Thursday's LR - June 27,

[Elwood]

good thursday(and night) wishes to all,

I'm listening to Fly by Night...love the crispiness in ths album.
Before that was Caress of Steel, next up is probably Hemispheres.
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D and Dsus4 , (first chords in Fly by Night) were the two chords I showed Stoney from Pearl Jam when he asked me to show him some things...the boy has done well !!

I wore out the LP's and then the cassettes when I was out and about.
I wouldn't mind a little warble once in a while...these remasters are soooo tight .

What albums rekindle that spark in your soul ?

I hope someday to make some recordings that might sooth rough times for others.
( I'll admit when I crank Master of Puppets...I'm probably the only who feels soothing relief,
I make sure the cats aren't around)

I'm about to start swapping tubes in the MK l Boogie...I'll let y'all know if I find the bad one (fingers crossed).

G&L porn to follow...But I had to keep the train rollin'.

I want to do a medley of train songs...Hendrix,Jimmy Cliff, etc.
I'd love some help compiling some possibilities.
Can you think of some Train themed tunes off the top of your head?

elwood

[suave eddie]

Train tunes, eh?

How 'bout

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I was going to post the Jeff Beck/Yardbirds version of this one, but I think I'll go with the crazy Johnny Burnette and the whacky dancers.

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[ellengtrgrl]

Good album! My favorite Rush stuff, is everything up through "Hemispheres", when they were very much a progressive hard rock band, bordering on being a full blown metal band. Want a workout? Play "La Villa Strangiato", or my fave of the "Hemispheres" album:

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Another lesser known gem, off of the "Caress of Steel" album (it's a fun song to play on guitar):

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Good stuff!

[Elwood]

Great stuff Eddie, thanks...I'm going to go through all the tunes tonight .

[Elwood]

cool Ellen,
Moving Pictures was the last Rush album I bought.

Not as raw as the 70's stuff...but it was the beginning of the 80's.
Camera's Eye and Witch Hunt has a nice loose mojo to it.
I love all the songs you posted...they are part of my DNA
YYZ is a good bass tune .
Hmmm now I have to go find Cygnus X-1
Once the 80's hit I listened mostly to late 60's tunes I had missed when I was a toddler.


all my best,
elwood

[zapcosongs]

Favorite train Song?

[video]http://youtu.be/gWubhw8SoBE[/video]

Anybody else appreciate Martin Barre?

btw, am I imagining things or is Dave Pegg sporting an L1K? What do you think? I'm not quite certain...- ed

[ellengtrgrl]

cool Ellen,
Moving Pictures was the last Rush album I bought.

Not as raw as the 70's stuff...but it was the beginning of the 80's.
Camera's Eye and Witch Hunt has a nice loose mojo to it.
I love all the songs you posted...they are part of my DNA
YYZ is a good bass tune .
Hmmm now I have to go find Cygnus X-1
Once the 80's hit I listened mostly to late 60's tunes I had missed when I was a toddler.


all my best,
elwood

Yuppers! I played in a band with a drummer, who wanted to do "YYZ" (I would have gladly played that song), unfortunately, none of the other band members wanted to give it a try.


Good Luck with the tube swap in the Boogie, Elwood. Hopefully that's the problem (most of the time it is). Don't forget that most Mesas run fixed bias in the final/power amp section. As a result, using matched tube sets is pretty much a must, to keep from cooking out tubes. Randall Smith did that (made the amps fixed bias) on purpose, so that a tube change was easy (no screwing around with adjusting the bias) as long as you bought his matched tube sets. You see, back in the 70s & early 80s, hardly anybody sold tubes as matched sets, so anytime you changed the finals in a guitar amp, it had to be re-biased, to even out the electrical load between the tubes, and prevent any tubes in the set from getting overstressed, due to handling the lion's share of the electrical load, and burning out (this was also the case for tube radio transmitters and transceivers - you needed the neutralize the finals when you changed them to avoid them possibly going into out of control oscillation, and wrecking the radio). You bought Randal Smith's matched tube sets, and you were good to go. Nowadays of course, getting matched tube sets is pretty easy to do.

[KenC]

btw, am I imagining things or is Dave Pegg sporting an L1K? What do you think? I'm not quite certain...- ed

You're not hallucinating. He had a gorgeous Trans Blue 'Wunkay. It's an '80 or '81.

Ken

[ellengtrgrl]

Favorite train Song?

[video]http://youtu.be/gWubhw8SoBE[/video]

Anybody else appreciate Martin Barre?

btw, am I imagining things or is Dave Pegg sporting an L1K? What do you think? I'm not quite certain...- ed

But of course! Martin Barre is a VERY underrated as a guitar player. When I was a young 'un (during my college days in the 80s), I used to enjoy playing "Nothing is Easy" off of the Stand Up album (which is still my favorite 'Tull album), on guitar - there's some great lead guitar playing on that song!

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Ya know, I haven't played that song in a while. I think I'll take the Tribute ASAT Special Semi-Hollowbody for spin on it!

[KenC]

Bob Marley's "Stop That Train":

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Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready":

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"KC Moan", a Grateful Dead concert staple being played by Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman:

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The Clash's "Train in Vain":

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"Downtown Train" by Tom Waits (I love Robert Quine's guitar work on this one):

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Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain":

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And we can't talk about trains without mentioning 'Trane...

John Coltrane's "Chasin' the Trane":

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[zapcosongs]

Favorite train Song?

[video]http://youtu.be/gWubhw8SoBE[/video]

Anybody else appreciate Martin Barre?

btw, am I imagining things or is Dave Pegg sporting an L1K? What do you think? I'm not quite certain...- ed

But of course! VERY underrated as a guitar player. When I was a young 'un (during my college days in the 80s), I used to enjoy playing "Nothing is Easy" off of the Stand Up album (which is still my favorite 'Tull album) - great lead guitar playing!

[youtube]KAjviKA2YGU[/youtube]

Ya know, I haven't played that song in a while. I think I'll take the Tribute ASAT Special Semi-Hollowbody for spin on it!

With You there to Help Me, I'd Cry You a Song. For our Benefit, of course..... - ed

[zapcosongs]

That City of New Orleans is a Da*n great train song as well, no? - ed

[Elwood]

Awesome everyone!

(and let's not forget "Train to Bangkok")

a cup of coffee and another shovelful in the steamer and I'll be back up to speed ...see ya soon,

elwood

[Craig]

Did a quick search of my iTunes db: (139 references), here's some of them:

Peace Train - Cat Stevens
Hellbound Train - Savoy Brown
Train To Nowhere - Savoy Brown
Slow Train Coming-Bob Dylan
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry-Bob Dylan
Big Train (from Memphis)-John Forgerty
Blue Railroad Train-Jorma Kaukonen
Catch A Train-Free
Train Kept A-Rollin'-Paul Burlison
Train Kept A-Rollin'-Led Zeppelin
Train Kept A-Rollin'-Yardbirds
Graveyard Train-Creedance Clearwater Revival
First Train Home-Fleetwood Mac
The Great Train Robbery-Mountain
Last Train Home-Pat Metheny
Love On A Real Train-Tangerine Dream
Lost Train-Shig&Buzz
Mystery Train-Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Two Trains Running-Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Night Train To Munich-Al Stewart
Train Leaves Here This Morning-The Eagles
Whiskey Train-Procol Harum
Traintime-Cream

There are more, but I gotta run ...

[suave eddie]

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[supereiv]

Let me chime in, all I can think of is this :

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ok, it's not the most soulfull guitarist ever, but the execution is flawless don't you think ?
And the guy is really humble and nice.

I have a Boogie F30, ok, it's not in the same league as your Mk I, but I simply bought a full retube kit on eurotube and it brought a new life and voice to my amp (without rebiasing of course).

[Elwood]

Wow...I got some listening to do, thanks Eddie and Craig ( that's alot of train tunes...cool!)

Tough night for me...I'll be back when it's better.

elwould (if he could)

[blargfromouterspace]

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[louis cyfer]

are you ready to be depressed?

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[ellengtrgrl]

Favorite train Song?

Anybody else appreciate Martin Barre?

btw, am I imagining things or is Dave Pegg sporting an L1K? What do you think? I'm not quite certain...- ed

But of course! VERY underrated as a guitar player. When I was a young 'un (during my college days in the 80s), I used to enjoy playing "Nothing is Easy" off of the Stand Up album (which is still my favorite 'Tull album) - great lead guitar playing!

[youtube]KAjviKA2YGU[/youtube]

Ya know, I haven't played that song in a while. I think I'll take the Tribute ASAT Special Semi-Hollowbody for spin on it!

With You there to Help Me, I'd Cry You a Song. For our Benefit, of course..... - ed

A MOST cool tune!


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That's the problem with music - all too often people miss the really good stuff on albums, because they won't buy the album, or can't/won't get past the "if it's not a hit, it's not good" mindset. Sorry, but IMO the hits (both past and present) we get exposed to (oftentimes for the umpteen millionth time on classic rock stations [which really gets old]), are often some of the weakest songs on an album. But, they cater to the least common denominator (and as a result best match up to the "one size fits all" model), and as such are judged the most radio friendly.

[ellengtrgrl]

are you ready to be depressed?

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At least it isn't "Cant' Speak" by Danzig.

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[NickHorne]

Martin Barre is such a solid musician, really great.

I'd like to put up a big vote of appreciation for Peggy, too; one of the meatiest and most enjoyably musical bass players of the 70's (and ever since!) Lots of big-hearted good feeling in his playing; plus he's always in his own real character and that's good to listen to, a gent and not a "star".

[Aussie]

Hey Elwood, good to see you up for LR again this week.

With massive national health reform agenda in full swing, coupled with local organisational reforms and restructuring (read people loosing their jobs!) I haven't had much time for participating on any of my regular forums of late but have been trying to keep up with the reading.

Great and interesting stuff this week as always my friend.

A couple of Aussie train tracks that spring to mind:

Whenever I think train tunes I think harp
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... and of course folk/country
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Anyhow, its end of financial year tomorrow , so back to work for me.

cheers, Robbie

[NickHorne]

Thanks for the Jerry Garcia and Dead links! My vinyl Workingman's is still around, just saw it in the mid of my house move. Their reputation is sometimes now so coloured by the irresponsibility of that era, but really there is some great music performance going on.
Garcia is so sweet, isn't he? Great abilities of managing tender tone with confident delivery, imaginative and grounded in a wide awareness off music he loved. Opened my mind to new musical attitudes and aspirations all those decades ago, and it's good to be reminded of it now; that experience has stayed with me ever since.

[Elwood]

"...Make good money, five dollars a day Made anymore, I might move away"

I spent alot of time with that album.
One of the questions I had considered was What bits of past recordings are just magic in your eyes?

There are a couple on dead albums that I am fascinated by.
Of course the peak of the solo at Terrapin Station (was that mentioned yet?),
....and the sound amalgum on Anthem of the Sun (tenderfoot for quadlibet?).

Others that come to mind right now are the intro to Have a Cigar. Some very bizarre engineering
of the rhodes, bass and ?? alot of tasty phasing.

...and Fripps "meow" guitar on "Cat Food".
Discipline, the whole album ; pretty much is an amazing thing. I like it

I'll put up some dead related stuff in a misc thread. This one is geting pretty heavy with all the Vids.
Thanks again everyone for the Train Tunes,
way more than I expected


elwood

[NickHorne]

More "past magic"?
One of many treasured moments of Garcia again - the mexican / diminished solo in Ship of Fools. One of my biggest melodic spine-tinglers of young musicality. Garcia could be so expressive thanks to being so humble, never a smartass.

[zapcosongs]

"...Make good money, five dollars a day Made anymore, I might move away"

I spent alot of time with that album.
One of the questions I had considered was What bits of past recordings are just magic in your eyes?

There are a couple on dead albums that I am fascinated by.
Of course the peak of the solo at Terrapin Station (was that mentioned yet?),
....and the sound amalgum on Anthem of the Sun (tenderfoot for quadlibet?).

Others that come to mind right now are the intro to Have a Cigar. Some very bizarre engineering
of the rhodes, bass and ?? alot of tasty phasing.

...and Fripps "meow" guitar on "Cat Food".
Discipline, the whole album ; pretty much is an amazing thing. I like it

I'll put up some dead related stuff in a misc thread. This one is geting pretty heavy with all the Vids.
Thanks again everyone for the Train Tunes,
way more than I expected


elwood

Terrapin Station is one of my very favorite pieces of music of any kind. I listened to it (again) recently after not hearing it for a few years and it made me smile real big! And of course, it's even relevant to the days' discussion - if only tangentially.... - ed

[zapcosongs]

I'm not a "Dead Head" but man, does music ever get much better than this? - ed

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[Elwood]

thanks Ed, I listened to it while rolling tubes on the old Boogie amp.

Here's a link to one of my faves:
It's the Radio City shows ,3 nights , Oct. 1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTYEE5mgEOY

(Monkey and the Engineer...One of the BEST Train songs ever!!)