tonymckenziecom | 5 months ago
Mind-Blowing guitar performance with Larry Mitchell in concert 2024 Dallas TX, USA playing instrumental rock. Sit in the front row and watch Larry and the band show you some quite incredible music.
Contents:
0:00 Start
0:18 Reflections
6:38 Eyes So Blue
13:03 Cosmic Tears
21:22 Shadow Hawk
28:45 Shadows on the Soul
35:44 Tunnel
51:09 Unforgotten
Links:Larry Mitchell's Website: https://www.larrymitchell.com/
'Unforgotten' 1999 Version: https://youtu.be/-e_JP05-ecc?si=gEPnkVbF6guoqA4I
Gbratt's Guitars Scott Robbins: https://gbratsguitars.com/
Dallas International Guitar Show: https://www.guitarshow.com/
Fractal Audio FM3 Turbo: https://www.g66.eu/en/products/fractal-audio/fm3
I first met Larry Mitchell back in 1999 (you can see him playing Unforgotten as I recorded it). He was and is a really nice guy and his music and attitude has always impressed me greatly.
Here Larry plays at the Dallas International Guitar Show in 2024 with a few band members. The band member I know is none other than Scott Robbins of Gbrat's Guitars who I have known for a while, in particular I first met Scott while looking for guitars some years back. Scott is also a great guy and easy to 'get on' with - need a guitar deal? Scott can help. He plays great bass guitar too!
Larry has been around music all his life and I did ask him about that. He comes from New York if I remember correctly, and is a Grammy award winning producer, engineer and artist who has so much experience in the music business. He's worked with many artists that you will know, check him out at https://larrymitchell.com for a complete run down.
So this video takes you through a set comprising of around 7 tracks - and the last one being 'Unforgotten' which I have to say is my favorite track, but all the others are great too. I don't have the track list but if anyone can figure it out just let me know via https://tonymckenzie.com and I'll post it all on here.
A few bits of information: Larry uses a signature Knaggs guitar that interestingly Scott Robbins sells the same model... I almost bought one :) but I guess I have too many guitars already.
And when I have watched Larry (as you will notice early on, he is using an FM3 from Fractal Audio) and there is no doubt that for the style Larry plays it sounds pretty good. But then again, Larry would make anything sound good. You will notice (from what I saw) that the FM3 appeared to go to a tube amp combo on-stage or so it seemed. I will be reviewing the Fractal Audio FM3 on my YouTube channel in a very close up way but ha don't expect me to sound like Larry Mitchell!
In this series there are a number of other artists including Eric Steckel and Buddy Whittington coming up (and a few more) in similar fashion recorded in a similar spot near the Category 5 stage. Note that ambient reverb in the Category 5 stage can be heard and that great, but it's quite acceptable and I'm sure with headphones on these sessions that you will hear some wonderful guitar playing from all the artists featured. Thanks to Jimmy Wallace guys too.
There is one point where Larry mimic's what my wife was doing... he looked right at her and did the same back to her right there in the set - Ha Larry has a brilliant sense of humor and both I and my wife loved to see that.
Lastly Watch Larry as he plays the 'Unforgotten' track and you will see the warmth and clear feelings that Larry also has for that great track, which he wrote about relatives and/or people that have passed on. Thanks Larry Scott and you other guys for a great set.
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It makes a change from reviewing 'just' hardware and remember that if any artist video is not for you, do come back to the next one and check it out - they are all different. It costs thousands for me to go to Dallas and film this stuff for the benefit of viewers.
Don't forget to visit Larry's website and that of Scott Robbins who I'm sure they would love to see you... and tell em Tony McKenzie sent you :)
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