Doyle Dykes at the Merle Travis Music Center, the home of the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame. He's truly a monster guitar player! I enjoy his stories too, so I didn't edit out his comments before the 2 songs.
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@jamesmcmanamy47043 жыл бұрын
Think about what Doyle's brain does; it remembers the notes, sends messages to his fingers to play them, keeps track of the timing, gets ready for the next note/notes, listens to the audience and keeps him standing up, breathing, etc. The sheer volume and frequency of what he accomplishes is nothing short of amazement.
@general5104 Жыл бұрын
I've sat and enjoyed bands, danced enjoying bands, played in bands (just filling in while the individual member went to the bathroom and came back.), from the ripe old age of 16, on up till in my upper 30's. I've enjoy-joyed sitting in the audience, listening to Dolly Parton (one of my favorites), and a local concert at a amusement park where I was AWE-STRUCK when Imma Jean did her song, "SWEET THING," and I've been in "Boots Randolphf's club in Nashville, listening to his Yackety Sax, LIVE on stage, but when Doyle Dykes came to GraceWorks Church, Chattanooga, as a favor to his friend Dr. Dennis Newman, our pastor and did a service while Dennis was out sick, the QUALITY and REVERANCE this man showed God, was astounding. You knew God was in this man's Life! God has blessed him immeasurably. I play the guitar and understand its concept and what it can do. Doyle Dykes pushes the limits of all it's properties...lets just say, I consider him THE best guitarist in THE WORLD! (He's right there with Roy Clark!) You can FEEL the Love flowing out of that instrument, as Doyle pours his spirit thru it !!! THAT'S DOYLE DYKES !!!!
@stevesposato9124 Жыл бұрын
Doyle came to our church, as he was friends with our Pastors and he gave a concert. I had the privilege and honor to meet him and spend time with him. He is a wonderful and fantastic individual. What truly blessed and gifted person God uses in a mighty way.
@andrewfischer5562 жыл бұрын
While George showed us how to make a guitar weep and cry. Doyle shows us how to make a guitar sing. Great musicianship and I hope to see him in a live performance someday
@tomrogerlilleby28906 жыл бұрын
A lot of POWER in this man and his guitars ! Sounds like a full orchestra - all by himself ! Talent ! Talent ! Talent ! Praise the Lord !
@charliebrown79402 жыл бұрын
My church too. Same time. With his brother Aubrey. I sang in the choir and snuck out to smooch at the first prayer. Came back in during altar call. Doyle remembers.
@johncardinali6 жыл бұрын
I’ve been listening to Doyle for a long time he’s a big influence in my playing thanks Doyle and thank the Lord for calling you to play guitar.
@grahamanswerth89796 жыл бұрын
What... the friggin' Lord again? Give it a rest.
@balladeer454 жыл бұрын
@@grahamanswerth8979 You are a rude dude. Can't you keep your comments to yourself? Probably not since you are so desperate to be heard that you curse the Lord. You should be the one to give it a rest.
@MrAcmove2 жыл бұрын
This really opens up these genius pieces and offers new insight revealing more incredible artistic detailing. I greatly appreciate this tremendously talented hard working artist .
@Doulos3672 ай бұрын
Phenominal player and more importantly a gracious man of GOD!
@terryburgess_890742 жыл бұрын
This is the most amazing 12 string guitar work I have ever seen! I am in awe!
@123Goldhunter11 Жыл бұрын
He's right - it's a gift. I don't have the gift but have been playing for over 50 years. Thanks for the inspiration.
@randywright11756 ай бұрын
He is just phenomenal!
@ModernGolfer4 жыл бұрын
For those who might not be aware, the segue from "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams is into "25 or 6 To Four" by Chicago.
@cherrypickerguitars2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I went “Beatles? That’s Chicago!”
@jed11663 жыл бұрын
55 years later, I still practice at least one hour per day... guitar has been my mental health regime since I can remember...
@axlerick44563 жыл бұрын
Dont know if you guys cares but if you are bored like me during the covid times then you can stream pretty much all of the new movies and series on InstaFlixxer. Have been binge watching with my gf lately xD
@gideongannon21283 жыл бұрын
@Axl Erick yup, have been using InstaFlixxer for years myself :D
@boblee64772 жыл бұрын
Same for me JED. I know what you're saying.
@MrMd55552 жыл бұрын
@@boblee6477 same. I played at least every SINGLE day for at least the first 5 years before I went a whole day without playing for at least an hour. Now 20 some years later I can't put it down & I feel like a kid again!!
@randalparks9368 Жыл бұрын
I practice Til my fingers are burned up, then I take my first break....
@masterbuilder31664 ай бұрын
Im a pretty good guitarist, but man would I love to have Doyle train me for a couple of years. Hes the absolute best. And a class act. 💯
@RUHDD4HVN6 жыл бұрын
Doyle is as nice as everybody says he is. He treats everyone the same.......with kind respect. He owns the guitar in droves.......just super.
@MrknuckleHD6 жыл бұрын
Doyle you are awesome and a great human being hopefully negative comments don't bother you, God loves you!!!!!
@stephensandberg50376 жыл бұрын
Good old guitar player with faith in his invincible ability to entertain those of us who can only hope to find ourselves in his shoes... Thank you for making good on your seeming impossible talent brother!!!
@dennysarokin36746 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite players and favorite human being!
@jack002tuber4 жыл бұрын
What A guy! I could just listen to this forever. Great talent
@ronwade117Ай бұрын
Agreed!
@mathbrown90995 жыл бұрын
I knew the same thing about myself. Music gave me such pleasure and it paid me well for a total of 37.5 yrs. I really like this man.
@algallego4 жыл бұрын
Music probably doesn't pay people too well these days, unless, of course, your musical chops and prowess are top notch or you're an MTV thug!
@TheNo1BandDad6 жыл бұрын
I still have this dude's first album (circa 1976). I could listen to him all day.
@redshield32965 жыл бұрын
Wow! Took my breath away, and what a beautiful person.
@m.b.g.musicproduction96586 жыл бұрын
What an amazingly talented guitarist!
@roysmith26505 жыл бұрын
This is guitar playing at it’s best!
@lonewave12 жыл бұрын
I don't rank performances because they're always different from one another. Doyle Dykes is fantastic. I heard and saw Tommy Emmanuel do his version which was really unbelievable. But I always wondered if they can perform on a 12 string guitar too. Doyle answered that question and I'm so grateful I get to see this. Doyle nailed it. Nothing but kudos.
@probableiakant34692 жыл бұрын
I reckon he has it strung with 6 strings.
@seanart15085 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic guitar player Doyle is.
@jimchumley65686 жыл бұрын
Awesome and unbelievable! And doing Gods will. I felt that!
@michaelhogan7386 жыл бұрын
Thank you Doyle. Yes - being able to learn and play is a privilege. I'm sixty and I still am playing my six-stringed wooden friend. Thanks for the performance!
@kevinlewis63815 жыл бұрын
Doyle and Tommy together= MIND BLOWING!
@rickjason2152 жыл бұрын
25 or 6 to 4. Did not expect that. What a great musician.
@waynocook539 ай бұрын
I had a strok and this DID inspire me🤙☝️!WOW!
@tonyleeglenn6 жыл бұрын
Doyle is an amazing musician. So cool to hear all these classics on a 12-string. Very unique sound. He really looks like Jeff Bridges - kinda like the Big Lebowski dude killin' in on guitar.
@SATedeschi6 жыл бұрын
That's not Jeff Bridges? LOL
@nickcarpenter11966 жыл бұрын
Tony Lee Glenn -- The love child of Jeff Bridges & Ron White...
@tonyleeglenn6 жыл бұрын
Ha - think you nailed it Nick.
@dlflash566 жыл бұрын
I was thinking that he looks like Ron White as well... :)
@marywarren42066 жыл бұрын
I think he looks like Steve Bannon. :(
@philf40863 жыл бұрын
From the Tommy Emanuel school of "playing songs as fast as possible". Great skill on display here!!
@ratbertovich4 жыл бұрын
I'd like to think I'm a good Blues player, I wouldn't have raised my hand after listening to that. "You have to work at it." So true.
@georgeruff3746 Жыл бұрын
Love the 12 string effect on Classical Gas.
@dannyhood88572 жыл бұрын
I love the way went into that chicago riff.. I need to see him during his 20s and 30s. Cutting heads, Full on, no holding back. Good video!
@georgedrake13414 жыл бұрын
Love Doyle, he is one of the best!
@tenbroeck19582 жыл бұрын
Doyle makes me feel proud to be a country boy. I learned how to eliminate my accent during college, but Doyle's voice reminds me of my Uncle's.
@ZitaZone3 жыл бұрын
Playing this instrumental on a 12 string makes it so much more interesting because there is no background music. Blew it out of the park
@SergeUnplugged2 жыл бұрын
Iconic performance
@stevenkoehler60187 ай бұрын
Fantastic
@rockyland88952 жыл бұрын
Hi Doyle, I don't know if you'll get this or not, I started playing when I was very young, I played Piano, Mandolin, Guitar, Tenor Banjo and Bass before I was out of the first grade. The school had a talent show and I practiced up like you wouldn't believe, I entered the talent show and it was on Wednesday night, We had church and my Dad said I couldn't go. I had to play in church and that was more important than the talent show.
@vandals48736 жыл бұрын
When he broke in 25 or 6 to 4 I screamed :)
@srrings6 жыл бұрын
yea that was freaking cool
@jamescagle85296 жыл бұрын
Vandals Iii
@stephencarpenteri22232 жыл бұрын
Kudos must go to the original composers. It's a tribute that others can continue to make a living playing their songs.
@TimMilliken2 жыл бұрын
I keep coming back to this video. Love you man!
@garywolfe73553 жыл бұрын
Makes the guitar come alive
@royhanson33354 жыл бұрын
come to Hamilton Ontario Canada after this covid -19 thing.
@dianadivanni3 жыл бұрын
That’s the way my daddy played. I love your guitar playing.
@icanclimbanything63846 жыл бұрын
Great video. Wonderful arrangement!
@sandrasmith75015 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for uploading this!
@jimclarke11086 жыл бұрын
Great guitar playing
@dlagrua4 жыл бұрын
Doyle is an amazing one of a kind guitar player. It may not be as easy as it once was for him to play difficult pieces but he still pulls it off.
@JanetArnold12576 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a player!
@gaborzarda5385 Жыл бұрын
You are the best guitar Player in this world!!! Gabriel pianoman
@redflamered4 жыл бұрын
One of the best I have ever heard. You're great, man.
@davidmann6659 Жыл бұрын
He played at ourchurch in Kyle tx. What a great player and inspirational speaker.
@Jimmie166 жыл бұрын
The sound of gas on a 12 string is fantastic.
@veeeforvendetta8 ай бұрын
Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown tells how he started to play guitar. He saw an ad in the back of one of his parents magazine for a guitar. It said "get a guitar and make friends". He thought that was a good idea. It was a mail order,. It came, but he didn't know it came disassembled ...he put it together; he said he didn't come out of his bedroom for 2 years but when he did he could play guitar. He said it didn't really help with the friend mg making.
@ronwade1178 ай бұрын
That's a great story! Thanks!
@veeeforvendetta8 ай бұрын
Regrettably..Kim passed away in 2022. Glad I got to see him twice.
@seanbreese36298 ай бұрын
Excellent.
@thanojishing5345 жыл бұрын
The voice of the girl near the camera indicates she is enjoying the show to the fullest...
@danieldickson91066 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the full story... Playing like that on a 12string. killer
@garylitfin67816 жыл бұрын
Only strung with six! Pro trick. The neck is wider on the 12, makes it ideal for finger picking. Johnny Winter also did the same with an electric. Imagine there's many others.
@MirroringTruth5 жыл бұрын
I didn't win my school talent show either. I know the feeling. Mind you I was much more "rock" at the time. Me and my friends seen folks doing more then they were supposed to. I had been scheduled to do one song, so in a hurry we thought we'd add on too. Originally I was just going to do Eruption, which at the time, in 1985, before internet and a billion folks showing you how to play it, was pretty extreme. So we're like whats in Em we can do to pad the set. We decided quickly on the live version of Paranoid by Black Sabbath with the "Heaven and Hell" intro. So we go on, and blow the stage away. I'd just went to Deep Purples Perfect Strangers concert in Flint Mi., and I had all my Ritchie Blackmore moves down including the cord flips and the tone knob changes. I walk off to the full auditorium of screaming classmates, and everyone that's in the show is blown away, and congratulating me, cause everyone knew I was going to win......lol....Then I didn't. And everyone back stage looked at me like "what?". The judges where from a ballet school, a country western radio station, and something else. I just didn't go over well with that crowd. But all the jocks now wanted to be my friend to play parties. Well that's my talent school show story.....
@mikelundquist4596 Жыл бұрын
I put together a band and we did a Beach Boys medley, and we didn't win. But before we went on stage, a beautiful girl who I had admired from afar gave me a kiss. So I was a winner anyway.
@garygoudeau83466 жыл бұрын
Doyle is a wonderful human being. Met him at a Christian guitar comference where appeared and spent the weekend with us. A kind person who knows what it means to have a relationship with the Lord.
@mactech16 жыл бұрын
What's the difference between a christian guitar, and any humanist guitar? The former built by St. Martin?
@ImperialAerosolKid6 жыл бұрын
What does a Christian guitar look like???
@garygoudeau83466 жыл бұрын
same as any guitar except the music focus is on God and Jesus Christ
@truthteller19146 жыл бұрын
You arrogant theists have to impose your BS on everyone and everything. Try using facts if you know what they are and you have any.
@CCCBeaumont6 жыл бұрын
The fact is Doyle Dikes knows the Lord Jesus, and when someone knows the Lord it affects every area of their lives. How that qualifies as either "arrogant" or "BS" is a valid question. Are those "facts' or just your opinion?
@johntatum19514 жыл бұрын
Nice Picking and a good Christian to boot...hallelujah!
@jamesnusky62576 жыл бұрын
Come back to Calvary Chapel Philly, fantastic show.....
@davesmusicmania16 жыл бұрын
Go big or go home.....Doyle goes big and kicks it hard....wow
@jasonhysjulien63804 жыл бұрын
What the actual......just wow.
@srrings6 жыл бұрын
in grade school i would plant my index finger on the desk and do forward and backward rolls with the rest of my digits...+ the spock move and the same with the pinky try it
@kingrobert1st Жыл бұрын
Simply mesmerising!
@ronniemilsap59452 жыл бұрын
thank you
@alyrerb3 жыл бұрын
Guy's a killer on the fretboard!
@LiveAndInPerson6 жыл бұрын
so likable , and real....and a Master at what he does.....
@simonverkerk83923 жыл бұрын
Thank you Jesus! Amen!
@dlagrua4 жыл бұрын
Amazing guitar player.
@davidjermy25246 жыл бұрын
Zwhat a great Guy and musician, wish I could play even a little what Doyle does.
@donfilkins2986 жыл бұрын
25 or 6 two 4 ...fingerpicking? Unreal!
@babayaga17676 жыл бұрын
on a 12 string with the solo!!!
@donfilkins2986 жыл бұрын
general mayhem yea that was amazing!
@Baci3023 жыл бұрын
What a great sound. Wow.
@MrKenny7776 жыл бұрын
I love his guitar playing and his natural warmth, even though I lost my faith in God many years ago.
@kendesjarlais75776 жыл бұрын
we change- god doesnt
@rogerjudy16 жыл бұрын
friend you may have lost your faith in god but he has not in you he loves you and is eagerly waiting for your coming back home,he knows your troubles ask for his strength and wisdom ,hope this is helpful to your heavy burden ,trying to do the will of God , lay your troubles at the foot of the cross and walk away ,Gos speed
@rogerjudy16 жыл бұрын
you may have lost your faith in GOD but he still loves you and is eagerly waiting for you to return home ,he knows your pain and suffering take it to the foot of the cross and walk away and wait on the Lord ,Gods speed time is running out
@KG-Punk6 жыл бұрын
I think he looks like a sober Ron White. Fantastic Post
@bluarcher5941 Жыл бұрын
classical gas on a 12...hats off. He and Tommy Emmanuel should form a duo. ( : P
@pablojose48906 жыл бұрын
Classical gas segued into 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago, very nice!
@anthonyblancett38813 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@maurymockler6326 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! Just discovered Doyle- NOW..due to the man to the right of the screen - Tommy E.....also just noticed the Length of both their thumbs?...wht?...ha
@samueladams4218 Жыл бұрын
Merle Travis style picking!
@ronaldwhite58873 жыл бұрын
Masterful great stuff thanks
@thomengel9720 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding
@toineleuverink9905 Жыл бұрын
Magical gass....
@kelly35182 жыл бұрын
A sober, talented and non-profane Ron White haha. Awesome guitar playing!
@mathbrown90995 жыл бұрын
I’d love for this musician to explain to all his young aspirants how he learned time. He’s on, all-the-time! BTW: it would be wonderful in so many ways for he and Terry Kath to share licks on 25. Kath was amazing, different styling, but Doyle gives nothin’ away to anyone.
@robbiepoulin9204 жыл бұрын
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@robbiepoulin9204 жыл бұрын
Terry shot himself in a bar with his own handgun. He won't be able to play with Doyle.
@brookshughey40604 жыл бұрын
Saw the Country Family Reunion Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting a few weeks ago and wondered "Who is this guy and why have I never in my 62 years heard of him?" Incredible guitar player.
@spidyr2k3 жыл бұрын
waited for the audio to maybe get better. 8 minutes later I wrote this and left.
@stevenburton79229 ай бұрын
Love Doyle!
@keithhull8956Ай бұрын
A great guitar player who will be remember for ever for his playing abilities and his brain washing about religion.
@pixelatedparcel6 жыл бұрын
Simply fantastic!
@nevarmaor4 жыл бұрын
Gawd, and on a 12 string too! Godin.
@proudfootz6 жыл бұрын
Great story teller!
@condocows76356 жыл бұрын
I like this guy!
@wayneparker59236 жыл бұрын
Incredible!
@EddieReischl2 жыл бұрын
Kinda sounded like "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin in between switching from "Classical Gas" to "25 or 6 to 4" Edit: I ran through them both, apparently the LZ and Chicago songs do have the same chord progression. Never noticed that before.
@tomlyons78913 жыл бұрын
Damn, he's doing this on 12 string. So hard to be that clean.