Kaki King @ the Showbox

[rwx]

Last night I went to the Kaki King show at the showbox, and it was pretty epic. She's a guitar virtuoso who used to be a NYC Subway Busker, and is just covered in raw talent. She plays a bunch of songs using tap-style playing, which is something that I'm not familiar with, but sounds pretty awesome -- she's the first woman named a Guitar God by Rolling Stone Magazine.

Here's an example:

It was a great night. Met up with rimrunner, just_aims, nihil_duce, and m_cobweb beforehand for dinner at the Pike Place brewery. The brewery has recently started having some food that isn't cooked in beer. Places where they have beer in almost everything is a particular madness in greater brewpubbia, aka the pacific northwest.

She has a new album out, I bought it today:



Dreaming of Revenge, Kaki King

It was a really awesome show, I was in that weird sort of sleepless state one gets from insomnia. It's that fight club moment of not being really awake, but not being asleep either. Got to work on that, although I successfully slept in until 8am today.

Comments

[wishme.livejournal.com]

if you like her, check out leo kottke if you haven't already

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Michael Hedges!!!!

[rwx.livejournal.com]

yeah, i try to avoid that sort of thing.

[zenscribe.livejournal.com]

I had NO idea a guitar could be played like that.

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

That fucking rocks. Thank you for sharing.

[teh-dirty-robot.livejournal.com]

If you like Kaki King, try Preston Reed--he was doing the overhand percussion guitar first and somehow never really got recognition.:)

[brassratgirl.livejournal.com]

that's awesome, it reminds me of some early Ani Difranco (playing a style that I think Ani mostly pioneered on the modern folk circuit?) except in waaaay longer stretches.

[brassratgirl.livejournal.com]

eg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAX1fnykxso

similar end sound (with a backup band) but totally different style, pretty crazy.

stanley jordan

[vstraylight.livejournal.com]

This guy is the master of guitar tapping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeXQz_k20YI&feature=related

Also check out people playing a Chapman Stick. This instrument was designed to be played with the tapping style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JjimMO2SdE