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Location: south east Michigan | We have a few tunes in the works.
A couple might become "A" songs.. a few might become fillers, some might not even get past the first run through.
Dream / Everly Bros. - On the suggestion of a good friend with impeccable credentials.
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To Make You Feel My Love / B. Joel & others - Because Lady Slipkid really, really likes it.
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Mr. Bojangles & Country Roads - Yes, they've been done to death and we might never play them out, but we like them.
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Freedom / McCartney - Tho it was given a chance it will never see the light of day. It's all hook and no substance. I'm sure Temp would agree.
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Bargain / The Who - Looks like it will be something less that an "A" song but more than a filler. It's something you never hear others cover and again, we like to play it.
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I Saw Her Standing There / Beatles - A good harmony song and damn fun to play. A real vocal stretcher.
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That Thing You Do / The Wonders - A 60's vibe that is right in our wheelhouse. Tho it's more complicated and busy than you might think.
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So... What's in your wallet?
You might try one of the above yourself and I might want to take a run at something you're doing. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I played an open mic last night and this woman had a great song, I was backing her up. She said she'd send me the chart and words.
Something like, "Just cause it's over doesn't mean it's the end" or something like that.
We did "Jalapinos" by the Bellamys, but it needs some more work |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Originally posted by Beal:
We did "Jalapinos" José Jalapeño ??? :D |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Mr. Bojangles & Country Roads - Yes, they've been done to death and we might never play them out, but we like them.
Kill it kill it kill it..............
There are HUNDREDS of songs you guys can knock out of the park that are better than those two.
Think Peter & Gordon, The Hollies, Dave Clark 5, Stones......... |
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Location: closely held secret | Have you guys tried "Bus Stop"? |
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Location: Flahdaw | I saw a guy do Carrie Ann/ Hollies on an acoustic on Youtube and it was very cool. |
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Location: Seacoast NH | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Bargain / The Who - Looks like it will be something less that an "A" song but more than a filler. It's something you never hear others cover and again, we like to play it.
My mates and I were just practicing this one last night for an upcoming March gig. Works well in a 3 piece acoustic setting -- nice and punchy. Just glad I don't have to do the singing! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | no, this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4j_9IQ6wzk |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | Yet another reason to like Ovation. |
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Location: south east Michigan | mbedard... March is a long way off but if you remember, I'd like to know how Bargain went over for you.
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Sorry T... We're going to play Country Roads and BoJangles at the next open mic we do and they're stayin' on the list. Fear not tho... chances are you'll never have to suffer through them. Same reason you'll never hear Wild Horses or Hallelujah. They're not the type to play at a TUS gathering.
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We play Bus Stop and Look Through Any Window once in a while in practice. We've just never polished them up enough to play out.
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We took a run at Carrie-Ann a long time ago. The hook is fun enough but the lyrics are kinda clunky. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Diamond Girl is a good old song for tasteful harmonies
Please Come to Boston also.
Sentimental Lady- Bob Weir
Railroad Lady- Jerry Jeff Walker |
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Location: Cicero, NY | "That Thing You Do" is a great tune written by the Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne. He was asked to write a tune that had that 60's vibe and period lyrics for the movie and, for a guy who wasn't even born back then, he absolutely nailed it. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Originally posted by Weaser P:
"That Thing You Do" is a great tune written by the Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne. He was asked to write a tune that had that 60's vibe and period lyrics for the movie and, for a guy who wasn't even born back then, he absolutely nailed it. Oh and I'm working on a couple of Jackson Browne numbers. Not the huge hits, more the second tier stuff. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I suppose the nice thing about never playing out is I don't have to worry about what the audiance might think, because my audiance is just me.
I'm currently working on the lead for As the Raven Flies, by Dan Fogelberg. Joe Walsh did the lead and fits the Am Pentatonic stuff I'm trying to learn. |
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Location: Flahdaw | As The Raven Flies...used to play that in college at The Wine Cellar. The females loved it.
I found this online: Fogey tabs |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by dark bar:
As The Raven Flies.. forgot about that one....nice and may have to add it to my "learn this tune" songlist |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've found lots of "tabs" of the chords, but never found one for the lead part. A couple weeks ago, I woke up around 3, which is typical, with the Raven stuck in my head, complete with the lead part. I don't know that I had listened to the song in months or years. I had been working on blues licks in Am for weeks and this one just fit.
My brain went from that lead part to the lead in Sultans of Swing and then Hotel California, but those aren't in Am. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | We're working more originals into the sets.
Next/current is Tequila Kiss, basically it's the backstory of
how the tattoo got there in Margarittaville.
(Nothin' is sure but this brand new tattoo...
..how it got here I haven't a clue" ) |
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Location: closely held secret | "Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo"
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Location: Flahdaw | He's thinking of the Canadian version.
"Waiting alone in Margaritaville" |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | It's that drawl thang.
Can't understand much of what you folks say.
Still, it's aboot the tattoo. |
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Location: Seacoast NH | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I've found lots of "tabs" of the chords, but never found one for the lead part. Run into this all the time. Speaking of which, if anyone has tab for the acoustic intro bit to Joe Bonamassa's version of "As the Crow Flies" please send it along. Sounds easy, but I can't for the life of me get it down. |
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Location: south east Michigan | fillhixx... Would you post the lyrixx? |
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| If I had No Place to Fall
Flying Shoes
Desperados Waiting for a Train
Immigrant Eyes
Pancho and Lefty
L A Freeway
Copperhead Road
St. John the Gambler
Nothin
To Live is To Fly
St. James Infirmary Blues
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | I like about anything by Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Little Feat or, for that matter, Muddy Waters. I will never ever play "Stay Here and Drink" by Merle Haggard again. I was in a band for 10 years and everytime we played, which was every weekend or so, we opened with that song. Love Merle. Hate that song now. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | How about Burt Reynolds 'Let's Do Something Cheap and Superficial'? |
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Location: closely held secret | Wasn't that pretty much his trademark? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by Weaser P:
"That Thing You Do" is a great tune written by the Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne. He was asked to write a tune that had that 60's vibe and period lyrics for the movie and, for a guy who wasn't even born back then, he absolutely nailed it. How true!
As I'm trying memorize this I realize that it has about every 60's cliche you can think of.
Major to Minor Chord changes, an extra litte bridge like Pretty Women, a place for a scream, and a very Beatle like last chord. And I'm sure there are more.
Then, a few layers down, there's some thought provoking sexual innuendo.... Just what is that thing she does??? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Just what is that thing she does??? Turns the lights down low, puts on soft music, lights handheld candles, then wearing nothing but a sheer gold lame' gown, he......oh wait! That thing "SHE" does??? Nevermind, thought you were talking about Weaser. Carry on.... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Here's the writer performing a striped down version. HERE |
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Location: SoCal | Brad, I've been doing that tune for a couple of years now, just solo guitar (key of A, capo'd at the 2nd fret -- E is just way too high!), and that video gave me a few things to think about and incorporate.
People like that tune. Everybody recognizes it and when you do it and watch the people listening, you can see them bobbing their heads and singling along. You and Brian could really do it justice.... |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Brad, I've been doing that tune for a couple of years now, just solo guitar I'm pretty sure there are more than three chords in that song Paul! What's up with that? |
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Location: SoCal | Not the way I do it! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | After you've been married 30+ years "that thing you do" usually refers to one of your bad habits. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Also, some kind of odor is invariably involved... |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
After you've been married 30+ years "that thing you do" usually refers to one of your bad habits. Originally posted by dark bar:
Also, some kind of odor is invariably involved...  |
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Location: closely held secret | I'm pretty sure a song played in A on a guitar capo'd at the second fret would be in the key of B... |
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Location: Texas | Maybe he is capo'ing in the other direction. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Flahdaw | He plays in A, tunes to B, and sings in D- |
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Location: Utah | D- is one half step better than F |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Hey Brad. Did you ever nail 'Overkill'? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Nailed?
Well... you know how you hit a nail a little sideways and it kinda bends over? Then you tap it back sideways to get it straight but it's now weaker and it just bends again?
Yeah... I nailed it.
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I take a run at it about once a week. It's my first venture into altered tuning land. I'll get it ... sooner or later. |
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Location: Flahdaw | The best OVERKILL |
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Location: south east Michigan | Yeah... I like that one to.
Wait till you hear it in Temp's DADGAD tuning or Cliff's weird "I don't know what the hell he's doing tuning.
Overkill in DADGAD sounds complicated and artsy-fartsy but it's so easy to play.
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I don't want to start sounding like the new Andy Rooney but...
Have you ever noticed how difficult it can be to learn lyrics when all the rhymes end with... "shun"?
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Attention
Situa-shun
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Location: closely held secret | Well, see. Right there, 3 out of those 11 syllables are the same. Less to remember. |
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Location: closely held secret | I've been working on "Hills of Morning" for years. Harder than I thought, but Cockburn's stuff usually is.
Right now I'm trying to come up with an acceptable solo guitar arrangement for "Fountain of Sorrow". |
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Location: Flahdaw | Speaking of Cockburn, I tried playing "Pacing The Cage", but even though I can play and sing it, I just can't make it interesting, so I gave it up.
Seems to me that "Fountain of Sorrow" is all about the lyrics. I don't think the melody is all that outstanding to make a great solo guitar piece, jmho. |
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Location: south east Michigan | DB..
There is a message for you to find.
So take this clue and engage your mind.
To play Overkill as clear as a bell
Seek enlightenment where the suspect dwells.
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Location: NJ | I play "Overkill" in StandardTuning with a PartialCapo.
I play "FountainOfSorrow" on th'LongNeck . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by dark bar:
Seems to me that "Fountain of Sorrow" is all about the lyrics. I don't think the melody is all that outstanding to make a great solo guitar piece, jmho. Sorry, didn't mean as a "solo guitar piece", but as a song accompanied on solo guitar. There's a lot of musical nuance in it that while easily expressed on a piano, is not so easy on a guitar. At least not for me. So the accompaniment comes across as boring and drags down the whole song.
Originally posted by cliff:
I play "FountainOfSorrow" on th'LongNeck . . . That's something I hadn't tried. Thanks, Cliff! |
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Location: south east Michigan | In every example I've seen "That Thing You Do" is played in starting in E. But to get any vocal leverage I have to start it with a C (the peoples chord).
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That makes 4 songs that could use a longneck.
Let's see... a minimum of $600... divided by 4 songs... times frequency played.... nope... the math still doesn't work out. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Brad....you are looking at a longneck the wrong way.
With a capo, the longneck can play EVERYTHING you currently play in the same key as before...PLUS you can play all those songs that are just a hair out of your comfortable singing range.
And because of it's brilliant design and sound, it sounds so much bigger and fuller than a guitar in standard tuning...and I have found this big and full sound to translate even to sounds that are capo'ed up to standard E and above.
Like I have said before, locally I use the Longnecks for all my open mics and then capo up when/if required/desired! |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Let's see... a minimum of $600... divided by 4 songs... times frequency played.... nope... the math still doesn't work out. yeah but... GAS tends to trump logic and reason. OK maybe not funding math... although there's always MasterCard! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Tho we both like the chord changes, That Thing You Do is out... for now. It just didn't click.
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To Make You Feel My Love is still in along with newcomers Wild Nights & In My Room.
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Location: SoCal | Slipkid wrote:
In every example I've seen "That Thing You Do" is played in starting in E. But to get any vocal leverage I have to start it with a C (the peoples chord).
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Too bad about That Thing You Do. I ended up learning it in Bb, with a capo at the 3rd fret. Makes it real easy for solo guitar to approximate the short solo... |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'd be interested to hear you play it Paul.
Next time we run into eachother, okay? |
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