I seek your opinion...
Danny McEvoy
sixties during the year 2011. So far I have done 78 and there are 107
to go..I should do this easily..so I'm left with a bit of a
dilemma..what to do do next and stretch myself with...if and when I
finish this journey..do I ..Cover every UK number two..there are 130
songs that got to number two and didn't get to number one?..do I cover
the songs that got to number one in the NME chart in the UK..there are
20 songs..If I do every number 2..it only leaves six songs to do on
the NME chart..or...
Do I cover every USA number one of the 1960s?
It has been argued that I am intrinsically British so should just
leave the American market alone since the definintion of my being is
basically UK and that's the charm of the covers...but then the
majority of my views on YT are US...
What would be the best achievement? to have covered every UK and US
number one of the sixties in a year..or to have covered every UK
number one and two of the sixties?
Your opinions please?
Danny
Mack A. Damia
Best not to scratch your bum in public.
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How about just some great songs to go along with those?
I like a couple of Tommy Bolin tunes. I don't really know
if the two songs I like are hits? How bout "Round and Round"
by The Edgar Winter group? I don't think it was a hit though.
Hits aren't always the best choices. Anything out of the
ordinary that would blow peoples minds. "High Lonesome"
by Charlie Daniels? Part of the chord progression is similar
to "Guitar Gently Weeps. Kenny Rogers early songs?
"Something's Burning"? How bout Turtles songs?
Johnny Cash, "A boy named Sue"? Elvis's later songs
are good.
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"Jack n. Jill" Tommy Roe. I like Glen Campbell. "Rhinestone
Cowboy"? I love all sorts of music.
marcus
This may sound like a strange idea, but did the pirate radio stations,
like Radio Caroline or Radio Luxembourg keep charts of the most
popular song or album of the week? If they did, maybe you could do
their #1s for the 1960s. Could be interesting, and quite different
from the songs you are covering now, as they started to be more album-
oriented towards the late 60s.
Just an idea.
Marc
Jim Beam
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"Classical Gas" by Mason Williams. (If memory severs me right).
moonpie
<thewalru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Your opinions please?
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Do your own original stuff.
Lord Valve
> Your opinions please?
Get a fuckin' JOB.
LV
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There you go.
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> On Thu, 5 May 2011 18:08:30 -0700 (PDT), Danny McEvoy
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Problem is, the general public doesn't care to hear
original material.
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He does have a job, but it's not my place to tell you
what it is, and it shouldn't concern you.
Danny McEvoy
> On Thu, 5 May 2011 18:08:30 -0700 (PDT), Danny McEvoy
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Cheers Moonpie..there are many songs of my own material on my YT
channel..if you go to the channel (TheWalruswasdanny) and go to the
playlists they're all there including Beatle type connected
things.."The Ladder Comes Crashing Down" for example is linked to the
meeting of J&Y at the indica in 66...I am quite prolific in writing my
own material...
Cheers
Boogie
Danny
Danny McEvoy
Thank you Jeff...the details of my private life are confidential as
I'm sure you can appreciate here on usenet!!
Danny
Eric Ramon
LV is too busy posing for pictures with his gun, pretending to be a
tough guy. For all I know, he *is* a tough guy but he looks like a
goofball when he's pretending to frighten off his friends, who are
pretending to be thieves or something.
Jim Beam
Wrote a song about it, wanna here it?
Done in a blues way.
"Get a fuckin' JOB".......
can't get no knob.........
The Nice Mean Man
Utter skin-deep BULLSHIT. So sorry if it's the truth.........
TNMM
Danny McEvoy
Thanks Iben! Nice to see you back!
Danny
moonpie
who cares what the general public wants?
If he wants to get into a cover band and try to make money, then,
great. He's not making any money singing cover tunes on the internet
is he?
Why not try some original material?
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> >> Do your own original stuff.
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> >Problem is, the general public doesn't care to hear
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> who cares what the general public wants?
I don't or I wouldn't post my own original material that
mostly goes ignored. I'm just saying that in my
opinion, it's better if people don't post their own
material if they want more views on Youtube,
cause the general public doesn't care to hear original
music.
> If he wants to get into a cover band and try to make money, then,
> great. He's not making any money singing cover tunes on the internet
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No, but he said a couple of days ago that he wanted to be famous.
How will you get famous if your videos mostly get ignored cause
nobody much watches them?
> Why not try some original material?
He already has original material on youtube. I believe
he even said so in this thread.
moonpie
Yeah, he did.... I wasnt aware of it because he seldom, or never,
posts the links in here
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Well, I remember at one time he was posting links here to his
original material....about 6 months to a year ago. He quit
posting them to my knowledge after he decided to cover
every Beatles song. That became his priority. Anyhow, I
wasn't trying to say it's wrong for posters to post their own
material....cause this newsgroup has lost tons of posters
the last couple of years. If it weren't for posters like Danny
to put up links to their music...this newsgroup would be
mostly dead.
moonpie
I wasnt here then.
He quit
>posting them to my knowledge after he decided to cover
>every Beatles song. That became his priority. Anyhow, I
>wasn't trying to say it's wrong for posters to post their own
>material....cause this newsgroup has lost tons of posters
>the last couple of years.
I can sort of see why.
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I understand.
> He quit
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> I can sort of see why.
Yep, with all the trolls, arguments on topic/off, Facebook.
The list is endless, but it would help if more posters
would start threads, and please the people who want
to remain on topic too. I really don't mind the off topic
threads as long as people get along, but that's me.
You're a musician aren't you? I would like to hear
some of your material.
moonpie
sure!
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=934204
some covers and some originals, most of it is a girl singing, but I
played all the guitar and recorded and mixed it all at home. the
second song, a rockabilly thing, is all me.
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You're a very talented guitarist, and I love all the songs including
the second song that's all you. I'm surprised you're into the
Beatles.
TheWalrusWasDanny
Hi Moonpie...I usually post in original material in here..and the
Jazzy vids (because she insists I do!)..the UK number ones I'm not
really bothering since they're OT really...incidentally the trolls are
doing quite well..in that I'm just not coming into RMB as much..so the
battering is working..why come to a place to read
bollocks...particulary when I can inhabit FB and talk to Beatle people
that I can monitor..saying that I won't disappear...there will be
another McSorleys this year!
Danny
moonpie
thanks for listening!
I grew up with the Bealtes, I saw them on Ed Sullivan. (I was 4, I
think, but I remember it... mostly because my older sister got so
excited she peed on the bed)
Anyway, guitar-wise I've never been a "pop" player, they didnt
influence me so much as a guitar player, but, I always liked their
music and their songwriting.
That cover band did a bunch of Beatles songs; we'd sort of rock them
up, maybe change the riff a little bit. always fun.
It wasnt until a long time after I had been playing, that I began to
listen to them again, and realized they were all very good guitar
players.
Except maybe Ringo.
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No problem. I enjoyed it. Noticed you were a fan of Jeez4's (sp?)
music. I'm also a fan.
> I grew up with the Bealtes, I saw them on Ed Sullivan. (I was 4, I
> think, but I remember it... mostly because my older sister got so
> excited she peed on the bed)
That's funny My girlfriend thinks many of those young
girls back then were just acting....and following some
of their others with their screaming. I told her that their
music really did cause these type of reactions.
> Anyway, guitar-wise I've never been a "pop" player, they didnt
> influence me so much as a guitar player, but, I always liked their
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All he had to do was to move his fingers around on the guitar,
to find more chords.
:-)
moonpie
some of it definitely fits the "tribal hysteria" myth
thats what a large part of the fascination with pop idols really is.
Partly, the girls all want the pop idols, because all the other girls
want them too.
Partly anyway.
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>> Anyway, guitar-wise I've never been a "pop" player, they didnt
>> influence me so much as a guitar player, but, I always liked their
>> music and their songwriting.
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>> That cover band did a bunch of Beatles songs; we'd sort of rock them
>> up, maybe change the riff a little bit. always fun.
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>> listen to them again, and realized they were all very good guitar
>> players.
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>All he had to do was to move his fingers around on the guitar,
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LOL
well according to Billy gibbons (ZZ Top) you only need two chords
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:-)
Yeah, I was never much of a fan of ZZ Top, and I will add Steppinwolf
(sp?)
to the list. I knew one guy in the late 60's who had just one album,
and played Magic Carpet Ride over and over and over again.
The entire album.
moonpie
Haha
I've covered Born To Be Wild (threatened with bodily injury once if we
didnt play it) and Magic Carpet Ride waaaaay too many times.
I'm friends with a guy who works for Billy Gibbons, I've met them all,
watched them from onstage, up close, stage left three times. Its not
for everybody but to me, for blues rock, those guys are the real deal.
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> I'm friends with a guy who works for Billy Gibbons, I've met them all,
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> for everybody but to me, for blues rock, those guys are the real deal.
I might enjoy their music more today then I did back then, like
many other bands, with the exception of "Floyds" Dark side of
the moon. I've tried so many times to get into that album and
just can't, and the same goes for The Who.
moonpie
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>> I'm friends with a guy who works for Billy Gibbons, I've met them all,
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>I might enjoy their music more today then I did back then, like
>many other bands, with the exception of "Floyds" Dark side of
>the moon. I've tried so many times to get into that album and
>just can't, and the same goes for The Who.
Different strokes for different folks you know.
An internet pal of mine, gifted guitar player, HATES the Beatles.
With a passion.
that doesnt make him a terrible musician.
You like what you like, and thats kind of all there is to it.