I'm 62 and we miss this guy so much, he started us all playing fingerstyle and loving a well-played guitar. As to versions, I love this it's fast, raw and full of heart but it would a shame if everyone liked exactly the same thing wouldn't? For younger folks who've stumbled on this, I'd recommend also Michael Chapman, John Renbourn [played a lot with Bert] and Fairport Convention in the Sandy Denny period. Peace and love...
May I also suggest Davy Graham, who wrote the song, Paul Simon and a Josh Lee Turner, of the current generation of hot guitar players, and like Davy Graham, a multi-instrumentalist. Enjoy!
@@martinbarnes98 Yep, should have mentioned Davy Graham. Heard him, last time in Bunjies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunjies probably late 60s. Should also name check Jackson Franks of Blues Run the Game who was apparently a significant influence for Bert.
The Maverick genius that is Bert J. The purest natural acoustic guitarist ever! Plays the guitar as it was designed. RIP Bert gone but never forgotten.
i adore this tune, heard it first as a 15 year old kid in Derry NI, and im 43 now, it was the height of the troubles, this song was played by my tutor in a workshop, lifted me above all the harm and hate, thank you for sharing
I’m from Northern Ireland as well and of a similar age I’m 49 I first heard a guitarist in crossmaglen play this and when it was over there was a gun battle in the town !! They were trying to shoot down the helicopter 🚁 crazy times but I was more interested in the music 🎸🎸🎸😎😎😎🇮🇪Brian
Love the roughness, this always seems to be catching up and yet always right on time, with two or three different voices interjecting. A rambling comforting story which I could listen to all day.
That’s so well put. I resisted using a metronome when I started learning guitar, and honestly I’m glad. There’s more to music than mere mathematics. Can’t play like Bert, OBVIOUSLY, but I do think once needs to sense timing and be loose.
I remember the guy who taught me to play this beautiful song when I was 18. Life and motherhood got in the way and I stopped playing and sold my Tanglewood. I'm 65 now and my out of practice fingers will never work like they used to, but it is so good to here this played by guy who wrote it. Wonderful memories!
I'm 64 and play guitar constantly. It isn't too late! It is my release when I'm up in the middle of the night. I found this version of Anji because learning the tune may be my next project.
British friends across "the pond"...you certainly kept some wonderful talent at home, back in the day! RUclips has opened up for us in the U.S. some really enjoyable artists who never were promoted across the Atlantic. Bert Jansch & Gordon Giltrap, are two that I became aware of at a late date. Thanks for sharing! ☺
Typing this from St Albans City - heading to The Blacksmiths Arms - where Bert played. Best regards to you friend. America certainly gave the world some incredible music. I like Bill Evans and Donald Byrd
Lovely performance. Saw him live at the Lowry in Salford, Manchester in his later years approx 14 years ago and was a WONDERFUL performance. Inspiring man! - RIP Mr Jansch.
I'm so grateful I got to see him, front pew, in a church last year. He was spellbinding. I can only hope that, with his passing, more people will discover his brilliance.
I was fortunate enough to have seen this great musician in 2006, in a small venue in Ireland. A great loss, and as the major said, we will never see his like again.
Ten years on,if you read this;-Check out Tommy Emmanuel! He knew and appreciated Bert,but,in his own right,what a guitarist! He has to be the heard to be believed. Lives and breathes guitar,and is modest and likeable to boot.
had to come back and thank you. downloaded it a while back and played it to death. so good. he and renbourne inspired me to learn the guitar. i could never hope of playing like him [mr jansch] but i enjoy my music. thanks, bert and john
Frere anak tom I've only been playing slightly less than 2 years and i can play this song, if you put your mind to it you can do anything never say never!:)
well i can 'impersonate' his style when i play it but i could never recreate it, no one could that's not how musicians work, i play Angie my own may, I'll admit not nearly as well as him but that will come with experience:)
I've listened to this for literally fifty years now. The missed notes, getting ahead of the rhythm....so much wrong with it and still one of my very favorite performances. I love this tune.....just never could figure out why. Very strange.
my old friend from the 60s, spiderman, played this tune and 'windy and warm' on his 12 string on many a sunny day in cambridge common. haven't seen him since then...
I hear the sweet riff from The Smith's or Johnny Marr's 'some girls are bigger than others' which itself is wonderful tune, at least musically if not lyrically. I know that Bert was one of his heroes.....you can hear it.
Musically AND lyrically "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" is wonderful. Personally, I rate it easily amongst the finest of the Marr/Morrissey compositions. And, absolutely the influence of "Angie" on Johnny's riff is undeniable.
I love his playing, and I think it's cool that a master like this only uses three fingers to fingerpick. I find myself naturally inclined to do that myself instead of using four - which is the standard technique. It's just good to know I'm not necessarily messing my future playing up by doing that :)
The definitive version was on his seminal debut , and was apparently recorded in someone's kitchen, really captured lightning in a bottle. Passionate , fresh, urgent. With some almost savage flamenco style strikes , seemed to be at top of his game , had the energy of youth too.
@@vitogrguricmileusnic5748some people are completely self-taught. I've never officially had guitar lessons but I had piano lessons an the first piano exam I took was a grade VI, aged 11. I taught myself to play guitar from a book when I was 13. When I was 18 I heard somebody play this in a friend's sitting room and then they showed me how. That's kind of how it works for a lot of people.
On the original version on his album Bert Jansch he gets some tones I've never been able to fathom. This was lacking in expression and he missed the middle 8. I think he grew tired of playing it. R.I.P. Bert Jansch my mentor.
@mikelheron20 then he simply accepted the mistake, because he didn't change it in the rerelease of his first album. i think that every artist is entitled to do whatever he wants with the titles, as long as the authors are credited. besides the different titles mark the drastic differences beetween the two version: no one can say that Jansch simply covers Graham; he bring the composition to a whole new level.
Era maravilloso este hombre; yo soy muy fan suyo, aunque creo que este no es precisamente su mejor registro de este tema.. Pero eso le pasa a todo el mundo...
It's not a DADGAD tuning. The guitar is tuned EADGBE normal tuning and is "capoed" three semitones up to GCFBDG for making it better fit the technical issues of the guitar.
Age does matter, but some seem to have stronger genes than most of us. I've seen Ruben Gonzalez in his late 80's playing piano like no-one else (To quote Ry Cooder : "the best pianist i got to work with. Ever.") Not to mention Tom Zé, who's still jumping around on stage like a young Iggy Pop, while he's 77 years old. But one can have an off-day at any age. Musicians are just human people too...
Muddy Waters was still playing kick-arse music at 68 (I recommend his album "King Bee" as evidence) and Johnny Cash still had it and was recording the evidence right up until he passed at 71 (and this was a man misdiagnosed with Parkinson's).
At the time it was the one piece which guitarists judged your skill level. When we met for the first time: "Can you play Angie?" 50 years later...still working on it!
@mikelheron20 Nope! Anji is the original composition by Davy Graham recorded in the album Folk, Blues & Beyond. Angie is the much improved version by Bert. He just changed the name. What's the problem there?
Well Kevin, it is a Davey Graham tune that's for sure, But who does it best is debateable....I like both, I'm glad to say. Huge fan of both Davey and Bert.
if people in north vietnam ever see/hear this my days are numbered. they think i am a good guitarist. fortunately for me, they only know 5 boys with baseball caps miming
@49mrjd ....only in appearance. Close your eyes and Mr. Jansch sounds even better. I still love Bert's take on this lovely Davy Graham original from 1961. Even Paul Simon plays it more like Bert than Davy's original.
Playing the bottom F with the thumb isn't actually the Davy Graham fingering, he uses his index finger - that's kind of the point of the riff ..................................
I'm 62 and we miss this guy so much, he started us all playing fingerstyle and loving a well-played guitar. As to versions, I love this it's fast, raw and full of heart but it would a shame if everyone liked exactly the same thing wouldn't? For younger folks who've stumbled on this, I'd recommend also Michael Chapman, John Renbourn [played a lot with Bert] and Fairport Convention in the Sandy Denny period. Peace and love...
May I also suggest Davy Graham, who wrote the song, Paul Simon and a Josh Lee Turner, of the current generation of hot guitar players, and like Davy Graham, a multi-instrumentalist. Enjoy!
@@martinbarnes98 Yep, should have mentioned Davy Graham. Heard him, last time in Bunjies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunjies probably late 60s. Should also name check Jackson Franks of Blues Run the Game who was apparently a significant influence for Bert.
As a younger folk who stumbled on this, thanks for the recommendations!
May I also suggest Incredible String Band?
Steve Tilston and Wizz Jones too.
The Maverick genius that is Bert J. The purest natural acoustic guitarist ever! Plays the guitar as it was designed. RIP Bert gone but never forgotten.
where's he gone? always necrophiacs on you tube, sorry, but i get so depressed with RIP comments on you tube
He plays it more than it was designed for!
i adore this tune, heard it first as a 15 year old kid in Derry NI, and im 43 now, it was the height of the troubles, this song was played by my tutor in a workshop, lifted me above all the harm and hate, thank you for sharing
I’m from Northern Ireland as well and of a similar age I’m 49 I first heard a guitarist in crossmaglen play this and when it was over there was a gun battle in the town !! They were trying to shoot down the helicopter 🚁 crazy times but I was more interested in the music 🎸🎸🎸😎😎😎🇮🇪Brian
15 year old here just after finding this song too haha, irish too
@@dieselman7453I’m from Northern Ireland I’m 49 and you are talking shite
Love the roughness, this always seems to be catching up and yet always right on time, with two or three different voices interjecting. A rambling comforting story which I could listen to all day.
That’s so well put. I resisted using a metronome when I started learning guitar, and honestly I’m glad. There’s more to music than mere mathematics. Can’t play like Bert, OBVIOUSLY, but I do think once needs to sense timing and be loose.
I remember the guy who taught me to play this beautiful song when I was 18. Life and motherhood got in the way and I stopped playing and sold my Tanglewood. I'm 65 now and my out of practice fingers will never work like they used to, but it is so good to here this played by guy who wrote it. Wonderful memories!
I'm 64 and play guitar constantly. It isn't too late! It is my release when I'm up in the middle of the night. I found this version of Anji because learning the tune may be my next project.
Music will never be the same. There are tears in my eyes while he plays. Thanks Bert, for all the good times.
If nothing else survives from the wreckage that was Davey Graham's life, it'll be this tune. RIP Bert, John, Davey.
Pan oRoya That and Cry me a River
All life ends in tragedy. There are no happy endings.
@@theoperator9474 I am banking on Jesus.
He has paid our debt...If we trust him, life will go on. Simple but true.
@@michaelfuller2153
Fingers crossed for you mate 👍
One of The greatest guitarist .
Such a great piece of music, and honest, impassioned performance!
British friends across "the pond"...you certainly kept some wonderful talent at home, back in the day! RUclips has opened up for us in the U.S. some really enjoyable artists who never were promoted across the Atlantic. Bert Jansch & Gordon Giltrap, are two that I became aware of at a late date. Thanks for sharing! ☺
A warm thank you from Scotland my friend...
Mr fuller have you listened to pentangle yet this was berts group what a group it was worth a listen
Typing this from St Albans City - heading to The Blacksmiths Arms - where Bert played.
Best regards to you friend. America certainly gave the world some incredible music. I like Bill Evans and Donald Byrd
RIP Bert. Thank you for your music. You will be missed so much.
Had to find a live video recording to be assured that this is indeed ONE guitar...
MASTER!
Lovely performance. Saw him live at the Lowry in Salford, Manchester in his later years approx 14 years ago and was a WONDERFUL performance. Inspiring man!
- RIP Mr Jansch.
Bert just gets on with it, the sound glides out of him. Another great I missed out on seeing live, much missed.
Seeing him muff a few notes makes me feel better too.
RIP Bert. A great loss. Thanks for the music.
Nothing like 'ANGIE' . . . . SO BEAUTIFUL ~ who could SAY it enough!!!
I'm so grateful I got to see him, front pew, in a church last year. He was spellbinding. I can only hope that, with his passing, more people will discover his brilliance.
RIP Bert. A legend the likes of whom we will never see again.
nobody does this better than bert for me... so talented
Great Bert song brings back remember memories of my beautiful wife forever love always tears from heart xxxxxxxxxx
I was fortunate enough to have seen this great musician in 2006, in a small venue in Ireland. A great loss, and as the major said, we will never see his like again.
Ten years on,if you read this;-Check out Tommy Emmanuel! He knew and appreciated Bert,but,in his own right,what a guitarist! He has to be the heard to be believed. Lives and breathes guitar,and is modest and likeable to boot.
had to come back and thank you. downloaded it a while back and played it to death. so good. he and renbourne inspired me to learn the guitar. i could never hope of playing like him [mr jansch] but i enjoy my music. thanks, bert and john
Frere anak tom I've only been playing slightly less than 2 years and i can play this song, if you put your mind to it you can do anything never say never!:)
Zachary Blake but can you play it the way HE plays?
well i can 'impersonate' his style when i play it but i could never recreate it, no one could that's not how musicians work, i play Angie my own may, I'll admit not nearly as well as him but that will come with experience:)
Of course. And thats what we admire in musicians. Anyways, good luck fingerstyling. Keep it going :)
Bert, you will be missed, you were such a great musician. From Japan, a country in abyss....
So brilliant love the change to never be able to be so good, xx
I've listened to this for literally fifty years now. The missed notes, getting ahead of the rhythm....so much wrong with it and still one of my very favorite performances. I love this tune.....just never could figure out why. Very strange.
don't think i could ever get bored of that riff
A joy to see and hear! Thank you for this!
bert jansch has nailed this tune nobody can better it
try the version of Werner Lämmerhirt
not interested in wrmer schmermer. bert jansch good enough for me
my old friend from the 60s, spiderman, played this tune and 'windy and warm' on his 12 string on many a sunny day in cambridge common. haven't seen him since then...
Superb playing by a master. It brings me back.
I hear the sweet riff from The Smith's or Johnny Marr's 'some girls are bigger than others' which itself is wonderful tune, at least musically if not lyrically. I know that Bert was one of his heroes.....you can hear it.
Musically AND lyrically "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" is wonderful. Personally, I rate it easily amongst the finest of the Marr/Morrissey compositions. And, absolutely the influence of "Angie" on Johnny's riff is undeniable.
This has been in my head since watching the BBC tribute earlier in the year. Makes you wish you had known Angie too!
Watching in 2021. Always wished Bert was my uncle. He was so beautiful.
People in Washington DC, every guitarist from three states, we would line up down the block to see him perform! The Cellar Door! Miss him!
Amazing Performance by a Great Player ..... Bert Jansch x :)))))
I love his playing, and I think it's cool that a master like this only uses three fingers to fingerpick. I find myself naturally inclined to do that myself instead of using four - which is the standard technique. It's just good to know I'm not necessarily messing my future playing up by doing that :)
I could listen to that for the rest of my life
RIP . Such a loss to music... Bert was amazing.
Cheers for this - helps the evening roll along this 19.01.21
I just love this music,
RIP Bert... wonderful in Pentangle and many,many fantastic solo albums....
Angie was written by Davey Graham another great guitar player. Bert is a very special guitarist.
The definitive version was on his seminal debut , and was apparently recorded in someone's kitchen, really captured lightning in a bottle. Passionate , fresh, urgent. With some almost savage flamenco style strikes , seemed to be at top of his game , had the energy of youth too.
I've enjoyed playing this song for so long, it's great to hear it interpreted by the composer.
Actually the original creator of the song is Davey Graham, without him we wouldn't have the fingerpicking style.
zFI2oST Thanks. I didn't know that. Turns out Graham's recording of it is also on RUclips--and very nice. :)
Glad to share that with you, always cool to share with people who enjoy good music.
One man, a guitar and talent and work!
Love Bert, John..Davey Graham.....CLASS x
Great memories, thank You, best influence
Jesus, the outro section was really beautiful as well
One of the first songs I learned when I took lessons. Still one of my favorites to play although it’s been a couple years.
isnt this like an intermediate level song? how did you learn it as one of your first songs?
@@vitogrguricmileusnic5748some people are completely self-taught. I've never officially had guitar lessons but I had piano lessons an the first piano exam I took was a grade VI, aged 11. I taught myself to play guitar from a book when I was 13. When I was 18 I heard somebody play this in a friend's sitting room and then they showed me how.
That's kind of how it works for a lot of people.
RIP Bert XX.
AMAZING tone on that Yamaha.
Bert Jansch and the Norwegian singer-songwriter Finn Kalvik on Norwegian TV in May 1973:
tv.nrk.no/serie/blanda-drops/FBUA07002773/07-05-1973
+Kaare K. Johnsen sir, you are awesome :) Thank youuuu
Tack så mycket :)
The gift, the music lives on - rip, dude
Really enjoyed! Thank you!
Timeless Beautifully played.
On the original version on his album Bert Jansch he gets some tones I've never been able to fathom. This was lacking in expression and he missed the middle 8. I think he grew tired of playing it. R.I.P. Bert Jansch my mentor.
Agreed.
I agree. This is not his best. Maybe he was having an off day.
@@freebornjohn6876 Drank too much the night before most likely. It was his birthday after all.
Yeah. A bit ropey; liked the little flamenco strikes on record too, quite crucial
@@freebornjohn6876 cant expect artists to be at their best every performance (especially decades after the original)
I think it is a great song, I first head it played by Bob Harris on one of his radio shows and I just love it.
Yeah, I always thought Bob's version was far and away the best ...........................................................................
Press Club Glasgow 1995 - With My Brother..... Marvellous.....!
You will be missed Bert, I cherish the few times we met
@mikelheron20 then he simply accepted the mistake, because he didn't change it in the rerelease of his first album. i think that every artist is entitled to do whatever he wants with the titles, as long as the authors are credited. besides the different titles mark the drastic differences beetween the two version: no one can say that Jansch simply covers Graham; he bring the composition to a whole new level.
Wow fantastic
Era maravilloso este hombre; yo soy muy fan suyo, aunque creo que este no es precisamente su mejor registro de este tema.. Pero eso le pasa a todo el mundo...
Incredible tune and legendary musician. Thanks for the upload. One of my lockdown projects was to get to grips with this song
RIP Bert Jansch, great musician, guitar virtuoso
Beautiful.
I attach my shubb capo exactly the same way as Bert.
just wish I could play like him too.
Haha! The best comment on here! I feel exactly the same.
@@freebornjohn6876 :-))
All life ends in tragedy. There are no happy endings.
The power of DADGAD, beautifully interpreted by the late Bert J no less.
It's not a DADGAD tuning. The guitar is tuned EADGBE normal tuning and is "capoed" three semitones up to GCFBDG for making it better fit the technical issues of the guitar.
@ I stand corrected, thank you.
wow. I wish I knew the serial numbers of Berts Yamaha LL11.
I have recently managed to buy one. Very lucky.
Bert Jansch-RIP. The Dazzling Stranger.
oh the memories... my favourite from that period is January Man...the oft forgotten Jackson C Frank is still top of the pyramid for me
Very different to Davey’s version, but a nice warm sound. I actually saw Davey live at “Les Cousins” a hundred years ago.Superb.❤
Age does matter, but some seem to have stronger genes than most of us. I've seen Ruben Gonzalez in his late 80's playing piano like no-one else (To quote Ry Cooder : "the best pianist i got to work with. Ever.") Not to mention Tom Zé, who's still jumping around on stage like a young Iggy Pop, while he's 77 years old. But one can have an off-day at any age. Musicians are just human people too...
Just wonderful. One of the true greats.
I think it's a masterpiece.
Think Johnny Marr might have been listening to this when he wrote Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others.
RIP Bert - you legend
Look for the original recording done way back in 1960s off the album 'Lucky Thirteen', far more dynamic & fresh, totally mind blowing.
Bert Jansch ain't dead!
you are the dude !
İts just amazing
I didn't think it was called Angie; & I recall Bert saying how it evolved & changed over the decades.
silly billy - davy called it angie or anji and it was his song
Muddy Waters was still playing kick-arse music at 68 (I recommend his album "King Bee" as evidence) and Johnny Cash still had it and was recording the evidence right up until he passed at 71 (and this was a man misdiagnosed with Parkinson's).
I like Bert's version and Paul Simon`s too.
Worked my fingers bloody...literally...trying to get this one down back in the day...never did master it...
Nor me!!
At the time it was the one piece which guitarists judged your skill level. When we met for the first time: "Can you play Angie?" 50 years later...still working on it!
@@kingrobert1st I don't think anyone has ever played it like he did on the record. Magic session!
@@ninpot2765 Apparently, he played a borrowed guitar for the recording...someone had stolen his.
so grateful....
@mikelheron20 Nope! Anji is the original composition by Davy Graham recorded in the album Folk, Blues & Beyond. Angie is the much improved version by Bert. He just changed the name. What's the problem there?
Unreal
A sad loss for all of us....
Well Kevin, it is a Davey Graham tune that's for sure, But who does it best is debateable....I like both, I'm glad to say. Huge fan of both Davey and Bert.
if people in north vietnam ever see/hear this my days are numbered. they think i am a good guitarist. fortunately for me, they only know 5 boys with baseball caps miming
Is this some kind of delirious nonsense brought on by PTSD?
@lurak9 It's from Alice's Wonderland off Bert's first album.
Sad, died in 2011 at age 67. How can that be?
@49mrjd ....only in appearance. Close your eyes and Mr. Jansch sounds even better. I still love Bert's take on this lovely Davy Graham original from 1961. Even Paul Simon plays it more like Bert than Davy's original.
Great cover
Thanks for positive comments
The way he drops down the bass with his top thumb
Playing the bottom F with the thumb isn't actually the Davy Graham fingering, he uses his index finger - that's kind of the point of the riff ..................................
Beautiful
The Australian guitarist from the early 70's, Mike McLellan played a brilliant version of Angie but Paul Simon and Bert Jansch were great too!
It's Davey Graham's song as far as I know...ruclips.net/video/qXhWgbmc9yU/видео.html
he and Jansch were friends, Simon ripped them off
Fantastic