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Best use of electric SITAR on a song - Every time You Go Away - Paul Young

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Raja, The Great

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Feb 13, 2011, 1:11:59 AM2/13/11
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This is also one of the best love songs I have heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHyG-IU5Jg

I really like the line...
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

marcuscp

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Feb 13, 2011, 2:58:26 AM2/13/11
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Nah, Joe South's 'Games People Play' and Freda Payne's 'Band Of Gold'
shit all over that.

who?

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Feb 13, 2011, 3:01:29 AM2/13/11
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It's okay. Kind of corny.

billy

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Feb 13, 2011, 9:17:04 AM2/13/11
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It is only best in your opinion little boy. And you know what your
opinion means around here.

Frank from Deeeetroit

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Feb 13, 2011, 11:44:21 AM2/13/11
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BJ Thomas, Hooked on a Feeling, Box Tops Cry Like a Baby, King Curtis
Games People Play with Duane Allman on electric sitar comes to mind.

reilloc

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Feb 13, 2011, 12:24:45 PM2/13/11
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I hadn't realized it was a sitar because the intervals played are
entirely Western. Somehow, it seems almost mocking of the instrument, to
go out of your way to obtain one and somebody competent to play it and
then to require that the music produced be merely 4/4 and chromatic.

I guess it's not, though, since it's the artist's choice and art's funny
that way.

LNC

The Lone Star

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Feb 13, 2011, 2:18:30 PM2/13/11
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On Feb 13, 10:44 am, Frank from Deeeetroit <dadurwe...@voyager.net>
wrote:

I with Frank here!

"Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas who grew up about 5 minutes from
where I now live wins hands down!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWJmrp6DkjE

reilloc

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Feb 13, 2011, 3:01:58 PM2/13/11
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Bj�rn Skifs, lead vocalist for Blue Swede, did the voice of Woody in Toy
Story and Toy Story 2.

LNC

Raja, The Great

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Feb 13, 2011, 3:13:21 PM2/13/11
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Did you guys see this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5CkigqO7aY

Electric sitar shredding.

marcuscp

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Feb 14, 2011, 1:31:49 AM2/14/11
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Wow, I think we have a winner. Who's playing it?

abe slaney

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Feb 14, 2011, 11:58:04 PM2/14/11
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On Feb 13, 11:44 am, Frank from Deeeetroit <dadurwe...@voyager.net>
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Genesis' "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" is a good post-60's-
pop example.

abe slaney

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Feb 15, 2011, 12:05:05 AM2/15/11
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On Feb 13, 11:44 am, Frank from Deeeetroit <dadurwe...@voyager.net>
wrote:

> BJ Thomas, Hooked on a Feeling, Box Tops Cry Like a Baby, King Curtis


> Games People Play with Duane Allman on electric sitar comes to mind.

Genesis' "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" is a good post-60's-
pop example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tFQMjc-IE

Phred

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Feb 15, 2011, 8:34:28 AM2/15/11
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====================================

Every Time You Go. Originally Hall and Oates.

Neighbor of mine had one in '68. The brown one: Most common, maybe
the only manufacturer at the time.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.12fret.com/new/jerry_jones_electric_sitar.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.12fret.com/new/Jerry_Jones_electric_sitars_pg.html&usg=__j9fHFZi1p8FABJUJl8tFZicJF3g=&h=433&w=685&sz=55&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=2Komz7SWDslFOM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=181&ei=dIBaTejKJ9CDtgeSgN31Cg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Delectric%2Bsitar%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DdqL%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Ds%26biw%3D1159%26bih%3D629%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=230&vpy=122&dur=1&hovh=178&hovw=282&tx=151&ty=84&oei=dIBaTejKJ9CDtgeSgN31Cg&page=1&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

Jales

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Feb 15, 2011, 11:03:52 AM2/15/11
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Is it the same instrument used by Ronnie Wood when playing Street
Fighting Man live?

Jales

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Feb 15, 2011, 11:32:53 AM2/15/11
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On 15 feb, 02:05, abe slaney <abesla...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Genesis' "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" is a good post-60's-
> pop example.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tFQMjc-IE

Isn't it an electric guitar with some pedal effect by Hackett?

abe slaney

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Feb 15, 2011, 6:52:03 PM2/15/11
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Don't have the album handy but I'm pretty sure electric sitar was
credited on the notes, and Wikipedia says it was one played by Mike
Rutherford on the studio recording and Hackett live.

King Size Johnson

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Feb 15, 2011, 7:49:13 PM2/15/11
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And, of course, "Listen To The Flower People" by Spinal Tap.

TheWalrusWasDanny

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Feb 15, 2011, 8:02:27 PM2/15/11
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I always thought it was "Every time you go away, you take a piece of
Meat with you"

Danny

marcuscp

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Feb 15, 2011, 9:12:01 PM2/15/11
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On Feb 16, 12:02 pm, TheWalrusWasDanny <dannyisthewal...@tesco.net>
wrote:

Well he had the chops.

marcuscp

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Feb 15, 2011, 8:58:22 PM2/15/11
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On Feb 16, 12:02 pm, TheWalrusWasDanny <dannyisthewal...@tesco.net>
wrote:

Well he sure had the chops.

King Size Johnson

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Feb 16, 2011, 12:38:31 AM2/16/11
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No bones about it.

black...@aol.com

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Feb 16, 2011, 9:44:44 AM2/16/11
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Here's a pretty obscure one: On the Todd Rundgren album Initiation, he
plays one on the title song "Initiation." What's cool is that it's an
overdriven lead guitar solo (with occasional fills). Never heard an
electric sitar like that before.

abe slaney

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Feb 16, 2011, 8:07:05 PM2/16/11
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On Feb 16, 9:44 am, "blackbu...@aol.com" <blackbu...@aol.com> wrote:

> Here's a pretty obscure one: On the Todd Rundgren album Initiation, he
> plays one on the title song "Initiation." What's cool is that it's an
> overdriven lead guitar solo (with occasional fills). Never heard an
> electric sitar like that before.

I only remember the first 3 or 4 tracks on that album. Maybe I never
got past those?! I always loved "Real Man", though.

Kyla =^ ..^=

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Feb 20, 2011, 5:48:30 PM2/20/11
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"who?"


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>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHyG-IU5Jg
>
> I really like the line...
> Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

>It's okay. Kind of corny.

I like Paul Young...he has a good voice and has done some good songs an
appeared at Live Aid, and even married one off his background singers..wiki
it up...I have it marked under my favorites and watch some of his stuff on
YouTube, which is now fixed lol

billy

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Feb 20, 2011, 10:52:28 PM2/20/11
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> Electric sitar shredding.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

shred this

Jales

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Feb 21, 2011, 11:42:42 AM2/21/11
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The Devil's Been Busy by The Traveling Wilburys

Frank from Deeeetroit

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Feb 22, 2011, 6:11:17 PM2/22/11
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On Feb 13, 1:11 am, "Raja, The Great" <zepflo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is also one of the best love songs I have heard.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHyG-IU5Jg
>
> I really like the line...
> Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Heard Robbie DuPree's "Steal Away", a rip-off of the Doobie Brothers
"What a Fool Believes", yesterday. There is electric sitar in this
song.

Frank

Frank from Deeeetroit

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Feb 22, 2011, 7:33:51 PM2/22/11
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On Feb 13, 1:11 am, "Raja, The Great" <zepflo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is also one of the best love songs I have heard.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHyG-IU5Jg
>
> I really like the line...
> Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Steely Dan's "Do It Again" has a rockin' electric sitar solo in the
middle of the song. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter perhaps?

Frank

number_six

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Feb 22, 2011, 10:20:46 PM2/22/11
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Matt Levonian plays sitar in Rick Potts' "Autobody Experience" -- it's
unlikely to make the electric sitar hit parade, though.

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