View Full Version : Have any of you heard this kid?
JiminRussia
Oct-10-2004, 9:39pm
I dare ya, I double dog dare ya to go to this URL and listen to this ten year old kid play "Sweet Georgia Brown", and it's the first time he ever played it? This aint fair. FOUL!! Someone Throw a penalty flag on this kid! http://scottgates.com/
Milan Christi
Oct-11-2004, 12:26am
I sometimes worry that this music will eventually fade into oblivion - this kind of thing gives me hope. Heck, I'll donate to the kid's college fund if he keeps playing.
Michael Lewis
Oct-11-2004, 12:51am
Scott Gates is very serious about playing mandolin, and he works hard at it. It's no wonder that you are impressed by one so young, as he has a rare talent for some complicated music. By the time he is an adult he should be a very polished and amazing musician, well, he is that now, but he is still a kid and will yet develop and refine his style with maturity. That is something to look forward to.
Frank Russell
Oct-11-2004, 8:35am
I've seen this young fella play in person now twice, at Southern California Bluegrass festivals, and he's twice as impressive in person, as is his Lewis mandolin. He's just a cool kid with spiky hair and skateboard t-shirts who looks like he's having a ball on stage. He's also extremely courteous and polite, and a pleasure to talk to. I wish him well. Frank
fatt-dad
Oct-11-2004, 8:43am
The devil lurks in the fumes - perfume and gasoline that is. . . . .
f-d
Mark53
Oct-11-2004, 9:15am
Young talent is a wonderful thing. I can appreciate it on a technical level. But, I listen to music for a different reason.
Music is an emotional art form. It requires a depth of understand and life experience that a 10 year old just doesn't have.
One of the reasons I am not a Bluegrass fan anymore is because of all the emphasis placed on technique and competition.
It should not discourage anyone trying to learn any instrument (at any age), to hear wonder kids tearing up the fretboard. Two notes from B.B. King says much more than 10,000 most players.
We should remember music is an art form not a competition.
SternART
Oct-11-2004, 9:19am
Yeah..the real deal...Scott is a student of Evan Marshall, the "Lone Arranger".......he was one of many wunderkinds at the Mandolin Symposium. There were about a dozen incredible youngin's there.....the future of the mandolin looks bright! It seems like Chris Thile has inspired a new generation to take up the mandolin.
We should remember music is an art form not a competition.
Well said.
And I'm looking forward to seeing where all these young players will be musically ten years from now
johnwalser
Oct-11-2004, 10:19am
Let's all chip in a few bucks, buy this kid a Play Station and get him off our backs. He also sounds very smooth on Ashokan Farewell on the audio clip.
John
Nathan Sanders
Oct-11-2004, 11:04am
Wow the kid is good. I can agree somewhat with what Mark53 referred to as the emotional aspect of music. Yes the kid is good, and I hope he broadens his musical horizons as he gets older. I'm sure he will. Technique is one thing, but depth is a whole other dimension that will really help him out in the future. He has a great start though.