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Location: GA USA | Please take a look at this tab:
The Last Nail
At the end of the first verse and the electric break... is that right?
I was thinking of bringing some Fogelberg tribute songs to the g8rbowl :
The Last Nail, Old Tennessee, Crow, Tell Me To My Face... I know Jim likes Changing Horses... |
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Location: closely held secret | I've always played it Am. I'll have to listen to it again, but it's out in the car.
I think Cliff plays it.
Don't forget As the Raven Flies! |
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Location: NJ | The electric break alternates between Am7 and D.
btw; "Tell Me to My Face" is a Hollies tune . . . |
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Location: GA USA | The one on "Twin Sons"?
Thanks. I knew the A major was screwy. |
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Location: GA USA | I'm about to become blasphemous. I used to listen to Fogelberg a lot. A lot. My college roommate and I had the complete songbook (which I think covered through Phoenix at the time).
Listening back, many of the songs and arrangements are now what I'd classify as "dippy" with a sugary sweetness that's hard to digest. I went to itunes to buy some for the ipod and came away with:
Old Tennessee
Crow
The Last Nail
Hard To Say
Scarecrow's Dream
Changing Horses
As The Raven Flies
Some of these I wanted because they take me back to a certain place in time. I just found it interesting that I've changed so much, and gotten grungier in my taste as I've aged. And it's telling that I had several of his albums on vinyl, and not a one on CD. |
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Location: closely held secret | I admit I didn't get much past the first 4 (after that he got a little too MOR for me) - but those first four albums have been near the top of my list for 30 years... |
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Location: NJ | He DID "jump the shark" with "Longer", but the "The Innocent Age" was his masterpiece, and the stuff with Weissberg was brilliant.
Saccharin-tinged?? . . . yeah.
At least he was original.
Nowadays, it's pretty much a bunch of asswipes who have to tune down to Eb because they have sh!t singing voices and fall in line with all the indiscernible bands who all wanna sound like Nickleback/Staind/InsertNameHere.
One of the reasons I wanted out of bar gigs was that I was tired/bored of singing/playing that sh!t week after week . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'll fess up, too. Fogelberg was right up with Croce in my book, although I gave up on him when he went country on us with High Country Snows. I never could learn his songs with the alternate tunings and now I can't sing as high as he did, but I can sing an octave lower.
I've had the sheet music for Longer since the mid 70's, probably for our wedding, but I'm finally learning it now that I found a tab that does it in an open D tuning. The tab is wrong in a couple spots. I've had his greatest hits in the CD player in the car since he died. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | "I know Jim likes changing horses"....Capt, was that a dig at my trading practices? |
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Location: GA USA | Sorry Trader. I was saying that BegginJim likes it, because I know he likes it.
But it would have made a good line about you, if I were clever enough to have come up with it. |
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Location: ms | I think Fogelberg did some of his best work later " Wild Places" "Full Circle", but I will always favor his early stuff. If you go through his stuff he hardly ever used alternate tunings, at most double dropped D. He did layer guitar tracks a lot on his acoustic stuff and often used a high strung guitar. |
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Location: GA USA | In case you're not monitoring the g8rbowl thread, here's a PDF I made of some Fogelberg songs. Additions or corrections welcome.
Fogelsongs PDF |
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The Last Nail - chord help