Fantastic, Gordon. Loved the playing and singing. That guitar is sounding sweet. Great song choice too. Your one takes are always bob on. Nice work on the riff also.
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Loved it Gordon. Really great performance and loved how you incorporated the riff. Take a 
bow.
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Another fine performance, Gordon. Maybe the odd hiccup but certainly well enough that I recognised and remembered it on hearing you play it, despite never being a Phil Collins fan (other than that drum fill 
) at all. You really have pushed the envelop a little recently with licks and riffs as well the normal consumate playing and singing.
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@stitch
Thanks Rick. Much appreciated.
@MAT1953
Glad you enjoyed it Michael. Yes adding riffs adds an extra dimension.
@Ronin_Soul @Jeff @mathsjunky
Thanks for listening and taking time to comment guys.
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Lovely, Gordon. Great job on playing the RIFF several times and doing great each time. Great job on your pick/strums. I always enjoy your beautiful ā unpluggedā performances. Thanks for the chance to hear a Phil Collins cover. Heās a favorite of mine too.
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Hi James. Haha yes Buster is a good movie with a few good songs on the soundtrack. Thanks for the listen and well done with the album cover cryptic clues. 
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I agree Trond. 
Thanks for the listen and kind comments.
@jkahn Thanks JK. Glad I brought back a childhood memory.
@RadekSiechowicz Thanks Radek!
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Glad you enjoyed the song choice Shane and thanks for the supportive comments. Yes I thought it was important to include the repeated riff as that is really the thing that makes this song instantly recognisable.
@brianlarsen
Thanks for the listen and support Brian.
Funny you should say that Brian. To play in the original key itās capo fret 1. Although having said that, the original must be tuned very slightly differently because with capo at fret 1 itās just not quite right. Not noticeable when strumming, just a tiny bit out for the riff. Either that or my tuner isnāt accurate! 
Anyway, I tried singing with no capo and with the capo on various frets and I just couldnāt find the right pitch for my voice. I ended up with a choice of a bit too high or a bit too low. I settled on capo fret 2, a bit too low, but it sounded less strained although I agree with you that I lost power.
Gordon, enjoyed the guitar and vocals for this song. I had never thought of playing this on an acoustic, so I have added another song to my must play some day list. I am happy to go 1 minute without a major hiccup on my playing when I add any riffs to my strumming, so I am impressed with the one take.
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Oh how I love your or perhaps itās Google translateās turn of phrase Rogier
Glad you enjoyed my choice of song. Yes youāre right. I think this is my first video with blinds drawn and the lights on!
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Maybe Brian Larsen has got ants, ants and more ants stuck in Rogierās head. I think thereās a story here 
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This kind of ā¦kuchā¦stuff ā¦ google canāt help meā¦(usually not) with that,
and James @Socio , I didnāt click on it (very busy now )but I put all the antās stuff in Brianās head and now I canāt stop it anymoreā¦and I also sometimes use Google Translate as an excuse to get away with something (but it sometimes creates and changes ridiculous sentences that later mysteriously change in the crazy story ??? and if I forget to check that, it says sometimes something very badā¦ sometimes something funny and sometimes something completely incomprehensible (and the latter can sometimes just be me 
)
I just saw again somewhere in a thread that people often donāt understand me or donāt want to understandā¦ it doesnāt matter, not everyone can have to like the style, explaining it exactly is often difficult and takes too much time and people just need to make a little more effort doing
As long as we can laugh it`s all good 
Greetings
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You guysā¦ always heading straight for the lowest common denominator 
You left out my favourite, James 
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Hello Gordon, what a beautiful rendition of this song 
!
I particularly like the dynamic changes of your strumming and the smooth way how you incorporated the melody. Itās not easy to make it sound so effortless. You did great on it 
. And as I listened to it today, itās a Wednesday One Take to me .
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@CD02 @Dro_1
Thanks so much for taking time to listen and comment guys. Much appreciated.
@Silvia80
Thanks Silvia. Glad you enjoyed the song. As for getting a microphone from Santa, I find learning guitar is enough for me. Iām not going down that rabbit hole.
@skinnyt @SDKissFan @CATMAN62
Trevor, Jeff, Tod. Thanks guys. As always, I appreciate you taking time to listen and comment.
Youāre so right Tod.
@Jwaters @SgtColon @Eddie_09
Iām so pleased you guys enjoyed the song. Yes, the riff is the āhookā that makes the song.
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Thanks David. Nothing wrong with a strum a dum song of course but in order to push myself on Iām trying to include some note picking of one type or another in my songs. Unfortunately that makes the songs more difficult to get right so might mean the end of the āone takesā .
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Hi Gordon,
I enjoyed this a lot. What a great performance. I particularly liked the way you switched between up-down strumming to just down strokes to vary the dynamics: very effective.
The acoustic duo at my local bar often perform this song and I always enjoy hearing it, so Iām glad I found some time to listen to your performance.
Cheers,
Keith
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@pkboo3
Hi Pam. Glad you enjoyed my version of the song and that youāre also a Phil Collins fan. Yes the riff was fun to learn and play.
Yes the original is a piano song with little acoustic guitar fills here and there but with a bit of experimentation you can pretty much make any song your own on solo acoustic guitar. Iām pleased you enjoyed my take on it.
@NicoleKKB @Majik
Thanks for the listen Nicole and Keith. Iām pleased you both enjoyed the strum change dynamic. As Iāve said to others above, the original is quite different with multiple instruments, drums etc. So I tried to add my own āinterestā.
Thanks again for taking time to listen and comment.
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