Bert Jansch: Magical Concert
This is a LONG one but a magic concert..
Bert Jansch – 60th birthday concert
By Nick Campling:
Make a cup of coffee, pour a glass of wine or whatever you fancy and settle down for an hour of great guitar from the UK. This video celebrates the 60th birthday of one of the pioneers; the late Bert Jansch.
“Bert Jansch, legendary songwriter and guitarist, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential musicians of all time. Since the mid-1960s, generation after generation have been held spellbound by his extraordinary ground-breaking guitar playing and classic emotive songs.
The likes of Jimmy Page, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Johnny Marr, Bernard Butler and Beth Orton have all been devotees, and now yet another new generation of musicians and fans, led by Devendra Banhart, are discovering Jansch for themselves.” www.bertjansch.com
On this video, he brings friends and fellow pickers to the stage including Ralph McTell to Johnny Marr.
If you’re short of time, cut in to 17 minutes in where Bert plays the tune that first started me and many others out to play the guitar: Davy Graham’s iconic tune “Angie” or “Anji
Here's the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n8cxvzol3E
Author: Robert Harris
