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Post by doc on Mar 31, 2021 23:01:50 GMT
I stumbled across this earlier this evening. We know he makes lovely guitars and he’s quite a nice player but but the Lord Harry his missus can’t half sing. I got the old goose bumps.
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Post by martinrowe on Mar 31, 2021 23:10:22 GMT
Yes, it's good isn't it.
thanks for that
Martin
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Post by robmc on Apr 1, 2021 5:58:33 GMT
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brianr2
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Post by brianr2 on Apr 1, 2021 7:53:09 GMT
Great stuff. Beautiful guitar and wonderful singing.
Brian
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Post by jangarrack on Apr 1, 2021 8:52:34 GMT
Dimming of the Day seems to be a song that when it's covered, I either like it a lot or don't like it at all and rarely anything in between. I agree this is a superb version and it gave me goose bumps as well.  |
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Post by colins on Apr 1, 2021 9:35:34 GMT
A great cover of one of my favourite Richard and Linda Thompson songs.
I subscribe to Adrian and Liz's channel, both for the great music and to see Adrian's 'interesting' range of hats.
For example:
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Post by andyhowell on Apr 2, 2021 8:49:10 GMT
Dimming of the Day seems to be a song that when it's covered, I either like it a lot or don't like it at all and rarely anything in between. I agree this is a superb version and it gave me goose bumps as well. That’s because it is a bastard of a song to sing. Often it involves a nasty key change (though not always) for the middle verse. I played this in a trio for years with each of us taking a verse which kind of helped. It is also a weird tempo though it doesn’t sound it. Keeping the guitar accompaniment going is hard. It’s not technically difficult but I keep dozing off in it or getting lost in daydreams. The last time I played it was in a scratch pairing at an RMMGA gathering a couple of years ago (I tried to avoid it but with no success). [mention]cams [/mention] was videoing these but hopefully he didn’t catch this one. A lovely song but please if I’m in the Halifax P dip with you do not suggest this one. Please. Ever. |
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Post by colins on Apr 2, 2021 9:28:34 GMT
andyhowell it is a great favourite of mine, and as you obviously know it, maybe it could be your first song in the COD?  
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Post by andyhowell on Apr 2, 2021 9:33:55 GMT
andyhowell it is a great favourite of mine, and as you obviously know it, maybe it could be your first song in the COD? Don't get me wrong but it is a great song. But wierdly really difficult to perform well. Ithink it's the tempo — I always feel it wants to speed up or slow down. RT has a habbit of doing this with his Strict Tempo thing. I find it difficult to sing and difficult to play — usually I can make do with one or the other but not here! |
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Post by andyhowell on Apr 2, 2021 10:31:48 GMT
colins Just had another go. Intro, great. Verse 1, great. Chorus , great, verse 2 — collapse !!!
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Post by ocarolan on Apr 2, 2021 12:38:55 GMT
It's certainly not the easiest to sing - I tend to run out of breath through lack of forward planning! And agree with you andyhowell that simultaneous playing and singing isn't easy. My (quite ancient by now) only recording of it was with separate guitar and voice tracks, which makes life a lot easier! In celebration of RT's birthday tomorrow (72) I'll bore you with it again - app.box.com/s/2ebphfb7hotpr87ijcixcolins - I don't think I've ever performed this song "live" other than in the privacy of my own privacy...... Keith |
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Post by geddarby on Apr 3, 2021 9:42:07 GMT
A great version of my favourite Bowie song
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Post by andyhowell on Apr 3, 2021 10:05:18 GMT
Here are Adrian and Liz as members of the Stand In Blues Band — Liz is behind the drums if you don't spot her at first. This might help explain why every guitar of Adrian's I've played is a good blues box! Liz is multi talented — she has also written a one woman play 'The G-Man And Me' based around her life as a Rory Gallagher fan! I've never seen it and maybe it wouldbe nice if she did some of it for YouTube!
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Post by geddarby on Apr 3, 2021 12:03:54 GMT
andyhowell thanks for posting this, it’s heart warming to see the band having so much fun, but it also emphasises how much I’m missing live music. 
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Post by jangarrack on Apr 3, 2021 19:36:28 GMT
I appreciate this thread has moved on a bit from Dimming of the Day, but thought I would still post my thoughts anyway.
Back in the 80s I became, and still remain today, a big Any Trouble fan and their version of this and my resulting fascination with the song was my introduction to Richard Thompson.
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Jo whoever he is.
