CHARLIE HUNTER....ever seen him play? A trip!

old grouch · #1 12-30-2005, 08:10 PM

Live Clip

How many strings does it take?

old grouch · #2 12-30-2005, 08:18 PM

a better lookhere

OK no more...just got gas over a bassitar

AJ Brown · #3 12-30-2005, 08:19 PM

Approximately 8 strings. Check out his "Right Now Live" DVD. Incredible stuff.

watspan · #4 12-31-2005, 02:06 PM

I've been following charlie hunter for close to 10 years now. I've seen him live once, have both his dvd's and a bunch of cd's. He's one of my favorite jazz artists--the cat can really groove! his "groundtruther" project is a little too avant garde for me, though. He has a new disc due out in feb. that is supposedly going to be in more of a "rock" vein--should be interesting!

peteroberts · #5 01-01-2006, 03:13 PM

I've seen Charlie several times in the past 10 years or so, most recently being about 2 weeks ago at Yoshi's.

Sounds like he was influenced by Scofield at least a little, does anyone else hear that?

Only thing is, he hasn't been playing the tambourine lately

**j-raj** · #6 01-02-2006, 02:10 PM

like Pete, I have been into his playing since summer of '94 and his stuff with Michael Franti as a duo. I have caught plenty of his different groups (TJ Kirk, Duo, Trio, 4et, Pound for Pound...etc.) here in ATL and in Boston in the '90's.

He actually is a very big influence on my chordal playing and comping while other cats are soloing.

His 8 string is tuned with the 3 low strings off of a 4 string (EAD) bass and the high 5 strings of a guitar (adgbe):

E
A
D
a
d
g
b
e

Indi86 · #7 01-02-2006, 02:38 PM

Charlie Hunter is definitely one of my heroes. Oakland is one of my favorite grooves.

superbassman2000 · #8 01-04-2006, 02:56 PM

i have been listening to his music for years...i just bought his cd Natty Dread, which is a cover of Bob Marley's cd...
that guy has to have two brains running at the same time!

**baba** · #9 01-05-2006, 07:50 AM

I used to see him often when he still lived in the Berkeley/Oakland area. I've seen him a bunch at the Elbo Room in San Francisco's Mission District and at Jupiter in Berkeley. This was around 95 I guess, before he moved to NY. He's really gotten popular since then.

**Vorago** · #10 01-05-2006, 07:58 AM

All .real files

Anyone has videos in mpeg, avi or wmv?

Juneau · #11 01-05-2006, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Indi86

Charlie Hunter is definitely one of my heroes. Oakland is one of my favorite grooves.

I agree, I love the groove in Oakland hehe. The only thing that bothers me about Charlie, is whoever put that little flying saucer between every song on the DVD I have

Maverick Blues · #12 01-05-2006, 08:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vorago

All .real files

/me looks around furtively.

Psst... Vorago... Real Alternative.

'rick