David Bowie Performs an Ethereal Acoustic Model of “Heroes,” with a Bottle Cap Strapped to His Shoe, Protecting the Beat (1996)

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Not way back I stum­bled upon this pret­ty received­der­ful video of David Bowie play­ing an acoustic ver­sion of “Heroes,” considered one of my favourite songs, and I believed I’d fast­ly share it at this time. Why wait? Seem­ing at Neil Younger’s annu­al Bridge College Ben­e­match con­cert in Octo­ber 1996, Bowie offers us a stripped-down ver­sion of…

Jimi Hendrix Unplugged: Two Nice Recordings of Hendrix Enjoying Acoustic Guitar

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As a younger gui­tar play­er, per­haps nobody impressed me as a lot as Jimi Hen­drix, although I nev­er dreamed I’d attain even a frac­tion of his ability. However what appeal to­ed me to him was his near-total lack of ritual—he didn’t learn music, wasn’t educated in any clas­si­cal sense, performed an upside-down right-hand­ed gui­tar as…