String me along...
Happy New Year to all our listeners and a big thank you who still had some energy left after Hogmanay to get in touch tonight with suggestions of great guitar players.
Alongside the usual suspects of Clapton and Blackmore it was good to hear Roddy Frame and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. I also thought the Wilco track was a standout.
Tomorrow we are looking for string sections for our band as well as other stringed instruments like the dobro, the banjo and the mandolin.
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At 2nd Jan 2012, paulhandley wrote:One More Cup of Coffee - Bob Dylan, featuring Scarlet Rivera on the Violin and also the vocals of Emmylou Harris
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At 2nd Jan 2012, Scotch Get wrote:Gaie,
17:30 ramorra, 成人快手 Radio Scotland
Check it out!
:o)
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At 2nd Jan 2012, Scotch Get wrote:TUESDAY
Pure shoo-in, by the way!
Talk to Me, Fiddle -
Keep it Country!
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At 2nd Jan 2012, gaie wrote:superb, SG - thank you, will do, and I see before it's the one I missed with Paul Jones and Tom Morton.
then after that GIO will be playing one of these to round off my evening's listening
- Bela Fleck &the Flecktones
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (John McEuen & Earl Scruggs banjo)
Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event - (Anna Bulbrook, viola)
Sorted.
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At 2nd Jan 2012, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:Andrew Bird:
Imani Coppola:
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At 2nd Jan 2012, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:Michael Doucet:
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At 2nd Jan 2012, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:At last this has turned up on youtube. think it's Chuck Fleming on violin. My favourite version:
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At 2nd Jan 2012, Scotch Get wrote:#7
It's been there since last year.
>8-D
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Comment number 9.
At 2nd Jan 2012, henri hannah wrote:I thought the idea was that the programme formed a supergroup?
So far we've auditioned a whole load of guitarists but not picked one - have abandoned the idea of having a bass player in favour of a string section - in which we better pick a cellist because it can substitute for bass ( a bit)...
Let's aim for the top!
Yo Yo Ma - The Lady Caliph from one of my favoutite albums "Yoy Yoy Ma plays Ennio Morricone" - check it out on Spotify, truly epic.
A string section - what better than I'm Still Standing - The Vitamin String Quartet it's a joyous performance!
Of course, my old hero, Jack Bruce plays cello too Smiles & Grins from Harmony Row - Jack on imperious form.
regardez youse
henri
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At 2nd Jan 2012, norriemaclean wrote:Paul Buckmaster for his work with Bowie, Elton John and lots more. Including this cracker:
10,000 Maniacs - Jezebel
Anthony Thistlethwaite of the Waterboys:
Waterboys - A Pagan Place
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Comment number 11.
At 3rd Jan 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:Bad feeling about todays show... Every Picture Tells A Story just like JP on TOTP's "Maggie May" set.
Christ deliver me and the show from Duelling Banjos also!
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At 3rd Jan 2012, ericinelgin wrote:#9
You're right. The new year has come in with the farcical whimper of yet another retreaded theme which has already broken down. Pick a string section? I'd have more fun with the toothache.
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:An' if you've got to be sure to play the Foggy Mountain Boys!
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At 3rd Jan 2012, mary-doll wrote:Facebook has some issues needing addressing..............I'm no' that fussed - I ken am a minger. whatevers. aye.
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Christophe NAUD wrote:Till now..... all I can come up with is BRATSCH (gypsy band) with Dan GHARIBIAN playing bouzouki on a song titled 'Sanke Mena Palikari' [album: 'Transports en commun']
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At 3rd Jan 2012, henri hannah wrote:George Martin was pretty good at knocking a string section together - the obvious one is Eleanor Rigby - but since we didn't hear it last night how about:
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles - Love Album, strings arranged by George Martin
regardez youse
henri
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Scotch Get wrote:#9
Henri,
Bass is ramorra. Then pianists. (Size doesn't matter).
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Comment number 18.
At 3rd Jan 2012, Scotch Get wrote:#11
Otto Matic,
I suppose a pluck is out of the question?
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At 3rd Jan 2012, gaie wrote:C'mon, get real - which one of you would be happy when the ultimate guitarist was chosen and it wasn't your own personal favourite?
I thought of the 3 'guitar' programmes we've had recently this was much better than the others. I'd like to see what overlaps there were, mind, and throw them out in favour of the doggedly and bewilderingly discounted Joe Bonamassa, Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson. But there more genuine candidates IMHO than in the previous programmes.
A wee suggestion re themes - why don't they put up a blog page exclusively for theme suggestions on which we can put down ideas when they occur. A virtual jotter.
Strings:
Tiny World - Seth Lakeman
or maybe
Feather in the Storm - Seth Lakeman
would be appropriate since that's what I feel like right now with the roof rattling once again. Gonnae STOP PLEASE!
and with the trend for collaborations such as Frightened Rabbit and Archie Fisher, James Grant or Paolo Nutini and Fraser Speirs I can see Aly Bain having a guest spot in the GIO band
The Hangman's Reel - Aly Bain
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Scotch Get wrote:#19
Lots of fallen trees and structural damage in Glasgow. Lorries are on their sides on the M8 and M74.
Make tea now, before the power is cut off.
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Christophe NAUD wrote:two more suggestions from Chris in VEIGY-FONCENEX
'Now is mine' by K's CHOICE because you can hear a cello; and 'Nothing to lose' by John WETTON & Eddie JOBSON [Eddie playing the electric violin]
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:#19 Gaie, you're correct... the supergroup notion was never going to work but Henri does have a point, guess the maxim 鈥淚f you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticise it鈥 stands. Reckon we're all gettin' strung along this week!
#18 Okay Scotch, you've forced my hand... was keeping this for a tweet later today.
Simple Symphony, Op. 4:II, Playful Pizzicato - Benjamin Britten G.I.O. please!
p.s. What I'd really like to know is how Henri gets away with his criticism?
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At 3rd Jan 2012, gaie wrote:banana loafs and chocolates
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At 3rd Jan 2012, gaie wrote:loaves
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At 3rd Jan 2012, gaie wrote:The Low Anthem - - Jeff Prystowsky on double bass
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At 3rd Jan 2012, gaie wrote:Led Zep - - John Paul Jones mandolin
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Comment number 27.
At 3rd Jan 2012, Scotch Get wrote:#18, #22
What was it advertising?
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Comment number 28.
At 3rd Jan 2012, norriemaclean wrote:Gaie how about David Lindley on Violin. Again someone who can play an incredible list of instruments and on many great records. Here are two:
Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge or For A Dancer
Bruce Springsteen - Come On (Let's Go Tonight)
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Adam_from_Rio wrote:On Alison Again.....
I was one of the people who championed a "usual suspect" I know, but was it really, really, really necessary to play "Since You've Been Gone" yet again??
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Adam_from_Rio wrote:Tuesday
"Rasputin" - Boney M (Olli V盲nska - violin)
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At 3rd Jan 2012, norriemaclean wrote:Gaie - you forgot about providing cd's.
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Adam_from_Rio wrote:#31
Ah ah!!
Blog Headline:
"Maclean feels position as GIO Pet threatened by excessive sweetening"
:)
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Comment number 33.
At 3rd Jan 2012, norriemaclean wrote:I'll always be teachers pet - I like k d lang. Move along........
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Scotch Get wrote:听
Everybody likes kd lang. It's your obsession wi' yon Morrissey bam that makes you Bryan's favourite.
>8-D
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At 3rd Jan 2012, DC wrote:Bring on some cello
Hobo's Lullaby - Arlo Guthrie
Just up from checking the boat. 73 knots gust recorded on the wind meter......
DC
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Comment number 36.
At 3rd Jan 2012, Adam_from_Rio wrote:#35
It'll be aw that black bun.
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At 3rd Jan 2012, gaie wrote:#28 yes indeed, that's a great shout, Norrie.
#34. I don't. She has the same effect on me as Rufus Wainwright. All minor and moany. Well the two songs I've heard are anyway.
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:#27
# 27
Just back having done Hurry Bros. out of a call-out fee at the Mother in Law's.
Was it not in celebration of the Royal Bank of Scotland's former chief executive having his pension topped up?
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At 3rd Jan 2012, norriemaclean wrote:#34 of course!
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At 3rd Jan 2012, henri hannah wrote:What am I thinking about? Other strings = The Leisure Society.We've had 'Cars'
If God Did Give Me A Choice - The Leisure Society utterly brilliant, not religious, anthemic - clever song (inevitably) about the inability to walk away from being involved in the music/songwriting business.
Strings = the brilliant Nitin Sawhney - 成人快手lands a truly gifted musician and arranger, can turn his hand to anything - truly stunning. 成人快手lands is 6:00 - though the soulful Broken Skin or Sunset would be good alternatives.
Strings = The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Ecstacy Of Dancing Fleas
eccentric and mental, radio freindly, though.
Je T'aime - Mais Non Plus - The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain unquestionably, the coolest, unsexyest interpretation of this classic.It'll cheer us all up, Bryan.
The Doobies go Bluegrass: Steamer Lane Breakdown - the Doobie Brothers
that'll do.
henri
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At 3rd Jan 2012, henri hannah wrote:Oh.. and Bob Dylan does a really country Blue Moon with some excellent violin playing from the unpopular 'self portrait' album - this is a standout track.
I notice f***book have also gone for The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain.
regardez youse
henri
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Kene Gelly wrote:couldn't do worse than ...
The London Punkarmonic Orchestra, demonstrating their mighty strings credentials on ...
'Gary Gilmore's Eyes'
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Scotch Get wrote:#34, #37
Y'all ain't listened to her songs!
;o)
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Kene Gelly wrote:or should that have been could?
doesn't really mater I suppose ... has as much chance as WE have of ever hearing from Mars Bonfire ever again!
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Kene Gelly wrote:I think we'll be the judge o that ..
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Kene Gelly wrote:43 that is ... blasted real time ...
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At 3rd Jan 2012, CaptRamius wrote:If it's Mandolins and other non-guitar stringy things we're after then surely we're in need of some Hayseed Dixie. Top choices:
* Whole Lotta Love
* Walk This Way
* Hells Bells
Agree with the Love Album suggestion, and of course Eleanor Rigby (any danger of the version from Give My Regards to Broad Street?) You really ought to end with
* The Beatles - Good Night
as not only does it have a lush string section arrangement, but it has a harp too
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Comment number 48.
At 3rd Jan 2012, DC wrote:#44 it would be a lot simpler if MMFC just stuck to the one name wouldn't it?
;-)
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Comment number 49.
At 3rd Jan 2012, Adam_from_Rio wrote:#44
see 11, 13, 22 & 38
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At 3rd Jan 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:#49 Outed... happy now? L.O.L.
It's been the longest Theme suggestion in the history of GIO, Alter Egos! Apologies if it's already been done. Who are the performing artists to use stage or screen personae both to entertain audiences and or to explore new identities for themselves?
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At 4th Jan 2012, DC wrote:...indeed we could have a theme based on suggestions from the many identities of our very own bloggers. I will admit to being - Joan Armatrating....
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