Fellow YouTube guitarist Rhett Shull showing us how to play in context. Also, amazing voices!

I saw this amazing super group live back in the day. I had just picked up the guitar and there I was watching Steve Howe and Steve Hackett play right in front of me. It seemed an impossible hill to climb.

Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii after Mexican cowboys introduced Spanish guitars there in the late 19th century. The Hawaiians did not embrace the tuning of the traditional Spanish guitars they encountered. They re-tuned the guitars to sound a chord (now called an "open tuning") and developed their own style of playing, not using a flat pick, but plucking the strings. Most slack-key tunings can be achieved by starting with a guitar in standard tuning and detuning or "slacking" one or more of the strings until the six strings form a single chord, frequently G major.

And the lyrics are:

My love
Where are you
And I turned to you
Where are you, love?
The drizzle of the rain
And here it is with me
In the bosom of love

I grew up with Dave in a town in Maryland called Beltsville. He would ditch our whiffle ball games to go practice bass and I didn't understand why. I do now. While this band is no longer together, Dave still plays around Maryland. He writes his own music (including this song) and plays guitar also. Check out Dave Phenicie Music on Facebook. BTW, that's Phil Hurley on lead guitar. Great stuff.

Sorry I missed the last request live. This would have been my contribution. Great surf tones! If someone asked me what Fender guitars and amps sound like I would send them this video.

Great example of hybrid picking at it's best.