RE: [Harp-L] roadhouse blues and other rock standards

["Bradford Trainham" <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right now, I do the YardBirds version of I'm a Man, Mary Jane's Last Dance,
Got To Wear Shades and my personal favorite of the "standards" these guys
are willing to play and to let me play on, the flute solo in Locomotive
Breath on the harp. 
I'm always thinking/scheming to sneak the harp in elsewhere and sometimes,
they'll allow it and sometimes not. 
On the "not" days, the most likely reason is "We play it like it is on the
record."..
While this isn't at all true, I don't argue as they're a nice bunch of
people and a pleasure to sing behind.
The problem with all cover bands is they tend to do the most well-known
covers and to be pretty rigid about them. 
But as long as I feel like I'm still growing musically, I'll probably put up
with most of their... !!stuff!!...
Brad Trainham
  

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From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Garry Hodgson
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:36 AM
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Subject: [Harp-L] roadhouse blues and other rock standards

steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Also, I was asked a couple years ago to play 3-4 songs on harp with a 
> local group. I came to discover they wanted harp because they wanted 
> to do Roadhouse. It took me way too long to get it down, and I haven't 
> done it since, but I loved the harp feel in that song, too
that's raises an interesting point.  just as there are standard blues tunes
that everyone is expected to know, what are the standard rock tunes that you
are likely to be called up for?

i went to see a friend's cover band play one time, and they called me up for
a few, unexpectedly.  "roadhouse blues" was one song, i think zz top's
"tush" the other.  had never heard of "tush", and hadn't heard roadhouse in
perhaps 20 years.  i played ok, making it up on the fly, but probably
nothing like what was expected.

so, what are the rock "standards"?


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