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Dick Heath ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818 |
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No mention of it in the liner notes to the CD....... Thanks however, to all who have supplied further input. Now just short of two 80 minute burns, based on what I have in my collection, i.e. (list here based on track order on the second burn): Blood Sweat & Tears: The Battle Judy Collins: I'll Keep It With Mine The Waphphles: I Want You Judy Collins: Both Sides Now Jimi Hendrix: Burning Of The Midnight Lamp The Beatles: Piggies/In My Life Yes: Siberian Khatru The Doors: Love Me Two Times Zombies: I Want Her/She Wants Me/Imagine The Swan/Smokey Days Rolling Stones: Lady Jane Beggars Banquet: MacArthur Park Happy The Man: Service With A Smile Its A Beautiful Day: Girl With No Eyes The Beatles: Fixing A Hole/All You Need Is Love Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band: Sport (Odd Boy) Comments: 1. While harpsichord is listed amongst the instruments played on Focus 3, I've managed to miss it - anybody enlighten me to which track? 2. The Stones' Lady Jane sounded to start with an spinnette(?), another mechanically plucked keyboard instrument, which dates back to at least the Elizabethan period - I had a colleague who owned and played one, and you needed to be less than 6 foot from it to hear it. The harpsichord comes in several verses later and sounds quite different. 3. Siberian Khatru's use of the harpsichord is even shorter than Love's use on Revelation - what some would call 'brief colouring'. 4. Elektra Records studios must have had a harpsichord around 1966 to '8 (other had the Moog), the number of the artists who used it. For instance the two Judy Collins listed here sound to have just about the same arrangement, and really different from the previously mentioned Hard Lovin' Loser. Finally keep coming with suggestions |
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Richardw ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: December 10 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 762 |
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I can't find the harpsichord on Focus 3 either, but I have found another track : Frank Zappa - 'Twenty Small Cigars' from the Chunga's Revenge album.
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Dick Heath ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818 |
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Thanks for the Zappa now included on the second burn! - 150 minutes recorded to date ~9 minutes of space to fill - keep going. |
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Richardw ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: December 10 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 762 |
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The Metamorfosi album 'Inferno' has lots of harpsichord. Especially the track " Lussuriosi " . Great album.
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andu ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 27 2006 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 3089 |
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Tull's "Songs From the Wood" has some harpsichord-like synths, especially on "Velvet Green" and "Pibroch". Though there's no actual harpsichord there, I think the keyboardists' endeavor to get mediaeval-like sounds (both in tone and playing style) of the modern instruments is a sign of creativity.
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paolo.beenees ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2007 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 1136 |
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As far as prog rock is concerned you'll find loads of songs featuring a harpiscord. Let me just recommend some of them:
- La Mente Vola (Alphataurus)
- La Fabbricante d'angeli (Le Orme: the harpiscord here is used in its muted voice)
- Wanderer (Renaissance)
- The Cask of Amontillado (Alan Parsons Project)
Outside Prog rock... well, I can remember harpiscord being played in two very dark metal tracks:
- Black number one (Type O Negative)
- What's going on (behind these walls) (King Diamond)
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MrBertstown ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: April 07 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 26 |
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There are also other songs which contain the harpsichord....
Different Drum-Linda Ronstadt
Look to Your Soul-Procol Harum
Never Ever Gonna Give You Up-Barry White
God Only Knows-Beach Boys
Cities-Moody Blues
Sunshine Superman-Donovan
Got to be there-Jackson 5
Two Sisters-Kinks
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Dick Heath ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818 |
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Thanks everybody for for great suggestions, managed to put the following down onto a a CD burn - surprisingly the burner allowed me to put down 80'40" of recording - longest single CD I have now! Deliberately gone for tracks (from my record library) which feature the harpsichord taking the lead (as far as possible), rather than used for a short break usually to add colour (i.e. 1 to 2 bar filler), and where possible used as rock instrument, rather than one that gives a rococco 18th century feel to a rock track.
1.The Yardbirds: For
Your Love 2.The Beatles: Fixing
A Hole 3.Jimi Hendrix:
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp 4.Renaissance:
The Wanderer 5.The Doors: Love
Me Two Times 6.The Rolling Stones:
Lady Janes 7.Its A Beautiful Day:
Girl With No Eyes 8.Love: Stephanie
Knows Who 11.Yesterdays: Seven 12.Blood Sweat & Tears:The
Battle 13.Modern Jazz Quartet: Regret? 14.Pacific Drift: Tomorrow
Morning Brings 22.The Waphphle:
I Want You |
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