not anymore".
One of my favorite records grow9up. Love the original recording the best.
You really should react to Charo when she plays classical guitar. Totally underrated artist because of her looks and the image she was presented in
Seeing the two really brings home the difference. it's interesting seeing the techniques that Tommy uses to replace the backing band that Mason used, such as using his thumb hooked over the fret board to play the base line.
Next try JOY by Apollo 100
I love this song. Such a great piece. The original is always nice to listen to, but Tommy infuses everything he does with so much joy and energy that I just sit with a dopey smile on my face feeling super happy. He's beyond amazing 😊💜
Mason Williams wrote a great piece and played it beautifully. But Tommy Emmanuel brought it to a whole, new life!!!
I like your approach of comparing versions side by side. Two exceptional players here. Tommy is something, isn't he? I just started getting into him a little in the last year or so.
Twas I who suggested Tommy Emmanuel. And it gave me joy to see you experiencing so much joy. :) I do not tire of watching that clip. I remember the first time I saw Tommy play he was on drums and his brother Phil was on guitar. Tommy was a very convincing drummer. Ta muchly for that. Dig it.
(There are some collaborations with Chet Atkins that are also sweet and worth a view one day.)
Thank you for recommending Tommy Emmanuel's mind blowing performance. I'd never heard this version and was skeptical to say the least. Mason Williams is a tough act to follow. Bravo!
@@bearballin Thank you. Oh and I do like the original too. Lots.
Tommy Emmanuel is one of the guitarists' guitarist. I learned this song long time ago just a cool one to listen to and play. I can't play it like they can of course but it's passable.
Tommy's use of harmonics is worth checking out his rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow".
Tommy and his brother Phil Emmanuel are both brilliant guitar players, Tommy is hugely popular here in his home Australia, but also worldwide for his genius on the acoustic guitar. Both of these versions of Classical Gas are excellent the original is wonderful for its mix of guitar and orchestra so to compare that with a man and a guitar is not really fair. Tommy did his own thing with it and 2 other songs mixed in and in my opinion showed his mastery of the acoustic. Any who think it is easy is only because he made it look that way give it a go and you will find out about 30 seconds in it is time to stop and just admire his genius.
Tommy Emmanuel - just world class playing - what more can be said!
I like the way this kid works; original and then he works his way to the cover.
I’m so glad you reacted to Tommy Emmanuel. He’s one of the greatest.
You just witness one of the very best on acoustic guitar.
I still have the Classical Gas single by Mason Williams. Yet another great record from the 60s. I have to shamefully admit that I had never heard of Tommy Emmanuel before seeing this video. It's always a thrill to watch masters of their craft showing their incredible talents. Thank you Daniel for the introduction.
I loved that you played the original first. A few years ago I ran across a video of Tommy Emmanuel and watched it without knowing who he was. My reaction was about the same as yours....I think my mouth was hanging open the whole video. He's from Australia and self taught. He started copying records he bought and didn't realize there was more than one guitar playing all the notes so he learned to copy what he heard. He has a lot of videos so it would be interesting to see you do one every now and then.
Yeah! Mason!
Love Classical Gas ! 👍
I saw Tommy Emmanuel live at the Birchmere a couple of years ago. My life will never be the same. His Beatles medleys (Day Tripper, Here Comes the Sun, Lady Madonna, etc.) are pure joy as he plays lead, rhythm, and bass simultaneously in his inimitable way. But yeah -- he goes through guitars like I go through soap.
I am SO happy you discovered Tommy Emmanuel!!!
Tommy Emanuel is SO talented! More! More!
It's a great song to "try" to learn and play.
I noticed that the second version the guy broke into Walk Dont Run
Tommy played "Walk don't Run." Learned to play that many years ago.
Saying that Tommy Emmanuel is an amazing guitarist is an understatement. Check out his version of "Over The Rainbow."
There are many covers of this. Including a girl performing it on-stage with Mason Williams - she plays it on harp.
Nobody better on acoustic guitar than Tommy E.
I prefer the original but I'm partial to music of the 60's.
Yo Man, good chat yesterday
Same!
Same here. By 1969-70 our local rock station would play CG as "filler" leading in to the hourly news report.
I've still got the Classical Gas single by Mason Williams. Yet another great record from the 60s. I have to shamefully admit I had never heard of Tommy Emmanuel until I watched this video. It's always a thrill to watch masters of their craft showing the incredible talent they possess. What a treat. Thank you Daniel for the introduction.
Ditto!
Guitar wizardry from a maestro, a different vibe from the original, more ontensity, but isn't that what we expect from someone so gifted?
Each major war gets music associated with it. A lot a guys in Vietnam said this was in their head when preparing for battle.
Tommy is my all time favorite artist... Also he's a great person to meet. Super friendly and personable.
I've NEVER seen anyone bend the neck to show how to create a different kind'a sound. WOW. One of the few times that actually ' Don't try this at home' really means it. WOW!
There is a great live version [ fully orchestrated], with Mason Williams.
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also check out Tommy's 'Initiation' Tommy grew up in the Australian outback and the piece is about an Aboriginal Ceremony . you can hear the sounds of the area , a digeridoo starts it off
This is why he was named one of 5 Certified Guitar Player by Cet Atkins. CPG.
Tommy Emmanuel, perhaps the guitar laureate of Australia.
But as referenced above, Glen Campbell, whom I've mentioned a couple of times over the months, is worth exploring. A shining star in multiple realms.
Member of the "Wrecking Crew"
He was a Beach Boy
Prolific actor in the 70's
Musical composer
Arena filling solo singer
World class virtuosic guitarist
And his best friend, Alice Cooper,(yes) was asked by Eddie Van Halen if Glen could give him a guitar lesson. Glen was a star for 5 decades, but in totality is still underrated. A great place to start with him is "Wichita Lineman", one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard to this day.
Search for "Classical Gas - 3000 Years of Art". This film was made for this song at the time, and was shown on the Smothers Brs show.
Always loved the original of this song. So catchy! Also "Green Onions" is a great instrumental by Booker T and the MGs
I got to sing with Mason Williams once. He performed at my church during our Christmas Eve service.
What an amazing experience that must've been.
I was finishing 9th grade when this emerged as a hit -- June of 1969. Other hits of that month were "Grazing in the Grass", "Hello, I Love You", "Lady Willpower", "The Horse", the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", the Stones "Jumping Jack Flash", and Aretha's "Think!" . . so much great music blaring from our AM radios! Apollo 10 had just flown it's lunar dress rehearsal in May and we were all anticipating Apollo 11's moon landing in July! What heady times!!!
This was a special tune for me. I loved all the bombast Mason Williams dumped on top of that artistic guitar riff. Note the tuba (or perhaps a bass trombone) providing the bass line under the other brass in the middle section. Mason Williams was the musical director for "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" on CBS. Even on that TV show he loved to throw on a lot of brass instruments wherever they weren't expected.
There is no question that Tommy Emmanuel gives a virtuoso performance, but there are so many bells and wistles and tricks and guitar equivalents to vocal runs, slides and melismas being used that it makes his version bright and startling, but avoids the simplicty and purity of the original. When Mason Williams first performed this on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, it was something new and different and exciting. It added a whole new dimension to popular music a the time. Mason draws you into the song. It is warm and inviting. Tommy takes you out of it. He makes you stop listening to say wow.Thanks for the reaction.
Look at Tommy's song "Initiation", and you will think that this guitar (Classical Gas) has been treated with kid gloves.
He is the greatest... period!
His Guitar Boogie will blow you away
tommy is a Supreme master of the guitar.
Jim Stafford’s version of Classical Gas on a guitar nails it with clean and clear artful precision. Check it out on RUclips.
stafford is good. that being said? tommy is light years better.
if you had an ounce of intelligence, you'd understand that
WOW !! Tommy Emmanuel really rocks !!
Good description by the one person; don't know when last time an instrumental hit the charts.
Check out Tommy Emmanuel with 2 other guitarists playing "Sultans of Swing" next!!! You won't regret it--please!
Ohhhh yeah! Amazing performance!
Awesome watched this second video for the first time last night,
This might be my favorite reaction yet.
You know Daniel we might have to get new guitars, ours don't do that!
The smile on your face after the neck bend at about 10:30 is honestly everything. Screen shot it for your portrait.
You're going to love Mike Dawes fingerstyle tribute to EVH of the song Jump after Eddie's death last year.
You should do this with that one. Original then cover.👍👍
You sounded good today!
#The Warning #Tori Amos piano goddess #Angelina Jordan 🦶👸
Love you Tocayo.
If you like to play guitar, you may not want to watch Tommy. He discourages as many as he inspires. Obviously one of the world's best ever, Tommy Emanuel is so good, he like Angus Young, SRV, and Hendrix, becomes one with the strings and speaks so well through his instrument, some people just can't handle the truth.
It's even more impressive to see in person. Tall Fiddler is fun too.
The original set the bar. Tommy took the bar and no one ever took it back. He threw some Ventures (Walk don't run) and Elton John (Saturday) in the mix...There is a great version he does with Gabriella Queveto (who you definitely check out! )
Tommy Emmanuel puts the gas into Classical Gas. I'd Call it "Classical Gas Gas".
I always loved Williams' original, but when I heard Emmanuel's version I was knocked out completely. He's a master of the instrument.
Tommy is having fun! Try listening to Guy Van Duser playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" solo on guitar. It's wicked! ❤️
There is technique and there is artistry, when the two combine, as you say, wowzers!
You would probably really like rodrigo y gabriela (they apparently like lower case for their personal nomenclature). Two kids from Mexico with metal sensibilities who went to Europe, discovered flamenco guitar, and then proceeded to shift all sorts of paradigms. Turns out that you don't really need a Strat and a P-bass plugged into a big Marshal stack with a full drum kit to rock out. Two nylon strung acoustics will do quite nicely, see the first sentence.
I saw the title and was hesitant to watch this because I had seen this Tommy Emmanuel version (and others). Thank you for doing the original first.
I was a toddler when this came out. My parents had at that time a better than average stereo and we would listen to radio in the kitchen/dining. I didn't go to school which was closest, but went to another farther away. The band director of the closer school was a friend of the family. We would as a family go to their band concerts. Sometimes, the concerts were their jazz ensemble, and they did a cover of this, with the director's son playing keyboard doing the guitar parts.
The school where I did go, had a new band director just when I was the age to start playing a musical instrument. This song largely is why I chose to play trombone, and because of the small towns, in my high school years, I played in a summer jazz band with them as an welcome outsider. Teenagers still in school, and some parents who kept their instruments, it was an awesome concert when we got to it, with a ton of talent. Sadly, I could not convince them to have us do Classical Gas, because even though I was 15, it would have been a bucket list item before the term bucket list ever came to be. Pure coincidence, today is that band director's 90th birthday. Known for playing the French Horn, and always wearing eccentric neckties.
The original album, Mason could not come up with a name. He was a bit of an eccentric and posed in front of his full size mural of a bus for the album cover, and named it:
The Mason Williams Phonograph Record
I got to relive that childhood experience about 15 years ago. A local radio station came under new ownership and while they were deciding what to call themselves and what music format to play, they did something rather unique. For the entire summer of 2005, they would play on one day, the top 100 Billboard hits for the year 1965. The next day 1966. It incremented to 1980, then they started over. They got through all those years at least three times.
The 1968 year had two great one-hit wonders. This and another you might want to react to is the original Macarthur Park, also a rather eccentric song in its style. Getting to hear both of those songs on the radio in the same day, and knowing when to listen to them to hear them multiple times. I can remember specifically that July 4 was the 2nd time for the year 1968, and I can remember exactly what I was doing that day to be driving around and listen to them.
I still love this song, all versions, and I still have my trombone. Fond memories.