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Topic: Hell Stays Open All Night Long |
Dave Boothroyd
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Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 1:01 pm |
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I have been asked to play an old style non-pedal steel line on this song.
There are three problems,
1. Although I have the backing track,Bass, Drums, Piano and Guitar, I've never heard the song.
2. I'm guessing which one of eleven unnamed tracks it is because only one sounds like a George Jones song to me.
3. Everyone else in the band is a million times better as a musician than me. (The bass player played with Sinatra in Vegas!)
Help!
Has anyone got an MP3 of "Hell Stays Open All Night Long" by George Jones. I have two weeks to practice, and by then I should be able to do a reasonable impression of someone who can actually play Steel as long as I have some idea of how the song goes.
Cheers
Dave |
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jim milewski
From:
stowe, vermont
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 2:36 pm
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| the title is theologically correct |
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Les Green
From:
Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 4:00 pm
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Do a google search of "hell stays..........all night long". That will give you the lyrics but I could not find an mp3 anywhere.
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Les Green
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 5:40 pm
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| This is a perfect example of Abbrigado staccatto in a Bb Fuege. |
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Dave Boothroyd
From:
Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 10:45 pm
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I've tried Google, iTunes, Amazon and Tesco, with no result. That's why I asked here.
You are right about the Bb Kevin- the Staccato had not occurred to me- I had imagined the typical GJ "crying steel". Fugue, obligato though? Could be tricky to fit in!
Cheers
Dave |
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Paul Norman
From:
Washington, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2007 5:16 am George Jones
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Dave
E-mail me and I will try to send it to you. |
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Dave Boothroyd
From:
Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 30 Mar 2007 11:13 pm
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Many thanks to Paul, I have now got an MP3 to listen to.
The task of putting together a version of the Steel part that will stand up against a band of top pro musicians does not seem out of reach now.
Thanks again.
No disrespect to Mr Jones, because I regard him as one of the greats, but he's not exactly a ray of sunshine, is he?
There is a comment in Pat and Pete Luboff's book, "88 Songwriting Wrongs and How to Right Them", which I always mentally apply to George Jones. They say something like,
"It's not a good idea to write a song from the point of view of a loser. Except for Country songs that is, where the protagonists are losers on such an epic scale, that their stories become irresistible"
So here's to George Jones, epic master of heartbreak and despair.
Cheers
Dave
PS. I like Leonard Cohen too! |
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