From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Fri Oct 24 04:39:12 2003
Subject:Re: Organ feature tunes in bar-band

Sounds like a lot of fun! Let us know when you're
playing...and where!

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--- Carl Van Selman wrote:
> Absolutely spot on!! My main band play a lot of
> tunes that folk recognise but have never heard them
> the way we play them (and no its coz we're really
> bad!). Everything we play is up tempo and
> footstomping, we're a party band hired as much for
> the antics and games we play with our audience as
> for anything else. Typical songs we play are:-
>
> I'm the king of the swingers (jungle book)
> Lust (AKA crazy lil thing called love)
> Willy Wonky (AKA Woolly Bully)
> Big Boys Toys (AKA no particular place to go)
> Having a Feela (that well known Jewish wedding
> tune!)
> Herpes (AKA fever)
> Then he Sat on My Face (AKA I'm a believer -
> monkeys)
> Can't stand the Pain (AKA can't stand the rain)
> Big Ten Inch (no really, this is an old blues number
> we found in a book one day!)
> Rude (need I say more!)
> Tia Maria (AKA Mamma Mia - Abba)
> Viagra (AKA Israelites)
> etc.
>
> You're probably getting the idea that a lot of our
> songs are a little 'risky'. Believe me - I can not
> type the words we've written for our versions of
> these songs out here, I'd probably be arrested!
> Surfice to say there are four scantily clad,
> tattooed, fun lovin, girls in the front line who
> love to take it as far as they can.... and often
> beyond. There are four, retiring, gentle, quiet,
> partially deaf guys in the back line that the girls
> call 'The engine room' who get on with providing a
> solid groove for all the mayhem that the girls get
> up to.
>
> It's outrageous live, but it is great fun and I
> wouldn't change it for anything. I hate being a
> paid 'jukebox' if you can't play your own
> compositions at least play it your own way, we do
> and we've been going for nine years, have a pretty
> full diary and are currently taking bookings for
> 2005!
>
> Carl
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jake92028
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 3:09 AM
> Subject: [CWSG] Re: Organ feature tunes in
> bar-band
>
> Some Alternative thoughts: Try playing some of the
> songs mentioned
> without copying them note for note, and at tempos
> you like. Put your
> own touches and arrangements on them, while making
> them still very
> recognizable - possibly even more enjoyable to a
> bar crowd that loves
> your version.
>
> A couple of minor examples: Our band plays Johnny
> B. Goode medium-
> tempo organ 'pump' reggae style, blues harp solo
> before the guitar
> trades riffs with piano/organ, including stops.
> We do Girl From The
> North Country with repeating 1, 6m, 4, 1 chords,
> organ and guitar
> chugging along about 140 straight 8th's (almost a
> Lou Reed feel),
> choruses of 'True love of mine, True love of mine'
> repeating after
> the 2nd and later verses, organ and guitar solos -
> and a false ending
> with held chords on, 'She was ONCE...a TRUE...love
> of MINE...1-2-3-4'
> and the band comes back in full tilt for a chorus,
> modulates up a
> halfstep for another, then ritard's down the last
> 'True-Love-Of-
> Mine,' 4-3m-2m-1 chords, holding the end chord for
> a moment, then
> chopping it.
>
> I cringe at the thought of a possible future when
> 'good' musicians
> will be playing THE list of Standards (Classic
> Rock) note-for-note
> from charts as the essence of popular music. The
> former no-good
> Standards will go in the dustbin, along with Les
> Paul and Mary Ford,
> Tex Beneke and the Glen Miller Orchestra, The
> Andrews Sisters, Nat
> King Cole, Tony Bennet, Frank Sinatra, et al, etc.
> I can almost see
> parents trying to force their kids to play Classic
> Rock, music
> teachers and high school instructors insisting it
> must be played
> correctly from the score as transcribed from the
> original music. Or
> maybe not...
>
> Even Echo and the Bunnymen break out of sounding
> exactly like the
> Doors so you know it's them on the radio #:-)
>
> Walter
>
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