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The return of the happy Thanksgiving Day cat. :-)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Posted today is Harlequin's "Superstitious Feeling", from the band's One False Move (1982) album. It's also on their Greatest Hits CD (pictured). This is one from the request file, as the Harlequin tabs often are. There's not too much to say about it, except here's some more Harlequin. That always seems to be a pretty good decision around here. Harlequin is one of the most-viewed bands on the site. Of course, in regard to that, a lot depends on how many tabs of a particular band are on the site, and Harlequin has more than most. But I guess that's because people seem interested in them, and I don't think there are many tabs of theirs available. So I keep doing them.
I'm not adding the song to the video page because the only video footage available on YouTube has only part of the song, and the quality is a bit rough. I will link to that footage from this blog post, though.
The tab: https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/harlequin-superstitiousfeeling.txt
Video footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsCa1JQwll4
This is one of those songs that you think is going to be no problem. Two minute pop song, fairly simple melody. Then you work out the first chord. E flat. Ugh. Then you know it's trouble.
Well, in some footage it did, anyhow. So much for the simple pop song. So I re-worked the chord chart, doing it in E. But for somebody who just wants to strum chords, I still think it's easier to capo and play it in D. So I've included both versions. Of course, you can always strum it in E, not tune down, and just don't play with the record. Your options are boundless. 
Most-viewed tabs for the month of September 2008 (w/ view numbers):
18 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
16 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
11 - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
11 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
9 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
9 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
8 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
8 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
8 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
8 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
Total tab views for September: 315
(By section: Canadian-230 Girlschool-36 Various-27 Chords-22)
Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct.3/07 to Sept.30/08):
135 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
92 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
82 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
77 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
67 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
66 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
62 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
58 - Girlschool - Race With the Devil (guitar)
58 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
56 - Harlequin - Innocence
56 - Harlequin - Sweet Things In Life
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
Everybody loves the "No Time" guitar Intro...don't they? It seems that way. I can remember watching The Guess Who (on TV) during the halftime show of the 2000 Grey Cup game in Calgary, and thinking (probably for the umpteenth time) what a great guitar part it is. And once, a few years ago when I was in a record store getting checked through the cash, this song came on over the PA, and the guy checking me through even had to stop and air guitar a bit, and talk about what a great guitar part it is. It just seems to have that effect on people.
Most people are more familiar with the re-recorded version of the song, which was on the American Woman (1970) album. The song first appeared on 1968's Canned Wheat. "No Time" was a #1 hit in Canada, #5 in the U.S.
An online article I looked at recently referred to the song's lyrics as "a Dear John letter". True enough. But it might have also served as Randy Bachman's Dear John letter to The Guess Who. It was the last album he did with the band. After recording American Woman, Bachman developed gall bladder problems. The band toured with a replacement guitarist, and ultimately differences between Bachman and the rest of the band resulted in him playing one final live show with them, then leaving to form Brave Belt, which evolved into BTO.
Tabbed here is the song's Intro.
THE GUESS WHO - "No Time" (R. Bachman/B. Cummings)
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/canriffs.txt
Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8j3O7KmGik
What is this? This is a rock song."
"Cousin Mary", one of Fludd's most famous songs, came from the band's most infamous album, 1972's oddly titled ... On! The intention had been to name the album "Cock On!", but the band's label (Daffodil Records) couldn't sell the idea to their distributor (Capitol Records). Rather than change the title altogether, they just reduced it. Also scrapped for being controversial was the photo for the inside gatefold sleeve, which showed the band naked but for coats. The album was eventually re-issued in 1996 with its originally planned title.
A new tab added today, Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Takin' Care Of Business". In a 1999 interview, Randy Bachman gave an account of how BTO's signature song came to be:Fast forward about 5 or 6 years and I'm out of The Guess Who. I've now started B.T.O. and we have our first album out. We come back from our first big tour of the States and we're playing a club in Canada for a week... In the middle of this Saturday night set, Fred Turner lost his voice and came to me and said "you have to sing the last set." Well, I was only a relief singer up to that point. So I went to sing this last set... I'm doing basically all non-singing songs that you could kind of talk your way through. The crowd is yelling "Rock 'n Roll."
Going to the club that night, there was a d.j. that said, "We're takin' care of business on C-Fox Radio." I thought "Takin Care of Business" is a great song title, put it in the back of my mind, and then onstage that night, out of desperation I turned around and said to the other guys in the band, "Play these 3 chords over and over, C, B flat, and F endlessly and when I get to the hook, help me out. It's "Takin' Care of Business". Just sing it with me. So I start to play the song and I sing my lyrics from "White Collar Worker" exactly as they appear in "Takin' Care of Business". When I get to the hook, instead of doing this breakdown where we all do "White Collar Worker" in high voices, I say "Takin' Care of Business" and the music keeps going. It was just put together like that. The crowd sensed that we were jamming and making it up. They were all clapping and screaming. When the song was over they kept clapping and stomping and singing "Takin' Care of Business." So we then picked the song up and sang it for another minute or so.
(Interview by Gary James at classicbands.com)
The tab: https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/bto-takincareofbusiness.txt
Whew, this tab was a workout. Enjoy. I need a rest.
Wide Mouth Mason's first CD came out in 1997, when music was still in the grip of grunge. When I first heard some of their songs, I thought they were a breath of fresh air. They were stellar musicians, with a relaxed blues-jazz-pop-rock sound. And I also felt that before too long Shaun Verreault would be included among the likes of Alex Lifeson, Randy Bachman, Rik Emmett, Jeff Healy, etc., as a Canadian guitarist of note.