Rainer Ptacek - Life Is Fine - on Jools Holland in 1993 video free download

Peter Türk

meine verehrung dir rainer

Billy Sedlmayr

the best ,,,

Carlos C

La letra es muy interesante de esta canción... se trata de un suicida que señala que la vida es buena... y Rainer Ptaceck, padece una enfermedad terminal al momento de interpretarla... 

Derek DePrator

for anybody wondering (I see the tuning post is from four years ago), to my knowledge, Rainer used regular ol' open D and open G on acoustic and open E and A on electric. there IS a song from the mid 80's on a bootleg (I think it's called Fear?) where he seems to be using an E6 tuning, EBEG#C#E, you can hear him crank up the B a whole step before the song starts. rainer isn't why I play slide guitar, but he changed my style forever. got to meet Howe and talk to him about Rainer once, it was amazing.

Jamie Holmes

Stunning performence. It dos reflect his health status I think. Play it like it your last go!

Hoopazero

I was a penniless student in Leeds when this was on TV. I was kinda transfixed, as I never saw a resonator played like this before. Paul Jones featured the album 'Worried Spirits' on his show the same week, which I kept on cassette until I found his CD, and it felt like some cosmic magnet was trying to tell me somethingAs I walked across Hyde Park in the following weeks to my lectures, I saw a tiny poster saying he was to appear at the Duchess pub. I presumed I wouldn't be able to get in/afford tickets, but when I got there no more than about 20 people were in the barRainer was pottering about on stage. I presumed he was an assistant, but then he sat down and played what is still the most destroying performance I ever witnessed. Thinking about it puts the hair up on the back of my neck. The little room may as well have had lightning strike everyoneThis was the first professional musician I ever saw gig, and I am pretty sure nothing is ever going to top it, unless I am sat in a small room with Dan Auerbach or Beck performingI always kept my eye out for another album to add to Worried Spirits in any store I went in, but this kind of music was pretty rare back then. Only when I got the internet did I find out how soon cancer took the guyMassive loss

Allen Donahue

Just recently introduced to Rainer's music. Simply incredible!!!

katina.svenska

Great song

Rebecca Horton

KXCI, community radio here in Tucson used to have 'all Rainer' weekends. I'd just turn the radio on and leave it on. Even slept while he played. It was the best thing EVER.

lucinations

Rainer was a huge part of my life.. I was very young so i never really understood the words.. I always just liked the way he played guitar.. listening now, I can understand why so many people were in love with his music.. -Dillon

hollywoodjack17

His riffs still echo in the dusty desert streets of Tucson,and we really miss him around here.....

Ali Ali

there is more emotion in 4 minutes of this song, than has come out of music industry in the last decade

guitarded71

Duolian, post-1934, pre-1936.

Marcel Brynard

So rad :D What tuning is he in??

Sini Nie

Rainer was so great. I miss him.Thank you from Germany.

Giselle Fauquet

I just discovered this and share it on Facebook a lot. I'm in love with this song...

zimmy81

yes im with you on that, he was special.

cheechforprez

I'll always join in, it's difficult to say anything about Rainer other than what's been said, his musical genius speaks for itself

GoodbyePanama

@RickWhatisee It is I think a national Duolian, 1928. I played it once for a few minutes, although not even in the same world as Rainer played. I knew him slightly thru mutual friends in bands. He was the sweetest guy, and it may sound funny, but there was something wise about him. His technique was incredible, yet he had so much more than that. You don't meet many people like him in your life.

Rick Trimmer

@WhiteNoiseBlack I'm not sure...maybe a National? I do think he got it at the music shop where he used to repair instruments

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