Most-viewed tabs for the month of January 2008 (w/ view numbers):

8 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
6 - April Wine - Say Hello
6 - Toronto - Even the Score
5 - Doobie Brothers - China Grove
5 - Harlequin - Sweet Things In Life
5 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
5 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
5 - Helix - Deep Cuts the Knife
5 - Kim Mitchell - All We Are
5 - Toronto - Lookin' For Trouble
5 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
5 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

Total tab views for January: 139   (By section: Girlschool-8, Canadian-107, Various-24)

Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct. 3/07 to Jan. 31/08):

23 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
12 - Trooper - Two For the Show
11 - Girlschool - Race With the Devil (guitar)
9 - Max Webster - High Class In Borrowed Shoes
8 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
8 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
8 - Bad Company - Shooting Star
8 - Max Webster - Battle Scar
8 - Kim Mitchell - All We Are
8 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
8 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

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

Okay, Willie, what's the verdict? Early Spring or more Winter? After yesterday's heavy snowfall, I think we can take a pretty good guess. Will you agree with your cousin Phil in Punxatawney, or will the groundhogs be at odds? Oh, the suspense!

Happy Groundhog Day!


     Wiarton Willie  (Wiarton, Ontario)

I just made a couple of small adjustments to the "China Grove" tab I posted earlier today. The changes are in bars 11 and 14 of the guitar solo. The notes are still exactly the same, I just moved a few notes to different strings so that the fingering falls more naturally.

New tab posted today. "China Grove" by The Doobie Brothers. It can be found on the Home Page or on the Various Tabs page. Add mine to the pile of "China Grove" tabs that are already out there.

I'm opting for a live video version to link to the site. It's a good live version, and it helped me out in figuring out some of the parts.

But since the tab is of the studio version of the song, I'll put a link to the studio version here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcfEmG3TrMg

The next tab is coming along, but it's still awhile away. I still have the Bridge and the Solo to do. In the meantime...riff time. Today's riff is from Blue Öyster Cult. It's the Intro to the hit off of their 1981 Fire Of Unknown Origin album. A little harmonized guitar, a little soloing by Donald Roeser, power chords in the background. They could manage all of this live, because in onstage photos, it always looked to me like BOC had about 5,000 guitarists in the band.  But I think it's three, actually. (Okay, so I'm prone to a little exaggeration.) Still, there aren't a whole lot of bands that have three guitarists. But this is one of them.

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT - "Burnin' For You"     (D. Roeser/R. Meltzer)

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

And you can hear it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYD9z_fvjgk

I just posted the site's first tab for 2008, "(Make Me Do) Anything You Want" by A Foot In Coldwater. I've known this song forever, but I discovered something while doing this tab that I didn't know. When I do a tab, I'll often look for a video version on YouTube to check for accuracy. I was watching some footage of this song and I noticed the poster had the band listed as A Foot In Coldwater, when I had always assumed it was A Foot In Cold Water.

So I started searching around a little for answers, and sure enough, on every one of the band's album covers "Coldwater" is a single word. And that got me wondering further if the band's name might be more than it appears. Depending on what article you read, it'll tell you the band took its name from British slang for either "a shocking experience" or "bad luck".

But is it possible the band's name has a secondary meaning, as well? AFIC are from Toronto, and there's a town north of Toronto (okay, well north of Toronto) near Orillia called Coldwater. I wonder if anybody in the band might have roots in Coldwater...making A Foot In Coldwater maybe also be a reference to staying grounded, always having a foot in your hometown. Pure speculation. I'm sure it probably has nothing to do with it, but it does make you wonder why they spell Coldwater as one word, doesn't it?

There are two video versions of this song on YouTube, one from the band's early days, one more recent. Both have their cons. In the more recent one, the band's lead singer is singing with strep throat...but that version has the full guitar solo, so that's the version I'm going to put on the video page of the website (as soon as I get a chance). The other video, well, I think they're just performing on a show along to the studio recording, so it sounds fine. But it's an edited version of the guitar solo, which is why the other one gets the nod for the website.

But for your listening enjoyment , I'll link to the edited version here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek_Xf2HTsZo