One of the greatest guitars that ever left was Chad Atkins. He was my guitar hero. I’ve been playing guitar since 1974. Chad Atkins has always been my idol. Music is not easy to play. It is most complicated and wheels was one of my favorite songs. On top of a whole bunch of other ones. I love and miss you Chet Atkins. You are the best solo instrumental guitarist that ever lived may you rest in peace❤️😥🎸🎼🎵🎶🎸
These two together were just dynamite Chet and Paul both god given talent sent to earth to intimidate " us" 😂 brilliant players loved them all my life and although they are both gone still do love them both and thanks so much for posting.
I've never heard this album. Boy, Chet and his band were on fire for this recording. Guitar players have on and off days, but this is one of the best sessions for Chet and the rest of the guys for sure. Wish I could have been there in the audience.
Great Sound! I usually don't care for the albums uploaded from LP, unless from a pristine (usually brand new) LP . . . CD has spoiled me. I know, I've heard all about the loss of really high and low sounds, blah blah blah, but I'm 70 and can't hear all those anyway. I just can't stand any hiss, pops, clicks. This upload is superb. Thanks for the upload.
@@bgdenham Very true. Chet told us that he liked to play things 50 different ways, otherwise he got too predictable. If you take that into consideration as well, he certainly was a master of his craft.
Chet Adkins,Jerry Reed,Roy Clarke,Glen Campbell ,Steve Warner,Mark Knopler, are my most favorite guitarist,Oh merle Travis another great , probably all these others hero's.
Nico, Today I am a Happy Man. I guess in all these past years I never really looked in the right place. This past week I did. As you are aware, this wonderful LP was only released in Europe (Recorded Live in Paris). Last week I did tap into Discog and found many copies in France, Germany, Sweden, etc. I finally bought a Mint, Mint- copy in Germany. It's now a done deal and hopefully wafting its way to San Diego. What I never understood is why RCA only released this album in Europe considering Chet's position with RCA in the United States. It's not only a phenomenal performance by Chet and his supporting players, it appears to also be a phenomenal quality sound recording. Live recordings can be iffy at best, but the recording engineers at the Olympic Theater that night had their "A" game on! I'm sure Chet had a big hand in that, perfectionist that he was. Nico, thank you so much for bringing this magic recording to light. Chet fans around the world owe you a great deal of gratitude!
This was beyond a shadow of a doubt the best album he ever recorded! There's so many tunes in this album I've heard before, and more that I never knew he recorded, and I just couldn't stop listening to it! ❤
Jamais entendu cet enregistrement ! Merci beaucoup ! Chet The Master ! Certes, d'autres ont une technique encore plus travaillée. Mais ce qui fait de Chet le seul et unique à mes yeux, c'est son feeling ! Ce feeling qui fait passer la technique au second plan...
Chet has had a big influence on me, the first time I heard Chet playing Swedisch rapsody when I was @ age of 17, then I want to play the guitar too. I studied 12 years classicale guitar en Chet style. He is my hero I own 60 LP' s from Chet and own this LP too. Much of his songs are difficult ( can' t play wit my left thumb on the fretboard), because I have short hands (Chet has big hands), @the age of 70, I 'm listening his albums most every day!
Phenomenal music and musicians. Chet Atkins was a legendary musician, record producer, recording executive, and an excellent human being. He is still a legend and certified guitar player. Rest in heaven Chester and Leona! Together again never to part!
I consider myself privileged to have seen him once at a little café in downtown Nashville. Have heard many of his recordings - maybe most - but the personal touch in that café still tops everything.
I know what you mean. Was privileged to see and hear Jerry Reed perform for a small crowd at the Western Kentucky State Fair in 1975. He gave a great show. Tom T. Hall performed at the Porter County State Fair (Valparaiso IN) just a few years before his death. A real gentleman. I was also a privileged to be in the audience when Ray Stevens gave an outstanding performance at the Holiday Star Theater (now gone) in Merrillville IN in around 2001. He gave all he had and got a standing ovation. We clapped till our arms literally dropped. There's nothing like seeing them in person, especially at small intimate gathers.
This album is the reason I bought a nylon string guitar when I was 20. I was obsessed for years about trying to nail down his style and technique but realized that this is a very special gift that only few are born with .... I still work on it but It's a lot of fun just to have this on my stereo, soak in that magic
Right. I know what you mean. You have to be born with it. Heredity! I have to laugh at environmentalists, who think that anybody can do anything if he/she just puts in enough hours of practice!
@@daviddawson1718 Yeah, did the 8 hr a day thing for a long time, missed classes, family functions and work many many times.... that's when I came to the realization... mine will never hang on the wall, can't play it on the wall.... lol
his technique IS obtainable..just have to stay with it...his leads are all mostly sweeps and (slower) single line notes..paul yandell (left speaker) (IMO) are bluegrass and country licks and are better than chets..but chet has the arrangements and harmonies perfect.
Many thanks for this upload. I am French and had this LP for years and lost it in moving house. I have tried to play some of those great tunes with tabs for such a long time... this LP has had a huge influence on my playing and my love of fingerpicking and the art of Chet Atkins. Marcel Dadi did a lot to make fingerpicking more popular on France also!!
My brother saw all three concerts at the Olympia in Paris and was blown away because Chet Atkins played mostly different tunes each evening. It is also noteworthy that so many tunes are played on the acoustic guitar in the style of the "Alone" or "Picking my Way" albums, whereas in the US all the recorded appearances of that period show Chet using the electric guitar a lot more. The reason I think is that Chet Atkins was well advised by Marcel Dadi about the French audience: he introduced Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed's music to the French audience from the early 70's and recorded his 4 first albums until 1979 mostly on acoustic guitars with very little background music, more in plain Merle Travis style, and the French audience of that time much preferred to see the plain "naked" guitar player. So, this is is a unique and extraordinary opportunity to hear Chet Atkins play so many tunes on nylon strings in one concert.
I've got the book about Lenny Breau that's called One Long Tune. I actually learned a lot about Chet that I didn't know before from that book. Chet was the consummate musical businessman. I always wondered why Chet never quoted other tunes in the midst of a song. I'm sure now that it's because he knew it would increase the number of people that royalties had to be paid to.
0:11 - Wheels 2:11 - Vincent 5:37 - All Thumbs 9:06 - Copper Kettle 12:25 - Bill Cheatham 15:24 - Cascade 18:00 - You'd be so nice to come home to 22:03 - Snowbird 25:25 - Dizzy Fingers 28:07 - Yakety Axe 30:27 - Peanut Vendor 34:43 - Autumn Leaves 38:15 - When you wish upon a star 41:13 - Blue Angel 43:26 - Recuerdos de la Alhambra 47:35 - If I Fell 48:29 - For No One 49:24 - Something 49:54 - Lady Madonna 51:15 - Charade 54:27 - Black Mountain Rag 57:28 - Drown In My Own Tears 1:00:00 -Drive In 1:02:17 - Trambone 1:02:58 - Hello My Baby 1:03:19 - I'll see you in my dreams 1:03:54 - Super Lick 1:03:58 - Poor people of Paris 1:04:42 - Mr. Sandman 1:05:19 - Wildwood flower 1:06:31 - Freight train
Thanks for uploading this. I have heard a few of these pieces on "Best of Chet live on the road" but a lot is new. Nice to hear Chet play these tunes live.
you prolly dont care but if you are bored like me during the covid times then you can watch all the new movies on Instaflixxer. Have been streaming with my gf for the last few months =)
Chet said he did his "fingerstyle" guitar technique, because he "didn't know any better." After awhile, he began realizing some of those solo stylings he did were originally done by guitarists and groups with multiple guitars playing at once. But he could copy "multiple guitarists" playing those songs -- by himself. "Didn't know any better," huh? Well I've never heard "any better" either.
For the better part of the past year I have searched for this LP, but I’m beginning to believe that it really doesn’t exist. I’ve been on some many wild goose chases. At one point l heard that was only released in Europe, specifically France. On. visits to all the major vintage record shops in Paris & Bordeaux and in Germany & the UK l’ e had zero luck! So does anyone out there know that this incredible recording exists in LP, cassette, reel to reel or 8-track? As you might surmise, I’m beyond desperate! Come on true Chet fans help me out here!
@@NicoBorger I was in Paris about a month ago and I searched almost every vintage record store I could find. Needless to say, I came up empty. Nico, do you happen to know where I could get a decent copy of this LP? Like so many others have commented, this recording represents to me one of the Best Live performances I've heard. The actual recording quality is also amazing. As you are probably aware, most live recordings can be hit or miss!....this one hits the quality mark for me. Do you know if they released this recording in any other format, like reel to reel, cassette or 8-track? I'm really desperate to find any decent copy I can. Nico if you know where I might find this LP, I will be eternally greatful!
fantastic quality, great stuff. thanks for this upload! I'd love to know the names of some of the tracks he played that night. Any chance to get a tracklist?
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Excellent performance. God bless.
One of the greatest guitars that ever left was Chad Atkins. He was my guitar hero. I’ve been playing guitar since 1974. Chad Atkins has always been my idol. Music is not easy to play. It is most complicated and wheels was one of my favorite songs. On top of a whole bunch of other ones. I love and miss you Chet Atkins. You are the best solo instrumental guitarist that ever lived may you rest in peace❤️😥🎸🎼🎵🎶🎸
These two together were just dynamite Chet and Paul both god given talent sent to earth to intimidate " us" 😂 brilliant players loved them all my life and although they are both gone still do love them both and thanks so much for posting.
More I listen to his performance the more convinced I am - God given gift for all of us. No doubt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Genius !!!!!!!!!!!!! RIP
Plain answer are you (^:?
I want to leave a thumbs up.. but my favorite number is 12… keep it that way
I've never heard this album. Boy, Chet and his band were on fire for this recording. Guitar players have on and off days, but this is one of the best sessions for Chet and the rest of the guys for sure. Wish I could have been there in the audience.
To be inspired to learn the Guitar you listen to Chet Atkins..Never be another!!
Great Sound! I usually don't care for the albums uploaded from LP, unless from a pristine (usually brand new) LP . . . CD has spoiled me. I know, I've heard all about the loss of really high and low sounds, blah blah blah, but I'm 70 and can't hear all those anyway. I just can't stand any hiss, pops, clicks. This upload is superb. Thanks for the upload.
Best guitar player that ever lived!
Genius. My Hero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RIP Chet Atkins
He was just a simple kid from East Tennessee, but wow what a giant he became.
Still my favorite thumbpicker.
Never heard Chet play so fast and flawless. Better than any studio recording. Many thanks.
Billy Denham yes, but I have over 50 of Chet’s albums and he’s quite flawless nearly always! Love him!
You know studio mistakes can be corrected but in a live performance you only have one chance to get it right. Chet was the master performer.
@@bgdenham Very true. Chet told us that he liked to play things 50 different ways, otherwise he got too predictable. If you take that into consideration as well, he certainly was a master of his craft.
So excellent!
I have never heard such a bright, sonorous and clean Yakety axe anywhere else.
Chet Adkins,Jerry Reed,Roy Clarke,Glen Campbell ,Steve Warner,Mark Knopler, are my most favorite guitarist,Oh merle Travis another great , probably all these others hero's.
Nice to hear this today, with my pickin and studio heros. Just wonderful. Smell the roses, so to speak. Thank you.
His music lives on.........🙏🙏🙏😎😎😎❤️❤️❤️
I challenge anyone to name a more melodical guitarist than the legendary Chet. I can't think of one.
Nico, Today I am a Happy Man. I guess in all these past years I never really looked in the right place. This past week I did. As you are aware, this wonderful LP was only released in Europe (Recorded Live in Paris). Last week I did tap into Discog and found many copies in France, Germany, Sweden, etc. I finally bought a Mint, Mint- copy in Germany. It's now a done deal and hopefully wafting its way to San Diego. What I never understood is why RCA only released this album in Europe considering Chet's position with RCA in the United States. It's not only a phenomenal performance by Chet and his supporting players, it appears to also be a phenomenal quality sound recording. Live recordings can be iffy at best, but the recording engineers at the Olympic Theater that night had their "A" game on! I'm sure Chet had a big hand in that, perfectionist that he was. Nico, thank you so much for bringing this magic recording to light. Chet fans around the world owe you a great deal of gratitude!
This was beyond a shadow of a doubt the best album he ever recorded! There's so many tunes in this album I've heard before, and more that I never knew he recorded, and I just couldn't stop listening to it! ❤
Ridiculously good .
Jamais entendu cet enregistrement ! Merci beaucoup ! Chet The Master ! Certes, d'autres ont une technique encore plus travaillée. Mais ce qui fait de Chet le seul et unique à mes yeux, c'est son feeling ! Ce feeling qui fait passer la technique au second plan...
Bonjour Chet était à Paris invité par Marcel Dadi en 1978 cette album fait partie du spectacle à Olympia
Thanks for cleaning up, digitizing and posting this wonderful show.
Chet has had a big influence on me, the first time I heard Chet playing Swedisch rapsody when I was @ age of 17, then I want to play the guitar too. I studied 12 years classicale guitar en Chet style. He is my hero I own 60 LP' s from Chet and own this LP too. Much of his songs are difficult ( can' t play wit my left thumb on the fretboard), because I have short hands (Chet has big hands), @the age of 70, I 'm listening his albums most every day!
youn are not alone.................. me tooo, every day................ chet is the inspiration............
Wow! The Master...😎😎😎
Phenomenal music and musicians. Chet Atkins was a legendary musician, record producer, recording executive, and an excellent human being. He is still a legend and certified guitar player. Rest in heaven Chester and Leona! Together again never to part!
I consider myself privileged to have seen him once at a little café in downtown Nashville. Have heard many of his recordings - maybe most - but the personal touch in that café still tops everything.
Please excuse me but let me tell you’re a fucking lucky guy !
I know what you mean. Was privileged to see and hear Jerry Reed perform for a small crowd at the Western Kentucky State Fair in 1975. He gave a great show. Tom T. Hall performed at the Porter County State Fair (Valparaiso IN) just a few years before his death. A real gentleman.
I was also a privileged to be in the audience when Ray Stevens gave an outstanding performance at the Holiday Star Theater (now gone) in Merrillville IN in around 2001. He gave all he had and got a standing ovation. We clapped till our arms literally dropped.
There's nothing like seeing them in person, especially at small intimate gathers.
Chet at his flawless best. I'm glad I was on earth to witness his genius live a
few times.
This album is the reason I bought a nylon string guitar when I was 20. I was obsessed for years about trying to nail down his style and technique but realized that this is a very special gift that only few are born with .... I still work on it but It's a lot of fun just to have this on my stereo, soak in that magic
Right. I know what you mean. You have to be born with it. Heredity! I have to laugh at environmentalists, who think that anybody can do anything if he/she just puts in enough hours of practice!
Those with the 'gift' inspire the rest of us to make the most of what we have.😁 I've been at it for 50yrs. (tryin' to make the most of it I mean)
Those who have the gift spend about 8 hours a day more with the things that are hung on your wall
@@daviddawson1718 Yeah, did the 8 hr a day thing for a long time, missed classes, family functions and work many many times.... that's when I came to the realization... mine will never hang on the wall, can't play it on the wall.... lol
his technique IS obtainable..just have to stay with it...his leads are all mostly sweeps and (slower) single line notes..paul yandell (left speaker) (IMO) are bluegrass and country licks and are better than chets..but chet has the arrangements and harmonies perfect.
Excellent!
Many thanks for this upload. I am French and had this LP for years and lost it in moving house. I have tried to play some of those great tunes with tabs for such a long time... this LP has had a huge influence on my playing and my love of fingerpicking and the art of Chet Atkins. Marcel Dadi did a lot to make fingerpicking more popular on France also!!
Marcel was a great guy! Figured things out, then showed us how to play them.
J'étais là et eux aussi...Que de souvenirs.
I still have a couple of Marcel's tutorial DVDs that were copied over from VHS tape.
I've seen him play so many times and I never get tired of it. Thank you for making this available for us.
The MASTER at work.... PRICELESS. thanks so much for posting. I thought I had all his albums..... I was mistaken.
Wow! Didn't know about this gem! One of his best for sure. Thank you for posting it!
My brother saw all three concerts at the Olympia in Paris and was blown away because Chet Atkins played mostly different tunes each evening. It is also noteworthy that so many tunes are played on the acoustic guitar in the style of the "Alone" or "Picking my Way" albums, whereas in the US all the recorded appearances of that period show Chet using the electric guitar a lot more. The reason I think is that Chet Atkins was well advised by Marcel Dadi about the French audience: he introduced Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed's music to the French audience from the early 70's and recorded his 4 first albums until 1979 mostly on acoustic guitars with very little background music, more in plain Merle Travis style, and the French audience of that time much preferred to see the plain "naked" guitar player. So, this is is a unique and extraordinary opportunity to hear Chet Atkins play so many tunes on nylon strings in one concert.
Nail it to the point. THX. Chet is a God gifted artist, no one even close....
I've got the book about Lenny Breau that's called One Long Tune. I actually learned a lot about Chet that I didn't know before from that book. Chet was the consummate musical businessman. I always wondered why Chet never quoted other tunes in the midst of a song. I'm sure now that it's because he knew it would increase the number of people that royalties had to be paid to.
Merci ! J'ai le 33trs de ce spectacle et j'adore !
I have been looking for this album for many years. Thank you, thank you, and thanks again for sharing this amazing collection.
0:11 - Wheels
2:11 - Vincent
5:37 - All Thumbs
9:06 - Copper Kettle
12:25 - Bill Cheatham
15:24 - Cascade
18:00 - You'd be so nice to come home to
22:03 - Snowbird
25:25 - Dizzy Fingers
28:07 - Yakety Axe
30:27 - Peanut Vendor
34:43 - Autumn Leaves
38:15 - When you wish upon a star
41:13 - Blue Angel
43:26 - Recuerdos de la Alhambra
47:35 - If I Fell
48:29 - For No One
49:24 - Something
49:54 - Lady Madonna
51:15 - Charade
54:27 - Black Mountain Rag
57:28 - Drown In My Own Tears
1:00:00 -Drive In
1:02:17 - Trambone
1:02:58 - Hello My Baby
1:03:19 - I'll see you in my dreams
1:03:54 - Super Lick
1:03:58 - Poor people of Paris
1:04:42 - Mr. Sandman
1:05:19 - Wildwood flower
1:06:31 - Freight train
Thank you i searched for that in the comments !!
Thanks!
Thank You Rajdeep👌
Thank you, forever grateful.....
Thanks for uploading this. I have heard a few of these pieces on "Best of Chet live on the road" but a lot is new. Nice to hear Chet play these tunes live.
Great upload! Thank you very much!!
greatest ever
Great album Chet Atkins was the best sub to your channel like 55.
each performance he gave outdoors _
Only 45'55 I was in a boat looking at someone 😌
great stuff..paul yandell is in the left speaker..he was phenominal...
you prolly dont care but if you are bored like me during the covid times then you can watch all the new movies on Instaflixxer. Have been streaming with my gf for the last few months =)
@Gavin Hank yea, have been using Instaflixxer for since december myself =)
i love it dear lennon
Wish it was a video!
Me too 🙂
Chet said he did his "fingerstyle" guitar technique, because he "didn't know any better." After awhile, he began realizing some of those solo stylings he did were originally done by guitarists and groups with multiple guitars playing at once. But he could copy "multiple guitarists" playing those songs -- by himself. "Didn't know any better," huh? Well I've never heard "any better" either.
For the better part of the past year I have searched for this LP, but I’m beginning to believe that it really doesn’t exist.
I’ve been on some many wild goose chases. At one point l heard that was only released in Europe, specifically France. On. visits to all the major vintage record shops in Paris & Bordeaux and in Germany & the UK l’ e had zero luck!
So does anyone out there know that this incredible recording exists in LP, cassette, reel to reel or 8-track? As you might surmise, I’m beyond desperate! Come on true Chet fans help me out here!
This recording comes from a double LP, Frensh press, RCA PL42939
@@NicoBorger I was in Paris about a month ago and I searched almost every vintage record store I could find. Needless to say, I came up empty. Nico, do you happen to know where I could get a decent copy of this LP? Like so many others have commented, this recording represents to me one of the Best Live performances I've heard. The actual recording quality is also amazing. As you are probably aware, most live recordings can be hit or miss!....this one hits the quality mark for me. Do you know if they released this recording in any other format, like reel to reel, cassette or 8-track? I'm really desperate to find any decent copy I can. Nico if you know where I might find this LP, I will be eternally greatful!
@@georgeandrus3500 You can buy the LP at Discogs. www.discogs.com/sell/release/4802316?ev=rb
Now, this is real music. I hate the shreeky, squawkie noise that other musicians crank out today.
fantastic quality, great stuff. thanks for this upload! I'd love to know the names of some of the tracks he played that night. Any chance to get a tracklist?
Wow I should've really read the video description before posting, huh? Thanks so much for sharing!
Nico Borger : Hi Nico. Just wanted to point out that Wildwood Flower was played in between Mister Sandman and Freight Train in the final medley.
Chet superb as usual. Did not Henry Strezlicki tour as one of the Blue Boys with Jim Reeves in Norway and Sweden?
Yes and that video is still available
@@joyvee1952 thanks. I do have the concert.
The purposefully out of tune harmonies on Peanut Vendor crack me up so much
Thanks! How did you get such a clear sound? Is this recorded from the LP or digitally available? My version has lots of noise in it.
It was recently digitized from LP using Adobe audition.
@@NicoBorger it sounds great. Thank you for uploading. Chet at his best.
Wheel's?
Chet singin' good too. He almost told that Dolly joke...."she came from the hills of East Tennessee and brought them with her!"
F F which one was it? Maybe the one about a Mosquito! Do you believe that Mosquito bit her on the arm... 😎😎😎👀👀👀😂😂😂
@@rodcrawford5547 Starts about 53:50
Imagine a job where you do absolutely nothing for years, and then get put up for promotion!
don't get better, most copied guitarist ever.
Chets trying to sound too much like Jerry Reed and his fi-ness is almost gone! Get back on the Gretsch son!
If you said that in person in front of me, your nose would already be broken.