Frank
3663 posts
Jan 07, 2014
11:41 AM
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Check out this 3 hole bend at 1min 53 sec, what a sound :)
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nacoran
7477 posts
Jan 07, 2014
12:21 PM
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It won't play for me. (Box wouldn't play for me the other day either, but the pictures in your other post worked.)
edit- hmm, it will let me download it though.
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Last Edited by nacoran on Jan 07, 2014 12:22 PM
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Frank
3665 posts
Jan 07, 2014
12:28 PM
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I can't preview them on their website, they are lookin into it :)
You just don't hear other players bend that 3 draw like that - horn tone for miles :)
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tookatooka
3593 posts
Jan 07, 2014
12:31 PM
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Good lesson in one chord playing too.
Playing and download works fine for me. Chrome. Vista.
Last Edited by tookatooka on Jan 07, 2014 12:32 PM
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6SN7
406 posts
Jan 07, 2014
1:12 PM
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Played great for me. Don't ask me why, I just pushed the arrow.
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Martin
582 posts
Jan 07, 2014
1:32 PM
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It´s a pity the guitar player (wasn´t it Bo Diddley?) makes a mistake already on the intro ... But I´m glad they kept this take.
Really intelligent phrasing and fabulous sound.
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WinslowYerxa
480 posts
Jan 07, 2014
1:44 PM
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There are two guitar players, Bo Diddley and Luther Tucker (no idea which one played which part). The first guitar starts the tune, playing Ga-Ding-Dong-Ding over and over (through the entire tune, and glues it together). The second guitar comes in a little later and plays the harmonized line.
The only mistake I hear is that Walter's mic is accidentally switched off. It sounds like he's supposed to come in at the same time as the second guitar, but you hear his sound start a little later, right in the middle of playing a note, as if he suddenly switched on his mic.
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Martin
583 posts
Jan 07, 2014
4:40 PM
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He misses a note -- the 9th or 10th I think it is (accidental dampening) -- right at the beginning. Certainly no big deal.
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TheoBurke
554 posts
Jan 07, 2014
4:50 PM
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This is superb harp work--the phrases are crisp and the tone has that sound that is biting without being piercing, distorted without being staticky mass of crackle. This is especially enjoyable because the harp player is in the pocket, riding this steady beat the way an ace surfer takes a huge wave to the shallow water. His twists and turns have a nice, continuous logic to them. This is very fine playing. Thanks, Frank.
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WinslowYerxa
481 posts
Jan 07, 2014
5:53 PM
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Walter doesn't just ride the beat. He steers it and turns it around. Throughout the tune, he changes the location of the "1" beat, which helps to create the giddy feel of riding a roller coaster.
Other players have quoted huge chunks of this tune in live performance, without acknowledging where they're stealing from.
Huey Lewis (starting about 3:30, with alto sax harmonies to Little Walter's lines(!): http://youtu.be/bKM5LpFU1Pc
Annie Raines has also done this, but I can't find the clip at the moment (it's a gig backed by a band in a small club, perhaps in Canada, and Annie does a table walk while she plays quotes from Roller Coaster).
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arzajac
1252 posts
Jan 08, 2014
5:35 AM
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Was the track named after it was recorded? Did someone say "Hey! This sounds like what a roller coaster feels like" or did they record a track with that in mind? Does anyone know?
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WinslowYerxa
482 posts
Jan 08, 2014
11:12 AM
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In Blues with a Feeling, the Little Water biography, Bo Diddley is quoted (Page 145) as saying, after the recording session, that he didn't know the name of it (the tune that was named Roller Coaster).
Names for instrumental tunes were often dreamed up after the fact, and often by producers and not by artists. Bo's unawareness of the name may reflect that the name was added afterwards.
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walterharp
1271 posts
Jan 08, 2014
11:22 AM
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this is what bbq bob talks about LW not playing hard.. but he hits it a bit harder when he does that bend
here is a bunch of lw digitally remastered
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14rwvj_little-walter-roller-coaster-1955-digitally-remastered_music
Last Edited by walterharp on Jan 08, 2014 11:22 AM
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The Iceman
1370 posts
Jan 08, 2014
4:18 PM
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That bend is a great example of non-specific note playing...more like a "moan".
Harmonica is one instrument that does it all.
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barbequebob
2434 posts
Jan 09, 2014
10:14 AM
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Much of what Lw plays is very heavily influenced by saxman Illiois Jacquet on this.
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tmf714
2321 posts
Jan 09, 2014
12:05 PM
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Some say Walters "cascading" riffs in "Rollercoaster" came from here-
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Frank
3678 posts
Jan 11, 2014
12:55 PM
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I can picture Little Walter sittin by the phonograph. harp in hand studying Illiois chops and tellin Muddy, damn "this shit is deep" :)
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