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Post by windmill on Feb 17, 2022 17:14:32 GMT -5
So one of the groups that I play bass in want to do It Don't Come Easy by Ringo Starr.
I thought that should be pretty easy to work out.
I got on Youtube, had a listen......and the instant I heard the intro and the bass line under it I realised that I have been subconcioulessly trying to use that style intro in a lot of tunes I have been playing.
I was just a kid, had just got my own transistor radio around when this song came out and I liked it at the time.
And it has stuck !
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Jim622
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Post by Jim622 on Feb 17, 2022 17:50:01 GMT -5
That was one of the first songs I learned on guitar. I believe George Harrison wrote it.
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Post by HenryJ on Feb 27, 2022 17:27:47 GMT -5
That was one of the first songs I learned on guitar. I believe George Harrison wrote it. George was also ghost-co-writer of "Badge," by Cream. Actually, he was credited as l'Angelo Mysterioso or something like that. Eric Clapton was the other co-writer. Which raises the question: Did George also ghost-co-write the Clapton tune "Let It Rain." It was very much like "It Don't Come Easy." |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 1, 2022 17:33:36 GMT -5
I like watching Ringo mumble his way through the tune at the Concert for Bangladesh. Cool seeing him and Jim Keltner working together.
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Davywhizz
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Post by Davywhizz on Apr 4, 2022 4:14:40 GMT -5
We opened with It Don't Come Easy in my first band that got paid. 1976. It was my idea to do it and the inspiration was hearing it on the Concert for Bangladesh album a few years before. Not so much Ringo's vocal, more the jangly guitar intro.
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Jim622
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Post by Jim622 on Apr 5, 2022 13:15:23 GMT -5
When I was maybe 11 or 12, I found The Who's Quadrophenia among my sisters albums in the basement. It had to belong to one of her friends, she was more into Carole King. I never really payed attention to The Who, but the cover and the booklet caught my interest. I was not prepared for what I heard. When the album transitioned from the opener, I Am The Sea to the first notes of The Real Me, it changed everything, and The Who became my favorite band from then on. I think it is as close as I've found to a perfect album. Whoever's album that was, never saw it again.
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