Topic: Riff-In-A-Jiff
A few days ago when posting a Coney Hatch tab, I wrote about how Kim Mitchell had played a key role in helping the band in their early days. It got me thinking: guess who hasn't been done in the riffs section yet? If you guessed Kim Mitchell, you just might be smarter than a 5th grader. (No guarantees, though. 
)"Rock 'n' Roll Duty" was the first single from Mitchell's 1989 album Rockland. The album went double platinum in Canada, and also produced the single "Rockland Wonderland". The disc won him the 1990 Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist, his third Juno. The tour for this album also produced much of the material for Mitchell's next album, the (mostly) live disc I Am A Wild Party (1990).
I had already finished this riff (the Intro) when I totally by chance stumbled across Kim Mitchell's short video guitar lesson for it on radio station Q107's website. I thought it would be great to link to the video lesson when I posted the riff, so I decided to add to the tab beyond the Intro, doing as much as Kim shows us in the video. Ultimately, I decided to go ahead and finish the whole verse. I've also added the Chorus, although it's really just a repeat of the Intro riff. So do your rock 'n' roll duty, and have a good time with this one.
KIM MITCHELL - "Rock 'n' Roll Duty" (K. Mitchell/P. Dubois)
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/canriffs.txt
You can watch Kim Mitchell's guitar lesson (about 3 minutes long) for this riff here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USV8_8aK84
Or you can also find it on Q107's website. (q107.com/DJsandShows/KimMitchell.aspx)
Audio of the full song (studio version): http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=62WnNUca57g
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Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2009 1:30 AM 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! 
"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.