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Post by owen on Mar 19, 2008 14:26:01 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Mar 19, 2008 16:53:53 GMT -5
i remember watching them do bucket t on ready steady go. i could even work out the date cos liverpool played away to sheffield wednesday the next day and i hitched to the game singing the song all the way.
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Post by Cat Stevens on Mar 19, 2008 20:33:28 GMT -5
cool memory, that one.
so did Liverpool win?
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Post by manho on Mar 20, 2008 5:39:37 GMT -5
can't remember. i'd have to go through the records to find out. maybe at the weekend. i have to be in the mood for that nostalgia stuff.
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Post by cripes on Mar 30, 2008 1:07:25 GMT -5
So I was riding in car listening to Fortune Teller by Benny Spellman (thanks owen) and it struck me that that's where Magic Bus came from....the knocking those sticks together part. |
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Post by manho on Mar 30, 2008 14:56:26 GMT -5
benny spellman? you sure that wasn't cardinal spellman?
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Post by manho on Mar 30, 2008 15:01:26 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Mar 30, 2008 15:15:49 GMT -5
in the early 60s fortune teller was one of the songs that all amateur groups tried to master. 14 year old kids at my school were learning it in the playground. difficult chord progression. here's mick (from aug 63) still singing in english. it would be a few months before before he finally got to grips with muddy's voice: www.sendspace.com/file/zheemi |
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Post by owen on Mar 30, 2008 15:33:43 GMT -5
thats a different fortune teller cripes. this is the spellman one - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SAbRiu1wg0think you could be right about the magic bus influence its also where the beatles got wanna be your ma-an from (per paul) |
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Post by cripes on Mar 30, 2008 17:25:15 GMT -5
Big oops on the Fortune Teller...y'all know what I mean tho.
Is there any online resource that lists all the different mixes of early Who songs out there? It seems that lots of their singles have at least three or four different versions.
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Post by manho on Mar 30, 2008 18:33:43 GMT -5
the who, fortune teller: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Rbm4EadkQdoes this count as a concert? we arrived on saturday evening with one-day tickets for dylan on the sunday. but we stood around the entrance and listened to the who. it was a long way back but the sound system was as good as you got in those days. *edited to change youtube link. |
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Post by Some king on Mar 31, 2008 9:14:27 GMT -5
Does anyone have the Wayne Fontana or Merseybeats versions that are referenced in Live at Leeds? I don't really care one way or the other, but it seems like eveyr damn band in England at the time did fortune teller. Which is odd, since it's really not that great of a song.
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Post by manho on Mar 31, 2008 15:25:34 GMT -5
"Which is odd, since it's really not that great of a song."
i've already explained why. it's a difficult riff. difficult riff is just as good as a great song. think bo diddley, buddy holly, chuck berry... also it got people dancing, which was half the job in the early 60s clubs.
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Post by manho on Mar 31, 2008 15:58:52 GMT -5
here's the merseybeats: www.sendspace.com/file/piugq3story songs are great cos after you've had a dance there's, like, something to think about. at the end he gets the girl. when he says " i got my story told for free" he's being ironic. it means he's getting a free gobble gobble giddily. it also has that great teller/ tell her rhyme. |
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Post by dino on Apr 8, 2008 8:11:18 GMT -5
The Who are planning a collection of vintage R&B covers, similar to the Motown and James Brown songs they performed early on in their career. “We’re digging through lots of material and seeing what will work,” says producer T Bone Burnett, who expects to travel to London this fall to begin recording. “There’s an incredible treasury of songs in the mode of what they used to play. Not ‘Heat Wave’ [an early favorite of the band], but ones that people probably haven’t heard of.” Pete Townshend may also write new material for the project. “It might be a combination of both,” Burnett says. “We’re still turning it over.” In other Who news, the band will perform on July 12th in Los Angeles for VH1’s Rock Honors.
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Post by Cat Stevens on Apr 8, 2008 8:34:19 GMT -5
sounds interesting... thanx for the info.
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Post by cripes on Apr 8, 2008 10:17:38 GMT -5
The Who are planning a collection of vintage R&B covers, similar to the Motown and James Brown songs they performed early on in their career
Someone needs to tell them that those James Brown/Motown covers they did stunk then and they'll stink now. The Who should cover relevant oldies like 'The Good's Gone' and 'So Sad About Us' (also 'Circles' would be kewl). Those surf songs they used to cover to keep Moon happy were more on the mark than their renditions of 'Please Please Please' or 'Heatwave'.
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Post by dino on Apr 8, 2008 10:26:57 GMT -5
well, better than any new pete townshend song
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Post by cripes on Apr 8, 2008 11:43:52 GMT -5
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Post by owen on May 30, 2008 20:00:50 GMT -5
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