It would be near impossible to find another acoustic guitar player/ singer that was as dedicated to his craft and his performances for the audience as Michael Hedges! A master craftsman on a higher plane than most others. Truly it was just as entertaining to watch him play as it was listening to him play. So thankful that these videos of his performances are being shared. We lost his talent and magic way too soon...

RIP Michael...you are dearly missed!

Not only was he an absolute monster on guitar but he was a fantastic singer too!

This guy was a pure channel. What a gift from the Universe. Thanks for all your beautiful Music, Michael, you are truly missed. R.I.P.

One of the greatest guitar players for sure.

Has anyone ever enjoyed playing and singing as much as this? Such unbridled joy.

@belascialoja4812

Жыл бұрын

_Maybe_ Tommy Emmanuel. When even the legs become part of things, it's good.

@gmcmurt

3 ай бұрын

@@belascialoja4812 i "like" tommy but his originality isnt anything in the same realm as michael

@gmcmurt

3 ай бұрын

from someone who has seen tommy 5x live

It’s been over 25 years and I still miss you Michael! 🙏🏼

To be able to make a guitar produce all of these sounds is absolute mastery. And his vocals are essentially perfect too.

just discovered this guy like 20 minutes ago and i keep on listening. just amazing

@chaplainmattsanders4884

5 жыл бұрын

Alex. welcome to the amazing musical world of MH. Fantastic.

@Lasombrosidad

4 жыл бұрын

Me too I got hooked by his music.

@DiGiTaLdAzEDM

4 жыл бұрын

Hedges was an amazing talent--left us far too soon. Check out this magical piece of guitar wizardry if you haven't already. And he does a great version of "All Around The Watchtower". kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZoRtz8-TqarIZNY.html

@erikpaterson1404

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah man, I'm here reading comments years later. What a huge loss to the world of music and the planet. What a cool kid and some of the most beautiful sounds

@guitarvocs

2 жыл бұрын

@@chaplainmattsanders4884 I am jealous of two year ago you, having this amazing treasure trove of music and performances. We lost him too soon, but there are these amazing videos documenting his genius, his playfulness, his balls-out ferocity.

I can't believe how crisp the sound and clear the video is! One in a million.

@puremassacre9

6 жыл бұрын

I was thinkin same

@johnnny5veeoxx

8 ай бұрын

crisp is the right word, as it is ainsaley on point. You can only imagine being in front of the guitar and speakers themselves.

Sad he's gone. I never got to see him live. such a good energy and enjoyment of music.

RIP Michael. So blessed to have seen you many times. Miss you and the gift of music you were for all!

you can tell he really enjoyed playing this song here, awesome natural sound on the guitar a lot of energy.

Thank you for this! I remember meeting him and his girlfriend several times in the Bay Area in the early 1990s, as my boyfriend at the time was a popular guitarist and all of the guitarists knew each other. My boyfriend would sing this to me thanks to Michael. This man was a force.

great guy! he still drives me crazy with his talent. An true arttist

2018 and still the best cover

He is fantastic improvisator and one of top guitarists! His fingers extract from guitar's strings fiery arrows flying into our ears, souls, hearts, into our brain! Love his talent so much!

Why oh why have I never come across this clip? Amazing stuff and thank you so much for putting it online for us Michael Hedges fans to enjoy and marvel at. And of course, to mourn the loss of a truly great musician and composer.

He reminds me so much of this Bass/guitarist I played with in the late eighties. I was good friends with him. We could improvise complex jams. But he had that same awkward, off kilter personality. The friend I knew had schizophrenia. He was nearly the same way. Gentle, introspective and had the ability to see things in non-typical ways. And without being aggressive about it, he did not care if people thought he was strange.

woooo i didn't know that he could sing this amazing .. wow he seems to have so much fun with it all it's sad that he passed away

I remember the first time I heard Michael on N.P.R. radio back in the early 80's. I was absolutely mesmerized, listening to Arial Boundaries.That was my introduction to Windham Hill records, and it was a total revelation to me.

Absolutely incredible.

Favourite video on the you tube.

I remember seeing his recital at the Peabody Conservatory of music in Baltimore, Maryland. His major was flute and his minor -guitar. It was amazing - he was amazing.

@Friendofstfrank

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but in college he played the piccolo-not flute.,

When you love a cover more than the original...

@bufatutuagonistes8876

5 жыл бұрын

His All Along the Watchtower is up there with Hendricks--which even Dylan thought was better than the original...or so someone says. Buffalo Stance? Who needs Neena Cherry.

@mississippijohnfahey7175

4 жыл бұрын

First version I ever heard--I said "I've got to learn that!" people who knew the song heard me play it and said "you like that song?"

@noahgorman2168

3 жыл бұрын

thats every song that michael touches...

@hamupinhere

3 жыл бұрын

It's funny, I like a lot of classic top 40 from the 80's, but 'She Drives Me Crazy' by Fine Young Cannibals never really did it for me, for whatever reason. Then I heard this and it like flipped a switch inside my head or something.

I think…..yep I enjoyed that more than the original. Gonna be stuck in my head for days now. 👏

She Drives Me Crazy💫lyrics I can't stop the way I feel Things you do don't seem real Tell me what you've got in mind 'Cause we're running out of time Won't you ever set me free? Waiting around's killing me She drives me crazy Like no one else She drives me crazy I can't help myself I can't get any rest People say I'm obsessed Everything you say is lies But to me that's no surprise What I had for you was true Things go wrong, they always do She drives me crazy Like no one else She drives me crazy I can't help myself She drives me crazy I can't help myself I can't help myself Songwriters: David Steele / Roland Gift

I got to see him at the Maintenance Shop in the memorial union hall, Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. What a show and I loved to watch him play his harp guitar. Couldn't believe it when he died way before his time. A loss of a true genius.

Incandescent from the start. I miss you Michael, like everyone else on earth.

mike was a talented saint!

Genius!!!

I saw him years ago with CSN at a summer concert in Kansas City. Great talent.

This is a brilliant version of one of my favourite songs covered by one of my favourite artists. Thanks for keeping it around, and thanks to type3secretion for uploading :D

The joy of music

I'm just learning about him recently. Wow! I really missed the opportunity to see him live, or when he was alive. At least now I can see these great recordings. Great artists are always missed.

absolutely raw

Le plus grand musicien de tous les temps !!!

absolutely perfect!

Wow remember his cover of buffalo stance i stumbled across few years ago this is just as good

I wish this never ended! Rest Easy up there Michael!

So rhythmic and full, rich in it's sound! What a gem, thank you for the upload.

Absolutely, one of the greatest players. I miss him dearly.

I ‘ve always loved how he seems to leave the guitar play itself, while he does amazing things with his voice.

Just wowww

I wish I could do anything as well as Mike could play guitar.

@chaplainmattsanders4884

5 жыл бұрын

verbaljudogrip. Interesting comment. I hope you found your own area of brilliance. It’s there. God bless.

I'll be damned, this man was supremely talented. Mind blowing cover.

Only heard this cover by him unreal buffalo stance and now this two 80s classics quality

That's the most "regular" haircut I've seen on him in any video. Far too conventional for this musical genius. Love MH! And thanks for all your MH material on YT T3S.

8 years after this being uploaded I keep finishing myself listening to these recordings.

Now I am just Crazy, I can't help myself!

@type3secretion I can't describe how alive I feel hearing and SEEING Michael this winter. I keep on discovering more tunes I never knew of -- after I had heard him in 1979 - 1982 at the New Varsity in Palo Alto, before Windham Hill - I thought I had discovered an incredible musician and he just keeps on evolving. Face Yourself - with twenty seconds "GONE" - haunts. And the interview at turning 40 and facing death - you know where I am going. THANK YOU

I saw him at Coconut Grove one time and it was a perfect night.

Listeng to him is a magical experience

Guitar masters enthrall me. I am just a mediocre, self-taught guitarist who is lucky enough to write songs that people like. BUT this man is definitely a guitar genius. I wish I could play like this. (This is a great cover of this tune.)

This is Amazing. This guy is not from earth

Genius.

Bad ass!!! Digging those crazy wear pants

We are here Ya BOY 😜

Just Clicked on this-i-knew Mike when he was going to PU in the 70's-dated him a bit-I am female.-longer hair-very quiet giggled a lot-Jeff Bullard, Jeff Phillips, and Donne Record also in band. Ione Dillon also-she became Ms Philllips university in '73-her brother was in Ozark Mountain Daredevils-did the o' o' Reilly auto song. Mike could play guitar with his toes in college but his favorite instrument then was the piccolo. He died in a single car auto wreck-snow and ice-didn't find him for 3 days-blizzard weather. . Always wondered if they had found him sooner if he would have lived. father was music teacher at Enid High school. Hedges' had this brick two story house.Mike roomed on campus with Donnie. Anyway-he'd be 66 now.

Ty and JA were here ........ ya boiiiìiiiii

lyrics are nice to know, when you are singing (it/them) lol!!! okay I have written the words above, before listening/ watching the whole video it is so sad , you have left us so early your singing is just quiet amazing, just as your guitarplaying always was... maybe we all meet in heaven some day... I really hope so!!!

GOD Bless who ever got this for us for type3secretion! Thanks type!

Been a Hedges fan since his first album way back then. Still think he's a genius. This cover is an example. After years of looking for his stuff, somehow this eluded me. Of the three versions of this song I've now heard, this is Grammy quality in my humble opinion. He's just so damn expressive, wholistically, with his voice, and with his guitar. I mean the sounds that he coaxes out of this pop? type song on his guitar are simply heavenly. His words strike truer than the writer. Thanks to t3s again.

Oh yeah I love this song, Thanks again for sharing!!!

Best cover in my opinion

Great Work ---------From Sri Lanka

Great talent!

Riding the Hedges , rightover the Top, flipping my kind of Crazy! Strawberries Bluegrass was a Smash with Hedges at El Cap!

Wow! A Lost Genius.....Awesome!

Legend. RIP Michael

I just discovered this dude… wow this guy is bad … dude can play that guitar and sing… really a unique twist… dude is an original bad ass

Absolute god on that guitar. What a talent.

So that’s what the lyrics are! Nice interpretation

Wow. Just wow

Smashing!

Wow ...: I can just imagine me what he could have done with one of those TC Helicon vocal & guitar effects unit ... 🙏🏽

Good man keep it up

I used to use Ariel boundaries to sell really high end stereos way back then. He's amazing

Thanks!

He really nailed the audio quality too

Some people feel music more than the rest of us… even though we really believe we feel it.

I just be crazy, that Lazy Chair is just is not mine, now I am trying No backseat driving!

Like no one else...

@abakashi From John Stropes' website: CCDF#AD I just wish I could find some tab for this! Can't believe it hasn't been tabbed out! If anyone has it, please please let me know! Would be eternally grateful!

Wow. The hiddenTreasures you can find on KZread.

RIP good buddy.

Perfeito. Se tivesse acompanhamento de bateria e guitarra ficaria mais perfeito ainda.

Tuning: C2C3D3F#3A3D4 Chords: 2 x 4 3 0 0 7 x 9 8 0 0 11 x 12 x 0 0 9 x 11 x 0 0 Bridge: 2 2 x x x x 0 x x x x x x 7 x 6 x x x 0 12 13 12 x x 0 12 12 12 x x 0 10 10 10 x Not perfect but pretty close IMO ;)

Now that's how to cover a song

Micheal, Micheal... pay attention.... E,A,D,G,B,and E again.

I Play It Well 48 years Guitar Who Am I I Like NO One Else!

"Things you do don't seem real"...

holy fuck, so good. Amazinh

Nice zubbas. Love the MH.

Fuck me, who the hell is this guy!? This is evocative as hell.

anyone do the tabs for this by chance??

yes

Bad Ass

Totally, unsure, if he is a ex-Hippy just an incredible performer I miss. Know he had that period where hair was there!

@ronward3949

2 жыл бұрын

He demonstrated Talent in every action on Stage, engaging his audiences.

it reminds me of the version of human nature john mayer played at MJs memorial...are those the same chords in the beginning?