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#47742 by gbheil
Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:36 pm
Very nice analogy fret. Thanks.

#47786 by HowlinJ
Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:49 am
fretwork wrote:
HowlinJ wrote:Fretwork,
I'm really startin' to dig to dig Delicado. Gave it another listen and couldn't keep my leg from stompin'! Puts me to mind of some kind of East European folk song.

Thanks for the compliments on the ol' Otis cover :D

My last band did a cover of Booker T & the MG's version of a theme from one of those Eastwood movies.(Can't recal the name at the moment,Old Age Moment! :evil: )

How far is Brick from the Delaware Water Gap?

Happy Thanksgivin'
Howlin'


Howling, Delicado is an old Latin folk tune from South America not sure from which country if I have to guess I’d say Brazil, this tune has giving me a steady gig in a local Lounge/restaurant called Bar Europe patronized by south of the border people and Americans as well it seems that around here I'm the only one who knows the song, when I play it the all place goes nuts, it's not uncommon for people to request this tune two and even three times during the gig.

Ah, Booker T and the MG, who can forget Green onions? I didn’t know they covered spaghetti western themes I'll have to search on YouTube for it you got me curious now.

I can relate to the forgetting part, these senior moments seem to happen with alarming frequency lately, I blame the beer not the age, some might say that I'm delusional but I’m sticking to my version until they can prove me wrong lol.

Bricktown is about 70 miles from Delaware water gap traveling on Rt 80West for me and Rt 80 east for you, the town is located 1 hour South from new York City and 45 minutes North of Atlantic City right on the Atlantic Ocean, if you ever come to the Jersey shores look me up I’ll do the same if I ever travel to Delaware water gap.
Happy thanksgiving to you as well friend and the rest of Bandmix community.


Fretwork,
A good Thanksgiving feast and a discussion with my bass playing and band mate son has jogged my memory as to the title of that old Hugo theme that we covered from the Booker T version!

HANG 'EM HIGH! :D

Here's a link.... (Couldn't find the MG's version, but here's the movie original!) Gotta still find that MG version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylY9wlnT ... re=related

#47811 by fretwork
Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:49 pm
HowlinJ wrote:Still can't find the Booker T version, but these cats do an excellent cover!
Check 'em out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf6Mc_HcVDc


Howling the two guys rendition (keys and G-tar) was cool, thanks for the link, although I'vee seen the movie the sound track escaped me at the time, too bad coz it is one of those melodies that I like.

When I think about these Italians Western's theme composers I wonder where did they get their ideas or inspiration being from Italy and not from the US? The answer IMO is that these guys went through the same process that the Brits did went they got into Rock and Roll, just by listening to American spawn music, in Rock and Roll they listened to Chess Records, Stax records, Motown, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and many others, while for Western music IMO they got ideas from tunes like "Ghost Riders in the Sky", "Apache", Franky lane's "OK Corral" and a lot more stuff that I'm not familiar with.

Music in any genre is a huge Pyramid of musical ideas, it doesn't matter how innovative or creative one thinks s/he is, chances are that whatever is written consciously or unconsciously came from the past.

But if it sounds good I don't care.
Have a good one H.J.

#47819 by Paleopete
Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:37 pm
I've tried to get a couple of bands to attempt the theme track from the TV show Bonanza, I've always thought that would be a good one to rock up a bit, ditto for Mission Impossible but Metallica already trashed that one...actually it wasn't a bad job of it, but I wouldn't have opted for a metal version myself, just a heavy duty guitar based one. I just don't like Metallica...never did, and especially after they started trying to sue people who had Napster accounts even though they had never downloaded any of their songs. One friend hated them but still got a subpoena...she told me she heard them once, hated it and never wanted to hear them again, but one day she found a subpeona in the mail.. Never did find out what happened, but I'm pretty sure it was dropped once the court found out she hated the group and would never listen to them.

The one I wanna see someone try is Michael Olfield's Tubular Bells...from The Exorcist...he did all that by himself, pretty impressive I think...one of my favorite albums.

Not being a big movie buff I can't think of any but I know I've heard a number of pretty impressive tracks, and a bit of trivia here too. I never knew it, but Harry Chapin, creator of the monster hit "Taxi" and lesser one "Cat's in the Cradle" in the 60's pretty much disappeared after those two, I never heard much from him after that. When he died in a car crash/heart attack years later I found out he had also written bunches of movie scores. They weren't sure if the car crashed caused his heart attack or the other way around...

I also saw Trevor Rabin's name listed for music credits for one movie I have here on VHS or DVD, not sure which one though...(Guitar for Yes, among other credits, if you're not familiar with the name)

And back to some comments about Roy Buchanan, I saw him once on TV and was really surprised to see he did all that on a Telecaster and just stood there, barely moved at all, stood there almost motionless and absolutely wailed...very few people I've ever seen could squeeze that much sound out of a guitar...but just stand there??? wow...

#47822 by philbymon
Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:50 pm
Pete - I got the impression that Roy had stage fright really bad. Yeah, he never moved, & he looked petrified by the audience. When I saw him, he kept chewing his nails between the verses that he sang! But when he started wailing on those incredible leads, I noticed he used his fingers to play them, & not a pick.

In various bands, I've played "Mission Impossible," but never managed to get "Bonanza" down, either.

I had tickets to see Harry Chapin, but he died two weeks before the performance date I had tickets for. He also had a minor hit with "W-O-L-D," about an aging radio DJ. I used to like some of his stuff, & still play "Taxi" & "Cat's Cradle" at every solo show I do. Never heard of him doing a movie score, though.

#47926 by fretwork
Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:15 pm
Paleopete wrote:I've tried to get a couple of bands to attempt the theme track from the TV show Bonanza, I've always thought that would be a good one to rock up a bit, ditto for Mission Impossible but Metallica already trashed that one...actually it wasn't a bad job of it, but I wouldn't have opted for a metal version myself, just a heavy duty guitar based one. I just don't like Metallica...never did, and especially after they started trying to sue people who had Napster accounts even though they had never downloaded any of their songs. One friend hated them but still got a subpoena...she told me she heard them once, hated it and never wanted to hear them again, but one day she found a subpeona in the mail.. Never did find out what happened, but I'm pretty sure it was dropped once the court found out she hated the group and would never listen to them.

The one I wanna see someone try is Michael Olfield's Tubular Bells...from The Exorcist...he did all that by himself, pretty impressive I think...one of my favorite albums.

Not being a big movie buff I can't think of any but I know I've heard a number of pretty impressive tracks, and a bit of trivia here too. I never knew it, but Harry Chapin, creator of the monster hit "Taxi" and lesser one "Cat's in the Cradle" in the 60's pretty much disappeared after those two, I never heard much from him after that. When he died in a car crash/heart attack years later I found out he had also written bunches of movie scores. They weren't sure if the car crashed caused his heart attack or the other way around...

I also saw Trevor Rabin's name listed for music credits for one movie I have here on VHS or DVD, not sure which one though...(Guitar for Yes, among other credits, if you're not familiar with the name)

And back to some comments about Roy Buchanan, I saw him once on TV and was really surprised to see he did all that on a Telecaster and just stood there, barely moved at all, stood there almost motionless and absolutely wailed...very few people I've ever seen could squeeze that much sound out of a guitar...but just stand there??? wow...


Peleopete, I have to agree about Metallica getting too greedy with Napster, these guys were made millionaires by the fans but for Lars (the drummer) giving a bit back to the fans was stealing. It needs to be pointed out that Napster came at the end of Metallica career not in the beginning when every Cd sale counts to an emerging band.

Another one who I lost respect for Is Prince, try to Google his song "purple rain anywhere on the Internet, you'll find that the video plays but the sound has been muted, not only on his own performances but also with anybody that has covered that song, how's that for being cheap and greedy.

Wow Tubular bells would be a great theme to cover, I never thought of that, I'd do it but as you know to cover a tune one has to learn it by heart first before attempting to do anything toward covering it, I don't know it well enough to do it, perhaps in the future somebody on Band Mix will come up with with his/ hers rendition.

Be well.

#47928 by philbymon
Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:28 pm
Couldn't get through Delicado, & I feel badly about that. It simply needs to be re-recorded, fret.

Promontory is one I have heard before, with different instrumentation. I like your rendition a lot. Very Jean-Michael Jarre-ish in places. Nice work.

#47933 by fretwork
Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:57 pm
philbymon wrote:Couldn't get through Delicado, & I feel badly about that. It simply needs to be re-recorded, fret.

Promontory is one I have heard before, with different instrumentation. I like your rendition a lot. Very Jean-Michael Jarre-ish in places. Nice work.


Philby sorry for Delicado, I'll have to re do it I guess, I remember a while back you did initiate a thread about novelty song, well I'm going to remove Delicado and replace it with a novelty tune.

Hope you'll give it a shot.

Be well

#47938 by philbymon
Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:44 pm
Fret, I gotta tell ya, I like this one a lot. Ya know, listening to all the bluesy stuff in here gets me realizing that I'm not really that bored with it after all. Still don't wanna do just blues in any band, though, LOL.

Good mix. Good vocals. Harmonica isn't overdone. Tight fit in that band, man.

Cute idea for a novelty tune, too.

Is this live?

#47939 by fretwork
Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:11 pm
philbymon wrote:Fret, I gotta tell ya, I like this one a lot. Ya know, listening to all the bluesy stuff in here gets me realizing that I'm not really that bored with it after all. Still don't wanna do just blues in any band, though, LOL.

Good mix. Good vocals. Harmonica isn't overdone. Tight fit in that band, man.

Cute idea for a novelty tune, too.

Is this live?


Yes Philby it was done live, I was never too crazy about this tune but in some beer joint is popular so it gets us gigs.
Be well

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