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Originally, I started doing this song with the intention of it being a chord chart. I had been working on a chord chart for a different song, and it was proving troublesome, so I shelved it (temporarily, at least) and did this one instead. The plan was for it to be a chord chart with some tab included. But when I was close to being finished, I realized that if I just tabbed the fills for the final Chorus, I would have all the guitar parts in the song transcribed, making it a full tab. So I added in the extra fills. In 1970, Five Man Electrical Band were affiliated with an LA production company which was, in turn, affiliated with movie studio MGM. MGM tapped "Moonshine" to be placed in one of its movies, "The Moonshine War", starring Alan Alda. The film itself proved unsuccessful, leading to much the same fate for the single. The song failed to chart in the US at all, but fared better in Canada, where it reached #21. It was included on Five Man's successful debut album Good-byes & Butterflies (1971) -- a record which also featured the band's biggest hit, "Signs" -- and later appeared on the band's best-of CD Absolutely Right (1995, pictured). In 1973, John Kay (of Steppenwolf fame) covered the song on his second solo album My Sportin' Life. (His version can be heard at YouTube.)
The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/fiveman-moonshine.txt
Audio:
http://www.imeem.com/people/aKgj4Hs/music/kj-7gqNG/five_man_electrical_band_moonshine_friend_of_mine/
Updated: Thursday, January 15, 2009 2:07 AM EST
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