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Saturday, July 24, 2010
FLUDD - "ALWAYS BE THINKING OF YOU"
Topic: New Tab Postings

From the unusually titled album ... On! (1972) comes Fludd's "Always Be Thinking Of You". (For the story on the titling of this album see this previous blog post https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/index.blog/1339887/cousin-mary/ )

This album -- Fludd's second -- produced the greatest number of singles for the band, with "Yes" and "C'mon C'mon" also being released as singles. Of the three, only "Always Be Thinking Of You" made it into the Top 40 in Canada. At a later date, when the band was ready to begin recording its next album, Daffodil Records decided to release a final single from the album. It proved to be a good decision, as "Cousin Mary" became the band's most succesful single.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/fludd-alwaysbethinkingofyou.txt

Audio:


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Saturday, July 24, 2010 1:21 AM EDT
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Monday, July 19, 2010
JUNE 2010 REVIEW
Topic: Tab Views

Most-viewed tabs for the month of June 2010:

36 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
27 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
25 - Max Webster - Let Go the Line
22 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
22 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
21 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
21 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
20 - Trooper - Boys In the Bright White Sports Car
19 - Harlequin - Innocence
18 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know

Total Tab Views For June: 988

By section:  Canadian-712  Girlschool-164  Various-61  Chords-51


Most-viewed tabs overall (up to June 30/10):

481 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
473 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
443 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
361 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
316 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
295 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
292 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
287 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
286 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
276 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

Tabs reaching 100 views this month: Make You A Believer, The Party

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


Posted by planet/zerofret at 6:18 PM EDT
Updated: Monday, July 19, 2010 6:20 PM EDT
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
JACKSON HAWKE - "YOU CAN'T DANCE"
Topic: New Chords Postings

Sometimes you take a flyer on an album, even when you don't know too much about a band. You've heard a couple of songs and hope you like the rest. I did this back in the 70's with Jackson Hawke's debut album Forever (1976). And to this day it's one of my favourite Canadian "hidden gem" albums from the 70's.

Jackson Hawke, formed by Sault Ste. Marie natives Tim Ryan and Bob Yeomans, took its name from the surnames of the two main band members' maternal grandfathers. "You Can't Dance", the first single from Forever, enjoyed Top 40 success across Canada. The single had an added bonus in store for the band by essentially becoming a double A-side single. When DJs found the single's B-side was a cover of Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic", they gave that song airplay, as well. (The official second single was "She's the One".)

In 1978, American pop duo England Dan & John Ford Coley covered the song for their album Some Things Don't Come Easy, taking it to #49 in the US. They changed some of the lyrics along the way, as noted by the Sault Star:

Yeomans still gets a charge of the slight lyric shift England Dan and John Ford Coley applied to Jackson Hawke's signature 
song, omitting the line, "You can't dance, you're a three-legged cow," an effort, he contends, to cinnamon-coat what lyricist Ryan intended as a "totally angry thing." (http://www.saultstar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=799651)

The duo changed the line to "Find someone gonna show you how". Pop idol Rick Nelson also covered the song in 1977 on his album Intakes. He omitted the same line, by not including the second half of the Chorus at all. 

What Yeomans says is true. Both cover versions soften and sugarcoat the song, and as a consequence they lack the rollicking, edgier, bar-band tone of the Jackson Hawke original.

The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/jacksonhawke-youcantdance.txt
   


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 1:38 AM EDT
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
MAY 2010 REVIEW
Topic: Tab Views

Most-viewed tabs for the month of May 2010:

27 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
24 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
20 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
20 - Trooper - Boys In the Bright White Sports Car
17 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
17 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (guitar)
17 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
17 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
17 - Max Webster - Blowing the Blues Away
16 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On

Total Tab Views For May: 938 
    
By section:  Canadian-612  Girlschool-169  Various-70   Chords-87


Most-viewed tabs overall (up to May 31/10):

464 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
436 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
429 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
334 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
303 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
274 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
273 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
270 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
265 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
260 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

Tabs reaching 100 overall views this month:
You Are the Light, Boys In the Bright White Sports Car, Deep Cuts the Knife, C'mon Let's Go, Diamonds Diamonds, Bus Rider

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


Posted by planet/zerofret at 1:38 AM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 1:39 AM EDT
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
MAX WEBSTER - "BLOWING THE BLUES AWAY"
Topic: New Tab Postings

In what's been a mostly overcast and rainy week, this seems like an appropriate tab to be posting, (although it's quite nice out today.) So, by request, "Blowing the Blues Away", a relaxed feel-good tune from Max Webster's 1976 self-titled debut album. Like "Let Go the Line", the previous Max tab posted here, this song was penned by keyboardist Terry Watkinson. While it seems like a pretty straightforward song, there are some things about the tab that I'm not sure about. Those things are outlined in the "Notes" section of the tab itself.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/maxwebster-blowingthebluesaway.txt

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwtFirrdNL4


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:05 AM EDT
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
APRIL 2010 REVIEW
Topic: Tab Views

Most-viewed tabs for the month of April 2010:

35 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
29 - Max Webster - Let Go the Line
24 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
22 - The Runaways - Neon Angels On the Road To Ruin
20 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
19 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (g)
19 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
17 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
17 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
17 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns

Total Tab Views For April: 966 
     
By section:  Canadian-621  Girlschool-176  Various-107  Chords-62


Most-viewed tabs overall (up to Apr. 30/10):

447 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
416 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
412 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
318 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
286 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
259 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
256 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
255 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
247 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
246 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

Tabs reaching 100 views this month:
Communication Breakdown, You Won't Dance With Me, Hot Girls In Love, Let Go the Line

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


Posted by planet/zerofret at 1:46 AM EDT
Updated: Sunday, May 2, 2010 1:47 AM EDT
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
FIVE MAN ELECTRICAL BAND - "WEREWOLF"
Topic: New Chords Postings

In 1974, Five Man Electrical Band scored a Top 10 hit in Canada with the song "Werewolf". The single, which peaked at #6, first appeared on the LP The Power Of The Five Man Electrical Band, a greatest hits compilation that was released in 1975. This same album was later re-issued on CD under the title of Absolutely Right: The Best Of Five Man Electrical Band.

The song employs a narrative format lyrically, while dominant 7th chords are used effectively to create atmosphere and help build tension as the tale unfolds.

The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/fiveman-werewolf.txt

Audio (studio version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcwHQfIuCnU

In the video below the song starts at about the 1:30 mark:


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:00 AM EDT
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
BLUE RODEO
Topic: Riff-In-A-Jiff

Outskirts (1987) was the highly succesful debut album by Canadian country/roots rockers Blue Rodeo. The album climbed to #20 on Canada's album charts and achieved 4x platinum sales. Aside from the band's breakout hit "Try", Outskirts also featured the single "Rose-Coloured Glasses". That single charted at #40 in Canada.

The Intro of the latter is tabbed here. That Intro is pretty short, so I decided to include chord changes for the Verses and Chorus, too. Once I had done that, I figured I might as well add in the changes for the Break and the Bridge as well, so that all the pieces are there to play the complete song.

BLUE RODEO - "Rose-Coloured Glasses"      (G. Keelor/J. Cuddy)

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

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

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Sunday, April 18, 2010 1:06 AM EDT
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
THE RUNAWAYS - "NEON ANGELS ON THE ROAD TO RUIN"
Topic: New Tab Postings

The Runaways are certainly topical these days, what with the feature film about their career that's currently in theatres. The film originally had a working title of Neon Angels: The Runaways. I guess that was abandoned somewhere along the line, since the final title seems to be simply The Runaways. That working title came from the fact that the movie is based on lead singer Cherie Currie's 1989 autobiography Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story.

And, in turn, the title of Currie's book comes from "Neon Angels On the Road To Ruin", a song on the band's second album, Queens Of Noise (1977). While some don't care for the high gloss production of this album, I think it's easily their best album in terms of material. On an album of strong tracks, "Neon Angels" stands out as one of the best, with its catchy, memorable riff, good melody, and strong vocal phrasing. The band even tinkers with some timing complexity here by starting out in 4/4 time, kicking into 12/8 for the bulk of the song, then returning to 4/4 for the end. Large parts of the solo also have 4/4 being played against the 12/8 rhythm. Speaking of which, Lita Ford unleashes a flashy solo here which showcases her already considerable guitar skills. This album was the band at its strongest. By the time of their next studio album, both Currie and bassist Jackie Fox had departed, and the band's sound lacked the dimension and diversity of the original recording line-up.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/vartab/runaways-neonangels.txt

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

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, April 8, 2010 1:28 AM EDT
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Friday, April 2, 2010
MARCH 2010 REVIEW
Topic: Tab Views

Most-viewed tabs for the month of March 2010:

36 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
34 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
34 - Max Webster - Let Go the Line
29 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
28 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
24 - Helix - Breakdown
24 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
24 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
20 - Harlequin - Innocence
20 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On

Total Tab Views For March: 1,092
      
By section:  Canadian-797  Girlschool-113  Various-90  Chords-92


Most-viewed tabs overall (up to Mar. 31/10):

423 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
397 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
381 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
302 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
272 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
243 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
242 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
239 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
235 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
232 - Harlequin - Innocence

Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month:
Armageddon, A Million Vacations

Tabs reaching 200 overall views mark this month:
I Did It For Love, Yeah Right (g), Sweet Things In Life

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


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:44 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, April 2, 2010 12:48 AM EDT
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