Season 291 - Drugs

I've just been informed by my perfectionist musician other half that I left out "the extra bar in the riff, the 7/8 part!" and "Ah here you need to do that part!" - blame the tab I followed which didn't include it! I only realised myself after watching a BEVOMU version myself. D'oh!

The chord sheet I used had written 3 3 3 4 above the chords in the riff then 3 3 3 3 above the chords for the verse. So in the riff, I simply added an extra beat every fourth bar.

The Wikipedia entry for the song commented that the harpsichord was sounding flat but it occurred to me later that the harpsichord could have been tuned to A=415 which is the pitch standard used by most performers who specialise in baroque music and is near enough a semitone below the standard concert pitch of A=440. It would certainly be quicker and easier to tune the guitar and bass down a semitone than to tune the harpsichord up. Just a thought.

The original was interesting coming from a band whose background was very much punk. This was very different but very effective and the harpsichord had a mesmeric effect.

Thanks for your kind words about my effort, btw.
 
Greetings,

Well this song captures the season and the way I feel this week. A beauty from Green Day called "Novacaine." Who doesn't love that stuff!



Ciao
Gina

PS: It's awful I warn you. As painful as a toothache.

 
You must have been rich - I had to cycle or walk! ;)
lol! mate, kid's bus fare was 5p!!!!!!!!


I've just been informed by my perfectionist musician other half that I left out "the extra bar in the riff, the 7/8 part!" and "Ah here you need to do that part!" - blame the tab I followed which didn't include it! I only realised myself after watching a BEVOMU version myself. D'oh!
i did something right?! something to do with a time signature that wasn't 4/4???????? i'm writing that in my diary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and i don't see how you can have been doing ANYTHING wrong, when your cover sounded soooooooooooooooooooooooo good!
 
A Berni Original for this week. The early verses are largely autobiographical, but the last verse is borrowed from the experience of an old friend of mine who lost his mind on LSD and spent time in a mental institution as a result. We knew there was something wrong when in the middle of an acid trip he turned to us and said: "I know now! You are all policemen!" - it was all downhill from then on :(

I have tried to get a real late-Beatles feel to this one, helped by the excellent "Band in a Box" programme, which provides the backing here.

Hope you enjoy it. It's a little bit longer than my usual stuff, but I hope you stick it out till the end.

 
Okay. A day at work is done. Then two hours painting the deck (Mary, don't you know I have ukulele videos to watch???). Eleven more videos added to the playlist. That's 57 videos in less than 3 days. Now to do some watching.

As always, please let me know if you don't see your video in the playlist. I make mistakes sometimes. My hope is that I have all the videos up to this point in the playlist.
 
This is the second song that popped into my head. From The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds.

 
Song #2 is the first song I thought of, The Ruling Class by Loose Fur. They are a side project of Jeff Tweedy and Glen Kotche (of Wilco) and Jim O'Rourke. Though Tweedy sings it fairly frequently at solo appearances, Kotche and O'Rourke wrote it.



This was my way of coming down slowly from all the Wilco I played last Season. I didn't want to just go cold turkey.
 
I'd quite forgotten but Gina's Novocaine song reminded me of this one. This is such an awesome song, from the mid 90's I think, the Album, which I have somewhere and must dig out again, was Beautiful Freak. This is my last for this season. Now I can concentrate and getting my season ready for next week!
 
I Remember that concert at the Roskilde Festival 2001 in Denmark, when I first encountered the band called The Asylum Street Spankers.
I liked their music, and since they had recently published a drug-themed album "Spanker Madness" - that was the ones they were selling at the show, and hence I bought a copy and listened to it a lot.
When I saw this weeks theme I immediately though of doing something from that album. If you look at the "Songs stuck in my head" link in the opening post, you will find that the radio show opens with the song "Beer" from the very same album.
I went for this song, which in the original version was very pleasant to listen to.

Blade of grass


I would have liked to work a little more on a proper 12 bar intro and interlude, but I also wanted to get it done tonight, so it is what it is.
 
I'm going to post a couple of videos for songs I've liked that fit the theme. Maybe someone will get an idea for a song to do. Maybe not. This one was from a band called They Eat Their Own in 1990. I got the album because I liked the song so much, and I didn't like a single other song on it. I saw them live, leading in for someone like the Replacements, and didn't like them live, either. But somehow they came up with this one perfect song.

 
Joan Osborne said this song was inspired by a woman with a baby she would see selling drugs from out her New York City window.


 
The band XTC put out a couple of records under the name The Dukes of Stratosphear that were tributes to psychedelic music. This song was a tribute to the Byrds.


 
I know Wim mentioned that he might do this song as well. I hope you do Wim. I love this song and couldn't help throwing in my hat. This is another very rare song that I can just pick up the uke and play, simply because I know the words and chords by heart. I played this way back in season 6. Hopefully I've improved slightly since then. This is a good example of a song which I enjoy so much when I run through it a few times then I turn on the camera and it's more of a struggle.
 
In 1967, the comedy team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore wrote this pastiche of the new psychedelic genre. In the 1970s, the song appeared on many Beatles "bootleg" albums in the mistaken belief that it was an unpublished Beatles song.

 
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