Tuesday, June 24, 2025

It's Beach Boys Week: Part V -- Okay, Okay, I Promise to Lay Off the Beach Boys Shit For the Forseeable Future, But You Gotta Hear This One So Indulge Me!

Alrighty then -- please behold in breathless wonder as some kid named Kent Nishimura does a solo acoustic version of The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows."

My god, that's gorgeous. And unlike classical guy Göran Söllscher, whose cover of The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" I posted yesterday, the kid's doing it all on a conventional six-string guitar.

Damn, but I hate talented people. That said, you can find out more about the kid at his website over here.

And okay -- I promise we return to music NOT written by people from Hawthorne, California on the morrow, and for at least the next week and a half after that. 😎

[h/t Jai Guru Dave]

7 comments:

Shriner said...

I give up and am going to sell all my guitars. This was beautiful.

steve simels said...

I know the feeling, my friend. 😎

Alzo said...

A beautiful tune done with splendid feeling.
As long as the subject is guitar, RIP Mick Ralphs.

pete said...

kid's got great hands - love that thumb!

Rob said...

No doubt about his talent. Remember this - Well there'our fifteen hundred and sixteen guitar players in Nashville and they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a Tennesse anthill.
The kids talent is yet to be recognized, he plays really well but so do that thousand pickers we never have heard.
Paisley Good, Steve Morse - listen to the Dixie Dregs
rob

getawaygoober said...

Watch Rick Beato's breakdown of the song. Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrpxOva8rBQ

mistah charley, ph.d. said...

speaking as an amateur keyboardist, the thumbnail percussion was new to me

in general, in this world in which we live in, in these days of modern times, music soothes my mind - and even the grief felt when a great is gone is, understood correctly, another side of love

as your people say, correctly, may the memory be a blessing