A LITTLE DIFFERENT

[Borderstone]

It's folk music DMD3,most folk acts of the 60's used clapping for rhythm instead of drums. Just listen to Trini Lopez's,"If I Had A Hammer",for the best example. I find that to sound a lot more fun than just standard drumming. Those wanting to can clap along with the song. It gives a song a more human feeling too. Been me,later!

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Borderstone (An,"Avid Listner" of G.L.)

I'm not talking about clapping for rythm. If you listen to Ribbon Of Darkness/I'm Not Sayin on Disc # 1 you will hear the audience clapping from time to time. Thats what I can't stand. Clapping for rythm though, I don't mind that.

I'm not talking about clapping for rythm. If you listen to Ribbon Of Darkness/I'm Not Sayin on Disc # 1 you will hear the audience clapping from time to time. Thats what I can't stand. Clapping for rythm though, I don't mind that.

[joveski]

those are live tracks. what do you expect - people sitting there in silence throughout?

Clapping for rhythm is fine, unless you happen to be Rick Allen.

Clapping for rhythm is fine, unless you happen to be Rick Allen.

quote:Originally posted by joveski:
those are live tracks. what do you expect - people sitting there in silence throughout?

Actually, the clapping sounded a bit fake for some reason, I guess because they'd start clapping and then stop real suddenly.
I didn't know it was live, I thought they put it their for sound effects.(At least there wasn't cheering and whistling)

quote:Originally posted by joveski:
those are live tracks. what do you expect - people sitting there in silence throughout?

Actually, the clapping sounded a bit fake for some reason, I guess because they'd start clapping and then stop real suddenly.
I didn't know it was live, I thought they put it their for sound effects.(At least there wasn't cheering and whistling)

[Borderstone]

I think the clapping on the LP is edited for spacial content. Meaning that maybe the audience is clapping & cheering so much it would be too long to sit through. The show was recorded in Canada,so you can imagine how much they were doing so. I think they did the same thing on Cheap Trick's Budokan LP. There's no more fake applause though than on Elton John's,"Bennie & The Jets." For years,I thought that was such a cool live track,only to find out it was all put together in the studio. It's been me,later!

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Borderstone (An,"Avid Listner" of G.L.)

[This message has been edited by Borderstone (edited August 23, 2003).]

[Cathy]

quote:Originally posted by DMD3:
I'm not talking about clapping for rythm. If you listen to Ribbon Of Darkness/I'm Not Sayin on Disc # 1 you will hear the audience clapping from time to time. Thats what I can't stand. Clapping for rythm though, I don't mind that.

These are live recordings from his Sunday Concert album, recorded in 1969 (I think) at Massey Hall in Toronto. Believe me, it's not canned clapping. They are real people clapping at a real performance. I bet, had you been there, you would have been clapping, too.

Cathy http://www.cathycowette.com

I don't think there's anything wrong with 'As Fine As Fine Can Be' but I'd like to hear it with just Gord singing on stage and nothing else. Thats the way I hum it in my head. But with just a voice and no music, it may not be appropriate for a CD.

I don't think there's anything wrong with 'As Fine As Fine Can Be' but I'd like to hear it with just Gord singing on stage and nothing else. Thats the way I hum it in my head. But with just a voice and no music, it may not be appropriate for a CD.

I simpily do not like the way Gord said some of the lyrics in the re recorded version of The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgarald. When he said "when afternoon came it was freezin rain", and "with the gales of november remembered", he sounded happy.

I simpily do not like the way Gord said some of the lyrics in the re recorded version of The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgarald. When he said "when afternoon came it was freezin rain", and "with the gales of november remembered", he sounded happy.

I wish the Gords Gold version of Bitter Green had been played on the same note as the original. But he played it a note lower and it doesn't sound so good then. If it weren't for this, this version would've been superior to the others.

I wish the Gords Gold version of Bitter Green had been played on the same note as the original. But he played it a note lower and it doesn't sound so good then. If it weren't for this, this version would've been superior to the others.

quote:Originally posted by RBENGALS:
IS THERE ANY SONG BY GORD IN WHICH YOU LIKE IT, BUT WISH THERE WAS SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT, MINE WOULD BE "CABARET" I REALY LIKE THE SONG, IT JUST TAKES WAY TO LONG TO GET THE WORDS STARTED, TO MUCH OF A MUSICAL INTRO ALMOST LIKE LED ZEPELIN YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

I've never heard the song, but he must carry on because for a song thats 5:49 long, that's not a whole lot of lyrics.

quote:Originally posted by RBENGALS:
IS THERE ANY SONG BY GORD IN WHICH YOU LIKE IT, BUT WISH THERE WAS SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT, MINE WOULD BE "CABARET" I REALY LIKE THE SONG, IT JUST TAKES WAY TO LONG TO GET THE WORDS STARTED, TO MUCH OF A MUSICAL INTRO ALMOST LIKE LED ZEPELIN YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

I've never heard the song, but he must carry on because for a song thats 5:49 long, that's not a whole lot of lyrics.

[Borderstone]

Cathy! Oh,Cathy! I have a correction to make for myself regarding,"Talking In Your Sleep".

I just today realized that when I went home to listen,I listened to the wrong song! Because I was talking about 2 different songs,I listened to.."You Are" instead of TIYS! I did finally hear the chanting but I can't make out a word they're saying. What are they saying? Get back to me! Later!

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[muklucannie]

i believe it's "I'm a potato-you're a potato" - something like that....Richard Harison who used to tour with Gord mentioned it I think...

[Char1]

i believe it's "I'm a potato-you're a potato" - something like that....Richard Harison who used to tour with Gord mentioned it I think...

[TheCromulentChipster]

Sometimes I wish Sundown had a little something else or more to it. I really like the song, and it's definitely catchy, but I don't know, maybe it needed more story, maybe less repetition or maybe a middle eight. I don't think I've heard a single Gord song with a middle eight, but that is typical of folk songs. It's either verse/chorus or a verse ending in a chorus. If anyone is not familiar with a middle-eight, it's that part of a song about half way through and about eight bars long that sounds different from the rest of the song. A good example is, "I Want To Hold Your Hand". The middle eight is, "and when I touch you I feel happy inside, it's such a feeling that my love, I can't hide, I can't hide". Gord has definitely done some interesting things in his songs, like Seven Island Suite and Canadian Railroad Trilogy, but he certainly doesn't write your standard pop song. Neither does The Flaming Lips as far as I can tell. They don't regularly incorporate middle eights into their songs.

[Big Blue]

Sometimes I wish Sundown had a little something else or more to it. I really like the song, and it's definitely catchy, but I don't know, maybe it needed more story, maybe less repetition or maybe a middle eight. I don't think I've heard a single Gord song with a middle eight, but that is typical of folk songs. It's either verse/chorus or a verse ending in a chorus. If anyone is not familiar with a middle-eight, it's that part of a song about half way through and about eight bars long that sounds different from the rest of the song. A good example is, "I Want To Hold Your Hand". The middle eight is, "and when I touch you I feel happy inside, it's such a feeling that my love, I can't hide, I can't hide". Gord has definitely done some interesting things in his songs, like Seven Island Suite and Canadian Railroad Trilogy, but he certainly doesn't write your standard pop song. Neither does The Flaming Lips as far as I can tell. They don't regularly incorporate middle eights into their songs.

[fowlesjohn]

Flaming Lips?

[gwen snyder]

Flaming Lips?