The Most Explosive Blues Violin Solo On Film - 'In the Cluster Blues' Mark O'Connor
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Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio on "Mountain Stage"
'In the Cluster Blues' written by Mark O'Connor
FZ: Hearing you play the blues on the violin seems so natural. How long have you been exploring the blues and what do you do or how do you accomplish that sound on the violin?
MOC: Since I was a kid, 11 years-old. I played the blues all the time on my fiddle, and older folks would say, "how is that boy playing the blues! I'll be darned!" The blues though is what I heard, or more to the point, what I felt. It spoke to how hard a time I had dealing with stuff. It felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. I am quite serious given my family situation - raging alcoholic/abusive father, a dying mother and severe bullying at school. It was only my music that saved me my life, I can promise you that.
FZ: In this version of "In the Cluster Blues" you really go for it with the
wails, screams, struggles...a lot of intensity!! Where do you find that inspiration, your childhood? Did you have to dig deep, and/or is there an experience you think about to create this kind of expression?
MOC: Well there is the childhood, which parts of it I will never escape completely. But some other very painful things have developed since then. The name of the tune... I named it "in the cluster." That is specific. Have you ever heard of cluster migraine? I have a chronic case, a curse really. The head pain comes in "clusters" and during those times, it is relentless pain. Look it up! Dubbed the suicide headache! I pray that no one experiences these. My ability to play this way like I do, is channeling the pain that I have and forcing it from myself. The screams, the wails. And then the loneliness of the melody at the end when the pain finally subsides. The blues is my autobiography and salvation. Overcoming great odds to make it and survive. Just to make music and please the others around me you know. That is what I was meant to do, and I needed that in my life.
Hot Swing Trio (2004)
Mark O'Connor - Violin
Frank Vignola - Guitar
Jon Burr - Bass
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I did a search for violin blues, and man oh man did I find it.
@johnnyzhang3654
3 жыл бұрын
same
@pinkmist6810
Жыл бұрын
Same
@danielofthepeople3632
Жыл бұрын
Same
@scooterjones5543
Жыл бұрын
Same omg
@LeonardoVitor
11 ай бұрын
Same
The beauty of the blues is that you can play it as simple or complicated as you want.
@ajm2360
2 жыл бұрын
100% I can play a simple 12 bar progression on my keyboard and then go into a jazz improvisation and go back again without straying too far from the original melody. Best genre ever!!
@patriciajrs46
Жыл бұрын
Your soul brought ypu here.
Mark's fiddle sounds like the heart-cries from a tormented soul who cannot voice the pain felt within. He's got soul!
All three of these guys are real masters of their instruments
A shoutout fro Frank Vignola on the guitar, another genius on his instrument.
I don't say this often... I'm a musician of some 50 years... and this is some of the finest musicianship I've heard in a very long time. All three of them. Simply superb.
When you’re playin’ the blues, you still call it the fiddle!!!
It's not just Mark's playing that I love. Or that our childhoods were very similar. Or that I, too, used to suffer with migraines . . . I love his inclusiveness and how he spreads the Love around. Always showcasing other players, his wife (Maggie) - and including other folks' kids with the method for learning and playing he developed Not to mention documenting and journaling it all so that it becomes a part of Music History - a legacy for future generations of players And he's not a toad - he's a nice guy - with a sense of humour. I am just tickled by him (like an older sister) - and his playing and the endeavours I'm aware of - bring me an enormous sense of Joy. A Life well-lived - is the best "revenge" for those early years . . .
Around the time this was filmed, I saw MO'C's Hot Swing Trio play every night at the Iridium jazz club in NYC for a full week. Special guests included Chris Thile, Rushad Eggleston, and Jane Monheit. The sets were unreal! No two performances of "In the Cluster Blues" were alike; every violin solo was as fierce and inventive as this one. Mark's a genius; there's no other word for it!
@luchadorito
3 жыл бұрын
Wait THAT Rushad Eggleston? Chords on a cello while wearing nothing but a fairy hat Rushed Eggleston?
"Since I was a kid, 11 years-old. I played the blues all the time on my fiddle, and older folks would say, "how is that boy playing the blues! I'll be darned!""
@drubydanoobie7476
10 жыл бұрын
how bout that bow in a bag . . .
@pchamney
9 жыл бұрын
This was an eye-opener. Wonderful stuff!
@SugahShy
9 жыл бұрын
Give us instruments and we will play what is in us to play. ;)
@Jeremy-yr8yg
9 жыл бұрын
SugahShy Amen!
@ericconnor8251
9 жыл бұрын
Mark O'Connor You are a god of music walking amongst mere mortal men. I bow to you, sir! We're not worthy!
Frank Vignola - one of the true great guitarists of our time! Awesome!
Probably one of the best performances I've ever seen. Tears of joy.
This is as close to perfection as we're likely to ever hear.
That stand up bass is da' boss! The fiddle sounds so lonesome. He can make it cry. How cool is that?
Very nice to see very olde fiddle and doublebass instruments being played. Great gig 🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶
Man being a blues guitar player I never really thought that the blues wouldn’t sound so great on violin. Boy was I really wrong. This dude sounds amazing!!!
@Mikri90
10 ай бұрын
Yeah it can sound really good, and also you can hook it up to a guitar amp and do a sort of "pretend" guitar solo with some overdrive. It acts like a guitar that's being bowed rather than plucked.
The Devil may have gone down to Georgia, but when he saw this, he decided to just stay out of the way!
I've never heard the blues on guitar like that. Wow. I play guitar and wow. The violin is so simply beautiful.
@addyn25
7 жыл бұрын
i play both, and both for a while, and i've never heard the blues so differently played on the guitar. had a weird classical touch and a jazzy vibe
@rdalin
5 жыл бұрын
That's Frank Vignola, a great jazz guitarist.
@patriciajrs46
Жыл бұрын
You need to listen again to Lucille! The guitar.
It's not very often that musically, I get a "What the heck have I been missing out on moment", But this was one of those times indeed! I swear I thought you were gonna saw that fiddle in half! :) Amazing! Thank you, just for being you.
This is jaw-dropping virtuosity from all three.
I am going back to my room to practice.
@daymi7300
6 жыл бұрын
Daniel Trickey you better
@K131399
6 жыл бұрын
the beauty of youtube is when you think you're really doing it on another level there's these monsters to politely explain that in fact you are not lol
@Alex-is8hk
4 жыл бұрын
Daniel Trickey better get your 40 hours a day in.
@qwargy
3 жыл бұрын
One of the the best musicians on the planet! A genius’ genius.
Blues on a classical way. So good!
Mark is one of the very best musicians alive today...………...
All I can add is, " Wow.....Wow".... an absolutely incredible trio performing an amazing piece of music. I can listen to this all day long.
It just never ever, ever, gets old! Lord have mercy! In the deep south there's a saying which applies here, Mark just puts his foot in it!!
This, children, is what you call TRUE art.
Feel that in my soul. Beautiful.
That violin was totally abused, and it loved every second of it! Amazingly spectacular job to all three of you!
Now there's a man truly possessed by the music.
Good god, man! That solo is unspeakable! You just blew the blues dictionary out the door! You laid down an encyclopedia of blues language never before heard on a violin! Incredible.....
almost incomprehensible this mans talent
At 4:57 Mark's fiddle sounds like Bessie Smith....totally off the chain! Three masters at work!
You can always tell when those who have dedicated their entire lives and beings to absolutely perfect what they do best: make instruments sound as they did on this performance. Been following Mr. O' Conner since first seeing Strength in Numbers on Austin City Limits over 20 years ago. Pure Magic! God, how envious I am of them; Larry King always said "Talent will out." He was 100% correct. The quality always comes to a fore ans makes itself known. Thank you for sharing. Bless.
It all makes perfect sense once you read his explanation - I did not know this story of his life and childhood. The intensity of emotion that pours from him during this can only come from true feeling - it can not be faked or performed as "showmanship". Thank you Mark for being so open and honest with your fans and thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
I love the Blues and I love this performance. It makes me feel as If I'm walking down a dusty road in my native North Carolina and I'm swaying from side to side.
All three are great musicians. The violin solo is an explosion of dramatic blues beauty!
I niece God gives every one their gifts and talents. Some get an extra dose of a gift to cope with trauma of pain. He found a Saving Grace, in music to escape the inner turmoil and the outer chaos. Listen to these cats make some sultry music.
I saw Mr. O'Connor some years back in Santa Fe, NM. I play a 5-string viola…or maybe… if Mark play the violin then I just hold my viola under my chin…"a wishing" I could learn to play, Lordy that man excites the air inside his fiddle. ℗.
I had the opportunity to interview him..1983?....a genius talent...and he embarrassed me so much..I went to Salt Lake and became the most hated luthier multi instrumentalist in Kanada..but Mark is a landmark in musician creators..thank GOD.
I was very fortunate to watch and hear Mark O'Connor (Fiddle), Tony Rice (Flatpicking the Martin Guitar) , Bella Fleck (on the 5-string Banjo) , "The" Jerry Douglas (on the Dobro), and Sam Bush on the Mandolin). They played at a Bluegrass festival (Horsepens 40) back when they first got together. The only way to describe these guys is "Magic".....
@Hapax007
6 жыл бұрын
I was fortunate to have seen ( and heard ) Bella Fleck playing with The Georgia Symphony a few years back. What a masterful performance that was !!
This should have at least 10 million views by now. Mark O'Connor - you are a bloody legend. Great stuff!
Incredible playing by one of my heroes, Mark O'Connor. Love Frank Vignola on guitar, too- and the bassist- sorry I don't recognize. But I've seen Mark and Frank both, just not together, and this is a treat!
oh wow just the way how those strings resonate with one another is just beautiful
Holy Shit! Hendrix alive in the violin, along with Jeff Beck, too. Stunning.
@user-qr8ki8ue4i
9 жыл бұрын
larry geetar No surprise, then, that they're (Hendrix and O' Connor) both Seattle born and bred. :)
Mark O'Connor plays violin with his bow, and suddenly turns it into a sword to break the chains like a true artist, still keeping the act like a pro.
Mark. I've been rewriting this comment for a while. That out of body experience when you look at what you are playing and think..."Is it me ...or is it you"... fucking love it.
@nickmarble7226
4 жыл бұрын
HUH?
i've been listening to this since i picked up a guitar, 10 years ago. this piece of joyful blues still is on my side
I played a bar in Plentywood, Montana called the Blue Moon back in the early nineties and the owners were sure proud of Mark!
Three great musicians here and they don't get better. Amazing is the word.
Wow! Hottest fiddle I ever heard!
My God,I've only been you tubing for about 6months now and have been so impressed and grateful for finding all these gems after all these years
What can I say? A sterling performance by three of the most fantastic musicians I have ever heard. Wonderful!
What is the melting point on a violin string? You must have been right on the edge. Outstanding !!
@MrPHart
4 жыл бұрын
Na its air cooled, maybe a little help with sweat cooled also. He might think about Arm Wrestling for a little extra $$'s as a sideline.
So good! Mark makes me emote like I do with stephane grapelli's shredding... also, Jon Burr's tone is the best
It’s wonderful when three great musicians with a lot of humor find together like here. Wow.
SMILES and Tears of JOY!!! Dang that's AWESOME!!!!
Unbelieveable! Says a lot for the quality of the strings that he didn't break one!
I can feel the message in the music. Wish I could produce tunes that were from the depths of the human soul like this.
Nothing to cry about
Tan solo el inicio te indica lo bella que es esta melodía 💚💚😄
Enough to bring the Devil to tears for what could have been but never was!
Superb O'Connor as always!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful....absolutely wonderful.
put a big smile on my face ... brilliant stuff ... cheers
Simply WOW!!! Thanks Mark and Band
Love this!
Beyond words... been a fan for since forever!
That was awesome, beautiful blues.
takes me to a glorious place , my dad on accordion and mouth organ ( harmonica). sittin in the dairy, wow , mr oconnor, molten music drips emotion around my memories.
WOW! Just WOW. Love it!!!
Wow! Who saw that coming!!!! Awesome!
Awesome! A great legend O'Connor.
Soul crumbling..... Maestros... :D
Just plain talent. Thanks for posting.
Music for the soul, thanks for all you do Mark.
Wow! Blown away! completely beautiful!
With passion. Feeling. The way it is supposed to be. This man is a jem
Totally Killed It!!! You can make that fiddle squeal!!! Best I've heard!!! Ever!
Very nice indeed. Kinda reminds me of Sugar Cane Harris. Played with Zappa on Directly From My Heart to You back in the day. ❤
Gentlemen, That was awesome
One of my other favorite solo's out there!! Thanks again Mark!
!!!! fantastic !
Incredible! Thank you so much for recording and sharing this!!!
Awesome!!❤️
Three divine musicians!!!
Oh MY. This is quite outstanding.
Beautiful! Bravo Mark! Bravi tutti!
Yowzer. Don't just listen to it (while web surfing), watch it. Mark cranks it up to infinite starting at about 4:56... incredible! I really have to go hear/see him in concert someday soon. Loved his music since he was a whipper snapper. Last saw him on the Grisman tour in Los Angeles (UCLA, I believe) in summer 77 or 79 but only on guitar. What's wonderful about Mark's playing is that virtuosity is not a substitute or mask for feeling. He has them both in spades.
Totally mind blowing blues from a master!!!.
Great sounding trio.
An outstanding musician!
fantastic!!!
It was a privilege to watch and listen to this video.
beautiful, now part of my morning mix.
And he's sitting there giggling and I'm thinking, oh hell yes, anything you say, master!
Thank you for all the wonderful music!!
Really great jam!!! Thank you for putting it up!
AWESOME!
more than awesome...
Love it Thank you