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

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

That's really all I do...  Except at the end where I get into a call and
response thing with the guitarist on the closing lick of the song. 
 Brad Trainham


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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
>   
> 
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> 
> 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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