Yes (live) - James Dean Bradfield - London Acoustic Guitar Show - Sunday 14th September 2014

[@krischarlton7637]

The best craftsman of a song to come from the u.k. In the last 30 years.

[@VulperVeritas]

That is staggeringly good. Aggressive as spitting, howling hell. Lovely upload, thanks for it.

[@outsidersongs2682]

So much talent

[@generationterrorist1]

Beautiful

[@hajhaj99]

sent from God, this man is one of our angels.

[@stevelogan1699]

Interesting differences of opinion here about JDB’s acoustic version of this majestic Holy Bible song. Yes it’s true that there are sudden shifts of volume in the vocals but these are of course a bit disguised in a studio recording, which is compressed and mixed to a more constant level. There’s also the question of live amplified sound here. James is using an older Taylor 414ce and you can hear the piezo quack on it, which gives a certain harshness to the guitar sound, despite his glorious playing. And the vocal sound has got a strange EQ that makes his voice very audible and clear but also cutting. If you’d been in a room with him playing with neither the guitar nor the vocal amplified, this performance would have sounded belting but still smoother. Personally I love this version, you can hear all the details of playing and phrasing so clearly and that amazing interaction between Richey’s lyrics and James’s musical soul is so strong you can almost touch it.

[@DanielS10291]

all acoustic guitar pickups sound crap in my opinion. if theres no drum kit these live acoustic gigs should really be micing the acoustic

[@rossconi]

i'm sure it sounded fine in the room. whatever this was recorded on is the problem.

[@marcal2445]

What an album. Holy Bible.

[@TJC0001]

Best song

[@babajeezus]

Wonder why he leaves out the 'hurt myself to geeet paaiin out' and '11th commandment' parts...

[@davewhittno1]

Beautiful 👌🏻

[@Dressagevids]

Yes

[@Alexander-eh1ko]

Throughout my life I have had this musical struggle between the rough and the beautiful - the manics is the only band that has ever managed to combine them both. Perhaps Pink Floyd did it at Pompeii too, but I'm not sure.

[@OlafMcKrak]

uk? Wales :)

[@markv1125]

The most disturbing Richey lyric by far.

[@mgs-kaz8731]

most underrated guitarist ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck slash. lol jkz...but not really

[@paulgrahamedwardspencer5161]

He's not underrated at all plenty of people rate him as a player he's outstanding

[@davewhittno1]

Thailand sadness 🇹🇭

[@markdavidofficial4274]

I love this song, but it's not really a singer songwriter kind of song.

[@Jamesatgigs]

Mark Jones Because James was performing a song by his BAND the Manic Street Preachers?

[@markdavidofficial4274]

Jamesatgigs I know man. I'm just saying it doesn't work well acoustically. It's a post-punk/power pop song that needs a full band to make the song great.

[@secallen]

With that voice, the songs work with any backing

[@andrewtucker94]

I think it'd work but he'd need to reinterpret it, he's trying to do the same version with only an acoustic

[@outsidersongs2682]

It works for me :-)

[@saintnicole3209]

Unpopular Opinion: I don't like a lot of James' acoustic covers of their older stuff because he tries to compress his voice rather than just using his head voice or lowering his volume and therefore you have these harsh cuts and jumps in his voice that kind of ruin the experience for me? I don't know if I worded that right but I hope you get my drift.

[@Partoftheratpack]

Personally love them

[@SammyMakepeace]

Shifting to head voice would completely rid the song of the dynamic power it has. Distorting his belt/mix the way he does in the chorus is the way he does it with the band and conveys the song's intended intensity. The audio bouncing around is cos this was recorded with either an in built or mounted mic which will never replace line in recording for these kind of gigs

[@saintnicole3209]

@@SammyMakepeace omg my original comment is so old lol. i love james' acoustic covers i don't even know what i was thinking when i posted this!