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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 3, 2019 21:59:31 GMT -5
Burrowing around YouTube, this came up. Leo in concert just over two months ago. I keep forgetting that he's pretty much my age, so I shouldn't be surprised that he looks it. (The beard may be the main thing.) But he's clearly still in that geezer somewhere.
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Post by Don Clark on Oct 3, 2019 22:23:16 GMT -5
Oh, he's in there all right. The classic Kottke patterns are there. They haven't changed at all. I saw him back in the early 70s, when he shared a bill with Loggins and Messina. This may be the first I have heard him on 6 strings, was usually a 12. I always liked what he did with "Rings".
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Oct 3, 2019 23:04:27 GMT -5
Still some great playing.
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Post by david on Oct 3, 2019 23:10:26 GMT -5
Unabashed fan here. Aside from revolutionizing steel string guitar (maybe even creating the solo steel string genre), his developments in damping is amazing and impossible (for me) to duplicate.
His dry sense of humor is all a wonderful bonus. I learned this tune from him (from watching the video). Good stuff:
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Post by RickW on Oct 3, 2019 23:55:36 GMT -5
Saw him last year. Still got it going on, for sure. And still just as funny.
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Post by drlj on Oct 4, 2019 8:04:04 GMT -5
Kottke is 74-75 now.
I first saw him at The Quiet Knight in Chicago probably around 1970-71. He was playing a Martin 12 string. I think it was a D-18 12. He kept asking the crowd if anyone had a Gibson B-45 & said he would trade. I had one, but it was home & I wasn’t going to leave to get it.
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Post by dradtke on Oct 4, 2019 8:15:17 GMT -5
Have I told this story here before?
A theatre where I used to work had a very tolerant music policy: if you brought in an album, you could play it even if other people in the shop didn't like it. I was exposed to a lot of new - to me - music there. It's the first place I heard John Prine or Bob Marley.
Then one day someone brought in a Leo Kottke album. It had barely started when some guy in the sound booth came tearing out yelling, "NO KOTTKE!" and ran down to the turntable and took it off. Quite a departure from our standard.
Turns out the guy had been Leo's college roommate, and pretty much listened to Kottke noodle 24/7 for years.
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