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Richard smith has some magic fingers. I routinely watch the video of him playing the Entertainer with Tommy Emmanuel watching.

Interesting sidenote is that Martin Taylor plays a Fender.

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am Richard smith has some magic fingers. I routinely watch the video of him playing the Entertainer with Tommy Emmanuel watching.

Interesting sidenote is that Martin Taylor plays a Fender.

Actually, Martin Taylor plays a Peerless. I know because I have one on order.

mickey wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:45 am

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am Richard smith has some magic fingers. I routinely watch the video of him playing the Entertainer with Tommy Emmanuel watching.

Interesting sidenote is that Martin Taylor plays a Fender.

Actually, Martin Taylor plays a Peerless. I know because I have one on order.

PeMaMT-03.jpg

Nice-, happy NGD. I did check him out and he's got some fenders too

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:46 am

mickey wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:45 am

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am Richard smith has some magic fingers. I routinely watch the video of him playing the Entertainer with Tommy Emmanuel watching.

Interesting sidenote is that Martin Taylor plays a Fender.

Actually, Martin Taylor plays a Peerless. I know because I have one on order.

PeMaMT-03.jpg

Nice-, happy NGD. I did check him out and he's got some fenders too

Martin has a bunch of guitars, but the only one that has ever made a "Martin Taylor Signature Model" is Peerless.
There is even a video on youtube about his collection.

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am
Interesting sidenote is that Martin Taylor plays a Fender.

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:46 am

mickey wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:45 am

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am Richard smith has some magic fingers. I routinely watch the video of him playing the Entertainer with Tommy Emmanuel watching.

Interesting sidenote is that Martin Taylor plays a Fender.

Actually, Martin Taylor plays a Peerless. I know because I have one on order.

PeMaMT-03.jpg

Nice-, happy NGD. I did check him out and he's got some fenders too

Well, just got off the phone and the Peerless Maestro Martin Taylor Signature will be on Fedex headed towards Wausau TODAY!

mickey wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 1:43 pm Well, just got off the phone and the Peerless Maestro Martin Taylor Signature will be on Fedex headed towards Wausau TODAY!

Fantastic, looking forward to a NGD thread - you have not had one of those in awhile.

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am Richard smith has some magic fingers. I routinely watch the video of him playing the Entertainer with Tommy Emmanuel watching.

I love the way Tommy bows at the end.

mickey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 7:39 am

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am Richard smith has some magic fingers. I routinely watch the video of him playing the Entertainer with Tommy Emmanuel watching.

I love the way Tommy bows at the end.

That's the one. So many mind blowing things happening, but for one the progression from 1:44-1:48 or so doesn't seem like it should be humanly possible. I wonder how many times he's practiced that.

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:55 pm

That's the one. So many mind blowing things happening, but for one the progression from 1:44-1:48 or so doesn't seem like it should be humanly possible. I wonder how many times he's practiced that.

Probably not.
The story about Richard is that his dad was a wannabe thumbpicker. One day when Richard's age was in the single digits, his dad came home from work and found
young Richard had gotten out dad's Gretsch and was playing along with all of dad's record collection (Chet, Merle Travis. Jerry Reed, etc.) and by age 11 Richard was
sharing the stage of the Royal Albert Hall with Chet. There is a recording of that on youtube somewhere.

Richard it like a human recording device. He can hear someone play something exactly once & play it back to them!

But I'll tell you, if half dozen guys are standing around BSing, telling jokes, arguing sports, etc. Somebody will always have to explain the jokes to Richard.

Congrats on the new Peerless Mickey. I hope to get to see it someday.

tonebender wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 8:10 pm Congrats on the new Peerless Mickey. I hope to get to see it someday.

Thanks Jeff. But I don't have it yet. It got into FedEx hands this afternoon about 5pm your time,
I should see it Friday morning. And it is a "new to me" guitar, as they say in the car business "pre-owned."
But it appears to be in 99.9% of new condition.
I'm looking forward to it as it is either an acoustic or electric depending on how you want to use it.
You don't see a whole lot of all solid wood archtops these days.

Incidentally, you wouldn't want to be here today! Tropical storm Mindy was named about 4pm today and
made landfall slightly east of Panama City about 6:30ish.

Of everything Richard plays, this is probably my favorite:



Wish I could play it!

A guy named martin taylor who plays guitar?
No wonder I've never heard of him. it's like he designed his whole life to be google proof.