Spirit - I Got A Line On You

[rogerballard]

[George McGovern]

1. Great Song rogerballard. Thanks for posting the video!

[EYESORE 9001]

2. I've got a line on keeping this song in heavy rotation

For me, it’s been a mood enhancer for decades.

[George McGovern]

3. "Got to tell you something, go right to your head" and heart and soul. Perfect.

[lark]

4. Thanks for the trip on the way back machine!

[George McGovern]

5. And what a wondrous trip it was lark and Eyesore 9001 and rogerballard! Thanks all

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Did This One

Was a good filler tune in the earliest days of the band. It had to go as we got our style more defined, but it was a good tune to for our first 20 or so gigs.

[George McGovern]

7. Professor, you were in a band? What was your instrument? Were was your band any good?

[ProfessorGAC]

8. For More Than 30 Years

The last band I was in lasted 20 years with the same four of us on-stage, same sound & light guys. We played over 1,600 gigs together. An average of just over 80 per year for 20 years.
The band before that played nearly 130 gigs a year for almost 3 years. We had a full crew, so we just showed up to play. No moving gear. And, we had an opening act about 80% of the time, so we just played a couple 80 minute set over 3 hours. That band, while very lucrative, got derailed by too much cocaine & some guys without enough will power. We went down in flames at the end.
In those last 2 bands I was 80-85% keyboards & 15-20% guitar. I'm pretty darned good at both.
I never toured or anything. Music was a lucrative hobby, but not more than that.
Here's a quick sample of stuff I messed around with a few years back. I'm playing & singing everything on these.


https://m.soundcloud.com/user-134084288/tracks

[George McGovern]

9. Of your songs I am familiar with Come Together & Runnin' Down A Dream." Especially with

Runnin' Down A Dream it was like llistening to Tom Petty on youtube, without a video of course!

Would you mind if I try and post them in Music Appreciation?

You had a really good band! Thanks for the samples.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. A Couple Things

First, they've been in Music Appreciation before. You can post them there, but it might be redundant.
Second, that's not the band. That's just me. I've got a 16 track digital recording console in my basement. So, I played a scratch track on acoustic and voice.
Played drums to that. Added bass. Then put in rhythm guitar.
Next step was to sing it for real over the 3 keeper tracks. (Then erasing the scratch track)
Then I added other tracks for sweetening. Harmonies were always the last thing I did.
The first song (All Along The Watchtower) is a Dylan tune, made famous by Hendrix. My version is radically different than either of those.
The last track is a Velvet Underground song, Sweet Jane. Again, very different than the original.
The project was sort of like a jazz player taking an old standard and taking it someplace else.
Glad you enjoyed them.

[George McGovern]

11. OK, no posts. I did enjoy them. You are the proverbial one man band! Thanks!

[Martin Eden]

12. Spirit deserves much more appreciation than they get

A selection from their first 3 albums, and the entire Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus, are in my regular rotation.