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LES PAUL
June 9, 1915 - August 13, 2009
But all week the news had been predicting rain for that night. They were right. We came prepared, but even in the two or three minutes it took to go from the car to the park, we were already pretty wet. (I had pretty much accepted right from the start I was going to get soaked.)
A victim of the rain, I'm guessing. He scattered a few Max Webster songs through the set, "A Million Vacations", "Paradise Skies", and "Battle Scar". It was great to hear those ones done live again. Fittingly, the only time the rain eased up all night was when he was doing "Paradise Skies". Bassist Peter Fredette -- he of the amazing voice -- sang the Geddy Lee verse in "Battle Scar". The show closed out with "All We Are" (where Fredette's vocals really get showcased), "Patio Lanterns", and "Go For Soda". I thought due to the weather, they might not bother with an encore, but they did come back out (not making people wait long) to do "Lager & Ale". The show finished up at about 11:30.
"The Party", from the Mutiny Up My Sleeve (1978) album. The story of this tab is of the I've-got-good-news-and-bad-news variety. The bad news is that I realized pretty quickly while doing the tabbing that I was never going to be able to tab the solo at full speed. So I decided rather than put in forty bars of guess work, I'd just leave the solo out. But I don't like doing that, so it motivated me to finally go searching the Web for a program that can slow down songs without changing the pitch. It also had to allow me to save the altered music and burn it to CD, since I can't do tabbing from my computer. I looked at a few programs, and a couple looked kind of complicated. I was basically looking for "Slowing Down Songs For Dummies", something I could use right away without engaging in a lot of manual reading. The good news is the third one I looked at seemed to be just the thing. Within just a few minutes I knew how to slow songs down and save them to my hard drive. Hurray!
Not so fast. I happily arranged "The Party" at three different speeds. Then I went to burn it to a disc. The bad news is the burning process didn't work. Nothing came out on the disc. So obviously I have CD burner issues to work out. The good news is that I don't think the problem is the slow-down program, I think I just don't have the CD burner in the new computer set up right yet. Or maybe there isn't a burner in there at all, in which case I'd have to get the one from the old computer transferred into the new one. It looks like a solvable problem, anyhow, it might just take some time.
But for the moment, no solo in this tab. I'm going to go ahead and post it as is, and once the CD burner problems are resolved, I'll do the solo and add it into the tab (and post here when I've done that).
The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/maxwebster-theparty.txt
Audio/album version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hezj2afvMNg
Live/video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3RJnmTwjck
Most-viewed tabs for the month of July 2009 (w/ view numbers):
29 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
22 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
18 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
13 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
11 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
11 - Headpins - Just One More Time
10 - Headpins - Turn It Loud
9 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
9 - April Wine - Say Hello
9 - Girlschool - Hit And Run
9 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (guitar)
9 - Kim Mitchell - That's The Hold
9 - Streetheart - Hollywood
Total Tab Views For July: 496
By section: Canadian-371 Girlschool-46 Various-59 Chords-20
Most-viewed tabs overall (up to July 31/09):
295 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
245 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
222 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
179 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
169 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
159 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
154 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
133 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
130 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
129 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
129 - Harlequin - Innocence
Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month:
Yeah Right (guitar), Turn It Loud, All We Are, Phasors On Stun, Hangover
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
Chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/kansas-holdon.txt
Audio/Studio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAm33zndd1o
Video/Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5TxGk7hZTI
The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/vartab/badcompany-seagull.txt
Video:
Paul Rodgers & Mick Ralphs -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWSCUlplioI
Paul Rodgers -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqlfTiYAOHs
"I didn't know the Intro was in 11/4 time. I just saw it as three sets of three, and then two to jump on the next three sets with: it was like 1,2,3--1,2,3--1,2,3--1,2. I didn't count it as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11. It was one beat short, but it didn't feel one short, because to get back to the triad, you had two steps to go up. You'd really hit those two hard, to accent them, so that would separate the threes. ...[Duane] said, 'That's good, man, I didn't know that you understood 11/4.' Of course I said something intelligent like, 'What's 11/4?' Duane just said, 'Okay, dumbass, I'll try to draw it up on paper for you.' " (source: Wikipedia)
So after reading that (and discovering that I'm in the dumbass club with Gregg ), I could have changed the tab to make it 11/4 by removing the bar lines, making each staff one bar of music instead of four bars. But I decided not to because I think it's actually easier to follow the way I originally tabbed it...and if even the composer was thinking of it that way, it can't be too wrong. Tabbed here is the Intro and a dual guitar part after the first Chorus. The tab is of the studio version.
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - "Whipping Post" (G. Allman)
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/varriffs.txt
I don't have sound on my computer yet, so I couldn't be sure which version of the song to link to at YouTube. Just from looking at the page, though, this one looks like it's the studio version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99KiEOxXId8
Most-viewed tabs for the month of June 2009 (w/ view numbers):
26 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
21 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
14 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
14 - Headpins - Just One More Time
13 - Girlschool - Hit And Run
13 - Streetheart - Hollywood
10 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
9 - 54-40 - Baby Ran
9 - FM - Phasors On Stun
9 - Max Webster - High Class In Borrowed Shoes
9 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
9 - Trooper - We're Here For A Good Time
Total Tab Views For June: 462
By section: Canadian-337 Girlschool-57 Various-33 Chords-35
Most-viewed tabs overall (up to June 30/09):
277 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
223 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
209 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
171 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
158 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
153 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
145 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
127 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
123 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
122 - Harlequin - Innocence
Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month: Mama Let Him Play
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
...soon