Reply to "Bruce's guitar tuning"

I would never piss on Bruce's musicianship. Just his acoustic guitar playing. There's simply nothing special or terribly original about it. The strength of Bruce's craft is in his songwriting and his performance. He accompanies himself on the guitar appropriately for what he's trying to do, and it works for him because the people who go ga ga over him don't really care that he's not a guitar virtuoso. I know I don't.

Dude you gotta let go of the Drop D. If you really think you know what you're talking about, go play learn to play The Line on acoustic, LIKE BRUCE PLAYS IT. Yes, as I've said before, you CAN play the song in a standard tuning (or maybe your beloved drop D), but to get the REAL voicings that Bruce uses, you HAVE to use an alternate tuning. I know because I once sat down and figured it out back when Tom Joad came out. I'm almost certain the tuning he uses is an open chord voicing, as many of his later acoustic songs use.

Just to prove a point, I actually spent a few minutes watching the Youtube videos of the recent acoustic Incident performances with my guitar in my lap. Here's the tuning Bruce uses:

C - G - D - G - B - E

And then a capo on the 2nd fret.

Drop D my ass.