My mission at TG is completed: Tony played a MB song! Yeah :laugh:
Nice job Tony on the world's greatest love song. Brave choice on playing in the original key... not easy to sing in that key. I thought that worked out well. Well done, you have moved into the light!
Busking Moody Blues
Hey Willem. What's a "tight look" mate? 
No idea. Is it a good thing? Playing the G as a barre probably would be an improvement. Thanks for that tip.
Daryl I messed up. I was plucking the 5th instead of 6th. I'll correct that for future renditions. Thanks for the comment.
Ness thanks and good to hear you speaking like an Australian mate! You know Australia was discovered by the Dutch who decided it was too much trouble and left it to the English right?
Hey Jim thanks man.
Chris you can now work on a Springsteen collaboration with Bear. That is your challenge.
No idea. Is it a good thing? Playing the G as a barre probably would be an improvement. Thanks for that tip. Daryl I messed up. I was plucking the 5th instead of 6th. I'll correct that for future renditions. Thanks for the comment.
Ness thanks and good to hear you speaking like an Australian mate! You know Australia was discovered by the Dutch who decided it was too much trouble and left it to the English right?
Hey Jim thanks man.
Chris you can now work on a Springsteen collaboration with Bear. That is your challenge.
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OK... LIKE...
WOW!!!
That was just too cool, Chris! I know what you mean about a song just getting its hooks into you. You start messing around, tweaking, adding, mixing, equalizing etc. it can really consume you! Same thing happened to me with 'For What It's Worth'.
I also liked that you showed the picture in picture of the synth playing as well. I haven't bothered showing other guitar parts or pieces in my vids (yet?)
Anyways, stellar job.
WOW!!!
That was just too cool, Chris! I know what you mean about a song just getting its hooks into you. You start messing around, tweaking, adding, mixing, equalizing etc. it can really consume you! Same thing happened to me with 'For What It's Worth'.
I also liked that you showed the picture in picture of the synth playing as well. I haven't bothered showing other guitar parts or pieces in my vids (yet?)
Anyways, stellar job.
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Tony,
Great job as well. What I like about this (and all of your uploads) is that you never 'mail it in'. You think about what you're singing- and you do it with feeling.
Thanks for sharing this.
Great job as well. What I like about this (and all of your uploads) is that you never 'mail it in'. You think about what you're singing- and you do it with feeling.
Thanks for sharing this.
Being busy on the weekend means things like this slip by without my notice. Just finally realized you'd posted here, Tony!
Cool idea to do this song fingerpicked and I liked your singing a lot. And I agree with Al- I always enjoy the feeling you put into your peformances.
Suzi
Cool idea to do this song fingerpicked and I liked your singing a lot. And I agree with Al- I always enjoy the feeling you put into your peformances.
Suzi
Chris, I am a Moodies fan, and yet I'm not that familiar with this song. Thinks for reminding me what a great band they were. Man, your multi-tracked 12-string sounds like an entire orchestra! Great job.
Tony: That may be the best Moodies song of all. Part of what I love about it is the beautiful metaphor of referring to our hand-written letters as "knights in white satin" that we send out into the world to fight our battles for us. It's a great image, a terrific song that has held up well after all these years, and a solid performance.
Tony: That may be the best Moodies song of all. Part of what I love about it is the beautiful metaphor of referring to our hand-written letters as "knights in white satin" that we send out into the world to fight our battles for us. It's a great image, a terrific song that has held up well after all these years, and a solid performance.
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Thanks for listening in to Melancholy Man Dennis. I really recommend you put the whole Question album on and drink it it in one afternoon. Just magic!
On Tony's Nights in White Satin, I mentioned to Al back last year that there were no noblemen with swords on horseback galloping around in that song ... it was a reference to white satin bedsheets
. I like your metaphor but I don't think that's what Justin Hayward had in mind at the time. For you Tony, as I know you are lyric focussed here's what Hayward says about the song:
On Tony's Nights in White Satin, I mentioned to Al back last year that there were no noblemen with swords on horseback galloping around in that song ... it was a reference to white satin bedsheets
. I like your metaphor but I don't think that's what Justin Hayward had in mind at the time. For you Tony, as I know you are lyric focussed here's what Hayward says about the song:..and I just noticed the guy refers to Justin as Haywood and not Hayward ... I called him Haywood for yours too with out realising the mistake because the English pronunciation sounds so much like Haywood.He got the idea for the song after someone gave him a set of white satin sheets, and wrote it in his bed-sit at Bayswater. Haywood told the Daily Express Saturday magazine May 3, 2008: "I wrote our most famous song, 'Nights in White Satin' when I was 19. It was a series of random thoughts and was quite autobiographical. It was a very emotional time as I was at the end of one big love affair and the start of another. A lot of that came out in the song."
Interesting Chris. To be entirely honest, as someone who knows very little about The Moody Blues, I was never sure if it were "Knights" or "Nights" so I checked it out before I posted. I do pay a good deal of attention to lyrics as you mention and I go out of my way to understand, or at least try to interpret what the writer was trying to say. I felt that is what Dennis had done. Cindy often asks me what a songwriter meant by their lyrics and I always caveat my response by telling her that I am giving my interpretation which could be entirely off the mark. I always enjoy listening to an artist talk about the lyric meaning, it adds a lot to a tune for me.