Members Stage

[Rainbow]

Here's a suggestion ... how about a corner somewhere on the site where forum members can submit cover versions of Harper songs/tunes, as mp3 or vid, just as a bit of fun and in a true spirit of homage also and hopefully without causing copyright hassles. Maybe adding tab notation if it's a song/tune not already covered by Aero or Rooben ... just for us Harper fans to share and hopefully enjoy.
The recent 'Play like Harpic' thread submitted by Stevo just sparked off this idea and the need to draw other similar threads together in one corner seemed a good idea.
I sometimes submit tunes to another forum where they have a corner like this called 'Members Stage', with songs from all genres being submitted, and it seems to go down quite well and has quite a degree of support and encouragement. I just wondered what other members/moderators think of such an idea for Harper songs only and if there would be enough interest?
Cheers ... Rainbow:) :cheers2:

[NoCelebrity]

Sounds OK to me, but I've been planning to submit various stuff before and I never get around to recording it. I'm planning on getting caught up with some of these promises when I get my new MAC and am playing around with it.

Sure hope to see others' contributions. I think most Stormcockers are just fans, but some of us like to see other's efforts.

Note: Master pd's note in the CHAT BOX, so don't expect his comment for a few more days.

May already fit under music, lyrics or some other thread, too.

[aspwatterson]

Just in case anyone missed these in the mists of oblivious oblivion :

http://www.myspace.com/allyouneediswhatyouhave

http://www.myspace.com/themessagetapes

http://www.stormcock.net/node/14




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[AndyRoberts]

This seems like a good idea, like a kind of self-organised splinters 4, and ongoing too. It will be interesting to hear which songs people choose to cover, and maybe hear some very lose interpretations of the songs as well.


I'd better get "Don't you grieve" in quick then...

I'll try and do one RH cover most weeks on the Ustream show (http://www.stormcock.net/node/605)

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[Rainbow]

Hey, nice one Andy, that's the ticket ... just the sort of thing I had in mind ... keep 'em coming :thumbup1:

NoCelebrity: if you get that Mac I can recommend using GarageBand for recordings ... very intuitive and you can get great sounding results:wink:

andi cheers for the myspace links :coolgleamA:

Cheers ... Rainbow:)

[fuzzytnth3]

Liked it Andy's (both of ya that is) you put your own style into it. Whereas mine is a sad travesty of Roy's beautiful song so apologies to Roy mostly and anyone who makes it to the end of the whole six minutes :blushing:

I don't have a video camera so can't match the technological wonders that Andy managed what with logging in fans as he is doing his recording and such but here is a wee mp3 of Tom Tiddlers Ground (http://files.me.com/fuzzytnth3/84ejef.mp3) I recorded a while back using my crappy 80kbps mono ipod voice memo mic.

I think the tab came from Aaro's website albeit I think I found out myself that a chord was missed out dunno what it is called it swaps between a D but with the back end of the D chord removed to leave one finger only holding down the D on the B string ie second string third fret. The guitar is an Eko 12 string which is nearly as old as me.

As you may notice singing isn't my thing (guitar playing isn't much better) on the positive side I'm not very loud either :biggrin:

[Rainbow]

Bravo 'fuzzy' :hurray:
Sounds like you did that one in one take and some real nice guitar pickin' going on :coolgleamA:
Keep 'em coming:wink:

Seems like there's a bit of interest in this area.On the other forum I mentioned in my original post, the members stage is a separate little corner and members submit a song/tune under the thread heading of the title of the song so other members get to submit comments at will and over a period of time.
It seems to work well and the comments are given in a generous spirit of encouragement ... if something doesn't really work then generally there are very few comments ... simples:)
Andy mentioned 'like an ongoing Splinters 4' ... well it could be if the songs/tunes submitted were originals as well as Harper covers ... could even include covers of other artists of similar genre.
I'm just wondering aloud.

Cheers ... Rainbow

[fuzzytnth3]

Bravo 'fuzzy' :hurray:
Sounds like you did that one in one take and some real nice guitar pickin' going on Rainbow

Thanks, sure was one take. I don't think I'm that clever with Garageband that I could redo / fix the dodgy singing bits. Or possibly I could I suppose have recorded the guitar separately from the singing, that would have made it easier to sort out.

I think part of the reason why I try to learn songs would be to get to the point where I would able to actually perform them. What Andy Roberts did above with guitar and singing would be great, it's kind of the point. If you have a read of Andy's description of how he came to write his song Gernika (http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2006/12/31/gernika-2/) it just illustrates what's so lovely about sharing songs with people.

There are some songs where the guitar part is tricky and my useless brain can't manage to sing and play the guitar at the same time but I am a bloke so multi tasking let alone singing in tune is beyond me. :blushing:


Andy mentioned 'like an ongoing Splinters 4' ... well it could be if the songs/tunes submitted were originals as well as Harper covers ... could even include covers of other artists of similar genre.
I'm just wondering aloud.
Rainbow

My problem with the Splinters thing was that I haven't got an original bone in my body so any tune I come up with always turns out to be something I've heard before!

I remember watching a tv prog of a Stephan Grappelli gig, at one point the guitar player (sadly can't remember his name) played a solo of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star but all as harmonics in Jazz kind of a way. Having seen this I was one night trying to work out the chords for Twinkle Twinkle but using as many jazzy augmented's and diminished 9ths etc and came up with something that sounded rather nice which even the missus
thought sounded good (she's a music teacher) but only a few days later I was watching Postman Pat on the telly with the kids (as you do :biggrin:) only to discover the version of Twinkle Twinkle I had worked out was in fact the background music to Postman Pat and all I had done was sub-consciously regurgitated it / stolen it dooh

[aspwatterson]

The first person to send me by email [aspwatterson@hotmail.com] the most titles of Roy's songs detected on these snippets will win a weekend with me at their house anywhere in the world with all travel board and lodging paid for by them but with free Harper guitar tuition @ £20 per hour thrown in! No VAT yet!

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[SHAUN I]

here is a wee mp3 of Tom Tiddlers Ground (http://files.me.com/fuzzytnth3/84ejef.mp3) I recorded a while back using my crappy 80kbps mono ipod voice memo mic.
As you may notice singing isn't my thing (guitar playing isn't much better) on the positive side I'm not very loud either :biggrin:

Great effort mate, really enjoyed that cheers, it just shows you how timeless this song is, it's actually one of my favourite RH songs, :m8:

[aspwatterson]

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[Rainbow]

Bravo andi :biggrin::biggrin: That 12 stringer sure sounds sweet :wink: Was that first snippet 'Stan'? Keep 'em coming mate:wink:

Best regards ... Rainbow

[aspwatterson]

but here is a wee mp3 of Tom Tiddlers Ground (http://files.me.com/fuzzytnth3/84ejef.mp3) I recorded a while back using my crappy 80kbps mono ipod voice memo mic.


It's coming up "Error. not a valid MPEG file" for some reason. Also having probs getting into Andy Roberts U television...don't think it accepts hotmail addressees and may have to be ntl or something?

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[pd]

Hi all

I'm not ignoring the Member Stage idea - I think it's an excellent one! I've been up to my ears in stuff since I got back from holiday but I'm having a ponder and I'll set something up soon. I'm not 100% convinced it needs a separate forum but we can try it and see how it goes. I want to see if there are any plugins for the forum software that might help smooth things along first.

[Dr_Doom_The_Optimist]

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AI875_PRISON_G_20090116142614.jpg

There's a link to a Roy cover MP3 here:
http://www.stormcock.net/blog/32

It will be going any day now (webspace not renewed!), so grab it while you can!

Best,
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[SHAUN I]

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Great sound and playing Andi, I detected Stan, Forever, Davey and North Country..

[Rainbow]

Hey, welcome back pd and glad you like the members stage idea ... look forward to it in due course :wink:

Dr. Doom that was great ... cool vocal and guitar ... looks like we might be getting a permanent venue so if you've got any more ... :wink:

andi: looks like shaun is going for 'Stan' for the first snippet so can I request a tab for that one if you've managed to work it all out ... or what you have maybe? Pretty please ... I'd love to try that one out sometime :biggrin:

Happy daze ... Rainbow:)

[aspwatterson]

Is this what you mean? That's interesting, now I'm listening to it differently and forgotten this old gem..chrs andi

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[Rainbow]

Yeah, you've got it andi ... first track, disc 1 'Born In Captivity' from the 2CD 'Born In Captivity/Work Of Heart' ... great track from a great album. I don't know if you actually had that one in mind with your first snippet, but I recognised some familiar chords from that track 'Stan'.:m2:

Cheers ... Rainbow:)

[aspwatterson]

Great sound and playing Andi, I detected Stan, Forever, Davey and North Country..

Well all together there's about 10 songs amongst the snippets with some wild cards of my own, which Rainbow surmised. Please let me know when you envisage picking up your Prize!?

andi :biggrin:

[aspwatterson]

Please let me know when you envisage picking up your Prize!?andi :biggrin:

I was only joking! I realised you'd only seen the 12 string snippet as it had superceded the previous posts / snippets ; so don't worry you haven't won my company for a weekend! Promise!

andi:D

[SHAUN I]

Gee, thanks Andi..:D

[aspwatterson]

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http://www.coversproject.com/artist/roy%20harper/

[aspwatterson]

Just click on Youtube on the screen.

One of the most amazing versions of some of Stormcock I've ever heard.

Or the link is here when you remove the embedded code surrounding :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7UnN1XdFw0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Estormcock%2Enet%2Fvb%2Fsho wthread%2Ephp%3Fp%3D11194&feature=player_embedded

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[aspwatterson]

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Well I thought I'd do this post some justice! It's my thousandth! Now shut up Andi, go and take a long hot bath for a couple of years and keep away from computers!

[Rainbow]

Wow andi!! What a great collection of Harper covers ... from Southend to Townsend!!:biggrin:
I thoroughly enjoyed this lot. The Preview Club at Southend was a delight ... lovely to see how the audience got quieter and more attentive and appreciative as the set progressed. 'Broken wing' it seems has the power to bring a tear to my eye even though it's delivered by another other than Roy himself. Well done lads!! I lived in Southend for a few years met and married my wife after we met at art college ... had some great musical moments at the Top Alex pub ... don't remember ever seeing a folk club in those days.
So Britain's definitely got talent and many are Harper fans it seems ... does your heart good don't it?
Great to see some close up fretwork on some of those 'early' numbers ... very accomplished playing.
How about that Pete Townshend version of North Country? Just checked to see if it was on the tracklist of the 'Psychoderelict' Live In New York DVD but no ... it must be a new one. I recognise Jon Carin on keys from Floyd live gigs ... have to check that one out.
Cheers andi ... you can come out of the bath now!!
Keep 'em coming ... you talented people :biggrin:

Rainbow:m2:

[aspwatterson]

Actually if you check out the Adunda Youtube and Myspace site there's loads of my favs on there...not just Roy...

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If you post comments with star ratings on all the different artist RH/NH cover sites with www.stormcock.net addy then they may come over here and become active members? If they're not already here psuedonymically?

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andi born in Bath strangely enough! But not Southend..

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/42/4249/Alex/Southend_on_Sea


....read the comments underneath! Don't sound like the same venue?? That's not you they are describing is it? "Glad they got rid of the last DJ. The one that looked like a weasel and wouldn't play requests" Or perhaps you were upstairs on Thursdays? Or up somewhere!


BTW here's another sometime lurker from USA who loves Roy :

http://www.myspace.com/elliotknapp

or Facebook :

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/elliot.knapp?ref=nf

or direct to his blogspot [probably via Facebook]:

ohwellowell.blogspot.com

and, on Splinters here....when you scroll down :

http://www.stormcock.net/node/14

[bigchris]

they may come over here and become active members? If they're not already here psuedonymically?

I'd be suprised if they are not already on this site !! I didn't know about their videos ... but I have spoken to these guys before !! Kev was a regular to Roy's gigs in DeBarras ... though I haven't seen him in a while ... last time we bumped into each other, was at the end of Neil Young's set at the Hop Farm Festival the other year ... though we both were in a worse state of mind (!) ... I just know him as a chap from DeBarras ... I didn't know he was a guitar man/singer ... so for once I'm actually glad of a post from Andy !!

[fuzzytnth3]

Other covers

I really like this guy's attempt at Blackpool it's a bit rough in places but I think he does a good job getting the spirit of the thing

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Another version of the same piece, possibly more accurate rendition albeit I don't think he includes the harmonics bit. From his comments in the more info bit it would seem he recorded a better version but YooYaToob have lost it!

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[Rainbow]

Are they both the same guy? I can hear harmonics in two places on the second version. Nice to see close up on the fretwork ... must be hellish difficult to play that one!!

[aspwatterson]

Are they both the same guy? I can hear harmonics in two places on the second version. Nice to see close up on the fretwork ... must be hellish difficult to play that one!!

Which one are you refering to Rainbow?

It's nice to hear that Big Chris thinks that 0.001% of my posts interests him! Made my day! It'll make his day when I tell him I can't make Clon 2009 this year probs?! Enjoy, enjoy! Shame that I have to put busyness first and wanted to see Gavin and others agin. We'll expect a full review of all musical and liquid entertainment from BC especially if RH makes an improptu neighbourly visitation. Phps he can spread the word of Stormcock.net Forum members stage over there? Think PS said he was going....



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[aspwatterson]

Just treat it as an open mic night and all levels of ability welcome!

Just have a go....

Is it possible to listen to earlier Splinters somewhere coz I remember covers on there, even PD himself laughing on the stage if I remember rightly?


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[Rainbow]

Sorry andi ... I was referring to the previous post ie the two 'Blackpool' covers, submitted by Fuzzy :wink:

Cheers ... Rainbow:m2:

[Rainbow]

Well it's been some considerable time since my last post ... one or two health issues didn't help ...apologies, but I have been reading posts on the forum daily ... just haven't got round to chipping in:blush:

I've tightened up the earlier recorded attempts at 'Riverside' and 'Miles Remains' and thought I'd post them here ... links below:

http://www.box.net/shared/mvibo9htpp

http://www.box.net/shared/m5fo7t5pk6

I've had a go at 'One Of Those days In England' working from Adam Leonard's transcription (cheers Adam) ... just the Ovation electro-acoustic plus a smidge of slide and some very iffy mournful vocal attempts (sorry):blushing:

http://www.box.net/shared/o2uzmvl1kt

Lastly, this one's been kicking around for some months now but I quite like it ... an instrumental version of 'When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease' ... which I hope is sympathetic to one of my favourite Roy tunes:

http://www.box.net/shared/fxodhte9xk

All are submitted in the spirit of fun which, for me, is the prime motivation these days for playing music, but also with the utmost respect and admiration for the originals which are very firm personal favourites.

All the very best for 2010 ... hope it is a kind year to us all.

Best regards ... Rainbow:)