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« on: January 27, 2010, 09:52:31 PM » |
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Am I the only one who would prefer Matty Groves when played live to start as it starts on L&L rather than the increasingly familiar morphing into it from something else?
So this is my campaign to persuade the lads to play it straight at the wintour this year. Please?
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 11:07:10 PM » |
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I kind of agree that it would make a pleasant change to hear it played as it was originally meant to be.. just occasionally!!
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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2010, 11:21:28 PM » |
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You're right Steve  Cheers johnnysaint |
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« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2010, 11:41:14 PM » |
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Sorry, you had to go to the Barbican show last July to get a straight Matty.  |
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« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2010, 12:50:07 AM » |
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Perhaps they should play it as an opening number and get it over with.....
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« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2010, 07:30:21 AM » |
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To be honest (ducks for cover) I prefer the way it is now to the original, at least from a live perspective. I like having a bit of a build up. Might be nice to have a reworked intro I suppose, just try something different. But I do like the build up of the intro, knowing that THE riff is coming. Actually the version from a few tours back where it came straight out of Hawkwood's Army (consequently with Simon on electric) was most fine. Something like that would do me just fine. |
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2010, 07:39:34 AM » |
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Sorry, you had to go to the Barbican show last July to get a straight Matty. And wasn't it a joy.... I'll admit I loved the 'metal' Matty in the 80's / early 90's...at least I did the first couple of times I heard it. As in so many of these things though, familiarity breeds, well not contempt, but slight indifference. MotL seems to be one of my few exceptions to this 'rule'....whatever they do to it (that 80s single version, anyone) it still manages to emerge (virtually) unscathed.... |
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« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2010, 07:43:28 AM » |
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I like the live variations - mostly - it's always there on CD if I want the original, but to see/ hear a different version for 10 minutes or so is usually entertaining - anyway, we watch the film footage with great enjoyment at Cropredy.
One of these days I'm going to put all the versions I have of MG on one CD.
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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2010, 08:41:07 AM » |
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One of these days I'm going to put all the versions I have of MG on one CD.
As a stopgap, there's the Matty Groves megamix on the Fairport Unconventional box set... I quite like the version from the late 80s/ early 90s (I think) which had some sort of heavy metal-ish guitar intro (presumably played by Maart) (edit: it's on the Cropredy to Portmeirion CD). The reggae version I can live without... |
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2010, 01:05:50 PM » |
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Not a total purist - I like what Maart did to it and I like seeing things evolve.
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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2010, 03:26:14 PM » |
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MotL seems to be one of my few exceptions to this 'rule'....whatever they do to it (that 80s single version, anyone)
That was actually the first version I heard and consequently (and I realise this is heresy) it is my favourite. Still pretty much the way they play it live and as a song it only really achieved its current status in the band's repertoire after they re-formed in the 80s. The same goes for Matty actually which had previously often been played, if at all, much earlier in the set. |
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2010, 03:30:04 PM » |
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Is this '80s version' of MOtL the one on In Real Time?
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« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2010, 03:31:07 PM » |
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Sometimes, Gub, you say it best when you say nothing at all.  Jules |
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« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2010, 03:35:54 PM » |
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I'd personally like to hear them interpret the song differently each time.
I know that some day they will have to do Matty Groves in a Dengie hip-hop style....
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« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2010, 04:12:27 PM » |
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Oh God I bloody hope not!!   |
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« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2010, 04:22:06 PM » |
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I personally find, compared to other versions, the original a bit too ploddy and it tends to drag. However, it would be nice to have a different version from the one that has trod the boards for the last few years. I don't really mind what it sounds like, as long as Simon gets the Strat out! (or even the Rickenbacker....ooooooooooh! ) |
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« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2010, 06:24:09 PM » |
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I'd personally like to hear them interpret the song differently each time.
I know that some day they will have to do Matty Groves in a Dengie hip-hop style....
Hmm - not sure about hip hop - but could live with a retro grunge version............. |
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« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2010, 03:38:56 AM » |
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The weirder the arrangements, the more I like it. The "original" (if one can call a traditional song that) doesn't do much for me and never has. So far, my favorite is the "metal" version when Maart was in the band.
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« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2010, 05:23:44 AM » |
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The best version fer sure - the best recording being tof it he Shepherd's Bush radio broadcast one.
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« Reply #19 on: January 29, 2010, 02:56:40 PM » |
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Sometimes, Gub, you say it best when you say nothing at all. Jules Somehow I seem to have quoted myself before i had actually said anything! |
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