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Title: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: gower flower (Shirl) on February 19, 2006, 08:31:01 PM Didgeridoo!! Honest! :o Just reading the accompanying notes of a certain FC album, and discovered that this instrument figured in the track......... Ah! Now that's where YOU come in. 8) Okay folks, lets lay bets who knows the answer and comes up with it first ;) Any other "unusual" instruments used on Fairport tracks? Come on you KNOW they are out there. Gower Flower Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Andy on February 19, 2006, 08:38:31 PM That'd be "The Wandering Man" from Wood & The Wire. Chris Leslie is indeed versatile! ;D
Dunno about Fairport, but Stackridge used to play dustbin lids.... Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: gower flower (Shirl) on February 19, 2006, 08:39:43 PM RESULT!!! I KNEW it would be you,Andy! Bless ::) Gower Flower Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Andy on February 19, 2006, 08:41:45 PM Sorry! :(
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Amethyst (Jenny) on February 19, 2006, 09:06:30 PM He's never played it on stage though.. at least not when I've been there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Maart on February 20, 2006, 01:19:14 AM On Ralph McTell's version of The Islands (incidentally recorded before FC's, but released later), Ralph "played" the wooden staircase at Woodworm by slowly shifting his weight between the two creakiest steps. That's the groaning of the ship! Have another listen! The sound of the ship colliding was the oil tank outside the studio...
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: mikec on February 20, 2006, 02:03:09 AM I just love the thought of someone "playing" a staircase. Even if it was Ralph McTell
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Anne T on February 20, 2006, 09:50:28 AM Sorry, this is going off the subject slightly, but in yesterday's "Observer" there was a review of a CD called "Wild like children" by "Tilly and the Wall". Apparently, they have a tap dancer instead of a drummer! Quote: "It may be a gimmick, but it's a gimmick you can dance to."
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Maart on February 21, 2006, 02:02:33 PM and Huw Williams clog dances on the new album from Crasdant.
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Speleologist (Robin) on February 24, 2006, 12:31:51 PM The Doonan Family Band have always featured Dansing Feet as part of the sound.
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: folkfreak (Alexander) on March 10, 2006, 09:00:26 PM ...or the Albion Country Band /Morris On band
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: parkwood on March 10, 2006, 09:54:47 PM Dave Pegg's sherry glasses used as percussion. Anybody remember which album?!?!
Barry Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Speleologist (Robin) on March 14, 2006, 07:09:00 AM And of course there was the stack of chairs and milk bottle that Martin Lamble played on "Si Tu Dois partir" - complete with the milk bottle breaking.
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: mikec on March 15, 2006, 09:22:14 AM Dave Pegg's sherry glasses used as percussion. Anybody remember which album?!?! Nope, care to enlighten us Barry?Barry Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Alex Lyons on March 15, 2006, 10:43:53 AM Chris Pegg's sherry glasses? Finger cymbals? 'Consonant Please Carol. Do I win a prize? ;)
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: PLW (Peter) on March 15, 2006, 11:31:20 AM The Doonan Family Band have always featured Dansing Feet as part of the sound. On Chris Leslie's "The Flow" album there are dancing feet. Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: PLW (Peter) on March 15, 2006, 11:33:18 AM And let's not forget Bruce Lacey's machines on the original recording of "Mr Lacey".
And while we're on that album. . .what are the sounds on "The Lord is in this Place"? Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Hedgehog on March 15, 2006, 11:41:07 AM On any La Bottine Souriante album, you can't move for the sound of squidzillions of twinkling tootsies! (Oh boy, I'd love to see THEM at Croppers!!)
The talented Hilary James is rather percussive as well...... Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: parkwood on March 15, 2006, 07:26:53 PM Alex was correct! The prize is to feel smug about it ;)
The song was 'Danny's Song' if I remember rightly Barry Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: parkwood on March 15, 2006, 07:29:54 PM OK.... another easy one.....
On which tracks can a darbuka be heard? Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Speleologist (Robin) on March 15, 2006, 10:06:58 PM And while we're on that album. . .what are the sounds on "The Lord is in this Place"? I believe the sound at the end is Kingsley Abbott dropping coins on a church floor. Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: PLW (Peter) on March 16, 2006, 11:52:09 AM And while we're on that album. . .what are the sounds on "The Lord is in this Place"? I believe the sound at the end is Kingsley Abbott dropping coins on a church floor. Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: jude on March 16, 2006, 12:04:30 PM And Kingsley Abbott is. . .? Friend of Martin Lamble and a friend of Fairport since almost the beginning of the band,author of 'Fairportfolio' a book about the beginnings of Fairport and now a respected author of various books on musicians (Beach Boys amongst others) and contributor and reviewer for Record Collector (and another good egg) Jude :D Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: PLW (Peter) on March 16, 2006, 12:07:09 PM And Kingsley Abbott is. . .? Friend of Martin Lamble and a friend of Fairport since almost the beginning of the band,author of 'Fairportfolio' a book about the beginnings of Fairport and now a respected author of various books on musicians (Beach Boys amongst others) and contributor and reviewer for Record Collector (and another good egg) Jude :D Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Pugwash on March 16, 2006, 12:12:12 PM OK.... another easy one..... On which tracks can a darbuka be heard? Gerry played one (well it sounded the same but was tin rather than pot) coupla tours ago on an introduction to The Flow? First tune second half Ric n Chris ... did it get recorded for the live album... too lazy to look it up!! Puggs Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: parkwood on March 16, 2006, 04:22:13 PM Clue: The darbuka makes an appearance on at least two tracks on a fairly recent studio album and at least one appearance on OTNH....
Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Malcolm on March 17, 2006, 09:00:21 AM OK.... another easy one..... On which tracks can a darbuka be heard? Gerry played one (well it sounded the same but was tin rather than pot) coupla tours ago on an introduction to The Flow? First tune second half Ric n Chris ... did it get recorded for the live album... too lazy to look it up!! Puggs Is that the Native American rain machine? M of F Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Anna on March 17, 2006, 11:34:33 AM Here's a Darbuka (if the link works) - thanks to Google images
(http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://img.2dehands.nl/f/normal/10453649.jpg&imgrefurl=http://muziek.2dehands.nl/markt/muz_instr/conga-s-bongo-s-gonga-s/&h=350&w=218&sz=21&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=fmpMxCLGyNXbvM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=72&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddarbuka%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG) The rain-stick is an inside-out cactus stem with beans of some kind in it (apparently) Title: Re: On which track did they play a .......... Post by: Andy on March 17, 2006, 11:38:29 AM I think the link got a bit discombobulated.
Try this (http://www.musicroom.com/images/catalogue/fullsize/almcl20.jpg) and this is a rain-stick (http://www.andeanshowcase.com/img65.gif) |