Mike Dawes

Somebody I used to know
@Starling

Dawes had short hair when he first started working on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwCK1z3wT8g

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With that tuning it sounds kind of like he’s playing a Stick. I miss Michael Hegyes…

Hedges was good, in the early eighties. At some point he got into sonic effects that the electronics of the day had trouble doing, then instead of moving to a baritone guitar he went into harp guitars (which others understood better. He just seemed to me to have hit an early peak and then lost his way.

This is one of his more celebrated tunes, but today loopers can cover it with ease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P9mmZyGb4s

His groundbreaking portrayal of biracial Juan Epstein in ‘Welcome back Kotter’ will assure him immortality.