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Fret Filings - (Anne's Blog)
Monday, June 1, 2009
MAY 2009 REVIEW
Topic: Website

Most-viewed tabs for the month of May 2009 (w/ view numbers):

20 - Streetheart - Hollywood
17 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
16 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
12 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
12 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (guitar)
11 - Coney Hatch - Devil's Deck
10 - Girlschool - Race With the Devil (guitar)
10 - Harlequin - Sweet Things In Life
10 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
10 - Trooper - Two For the Show

Total Tab Views For May: 491

(By section:  Canadian-345  Girlschool-74  Various-39  Chords-33)


Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct.3/07 to May 31/09):

263 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
199 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
197 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
163 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
153 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
146 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
141 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
118 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
117 - Harlequin - Innocence
117 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel

Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month: Say Hello

*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, June 1, 2009 6:33 PM EDT
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
THE NORTHERN PIKES - "THINGS I DO FOR MONEY"
Topic: New Tab Postings

I guess you're just asking for it when you think a tab is going to be quick and easy. Tongue out This one took a lot longer than expected. Okay, there were some distractions along the way, but the tab itself still took awhile. Originally, I was doing this one as a chord chart, then along the way I decided to turn it into a full tab. I thought it might be plenty of work for a song that maybe not a lot of people are too familiar with, but I've always really liked it.

The Northern Pikes were formed in Saskatoon in 1984. They released two albums independently before landing a deal with Virgin Records in 1986. Their major label debut album was Big Blue Sky (1987). It produced two singles, which charted in Canada in the summer and fall of 1987. The first single, "Teenland", reached #29 with the follow-up, "Things I Do For Money", getting to #85. The album achieved Gold status in Canada. Throughout their career, the Pikes charted mostly at home in Canada, but in 1990 they enjoyed international success with the single "She Ain't Pretty". That song made it onto the US Billboard chart, reaching #86, while going Top 10 (#6) in Canada.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/northernpikes-thingsido.txt 

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaoQh9Ak3Rc
 


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Saturday, May 30, 2009 1:41 AM EDT
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
SAGA
Topic: Riff-In-A-Jiff

Formed in Oakville, Ontario in the mid-1970's, Saga was built around the core of the final line-up of the band Fludd. Throughout much of the band's long career, they've enjoyed greater success in Europe than they have in North America. This was true right from their early years; their synth/guitar/electric drums-driven progressive rock style was embraced overseas, while going largely unnoticed in the US. They enjoyed modest success at home in Canada with the singles "It's Time", "See Them Smile", and "Don't Be Late".

Things changed in 1981 when Saga's fourth album Worlds Apart (pictured) resulted in breakthrough success in North America. Ironically, this success came from their first album recorded outside of North America; the sessions took place in England, with producer Rupert Hine. The first single, "Wind Him Up", took Saga into the Top 40 in Canada for the first time, reaching #22. "On the Loose", the follow-up single, was also well-received. In the US, the two singles were released in reverse order, with "Wind Him Up" climbing to #64 on the Billboard chart (and "On the Loose" reaching greater heights).

While this was the band's most commercial album to that point, it was largely driven by the same elements as their first three equally superb albums, that being Michael Sadler's acrobatic vocals, and the harmonizing and duelling trade-off lines of Ian Crichton's guitar and Jim Gilmour's keyboards.

Worlds Apart achieved Gold status in the US, and the success of the album in Canada won Saga the 1982 Juno Award for Most Promising Group. The promise was realized as Saga has gone on to be one of Canada's best and longest-lasting musical acts. 

SAGA - "Wind Him Up"     (J.Crichton/M.Sadler/I.Crichton/J.Gilmour/S.Negus)

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/canriffs.txt

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J0QdXBY0wo

For Canadian site visitors, hope you all have a great Victoria Day holiday weekend! Have fun! Smile 

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Saturday, May 16, 2009 1:02 AM EDT
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Friday, May 8, 2009
STREETHEART - "HOLLYWOOD"
Topic: New Tab Postings

It looks like things are getting back to normal here. I was able to re-post the GS tab page, images will upload again, and I'm getting daily stats again. The only thing that still isn't working is that I'm not getting e-mail notices about blog comments. So I just discovered one was left about four days ago that I didn't know about. I'll answer that soon.

"Hollywood" has always been my favourite of Streetheart's singles. It's from the band's second album Under Heaven Over Hell (1979). It was their first album to feature guitarist John Hannah, orignal guitarist Paul Dean having departed after the band's debut album. He would go on to form Loverboy. Hannah, for his part, had played guitar for Harlequin, and he would later return to that band.

UHOH was recorded in Quebec, with a production team that included Nazareth guitarist Manny Charlton. The album also included the hit "Here Comes the Night", originally made famous by Van Morrison band Them. The album went platinum in Canada, with sales of over 100,000 units.

During their recording career, the Regina band produced six Gold albums, four of which went on to achieve Platinum status. In 2003, they were inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall Of Fame.

I think there are probably multiple ways to play the main riff in this song. I don't know if the way I've tabbed it is the definitive way, but I opted for a fingering that falls fairly naturally on the fretboard.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/streetheart-hollywood.txt

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyXeIy_dX_w 

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, May 8, 2009 1:33 AM EDT
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING...
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Website

Ever have one of those days when part of your website just up and disappears on you? Well, it happened to me last night. And I still can't get it fixed. Last night, I finished up the stats for April and posted them here on the blog. Then I was going to do a very simple task that I hadn't gotten around to doing yet, just add a link to a page. About a week ago I uploaded some photos and created a Girlschool photo page to link to the Girlschool tab page.

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/girlschool_photos

I hadn't added the link from the tab page yet, so I did that. And when I clicked to save the page...everything disappeared. The whole Girlschool tab page. Just gone. I had thought I was going to spend last night working on getting a tab into the computer, but instead I had to work on retrieving that page. At first I thought maybe I clicked on something by mistake and deleted the page. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

I had the coding saved to a flash drive, so I didn't have to totally re-do the page. It was outdated, though, the page has been added to and re-arranged since I saved that coding. So it took about half an hour to get the page back up to date. I clicked to save it again. Once again, it wouldn't save. Finally, I typed in a short message just noting that the page was down, and the problem was being worked on. Of course, that wouldn't save, either. Undecided

Now at this point I don't want to work on any page, because I'm worried that when I click on the save button the whole page is going to disappear. The other pages are there and functioning, and I want to keep it that way. The next tab to be posted is going to be on the Canadian page, and as the most-viewed page on the site, I don't want to risk losing it, too. So I won't be posting that tab (or anything else) until I figure out what's going on. I'm going to save updated coding for all my pages just to make sure I have them backed up. Then I'll try to see if I can get the GS page up and running again.

Added later: I think this is showing evidence of being an Angelfire problem rather than my own computer, because I also tried uploading an image and it wouldn't work, and I went to check my site stats for yesterday, and they weren't there yet. I'll just have to wait until the problem is resolved. In the meantime, Girlschool tabs are still accessible by typing the URL below, with the song title you want, into your browser. This is the URL, using the tab of "Not For Sale" as an example:

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/girlschooltab/notforsale.txt


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Sunday, May 3, 2009 12:50 AM EDT
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
APRIL 2009 REVIEW
Topic: Website

Most-viewed tabs for the month of April 2009 (w/ view numbers):

22 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
15 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
14 - Michel Pagliaro - Lovin' You Ain't Easy
13 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
12 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
11 - Cry Of Love - Peace Pipe
11 - Max Webster - Battle Scar
10 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
9 - Lee Aaron - Sweet Talk
9 - Harlequin - Superstitious Feeling

Total Tab Views For April: 456

(By section:  Canadian-291  Girlschool-60  Various-52  Chords-53)


Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct. 3/07 to Apr. 30/09):

258 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
192 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
180 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
156 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
144 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
139 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
129 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
112 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
111 - Harlequin - Innocence
108 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns

Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month:

Sweet Things In Life, Battle Scar, Raise A Little Hell, I Did It For Love,
Race With the Devil (guitar), Working For the Weekend

*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:31 AM EDT
Updated: Saturday, May 2, 2009 12:34 AM EDT
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
GIRLSCHOOL - "I SPY"
Topic: Riff-In-A-Jiff

Everything about Girlschool's most recent album, Legacy (2008) -- from the thematic concept on through to the cover art -- reflects the disc's dual personality. Legacy simultaneously celebrates and mourns. The album celebrates the band's 30th Anniversary (and there are guest appearances aplenty, as a who's who of the music industry help the band mark the occasion) while also serving as a tribute to original Girlschool guitarist Kelly Johnson, who passed away in 2007.

In keeping with the dual theme, the track "I Spy" -- a timely socio-political commentary -- is given two different treatments on the disc. The "Girlschool mix" appears early on (Track 3), and is performed almost entirely by Girlschool. Phil Campbell does a guest spot here, adding the guitar solo. Toward the end of the album the song appears once more, as a bonus track -- this time the "Dio/Iommi mix". Ronnie James Dio supplies all of the vocals on this version, with Tony Iommi contributing the guitar solos. The rest of the tracks are the same as on the first version.

The Intro, which is tabbed here, is the same for both versions. It's (to the best of my knowledge) 100% Girlschool, with Kim McAuliffe on rhythm guitar and Jackie Chambers on lead.

GIRLSCHOOL - "I Spy"      (E. Williams/K. McAuliffe/J. Chambers)

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/gsriffs.txt

Audio (Girlschool mix):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miOr0xeWO-M

Audio (Dio/Iommi mix):
http://www.myspace.com/girlschool1 

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:51 AM EDT
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Monday, April 20, 2009
KIM MITCHELL - "ALANA LOVES ME"
Topic: New Chords Postings

The song "Alana Loves Me" comes from Kim Mitchell's Shakin' Like A Human Being (1986) album, a hit machine that also produced the singles "Patio Lanterns", "Easy To Tame", "That's The Hold", and "Get Lucky (Boys & Girls)". It was his most commercially successful album, earning him Juno awards for Album Of the Year and Male Vocalist Of the Year. And speaking of good male vocalists, "Alana Loves Me" features another of those fantastic backing vocal performances by Peter Fredette, impressive here just as he is on "All We Are" (from the Akimbo Alogo album).

The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/mitchellkim-alanalovesme.txt

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir8kauIZWhU 

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, April 20, 2009 1:16 AM EDT
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Friday, April 17, 2009
CRY OF LOVE - "PEACE PIPE"
Topic: New Tab Postings

90's rock with a 70's sound best describes North Carolina rockers Cry Of Love. The band's bluesy style has been compared to the likes of Bad Company and Free, and the similarity in style once landed them a touring spot as Bad Company's support act.

The band's existence was relatively brief, but successful; they formed in 1991 in Raleigh, and split up in 1997. In that time they produced a #1 Billboard hit -- "Peace Pipe", drawn from their debut album Brother (1993) -- a track that seems destined for long life on Classic Rock radio stations.

After playing the 1994 Monsters Of Rock festival, lead vocalist Kelly Holland left the group. He was eventually replaced, and a second album, Diamonds & Debris, was recorded. However, the group disbanded shortly afterward.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/vartab/cryoflove-peacepipe.txt

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsLkn76TQhk

Posted by planet/zerofret at 1:19 AM EDT
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
MARCH 2009 REVIEW
Topic: Website

Most-viewed tabs for the month of March 2009 (w/ view numbers):

23 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
16 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
16 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
13 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
12 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
11 - Lee Aaron - Sweet Talk
11 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
11 - Coney Hatch - Devil's Deck
11 - Harlequin - Superstitious Feeling
11 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love

Total Tab Views For March: 449

(By section:  Canadian-368  Girlschool-22  Various-27  Chords-32)


Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct.3/07 to Mar. 31/09):

243 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
185 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
168 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
149 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
134 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
131 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
122 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
106 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
104 - Harlequin - Innocence
104 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns

*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:58 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, April 2, 2009 12:59 AM EDT
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