I posted this question on www.folkpunktabs.com and did not get a lot feed back so will try here also. If you were going to make up a C.D. to show how the mandolin can be used
in rock/punk/folkrock what songs would you be sure to include ?
Thanks for your time.
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as far as semi punk stuff-blister in the sun (almost anything by the femmes for that matter), and we are working on blitzkrieg bop, psycho killer .
folk rock- anything in the genre would be fine.
as far as semi punk stuff-blister in the sun (almost anything by the femmes for that matter), and we are working on blitzkrieg bop, psycho killer .
folk rock- anything in the genre would be fine.
Dylan's All ALong The Watchtower. Kelly Purdue covers this on Up In The Cool
GM
Anything by...
String Cheese Incident
Cast Iron Filter
Shanti Groove
Leftover Salmon
Mandofiddle
get your hands on a copy of "rum, sodomy, and the lash" by the pogues. you won't need to much more convincin' after that one.
jd
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hey, I'm Rum from folkpunktabs.
I've found that most irish punk bands that are fairly talented have fiddle/tenor banjo/whistle as the lead. not so many with the mando.
Some other songs would be:
Mutiny - Drink to better days
McGillicuddys - Father jacks favorite (also called chief o'neils hornpipe)
Mahones - Drunken lazy ####### (awsome sounding electric mandolin)
Dolomites - Marchers lament (they've got accordian, bouzouki, tenor banjo and mandolin all on that track)
thats: Mahones - Drunken lazy ba.s.tard
Niles Hokkanen - On Fire & Ready!
(Elderly) On Fire & Ready!
NH
Mandocrucian tracks on SoundCloud
CoMando Guest of the Week 2003 interview of Niles
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so!." - Randy Newman ("It's A Jungle Out There")
I second the Pogues' material... How about Tempest (California Celt/Nordic folk-rock group using a double neck electric mando...). Alex Gregory would be a fun addition, if you're looking for versatility in the instrument. If you can dredge up some tracks with Richard Thompson playing mando, that would be cool (on a related note, my folk-rock band took a stab at playing "Keep Your Distance" as a punk tune last night and it worked...) Nash the Slash is a punkesque violinist/mandolinist... a little weird (even for me).
Dave
1984 Flatiron A5-2
1930 (?) Regal Tenor
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. Lovecraft
Thanks for the "Keep Your Distance" suggestion. That kicks butt on the mandolin! Definitely a new member of the set list...
We do a crazy version of the old Dick Dale Surf music song Pipeline(check it out on my website)with mando, fiddle, guitar and standup bass and also some Pink Floyd covers, and sometimes a Hendrix tune, and a few hundred Grateful Dead/Jerry songs
StrangerStringBand.com
What key is "Keep Your Distance" in? I'd love to start playing that one.
And We Danced & Karla with a K - The Hooters
The Weight - The Band
Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood
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