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Fret Filings - (Anne's Blog)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
BLUE RODEO - "LOST TOGETHER"
Topic: New Chords Postings

The title song of Blue Rodeo's 1992 album Lost Together was also the album's most successful single. Both single and album peaked at #3 on the Canadian charts, with the album achieving double-platinum status. It also marked the first time the band chose to produce itself.

Having recently become the fifth band to be honoured with a star on Canada's Walk Of Fame (in September of this year), Blue Rodeo's next big event will be playing the halftime show at this year's Grey Cup game in Calgary on November 29th. Connected to this is a promotion inviting people to vote for the songs the band will play in their three song set. http://www.greycuphalftimeshow.ca/

From the list given, my picks would be "Trust Yourself", "Heart Like Mine", and "Diamond Mine". Those aren't necessarily my three favourites from that list. They're the three I think would work best for a halftime show at a championship football game, where they'll be wanting to keep the crowd fired up and involved (and moving, since they'll all probably be freezing cold Laughing). For that setting, I'd opt for upbeat or harder rocking songs.

But for today, an excellent ballad.

The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/bluerodeo-losttogether.txt

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8JGk6Y6N3Y

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 1:06 AM EST
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
OCTOBER 2009 REVIEW
Topic: Website

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

41 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
33 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
18 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
16 - Max Webster - Hangover
16 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
15 - Trooper - Boys In the Bright White Sports Car
14 - April Wine - Just Between You And Me
14 - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
14 - Max Webster - The Party
13 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You

Total Tab Views For October: 699
 
By section:  Canadian-524  Girlschool-42  Various-55  Chords-78


Most-viewed tabs overall (up to Oct. 31/09):

324 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
295 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
246 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
245 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
201 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
198 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
190 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
177 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
160 - Harlequin - Innocence
159 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns

Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month: Takin' Care Of Business

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


Posted by planet/zerofret at 6:42 PM EDT
Updated: Sunday, November 1, 2009 6:47 PM EDT
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
HAPPY HALLOWE'EN!


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:56 AM EDT
Updated: Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:03 AM EDT
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Monday, October 26, 2009
TROOPER - "THE BOYS IN THE BRIGHT WHITE SPORTS CAR"
Topic: New Tab Postings

About two years ago, I tabbed the opening verse of "The Boys In the Bright White Sports Car" (a song which has to set some kind of record for longest song title) for the Riffs section of the site. Now comes the tab for the full song.

"Boys" originally appeared on Trooper's second album, Two For the Show, in 1976. But it wasn't released as a single until it appeared on Hot Shots (pictured), the band's 1979 Greatest Hits album. The song became one of Trooper's most successful singles, reaching #25 on the Canadian RPM chart, and helping propel Hot Shots to quadruple platinum sales in Canada.

The only significant tab note is that the song is in a slightly unusual key, Bb minor. But a check of some video footage confirmed that that is the correct key.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/trooper-boysinthebwscar.txt

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbw-kHRtmBo

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, October 26, 2009 1:04 AM EDT
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Monday, October 19, 2009
CHILLIWACK
Topic: Riff-In-A-Jiff

In 1978, Chilliwack released their seventh album, Lights From the Valley (pictured), the follow-up to their successful Dreams Dreams Dreams album. Despite a lack of promotion due to financial troubles at Mushroom Records, the album yielded a hit in the band's cover version of "Arms Of Mary".

The album was also Chilliwack's first since the addition of guitarist Brian MacLeod, and it would be the line-up established on this record that would give the band its most successful years.

CHILLIWACK - "Arms Of Mary"      (I. Sutherland)

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

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIYDLc837e8

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:53 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, October 19, 2009 12:59 AM EDT
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Monday, October 12, 2009
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Topic: General

The annual appearance of the Thanksgiving Day cat...

For all who are celebrating Thanksgiving today, have a great holiday!


Posted by planet/zerofret at 1:42 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:44 AM EDT
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HONEYMOON SUITE - "NEW GIRL NOW"
Topic: New Tab Postings

In the mid-1980's, the song "New Girl Now" helped Honeymoon Suite to win Toronto radio station Q107's "Homegrown" contest for unsigned artists. Shortly afterward, the band signed with WEA Records.

Their 1984 self-titled debut album (pictured) spawned four hit singles, with "Stay In the Light", "Burning In Love", and "Wave Babies" following "New Girl Now" onto the Canadian charts. "New Girl Now" rose to #23 on the charts (#57 in the US), while the album peaked at #38.

"New Girl Now" also benefitted from being released in the same year that Canadian cable music channel MuchMusic first started broadcasting (in August). "Much" gave the video heavy airplay, as I'm sure lots of you will remember. Wink

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/honeymoonsuite-newgirlnow.txt

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQAIPhuUU2Y

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:31 AM EDT
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Friday, October 2, 2009
SEPTEMBER 2009 REVIEW
Topic: Website

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

37 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
27 - Max Webster - A Million Vacations
16 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (guitar)
15 - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
14 - April Wine - Just Between You And Me
14 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
12 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
12 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
12 - Max Webster - The Party
10 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On

Total Tab Views For September: 501
   
By section:  Canadian-355  Girlschool-56  Various-39  Chords-51


Most-viewed tabs overall (up to Sept. 30/09):

311 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
277 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
239 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
212 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
192 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
190 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
178 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
168 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
150 - Max Webster - Battle Scar
149 - Harlequin - Innocence

Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month: That's The Hold

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


Posted by planet/zerofret at 1:42 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, October 2, 2009 1:45 AM EDT
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
MELISSA ETHERIDGE - "THE LATE SEPTEMBER DOGS"
Topic: New Chords Postings

A seasonal entry for today, "The Late September Dogs", from Melissa Etheridge's 1988 self-titled debut album. This has always been my favourite song from her first record. I could say I really like the passion with which this song is sung, and the emotion that builds throughout it, and it would be true. But it would seem a bit redundant, because does she do any other kind of song? Wink

I also like the bass playing in particular in this song. I think Kevin McCormick's bass playing added a very unique sound to her earlier records (he played on the first four), and he's really featured on this song. For that reason, I tried to find the studio version of the song to link to, but it wasn't easy.

The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/etheridgem-lateseptemberdogs.txt

It seems the audio can only be reached in a roundabout way. I found the song on a page at Imeem, but if I link directly to the page, it gets blocked out with a sign-in box. However, if you click the link below, then click the second link from the top on the Google search results page, you'll get to the same page, but the sign-in box won't appear. I don't know why, I don't ask questions, I just try to overcome obstacles. Smile
http://www.google.ca/search?q=melissa+etheridge+-+late+september+dogs&btnGNS=Search+imeem.com&oi=navquery_
searchbox&sa=X&as_sitesearch=imeem.com&hl=en&rlz=1R2ADSA_enCA335

Aside from that, there's a live version at YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrniAqZDjc


Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Sunday, September 27, 2009 1:22 AM EDT
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
ALDO NOVA - "UNDER THE GUN"
Topic: New Tab Postings

"Under the Gun" comes from Aldo Nova's 1982 self-titled debut record, an album that went double platinum in the US and reached #8 on the Billboard 200. It also produced the chart singles "Fantasy" and "Foolin' Yourself". In 1991, Nova's first and second albums were combined and re-released under the title A Portrait Of Aldo Nova. The song tabbed here was drawn on as the title song when this package was re-released again in 2007 as the 2-disc CD Under the Gun...A Portrait Of Aldo Nova.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/novaaldo-underthegun.txt

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn3TXhOVU6o 

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:38 AM EDT
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