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

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would love to hear someone's version of Mary Jane's Last Dance. We do that song, but I'm just blowing a drawing a Dylanesque set of 4 chords pretty much throughout the song.
Steve Webb in Minn.

---- Bradford Trainham <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 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
>   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> 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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