Doyle Dykes (NAMM 2014) - Classical Gas / 25 or 6 to 4

Doyle Dykes played this Medley at NAMM 2014 at the Guild booth using a Guild "Doyle Dikes" model 12 string guitar.

[@davedawave4705]

Just incredible talent. I also cant imagine the practice hours this man has put in over his lifetime.

[@bigd3087]

NEVER. GETS. OLD. 👍🏻

[@ignatiusjk]

If your not a guitar player you really can't appreciate just how hard it is to do what Doyles doing. Twelve strings are a bit of a challenge so be as fast as he is is just amazing.

[@ColtonBlumhagen]

Can you explain? i thought with a 12 string the strings are basically on top of each other? So it's just a higher action?

[@ignatiusjk]

@@ColtonBlumhagen Go play a twelve string ,you'll see.

[@armandomorales3809]

@@ColtonBlumhagen when your picking it's not at all like strumming. U can strum and play a twelve string about the same if you have enough of a contact patch. But the picking part...

[@bobaldo2339]

@@armandomorales3809 The advantage of a 12 string for an average player, using country style bass runs & chords with a pick, is that you have a bigger target area! That has nothing to do with this video of virtuoso finger picking of course!

[@deadlyoneable]

When he was playing classical gas, I was automatically programmed to here all that flashy stuff tommy Emmanuel does between the breaks on the chorus. It was kind of refreshing to NOT hear that.

[@joeshmoe7967]

Literally just discovered Doyle, a few days a go (Jan 2020) What a great player.

[@MrJavabali]

I just discovered him today. I must say he's my new acoustic guitar hero!

[@iszy2394]

Tommy Emmanuel, Mike Dawes, and Doyle Dykes are my favorite! Superb playing!

[@richardsheff5626]

SIMPLY FANTASTIC.. NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE.... DOYLE DYKES 'IS THE GUITAR'... WE ARE SO FORTUNATE TO GET TO HEAR HIM... RICH IN MICHIGAN, 60'S ROCK N ROLLER

[@MilitaryAIWorks100]

Good Lord..... Absolutely incredible to watch him play.

[@chilledmonkeebrains]

Every time I watch this man play I’m amazed

[@jonathanklass9768]

lovely 12 string played by a master of the instrument and the reversed octaves bass first proves Rickenbacker and Roger McGuinn have a point, it is a different sound! 😀

[@rogerhuggettjr.7675]

He came to our church last Sunday and played this. Was great!

[@Bflatest]

this is one strong hand this man has my whole arm was getting numb just hearing this especially on a 12 string

[@Sinaloa_Cartel]

To do that on a 12 string is amazing talent. Nice job.

[@rickrodrigues2219]

Wow...what a marvelous entertainer! I totally exhausted after that performance!!!

[@timsharkey1993]

Never would have thought to medley those two songs, but man, he makes it work. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@robertkirk7162]

As a veteran of 21 years I would like to thank you for your support for veterans. Again thank you so much.

[@GeoffWilliamsMagic]

Inspiring. Impressive. Incredible. That's Doyle.

[@niggajoes8823]

I love him i just wish hed let his songs breath more

[@DaveFisher1]

Awesome player. So fast and yet so clean. Wow!

[@metalgeezerdude]

Doyle is amazing!!!!

[@thegodfatherofthesec1748]

He’s the BEST! 🎸🎼

[@JM-sx1rp]

Absolutely insane, beyond mastery.

[@decrepidoldman]

two of my favorite songs together!!

[@Milchstern]

Can't wait to see him playing next month in Frankfurt. He's so amazing!

[@cindykingsley5744]

i love tihis song doyle thank you for blessing us with your rendition amd alluding to other songs i love it is beautiful my friend God bless you

[@daverenick4782]

DD is just crammed with music DNA.....real deal....and his daughter has this huge voice too....these people exist.

[@randystrand908]

Mind blowing player!!!🤯🥰❤️💥

[@steby123]

On a twelve string no less, you're blessed Bro.!!

[@robbiepoulin920]

Just WOW.... Glory be to God

[@trackingstationneillindsay]

Amazing!!! thank you for posting this.

[@neilangus4401]

If you have never played guitar before It's hard enough to do upwards riffs on a 6 string let alone a 12 string Absolutely amazing

[@dennisslavens9567]

Love this Hawaii sound Doyle!

[@jaytc3218]

I have to throw my guitar in the fireplace now...

[@chance4771]

you are so funny...LMFAO!!! Actually my friend it takes a lot of practice and if you love playing you fiddle ( a funny ), really work on finger picking and there are a lot of instructional videos out there that really will make it a lot of fun! I played for about 20 years, then stopped for about 20 years ( how stupid of me) and my Wife wants be back in the game so she got me a Taylor 150e 12 stringer for Christmas! I can't wait to jump into the action again! good fortunes to you!

[@DaveFisher1]

I took my guitar to a small but sorta famous bar in Nashville. There was a great guitar player performing and he said I could do a couple of tunes between sets. When the time came the waiter said he was going to go up first, play a tune and then introduce me. Man, that waiter was a virtuoso guitar picker. I didn't ever want to pick up another guitar in my life.

[@roberthollis9603]

@@DaveFisher1 juicing

[@roberthollis9603]

@@chance4771 juicing

[@roberthollis9603]

How to juicing

[@hoangtam8518]

One of the greatest players of the world in GUITAR !

[@wayne-brock7515]

I had the opportunity to play with him once before when he came to my church back in the mid 1990s.

[@indeathwewillnotpart2458]

What a guitar player. This guy is unstoppable.

[@chance4771]

I saw him at a church in Riverside California sometime back in 2008.

[@chance4771]

you should here him do a Christmas medley...it is OUT. OF.THIS.WORLD!

[@taperecorder3]

absoutely the most fantastic guitarest i met in my life.if i could get to his level ide say i finaly made it hay a guy can wish an dream

[@Draper1217]

Dude. This was amazing.

[@hksoundpro]

Doyle Dykes. What an exceptional picker. Makes it look so easy........

[@michaelsmilek2404]

Awesome As Always! 👊🏻❤️👊🏻

[@robertlorenz2492]

I've never heard of guitar B love so much

[@tracymarlar934]

The Man has talent

[@jdhaole7650]

Doyle sounds twice as good on 12 string!

[@JayPooler]

OMG I tip my hat woza thats just Fn great

[@robertlee8042]

Wow. He owns this space.

[@stevehales8020]

You are one great guitar player!

[@artiefischel2579]

I don't see how people can just wander by, like "no big deal".

[@chance4771]

That's because they cannot comprehend superb guitar playing when they here it or they had heard him earlier.

[@robertovacagalarza]

Excelente guitarrista, no lo había escuchado antes.

[@shawnuel]

It runs in the family, also. His daughter, Haley, is a mandolin player and really fine singer/songwriter.

[@AlanKRiley]

Fab, Doyle

[@buddywhittington8609]

Doyle is a Force of Nature.

[@neilangus4401]

To play those runs up the fret board Takes years on a 12 string

[@johnsummers9660]

Doyle was preaching

[@kingrobert1st]

Epic!

[@stepitupandgo67]

dude can lay it down...

[@irishguy13]

Wow.

[@ovalissimo4002]

Hey, that is the late great mr. Aspen Pittman behind him!

[@c.r.6172]

First time i heard Mr Dolye I trumpled my guitar with a body slam.

[@reneduran7334]

The best cover of Tommy Emmanuel!!!

[@shaunhughes2]

Technically it would be a medley cover of Mason Williams (composer of Classical Gas) and then Chicago.

[@ralphbernhisel7966]

WOW....

[@KorieG]

That was freaking AWESOME! (right up there with Tommy Emmanuel!) GREAT job! Later...

[@thomasfontenot4881]

I've seen Doyle once and I think he is a really good player, but, I've seen Tommy Emmanuel 3 times and me being a thumb picker since I was a kid, I know what it entails and Doyle is good , but, Tommy is great, he took chat to another level. I had a talk with Doyle about when him and Tommy played together. He called Tommy, Tommy animal instead of Emmanuel.

[@lynnwalker6721]

@@thomasfontenot4881 Tommy is a great showman and a great guitar player, but Doyle is the better player.

[@thomasfontenot4881]

@@lynnwalker6721 I'm not here to argue with you because I just don't do that, you prefer Doyle hom I really love listening to but after seeing both of them on their own, Tommy was over the top in many ways. I saw a video where Chet said the first time he met Tommy he was about 13 or 14 and Tommy played one of chess songs better than chet said he ever did. Plus Tommy was one of the few people chet awarded the finger pickers award, plus made that great album with him "Win finger pickers took over the world". Tommy plays over 300 days a year all over the world.

[@thomasfontenot4881]

@@lynnwalker6721 did you ever watch Tommy's classical gas in the studio video? And his playing 2 Beatles songs at the same time. And do you play guitar and if so what styles do you play? Honestly Lynn I'm not your enemy at all but I've seen Doyle once and talked to him but I've seen Tommy times and Tommy I just so more versatile. And if you rather Doyle that's fine too, but really neither one of us can say that the absolute truth is this or that like the gospel, because our opinion is not the absolute truth, and I would rather just enjoy both instead of trying to prove I'm right and your wrong, I'd rather e friends than enemies. Blessings to you and yours lyn!

[@thomasfontenot4881]

@@lynnwalker6721 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWSWpYqQpr2bpM0

[@louiselanning2885]

Dole.... awesome! When are you coming back to visit your Lawrenceville Church of God family? And be sure and bring Haley when you come ! We miss y'all

[@kevinsmiley7069]

I met him a few months

[@tonybaloney6656]

Classical Gas never sounded so good 👌

[@jimiyoshi_]

Wow

[@guitartec]

Wow, that 512 is prolly the 1st AND last one ever made, since they were only in Westport long enough to make 1, or is that a Cordoba Guild Asia?

[@DDischner]

The Florentine cut...!

[@jackloganbill605]

Incredible!!!!! Is he playing through a Fender Deluxe Reverb?

[@abutrug]

wow its good on a 12 string

[@garyjohnson2879]

where are you?

[@neilangus4401]

Looks like Glen Campbell What a beautiful effort on a 12 string A lot harder than you think

[@TheTonyShow]

He made classical gas look easy on a 12 string

[@mohdsharizalmohdsidekshari380]

Right realy player

[@gauravmadhav4365]

What song is being played around minute 1?

[@nreRagnaros]

Classical Gas :)

[@scottdetter]

Why do I keep thinking……. Ron White?

[@Reiv_soldier]

Fanny

[@tmatheson54]

He is pretty awesome. Seen him at concerts several times. It’s even more impressive to see and hear him play that song live. One time I went up to him at a break to say “Hi” and told him I’ve always loved those two songs and over the years tried learning to play them on my guitar. Love it as a medley... while I was up there speaking with him I half jokingly said “Man, I’d give up my low G string on my guitar just to have the pick your playing/using at this performance.”. Dang me. He gave me his thumb pick!!! WOW. That blew me away. Thank you Doyle and God bless you.

[@neilangus4401]

Tommy Emmanuel has some serious competition here Just imagine the two playing together

[@steveb9325]

They're friends! "CGP" by master Chet Atkins himself.

[@thomasfontenot4881]

Hey Neal KZbin as a video of Tommy and him together.

[@neilangus4401]

@@thomasfontenot4881 Thank you Thomas Do you have a link

[@thomasfontenot4881]

@@neilangus4401 actually just type in Tommy Emmanuel and Doyle dies, there are several but not that good of quality. But have you ever seen Tommy play classical gas? Here it is kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWSWpYqQpr2bpM0

[@neilangus4401]

A chorus and flange effects Just make this

[@jonathans8748]

Is that Ted Nugent behind him around 3 min??? lol

[@lisagy4354]

jonathan S .....not that I see

[@scundoalex]

Looks a little like uncle Ted but not him.

[@adddad9779]

On a 12 string... da-ham...

[@niggajoes8823]

How the fuck is this 12 string ?!?!?! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤩😍😍💯🔥🔥🧯‼

[@pablorages1241]

Where's Tommy Emmanuel when you need him

[@ColtonBlumhagen]

He was of course the next recommended video.

[@donbrown3568]

A real good player, tho it's too bad that it's so painful for him to play....LOL

[@christophermcdonnell3007]

Don Brown what do you mean lol

[@thomasfontenot4881]

@@christophermcdonnell3007 I think he is talking about his facial expressions, definitely hard work. But watch Tommy Emmanuel play classical gas in the studio. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWSWpYqQpr2bpM0

[@laberlaban]

Nobody likes Doyle more than Doyle, but damn he can play

[@stevemacquarrie9819]

The previous commenter was right. I shouldn't have watched this....

[@neilangus4401]

If you took all the so called rock guitarists in the world and put them up against this guy And you put this guy up against the so called rock guitarists in the world There would be an interesting paradox

[@zanepye6412]

I didn't know steve bannon could play guitar.

[@mikedenkinger9570]

I hate this video because I wouldn't be able to play like this if I practiced for a century. I'm going to go sell my acoustic now...and buy a kazoo...

[@counciousstream]

Slow it down a little.

[@chuckyt9083]

Tommy Emanuel ain’t got nothing on this gentleman!

[@brianfurchner]

seriously you would even think of making a comparison....

[@aderrrt]

2 totally different styles so no comparison.

[@steveb9325]

They're friends and have mutual respect for each others skills. Professional musicians don't do this : I'm better than you ego stuff that unfortunately in the guitar world seems to live mightily. If you're not careful can really take away the pure joy of playing. Don't worry about who you think is better. Just enjoy playing and listening.

[@tonmisty]

Great playing, but not really impressed with the sound of the guitar!

[@user-Vitoc172]

Играет отлично, но вот эта перевёрнутая британская музыка, не доходит для русского народа. смесь !!!!????

[@marcelogarciascotti6449]

Doyle always playing so fast! Avoids enjoying the Music. Music has to breathe!

[@sandrunnerprime37]

You are very talented but that guitar sounds like crap.

[@JoeDoe2]

I don't like the sound of the guitars he chooses. Very bright and tinny. He's not helping GUILD any when it comes to acoustic guitars.

[@JoeDoe2]

He thinks he's showing off by playing the songs faster, but he sacrifices musicality big time, unable to keep a steady beat to save his life. It ruins what are otherwise classic songs. Shame.

[@mattdaggett3695]

He can play it any way u want it....im his 2nd cuz....i can arrange it if u like

[@ekraszewski]

Well....you know what they say about opinions. I was just wondering if he did absolutely anything right for you.

[@752brickie]

@@mattdaggett3695 He is amazing. What a very very nice man ! Very humble ! I met him at Fairview Pennsylvania he was so so generous with all his time and there were just about maybe 60-100 for a Taylor Guitar Seminar ! I told him I was going to smash mine after hearing him,but he talked me out of it !! And I am so thankful he did !