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Post by scottish0177 on Apr 11, 2017 8:05:21 GMT
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Post by leoroberts on Apr 11, 2017 8:35:29 GMT
Well, definitely different! And proof, if needed, that bluegrass don't do slow laments Mind you, it's still a million times better than Kate Bush's version.
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Post by scottish0177 on Apr 11, 2017 9:13:24 GMT
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Post by leoroberts on Apr 11, 2017 9:18:38 GMT
I do enjoy a bit of bluegrass... and that was grand. I also don't know the original (if there was one) so my mind hasn't been skewed
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Post by scottish0177 on Apr 11, 2017 9:33:53 GMT
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Post by ocarolan on Apr 11, 2017 11:30:14 GMT
Great thread, esp Iron Horse with Rocket man - superb vocals in particular!
How about this one -
Love that Box Hill becomes Knoxville! (Even if they haven't the decency to know what the original was!)
Keith
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Post by nkforster on Apr 12, 2017 5:27:31 GMT
Nice to hear bands play without piezo pickups eh? I wish more folk would take this approach. It means playing at lower volumes and actually listening to each other, so it'll never catch on!
Nigel
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Post by earthbalm on Apr 12, 2017 7:15:53 GMT
Nice to hear bands play without piezo pickups eh? I wish more folk would take this approach. It means playing at lower volumes and actually listening to each other, so it'll never catch on! Nigel I very rarely listen at anything above a low volume and anything where a speaker is distorting irks me. I remember seeing the Drifters at St David's Hall, Cardiff. More distortion that I've heard at some rock gigs (not that I've been to many of those). The Kate Bush cover wasn't her best, was it?
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Post by robmc on Apr 12, 2017 13:37:29 GMT
I don't know much about bluegrass but I thought the point was to play as loud and fast as you can... hence the term 'banjo killers' for the preferred dreadnoughts (albeit this is probably not a term the oficionados would support!)... I think Blueridge guitars are particularly fancied for their banjo-killing. I also once sold a guitar on ebay and was mildly berated by a chap who had bid for the guitar without reading my description, which pointed out that the action was set low, he advised me that he could only by a guitar with a 'bluegrass' action. Ok. I can't get along with the Rocket Man cover, different is good, covers a multitude of sins or virtues depending on the individual, some of the other examples though I did enjoy though....
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Post by Martin on Apr 19, 2017 14:23:54 GMT
Yep, very different and quite fun. I'm a fan of unlilkely bluegrass covers, with The Cleverlys one of my faves. Just for laughs, though. Dunno if I could listen to a CD of the material, but the vids are decent
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