Topic: New Tab Postings
In the post below I mentoned that I needed to make some changes to the tab in the "Devil's Deck" guitar solo. Those changes are now complete and the final version of the tab is posted. No notes were actually changed, I just adjusted some of the fingerings for better playability. Counting the first bar under where it says GUITAR SOLO as Bar 1, changes have been made to Bars 6, 7, 9, 12, 17 and 18.
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Updated: Friday, January 30, 2009 3:09 PM EST
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We go into the request file for this tab, Coney Hatch's "Devil's Deck". The big break for this Toronto band came in 1981 when (Max Webster lyricist) Pye Dubois caught one of their local club shows. He introduced them to Kim Mitchell, who first worked with the band to further hone their sound, and was then instrumental in getting them signed to Anthem Records, the label that was also home to both Mitchell and Rush.
We're celebrating today, AGTA is now two years old! 
I'd like to thank everyone who has visited the site during that time. Much appreciation also goes to those who have returned on a regular basis to see what's new. And for those who have requested tabs, thanks for the show of faith. I've tried my best to do the requests that I can. Over twenty tabs currently on the site were done specifically by request.
"Painted Ladies" was Ian Thomas's first, and biggest, hit single. It was drawn from his 1973 self-titled debut album (pictured), which reached #30 on the Canadian RPM Chart. The single itself climbed to #34 on the Billboard Chart and rose all the way to #4 on the RPM 100 Singles Chart in December of 1973. This success earned Thomas the 1974 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist.
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. 
It seems very fitting that a band as quintessentially English as Girlschool would eventually write and record a song that's an affectionate tribute to the city that represents England to the world -- their hometown of London. "London" first appeared on the CD 21st Anniversary: Not That Innocent. The disc was recorded primarily in 1999, the band's 21st Anniversary year, but wasn't released until 2002. It was lead guitarist Kelly Johnson's sixth and final album with the band (five studio albums, one official live album).
First tab entry of the New Year. 
