That's a much-covered song, and the connection is Steve Marriott. Here he is with Humble Pie at their height...
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I'd been thinking of posting a Carole King song, and now I see that Tapestry is fifty years old...
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Nice guitar sound on the Humble Pie live recording. I have heard Paul Weller do a version of the Gilded Splinters song so I now have an excuse to post this
Great guitar sound - very Telecaster-ish.
Back in the 1980's I played drums a bit and knew a bass player. We did a couple of jams with two guitarist / singers who said we should cover this song. Later covered it in another band also.
Page 22 gave us Sloe Gin - now it's time for some Cold Gin
Classical music as only Keith Emerson could do it...
He was an awesome stage act, crouched atop his hammond organ, rocking it to and fro, jamming daggers into the keyboard.
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The classical music tune from that piece sounds very familiar - I suspect it was used as theme music for a 1970's TV programme. I have seen Jon Lord live a couple of times (Whitesnake) and was surprised how 'badly' he treated his keyboards, lifting them up on one side and then dropping them back on to the stage. I have seen a story that Kirk Hammett of Metallica paid over 2 million dollars for Peter Greens Les Paul that was used in the late 60's and have been wondering how many instruments from back then, which could have been worth a fortune today, were destroyed deliberately for the sake of spectacle.
Don't know anything about Keith Emerson except
I suspect it was used as theme music for a 1970's TV programme
Yep - This Week, which was a current affairs series.
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Kingfish did a nice cover of this Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballad...
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There was another current affairs programme that had a theme tune that sounded like a rock song. I asked somebody about it at school and found out it was by a band called Mountain. I've got the CD of the album now. (Nantucket Sleighride is on this thread somewhere). I think the programme was called Weekend World.
Yesterday the security guard at the supermarket said something to me as I walked out which I couldn't hear properly but I think it might have been 'take it easy'
Just remembered another old TV theme. This excellent piece of classical guitar music was used for a programme called Tales of the Riverbank
Budget day
When I sold my vinyl collection, parting with that triple album was painful.
I had another triple album, Neil Young's Decade, from which I'll play this:
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I just watched a video the other day of a guitar person talking about some of his favourite guitar solo's which were not the usual ones listed - Cortez the Killer was on of those in the list. I don't remember hearing the track before (although I did see Neil Young about 6 years ago as he actually did a gig in these parts).
Don't think I ever owned a triple album - I had Joe's Garage but I think it was a single and a double album. There was a triple album in the house when I was young called 'Two Hours in the Wonderful World of Opera' which used to get played a lot. I just looked up the track listing and 'Les Toreadors' by George Bizet is the first tune on Side One
There's some fine guitar work on Cortez the Killer.
This guy could play guitar too...
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I remember this one in the charts but don't remember hearing the name Gary Moore at the time - I only remember hearing of it as a Phil Lynott or Thin Lizzy song. I'm pretty sure Gary was also the owner of Peter Green's famous Les Paul guitar before Kirk Hammett.
The first time I became aware of the name Gary Moore was probably when I heard this on the radio, Jack Bruce on vocals. Gary definitely owned and used Peter Green's Les Paul. Saw him play at Castle Donnington one time but I was probably half a mile from the stage!
I think Frankie were fans of Gary Moore!
A Bach organ piece transposed for guitars...
Guitar Trek - gotta love that name!
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The Beach Boys had a hit with a song called Lady Lynda which has this Bach tune at the start (and a bit at the end)
Another 1970's TV theme has been going round in my head for the last few days. The programme was called 'Ace of Wands'. I found out years later the theme is called 'Tarot' and was created by Andrew Bown who later joined Status Quo. At the time the programme was on TV I thought they were singing about someone called Tyrone.
How about a 60s TV theme? <chortles>
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Time for some rock theatre, as only Mr Mojo Risin' could conjure...
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