{"id":9641,"date":"2023-11-22T17:11:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/?p=9641"},"modified":"2023-11-27T19:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:36:47","slug":"review-of-tommy-emmanuel-concert-on-tuesday-5th-march-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/2023\/11\/22\/review-of-tommy-emmanuel-concert-on-tuesday-5th-march-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Tommy Emmanuel concert on Tuesday 5th March 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guitar Maestros<\/h1>\n

who let their fingers do the talking<\/p>\n

By Bob Tallent
\n6th March 2013<\/i><\/p>\n

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\"Tommy<\/p>\n

Tommy Emmanuel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tommy Emmanuel<\/span><\/span>Last August (2012), I booked 4 tickets to see Tommy Emmanuel in concert at the The Helix in Dublin.\u00a0 This was my third time seeing the virtuoso live in Dublin.\u00a0 I have been a fan of Tommy for many years and admire his style.\u00a0 Having watched practically every YouTube video of him over the years, I decided to see him for the first time in 2010 in the same venue.<\/p>\n

So I booked two tickets, for my wife Loreto, and me.\u00a0 You see, I\u2019ve been trying to teach myself guitar for the past few years and because I sing like a crow, I decided to learn fingerstyle.\u00a0 A 12 year old kid would be able to pick it up fairly quickly and be at my level in six months, but it has taken me six years to be just embarrassingly poor.<\/p>\n

Many years ago, I came across Tommy Emmanuel and looked him up on youtube.\u00a0 I was gobsmacked when I saw just how good he was and wrote an article on him for this site on 16th<\/sup>\u00a0December 2011.\u00a0\u00a0See here<\/a>.\u00a0 That was his last gig in Ireland up to last Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Back to buying the tickets in 2010:\u00a0 Loreto is not into the guitar; she likes music and loves live performances, so I told her that I had booked a ticket for her as well to see Tommy.\u00a0 She said great.\u00a0 It was \u2018great\u2019 in terms of that\u2019s ok; I\u2019ll come along, no enthusiasm.\u00a0 I told her that it was solo guitar, that he was brilliant and would be playing some stuff she knew.\u00a0 She\u2019s not into YouTube, so she didn\u2019t look him up beforehand.<\/p>\n

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Tommy Emmanuel and Bob Tallent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tommy Emmanuel and Bob Tallent<\/span><\/span>It was November 2010, we went to the Helix and she was mesmerised.\u00a0 Tommy has such a charismatic stage presence that he is totally at ease on stage because the guitar is part of his body.\u00a0 If you are a guitarist, you go to a Tommy performance to see the absolute expert at work.\u00a0 In my mind, there is no better acoustic guitarist in the world.\u00a0 Like all geniuses, he makes it look easy. He is relaxed on stage and has that X factor that cannot be described.\u00a0 I suppose if we could describe it, others would copy, and Tommy can\u2019t be copied.<\/p>\n

In 2010 he played everything I expected and more.\u00a0 Brilliant is an understatement.<\/p>\n

In 2011, I kept a lookout for Tommy coming back to Dublin.\u00a0 His show was arranged for December 2011 and I bought the tickets four months in advance.\u00a0 This time I said it to friends of mine, Tony & Ann Judge, who said they wanted to come along too.\u00a0 So I bought four tickets.\u00a0 This time, I organised a \u2018meet and greet\u2019 with Tommy.\u00a0 We went to the desk in the Helix at 7 o\u2019clock and met Tommy\u2019s staff in charge and were told to wait \u2018over there\u2019. We waited and waited, and waited some more!\u00a0 At 8.15 we went into the concert.\u00a0 It seems the \u2018meet and greet\u2019 came and went and we weren\u2019t called. All of us were very disappointed, but the show more than made up for it.\u00a0 He played a lot of his old stuff and some new stuff that was brilliant. Boy could make that guitar talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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