Chet and Lenny

[David Elliott]

Don't think I've ever seen this clip on YouTube.

Lousy picture, lousy sound, but beggers can't be choosers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dp809Zi ... re=related

David

[RandeDager]

Hi David,

I've never seen this either. I wonder if it was before or after their album? Lenny's combination with Chet created a sound that put Chet in a different category than most people would ever associate him with.

[RonBloor]

I think that might have been posted some time ago.. but it is great to see it again. I think there might also be some other videos from that same "event".. Those two guys always blow me away when they play together.. They feed off each other Thanks for posing it..
I just looked again and this might have been what was posted before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=jsB8lFwfKyA

[Norm]

Hi David,

Lenny's combination with Chet created a sound that put Chet in a different category than most people would ever associate him with.

One of the travails of being a constantly developing musical artist is the insistance of human nature to not only put the musician in a category but to get testy if they stray from the category they got put in.

We're all guilty. Chet will do wonderful things and drop back into the polished thumb/finger style that originally awed us about him. This has a comforting affect on most of us. Sometimes I think this troubled him. It's like Wes Montgomery grumbling that he could play something other than octaves but people demanded octaves from him.

Being a 'star' is not always what we think it is...

[the-ocean87]

This was uploaded by me. It was already on youtube twice. But I combined the best parts of both uploads cause I thought it's a pretty good and rare performance.
They also performed "This can't be love". Don't know the year from this performance. Must be around 1980 because Chet played with microphone.
I wish someone would post this in better quality! Or the complete video of Chet, Liona Boyd and Lenny.

[bill park]

Chet will do wonderful things and drop back into the polished thumb/finger style that originally awed us about him. This has a comforting affect on most of us. Sometimes I think this troubled him....

At the very first CAAS convention in 1985, Chet performed an informal afternoon recital and took questions from the 50 or so of us that were there. Remember that by 1985, Chet had "abandoned" his familiar fingerstyle way of playing arrangements, and was going with a new, jazzier style (ala "Stay Tuned") on his new Gibson guitars. Someone asked Chet if he would ever go back to "playing his old way, on a Gretsch guitar." Chet was visibly annoyed with the question, and responded by simply saying "I don't know, maybe". The story illustrates to me how important it was to Chet to always be moving forward with his guitar-playing - trying new things, gaining new fans. I agree with Norm that it troubled him to have to "drop back into the polished thumb/finger style that originally awed us about him", because he never did go back to playing "Liza" on a Gretsch. I'm glad he was always forward-thinking and hanging around new players on the scene - Chet gave us a lot of great music in the 80's and 90's, too.

[emjaybee94]

Yes, I'm sure it has been posted before ... I already had it in my UTube collection. A great arrangement and so different to the recorded version as well. I know Chet had a great appreciation of Lenny and I'd be surprised if they didn't record more pieces that RCA have never released. Standard Brands is one of my favourite albums and, if previous Chet albums are anything to go by, there must have been a few alternate takes that were discarded.
Regards
Mike