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Friday, August 14, 2015

Coming Up With A Play List For My New Cover Band

Dear John,

I told Ixtapa owner, Don Pedro to "count us in" for the Last Friday in September. http://www.hillsboroughartscouncil.org/#!last-fridays/c22tz

This will be fun!

I realize my vocal skills have improved in the last couple months to the point where I can now sing the following repertoire:

Love The One You're With - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH3ruuml-R4
















Get Together (Love Is But A Song We Sing) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiLxRCBf40





It's Such A Good Feeling To Know (Poco) 

Stuck In The Middle With You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q












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With a little work, I can "master" most of The Beatles' songs at http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/beatles-songs-that-fit-my-voice.html

I'd also like a shot at more Stones' stuff - Just Waiting On A Friend, Mother's Little Helper, Ruby Tuesday, As Tears Go By, Angie (which I sang passably well as a young man), 19th Nervous Breakdown, Get Off My Cloud, Gimme Shelter, Jumpin' Jack Flash  and -- as unlikely as it seems -- Sympathy For The Devil.

I do not really know what I could do from The Who's corpus but "Pure and Easy" fits my voice and "Behind Blue Eyes" is a song I sang in my youth. 
The Kids Are Alright? 
Join Together With The Band? 
Won't Get Fooled Again? 
Who Are You? 
You Better You Better? 
Squeeze Box? 
Pure And Easy (The Who) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gXuBRMtU2A 
Pure And Easy (Townsend) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfFh0h1IF20

"The Who's Best Songs": https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=the%20who%20best%20songs

As you may know, I am abidingly fond of Alabama's "I'm In A Hurry" which I can sing a capella but for a snag or two in the difficult bridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CICwZ01bT3w

Another juvenile indulgence is "Much Too Much" by The Who, a nearly unknown song unless you caught the train early. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN9FlB6G7Nk

Pax tecum

Alan


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:54 PM, JN wrote:

I'm on it.  I should know by Monday who I can pull together.  I would love to play some songs that have a "beginning and an ending!"  I say we put together a group of songs that an audience would like to hear as well would be fun to perform.  It would have to be the September date for me as I am out the last weekend of August.  Hope that works for you.  I have a vocalist guitarist in line already, Dan on bass.   So we are on our way.

Thanks,

J

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear J,

Let's do it!

Pax tecum



Alan

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:02 PM, JN wrote:
Hey Alan, thanks for the email. If you are willing I will put a band together to play out that last Friday in September. I have some folks who have asked to play out and work up some songs. If you are interested let me know!?

J


On Tuesday, August 11, 2015, Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear J,

I've missed you on music night and hope you come back soon.

Along with your spot on set of musical skills I look forward to collaborating on your own compositions - "Last Call" for starters.

Here's a bit of what we've been doing...

Two Fridays ago we had great fun with "Nowhere Man" and "Paperback Writer." 

And for several weeks now we've played Elvis Costello's "Alison" with remarkable result! 

We've also had uncanny good luck with a mash-up of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" with Elton John's "Love Song." 

Steven Stills and Elton John is an improbable combination but the two songs work really well together. 

Here are a couple other tunes that "fit my voice" and would be simple-dimple to "put together." 

Can't Find My Way Home - Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith


Wonderful Tonight - Wonderful tonight - Eric Clapton


Hard-core rock-and-roller that you are, I'm confident you'll conjure riffs-and-rhythms to ice the cake. 

Pax tecum

Alan

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