Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Philly Q on October 11, 2009, 10:39:19 PM
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During the interval before the final session they had a feature on the history of the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow.
It included an interview with (former world lightweight boxing champion) Jim Watt, who was shown playing a bit of country blues on an acoustic guitar, with a Strat on a stand in the background! I did know that he played, but he's really, really good! :D
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Didn't see it. Would like to have done though!
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Interesting. I expect it'll be on Facetube at some point.
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i saw that and was quite stunned! he was excellent. i missed the start and assumed he was some musician from the sixties that had played there. when they said he was a boxer and guitar just seems to be his hobby i was amazed! really nice acoustic open tuned finger picking.
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I may be mis-remembering this, but I'm pretty sure I saw a programme about him once (This Is Your Life, probably) and it said he had ambitions of being a jazz guitarist but ended up going into boxing.
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i saw that and was quite stunned! he was excellent. i missed the start and assumed he was some musician from the sixties that had played there. when they said he was a boxer and guitar just seems to be his hobby i was amazed! really nice acoustic open tuned finger picking.
I now need to see this! He must have broken his hands a few times when he was boxing - I have done mine (both) a few times and assumed that was a reason for my lack of dexterity! Maybe it's not such a good reason!