The Rest ... Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers Band,
Peter Green, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana,
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Black Crowes, Free,
Richard Thompson, Three Dog Night
Off the Top of My Head Audio Adrenaline, Badfinger, David Bromberg,
Eddie Cochran, Joe Cocker, Shirley Collins,
Kevin Coyne, CCR, CSN&Y, Fairport Convention,
Rory Gallagher, Steeleye Span, ...
Covers found on the Internet of songs by
The Beatles, Peter Green,
The Rolling Stones, The Band, and Traffic
The Best ...
I'm an unusual Beatles fan: my favorite album is the "Spectorized"
Let It Be. My favorite song is "I
Dig A Pony"; my second favorite is "Day Tripper" or "Get Back"; my
third favorite is ... oh, what the heck - did they have any bad
songs?
Several Eddie Cochran records,
including some live BBC recordings. Eddie Cochran, who supposedly inspired
the Beatles, performed "Twenty-Flight Rock" and "Summertime Blues", but my
favorite song of his is "Pink-Pegged Slacks": "... I've gotta have those
peggers - What is this, man, a joke?"!
The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, in
which they jam to the tune of "Hey Jude" in the middle of Traffic's
"Dear Mr. Fantasy".
Doris Troy's
Doris Troy album (with "Ain't That Cute") on Apple.
Jackie Lomax's Is This What
You Want? album (with "Sourmilk Sea") on Apple.
Peter
Skellern's Hard Times album includes a song or two on
which George plays.
The Beatles on Hammond Organ
... Kings Road band plays Beatles. ...
Billy Preston's Live European Tour includes several Beatles songs.
Leon Russell's fantastic
Leon Russell album contains "Hummingbird", a song written by,
or co-written with, George, who also plays slide on it.
Beatles music book - in Japanese!
Music books for John's Sometime in New York City and
Paul's Wildlife.
A copy of Brian Epstein's book, Cellarful of Noise.
(If I remember correctly, it was actually written by Derek Taylor.)
From Beggars' Banquet through Goat's Head Soup.
Their earlier albums were, well, early. I gave up on their later albums
during the disco craze and I haven't followed them since. My favorite
album is Sticky Fingers. My favorite song? Hmmm ... probably
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking", but
I'll have to say that I consider "Honky Tonk Women" to be the
rock song of all rock songs. [Although Three Dog Night's recording of
"Joy to the World" (Hoyt Axton) gives it a run for the money.]
Mick Taylor: Past and Present - Carol Rock's tribute to Mick Taylor.
An easier-on-the-eyes
version (Wayback Machine) of her writings, collected on one web page.
I have (or had) a commercial, reel-to-reel tape of an album by
Arthur
Conley that included Duane on "Stuff You Gotta Watch". (More
Sweet Soul?) (Duane also apparently played on Conley's version
of the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da".)
Do you believe in
miracles
(Wayback Machine)? Then believe in
Peter Green.
Back, mellower perhaps, and as good as ever!
He's possibly my favorite guitarist. If you like Peter Green too, make sure
you pick up Gary Moore's Blues
for Greeny album, a collection of tastefully done remakes of Peter Green
tunes from Green's John Mayall and Fleetwood Mac days. Although Gary Moore is
no Peter Green in the vocal department, his guitar playing is beautiful and the
songs are played with the dignity they deserve.
February
11, 1970 at the Fillmore East in New York City, NY. Peter, Mick
Fleetwood, and the Allman Brothers play on "Dark Star", "Spanish Jam", and
"Lovelight". Cussion posted a
picture
and chiliD
identified
the folks on-stage.
(Show
notes)
... Guitars
n' Stuff ... (Wayback Machine) - has guitar tablature for a number of
early Fleetwood Mac and Peter Green songs. You'll need to download the
free tablature editor,
Power Tab, in order to display the
songs.
Jeremy Spencer - is
his site. On-line music, interviews, and more!
Kay-Uwe Graw's Sliding Zone -
has guitar tablature for some old Fleetwood Mac and new Peter Green slide
guitar numbers.
Michael Sawley's
Mike's
Guitar Site - has guitar tablature for a number of early Bluesbreakers
and Fleetwood Mac songs. (Visit his
home page for other bands'
tabs.)
"Green Manalishi";
the latter "is the '74 4 piece with Doug Graves on xtra keys ... Jaime
said this was 'Hampstead' ... maybe Long Island NY, I'm not sure ..."
The Blue Pearls - a Swedish
band that plays a mix of original compositions and old Fleetwood Mac songs.
Their CD, Watch
Out, features Peter Green's "Watch Out" and "Rattlesnake Shake";
the CD is not available yet, but you can download MP3s of the songs. Be
sure and read about Bela's
meetings with Peter
Green over the years (1968-1999).
"All The
Time" - "Song based around a typical Greeny lick." Sort of
like "Need Your Love So Bad".
"Can't Change The
Past" - "based around a typical greeny lick." The original MP3.com
version was done with John Edmonds' son, Andrew. The link takes you to
a new version with the Essex Blues Band. (Similar to "If You Be My
Baby")
The following artists made their music available through
MP3.com, which went out of business in December 2003.
Fortunately, I had already downloaded their songs (and purchased a number of
the albums). I apologize for the invalid MP3.com links and, as time permits,
I will attempt to track down the artists and update the links.
"Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen/My Favorite Things" - 10:40 live,
Santana-style. "Peter Green's rock/blues classic done as only Mike
Robles and Mona Leigh could render it ... 11:11 minutes of incredible
live performance recorded live at JJ's Blues Cafe in Mtn. View, CA. by
Mona Leigh and Strangers With Candy."
Mike Salmon:
"Albatross"
Shagadoo Wilson N' Tha Baa Loo's:
"Black Magic Woman" - live, Santana-style.
Eric Clapton
62 Reasons It's Great To Be Eric Clapton (from the cover of
Musician magazine, February 1990):
Only Englishman who can play blues
Doesn't have to do reunion tour
All the Michelob you can drink
Howlin' Wolf likes you more than Ringo
Saw Muddy Waters ride tricycle
No hammer-ons
Had afro in '68
Got caught holding the bag for Buddy Guy
People light matches when you walk out
Pals with George Harrison
Pals with Patti Harrison
Married Patti Harrison
Still pals with George Harrison
Still afraid of Robert Johnson
Used to be God
You don't lie, you don't lie, you don't lie
Hung with Hendrix
Employed Duane Allman
Still alive
I like his work from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers through Derek
and the Dominos. Before that, his playing was too raw and, after that, his
playing was too polished. (In my humble and not so knowledgeable opinion -
I have no post-Dominos albums.)
Does the phrase "liquid gold" capture the essence of his guitar playing?
What I've got that you may not have:
The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper,
which featured Carlos Santana on a couple of songs. Disappointing -
he hadn't fully developed his style yet.
Eric Clapton is undoubtedly rock's greatest guitarist, but SRV was as one
with his instrument. I first heard/saw him on what must have been a rerun
of his 1983 performance on Austin City Limits and I was
immediately hooked. I just got the video of the Austin City
Limits performances and relived the magic all over again. I could
give or take the later performances, but 1983's was just incredible.
And, yes, that was SRV playing "Pipeline" with Dick Dale in
Back
to the Beach (Wayback Machine)!
The Sky is Crying -
"Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble".
Jeff Healey
I first heard and saw Jeff Healey performing on a TV talk show; the song was
"Confidence Man" and, needless to say, I went out and bought the cassette,
See the Light. I would give the album a mixed review. His second
album (not including the Road House soundtrack), Hell to
Pay, was better, with cuts like "Full Circle", "I Can't Get My Hands on
You", and "Hell to Pay". Still, I don't listen to either album very often.
I love the faster high-energy songs like the tracks mentioned above. The
slower and mellower songs generally leave me cold - either the material just
isn't that good or his voice just doesn't fit these types of songs.
The third album, Feel This, struck me as kind of disco-y at first.
However, I recorded it on one side of a cassette and
Dan Baird's Love Songs for the
Hearing Impaired on the other and the cassette soon became one of my
favorites, albeit a little bit loud!
Cover to Cover, of course, is great - although I just discovered
that the British version has 4 extra songs! I would love to hear some of the
bootleg albums formerly listed on
Karen
West's (Wayback Machine) discography page: Cream, Hendrix, and Santana
songs, and performing with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.
Their first album, Shake Your Money Maker, made me think, "Hey,
a new, late 60's, early 70's Rolling Stones!" Their second album, The
Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, was a seamless progression of
good songs; it reminded of Abbey Road.
Their next two albums, Amorica (with the expurgated cover) and
Three Snakes and One Charm, never seemed to get the adrenalin
going and a number of the songs seemed to be recycling melodies and riffs I'd
heard elsewhere ... fast-forward several years into the future ...
Hmmm ... the albums grow on you after repeated listenings - the songs are
actually pretty good!
And then, By Your Side. Now we're talking. This is the Black
Crowes we all know and love.
I played violin for 5 or 6 years when I was young and Little Richard
was right: "The same beat you find in rock, you find in Bach!" Or to
paraphrase him with regard to violins and guitars, "The same lead you
find in rock, you find in Bach." Listen to
Itzhak
Perlman perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D and
you'll know what I mean. I also like Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi - pretty much
any violin music in their styles.
My violin teacher was Laura McKinnon at Dale Music in Silver Spring, MD.
One Christmas, my brother Pete gave me the classical guitar that our
parents had given him, but that he had never played! Miss McKinnon
recommended Tony Norris, also at Dale, as a guitar teacher. So, for three
months, I took classical guitar and violin lessons simultaneously. I had
seen Mr. Norris in the hallway and he had a bulldog kind of face - the
kind of face that made a young kid want to blend into the wall whenever Mr.
Norris passed by. After my first guitar lesson, however, I reported to
Miss McKinnon that, despite his mean look, Mr. Norris was actually a very
nice man! She got a big laugh out of that. A short time later they
announced their engagement. No, I can take no credit for unveiling the
nice guy underneath the tough exterior - I believe they already knew each
other! Two wonderful teachers.
Mr. and Mrs. Norris are the owners (since 1972) of
Bertha's Restaurant in Baltimore, MD.
You might have seen their "EAT BERTHA'S MUSSELS" bumper stickers out on the
road. Here's a little
history of the
place, along with a recipe and directions. The Food Channel had a show about
them some years ago; unfortunately, I just happened to catch the tail-end of
the show as I was channel surfing and I just caught a brief glimpse of Mr. and
Mrs. Norris being interviewed.
Musical Links
Miscellaneous
Andrew's Music World -
an excellent source of information, commentary, and links.
Blues for Peace - "Isn't it
time people stopped fighting and learned to play 12-bar shuffles instead?"
Greg's MIDI and Tab - an all-around
guitar site with lots of tablature/chord files ... and backing MIDIs
(e.g., bass and percussion) for the songs! As Greg says, these files
are "for every guitarist who is either not confident enough to jam with
other musicians yet, who can't find any musicians to jam with or any other
reason that might arise".
Tablature Editors
Linux
Gnometab -
a GNOME2-based tablature editor for UNIX/Linux. It looks as if
playback and standard music notation are not supported.
KGuitar - a KDE-based,
multitrack tablature editor for UNIX/Linux. It appears to support
playback and standard music notation.
Windows
Guitar Pro - an excellent,
multitrack tablature editor for guitar, banjo, and bass. GP4 now
supports standard music notation. The editor costs money and is
needed to view Guitar Pro tablature.
MySongBook - "The
Ultimate Guitar Pro Tablature Archive". A very large
collection of Guitar Pro tabs.
MusEdit - I haven't tried it yet,
but it looks comparable to TablEdit, supporting both tablature and
standard music notation. The editor itself costs money, but a
free viewer is
available for viewing MusEdit tablature.
Power Tab - similar to TablEdit,
but free, less polished, and somewhat awkward to work
with. Very widely used, however!
TablEdit - another excellent,
multitrack tablature editor. Most of the
available tabs are for
classical and finger-picking pieces. The editor itself costs money,
but a free viewer is
available for viewing TablEdit tablature.
