King Crimson - Neil And Jack And Me

This one was a DOOZY!
With the news that BEAT is on tour playing the Discipline era of King Crimson, inspiration had struck in the form of the title track "Neil And Jack And Me" from 1982's 'Beat'.
This has got to be one of the best album openers of all time, and I was craving a challenge. The guitar lines alone are maddening. Shifting uneven time signatures, angular and melodic lead lines, ELECTRIC CASTANETS!!! This song has it all, and it has been a wonderful journey getting it all under my fingers.
Shout out to my friend ‪@johntylerkent‬ for providing the effortless stick playing!
Thanks for watching and as always:
Be Well & SHRED ONWARDS

[@nonnayobiznus573]

❤️

[@PriaboniaMusic]

"Beat" was the soundtrack to my first year at university...fond memories!

[@generallz]

Perfect!

[@wacawlubinski5218]

👍❤🙏

[@tommc4916]

FLAWLESS

[@narcisistaverbale]

Wow!! Perfect!!!!

[@maiconcrestani4073]

You are great! Vocês são demais! Congrats from Brazil! Thanks for the song.

[@darkpagemx]

❤ you guys rock.

[@MakeWeirdMusic]

This song is so crazy. Nice work!

[@kategrizz7]

You are a BEAST , Sammy! A kick ass tune for sure, and you nailed it all.

[@felipeqzrj9922]

Sheesh... this is goooood!!!!

[@drakkorvladimir4012]

AWESOME!!

[@MattTateMusic]

Awesome work, guys! Love it!

[@PLively]

You two have nailed it.

[@ericwitney5086]

Bro you got the tone spot on . IM WHEEELS

[@SamMcGarrityIsOnYoutube]

Compression and chorus FTW!

[@AltairVega8800]

Great cover. Nice work, congrats from Mexico!

[@gumse666]

Fantastic work as always, both of you. Whenever i'm reminded of Jack Kerouac I think of his rule #3 "Try never get drunk outside yr own house"

[@SamMcGarrityIsOnYoutube]

Thank you! and yes, rules to live by hahaha

[@bl_nderscore]

He's wheels! another banger as always dude

[@nickbarton3191]

Wow, had to listen a couple of times to decide if I liked it. "I like it !!!!".

[@TrevorDennis100]

Nick, I think you are parodying a line from Indicipline, in which case that was very clever. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnmWoZuBd8eJgtUsi=C_vAP-ZbvFrs4Kw7&t=106

[@TrevorDennis100]

Oh wow Sam. That was absolutely beautiful. So clean, as well, with both instruments and vocals. An amazing production for a bedroom studio. You didn't need to go so far with the split screen effects IMO. The music speaks for itself. You really do have incredible talent, and I don't know why you are not a huge name in the world of progressive rock already. OK, I have to listen to this again. BTW I expect you know that Andrew is touring North America with Tony Levin later this year doing KC music. Robert was not interested, so they got Steve Vai onboard to do his parts. I saw KC at the RAH in 95 (I think). I live in New Zealand now and will be in New York in early September, but the Beat tour dates don't work for me. I bet you'd love to see one of the gigs though? 😀

[@Carn55]

Incredible as always!

[@rojthepoj]

You’d think this song would be uncopyable… it is except by the virtue of supreme musicianship. Q.E.D. Thank you.

[@RoryAndrewDolan]

Incredible work buddy!

[@jauntyj3257]

Exceptionally good! Bravo!

[@matteovalentini4850]

Mindblowing performance! One of my all time fav songs! :)

[@matteovalentini4850]

p.s. possibly one of the most educational videos I could find on how to play it on the guitar(s) :D !

[@chuckrogers5077]

wow - Amazing.... just really enjoyed this.. by the way - I have tickets to see BEAT in Louisville Ky Dec 10..

[@TrevorDennis100]

I'm so envious. I'm in New Zealand and will already be in New York in early September. It's more than I can manage to go back to NA again this year.

[@jasonshort1437]

This is pretty great and I'm even more excited about seeing Beat in a few months.

[@jasonshort1437]

Absolutely sick guitar playing also

[@SamMcGarrityIsOnYoutube]

@@jasonshort1437 thanks for checking it out my dude! Hopefully I’ll be able to catch a BEAT show!!!

[@camiloleao3249]

Great interpretation!!! Perfect guitar and stick parts!!! Beautfull vocals!!!

[@thepaulmacfarlane]

w o w

[@oclictis1]

Amazing work, this tune is one of my favorites from 80's crimson. I've recently been working on model man and three of a perfect pair :3 keep it up! p.s. I've seen your model man cover at least a dozen times it's outstanding

[@SamMcGarrityIsOnYoutube]

That's awesome! Let me know if you need charts! I recently covered those two tunes

[@aardvark_04]

Amazing cover omg

[@fejestothgabor]

Wow, cool!

[@SamMcGarrityIsOnYoutube]

we might have to get another cover song going Gabor!

[@fejestothgabor]

Ok I'm in Sam! 😉

[@powerslaveraimon]

Amazing cover as always!

[@conman90125]

Awesome as always Sam 👍

[@lucadesantis1432]

Great!!!

[@jeffryb]

Neiled it

[@SamMcGarrityIsOnYoutube]

I see what you did there 😋

[@andrerenault]

Awesome job! I'm still amazed at how 80s KC managed to avoid keyboards and do everything with 2 guitars and a stick. I guess they had synth drums…

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

They did also have a Roland GK pickup fitted to their guitars, which essentially isolates the sound from each string and allows them to be processed individually. I feel like for the most part they used the corresponding GK units to process the guitar signals through a synthesiser signal chain, as that is never going to have tracking issues and is part of why those synths were renowned for the accuracy of their tracking, but they can also convert the signal to a digital format that triggers samples and/or can be used to control an external synthesiser. They were technically using synths sometimes, but as I mentioned the results from using the six inputs as unique oscillators that are then digitally processed by the synth engine was far more reliable so the exceptions are probably limited to sounds that could only be done using the inbuilt samples (such as the strings in Dinosaur when they are performing it live)

[@christopherjobin-official7440]

Very VERY well done Guitar and Stick parts. Do you ever plan on doing a Double Trio song?

[@emanuelgtzv]

these KC covers you made are great, please do neurotica

[@EL_OEMS]

im wheels!

[@SamMcGarrityIsOnYoutube]

Yes you Are!

[@AsaNisiMasaBand]

¡Asombroso hermano! Share the tabs pls!!!

[@SamMcGarrityIsOnYoutube]

musicscores.bandcamp.com/merch/the-discipline-era-transcriptions-king-crimson

[@AsaNisiMasaBand]

@@SamMcGarrityIsOnKZbin you sweat love